Turn Net Zero from a Cost Center into a Profit Center
An INNOVO Corporate Venture is a company founded 50/50 between INNOVO and your organization that:
- delivers net zero at nil capex and nil opex on collocated Smoke2Value bio-farms
- finances and deploys profitable clean technologies your capital budget cannot reach
- cuts Scope 3 by funding your suppliers’ decarbonization, at no cost to you or to them
- opens new customers, markets, verticals, and partnerships through the INNOVO network
- builds a new profit-generating business, half of which you own
How can net zero cost nothing? Because the bio-farm’s outputs pay for it: your CO2 becomes sustainable aviation fuel feedstock sold under contracted offtake, supported by US Section 45Q tax credits, so the capital and operating costs are financed by the value your emissions create, not by you.
What your company receives
- Funded decarbonization, not stated ambition. Collocated bio-farms at nil capital and nil operating cost, then a plant-by-plant CleanTech Program of the first five profitable clean technologies you are not already pursuing, financed by the Venture and paid for from what you no longer spend on energy, fuel, and carbon.
- Technology bought for you, not pitched at you. Your Venture’s INNOVO Sourcing Team, the same INNOVO Executives who ran your supplier webinars, searches the world for profitable technologies. Where one fits, the Venture itself buys, finances, and deploys it, and you pay monthly fees from its profitable impact. Technologies stop waiting in your capital-allocation queue.
- Scope 3 turned from a reporting problem into a program. The Venture extends the same nil capex proposition to your heavy-emitting suppliers, so their reductions become your auditable Scope 3 reductions, at no cost to either of you.
- A commercial channel into a global network. Your own dedicated INNOVO Sales Support Team, financed through the Venture and engaged by your Chief Commercial Officer, carries your goods and services to the Sourcing Teams inside every other Corporate Venture: new customers, new markets, new industry verticals, new corporate partnerships. Your people own the relationships; the contracts are yours.
- Half the equity of the resulting business. Across the three families of activity, the sales the Venture can influence build toward up to 75% of your own revenue at maturity: up to 20% from CleanTech, up to 20% from sourced innovations and new products, and up to 35% through the commercial channel. The Venture earns commissions and margins on that flow, and you own half of it. These are ceilings describing addressable potential, not forecasts.
- None of your people diverted. The Venture runs with its own dedicated team, externally financed, with set-up and recruitment costs reimbursed from its initial capital raise.
The network compounds.Every new Corporate Venture adds a qualified buyer for every existing seller and a seller for every existing buyer, so your channel becomes more valuable each time a Venture is founded anywhere in the world, without you doing anything. Early partners are present, with relationships formed, as each new Venture joins.
The evidence behind it
- $16 billion of contracts were awarded after bidding from 5 oil and gas majors, like Shell, Chevron and BP
- 24 Smoke2Value bio-farms, approximately $392M of financed capital each, to be built turnkey in Texas and Queensland by KEPCO, Samsung, and Hyundai
- More than two years of operating data behind the technology, with independent carbon accounting and life-cycle assessment
- ● A full data room open to your diligence: financial models, engineering arrangements, offtake contracts, tax opinion, and assessments
- Founded 50/50, as equal partners. You contribute industry leadership, scale, and market access. INNOVO contributes the technology flow, the financing, and the commercial execution
- External capital dilutes both founders equally, so neither partner drifts into control of the other, and the Venture stays investable.
- Neither founder consolidates the Venture. Structured for joint control, the Venture’s project debt does not appear on your balance sheet, subject to confirmation by your own auditors.
How the Venture is owned, and why that matters
Why this is not a corporate venture builder
Conventional venture builders charge fees and ask you to fund a new business that has still to find its market. An INNOVO Corporate Venture arrives the other way round: the technology is proven, the demand is contracted, the financing is in place, and we are not asking for your capital. Your Venture starts with a business, not a business plan.
Built for the heaviest-emitting industries
Oil and Gas · Data Centers and Technology · Aviation · Steel · Cement · Chemicals · Aluminum · and every heavy-emitting company beyond them, wherever CO2 is emitted at scale.
How a Corporate Venture begins
It begins with work, not with a contract. We first deliver an Initial Profitable Net Zero Progam to your Chief Sustainability Officer: five potential profitable clean technologies, supplier webinars, an enhanced sustainability report, and ready-made announcement templates. It needs no capital and no approval beyond that office, and the INNOVO Executives who deliver it become your Venture’s Sourcing Team when the Venture is formed. Only once that work has delivered value do we explore a Venture with your wider leadership team.