Veriten

Veriten is an energy-focused investment and advisory firm founded in 2022 by Maynard Holt, a veteran of energy investment banking. The firm combines energy research, strategic advisory, and venture and growth investing, with a stated approach built on data-driven, economics-based analysis of the forces reshaping energy, power, and technology markets.

Investing is conducted through the NexTen fund, which backs companies developing solutions to energy and industrial challenges. The fund's criteria are reliability, sustainability, scalability, and economic viability. Portfolio support draws on a partner network, and the firm's coverage spans the energy, power, technology, and industrial sectors. Specific check sizes, stages, and portfolio composition are not publicly detailed.

Alongside investing, Veriten produces research and outlooks on energy, power, and technology for companies and decision-makers, and advises clients strategically. Its public engagement work includes C.O.B. Tuesday and Super-Spiked, through which it publishes perspectives on energy markets. The firm was founded around a conviction that energy decisions should be shaped with a balanced, long-term view, and it treats research, advisory, and investing as its three core operating pillars.