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.

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.

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.

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.

Chevron Corporation is a global integrated energy company with exploration, production, refining and marketing operations. Through its upstream and downstream segments, it develops crude oil and natural gas resources, processes and transports hydrocarbons, and sells refined products and petrochemicals worldwide. The company also engages in related activities such as cash management, debt financing, insurance, and real estate, and maintains technology ventures and other corporate activities. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, Chevron traces its origins to 1879 and operates across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

Breakthrough Energy Ventures is an investor-led venture firm based in Kirkland, Washington, affiliated with Breakthrough Energy. It provides patient, minority capital to seed, early, and later-stage companies advancing environmental services, climate technology, and clean energy solutions. The firm aims to fund technologies that deliver reliable, affordable power without increasing climate change and to mobilize investment in transformative energy innovations through collaboration with governments, research institutions, and other investors.

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.

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 funds research and invests in technologies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a focus on sectors such as energy, transportation, industrial materials, agriculture, and other climate-related innovations.

Chalmers Ventures is a Swedish venture capital firm based in Gothenburg, with offices in Östersund, Sweden. It specializes in incubation, seed and early-stage, as well as growth capital investments, and operates several programs including incubation, a Startup Camp, an accelerator, and a technology transfer initiative. The firm prioritizes companies with a clear connection to the Gothenburg region and Sweden and seeks opportunities across information and communications technology, new materials, environmental engineering, medical technology and biotechnology. It typically makes minority equity investments and pursues balance sheet investments to support startups at multiple stages, from exploration to scaling, often collaborating with participants in its programs. Chalmers Ventures favors startups with strong technology focus and aims to foster the commercialization of research and innovation within the regional ecosystem.

DCVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, that backs entrepreneurs pursuing deep-tech solutions to major global challenges. It invests in startups across artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate tech, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense and security, prioritizing companies that combine scientific breakthroughs with computational advantage to reduce capital expenditure and operating costs. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser and maintains specialized arms, including a life sciences focus through DCVC Bio, supporting early-stage biotechnology and related ventures. DCVC emphasizes interdisciplinary, data-driven collaboration to accelerate development and deployment of transformative technologies, and it partners with founders across seed to growth stages through multiple funds and programs.

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.

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.

Toyota Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Toyota Motor, based in Los Altos, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2017, it makes early-stage investments in frontier technology startups worldwide to help bring disruptive technologies and business models to market for Toyota. The firm manages more than $500 million in assets under management and operates focused funds, including the Frontier Fund, which targets artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, smart cities, digital health, fintech, materials, and energy, and the Climate Fund, which targets information technology, energy, materials and resources with a climate emphasis. Toyota Ventures seeks to partner with startups developing breakthrough technologies in AI, robotics, mobility, cloud, climate tech, renewable energy, smart cities, digital health, fintech, and related areas to advance Toyota's innovation agenda.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Samsung Electronics is a global technology company headquartered in South Korea that designs, manufactures, and sells a broad range of electronics and related components. It operates across consumer electronics, information technology, mobile communications, and device solutions, producing smartphones, tablets, TVs, home appliances, PCs, memory and storage products, and semiconductors and displays. The company maintains a substantial global footprint, with research and development activities conducted through multiple laboratories and collaborations with startups and academia to advance core technologies. It also provides repair services and supports telecommunications infrastructure, positioning itself as a leader in semiconductor and display technologies within the electronics ecosystem.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Founderful is a Zurich-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups, with a focus on Switzerland. Established in the late 2010s, the firm backs founders across sectors including business and consumer services, energy, financial services, software, and materials and resources, aiming to help portfolio companies grow and compete globally.

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company that develops, manufactures, and distributes insulin and other diabetes medicines to treat chronic diseases. It pursues scientific breakthroughs and aims to expand access to its medicines, with the ultimate goal of preventing and curing disease.

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.

Rhapsody Venture Partners is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm that concentrates on funding science and technology startups, with an emphasis on industrial science breakthroughs outside the life sciences. The firm seeks hard science ventures that address practical industrial challenges and aims to support companies across the United States that commercialize advanced technologies. By backing early-stage to growth-stage ventures, it focuses on translational research and market-ready innovations that improve manufacturing, materials, energy, and related sectors.

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.

BDC Venture Capital is a major Canadian venture capital investor that supports technology-based startups from seed through expansion. It provides financing, consulting services and securitization to help build strong Canadian businesses, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises and high growth potential. Established in 1975, it has invested in more than 400 companies spanning life sciences, telecommunications, information technology and advanced technologies, aiming to help Canadian companies become dominant players in their markets.

Safer Made is a venture capital firm based in North Branford, Connecticut, founded in 2017, focused on environmental impact by backing companies that remove or reduce harmful chemicals in products and manufacturing processes to promote healthier people and a cleaner world.

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.

Extantia Capital is a climate-first venture capital firm founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany. It focuses on deep decarbonisation technologies and accelerates the transition by uniting mission-driven entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, and business leaders. With over €100 million in assets under management, Extantia operates two investment strategies: Extantia Flagship backs scalable deep decarbonisation companies, and Extantia Allstars invests in climate venture funds. The firm targets so-called Gigacorn companies capable of delivering substantial CO2e savings, aiming for ventures that reduce at least 100 Mt CO2e per year and have the potential to exceed 1 Gt CO2e annually.

ARCH Venture Partners is a United States-based venture capital firm founded in 1986 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm focuses on science-driven companies, with a track record of commercializing technologies developed at academic research institutions and national laboratories. It primarily invests in life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare technology, and related sectors, and also backs software, materials, clean tech, and information technology across early to growth stages. ARCH emphasizes relationships with scientists and entrepreneurs, often taking early stakes and supporting subsequent rounds to help market entry and scale. The firm has raised multiple venture funds totaling several billion dollars and maintains a national and international reach with offices across North America.

HG Ventures is the venture capital arm of The Heritage Group. It invests in early and growth-stage companies developing advanced materials and systems for transportation infrastructure, environmental services, and specialty chemicals, as well as digital systems relevant to these industries. The firm aims to partner with portfolio companies by leveraging The Heritage Group’s operating companies and research center to provide technical expertise, manufacturing capabilities, and expansive industry networks. HG Ventures focuses on opportunities in the United States, typically backing companies positioned to improve infrastructure resilience, environmental performance, and energy production through innovative materials and processes. Through its strategic support, the firm helps portfolio companies scale and integrate with real-world supply chains and customers.

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.

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.

WI Harper Group is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with a China-focused footprint, including offices in Beijing and Taipei. Founded in 1993, it invests in startup companies across the United States, Greater China, and the Asia Pacific in sectors such as healthcare, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, fintech, sustainability, and new media. The firm targets early and expansion-stage opportunities, supporting companies from seed to later rounds and helping bridge U.S. and Greater China markets through cross-border expertise.

Merck KGaA is a German science and technology company founded in Darmstadt in 1668. It operates in three main segments: Life Science, Electronics, and Healthcare, offering laboratory consumables and instruments, specialty materials for semiconductors, and branded pharmaceuticals with therapeutic focus areas such as oncology, multiple sclerosis and fertility. The group serves customers across Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America; in the United States and Canada the Merck name is owned by Merck & Co., so the German group uses regional branding in North America under EMD Millipore/EMD Chemicals. The Merck family retains a majority stake and the company has been publicly traded since 1995. Notable subsidiaries include Merck Consumer Healthcare and Merck Performance Materials. Known as the world's oldest operating chemical and pharmaceutical company, Merck KGaA emphasizes scientific exploration and responsible entrepreneurship as a long-standing global player in its sectors.

Voyager (US) is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco and New York that makes early-stage investments in climate technology companies across mobility, energy, materials, food, the built environment, analytics, industrial systems, and carbon removal. It partners with founders at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages to support decarbonization and climate solutions.

Biosciences Research and Commercialization Center is the venture capital investment arm of Western Michigan University, established in 2003 and based in Kalamazoo. It funds early-stage life sciences and medical device ventures in Michigan focusing on commercialization, with emphasis on startups that have a substantial Michigan presence and links to Southwest Michigan. The center leverages Kalamazoo's scientific talent and pharmaceutical commercialization heritage to support entrepreneurs, scientists, university technology transfer offices and corporate clients as they advance products in pharmaceuticals, medical devices and diagnostics. It provides startup and gap funding to promising ventures entering commercialization, typically investing between 25,000 and 250,000 per deal.

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.

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.

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.