SOSV is a global venture capital firm based in Princeton, New Jersey, founded in 1995, that focuses on seed to growth investments in deep technology across health, environmental tech, hardware, robotics, and cross border software, with a particular emphasis on Asia. The company runs accelerator style startup development programs, including HAX and IndieBio, which provide facilities, engineering resources, and lab equipment to help founders accelerate product development, acquire customers, and attract later stage funding. SOSV pursues a limited number of high potential startups, offering extensive hands on support to speed commercialization and scale, and aims to back innovations that improve human and planetary health.
Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Jackson, Wyoming. It invests in companies developing technologies to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a focus on sectors including energy, impact, transportation, industrial materials, and agriculture. The firm supports research and commercialization of emissions-reducing solutions and backing for entrepreneurs pursuing ways to lower emissions, remove carbon, and actively cool the planet.
BP is a global energy company engaged in the full energy value chain, including upstream exploration and production of oil and natural gas, downstream refining and marketing, trading of energy commodities, and shipping services to support distribution worldwide. The company also operates a specialized aviation fuels division, Air BP, serving airports and airlines. In response to evolving energy demand, BP has significantly expanded investments in renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and biofuels through its Alternative Energy initiatives, aiming to transition toward a lower-carbon portfolio while maintaining core hydrocarbon operations.
Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.
Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm backs entrepreneurs with venture assistance, strategic guidance, and capital, focusing on bold, early-stage technology companies. It invests across sectors including AI, climate and sustainability, enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technologies. Based in Menlo Park, the firm manages several funds to support startups across stages, prioritizing ventures that address large markets and have potential for significant social and economic impact.
Par Equity is a venture capital and private equity firm backed by Scottish Enterprise, based in Edinburgh with an office in San Francisco. It specializes in early‑stage and growth investments in technology companies, including software, deep tech and digital health, targeting opportunities in Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland, with cross‑border expansion between the United Kingdom and the United States. The firm funds proprietary technology and proven products poised for international growth, supporting UK companies expanding to the United States and US entrants seeking a UK presence. Typical investments range from £0.25 million to £2.5 million, with enterprise values up to about £10 million. It also provides angel capital to investee companies and focuses on cross‑border deals to accelerate scale.
Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is a leading European innovation engine focused on Sustainable Energy. It invests in early-stage climate tech and energy companies across Europe and the US, providing equity minority investments and added value services to de-risk projects.
Chevron is a multinational integrated energy company that explores for, produces, refines, and markets oil, natural gas, and chemicals worldwide. The company operates Upstream and Downstream segments, with refining facilities, large-scale marketing of fuels and lubricants, and related energy services. It maintains sizable reserves and a global footprint across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Chevron emphasizes affordable, reliable, and cleaner energy to enable human progress, and pursues technology-enabled improvements to efficiency and environmental performance. The company also maintains a corporate technology arm that scouts and integrates emerging technologies to support core businesses and future opportunities, including decarbonization, energy decentralization, and advanced materials. Founded in 1879, Chevron is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and remains a leading global energy player while pursuing ongoing innovation and responsible resource management.
Cycle Capital is a Montreal-based venture capital and asset management firm focused on clean technology, agtech and renewable energy. Founded in 2009, it targets development and commercialization-stage companies in North America and China, and supports portfolio growth through its network of strategic partners and advisors. The firm invests across sectors including energy storage and efficiency, green chemistry, clean transportation, smart grids, IoT for resource management, water technologies, big data and smart city solutions, with a preference for minority stakes and hands-on value creation. It maintains offices in Montreal and Toronto, with activity across Canada, the United States and China, and emphasizes helping portfolio companies scale by leveraging its sector expertise, industrial partnerships and advisory resources. Cycle Capital aims to back technology-enabled solutions that address climate change and improve process efficiency throughout a product's life cycle.
Orion Infrastructure Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Nazar Massouh that provides capital solutions to business owners and operators. It focuses on mid-sized private companies and family-owned businesses, offering creative credit, equity, and growth capital to support the deployment of sustainable infrastructure and technologies. The firm emphasizes collaboration with partner companies to transform ideas into action and create long-term value for both portfolio companies and investors.
Rockley Group is a venture capital firm based in Oxford, United Kingdom, with offices in Shanghai and Beijing. The firm focuses on growth and late-stage investments across sectors including sustainability, energy, information technology, data management, healthcare, industrial efficiency, and environmental technology, with additional emphasis on sensor systems and low-power technology. It targets opportunities in the United Kingdom and China, including regions such as Shandong and Shanxi. Typical deals range from €5 million to €15 million per transaction. The firm aims to back technology-driven companies in markets with large, timely opportunities that contribute to global sustainability and human well-being.
Akula Energy Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, founded in 1998, specializing in renewable energy; it invests in solar, hydroelectricity, and biofuels, primarily in the United States and India.
Convergen Energy is an energy company that produces renewable fuels and power. It develops renewable fuel products designed to meet stringent environmental and sustainability standards, including cost-effective fuel pellets that can reduce air emissions and help power plants achieve both economic and environmental objectives.
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.
Kenda Capital is an independently owned investment manager based in The Hague, Netherlands. It functions as the manager of the Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1, working closely with Shell and other investors to support the development of new energy technologies. The firm combines energy sector expertise with a growth-focused investing approach, backing technology companies in areas such as communication and networking, software, manufacturing, subsurface visualization, well construction and automation, automated production operations, and processing facilities; it is also active in upstream oil and gas assets and selectively engages in downstream oil and gas, renewable energy, and by-product recycling technologies. Through its technology-driven approach and relationship with Shell, Kenda Capital seeks step-change innovations that improve energy efficiency and reduce costs.
Ecofuel Fund is a Montreal-based venture capital firm specializing in cleantech investments. It backs seed and early-stage startups developing and commercializing clean technologies across sectors such as energy, water and air technologies, waste treatment, industrial process improvement, smart transport, agriculture, and biotechnology. The firm has about $40.6 million in assets under management and is supported by Investissement Québec, BDC Capital, Fondaction, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, and CRIBIQ, the Quebec consortium for industrial bioprocess research and innovation.
GoGreen Capital is a Brussels-based venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage investments in the renewable energy sector, including energy generation, energy efficiency, energy infrastructure, energy storage, transport and biofuels. The firm targets opportunities across Europe and North America.
Horizon 3 is a Netherlands-based investment firm and innovation platform, founded in 2012 and based in s-Hertogenbosch. It focuses on high-tech start-ups in the biobased economy and seeks to back companies operating in the food chain sector, supporting early-stage ventures across the biobased value chain.
Based in Paris, A Plus Finance is an independent investment firm specializing in venture capital and the management of funds dedicated to innovation. It focuses on information technology, environment and e-business in France, and also pursues opportunities in real estate and private equity. The team combines financiers and entrepreneurs, providing practical management insight and a long-term development perspective for portfolio companies. The firm manages about €220 million in assets and typically invests between €1 million and €4 million per project, reflecting a goal of supporting growth-stage and promising early-stage ventures in the French market.
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.
SFC Capital is a United Kingdom-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that makes early-stage investments in UK startups, including pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs companies across sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer, enterprise, green tech, medical technology, and hospitality, providing capital plus strategic guidance to support growth and product development. The firm operates a model that combines an angel network with seed funds to back SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, aiming to offer exposure to a diversified portfolio while delivering hands-on support to portfolio companies.
JetBlue Technology Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of JetBlue Airways, based in California. It invests in early-stage startups across travel, hospitality, transportation and technology, with a focus on airlines, airports and aerospace manufacturers. It also runs an accelerator program that invests about 0.05 million USD in each startup in exchange for equity. Founded in 2016, the firm supports startups aligned with JetBlue's strategic interests in travel and technology.
Bluepoint Partners is a venture capital firm and accelerator based in Daejeon, South Korea, with offices in Daejeon and Seoul. It supports high-tech entrepreneurs by providing accelerator programs and early-stage funding, helping them launch, grow, and raise capital through connections to investors, strategic partnerships, talent, advisors, and media exposure, and by facilitating potential exits. The firm focuses on biotechnology, medical tech, cleantech, data, artificial intelligence, food tech, healthcare, technology, and industrial tech.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.
European Investment Fund (EIF) is a public institution established in 1994 to improve access to finance for Europe's small and medium-sized businesses. It designs and develops venture capital and guarantee instruments to support SMEs and to catalyse private investment, aiming to build a robust European equity ecosystem. EIF engages in venture capital, growth capital, and guarantee operations, backing innovative entrepreneurs primarily in technology and life sciences, as well as across other sectors. Through cornerstone investments and fund participation, EIF seeks to crowd in private investors and stimulate venture activity across Europe. Its equity portfolio has grown substantially, with assets under management exceeding EUR 14 billion, reflecting its broad role in strengthening SME finance and supporting entrepreneurship and growth.
BoxGroup is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups, typically investing in pre-seed to Series A rounds. It supports companies across consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, life sciences, marketplaces, and related sectors, prioritizing teams with strong vision and momentum. The firm seeks entrepreneurs launching movements in existing markets or creating new ones and aims to help category-defining businesses at the outset. While geographically active in major innovation hubs, BoxGroup evaluates opportunities across the United States and beyond, with a preference for early involvement and smaller initial checks.
Energy Impact Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in New York. It concentrates on financing companies that advance the energy transition and sustainable energy, investing across venture, growth, credit, and infrastructure. The firm operates globally, with activity in North America and Europe, and collaborates with energy companies and entrepreneurs to accelerate innovation in areas such as energy efficiency, smart grids, storage, alternative energy equipment, and related software and services. It manages more than $2.5 billion in assets and pursues opportunities across the energy and climate sectors.
Innovation Works is a Pittsburgh-based venture capital firm established in 1999 that targets seed-stage technology companies in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It provides capital, business guidance, and other resources to high-potential startups and is the region's largest seed-stage investor. The organization also helps manufacturers adopt new technologies and pursues investments in robotics, artificial intelligence, medical devices, retail technologies, and enterprise software.
Industry Ventures is a San Francisco-based investment firm that specializes in venture capital liquidity solutions and fund investments. Founded in 2000, the firm manages over eight billion dollars in assets and pursues a flexible, multi-strategy approach that includes secondary investments, primary commitments, and funds of funds in the private technology sector. It operates a global network with offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, and London to connect limited partners with venture capital opportunities and to support smaller venture funds and growth-stage investments. Industry Ventures’ platform emphasizes access to later-stage secondaries and technology growth equity, aiming to provide liquidity options and diversified exposure within the venture ecosystem.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures is an investor-led venture capital firm based in Kirkland, Washington, providing patient capital to climate and energy technology companies across seed, early, and later stages. It concentrates on environmental services, climate change, climate technology, and cleantech, investing minority stakes to back technologies that deliver reliable, affordable power while reducing emissions and advancing zero-emission energy solutions.
Brinc is a Hong Kong-based accelerator and early-stage venture firm that runs 15 multidisciplinary accelerator programs across seven countries. It accelerates startups in blockchain, artificial intelligence, connected hardware, robotics, climate tech, clean energy, food technology, and the Internet of Things, aiming to advance sustainable, inclusive innovation. Brinc also supports corporations with distributed innovation strategies, sourcing of new startups and technologies, and venture-building for Web3-enabled businesses. The company collaborates with a diverse network of global corporations, government bodies, universities, fast-growing companies, and investors to run programs and pilot joint initiatives, helping entrepreneurs access mentorship, pilots, and opportunities for subsequent funding through partnerships. Brinc positions itself as a bridge between startups and strategic partners to accelerate product development and market access.
Ara Partners is a private equity and infrastructure investment firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Dublin. The firm specializes in industrial decarbonization, investing in energy efficiency, renewable energy, industrial process electrification, waste management, and sustainable chemicals. It provides growth capital and buyout support to help portfolio companies scale and accelerate environmental progress, focusing on sectors such as manufacturing, chemicals and materials, energy efficiency, green fuels, and food and agriculture. The firm pursues impact investments and collaborates with portfolio companies to advance decarbonization across the industrial economy, and operates as a registered investment adviser.
Novastar Ventures is a Kenya-headquartered venture capital firm focused on early to growth capital for businesses that serve Africa’s mass market. Founded in 2014, it operates from Nairobi with additional offices in Lagos and London, and partners with entrepreneurs to develop innovative business models that improve outcomes in healthcare, education, agriculture, energy, housing and sanitation, financial services, information technology, and consumer products. The firm concentrates on bottom-of-the-pyramid markets across East and West Africa and beyond, emphasizing solutions that drive value for the many rather than the few. It positions itself as a venture catalyst rather than a traditional fund manager, providing hands-on support to entrepreneurs to bring ideas to life and scale impact. Typical investments range from about $0.25 million up to $8 million, and the firm pursues investments that combine commercial returns with ESG and social impact.
Refactor Capital is a Burlingame, California-based venture capital firm focusing on seed- and early-stage investments in hard technology, biotechnology, health, climate, and related sectors. The firm is led by Zal Bilimoria, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a veteran product and engineering executive with experience at Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn, who typically leads seed rounds with checks in the 1–2 million range.
High-Tech Gründerfonds is a Germany-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology companies in Germany. Based in Bonn with an additional office in Berlin, it operates as a public-private partnership that supports high-tech startups across information technology, software, hardware, life sciences, chemistry and related fields. HTGF provides initial funding and follow-on capital to eligible young companies, often taking minority stakes and participating as lead or co-investor, while offering hands-on guidance from experienced investment managers and startup experts. Since its founding in 2005, the firm has backed numerous startups and facilitated the growth of portfolio companies through multiple funds aimed at early stages. The model combines both public support, involving government and financial institutions, with private investor participation to nurture startups from concept to market.
Old College Capital is the venture investment arm of the University of Edinburgh, based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. It provides growth and development finance to early- and mid-stage spin-out and startup companies affiliated with the university and the Edinburgh ecosystem, supporting commercialization and growth. It typically makes smaller to mid-sized investments and may participate in follow-on rounds, co-investing with other institutions and angel networks, and may appoint a non-executive director or observer to the board. Established in 2011, Old College Capital focuses across sectors including artificial intelligence, cleantech, agtech, biotech, medtech, therapeutics, semiconductors, and general technology.
Morningside is a Boston-based investment firm founded in 1986 as a family office for the Chan family. It makes venture capital investments in companies with novel science and technology, with deep expertise in life sciences, digital health, artificial intelligence, materials, and technology. The firm takes a long-term approach to building companies and emphasizes ethical conduct. In addition to its investment activities, Morningside supports charitable initiatives in education, research and healthcare, including collaborations with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, UMass Chan Medical School, and the MIT Morningside Academy for Design.
Easo Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2018 and based in Donostia, Spain, aimed at fostering the growth of startups and SMEs in the Basque Country. Recognizing the lack of a supportive investment ecosystem in the region, Easo Ventures brings together nearly 100 local companies and entrepreneurs to provide not only financial backing but also valuable expertise and mentorship. The firm targets innovative projects with clear growth potential, offering a structured investment program tailored to different phases of development. Startups in their initial stages can access an acceleration program with an initial investment, while more established companies with proven business models can secure larger investments, supplemented by specialized support. Easo Ventures aspires to be a pivotal player in the Basque investment landscape, addressing the financing needs of emerging businesses and contributing to the region's economic development.
Transitions First is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. It focuses on seed-stage investments in bio-manufacturing, synthetic biology, and chemical technologies for construction and food sectors.
DCVC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that backs entrepreneurs developing deep technologies across artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense, security, and related deep tech sectors. The firm emphasizes combining advances in science and technology with computing and algorithmic advantage to enable more with less and to reduce capital expenditure and operating costs for portfolio companies. DCVC operates as a registered investment adviser and invests across stages to support transformational breakthroughs that benefit society.
Established in 2001, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is a Canadian organization that funds and supports innovative cleantech projects. It focuses on moving groundbreaking technologies to market, creating jobs, driving economic growth, and promoting environmental benefits. SDTC operates independently but collaborates with various stakeholders from private industry, academia, and governments.
Threshold Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm pursues a high-conviction investment strategy and partners with entrepreneurs to build and scale innovative software, consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies, providing capital and strategic support to help startups reach product-market fit and accelerate growth.
Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation is a corporate venture arm of Amcor that invests in companies developing new packaging technologies. It focuses on solutions that improve sustainability and performance, such as recycling systems, alternative barrier materials, paper‑based packaging, smart and connected packaging, biomaterials, and innovative business models for the packaging industry.
Infinity Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs startups developing technologies and business models enabling the next generation of fintech and commerce.
Hi Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Mexico City, founded in 2012. It backs Latin American founders with global ambitions, supporting pre-seed, seed, and Series A investments across sectors including fintech, the future of commerce, smart cities, foodtech, human capital, HRtech, edtech, healthtech, B2C, and B2B.
Sofinnova Partners is an independent venture capital firm based in Paris, France, focusing on life sciences from seed to later-stage investments. It backs startups, early-stage companies, corporate spin-offs and occasionally turnaround situations in biopharmaceuticals/biotech, medical devices, and industrial biotechnology. The firm typically takes a lead or cornerstone role, often serving as the first institutional investor in Series A rounds, and actively supports portfolio companies through formation and beyond, including board participation. The firm manages more than €2 billion in life sciences assets.
Green Angel Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage climate technology investments. It seeks to back inventions and startups with potential to mitigate climate change across sectors including energy, carbon removal, nature-based solutions, food and agriculture, transport, industry and recycling. The firm aims to support the commercialization and scaling of climate solutions and positions itself as a reference early-stage investor for UK climate innovation.
Beyond Capital Fund is an impact investment organization based in New York, established in 2009. It makes for-profit, early-stage investments in startups in East Africa and India, targeting health care access, sanitation, clean energy, agriculture and food security, and financial inclusion to improve the lives of people in low-income communities. The fund seeks market-rate returns but is structured as a nonprofit, which allows it to emphasize its social mission alongside its financial mandate.
Serra Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Champaign, Illinois. Founded in 2008, it invests in technology companies at early and growth stages across the United States, with select international activity, focusing on information technology, deep technology, instrumentation, devices, B2B software as a service, and agricultural technologies.
Demeter Partners is a Paris‑based private equity and venture capital firm focused on the energy transition and environmental sustainability. Founded in 2005, it funds companies from seed through growth and infrastructure across Europe, with activity in select North American opportunities, and typically pursues minority stakes with board representation. The firm targets eco‑industries and climate technologies, including water, air and waste treatment, energy efficiency, renewable energy, green buildings, and related environmental services, as well as software, services, and industrials aligned with sustainable development.