SOSV is a global venture capital firm headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, that backs deep-tech startups across seed to growth stages with emphasis on human and planetary health. It provides founders with labs, offices, expert teams, mentorship, investor networks, and accelerator-style programs to accelerate product development, testing, commercialization, and fundraising. SOSV operates three deep-tech facilities, including SOSV SF & NY (IndieBio) and HAX in Newark, and supports a portfolio of more than 800 companies across 58 countries. The firm has a broad global footprint with offices in San Francisco, New York, Newark, and Princeton, has raised over 7.5 billion for its portfolio, and makes approximately 60 pre-seed investments annually alongside many follow-on rounds. It seeks co-investors and limited partners to join its network, and pursues cross-border opportunities, notably in Asia, to accelerate growth and fundraising for its startups.

Maersk is a Denmark-based global logistics and shipping company offering container shipping, terminals, warehousing, retail, and end-to-end supply chain solutions. It operates an extensive network for ocean transport and inland logistics, supported by digital platforms for online booking and tracking. The group focuses on expanding its logistics capabilities through acquisitions and investments to decarbonize and digitize supply chains, serving various industries with services spanning ocean transport, warehousing, distribution, and cold-chain solutions.

Chevron Corporation is a global integrated energy company that engages in the exploration, production, refining, marketing, and distribution of oil, gas, and petrochemical products. Its operations span across upstream and downstream activities worldwide, with brands including Chevron, Texaco and Caltex. The company emphasizes technology and innovation to improve efficiency and reduce the carbon intensity of its operations, and pursues lower-carbon energy solutions and new business models through its corporate ventures, including Chevron Technology Ventures, which scouts, tests and integrates emerging technologies. Chevron also provides energy solutions to customers through its energy services businesses and collaborates on initiatives to improve energy reliability and sustainability. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, Chevron aims to balance meeting growing energy needs with responsible stewardship and ongoing investments in technology and decarbonization.

BP is a global energy company involved in the exploration, production, refining, and marketing of oil and gas, with trading and shipping operations supporting its integrated value chain. The company operates upstream activities worldwide and downstream refining and marketing, with a broad portfolio of energy products including fuels and lubricants. It also manages Air BP, a specialized aviation division that supplies aviation fuels and lubricants at more than 1,000 airport locations in 70 countries. In addition to traditional hydrocarbons, BP invests in renewable energy and lower-carbon technologies, expanding its footprint in wind, solar, biofuels, and other alternatives as part of a transition toward a more sustainable energy mix. The company pursues innovation across digital and operational efficiency while continuing to supply energy to markets globally and address safety and sustainability priorities as energy demand evolves.

The European Innovation Council is a European Commission initiative that supports Europe’s deep-tech innovators, researchers, and startups. It funds breakthrough research and technology transfer projects, and delivers equity-like investments through the EIC Fund, as well as prizes and acceleration services to help teams scale. The council also co-invests with private investors in early-stage ventures and places emphasis on high-impact technologies with ESG relevance. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Brussels, it concentrates on deep-tech sectors including defence and dual-use technologies, while promoting international collaboration and market access for awardees. It aims to strengthen Europe’s innovation ecosystem by sharing data, hosting events, publishing insights, and fostering partnerships that accelerate the journey from lab to market.

Engine Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, investing in Tough Tech startups that tackle fundamental scientific and engineering challenges. It provides capital along with hands-on operational guidance and access to a network spanning academia, industry, and government to support companies from early validation to manufacturing and scale. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships, with its principals actively advising founders. Engine Ventures also operates The Engine, a nonprofit incubator and accelerator that supports early-stage teams with infrastructure and a community. Its portfolio spans sectors such as climate, health, energy, AI, and advanced materials, targeting technologies with large-scale societal impact.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is a global fund manager and investor focused on energy infrastructure and the energy transition. Founded in 2012, CIP manages about EUR 37 billion in assets from more than 200 institutional investors and has built a pipeline of roughly 150 GW of projects across more than 30 countries. The company concentrates on power generation from solar, wind, and advanced bioenergy, as well as energy storage, transmission, and low-carbon fuels, pursuing long-term value through durable infrastructure ownership. CIP operates with a large, multinational team of over 2,300 professionals and has grown to become a prominent investor in battery storage in the United Kingdom and in European biogas scaling, among other initiatives. Its activities span multiple regions, including Northern and Western Europe and North America, and encompass several funds targeting renewable energy infrastructure, cleantech, and related sectors. CIP emphasizes responsible investment and the development of resilient, sustainable energy systems globally.

Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles that invests in climate technology companies from early stages to pre-IPO, supporting real-world solutions across energy, manufacturing, and climate resilience. The firm backs startups across sectors such as energy, transportation, industrial materials, and agriculture and funds technologies including solar, wind, compute clusters, carbon capture, and alternative chemical processes. It provides hands-on support through strategic guidance and access to a network of experts to accelerate growth, with a focus on helping portfolio companies develop scalable, sustainable solutions.

Energy Impact Partners is a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2015 that focuses on accelerating the energy transition. It invests globally across venture, growth, credit, and infrastructure in energy, sustainability, and technology, partnering with energy incumbents and industrials to bring innovative solutions to market. The portfolio includes energy storage, microgrids, grid security, clean energy technologies, and utilities management, with examples such as Form Energy, Dragos, Arcadia, Urbint, and Enchanted Rock. The firm has deployed over $4.5 billion in committed capital and manages more than $2.5 billion in assets, supported by a team of over 100 professionals, and maintains a global footprint that includes European expansion through a dedicated European fund and activities in Europe. Energy Impact Partners collaborates with a broad ecosystem of portfolio companies and corporate partners to scale sustainable energy solutions.

AI Angel Club is an angel investment network based in Seoul that specializes in seed investments in medical, bio-healthcare, and IT mobile services companies. Established in 2019, the club connects entrepreneurs with investors to support early-stage ventures and build a portfolio of innovative startups. It emphasizes a forward‑looking approach to funding technologies that advance healthcare and digital services, aiming to shape the future through strategic investments.

Hy24 is a hydrogen-focused private equity asset manager that concentrates on infrastructure and equipment within the low-carbon hydrogen value chain. Founded in 2021 as a joint venture between Ardian and FiveT Hydrogen, the firm coordinates capital deployment to support production, transportation, distribution, and end-use applications of hydrogen worldwide. Its activities span Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, and the Middle East and North Africa, reflecting a global approach to decarbonization. Hy24 adheres to stringent environmental, social, and governance standards in line with European taxonomy and SFDR rules. By mobilizing substantial capital through its infrastructure and equipment strategies, the company backs hydrogen project developers and technology providers, including mobility and energy applications, with the aim of expanding the global hydrogen economy and delivering measurable climate benefits.

Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a Quebec-based private equity and venture capital firm that invests in small and medium-sized businesses across a wide range of sectors in Quebec, including manufacturing, information technology, life sciences, environment, tourism, and culture. It provides equity financing and unsecured debt and can take minority or majority stakes, including in business succession transactions, and operates regional funds across Quebec to support local growth. Investments typically target mid-sized projects and growth financings, with loans available alongside equity where appropriate, and horizons generally span five to ten years for equity and longer for succession financing. The firm focuses on projects that strengthen the Quebec economy and job creation, often supporting modernization, market development, and export-oriented initiatives. It began operations in 1983 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

EIT InnoEnergy is an innovation engine focused on sustainable energy, established in 2010 to drive clean-tech innovation across Europe and the United States. It supports early-stage climate tech and energy ventures through minority equity investments and value-added services that de-risk and accelerate growth, while building an ecosystem that fosters resilient clean-tech value chains and helps portfolio companies scale toward a net-zero economy.

Societe Generale is a European financial services group offering a broad range of banking and financial services, including retail, corporate, and investment banking, as well as securities services, asset management, and payment and cash management. The group serves individuals, businesses, financial institutions, and public sector clients through a global network and emphasizes sustainable finance and the energy transition, financing renewable energy, infrastructure, and related projects. Its activities cover advisory, capital markets, structured finance, and financing solutions across sectors such as energy, infrastructure, technology, and financial services. The company pursues responsible innovation and strong governance, with focus on risk management, compliance, and transparency. By leveraging digital solutions and cross-asset expertise, Societe Generale aims to deliver stable, long-term value for clients while promoting financial inclusion and stakeholder engagement.

Wireframe Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that backs technology startups at seed and early stages, with a founder-first philosophy and hands-on mentorship. The firm focuses on information technology, robotics, diagnostics, and energy, and provides operational guidance and industry expertise to help founders scale. It emphasizes a community-driven approach, supporting entrepreneurs through knowledge sharing and collaboration. Wireframe Ventures' investment themes span AI and automation, sustainable transportation, climate, biology, and healthcare, reflecting an emphasis on building companies addressing critical global challenges while delivering practical value to customers and society.

CDP Venture Capital is the leading Italian venture capital fund manager overseeing about €4.9 billion in assets under management across 15 direct and indirect funds. It supports innovation and sustainable value creation in sectors strategic to Italy’s growth, guided by governance, sustainability, and ethics. The firm backs a broad portfolio of companies and provides pathways to involvement through its networks and reporting. Based in Rome and Milan, it pursues investments across Italy, including seed-stage and growth opportunities, with emphasis on areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, agrifood technology, clean technology, space technology, healthcare and life science, industry technology, and mobility. The manager focuses on creating favorable conditions for the venture capital ecosystem and broader Italian economic development while promoting responsible investment in innovation.

The Footprint Firm is a Copenhagen-based advisory and impact-focused investment firm dedicated to sustainability. It helps established companies translate sustainability ambitions into tangible results and invests in startups delivering scalable solutions for the transition to a sustainable economy. Founded in 2019, the firm operates across Denmark and the Nordic region with an industry-agnostic approach, including sectors such as food, construction, materials, and technology. It focuses on linking value creation with environmental impact and supports a broad client base in accelerating the green transition.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm that invests in technology companies across stages, with a focus on artificial intelligence, healthcare, sustainability, climate tech, digital health, and consumer technology. Based in Menlo Park, the firm seeks startups with innovative technologies or business models and provides strategic guidance to help build lasting companies, offering active support to founders to accelerate growth and scale in both early- and later-stage opportunities.

Par Equity is a venture capital firm based in Edinburgh, Scotland, focused on early-stage and growth investments in technology companies across the north of the UK, including Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland, with experience supporting cross-border expansion to the United States and a presence in San Francisco. Backed by Scottish Enterprise, it funds proprietary technology and proven products with scale potential, including software, deep tech and digital health opportunities, and has provided angel capital alongside its venture funds. In 2025, Par Equity merged with Praetura Ventures to form PXN Group, consolidating investment activity across the North of England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

DCVC is a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that backs deep-tech startups. The firm focuses on investing in artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense, security, and related frontier technologies, spanning early-stage and growth-stage opportunities. DCVC operates through a family of funds, such as DCVC V and DCVC VI, and specialized vehicles including DCVC Bio and DCVC SynBioBeta Fund, reflecting an emphasis on life sciences and data-driven approaches. The firm emphasizes scientists and entrepreneurs as core contributors, leveraging data, compute, and algorithmic advantage to accelerate research and product development. With headquarters in Palo Alto and activities in San Francisco, DCVC positions itself as a deeply technical investor that supports portfolio companies from concept to scale, aiming to solve global challenges while reducing costs and enhancing innovation through deep tech.

IFU – Investment Fund for Developing Countries is a Danish development finance institution that provides risk capital and advisory services to private-sector projects in developing countries. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Copenhagen, it finances through equity, loans, mezzanine, debt and guarantees, and frequently co-invests with Danish companies alongside local partners. The organization supports creating new companies, setting up joint ventures, and acquiring existing firms, with a focus on climate and agribusiness, renewable energy such as solar and wind, and utilities. It prioritizes investments in OECD DAC-listed countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, and often seeks board participation with exits planned in about five to seven years after repayment or sale. IFU also provides advisory services and can offer additional financing through partnerships, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises with modest revenue and staff. Its activities aim to promote private-sector development and sustainable growth in developing markets.

BDC is a government-owned financial institution in Canada that supports small and medium-sized enterprises with financing, consulting, and investment services. It provides business loans, working capital, equipment and real estate financing, asset-backed and syndicated financing, subordinate financing, and growth investments through its investment arm. It also offers strategic planning, human resource management, and international expansion assistance. Operating nationwide with offices in both official languages, BDC focuses on helping SMEs grow, innovate, and create jobs across industries.

Brightlands Venture Partners is an independent regional venture capital firm based in Geleen in the south of the Netherlands. It acts as an investment manager linked to the Brightlands campuses and concentrates on backing companies that address societal challenges in health, agrifood, and renewable chemistry. The firm manages three funds—Limburg Ventures, Chemelot Ventures, and the Brightlands Agrifood Fund—and pursues Seed to Series A financing, typically €250,000 to €2 million, across Europe. Since its founding in 2004, Brightlands Venture Partners has invested in more than 50 companies through its funds, emphasizing proprietary technology, strong teams, and real-world impact.

SHIFT Invest is a Dutch environmental impact venture capital firm based in Amstelveen. It provides early-stage and growth-stage funding to technology companies that advance sustainability across energy transition, green industries, smart food and agriculture, and sustainable mobility and logistics. The firm seeks to achieve positive environmental and social impact alongside financial returns, offering portfolio companies access to a broad network, strategic guidance, and operational support. SHIFT Invest emphasizes transparency and responsible governance, including SFDR disclosures and diversity and inclusion initiatives, and collaborates with partners to scale innovative solutions.

Braemar Energy Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that concentrates on technology and communications opportunities within the energy sector. Founded in 2003, it focuses on energy technology, mobility, power, resource transformation, and infrastructure, assisting early-stage companies with strategic guidance and financing to help them mature and scale. With deep industry and operating experience, the firm works with management teams to navigate financing and strategic challenges, leveraging its history of energy technology investments. The firm's portfolio includes notable energy tech companies such as ChargePoint, CarbonFree, Enel X, and Enerkem, reflecting its emphasis on advancing energy transition and sustainable solutions.

responsAbility Investments is a Zurich-based impact asset manager focused on private market investments in financial inclusion, climate finance, and sustainable food. Founded in 2003, the firm aligns with the United Nations SDGs to finance micro and SME growth, climate solutions, and sustainable agriculture in emerging economies. It manages about USD 5.4 billion in assets across roughly 334 portfolio companies in 69 countries and has mobilized over USD 17.1 billion in impact investments. In 2022 it became part of M&G plc, expanding capabilities in impact investing. The company emphasizes ESG measurement and reporting and serves institutional and private investors with solutions designed to deliver market returns alongside measurable social impact. Headquartered in Zurich, it maintains a global presence with offices in Lima, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Tbilisi, and Singapore.

Sustainable Technologies Fund is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2007, with an additional office in Pittsburgh. The firm concentrates on early to growth-stage investments in sustainable and clean technology companies, targeting sectors such as energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy storage, waste management and recycling, sustainable materials and chemicals, water, soil and air purification, biofuels, and related technologies. It focuses on Western Europe, including Nordic markets, and seeks minority stakes with active governance involvement, often taking a seat on the portfolio company board. Typical deal activity centers on investments of a few million euros per company, with portfolio growth supported by strategic oversight and sector expertise.

Rockley Group is an Oxford, United Kingdom-based investment firm with offices in Shanghai and Beijing. It concentrates on growth capital, expansion capital, and late-stage investments in sectors such as sustainability, energy, information technology, data management, healthcare, industrial efficiency, environmental technology, sensor systems, agricultural technology, safety, and new media. The firm targets opportunities in the United Kingdom and China, with a focus on Shandong and Shanxi provinces in China. Rockley Group aims to develop technology-driven businesses in large, timely markets, unlocking value and contributing to global sustainability and human well-being through strategic investments and expert oversight. A diverse international team leverages experience and local partnerships to identify opportunities and support scalable growth.

A Plus Finance is a Paris based asset management and investment firm focused on venture capital and growth investments in France. It concentrates on innovative sectors such as information technology, media and security, and also engages in real estate and cinema related finance through dedicated vehicles. The firm manages investment funds for innovation and proximity schemes and employs a multi management approach that includes funds of funds accessible on major platforms. The team combines financiers and entrepreneurs to support both daily management constraints and long term business development, and provides ESG and SFDR reporting for investors.

Riverstone Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York. It focuses on investing in early-stage climate technology startups across sectors such as electrification & storage, transportation, agriculture, emissions, natural resources, and efficiency.

Unicorn India Ventures is a Mumbai-based venture capital firm that makes seed and early-stage investments in technology-driven startups across India. Founded in the mid-2010s, it backs companies operating in information technology, SaaS, mobile, big data, e-commerce, fintech, edtech, blockchain, healthcare, hardware, consumer, and clean mobility, among other sectors. The firm provides capital and hands-on support, drawing on its operating, investing, and entrepreneurial experience and a network of mentors and advisors to help portfolio companies grow into market-leading businesses. Typical initial investments range from INR 50 lacs to INR 10 crores, with strategic follow-on funding as ventures scale. By combining financial backing with mentorship and ecosystem access, Unicorn India Ventures aims to accelerate growth, help entrepreneurs address real-world problems, and build enduring technology companies across the Indian market.

Wollemi is a global climate-focused investment firm that funds and supports businesses operating in the climate sector. It pursues specialist climate opportunities across energy transition, circular economy, waste-to-value, natural capital, and carbon removal, targeting early-stage ventures and infrastructure projects that decarbonise through technology or nature-based solutions. The firm provides flexible, patient capital, from equity to debt, and combines technical, financial and operational expertise to help scale climate solutions. Its portfolio includes innovative projects in bioenergy, AI-powered recycling, distributed renewables and storage, waste-to-value, and soil carbon through microbial technology, alongside nature-based carbon initiatives and large-scale forest restoration.

Pond Technologies Holdings Inc. is a technology company focused on carbon capture and utilization through scalable algae-based systems. Its platform converts industrial carbon dioxide emissions into algal biomass that can be processed into nutraceuticals, animal feeds, biofuels and other algae-derived products, with applications in nutraceuticals, bioplastics and biomaterials. The company licenses its CO2 abatement technology and provides engineering, construction, and operating support to deploy algae production facilities at existing industrial sites. It operates multiple business units, including Pond Tech for carbon capture solutions, Pond Biotech for algae with potential diagnostics and therapeutics applications, and Pond Naturals for custom nutrition products. The technology uses modular, scalable reactors designed to minimize water use and land footprint while closing the carbon loop by turning waste CO2 into value-added products. The company holds patents in several countries and targets markets across industrial, nutraceutical, animal feed and biomaterials sectors.

First Green Partners is a venture capital firm based in Stillwater, Minnesota, founded in 2011 to support early‑stage science and technology companies. It focuses on agriculture and food-related innovation, including crop breeding, agricultural data applications, food safety, and environmentally sustainable chemicals and fertilizers, with a particular emphasis on converting renewable carbon—such as non-food biomass and carbon dioxide—into fuels and chemicals and applying clean technologies to fossil‑carbon processes. The firm pursues investments in the United States and Canada, with a Midwest emphasis, and typically backs portfolio companies with initial rounds of about $0.5 million to $10 million, with total commitments up to roughly $100 million per company.

Inspired Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that focuses on early-stage investments, including seed and Series A rounds, in tech-enabled, capital-efficient companies across sectors such as healthcare, B2B software, consumer, fintech, AI, and industrials. The firm supports portfolio companies with resources, introductions, and strategic guidance to foster growth.

Nidus Partners is a venture capital firm based in Saint Louis, Missouri, that supports early-stage technology and energy ventures. The firm focuses on seed-stage investments in energy-related technologies, including renewables, energy efficiency, energy conversion, storage, biofuels, gasification, biomass conversion, renewable biochemicals, and carbon capture, with activity in the Midwest. It pursues opportunities in new energy technologies and related advanced tech through its pipeline of innovations and predictive modeling and other analytics. The firm aims to assist startups from concept to commercialization, leveraging capital and strategic guidance to scale sustainable energy solutions.

Singularity AMC is a Mumbai-based growth equity investment firm that funds private and listed Indian companies at pivotal growth moments. It targets sectors including consumer brands, financial services, energy transition, industrials, and healthcare, seeking scalable businesses with proven models and large market opportunities. The firm emphasizes rigorous research, macro and microeconomic analysis, and a broad network across India's investment ecosystem to source opportunities and add value. It differentiates itself through in-depth sector knowledge, strategic partnerships, and access to capital, guiding portfolio companies through growth, fundraising, and, when appropriate, private-to-public opportunities through PIPE transactions. By focusing on sectors critical to India’s self-reliance and long-term growth, Singularity AMC aims to accelerate value creation for entrepreneurs and investors alike.

Convergen Energy is a renewable energy company that produces renewable fuels and power for businesses seeking to reduce carbon emissions and meet sustainability goals. The company converts biomass and industrial by-products into sustainable fuels and offers options to supply engineered fuel for existing boilers or to own and operate boilers to provide alternative energy. It diverts industrial by-products such as non-recyclable papers, plastics, and nonwovens from landfills to use in fuel production, supporting waste diversion. Convergen Energy emphasizes cost-competitive, clean power solutions while ensuring regulatory compliance and lower air emissions. Through renewable fuel pellets, it helps power plants meet environmental standards while balancing economic objectives.

Gravity Climate is an expert-led venture capital firm based in Israel that supports early-stage climate technology companies. Founded by Zafrir Yoeli, co-founder of Enlight Renewable Energy, and Dr. Bracha Halaf, former chief scientist at Israel’s Ministry of Energy, the firm focuses on energy and climate sectors including adaptation and resilience, energy optimization, and novel materials. Its portfolio includes companies addressing wildfire protection, renewable energy development, cargo ship fuel efficiency, battery recycling, and sustainable fuel production. The firm uses its founders’ deep industry expertise to help ventures translate technical advances into practical climate solutions and accelerate the deployment of impactful technologies.

Spero Ventures is a boutique venture capital firm based in Burlingame, California, focused on investing in purpose-driven companies across sectors such as health and wellness, sustainability, learning, work and play, and software-enabled hardware and technology. The firm emphasizes long-term, transformative partnerships, actively supporting portfolio companies with expertise and time to advance mission-driven objectives. Its portfolio spans renewable energy, healthcare, logistics, and consumer technology, reflecting a commitment to meaningful innovation and building a community for mission-driven founders.

WovenEarth Ventures is a cleantech venture capital firm focused on early-stage disruptive innovation across energy, the built environment, mobility, and resource management. It seeks to provide early access to promising cleantech companies through a diversified portfolio designed to capture growth while managing risk, with the aim of delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns.

Akula Energy Ventures was a venture capital firm based in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. Founded in 1998, it invested in renewable energy, including solar, hydroelectricity and biofuels, primarily in the United States and India.

Green Angel Ventures is a London-based impact investment firm focused on climate technologies. Founded in 2013, it targets early-stage startups developing scalable solutions across energy, carbon removal, nature-based solutions, food and agriculture, transport, industry and recycling. The firm pursues financial returns alongside positive environmental impact, often supporting companies through a syndicate model and its Climate Change Fund (CCF) to broaden participation in climate-tech ventures.

AVAC is a Canada-based venture capital firm established in 1997 and based in Calgary, Alberta, that targets early-stage opportunities in agricultural technology, clean tech, and life sciences. The firm pursues direct investments as well as fund-of-funds strategies, focusing on pre-commercial to seed-stage and growth ventures, with a preference for agrivalue companies, medical devices, agriculture research, and life science products. In information and communications technology it covers areas such as animal health, crop genetics, biomass, big data, precision farming, and smart farming applications, while in life sciences it backs new or enhanced foods, nutraceuticals, therapeutics, devices, and health-related products. AVAC typically invests modest amounts and seeks active board participation, sometimes pursuing royalties in pre-commercial deals, and it has historically operated with emphasis on opportunities in Alberta and the western Canada ecosystem. The firm may also provide grants to public research and not-for-profit entities supporting agrivalue innovation.

Contrarian Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focusing on climate technology investments across Europe and Israel. Founded in 2017 and based in Vilnius, Lithuania, with offices in London and Amsterdam, it backs pre-seed to growth-stage companies developing next-generation energy solutions, including smart grids, energy storage, e-mobility infrastructure, energy efficiency, distributed generation, and related data analytics. The firm emphasizes a founder-first, long-term partnership approach and operates a climate platform that engages the ecosystem through events such as the Energy Tech Summit and initiatives like Climate50 to support portfolio companies and accelerate decarbonization. Typical ticket sizes range from EUR 1-4 million, and the firm seeks global reach with a focus on European opportunities, aiming to be an aligned partner for ambitious founders.

The Natural Gas Innovation Fund, established by the Canadian Gas Association in 2016 and based in Ottawa, Canada, focuses on financing clean-tech innovations within the natural gas value chain. The fund aims to address technology development gaps in the sector by investing in innovative solutions that tackle both current and future challenges facing Canada's energy system. Through its initiatives, NGIF seeks to promote advancements that enhance the efficiency and sustainability of natural gas, thereby supporting the broader transition to cleaner energy sources.

Aster Capital is a European venture capital firm headquartered in Paris that provides early-stage to growth funding and strategic support to deep tech and climate-focused startups. It concentrates on mobility, energy and industry sectors and backs companies across Europe, North America and Africa. The firm emphasizes digital technologies, cleaner energy, industrial optimization and decarbonization, offering portfolio companies access to an ecosystem of corporate partners, industry experts and mentors to accelerate commercialization and scaling. Aster Capital operates from multiple offices in Paris, London, San Francisco, Tel Aviv and Nairobi, and pursues cross-border investments while aiming to help accelerate innovation and sustainable growth in its portfolio.

Morningside Group is a Boston-area venture capital firm founded in 1986 as a family office for the Chan family. It makes long-term investments in companies applying novel science and technology, with expertise in life sciences, digital health, AI, materials, and technology, and a commitment to ethical business practices. The firm supports education, research, and healthcare through charitable initiatives with partners including Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UMass Chan Medical School, and MIT Morningside Academy for Design.

Doral Energy-Tech Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Doral Group, focused on investing in and nurturing startups developing energy technology and decarbonization solutions. Based in Ramat Gan, Israel, the firm aligns its investments with Doral’s core business and aims to deliver high returns while supporting portfolio companies at multiple stages through hands-on guidance and access to a wide network. Its activities include backing innovations in areas such as green hydrogen and electrolyzer technology, exemplified by a strategic collaboration with H2Pro. The company positions itself as a partner in progress, offering more than capital, and participates in industry events to advance decarbonization efforts. Noted leadership recognizes the team's role in the field, underscoring its emphasis on scaling technologies that reduce carbon emissions and contribute to the energy transition.

GS Futures is the corporate venture arm of GS Global, based in San Mateo, California. It makes early stage strategic investments and provides capital and mentorship to startups across sectors shaping the future, including climate technology, energy transition technology, construction and real estate technology, consumer technology, retail, sustainability, and energy. It focuses on startups using physical AI and robotics, built environment and construction technologies, digital platforms and infrastructure, and related energy and industrial transitions. By leveraging the resources and ecosystem of the GS Group, GS Futures supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance and access to scale opportunities.