BHP Ventures
We invest in game-changing companies and technologies to help drive more sustainable growth within BHP today and for the decades ahead.
BHP Ventures is the in-house venture capital arm of BHP.
We scour the globe to find and foster emerging, technologies with game-changing potential to help make BHP’s global operations more safe, productive and sustainable
Through our investments, we aim to help accelerate the development of technology to benefit not just our business and value chain, but that of our broader industry.
Collaboration is key to solving some of the world’s greatest energy and decarbonisation challenges, and we are committed to working with companies that share our passion for impact.
BHP Ventures has invested in over 20 emerging companies, and together:
- We have unlocked access to insights into how big data and artificial intelligence could be used to enhance mineral exploration.
- We’re testing early-stage technologies with breakthrough potential for lower carbon emission steelmaking, gaining further insights from our in-house expertise and value chain partnerships.
- We’re discovering new ways to extract more vital minerals from the resources we mine today.
- We’re exploring carbon emissions removal technologies using microbes and direct air capture.
- We’re pursuing novel options for water filtration, renewable energy generation and storage, and blockchain for ethical sourcing.
BHP’s dedicated venture capital unit
We’re looking to forge new partnerships that can support productivity, growth and decarbonisation for our mining operations and in our value chain. Read the case studies about ironmaking decarbonisation collaborations with two of our BHP Ventures partners in the BHP Climate Transition Action Plan (CTAP) 2024.
Do you have a disruptive idea? Contact us today.
Our portfolio is growing…
Our BHP Ventures portfolio is growing. Here are just some of the incredibly innovative, forward thinking investment partners who could change the future of mining.
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.