[🗣️ Event] Attending Blueprint 2024? ✴️ We’re looking forward to meeting more than 850 startups at the event, taking place September 17-19, at The Venetian in Las Vegas! If you plan to attend, be sure to say hello! 👋 We’d love to connect with startups who are working on innovative, sustainable solutions to Make the World a Better Home! ➡️ Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/dGWUnnmP #startups #LasVegas #innovation #sustainability
NOVA by Saint-Gobain
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Saint-Gobain’s venture arm invests globally in startups aligned with construction innovation, sustainability, and energy
About us
NOVA by Saint-Gobain is the specialized branch for partnerships and venture capital investments. Our primary objective is to foster innovation by collaborating with startups worldwide. We establish co-development partnerships, distribution, marketing, or licensing agreements while also investing in innovative startups. Our team is present in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America, and we select projects that align with the overall strategy of the Saint-Gobain group. We focus on key areas, such as technology for construction, industrial energy transition, digital connectivity, transportation electrification, and the circular economy. Key figures: - More than 50 direct investments. - Over 100 million euros under management. - A team of 15 members dedicated to innovation.
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http://www.nova-saint-gobain.com
External link for NOVA by Saint-Gobain
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
Updates
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[👋 About us] Congratulations to Basma Kharrat, our vice president of external venturing, on her recent recognition as one of the 26 Women to Watch in CVC in Northern Europe by Global Corporate Venturing! 🎉 🔆 #investors #VC #corporateventure #womenleaders Saint-Gobain North America Saint-Gobain
“We need women who are in positions of power or who have had non-traditional paths into CVC to be visible, showing the emerging leaders of tomorrow what is possible,” says Karinya Turnbull, chief of staff at Shell Ventures. We heard you Karinya, and we completely agree. So here is the list we made of women in #CVC in northern Europe: https://lnkd.in/ejCuZsvU This is the last in a series we have run over the past two years, looking for all the women in CVC around the world. A very big thank you to everyone who helped us put this together! In this final section we are highlighting (among others): Dr. Marie Hurtgen, Alexa Ríos Araneda, CSCP, Ida Christine Brun, Christina Brinck, Ninon Lamarque, Séverine Grégoire, Alexandra (Lexy) Prosszer, Katherine Salguero, Sofia Hasselberg, Cynthia Chen, CFA, Irene Prota, Ana Troncoso Ceola, Basma Kharrat, Hélène Loncin, Ayano Kase, Irina Gorbounova, Lisa Schneider, Aruna Subramanian, Lina Arbelaez, Diane Frachon, Felicity O'Kelly, Elena Watts-Pass, PhD, Nichola Bates #investors #VC #corporateventure
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[🗣️ Event] Focusing on open innovation, the latest trends, and technological implementations was the focus at DEMO WORLD, an annual event by CYZONE. 🔄 The conference and startup/corporate/VC matchmaking, which was organized by CYZONE, was held in Songjiang, Shanghai, to promote the integration of innovation, industrial and supply chains while also focusing on AI, digital economy, low-carbon technologies, the metaverse, and smart terminals. Thanks to all the startups who joined for sharing their forward-looking technologies! #Shanghai #demoworld #innovation #engagement
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[👀 What’s Up] Following Saint-Gobain’s recent partnership with TimberHP, members of our team traveled to its headquarters in Maine to learn more about the technology. 🌲 TimberHP manufactures insulation utilizing residual wood chips and hydroelectricity to develop nature based sustainable insulation solutions from wood fiber. 🤝 We continue to work in close collaboration with TimberHP, and it was great to meet members of their team! Many thanks to all at TimberHP for spending time with us! 🔆 #woodcomposites #sustainability #insulation #collaboration
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[👀 What’s Up] During a recent visit to the U.S., Basma Kharrat joined the NOVA by Saint-Gobain North America team to meet colleagues at Saint-Gobain Construction Chemicals. 💫♻️ During the visit, the team learned more about how gcp will further the Group’s strategy as a worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction with gcp’s success in cement and concrete additives and admixtures, infrastructure and commercial and residential waterproofing. Many thanks to our colleagues for the warm welcome and engaging discussion! 😀👏💚 #concrete #sustainable #construction #chemicals
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[💰Investment] Collaboration is key! 🔑 ✌️In collaboration with CertainTeed, we recently completed a follow-on investment in Volumetric Building Companies (VBC)! This investment will strengthen our existing, mutually beneficial partnership with VBC through long-term collaboration around developing and commercializing new, innovative solutions for the off-site construction industry. 🏡 🎉 Congratulations to VBC and CertainTeed – we look forward to continuing to work with you! Learn more about how VBC is changing modular building construction: https://www.vbc.co/ #modular #buildings #homes #startup #investment #collaboration
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[👀 What’s Up] Just two weeks before the global lockdown due to the pandemic in March 2020, FibreCoat opened for business with a goal of making high-performance materials more affordable. 🚀 💵 ✴️ Led by Dr. Alexander Lüking, Richard Haas, and Dr. Robert Brüll, the company pivoted their plans through uncertainty. Now, four years later, they are disrupting the high-performance materials industry. ⬇️ Learn more about how our portfolio company and its leaders are looking forward to closing a Series B 💰 round despite the odds against them in this article featured in Scale Newsletter. #perservernace #startup #corporateventure #portfolio #highperformancematerails
#02 Surviving the Storm: How Fibrecoat Overcame COVID and Supply Chain Disruptions to Reach Series B
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[👀 What’s Up] As part of the recent “Climate Tech in the City” event held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, our portfolio company, Transaera, Inc., was on hand to share its technology while making connections within the industry. 📻 Check out this news segment featuring Transaera on WBZ Newsradio 1030 to learn how Transaera can keep you cool while also reducing emissions during summer’s heat! ☀️😎 #sustainability #cooling #bostonma #news #startups #innovative #corporateventure
Climate Tech Companies Showcase Futuristic Technology At City Hall Plaza | WBZ NewsRadio 1030
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[👀 What’s Up] Leveraging Startup Collaborations at Saint-Gobain! ✳️ The Saint-Gobain North America Leadership Team recently explored our evolving approach to startup partnerships! Basma Kharrat, our Vice President of External Ventures, and Sven Harmsen, Director of External Ventures, shared insights on our growing engagement with the startup ecosystem. They highlighted how we're increasingly identifying and collaborating with innovative companies that align with our business units' goals. 🚀 Our interest in dynamic, technology-focused startups are stronger than ever. We're eager to connect with companies 📣 disrupting fields such as: - Sustainable and high performance building marerials - Circular economy - Construction technology & productivity - Electric mobility - Industrial energy transition - Digital solutions & business models ➡️ Are you part of an innovative startup in these areas? We'd love to explore potential collaborations! Let's connect: https://lnkd.in/e-9hh8ba
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[👀 What’s Up] We recently participated a recycling partnership with TRASHAUS, a circular economy startup based in China. 👊 The partnership, which was established by Hang Lung Properties and also includes Knauf and LVMH, will support the improvements of recycling efficiency of building materials. 🌆 We look forward to working with Trashaus and the partners to Make the World a Better Home. Clara Martiny #recycling #partnerships #china #corporateventure #gypsum #wallboard #waste
Hang Lung is taking steps to improve circularity in real estate, as we partner with Knauf, Saint-Gobain, and TRASHAUS on the design and implementation of the recycling and reuse of #GypsumBoard. Our sustainability partner LVMH Group will also recycle the gypsum board in its upcoming store fit-outs in our properties. Significant waste is generated in the built environment during demolition, construction, and renovation. We will pilot gypsum board recycling in two of our properties as the first step of the recycling initiative: 1) A store fit-out renovation process in Grand Gateway 66, Shanghai 2) Recycling gypsum scrap from the landlord area of our new construction project in Westlake 66, Hangzhou Gypsum board (also known as plasterboard or drywall) is a common construction material used in walls, ceilings and partitions, and can comprise 1/3 of a fit-out project’s new materials by weight. It also makes up an estimated 5% of all construction waste and 10% of all demolition waste by weight. In the next two years, we plan to expand the recycling initiative with our partners to include additional construction materials, and establish data collection standards for impactful project comparisons. The Memorandum of Understanding recently signed by the above groups envisions a ‘Circularity Accelerator’ of like-minded groups working to improve circularity in the built environment. There is a significant opportunity to minimize waste and emissions in our built environment, and Hang Lung is pleased to be collaborating with our partners to address this challenge. #HangLung #WeDoItWell #Sustainability #JoiningForces #ResourceManagement