CIBC is a Canadian multinational bank offering a full range of financial services to individuals, small businesses, corporations, and institutions. Its activities span commercial banking, wealth management, asset management, and investment banking, including corporate and investment banking, equity and debt financing, advisory services, and cross-border banking. The organization operates through divisions such as CIBC Bank (providing retail and commercial banking), CIBC Bank USA (Americas-based commercial banking), CIBC World Markets and CIBC Capital Markets (investment banking and capital markets), and asset management units including CIBC Asset Management and CIBC Global Asset Management. CIBC serves clients across North America with offices in Toronto, Chicago and other international locations, and focuses on serving mid-market companies, high net worth individuals, pension plans, and financial institutions. The bank emphasizes long-standing client relationships, community investment, and a broad geographic footprint in Canada and the United States.

EnCap Investments is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1988 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, with an additional Dallas office. It specializes in investments across the oil and gas value chain, including upstream exploration and production, and midstream infrastructure such as natural gas pipelines, gathering, processing, compression, storage, and transportation. The firm also targets energy infrastructure and clean energy initiatives within the energy transition. It typically provides equity on a deal-by-deal basis, with typical investment sizes in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, and may support reserve acquisitions and drilling projects. Its geographic focus includes the United States, Canada, and Mexico. EnCap Investments pursues opportunities in early-stage to growth-oriented companies and is registered as an investment adviser, emphasizing partnerships with operators and infrastructure developers to build long-term value in the oil, gas, and energy services sectors.

Africa Oil Corp is a Canadian oil and gas company with assets in Kenya and Ethiopia and Puntland in Somalia through its 41% equity stake in Africa Energy Corp. Its East African holdings form part of a prolific exploration play along the East African Rift Basin, with a land position exceeding 200,000 square kilometers. In Kenya’s Lokichar basin, the company holds a 50% interest alongside operator Tullow Oil, supporting ongoing exploration in the region.

European Investment Fund (EIF) is a public institution established in 1994 to improve access to finance for Europe's small and medium-sized businesses. It designs and develops venture capital and guarantee instruments to support SMEs and to catalyse private investment, aiming to build a robust European equity ecosystem. EIF engages in venture capital, growth capital, and guarantee operations, backing innovative entrepreneurs primarily in technology and life sciences, as well as across other sectors. Through cornerstone investments and fund participation, EIF seeks to crowd in private investors and stimulate venture activity across Europe. Its equity portfolio has grown substantially, with assets under management exceeding EUR 14 billion, reflecting its broad role in strengthening SME finance and supporting entrepreneurship and growth.

Kimmeridge is an energy-focused alternative investment manager based in New York. The firm concentrates exclusively on the energy sector and, with in-house geology, land, and operations expertise, owns and operates its assets directly. It provides equity asset management, public engagement, private investments, and carbon solutions designed to accelerate the energy transition, with a portfolio that includes early-stage unconventional exploration.

Antelopus Energy is an exploration and production company focused on monetizing discovered and stranded resources in the Indian Subcontinent. It operates three contract areas: two offshore assets on the west and east coasts of India and one onshore area in Assam. The company specializes in value creation through reservoir management, deploying technologies such as chemical enhanced oil recovery, and emphasizes operational efficiency, rapid execution, safety, and sustainability.

Oxy Low Carbon Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Occidental Petroleum, based in Houston, Texas. It focuses on investing in the development of low-carbon fuels and products and in sequestration services to support carbon capture projects globally.

Petrolia Energy is an oil exploration, development and production company focused on acquiring low-risk, conventionally producing oil fields. The company seeks to minimize risk and maximize the recoverability of existing reservoirs through targeted acquisitions, with a geographic focus on the Southwest United States. Its core assets include the Twin Lakes San Andres Unit, Slick Unit Dutcher Sands, Askarii Resources, and the Minerva-Rockdale Field.

Chevron is a multinational integrated energy company that explores for, produces, refines, and markets oil, natural gas, and chemicals worldwide. The company operates Upstream and Downstream segments, with refining facilities, large-scale marketing of fuels and lubricants, and related energy services. It maintains sizable reserves and a global footprint across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Chevron emphasizes affordable, reliable, and cleaner energy to enable human progress, and pursues technology-enabled improvements to efficiency and environmental performance. The company also maintains a corporate technology arm that scouts and integrates emerging technologies to support core businesses and future opportunities, including decarbonization, energy decentralization, and advanced materials. Founded in 1879, Chevron is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and remains a leading global energy player while pursuing ongoing innovation and responsible resource management.

Energy Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Chicago that focuses on early-stage investments in the natural gas industry. The firm emphasizes ESG imperatives and the digital transformation of natural gas, supporting startups developing innovative technologies, including solutions for greener molecules. Its approach includes customized engagement with strategic limited partners, all of whom are publicly traded utilities, creating a platform that connects startup innovation with the scale of the natural gas industry to accelerate adoption.

HPS Investment Partners is a global investment firm focused on non-investment grade credit across the capital structure. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it operates a worldwide network of offices. The firm originated as a unit of Highbridge Capital Management, a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and was acquired by its principals in 2016 after Highbridge’s hedge fund strategies remained with J.P. Morgan. HPS manages a variety of strategies, including syndicated leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, privately negotiated senior secured debt, mezzanine, asset-based lending, and private equity, and serves clients across industries such as insurance, healthcare, media, retail, logistics, and marine.

NGP Energy Capital Management is a private investment firm focused on energy. Founded in 1988 and based in Irving, Texas, it manages a family of private equity funds and makes direct equity investments across the oil and gas value chain, including production, acquisition, exploration and development drilling, midstream services, energy efficiency, and power technology, as well as related energy businesses. The firm also pursues opportunities in water resources and services, food and agriculture, and coastal protection. It primarily targets North American companies, including the United States, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean and Central America, with typical investment sizes from 2 million up to 500 million dollars. It may co-invest in direct oil and gas property interests alongside portfolio companies and maintains offices in Houston, London, Santa Fe, and Stamford to support a broad geographic reach.

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.

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.

Energy Spectrum Capital is a Dallas-based private equity firm that specializes in energy infrastructure and related services. Founded in 1995, it pursues investments across the energy value chain, including midstream assets, oil and gas infrastructure, energy services, and power development. The firm targets North American opportunities, primarily in the United States and Canada, and typically makes equity investments ranging from about 50 to 200 million with follow-on capital as needed. Investments are structured as buyouts, growth and early-stage ventures, with an intended exit horizon of three to seven years. Energy Spectrum Capital provides strategic guidance and operational insight to portfolio companies and aligns with institutional investors seeking exposure to energy infrastructure assets.

Stephens is a privately held investment banking and financial services firm founded in 1933 and based in Little Rock, Arkansas. It provides services across investment banking, insurance, capital management, institutional equities, research, private equity, fixed income, sales and trading, public finance, and wealth management, serving clients in sectors such as aerospace, consumer, energy, industrials, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, power, technology, telecommunications, and media.

Azimuth Capital Management is a Calgary-headquartered energy-focused venture capital and private equity firm that makes direct investments and co-investments in seed/startup, mid venture, early-stage, middle-market, and emerging companies across North America. It targets energy sector opportunities in oil and gas exploration and production, oil sands, non-conventional resource plays, energy infrastructure, services, and energy technology, with potential international opportunities. Investments typically range from 7.58 million to 36.12 million dollars and are held for more than ten years. The firm maintains a Mountain View office and operates with partners in Houston and Denver, reflecting a North American focus with related energy opportunities. The firm originated as Kern Partners, founded in 2000.

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.

Yara Growth Ventures is the venture investment team of Yara International ASA, based in Oslo, Norway. Established in 2021, the organization focuses on investing in innovative startups within the agri-food industry and the clean hydrogen sector. Its primary goal is to support the development of solutions that contribute to responsibly feeding the global population and protecting the environment. By targeting disruptive technologies and business models, Yara Growth Ventures aims to foster advancements that align with sustainable agricultural practices and energy solutions.

Mubadala Investment Company is a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi that manages a diversified, global portfolio across industries including technology, aerospace, energy, real estate, healthcare, agribusiness, and financial assets. Created in 2017 from the merger of Abu Dhabi investment entities, it pursues long-term value and economic growth for Abu Dhabi by investing domestically and internationally. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the company operates with a worldwide presence, maintaining offices in major markets such as Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, New York, and San Francisco, and a joint venture in Hong Kong. It focuses on strategic, value-driven investments spanning multiple sectors and asset classes to support diversification of the emirate’s economy and generate sustainable returns over time.

Lighthouse Capital Management is a venture capital firm based in Shanghai, founded in 2011. It specializes in early-stage investments in hardware equipment, the internet, and enterprise data services, with activity in both China and the United States. It has invested in more than 40 companies domestically and overseas.

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.

TNF Capital is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Geneva, Switzerland, with additional offices in Central, Hong Kong and Dubai. It provides funding across the investment spectrum—from seed and early stage to growth capital and private equity buy-outs—and pursues opportunities globally. The firm focuses on technology-related sectors, including financial market infrastructure, real-time communications, cybersecurity, trust-technology and commodity trading, and also explores wellness themes. It typically takes a majority stake and may invest alone or as a co-investor.

Desjardins Group is a cooperative financial group based in Montreal, Canada. It provides a broad range of financial services to individuals and businesses, including consumer banking, mortgages, lending, deposit products, insurance, and wealth management. For business clients, it offers financing, cash management, trade finance, payroll and HR support, and advisory services. The group also operates through affiliated investment and capital markets entities, delivering asset management, venture capital, securities brokerage, and corporate financing services. Desjardins supports regional development and cooperative networks across Quebec and beyond, with a focus on sustainable growth and social responsibility. Its ecosystem includes Desjardins Capital, Desjardins Securities, and Desjardins Asset Management among others, enabling capital formation, investment management, and financial services across multiple sectors, from small- and medium-sized enterprises to large institutions. The company combines cooperative principles with diversified financial offerings to serve individuals, businesses, and communities.

PSV is a venture house focused on supporting early-stage founders in the Nordic region through a hybrid structure that includes PSV Foundry, PSV Lab, and dedicated venture funds PSV Tech and PSV Hafnium. Based in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, and founded in 2000, it invests in early-stage companies in life science, information technology, advanced manufacturing, and clean technology across Denmark and Sweden. PSV emphasizes backing founders pre-product/market fit and helping software-powered ventures move from initial validation to repeatable, scalable models, aiming to rethink traditional investing methods to maximize impact.

Vsquared Ventures is a venture firm that invests in early-stage deep-tech companies addressing society's pressing challenges. Its focus areas include quantum and novel computing, green energy, robotics, AI and machine learning, space technologies, synthetic biology, and healthcare. The firm emphasizes close partnerships and supports portfolio companies to accelerate and scale their visions.

Citigroup is a diversified financial services company providing a broad range of financial products and services to consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide. It operates through two main segments: Global Consumer Banking, which includes retail banking, Citi-branded cards, and consumer finance, and Institutional Clients Group, which covers wholesale banking, investment banking, fixed income and equity sales and trading, foreign exchange, prime brokerage, research, corporate lending, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The company maintains a global footprint across regions including Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and Latin America, and emphasizes sustainability and social responsibility initiatives.

Founded in 2024, Deepbright Ventures is the venture capital arm of Hello Tomorrow, based in Mamer, Luxembourg, focused on early-stage deep tech startups (preseed and seed) and leveraging a decade of expertise and a global network to identify and support promising ventures.

Established in 2022 and headquartered in Paris, Exergon is a venture capital firm focusing on investments in deep tech solutions for the energy transformation sector.

Marubeni Corporation is a Tokyo-based general trading company, a sogo shosha, that operates as a global trading intermediary across a broad range of sectors. It handles import and export and participates in upstream production and downstream distribution, with activities spanning energy, petroleum, metals, chemicals, minerals, and non-resource businesses such as machinery, food, textiles, real estate, and retail. The company trades and processes a wide array of goods, provides engineering, procurement and construction services, and invests in infrastructure, power generation, and related projects. With a history dating back to the 19th century, Marubeni maintains an extensive international footprint, enabling cross-border sourcing, market development, and supply chain services for customers worldwide.

Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 that backs technology companies across the United States, with a focus on the Pacific Northwest and West Coast. It invests across stages from seed to growth, typically in information technology, software, consumer internet, digital media and advertising, fintech, data analytics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, hardware and robotics, and often takes board seats in its portfolio companies. The firm supports early-stage to growth ventures, pursuing opportunities in areas such as the future of work and low-code/no-code, with typical investments ranging from $2 million to $10 million as lead investor.

The EBRD is an international financial institution founded in 1990 and headquartered in London that provides project financing and advisory services to support private sector development and transformation in emerging markets. It finances banks, industries, and businesses, supports new ventures and investments in existing companies, and helps privatize and restructure municipal services in publicly owned entities. Through its banking and treasury activities, it offers loans, equity and quasi-equity investments, guarantees, and equity funds for smaller enterprises, along with trade finance and loan syndication. It works with commercial partners to invest in private enterprises across sectors including energy, manufacturing, ICT, infrastructure, agribusiness, and real estate, across Europe, the Middle East and beyond, including a significant footprint in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and the Caucasus. It provides policy reform dialogue and advisory services to support market modernization, governance, and reform. It has invested over €130 billion in more than 5,000 projects.

Maveron is a Seattle-based venture capital firm founded in 1998 by Dan Levitan and Howard Schultz. The firm, with additional offices in San Francisco and New York, focuses on seed to growth-stage investments in consumer-focused companies across the United States. Maveron backs early-stage and later-stage consumer technology, retail and services businesses that empower consumers to live on their terms, investing selectively and often taking a lead role. Its portfolio has included consumer brands such as Zulily, Allbirds, General Assembly and Trupanion, among others. With about 800 million dollars under management, Maveron pursues opportunities across sectors including housing, education, health and wellness, e-commerce and other consumer-centric tech, and looks for differentiated brands and direct-to-consumer or innovative consumer models. The firm emphasizes partnering with entrepreneurs to build scalable consumer businesses and maintains a focus on the consumer continuum, from startups to growth-stage companies.

Perot Jain is a Dallas-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments. Founded in 2014 by Ross Perot Jr. and Anurag Jain, the firm provides timely capital and strategic guidance to portfolio companies, leveraging affiliated operating entities to help accelerate customer traction and growth. It targets investments in B2B technology, mobility, supply chain and logistics tech, government and defense technology, and proptech, with an international reach that includes the United States, India, Estonia, Israel, and Europe.

GHS Investments is a private investment and management group based in New York that originated as a family office. Founded in 2018, it provides financing solutions for high-potential small-cap enterprises and acts as an equity investor in about 15 to 20 public companies, supporting the startup and growth of numerous small-cap businesses.

Alchemist Accelerator is a seed-stage enterprise startup accelerator that runs a six-month program to accelerate product development, market entry, and fundraising. It provides seed funding to admitted teams and offers mentorship, structured milestones, and access to a broad corporate and venture investor network. The accelerator prioritizes teams with distinctive technical founders and a business model focused on monetizing through enterprises rather than consumer markets, and it supports ventures in the business-to-business sector through a collaborative ecosystem.

Chalfen Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom. Led by Mike Chalfen as a solo investor, the firm backs early-stage technology and software startups from day one through Series A, often leading rounds and maintaining flexibility. It emphasizes close collaboration with founders to help portfolio companies grow and compete in new and evolving markets.

Sixth Street Partners is a San Francisco–based financial services company and growth/expansion investor founded in 2009. It provides capital and strategic solutions to companies across a broad range of sectors, including software, fintech, healthcare IT, data infrastructure, and real estate, and operates a market solutions platform that offers products for markets and market investing. The firm acts as a registered investment adviser and pursues growth opportunities across technology, financial services, healthcare, energy, and media industries.

Global Infrastructure Partners is an independent global infrastructure investment firm founded in 2006 and based in New York. It targets core infrastructure assets across energy, transportation, digital networks, water and waste, seeking long-term value through proprietary deal origination, deep due diligence, strong stakeholder relationships, and dedicated value creation. ESG factors are integrated throughout the investment life cycle to enhance durable returns. The firm manages capital for institutional investors and pursues opportunities across North America and Europe, focusing on infrastructure ownership and operational improvement to improve efficiency and resilience in essential services.

Conversion Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments. It backs internet, software, data, and cloud infrastructure companies and pursues opportunities across emerging technologies in sectors such as financial technology, services, government, and healthcare. The firm seeks to partner with top entrepreneurs leveraging emerging technology to tackle the toughest problems in the global economy, providing guidance and capital to help scale innovative companies.

Founded in 2019, The Footprint Firm is an advisory and investment company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It focuses on sustainability, investing industry-agnostically across food, construction, materials, and technology sectors within the Nordic region.

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.

Motive Partners is a sector-specialist private investment firm focused exclusively on financial technology. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York with an office in London, it backs and builds technology-enabled financial services businesses across North America and Western Europe to create long-term value and help transform markets, business models, and society. The firm operates Motive Ventures, its early-stage investment arm, which funds fintech opportunities from pre-seed through Series A, leveraging a network of industry veterans and entrepreneurs to support growth.

SMBC Venture Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Tokyo, with an office in Osaka, the firm invests in growth capital and buyouts across multiple sectors. It targets information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing, supporting portfolio companies with strategic value and access to SMBC's network and resources.

Third Point Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Third Point, a New York-based investment adviser. Founded in 2000, it engages in early-stage and growth equity investments and cross-over opportunities across technology sectors such as consumer, data and analytics, AI, software, cybersecurity, fintech, IT infrastructure, gaming and metaverse, mobility, and healthcare technology. The firm focuses on supporting portfolio companies from inception through scale and is led by veteran private equity and technology executive Robert Schwartz. It is affiliated with Third Point and forms part of its broader investment platform.

Altira Group is a Denver-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1996 that invests in information technology, energy and oil and gas technology and services, as well as advanced manufacturing, IoT, climate technology, software-as-a-service, robotics and drones across the United States and Canada. It focuses on early- and growth-stage opportunities and supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance and customer relationships, including large oil and gas industry customers, to accelerate growth. The firm is a registered investment adviser and seeks technologies that enable efficiency and digital transformation in energy markets.

Version One Ventures is a Vancouver, British Columbia-based venture capital firm established in 2012 that backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages, focusing on early-stage investments in North America, particularly in consumer internet, software as a service, and mobile sectors.

Orion Infrastructure Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Nazar Massouh that provides capital solutions to business owners and operators. It focuses on mid-sized private companies and family-owned businesses, offering creative credit, equity, and growth capital to support the deployment of sustainable infrastructure and technologies. The firm emphasizes collaboration with partner companies to transform ideas into action and create long-term value for both portfolio companies and investors.

River Street Management is a venture capital firm founded in 2008 and based in Memphis, Tennessee, that invests in private companies, supporting both mature operating businesses and later-stage ventures, with a portfolio focus on property, insurance, medical devices, healthcare technology, wireless telecommunications, identity protection, and retail sectors.

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.