Daniel Helman
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- Full Name
- Daniel Helman
- Firm
- BHP Ventures / BHP
- Firm Type
- Corporate venture capital
- Investment Stage
- Early-stage technology companies
- Target Company Profile
- Emerging technology companies with potential to improve safety, productivity, sustainability, growth, and decarbonisation in mining operations and the broader resources value chain.
- Sector Focus
- Mining technology, mineral exploration, big data, AI/ML, autonomous robotics, lower-carbon steelmaking, critical-minerals recovery, carbon removal, water filtration, renewable energy generation and storage, ethical-sourcing/blockchain, geothermal, green hydrogen, long-duration energy storage.
- Geographic Focus
- Global
Background
I could not verify a public biography, title, LinkedIn profile, headshot, or direct BHP employment page for Daniel Helman. The supplied email address uses the legacy `bhpbilliton.com` domain, but I could not independently verify that email address or the supplied phone number in public sources.
The relevant public investment platform at BHP is BHP Ventures, which BHP describes as its in-house venture capital arm. BHP says the group invests in breakthrough technologies that can shape BHP and the global resources industry, and that it has invested in more than 20 emerging companies.
BHP Ventures’ stated remit is strategic rather than traditional financial VC: it looks for technologies that can make BHP’s operations and value chain safer, more productive, more sustainable, and more decarbonised. Its public portfolio includes companies working on mining automation, critical-material recovery, lower-carbon steel, carbon removal, water treatment, geothermal power, green hydrogen, battery materials, and supply-chain traceability.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- BHP Ventures states: “We invest in breakthrough technologies, shaping the future of BHP and the global resources industry.”
- The group looks globally for emerging technologies with “game-changing potential” to make BHP’s operations safer, more productive, and more sustainable.
- Strategic fit matters: BHP says it seeks partnerships that support “productivity, growth and decarbonisation” for mining operations and the resources value chain.
- Focus areas include AI and big data for mineral exploration, lower-carbon steelmaking, critical-minerals extraction, carbon removal, water filtration, renewable energy generation and storage, ethical sourcing, autonomous robotics, geothermal, and green hydrogen.
- Public sources did not disclose Daniel Helman’s personal thesis, decision authority, check size, or stage preferences.
Notable Investments
- FieldAI — AI foundation models for autonomous robotics in unstructured environments such as construction and mine sites.
- ZwitterCo — anti-fouling membranes for treatment of highly impaired wastewater.
- SiTration — low-cost recovery of critical materials in mining, refining, and recycling.
- Ascend Elements — sustainable closed-loop battery materials for electric vehicles.
- Ceibo — technology for more effective and sustainable leaching of low-grade primary sulphides.
- Allonnia — biology and engineering approaches to create value from mine-waste challenges.
- SensOre — big data, AI/ML, and geoscience technology for mineral discovery and exploration performance.
- Summit Nanotech — extraction technology for critical mineral resources supporting electrification.
- Plotlogic — real-time, autonomous raw-material characterisation for mining efficiency and sustainability.
- Antora — thermal batteries for always-on industrial operations powered by low-cost renewable energy.
- Verdagy — water electrolysis technology for large-scale green hydrogen production.
- Energy Vault — gravity and kinetic long-duration energy storage.
- Cemvita Factory — microbial solutions for CO2 utilisation, metal bioextraction, and mine-waste treatment.
- Circulor — metals traceability from mine to consumer.
- Carbon Engineering — direct air capture technology for removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
- Electra — electrochemical process for low-temperature green steel production.
- Eavor — closed-loop geothermal system for baseload power.
- Fervo — next-generation geothermal technology using innovative drilling techniques.
- Boston Metal — molten oxide electrolysis technology for CO2-free steelmaking.
- Jetti Resources — heap-leaching technology for low-grade copper resources.
- KoBold Metals — data-science-driven mineral exploration.
- Amogy — ammonia-to-power technology with zero carbon emissions.
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