Amid general concerns about the macro and corporate spending outlook, it appears that cybersecurity remains an area of strong growth and resilience, as illustrated by the latest Morgan Stanley survey of Chief Information Officers that found that spending on security software was the least likely to be cut among the whole Tech categories (software and…
Over the last few months, some cloud software vendors have faced an unexpected and counter-intuitive risk: the rising efficiency of cloud computing platforms such as Amazon’s AWS stemming from improved chip performances. Cloud-based data storage company Snowflake notably came under the spotlight. It uses AWS cloud to store and process its customers’ data which are…
While Europe reconsiders its energy sourcing options amidst the Russia-Ukraine war, which triggers oil import restrictions, alternatives are scarce to alleviate the supply dip. In that context, France and the UK already backed out on their prior plans to gradually diminish nuclear fission power reliance, the former announcing six new reactors in February, the latter…
According to various media reports, semiconductor giant Broadcom is in talks to acquire cloud software infrastructure company VMware. Having started with server virtualization, a software solution that morphs a single and physical server into several virtual ones, VMware gradually added storage and networking virtualization in order to offer a complete infrastructure software stack that allows…
Talking about cleantech, and more specifically about inverters which are tightly linked to solar panels, can appear quite “ambitious” given the ongoing investigation by the US Department of Commerce seeking to determine whether Chinese solar equipment producers circumvent existing tariffs and anti-dumping duties imposed on them by setting up export facilities in Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia…
Wind energy players Vestas and Siemens Gamesa and supplier TPI Composites have reported underwhelming earnings and cut guidance in recent quarters due to a combination of weak revenue momentum (flattish installations globally in 2021), cost inflation (steel and resins, logistics) and supply chain issues. And Covid-linked lockdowns in China are unlikely to help in the short-term.…
Fertilizer names are currently a source of relative resilience in our Food Revolution portfolio as they ride an exceptional environment (strong farming demand, major supply disruptions) to deliver impressive quarterly figures and/or guidance. Nutrien and CF Industries just reported +64% and +173% Q1 revenue growth, respectively, and EBITDA up 3x or 4x the level achieved…
While there’s been a lot of talk about the increasing number of droughts across the world in relation with climate change (recent restrictions on outdoor watering in Southern California being the latest example), there’s also been, quite ironically, an increasing number of devastating floods as the rapid urbanization pace reduces the land available to absorb…
The crypto community has just been shattered by the biggest crypto heist to date: 173,600 ethereum and 25.5 million USDC (a U.S. dollar pegged stablecoin), or an equivalent of $622 million, have been stolen on the Ronin network. This network is a so-called sidechain used to settle crypto transactions on Axie Infinity’s video gaming platform.…
Electric vehicles’ (EVs) adoption has been all the rage in recent months with sales rocketing in most parts of the world. EVs also took the spotlight at this year’s CES in Las Vegas, confirming their central role in the ongoing energy transition. The three main components of an EV are its energy storage (a battery…