European Investment Fund is the EU's financing arm for small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-caps, providing financial instruments to improve access to affordable financing across businesses throughout their lifecycle. It focuses on supporting innovation, growth, competitiveness, social impact, and sustainability across the EU, including funding for infrastructure investments. By leveraging its capital base, the EIF fosters public-private partnerships to amplify investment and shares risk with banks, funds, and other partners to mobilize lending to SMEs and equity funding for startups through guarantees and equity instruments across EU member states, candidate countries, and EFTA states.
Energy Impact Partners is a New York-based private investment firm that focuses on the energy transition. It makes venture, growth, credit, and infrastructure investments across global energy, sustainability, and technology sectors, targeting areas such as energy efficiency, clean energy, smart grids, energy storage, and cybersecurity for critical infrastructure. The firm connects entrepreneurs with influential corporate partners to scale innovative climate-tech solutions and deliver strategic value to portfolio companies and corporate partners. With over $2.5 billion in assets under management, Energy Impact Partners operates globally from its New York base and maintains a broad network of industry players to support portfolio growth and decarbonization across markets.
Breakthrough Energy is a global platform dedicated to accelerating clean energy innovation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It operates through three arms—Breakthrough Energy Discovery, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst—providing funding and support from early-stage discovery to commercialization to help researchers, startups, and industry partners scale technologies that enable reliable, affordable zero-emission energy. The organization builds a worldwide collaboration network with entrepreneurs, universities, and industry leaders and promotes public-private partnerships to mobilize investment in transformative energy solutions, aiming to limit climate change while expanding access to clean energy and ensuring energy security.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development provides project financing and banking products to banks, industries and private enterprises, including loans for projects, equity and quasi-equity investments, equity funds for smaller enterprises, guarantees and trade finance. It also offers policy reform dialogue and advisory services and supports loan syndication. The bank assists privatization and restructuring of municipal services and invests across sectors such as energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and real estate in Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on market transition and private sector development. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in London, it seeks to promote sustainable growth, job creation and higher living standards through financial support, advisory services and policy reform.
Congruent Ventures is a climate-focused venture capital firm based in Oakland, California, that backs early-stage companies across North America developing transformative climate and sustainability solutions. The firm operates across four themes—Mobility and Urbanization, the Energy Transition, Food and Agriculture, and Sustainable Production and Consumption—and provides funding from formation capital through Series A to help founders scale efficiently. It manages more than $1 billion in AUM across early-stage climate funds, making it one of the largest climate-focused portfolios in early-stage venture. Congruent Ventures partners with entrepreneurs to build companies that address environmental challenges while maximizing impact with minimal resources.
Clean Energy Ventures is a Boston-based venture capital firm specializing in seed and early-stage climate technology startups. It provides capital and strategic mentorship to portfolio companies developing technologies in energy storage, grid connectivity, renewable energy, clean transportation, and the water–energy nexus, aiming to accelerate commercialization and scale while achieving substantial greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The firm emphasizes rigorous technical assessment from a team with physics and engineering backgrounds and offers support such as patent co-development, talent acquisition, and market strategy to help startups grow globally across North America and select international markets.
Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm based in Jackson, Wyoming, that backs climate technology companies with the goal of reducing CO2 emissions, removing carbon from the atmosphere, and enabling sustainable solutions across multiple sectors. The firm invests in energy, transportation, industrial materials, and agriculture, supporting portfolio companies from concept through product launch and providing strategic guidance, industry connections, and a commitment to scientific rigor. It emphasizes market-driven solutions to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy and has highlighted partnerships with companies including Antora, Crux, and Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
InnoEnergy is a European organization established in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology to industrialize clean tech innovation and enable a global net-zero economy. It finances seed and early-stage climate and clean-tech companies across Europe and the United States, aiming to de-risk ventures and accelerate scale. Beyond funding, InnoEnergy develops the workforce and strengthens the clean-tech value chain through education and collaboration with industry, finance, policy, and academia in 21 EU countries and the US. By 2024 it had supported more than 1,400 companies, with over 100 active portfolio firms, and it tracks a potential CO2e reduction of 0.3 gigatons by 2030. The organization promotes industrial champions and talent development through programs, events, and partnerships that advance technologies in energy storage, batteries, wave energy, decarbonization, and other clean-tech sectors.
DCVC is a deep-tech venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, with activities in San Francisco, that funds companies applying advanced science and engineering to major global challenges. The firm backs early- and growth-stage startups across artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate tech, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense, security, and other deep-tech sectors, and maintains specialized units such as DCVC Bio focused on life sciences. DCVC emphasizes scientifically rigorous teams and data-driven approaches, collaborating with researchers and entrepreneurs to accelerate development through AI, automation, and data-centric methods. It operates as a registered investment adviser and supports ambitious founders developing transformative technologies across software, big data, healthcare, and energy.
Future Energy Ventures is a Germany-based venture capital firm with a global reach that backs ready-to-scale digital energy technology startups across Europe, the United States and Israel to accelerate the energy transition. It focuses on energy, cities, and frontier technologies, typically investing in Series A and beyond and leveraging an integrated collaboration platform that connects corporate partners with portfolio companies for funding, mentoring and commercial opportunities. The network includes strategic investors led by E.ON, with participation from companies such as BASF, Bosch, Shell and Philips, and it provides fundraising support and recruiting services, occasionally taking board or observer seats and sometimes leading rounds. With hubs in Germany, Israel and Silicon Valley, the firm supports portfolio growth through access to customers, partners and expertise across multiple regions. Originating in Essen, Germany, Future Energy Ventures closed a significant fund in 2025 to accelerate independent energy futures.
SET Ventures is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that invests in European energy technology and related digital solutions. The firm backs startups across the energy transition, including smart energy, energy generation, distribution and storage, and energy use, as well as applications such as smart buildings, EVs, and industrial efficiency. It targets early through growth-stage companies, frequently supporting ventures with hardware-enabled software and services aimed at reducing emissions, improving energy efficiency, and enabling smarter grids and buildings. Investments typically span across technology-enabled sectors such as ICT, big data, IoT, and energy infrastructure, with a focus on scalable business models in Europe. The firm often takes an active role, including board representation, and seeks to back companies that deliver sustainable, cost-effective solutions for the future energy system.
Antler is a global venture capital firm and startup incubator based in Singapore that invests in early-stage technology companies and supports startups across sectors including healthcare, finance, consumer, and software. It builds a worldwide community of co-founders and provides access to talent, mentors, and expert advisors, along with expansion support and capital to help teams form, validate business models, and grow internationally. Antler emphasizes long-term partnerships with portfolio companies, continuing to back ventures through growth stages as they scale.
ATW Partners is a New York-based private investment firm founded in 2016 that pursues growth opportunities across industries such as financial services, energy, healthcare, and technology. The firm uses a flexible capital approach, investing in debt at the top of the capital structure to support high-growth companies while mitigating risk, and selectively providing equity to companies with strong potential and differentiated propositions. It combines technical, financial, and operational expertise to help portfolio companies scale, and maintains a global reach with activities in the United States, Latin America, and Europe.
NGP Energy Capital Management is a private equity firm headquartered in Irving, Texas, that specializes in energy investments across the value chain. Founded in 1988, it backs opportunities in oil and gas exploration and production, development, midstream and oilfield services, energy efficiency, natural gas gathering, power technology, and other energy-related businesses, with exposure to water resources, food and agriculture, and related sectors. The firm allocates capital across the investment cycle, including growth, buyouts, and co-investments, and pursues opportunities primarily in North America, supported by offices in Irving, Houston, London, Santa Fe, and Stamford. It emphasizes deep energy industry expertise and aims to create value through strategic partnerships with entrepreneurs while prioritizing responsible investing and risk-adjusted returns.
Energize Capital is a global technology-enabled investment firm focused on accelerating innovation in the digitized and decarbonized economy. Founded in 2016, it pursues venture and growth investments in software, services, and technology-enabled solutions that address energy, climate, and industrial challenges. The firm collaborates with portfolio companies to help scale early-stage products, expand commercially, and navigate public markets. It leverages a broad corporate network and strategic partnerships with institutional and strategic limited partners, including major energy and industrial players. Energize Capital targets opportunities in renewable energy, electrification, climate risk, and sustainable infrastructure, aiming to drive growth while advancing decarbonization and resilience across sectors.
Chevron is a global integrated energy company engaged in the exploration, production, refining, and marketing of oil, natural gas, and chemicals worldwide. It operates through upstream activities, including crude oil and natural gas development and production, and downstream operations, including refining, marketing, transportation, and petrochemicals. The company maintains a diversified portfolio across geographies and markets and relies on technology to improve efficiency and enable cleaner energy solutions. Chevron pursues technology development and deployment through internal programs and external partnerships, including its corporate venture arm Chevron Technology Ventures, which supports early-stage and scaling technologies in decarbonization, energy transition and advanced materials. The organization has used brands such as Texaco and Caltex in various markets, reflecting its global footprint. Chevron also pursues energy efficiency and power solutions to support reliable, affordable energy delivery. It traces its origins to 1879 and is headquartered in California.
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.
Activate Capital Partners is a venture capital and growth equity firm focused on technology, energy, mobility, and industrial sectors. The firm backs growth-stage companies building smart, sustainable systems across energy, transportation, and infrastructure, often taking board seats and providing strategic support. Based in the United States with offices in San Francisco and Philadelphia, Activate Capital Partners has invested more than $1 billion in its target sectors and has completed numerous exits through IPOs and strategic acquisitions. The team emphasizes leveraging technology to improve efficiency, reduce emissions, and enable electrification and digitalization across industries, including energy storage, automation, AI, and software-enabled solutions.
Convective Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and based in San Francisco that focuses on technology-driven solutions to enhance wildfire resilience. It invests in startups across all phases of wildfire—from prevention and risk mitigation to suppression and recovery—supporting founders developing tools for prevention, incident response, and climate resilience across industries affected by wildfires. The firm emphasizes a proactive, hands-on approach and operates initiatives such as the Red Sky Summit to accelerate development, scale portfolio companies, and connect founders with resources for resilience. By funding and guiding technology-based solutions, Convective Capital aims to address climate-related wildfire challenges and help communities and sectors improve preparedness and response.
Active Impact Investments is a Canadian venture capital firm focused on climate technology and environmental sustainability. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, it is a Certified B Corp that backs early‑stage climate tech companies with high growth potential across clean energy, transportation, infrastructure and carbon solutions, sustainable food and water, and the circular economy. The firm emphasizes a founder‑first approach and capital‑efficient support, offering guidance in sales, talent recruitment and fundraising, and leveraging a global network of operators and investors to accelerate growth. It targets companies with revenue in the low hundreds of thousands to a few million and aims to deliver market‑beating returns while delivering meaningful environmental impact. Active Impact operates across multiple funds and has over $140 million in assets under management, underscoring its capacity to back portfolio companies through multiple stages of growth.
Infracapital is a European infrastructure investor established in 2001 and part of M&G Investments, the UK and European investment management arm of Prudential plc. Based in London, it manages over £6 billion across six funds and 60 businesses and focuses on acquiring, building, and actively managing core infrastructure assets. The firm invests across water, energy, transportation, telecommunications and digital infrastructure, as well as social infrastructure such as healthcare facilities, educational facilities, government accommodation, and waste management. It targets both brownfield and greenfield opportunities, including renewables like wind and solar, energy storage, ports, airports, toll roads, bridges and other essential transport and utilities assets, with a preference for controlling stakes and board involvement. The approach emphasizes responsible investing, long-term growth, and collaboration with strategic partners across the UK, Continental Europe and Western Europe.
Daphni is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 that invests primarily from seed to Series B in technology startups across Europe and the United States, with a focus on ventures delivering positive societal or environmental impact and on disruptive, science-driven deep-tech spanning biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and life sciences. The firm pursues a mission-driven, sustainability-focused approach and is reported to be B Corp certified. It builds a community of 400+ entrepreneurs, academics, and experts to support its portfolio and operates Flamel, an open-innovation platform that uses AI-driven components to enhance deal sourcing, due diligence and value creation. Daphni backs companies across sectors including financial services, information technology, SaaS, advertising technology, digital health and fintech, prioritizing technology solutions that address real-world needs with scalable impact.
Evergy Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Evergy, based in Kansas City, Missouri, established in 2015. It makes growth and early-stage investments in the energy sector, supporting companies across the energy value chain, including energy storage, mobility, grid modernization and planning, AI, customer energy solutions, energy infrastructure, energy marketing, environmental remediation, infrastructure security, and renewables services. It typically uses equity and debt instruments and pursues opportunities in North America, with a focus on Midwest-based companies.
Climate Capital is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2018 that invests in early-stage climate technology companies. It backs startups across sectors including clean energy, energy storage, electrification, manufacturing, robotics, supply chain, infrastructure, industrial decarbonization, and resilience, with a focus on companies that directly or indirectly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The firm aims to accelerate climate innovation by leveraging a broad network of founders, investors, and partners to identify and support scalable solutions. Climate Capital seeks to help portfolio companies scale technologies that lower emissions and enhance climate resilience, contributing to a more sustainable economy.
SOSV is a global venture capital firm that provides early-stage and seed investments alongside structured accelerator programs and deeply resourced facilities to accelerate product development. Focused on deep tech, human and planetary health, and cross-border software, SOSV backs startups from pre-seed onward and runs programs that accelerate technical development, regulatory strategy, and fundraising. The firm maintains labs and engineering spaces with specialist staff in multiple regions, including the United States and Asia, to support portfolio companies in biosafety, chemistry, mechatronics, analytics, and electrical engineering. Programs such as HAX and other live events offer founders access to prototyping, testing, and investor networks. Annually, SOSV makes around sixty pre-seed investments (up to roughly $550k each) and participates in numerous follow-on rounds, leveraging a global portfolio and extensive co-investor network to help deeply technical startups scale and reach markets.
MassVentures is a Massachusetts-based venture firm founded in 1978 that provides seed and early-stage capital to high-growth startups as they move from concept to commercialization. Originally formed as a quasi-public corporation, it is governed by an independent board and operates to support the state’s innovation ecosystem. The firm focuses on early-stage deep tech and technology-enabled sectors, including quantum computing, clean energy, AI, biotech, information technology, healthcare, cybersecurity, e-commerce, mobile, manufacturing, and robotics, offering funding, mentorship, and strategic guidance to help ideas become viable businesses. Through MV Capital, MassVentures provides venture funding and non-dilutive grants, and it runs programs such as MV Accelerate and MV Spinouts in partnership with academic institutions. Over its history, MassVentures has supported hundreds of startups in Massachusetts and helped attract follow-on capital, contributing to a thriving regional innovation ecosystem with a strong emphasis on inclusive, high-performing teams.
Gigascale Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2023 and based in Palo Alto, California, that backs early-stage companies developing technologies and infrastructure to advance the physical economy and climate impact. The firm focuses on supporting ventures across clean energy, advanced manufacturing, grid infrastructure, and physical artificial intelligence. It emphasizes investments in technologies that are cheaper, faster, and cleaner, and provides early-stage funding and guidance to help translate research into deployable, scalable infrastructure. The team combines technical, operational, and commercial expertise to help portfolio companies transition from research to large-scale deployment.
MCJ is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Boston that backs exceptional founders transforming energy, industry and infrastructure through technology. It focuses on clean energy solutions, industrial transformation and resilient infrastructure, supporting portfolio companies and talent through the MCJ Collective, a vetted member network connecting leaders with opportunities. The firm also operates a media platform, including the Inevitable podcast, which highlights perspectives critical to its portfolio and the broader transition to energy and industrial tech. Through its integrated approach—financing, talent development and media—MCJ aims to accelerate deployment of next‑generation energy and industrial technologies and to publish thought leadership on topics such as energy and AI.
Prelude Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage investments in climate-focused startups. It backs companies across built environment, carbon management, computing, energy, food and agriculture, manufacturing and industrials, and mobility, aiming to mitigate climate change and deliver scalable impact. The firm seeks to support category-defining businesses with strong growth potential and collaborates with portfolio companies to accelerate deployment of innovative solutions that reduce emissions and advance resilience.
Extantia Capital is an investment firm focused on climate-first, deep decarbonization technology. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, it invests in early-stage companies across Europe (seed to Series A), providing capital and hands-on support in commercialization, scaling, and fundraising. The firm backs mission-driven founders developing software and hardware solutions with the potential to significantly reduce CO2e emissions, aiming for scalable business models that contribute to the energy transition and broader decarbonization. Extantia emphasizes measurable impact and supports portfolio companies to accelerate adoption of low-carbon technologies.
Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices in New York, Boston, Menlo Park, Chicago, London, and Tokyo. It enables accredited investors, especially alumni networks, to access diversified venture opportunities by co-investing alongside leading venture capital firms. Through funds, syndicates, and investing clubs, it sources opportunities across stages and geographies, conducts rigorous due diligence, and aims for transparent, founder-friendly support. The firm backs a diversified portfolio of startups, including more than 1,600 companies, and has attracted substantial committed capital and a large community of individual investors, underscoring its mission to democratize access to venture capital while partnering with established VC firms.
LS Power is a United States-based energy infrastructure company focused on developing, owning, operating, and investing in power generation and electric transmission assets. Since 1990 it has built a substantial portfolio of conventional and renewable generation resources and operates through three primary arms: LS Power Generation, LS Power Solutions, and LS Power Grid. The company develops utility-scale projects across solar, wind, hydro, natural gas-fired generation, and battery storage, and actively pursues opportunities in distributed energy resources and energy efficiency to improve reliability and affordability of the energy system. It aims to strengthen the U.S. grid and support a cleaner, more affordable energy future through responsible growth and strategic investment.
Itochu Corporation, founded in 1858 by Chubei Itoh, is a Japanese general trading company with a global presence. It conducts domestic and overseas trading across textiles, machinery, chemicals, metals, energy, general merchandise, and food, while also pursuing investments in insurance, finance, construction, real estate, and warehousing. The company operates across multiple industries and maintains extensive networks to support import/export activities and complex supply chains. Itochu also maintains a corporate venture capital arm that invests in information technology companies, leveraging the group's resources and international reach to help portfolio firms scale, as part of a diversified strategy of trade, investments, and services.
Volta Energy Technologies is a venture capital firm focused on battery and energy storage technologies, based in Naperville, Illinois. It identifies and supports entrepreneurs and companies developing advanced technologies for electric vehicles, grid storage, and portable electronics, helping them scale manufacturing, commercialize innovations, and accelerate deployment. The firm collaborates with leading research institutions, including Argonne National Laboratory, to validate technologies and offer strategic value to investors and corporate partners. By bringing together strategic investors across the energy system, Volta aims to advance breakthroughs in storage that enable broader adoption of clean energy and electrification while delivering measurable value to stakeholders.
BP is a global integrated energy company engaged in the entire energy value chain, from upstream exploration and production of oil and natural gas to downstream refining, marketing, and trading of petroleum products, as well as shipping services to support distribution worldwide. The company also pursues growth in renewable and low-carbon energy, including wind, solar, and biofuels through its Alternative Energy initiatives. BP operates Air BP, its aviation fuels division, supplying AVGAS and kerosene jet fuels and servicing airlines and general aviation at airports across many countries. By combining large-scale traditional energy operations with investment in renewables, BP aims to meet current energy needs while pursuing a low-carbon transition.
Superhero Capital is a Helsinki-based venture capital firm that concentrates on seed-stage investments in software-enabled startups across Finland and the Baltic states. It typically makes early-stage commitments of roughly €100,000 to €1 million and focuses on software, health tech, fintech, IoT, and other B2B technology-enabled sectors. The firm positions itself as a founder-friendly partner, seeking to understand founders’ challenges and offer support without taking control of the business. With a track record of backing a broad portfolio and substantial follow-on funding, Superhero Capital aims to help entrepreneurs scale in the New Nordics. While the primary focus is Finland and the Baltics, the fund has historically considered opportunities outside the region when aligned with its strategy.
Powerhouse Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Oakland, California, focused on seed-stage investments in software and digital solutions that decarbonize energy and mobility systems. It backs early-stage companies spanning energy, infrastructure, and artificial intelligence, prioritizing teams tackling established markets with scalable technologies. Its portfolio includes ThinkLabs, which uses AI for grid management; Pearl Street Technologies, improving power grid reliability; Overstory, applying machine learning to monitor vegetation risks on power lines; and Terabase, reducing soft costs in utility-scale solar. In addition to investing, the firm operates as an accelerator and incubator, offering programs designed to support founders through early growth. Powerhouse emphasizes building long-term relationships within the energy and clean-tech ecosystem and seeks to accelerate energy abundance through innovative, market-ready solutions.
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm based in Munich that pursues a long-term investment strategy. It partners with ambitious technology companies across sectors such as fintech, HR, energy and climate, healthcare, logistics and mobility, real estate and construction, cybersecurity, crypto and web3, and e-commerce, providing strategic and operational support in addition to capital to help portfolio companies become global category leaders. The firm engages with pre-seed through Series A rounds, taking an active, founder-friendly approach that leverages marketing and sales expertise, talent acquisition, and access to its broad B2B and investor network to support growth, fundraising, and international expansion over the lifecycle of the companies. Picus emphasizes close collaboration, industry insight, and a flexible, long-term partnership with founders rather than a narrow financial investment.
Based in Leipzig, Germany, SIVentures is a venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups, with a focus on Germany and East Germany. It targets B2B software and sectors including smart city, energy, proptech, e-mobility, IoT and e-health, and also backs companies in AI, fintech and software. The firm typically makes initial investments in the low six figures (up to about €500k) and reserves capital for follow-on rounds, acting as the first institutional investor for ambitious founders. It emphasizes a collaborative, hands-on approach, working closely with portfolio companies as a value-add partner rather than a pure financier. Headquartered in Leipzig, SIVentures combines capital with strategic guidance to help its portfolio companies scale and access future funding rounds.
Lerer Hippeau is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that focuses on early-stage investments, primarily at seed and early stages. The firm backs entrepreneurs across multiple sectors including fintech, blockchain, food and beverage, hardware and robotics, healthcare, marketing services, media and entertainment, and supply chain and logistics, and maintains a hands-on approach to portfolio support. It holds a diverse portfolio of early-stage companies such as Guideline, K Health, Allbirds and Zipline, and is described as one of the most active investors in New York with a history of helping founders grow from idea to scale.
B Capital Group is a global venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs to scale technology-driven companies. The firm manages billions of dollars in assets and supports early through late-stage investments across sectors such as enterprise software, fintech, healthcare, technology, and energy and resilience. It operates from multiple locations worldwide and emphasizes a stage-based approach, providing portfolio companies with strategic guidance, operational help, and access to capital. A distinctive feature is its collaboration with Boston Consulting Group, which connects portfolio companies with corporate networks to accelerate growth, partnerships, and international expansion. By combining hands-on support with a global reach, B Capital Group aims to help founders build durable, high-growth companies.
Andreessen Horowitz is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It funds technology startups across seed to late stages, with investments spanning software, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software and services, consumer internet, fintech, artificial intelligence, crypto, infrastructure, and biotechnology at the intersection of computer science and life sciences. The firm emphasizes supporting portfolio companies through growth and strategic partnerships and maintains a broad tech-focused investment approach, aiming to add value beyond capital.
LG Technology Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of LG Group, founded in 2018 and based in Santa Clara, California. It invests in early-stage information technology, automotive, manufacturing, life sciences, energy, and advanced materials, with a focus on artificial intelligence, mobility, advanced materials, life sciences, next-generation displays, mobile technologies, and 5G, leveraging LG's global network to help portfolio companies form strategic partnerships, access resources, and scale.
True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm founded in 2005 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that backs early-stage technology startups. It concentrates on seed and Series A investments and supports founders with a hands-on, long-term approach through the True Platform, a set of programs designed to inspire professional and personal growth. The firm manages multiple funds and has raised billions in capital, backing more than 350 companies and helping to create tens of thousands of jobs worldwide. True Ventures is known for providing operational and strategic support across its portfolio and for a disciplined focus on founders and market-changing ideas. The firm was recognized as Venture Firm of the Year in 2018 by the National Venture Capital Association, reflecting its track record in helping startups scale.
Blue Bear Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 that invests in AI-powered and data-driven technologies for energy, infrastructure, and climate sectors. The firm targets early-stage digital technology companies across sustainable energy production, electric grid infrastructure, transportation, energy-intensive manufacturing, and related climate industries, and provides strategic support such as customer connections, talent sourcing, and market access through its industry network. With offices in Jackson, Wyoming, and Los Angeles, California, it focuses on opportunities in the United States across energy, renewables, industrial technology, and climate-related sectors.
General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that funds early-stage and growth companies across sectors including consumer, enterprise software, fintech, crypto, and healthcare. Based in San Francisco with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and other locations, it provides capital and strategic guidance to help entrepreneurs build scalable, durable businesses. The firm emphasizes the use of technology, including artificial intelligence, to accelerate growth and drive meaningful impact. General Catalyst partners with management teams to support product development, go-to-market strategies, and organizational growth, aiming to back companies with potential for wide adoption and long-term value creation, rather than focusing solely on near-term exits.
Global Brain is an independent venture capital firm based in Tokyo, founded in 1998, that backs technology startups worldwide and provides hands-on support and open innovation with large corporate partners. The firm targets early to growth-stage opportunities across sectors such as artificial intelligence, space, education, HR tech, life sciences, enterprise software, and consumer tech, with a global footprint in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. It has managed over 2.7 billion in assets and invested more than 1.4 billion across more than 1,300 deals, supporting hundreds of active portfolio companies and achieving a track record of IPOs and M&A exits. Global Brain emphasizes transformative growth through active portfolio management, strategic resources, and collaborations with corporate partners and institutional investors. The firm operates flagship funds and co-investment programs, and maintains engagement with a broad ecosystem to accelerate innovation.
Inclimo is a Barcelona-based climate tech investment company that invests in early-stage startups developing technologies to decarbonize and transform sectors such as transport and mobility, energy and water, agrotech and food tech, circular economy, proptech, data tech, and related areas. The company evaluates opportunities using ESG factors and seeks to deliver financial returns while maximizing climate impact, aiming for systemic change through technology. It provides entrepreneurs with capital and strategic support, a defined investment process, and access to a network of co-investors, accelerators, and peers to accelerate growth. With a focus on sustainable growth and environmental outcomes, Inclimo collaborates with teams to strengthen business models, accelerate product-market fit, and scale solutions that reduce carbon emissions. The firm is based in Barcelona and offers tools and resources to guide companies toward profitability and measurable climate results.
First Imagine! Ventures is a European venture capital firm focused on the energy transition, investing in early-stage startups across Europe and Israel. It backs companies developing deep science and engineering technologies and innovative business models that span the entire energy value chain, from production to transmission, distribution, consumption and monitoring. The firm targets early rounds such as seed and Series A, and seeks opportunities in sectors including EV charging, energy storage, green power, distributed energy resources, green hydrogen, connectivity and data analytics, wildfire management, and energy data intelligence, as well as sustainable technologies like textile fibers from waste and bioinsecticides. Founded in 2016 and based in London, the firm concentrates on clean technology opportunities in Europe and Israel to advance practical, scalable solutions for a fair energy future.
Virescent Ventures is a Melbourne-based venture capital firm that backs climate and cleantech innovations. Founded in 2022, it focuses on deep tech software and hardware and invests across sectors including clean energy, mobility, food and agriculture, and the circular economy. The firm provides capital to companies from early-stage to growth stages and supports founders pursuing sustainable, scalable solutions to reduce emissions. It emphasizes combining technical advancement with viable business models and leverages networks to help portfolio companies scale. Investments have targeted areas such as hydrogen production, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, soil carbon sequestration, and other climate tech solutions.