Energy Impact Partners is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that focuses on accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy future. It invests globally across venture, growth, credit, and infrastructure and collaborates with entrepreneurs and leading energy and industrial companies to scale innovative technologies. Its portfolio spans energy storage, renewable energy solutions, grid resilience, home energy management, and AI-enabled utilities, among other energy tech sectors. The firm manages more than 2.5 billion in assets, reflecting a broad and ongoing commitment to funding scalable solutions in the energy technology landscape.

Societe Generale is a leading European financial services group offering retail, corporate, and investment banking, as well as securities services and asset management. It serves about 27 million clients across 58 countries and employs roughly 110,000 people. The group provides financing, advisory, and risk management across its networks, supporting consumers, businesses, and public sector clients. Its activities span retail banking, corporate and investment banking, structured finance, payments, and wealth and asset management, with a focus on sustainable finance and climate initiatives. Societe Generale pursues growth through innovation, cross-border services, and global market access, financing infrastructure and energy transition projects, and enabling digital payments and international trade. The company emphasizes responsible growth and inclusion through programs and partnerships aimed at gender equality, biodiversity, and community development.

Breakthrough Energy is a global platform focused on accelerating clean energy innovation and building the industries of the future. It addresses climate change by pursuing technology breakthroughs across manufacturing, electricity, agriculture, transportation, and buildings to deliver clean energy that is affordable and reliable. The organization identifies opportunities for technology discovery, creates companies from the ground up, and partners with scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs to scale promising technologies. It promotes public–private collaboration among governments, research institutions, and investors to mobilize investment beyond traditional cycles of basic research and subsidies. Through its network and commercialization initiatives, Breakthrough Energy aims to deploy zero-emission energy solutions at scale, fostering energy prosperity while reducing environmental impact.

NGP Energy Capital Management is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on energy investments across the value chain, including oil and natural gas production, midstream, oilfield services, energy efficiency, and alternative energy. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, it maintains offices in Houston, London, Santa Fe, and Stamford. The firm pursues investments across growth, expansion, and buyout opportunities and may co‑invest in direct oil and gas property interests alongside portfolio companies. It targets opportunities in North America and select international markets, including the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and Canada, with typical deal sizes ranging from two million to five hundred million dollars.

Lowercarbon Capital is a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm that supports climate technology companies across energy, advanced manufacturing and climate resilience. It backs startups from early stages to scale real-world solutions in areas such as carbon capture, renewable energy, sustainable transportation and alternative materials, prioritizing ambitious scientific approaches coupled with commercially viable outcomes. The firm provides hands-on support to portfolio companies and cultivates an ecosystem of founders and industry experts to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy, having invested over $200 million across multiple rounds.

Congruent Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area that funds climate and sustainability startups in North America. The firm concentrates on four themes—Mobility and Urbanization, the Energy Transition, Food and Agriculture, and Sustainable Production and Consumption—and partners with founders to build category-defining companies that deliver environmental impact alongside venture returns. With more than $1 billion in assets under management across its early-stage climate funds, Congruent Ventures is among the largest climate portfolios in early-stage venture. It emphasizes hands-on support and close collaboration with portfolio companies to accelerate growth and scale solutions that address climate challenges.

Gigascale Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2023 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It backs startups developing technologies and infrastructure that enable climate progress and rebuild the physical economy, with investments spanning clean energy, advanced manufacturing, grid infrastructure, and physical artificial intelligence. Its portfolio targets both direct decarbonization efforts and the enabling layers that make physical systems faster, cheaper to design, build, and deploy, with climate impact arising from improved performance. Gigascale emphasizes a hands-on approach, supporting founders in technical, commercial, and financial decisions throughout concept to scale, viewing minimum viable products as pilot plants requiring capital expenditure for scaling. The firm aims to accelerate the development of hard technologies that can economically outperform existing solutions while delivering measurable climate benefits.

S2G Investments is a Chicago-based multi-stage venture capital firm focused on food, agriculture, oceans, and energy sectors. It provides capital to venture and growth-stage companies pursuing market-driven solutions to transform food systems and energy resources. The firm supports entrepreneurs and leadership teams with strategies intended to deliver increased value and better performance than conventional options. Its investment approach spans seed to growth, with a cross-sector portfolio across areas such as agriculture, ingredients, infrastructure and logistics, food safety and technology, retail and restaurants, and consumer brands. S2G manages over $2.8 billion in assets and has backed more than 120 portfolio companies.

The European Innovation Council is a European Union institution that funds and accelerates deep-tech innovation across Europe. It provides substantial support to startups, researchers, and technology transfer activities through programs such as the EIC Accelerator, EIC Fund, and EIC Prizes, and offers business acceleration services to help scale and globally expand ventures. The council is described as a major investor, providing about €6.5 billion in funding, and it co-invests with private investors in early-stage startups with ESG impacts. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Brussels, it focuses on breakthrough innovations in deep technology, including dual-use and defence-relevant technologies, and engages with innovation ecosystems through events, reports, and information hubs. The organization is oriented toward advancing European competitiveness by nurturing high-potential tech ventures from inception through scaleup.

CAS Star is a China-based venture capital firm and technology ecosystem builder headquartered in Xi’an with an additional office in Beijing. It provides venture capital funding and participates in high-tech industry incubation, supporting opportunities in optoelectronic chips, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, aerospace, smart manufacturing, information technology, energy, oncology, advanced manufacturing, SaaS and space technology. The company aims to develop a scientific and technological entrepreneurial ecosystem by connecting research institutions, angel funds, incubators, and entrepreneurship training to support technology entrepreneurs and accelerate the growth of innovative enterprises.

Prelude Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage startups focused on mitigating climate change. Founded in 2013, the firm targets investments across built environment, carbon management, compute, energy, food and agriculture, manufacturing and industrials, and mobility, seeking to support category-defining companies and scalable climate solutions.

InnoEnergy is an organization established in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology to industrialize clean technology innovation and accelerate the global transition to a net-zero economy. It invests in seed- and early-stage companies across Europe in climate technology, energy, clean tech, mobility, IoT, robotics, and related sectors, with the aim of de-risking and scaling viable solutions. Beyond funding, it builds resilient clean tech value chains through collaboration among industry, finance, public policy, and academia, and it works to upskill workers to lead the energy transition. Its ecosystem includes more than 1,400 partners across 21 EU countries and the United States, enabling collaboration, market access, and investment opportunities. Since its inception, InnoEnergy has supported over 540 companies, with about 160 active portfolio companies, and has facilitated more than €35 billion in investment and the potential to reduce CO2e emissions by 2.3 gigatonnes by 2030, while pursuing job creation and skills development, including efforts to prepare masters graduates for leadership roles in clean tech.

Radical Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Toronto, Canada, that backs AI-focused and deep-technology startups with global ambitions. The firm invests across sectors including B2B software, financial services, healthcare, information technology, fintech, real estate technology, health technology, infrastructure, and mobility, supporting companies from incubation through growth and pre-IPO scaling. It emphasizes data privacy, security, and scalable infrastructure as enablers of transformative technologies.

DCVC, known as Data Collective, is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2011, it focuses on deep-tech investments across AI, space, robotics, exascale computing, climate and energy, materials science, biology, and defense. The firm partners with scientists and engineers to support early-stage and growth companies that aim to translate fundamental science into scalable technologies. DCVC emphasizes data-driven approaches and computational advantages to reduce capital intensity and accelerate development, aiming to address global challenges with transformative innovations. Through its portfolio, the firm seeks companies combining rigorous scientific research with practical engineering to advance fields such as life sciences, agriculture, and automation, while leveraging its technical network to help teams iterate rapidly and reach deployment at scale.

Puhua Capital is a Hangzhou-based venture capital firm that backs early- and mid-stage technology startups. It provides capital along with hands-on support, strategic guidance and ecosystem access to accelerate technology-to-market, focusing on hard-tech and future industries such as AI, semiconductors, robotics, biotechnology, energy, aerospace and digital infrastructure. The firm also invests in internet, health and technology sector startups and has backed nearly 300 startups.

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm based in Munich, Germany, pursuing a long-term, flexible-capital approach. The firm backs pre-seed to Series A ventures across sectors including financial services, HR, energy and climate, healthcare, logistics and mobility, real estate and construction, crypto and web3, deeptech and e-commerce. It emphasizes close partnerships with portfolio companies, providing strategic and operational support, talent access, marketing and sales guidance, and connections to a broad B2B and investor network to aid fundraising and international growth. Picus aims to help founders build category-defining global leaders through a disciplined investment approach and ongoing engagement throughout the lifecycle of the companies.

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with six global offices. It invests in seed to growth-stage companies across sectors including consumer, enterprise software, fintech, crypto, healthcare, and artificial intelligence, providing capital and strategic guidance to help founders scale. The firm emphasizes mentorship and hands-on support to portfolio companies and aims to accelerate ideas, careers, and ventures. General Catalyst manages a large pool of capital and operates multiple funds, funding minority and majority stakes to help companies achieve scale.

Engine Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It invests in the next generation of Tough Tech founders—supporting companies developing technologies to address climate, health, energy, advanced systems, and infrastructure challenges. The firm provides capital and operational guidance, helping translate technical breakthroughs into commercially viable products, and works with founders through early development to scale. It leverages a broad network spanning academic, commercial, and governmental partners to aid research, validation, and deployment, assisting portfolio companies in accessing resources for manufacturing, deployment, and growth.

Helen Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Helen, an energy company based in Helsinki, Finland, founded in 2019. It invests in early- and growth-stage startups in Europe and Israel across energy, e-mobility, circular economy, decarbonisation, renewable energy technology, smart energy and distributed energy solutions, and related digital technologies for the energy sector. Investments are made from its balance sheet.

LG Technology Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of LG Group, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Silicon Valley. It makes early-stage investments across AI, mobility, advanced materials, life sciences, cleantech, next-generation display, mobile, 5G, information technology, automotive, manufacturing, and energy sectors, aiming to create value by forging strategic partnerships with LG affiliates. The firm leverages LG Group's global resources and network to support portfolio companies, often assisting with market access and corporate partnerships. The leadership and deal history include an experienced team and a track record of exits or IPOs, with assets under management reported in sources as approximately $400 million to nearly $1 billion.

Founded in 2022, Verbund X Ventures is a corporate venture capital firm based in Vienna, Austria. It focuses on investing in early-stage companies operating within the renewable energy sector across Europe.

Active Impact Investments is a Canada-based venture capital firm and Certified B Corp focused on climate tech. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Vancouver, it funds and supports early-stage companies developing solutions in clean energy, transportation, infrastructure and carbon solutions, sustainable food and water, and the circular economy. The firm emphasizes capital efficiency and seeks ventures capable of scale, delivering measurable environmental impact alongside financial returns. It provides hands-on support beyond capital, including talent, sales, and fundraising assistance, leveraging a network of operators and investors to help portfolio companies achieve rapid growth.

Extantia Capital is a climate-first venture capital firm founded in 2020 and based in Berlin, Germany. It backs mission-driven entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, and business leaders to accelerate the transition to a decarbonised world. The firm focuses on deep decarbonisation technologies with the potential for large-scale CO2e reductions and commercially viable, scalable business models. Extantia operates two investment strategies: Extantia Flagship backs scalable deep decarbonisation tech companies, and Extantia Allstars invests in climate venture capital funds. The firm has over €100 million in assets under management.

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides accredited investors access to venture-stage and late-stage private market investments. It offers funds, syndicates, investing clubs, and co-investment opportunities with established venture capital firms, and it provides venture investing education through AV Academy along with resources for startup founders.

Xora Innovation is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that makes investments across seed to late-stage in deep tech, focusing on computing and communications, climate and energy, and artificial intelligence in physical industries. The firm seeks opportunities in Asia and North America, with emphasis on energy, renewable energy, and biotechnology.

UntroD is a Tokyo based venture capital and impact firm that funds research driven startups at the intersection of science, technology and society. Operating under a Real Tech umbrella, it pursues difficult domains such as artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and quantum computing, aiming to expand capital with intentional investments that seek broad social benefits. The firm emphasizes a Deep Social Impact approach designed to drive systemic change and to build ecosystems that accelerate investment and talent, spanning technology enabled industry creation, social implementation and policy design. It maintains offices in Tokyo, Singapore and Cyberjaya, Malaysia, and has engaged in joint research with RIKEN on artificial hibernation as part of its collaborations. UntroD seeks to catalyze new capital dynamics and partnerships that support research driven startups across business to business, energy, healthcare, information technology, infrastructure and software as a service sectors.

Convective Capital is an investment firm focused on building resilience in critical systems that keep society running by connecting capital, people, and technology to protect against disasters. It invests across hardware, software, and financial services and targets risks in fuels management, grid protection, wildfire detection, and resilient infrastructure. The firm cultivates a broad network, Updraft, with over 10,000 professionals across utilities, government, and insurance, to support portfolio companies and foster collaboration. It also hosts the Red Sky Summit to advance disaster resilience and publishes insights through Substack.

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate focused on supporting LGBTQ+ founders and leaders, investing in companies across stages and sectors and prioritizing inclusive teams and governance. It operates a global portfolio of companies and provides capital alongside resources to recruit diverse talent for C-suite and board roles. The network emphasizes collaboration among investors, operators, and entrepreneurs to advance positive social change through business.

Infracapital is a leading European infrastructure investor established in 2001 and part of M&G Investments, the UK and European investment management arm of Prudential. The firm focuses on long-term ownership of essential infrastructure across utilities, energy and renewable generation, transportation, and social infrastructure, with activities spanning water, gas, metering, wind and solar, ports, airports, toll roads, healthcare and educational facilities, and government accommodation. It targets brownfield and greenfield opportunities, often taking controlling stakes and board seats to drive value and resilience. Based in London, Infracapital pursues a buy-and-build approach to create diversified portfolios aimed at sustainable growth and positive societal impact across Europe, with emphasis on the United Kingdom, Continental and Western Europe.

Galvanize Climate Solutions is a global investment firm that targets climate-focused opportunities across asset classes, seeking to deliver strong financial returns while advancing commercially viable climate solutions.

Volve Capital is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, established in 2022, that backs early-stage technology startups in Western Europe. It focuses on BeNeLux, DACH, and Nordics regions, with particular emphasis on Dutch-based ventures, and supports companies at pre-seed and seed stages. Initial investments typically range from €200,000 to €500,000, with follow-on capabilities up to €1 million. The firm provides operational backing through a network of operating partners in data, technology, growth, and people to help portfolio companies scale. Volve Capital seeks ambitious founders with an entrepreneurial mindset who pursue social and environmental impact alongside business growth. The firm is backed by experienced entrepreneurs and an active advisory board. It has closed its first €9 million fund and has invested across technology-driven startups in the region.

Graduate Ventures is a Netherlands-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in Rotterdam that supports founders from an initial idea to rapid scaling. It provides financial investment up to three million euros for pre-seed and seed-stage startups and offers hands-on support through a network of experienced entrepreneurs, experts, and peers. The firm connects founders with talent, go-to-market insights, and funding opportunities through a network of over 200 alumni and has completed around 90 investments.

Elewit is Redeia's technology platform that drives innovation in energy transition and connectivity. Established to address evolving electricity and telecommunications challenges, it develops analytical, prescriptive, and cognitive capabilities and supports the SAGA asset-management platform. The platform advances modernization across infrastructures and asset management, operation and renewable integration, asset connectivity, new services and business models, safety and health, and sustainable development, leveraging IoT, immersive and robotic technologies, platforms and computing, advanced data processing, and cybersecurity IT/OT. Its portfolio includes ZEPAS, a portable zero-emissions power source; SERPAT, a grounding system; DALIA, an anomaly-detection solution for line inspections; and PDEye, an automatic fault interpretation tool. Elewit actively fosters external innovation through New Ventures, collaborations with universities and technology centers, and a venture-enabled ecosystem, including Arin Technologies developed with Arteche to digitalize and manage grid assets, reinforcing its role in accelerating ecological transition.

Contrarian Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 that invests in early-stage climate tech startups across Europe and the United States, with a focus on pre-seed and seed rounds and some growth capital. It backs companies advancing the energy transition, including smart grid, energy efficiency, energy storage, e-mobility, distributed generation, and virtual power plants, and seeks globally with a European emphasis. The firm emphasizes a founder-centric, contrarian approach and long-term partnerships, supported by a full-stack climate platform that includes ecosystem events such as the Energy Tech Summit and initiatives like Climate50 and Climate Brick to help founders scale. Its portfolio includes companies like PVcase, BeZero Carbon, Chooose, and Zoomo, reflecting an aim to accelerate decarbonization, lower-carbon fuels, and energy savings for consumers. Contrarian Ventures emphasizes hands-on, collaborative support for founders and operates from Vilnius with additional offices in London and Amsterdam.

Ribbit Capital is a Palo Alto, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that concentrates its investments in financial services and financial technology. The firm backs early-stage startups that build infrastructure, platforms, or tools designed to transform how financial services are delivered and accessed, with activity across lending, payments, banking, insurance, and digital assets. It pursues global opportunities at the intersection of information technology and finance, seeking disruptive business models and technology-enabled solutions that modernize the industry.

Aurum Impact is an impact investor based in Bielefeld, Germany, focused on systemic change through patient, flexible capital and long-term partnerships. It backs founders and funds pursuing environmental sustainability, social equity, and climate solutions, with emphasis on materials and circularity, de-fossilization, renewable energy, and stable societies. The firm values measurable impact and collaborates with teams to drive tangible change in the built environment and related sectors, as reflected in its portfolio of companies such as Voltfang, Paebbl, UNDO, and CleanHub that address battery storage, CO2 reduction, carbon removal, and plastic waste management.

Chevron is a global integrated energy company with exploration, production, refining, marketing, and technology operations worldwide. Through its Upstream and Downstream businesses, the company develops crude oil and natural gas resources, processes and markets refined products, and engages in liquefied natural gas activities, pipelines, and transportation services. Chevron also holds interests in chemicals and other energy-related operations and maintains corporate functions such as cash management, debt financing, insurance, real estate, and technology development. The company operates through its subsidiaries and brands and maintains a venture arm, Chevron Technology Ventures, which funds and tests emerging technologies to advance Chevron's core businesses and energy-transition efforts. Chevron emphasizes affordable, reliable and cleaner energy as a driver of human progress, pursuing innovation and partnerships to reduce carbon intensity while meeting global energy needs.

Balderton Capital is a London-based venture capital firm that backs European technology startups at the early stage, typically from seed to Series A. It invests across sectors such as software and services, fintech, consumer internet, e-commerce, mobility, and health technology, with a focus on European-founded companies and, occasionally, opportunities outside Europe. Beyond capital, Balderton provides strategic guidance and operational support, including introductions to professional service providers and access to a network of founders and executives through workshops and community events. The firm emphasizes founder well-being and long-term value creation, and it has backed a broad portfolio of notable European tech companies, reflecting its commitment to helping founders scale their businesses with hands-on, founder-centric support.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm focused on early-stage deep-tech and cross-border software companies, investing primarily from pre-seed through growth stages. It accelerates product development, regulatory progress, fundraising, and commercial strategy by providing founders access to purpose-built labs, engineering spaces, and a broad physical and virtual infrastructure across multiple locations. The firm's program-driven approach combines selective funding with hands-on support, mentorship, and a wide network of co-investors and partners to help portfolio companies scale. SOSV operates a suite of specialized facilities for deep-tech founders, including incubation programs that connect startups with customers, researchers, and investors, and it emphasizes long-term relationships through ongoing operational and strategic assistance. While active globally, it maintains strong ties to Asia-focused cross-border markets and supports a diverse portfolio spanning bio-tech, hardware, robotics, software, and related fields.

Daphni is a Paris-based venture capital firm, founded in 2015, that invests primarily from seed to Series A in European and US startups. The firm focuses on technology-enabled ventures with potential for societal impact, including deeptech and science-led applications across biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and life sciences, and operates as a mission-driven, B Corp-certified investor supported by a community of hundreds of entrepreneurs, executives, academics and experts. Daphni uses its proprietary Flamel open-innovation platform to strengthen investment decisions and portfolio support. It manages multiple funds, including Dastore, a Carrefour-partnered fund to back early-stage commerce startups, and Time4, a seed fund backing entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds and untapped markets. The firm invests across sectors such as financial services, information technology, SaaS, advertising technology, digital health and fintech, prioritizing long-term value and sustainable impact over short-term trends.

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It provides capital and strategic guidance to early-stage and growth-stage technology companies worldwide, investing across information technology, software, internet, hardware, healthcare, financial services, and related sectors. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships, typically engaging with portfolio companies from idea or formation through scale, and assisting with product development, market expansion, and organizational building. Sequoia seeks to back ambitious teams and collaborates closely with leadership to navigate growth, governance, and go-to-market strategy, with a global footprint that spans the United States and key international markets.

Piva Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, founded in 2019. It invests in visionary entrepreneurs and emerging technology companies across North America and Europe, with a focus on sectors such as specialty chemicals and new materials, energy and mobility, industrials, advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, robotics and automation, supply chain and logistics, electrification and automation. The firm emphasizes long-term growth and positive societal impact, supported by a team of domain experts and an expansive network to help portfolio companies scale and navigate complex technology-driven markets.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that invests in science and technology companies across multiple stages, from seed to growth. The firm focuses on transformative technologies in areas including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer internet, and has backed high-profile innovators such as SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook, and Airbnb. It emphasizes a founder-friendly approach that provides substantial support with minimal interference, aiming to help portfolio companies navigate complex environments and pursue long-term progress. The firm pursues a global investment footprint and seeks opportunities across sectors addressing difficult problems, with a track record of backing pioneering ventures at the forefront of innovation.

True Ventures is a Silicon Valley–based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the firm provides seed and Series A financing along with hands-on strategic support through its platform, helping founders grow and develop their ventures. The team includes partners, special advisors, and founders-turned-investors who collaborate with portfolio companies across diverse technology sectors. True Ventures has backed more than 350 companies and, according to industry profiles, manages billions in committed capital. The firm has earned industry recognition, including Venture Firm of the Year in 2018, reflecting its long-standing role in fostering startup growth and innovation.

BP is a global integrated energy company involved in the exploration, production, refining, trading, and shipping of oil and gas, with a growing focus on renewable energy and low-carbon solutions. Its upstream activities cover global discovery and production of oil and natural gas, while downstream operations refine crude oil into petroleum products and market them worldwide. The company also trades energy commodities and operates shipping services to support product distribution. Through its Alternative Energy division, BP has expanded investments in wind, solar, biofuels, and other low-carbon technologies as part of its strategy to adapt to evolving energy demand and pursue a more sustainable energy mix. BP's aviation fuels division, Air BP, supplies fuels and lubricants to airlines and general aviation at over a thousand airports across many countries. The business combines conventional energy activities with investments and operations aimed at reducing carbon emissions and advancing energy transition.

SET Ventures is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that invests in early to growth-stage European energy technology companies driving the digital energy transition. It backs startups developing sustainable solutions across generation, distribution and storage, energy use, and enabling technologies, with emphasis on software-enabled business models, smart energy, smart buildings, and mobility. The firm focuses on Europe's evolving energy sector, often taking an active role such as board participation to support growth, scale, and commercialization. With a track record of supporting digital energy pioneers, SET Ventures aims to accelerate decarbonization, grid modernization, and energy efficiency through innovative technology and partnerships.

Trust Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2018. It provides capital and strategic advisory services to portfolio companies, helping them navigate public policy barriers, regulatory hurdles, and market entry. The firm develops advocacy strategies and builds relationships with policymakers to enable technology-driven startups to grow, including solutions to policy constraints affecting infrastructure, health, and energy sectors, and it offers policy expertise aimed at supporting generational businesses with long-term growth.

MassVentures is a Massachusetts-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments that advance high-growth startups from concept to commercialization within the state’s innovation economy. Established in 1978 as a quasi-public entity by the Massachusetts Legislature and governed by an independent board, the firm funds ventures in deep tech and related sectors, including quantum computing, clean energy, biotech, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, manufacturing, and robotics. It has backed hundreds of companies and oversees more than $4 billion in follow-on capital, reflecting a durable track record of helping startups attract additional funding and scale. Beyond capital, MassVentures provides non-dilutive grants, commercialization support, mentorship, and strategic guidance through programs such as MV Capital and MV Accelerate, all aimed at building inclusive, connected ventures that leverage Massachusetts’ innovation ecosystem.

Rethink Ventures is a Munich-based venture capital firm that concentrates on automotive, mobility, and logistics sectors with a focus on sustainable transportation and decarbonization. The firm backs founders developing new mobility solutions and transformative vehicle technologies, aiming to accelerate innovation by linking startups with corporate partners and industry players. Investments target European transportation ecosystems and include portfolio companies such as Good2know, driveblocks, Rail-Flow, Delta Charge, and Shipzero, which showcase AI-powered data, AI perception, rail logistics expansion, electric truck charging networks, and emissions monitoring for shipping. Rethink Ventures emphasizes strategic partnerships and collaboration to create a sustainable mobility ecosystem, seeking to fund early and growth-stage ventures that can reshape how people and goods move. The firm is supported by institutional investors, corporates, and entrepreneurs and actively pursues opportunities to connect corporate entities with startups to drive impact in the mobility industry.

CIV is a venture capital firm that backs and builds technology-driven companies at the intersection of energy transition, industrial transformation, and climate tech. The firm supports innovative technology ventures with the potential to significantly impact society, and operates a portfolio build program that actively invests in early-stage ventures to empower founders and shape the future. CIV focuses on themes including applied artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, energy, and robotics, pursuing opportunities across sectors that involve technology and critical industries. Founded in 2023, the firm pursues partnerships that lead and co-lead investment rounds to accelerate growth and deployment of transformative solutions.