BHP Ventures
BHP’s dedicated venture capital unit
We seek game-changing technologies and emerging companies to help drive sustainable growth within BHP today and provide us with a portfolio of new growth options for the decades ahead.
Our portfolio is growing…
Here are just some of the investments we have made so far
ZwitterCo
Anti-fouling membranes for the treatment of highly impaired wastewater.
SiTration
Pioneering low-cost recovery of critical materials in mining, refining, and recycling.
Ascend Elements
The leading provider of sustainable, closed-loop battery material solutions for electric vehicles.
Ceibo
Developing technology for more effective and sustainable leaching of low-grade primary sulphides.
Allonnia
Combining novel approaches in biology and engineering to create value from mine waste challenges.
SensOre
Optimizing discovery and enhancing exploration performance through deployment of big data, AI/ML technology, and geoscience expertise.
Summit Nanotech
Disruptive extraction technology that sustainably unlocks critical mineral resources globally to support the world’s electrification goals.
Plotlogic
Deliver mining sustainability and efficiency through its real-time, autonomous, non-invasive, and accurate raw material characterization system.
Antora
Electrifying heavy industry with zero-carbon heat and power.
Verdagy
Innovative water electrolysis technology that enables production of green hydrogen at very large scale.
Energy Vault
Specialist in gravity and kinetic energy based, long-duration energy storage products.
Cemvita Factory
Advancing nature-inspired microbial solutions for CO2 utilisation, bioextraction of metals, and treatment of mine waste.
Circulor
Tracing our metals from mine to consumer to market a cleaner and greener product.
Carbon Engineering
Sucking carbon out of the atmosphere at a megaton-scale.
Electra
Developing an electrochemical process for green steel production at low-temperature and utilising intermittent renewable power.
Eavor
Novel closed loop geothermal system capable of clean, green baseload power….anywhere.
Fervo
Next-generation geothermal technology developing innovative drilling techniques with the potential to provide cheap, baseload power.
Boston Metal
Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) technology commercialising a one-step process for CO2-free steelmaking.
Jetti Resources
Unlocking vast stranded copper resources… economic heap leaching of low-grade ores.
KoBold Metals
Combining best-in-class geologists with data science talent and massive datasets to find new orebodies, first.