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Inside ENGIE’s Venture Studio: Fast-Tracking Energy Innovation

Inside ENGIE’s Venture Studio: Fast-Tracking Energy Innovation

Update: 2025-09-15
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Episode Breakdown

  • Téma’s journey from PhD physicist to leading global innovation at ENGIE
  • The layered approach: corporate venture capital, open innovation, internal incubation, and the APAC venture studio
  • How ENGIE Factory in Singapore identifies market gaps and builds ventures to address them
  • The advantages of geographic and governance independence for corporate startups
  • Structuring incentives: bringing in external founders and investors for alignment and agility
  • Killing ventures quickly: managing and reviewing the portfolio for strategic fit
  • Lessons on scaling innovation, de-risking experimentation, and creating new growth engines in energy

Featured Guests

Téma Benhalima-Bouville
Global Innovation Managing Director, ENGIE
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Elliott Parker
CEO, Alloy Partners
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Drew Beechler
VP, Marketing, Alloy Partners
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Resources & Related Links

ENGIE Factory

ENGIE Corporate

Alloy Partners

Learn more about venture building, visit the Advantaged archive at Advantaged Podcast

Connect with the hosts and guests on LinkedIn:

Téma Benhalima-Bouville

Elliott Parker

Drew Beechler


 

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Inside ENGIE’s Venture Studio: Fast-Tracking Energy Innovation

Inside ENGIE’s Venture Studio: Fast-Tracking Energy Innovation

Téma Benhalima-Bouville, Drew Beechler, Elliott Parker