Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) has seen a resurgence in recent years as large organisations face clearly defined market problems that can be better addressed by innovative and disruptive solutions than via the traditional answers they may already possess. 
 
At the same time, significant VC funding has fuelled the growth of small, digitally savvy start-ups. These businesses are entering the market with bold, disruptive ideas, often challenging established ways of thinking and operating. 
 
While VC support and investment can be a vital element to scaling a small business, the addition of CVC support can be a differentiator, providing strategic insight, market access and operational expertise that martially improves the chances of commercial success. James Fisher Ventures has been created because: 

• We provide unique access to our core markets and are committed to adding value in new and differentiated ways
• We are embedding an innovative culture across our organisation, with venturing forming a key pillar of our wider innovation strategy 
• We see start-ups and partnerships as central to the future of our market approach and we believe meaningful re-invention requires creative disruption 
• We focus on late-Seed through Series A companies with lower technology risk and higher commercial risk
  
  

James Fisher Ventures has been formed with a highly focused and specific mission: to identify, partner with, and invest in the very best start-ups capable of making a material difference in the Blue Economy.

Our approach to venturing is unique. Not only do we operate on the global stage in three mega-trend markets across energy, defence, and maritime transport, we also participate directly in these markets as a trusted service provider to major end-clients. This gives us first-hand insight into real operating challenges and customer needs. 

Our experiences includes the creation of entirely new markets like submarine rescue and ship-to-ship transfer. These insights can serve as a practical guide for start-ups seeking to develop and deliver services to the same end clients. 

With decades of experience supporting the world’s largest customers across offshore wind, oil and gas life-of-field, naval defence, and maritime transport – and with our own fleet of vessels operating in multiple global geographies – James Fisher brings a deep well of expertise ,assets and market access to  emerging start-ups scale with confidence. 

James Fisher Ventures operates globally to form partnerships and invest in high-potential start-ups. 

Our teams of experts who work on and under the world’s oceans bring deep experience across our verticals and the insight to provide practical, realistic, and high-value feedback on a wide variety of products and services. They create value for clients every single day through disruptive solutions from bubble curtains that protect sea life to submarine rescue and tactical dive vehicles through to digital twin technologies that directly touch on national security and critical infrastructures. 

We are building a portfolio that we can promote to our core markets to prove technologies and validate commercial hypotheses along the way. 

The James Fisher Ventures team will be present at many of the major start up events across Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the US in 2026. 

We look forward to engaging with, and learning more about the emerging technologies shaping our markets, creating new value for clients and redefining how our industries operate.