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.

Addor Capital is a growth-capital investment firm headquartered in Nanjing, China. Founded in 2014, it invests in seed-stage through growth-stage companies across sectors including clean technology, health, new materials, advanced manufacturing, consumer services, cultural industries, and TMT in China.

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.

Toyota Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Toyota Motor, based in the San Francisco Bay Area (Los Altos, California). It invests in early-stage startups worldwide, aiming to identify and bring disruptive technologies to Toyota's ecosystem. The firm focuses on frontier technologies across artificial intelligence, autonomy, mobility, robotics, cloud computing, climate tech, renewable energy, smart cities, digital health, fintech, materials, and energy, seeking to partner with founders to accelerate commercialization and scale. Through its investment programs, Toyota Ventures supports startups that align with Toyota's goals of advancing mobility, sustainable energy, and digital innovation, while providing strategic value to Toyota.

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.

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.

IP Group is a London-based venture capital firm that focuses on commercialising intellectual property from research-intensive institutions. It creates value by identifying early-stage IP, developing it into commercially viable opportunities, and forming strategic partnerships to support portfolio companies. The firm provides capital, strategic guidance, and industry insight to science- and technology-based businesses, with emphasis on clean technology, life sciences, and deep tech. With more than twenty years of experience, IP Group supports the growth of science and technology companies from inception toward scale, helping translate research into market-ready products and accelerate their impact.

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 that supports the region's technology ecosystem. Based in Philadelphia, it acts as a capital provider and catalyst for early-stage and growing technology companies across information technology, health, and physical sciences by offering seed-stage funding and related resources to accelerate commercialization. The organization facilitates university–industry partnerships and regional initiatives that connect scientific research with market opportunities, with the aim of creating jobs and strengthening entrepreneurial communities in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Through its programs and partnerships, it supports adoption of new technologies and helps build a robust regional innovation ecosystem.

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.

MassVentures is a Massachusetts-based venture capital firm that provides seed and early-stage funding to high-growth startups in the Massachusetts innovation economy, helping concepts move from idea to commercialization. Founded in 1978 as a quasi-public corporation by the Legislature of the Commonwealth, it is governed by an independent board and managed by experienced venture investors. The firm focuses on information technology, healthcare, cybersecurity, e-commerce, mobile, manufacturing, and robotics sectors in Massachusetts and operates accelerator programs to support portfolio companies. MassVentures leverages the state's entrepreneurial ecosystem, educated workforce, and centers of innovation to back early-stage ventures.

Universal Materials Incubator is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm established in 2015 that focuses on investments in materials, chemical industries, technology, and material science companies in Japan.

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.

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.

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.

Shenzhen Capital Group is a government-backed venture capital firm established by the Shenzhen Government in 1999. It focuses on cultivating national industries and brands, promoting economic transformation, and developing emerging sectors. The firm invests primarily in small to medium-sized enterprises and innovative high-tech companies across start-up, growth, and transformation stages, targeting industries aligned with national policies such as information technology, internet and new media, biopharma, new energy, environmental protection, chemical engineering, new materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, consumer goods, and modern services. Through its portfolio, it aims to build national champions and support industrial upgrading in China, leveraging its capital base to support long-term value creation.

Chalmers Ventures is a Gothenburg, Sweden-based venture capital firm that supports startups through incubation, seed and early-stage investments, and growth financing. It operates programs such as an incubator, startup camp, accelerator, and technology transfer initiative, and emphasizes a connection to the Gothenburg region and Sweden. The firm focuses on information and communications technology, new materials, environmental engineering, medical technology, and biotechnology, and it conducts balance sheet investments, typically taking minority stakes in participating companies.

SDIC Innovation Investment Management is the private equity and venture capital arm of State Development & Investment Corp. It makes investments across technology and manufacturing sectors, including mobile internet, internet of things, cloud computing, big data, information technology services, industrial robotics, and intelligent manufacturing. The firm also targets high-end medical equipment, diagnostics, high-value consumables, modern agricultural equipment, ships and marine engineering, new materials, clean energy, energy conservation, and healthcare; for new energy vehicles it focuses on intelligent upstream and downstream supply chains, power batteries and systems, and related technologies. Founded in 2009, the company is based in Beijing with an additional office in Asia. The firm aims to support development and deployment of innovative technologies through private equity and venture capital investments.

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.

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.

Freeflow Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, with close ties to Pasadena-based Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It focuses on early-stage investing, specifically pre-seed and seed rounds, in companies addressing human and planetary health and in technology-enabled sectors such as medical devices, energy production and storage, autonomous systems, food and agriculture, and new materials. The firm is led by David Fleck and Kevin Barrett, who bring extensive technology and healthcare experience, and maintains a broad network of syndicate partners and advisors to support portfolio companies.

Capricorn Partners is an independent pan-European venture capital manager and asset manager based in Belgium that invests through technology-driven growth companies. The firm focuses on European opportunities and builds its portfolio around technology as a competitive advantage, with an investment team that combines deep technical expertise and broad industrial experience. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Leuven, Capricorn Partners targets sectors including information technology, software as a service, healthcare and life sciences, oncology, big data, digital health, manufacturing, clean technology, consumer sectors, and other technology-enabled businesses across Europe. The company seeks to support companies with scalable growth trajectories and technology-enabled business models.

Longwater Investment is an early- and growth-stage venture capital firm based in Shanghai, China. Founded in 2016, it concentrates investments in the new materials and chemical technology sector, aiming to support disruptive ventures and create long-term value for its investors.

CAS Star is a venture capital firm based in Xi'an, China, with an additional office in Beijing. It engages in high-tech industry investment and incubation, aiming to build a scientific and technological entrepreneurial ecosystem that connects research institutions, angel funds, incubators, and entrepreneurship training to support technology entrepreneurs. The firm targets sectors including optoelectronic chips, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, aerospace, smart manufacturing, information technology, energy, oncology, advanced manufacturing, software as a service, and space technology.

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.

Hiway Capital is a venture capital firm based in Guangzhou, China. Established in 2007, it focuses on investments across manufacturing, healthcare, new materials and energy, agriculture, and enterprise services.

Clean Energy Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm that invests in seed- and early-stage climate technology startups across North America, Europe and Israel. It focuses on advancing energy storage, grid connectivity, renewable energy production, clean transportation, and the water–energy nexus, supporting technologies and business models with scale potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The firm backs companies that address climate change through market-driven approaches and seeks to accelerate commercialization of disruptive clean energy innovations.

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.

Future Planet Capital is a London-based global impact-led venture capital firm that backs growth companies arising from leading universities and research ecosystems. It focuses on climate, health, education and sustainable growth technologies and seeks to commercialize university research. The firm manages about $380 million for institutional investors and has invested in more than 300 companies, with around 60 exits, reflecting its track record across early to growth-stage opportunities.

Founded in 2021, Impact Science Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in the United States. It invests in fundamental scientific breakthroughs by partnering with research institutions and universities to commercialize innovations in impact sectors such as computer hardware, materials, semiconductors, and energy.

CDH Investments is an international alternative asset manager based in Beijing with offices in Hong Kong. Established in 2002, it runs a diversified platform across private equity, venture capital, growth, real assets, mezzanine, public equities, and wealth management, focusing on Greater China. The firm invests across stages from early to middle-market buyouts, targeting consumer, hard technology, new energy, and healthcare sectors, as well as related areas such as information technology, media, finance, and manufacturing. With experienced investment teams that have collaborated for years, CDH seeks to generate value through its China-focused approach, managing over $27 billion in assets.

Fifty Years is an entrepreneur-led venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2015. It backs founders using technology to tackle significant global problems and seeks companies that can be highly profitable while making a meaningful dent in the Sustainable Development Goals. The firm invests in early-stage opportunities across technology, energy, climate tech, materials, bioengineering, transportation, hardware, computation, communication, and health, with a focus on North America and Europe.

Investible is a venture capital firm based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2014, that backs seed and early-stage technology companies. It focuses on climate tech, smart cities, food and agriculture, transport, industrial, and clean tech sectors across Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia, and its portfolio includes more than 100 early-stage companies across 11 countries and 20 sectors. The firm supports portfolio companies by connecting them with capital, expertise, and networks to help them grow and scale globally. Its operations include offices in Sydney and Singapore, reflecting an international footprint.

Mission BioCapital is a life science venture capital firm that backs early‑stage biotechnology companies. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the firm draws on a leadership team with a long history of investing in and launching numerous early‑stage life science ventures. It operates in regions with strong research, discovery, and venture capital ecosystems and is known for providing deep expertise and active support to its portfolio companies.

F&G Venture is a venture capital firm established in September 2012 by a former rotating CEO of Huawei and a partner of Fidelity Asia. It focuses on investments in companies experiencing exponential growth in information technology sectors, including IT infrastructure, cloud computing, Internet of Things, SaaS, big data, microchips, and semiconductors, and also targets high-end manufacturing businesses such as modules, intelligent devices and equipment, robots, and drones.

True Ventures is a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It invests in early-stage technology startups in the United States, providing seed and Series A financing and managing substantial capital across its active funds. The firm supports founders with a platform of programs and a large team of professionals, including founders-turned-investors, to help portfolio companies grow. True has backed more than 350 companies and helped them scale, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide, and has been recognized as Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018.

MultiGo Capital invests across the semiconductor and energy storage supply chains, as well as in domestic materials, equipment, and consumer electronics.

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.

AP Ventures is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in London that focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technologies leveraging platinum group metals to address global challenges. Founded in 2014, the firm targets patentable and advanced technologies across sectors such as hydrogen infrastructure (production, storage, transport, and end-use applications including fuel cell systems), energy storage, water treatment and purification, sensors, durable electronics, and medical devices. Its portfolio emphasizes hydrogen value chain solutions, low-carbon and blue hydrogen production, electrolysis, and applications that enable decarbonization and sustainable energy. By investing in companies that exploit PGMs to support renewables integration, resource efficiency, and growing global needs, AP Ventures aims to back innovators with global reach and scalable impact.

KdT Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2017 by Cain McClary. It backs startups across data, engineering, and biology, with emphasis on life sciences, healthcare technology systems, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agriculture, chemicals, and gases, as well as frontier science, chemistry, and related technologies.

Legend Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm and the investment arm of Legend Holdings, established in 2001 to become a leading venture capital manager in China. It manages up to about US$700 million across four funds and focuses on high-growth ventures with operations in China or markets related to China, particularly in early-stage information technology including network applications and services, outsourcing and professional services, and infrastructure components such as IC design, as well as mid-market growth in consumer goods, clean technology, healthcare, equipment manufacturing, and modern services. As an active investor, Legend Capital provides portfolio companies with strategic resources, business development support, and market guidance to help them scale in the Chinese market. Notable investments include Joyo.com, SinoCom, Solarfun Power, Spreadtrum Communications, China Sunshine Paper, and VanceInfo, among others.

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.

Alexandria Venture Investments is the strategic venture capital arm of Alexandria Real Estate Equities. It provides seed through growth capital to life science and technology companies developing breakthrough therapies, diagnostics, research tools, agrifoodtech, agtech, digital health, and related platforms. Backed by the parent company’s industry experience and scientific advisory network, the firm leverages long-standing relationships and domain expertise to support early to growth-stage ventures aiming to translate scientific advances into practical healthcare and technology solutions.

Planet A is a Berlin-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that focuses on impact investments and European greentech startups. It operates with an in-house science team that conducts life cycle assessments to quantify a startup's environmental impact and has the authority to veto investments if the impact is not significant and measurable, guiding portfolio decisions toward technologies that deliver meaningful, scalable environmental benefits.

Baidu Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Baidu that backs technology startups primarily in artificial intelligence and related fields. It pursues opportunities in AI, autonomous driving, robotics, big data, life sciences, and other technology sectors, supporting entrepreneurs from its offices in Beijing and San Francisco. The firm aims to help portfolio companies accelerate development and scale by leveraging Baidu's technical expertise and industry resources, reflecting Baidu's interest in advancing the next generation of AI-enabled products and services.

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.

Highlight Capital is a Shanghai-based venture capital firm established in 2014 that invests in China's healthcare sector, including healthcare services, biomedicine, medical technology, mobile health, and pharmaceuticals, with a focus on supporting growth of healthcare companies and partnering with entrepreneurs committed to high standards.

Voyager (US) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, California and New York, New York. It focuses on early-stage investments in decarbonization and climate technology, backing Pre-Seed to Series A rounds in mobility, energy, materials, food, the built environment, analytics, industrial systems, and carbon removal.

New Climate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Houston, Texas, that invests in carbon reduction and avoidance technology across energy, climate tech, food/ag tech, and related sectors. It pursues an active and diversified investment approach and supports founders with operational guidance, team-building, mentoring, and access to a global network of investors, startups, and corporations to help navigate the early stages of company growth.

GS Futures is the venture arm of GS Global, based in San Mateo, California. It makes early-stage, strategic investments in companies across climate technology, energy transition technology, construction and real estate technology, and consumer technology, with a geographic focus on the United States, Canada and Europe and an emphasis on retail, sustainability and energy sectors.

The Column Group is a venture capital firm focused on building the next generation of biotechnology companies. Based in San Francisco, California, the firm invests in seed- and early-stage biotechnology, life sciences, and technology-driven startups in the United States, with a particular emphasis on oncology and drug discovery. It supports companies developing new therapies and scientific platforms aimed at unmet medical needs, pursuing a long-term approach to enable multiple product opportunities rather than quick exits. Its portfolio interests include cancer, inflammation, infectious disease, metabolic and cardiovascular disorders, and nervous system diseases, reflecting a focus on translating science into therapeutics.