Advantage Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1992 and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, with additional offices across the United States. The firm specializes in equity and debt investments, including growth equity, senior and subordinated debt, and mezzanine financing, with a focus on small businesses and underserved communities. It collaborates with state and federal economic programs to support local economic development and has financed companies in sectors such as manufacturing, technology, business services, energy, and agribusiness, including renewable and solar projects. The firm targets opportunities across growth stages and aims to create lasting economic impact by expanding opportunity in low-income areas through private investment and public-private partnerships.

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.

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.

Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is a leading European innovation engine focused on Sustainable Energy. It invests in early-stage climate tech and energy companies across Europe and the US, providing equity minority investments and added value services to de-risk projects.

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.

High-Tech Gründerfonds is a Germany-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology companies in Germany. Based in Bonn with an additional office in Berlin, it operates as a public-private partnership that supports high-tech startups across information technology, software, hardware, life sciences, chemistry and related fields. HTGF provides initial funding and follow-on capital to eligible young companies, often taking minority stakes and participating as lead or co-investor, while offering hands-on guidance from experienced investment managers and startup experts. Since its founding in 2005, the firm has backed numerous startups and facilitated the growth of portfolio companies through multiple funds aimed at early stages. The model combines both public support, involving government and financial institutions, with private investor participation to nurture startups from concept to market.

Samsung Electronics is a global technology company based in South Korea that designs, manufactures, and sells a wide range of electronics and device solutions. Its portfolio spans consumer electronics (mobile devices, televisions, home appliances, cameras), information technology products (PCs, peripherals, printers), semiconductors, memory and storage, and display technologies. The company also provides telecommunications infrastructure and related services, and conducts extensive research and development to advance core technologies. With a global footprint across Korea, China, the Americas, Europe, and the Asia Pacific, Samsung Electronics is a leading supplier of smartphones, memory chips, and displays, and it coordinates significant manufacturing and supply chain activities to support its varied product lines.

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.

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

Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a Canadian development capital fund and private equity investor focused on Quebec's small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Montreal, it channels equity and debt financing through regional funds across Quebec to support growth, restructuring, succession, and modernization. It concentrates on sectors including manufacturing, information technology, life sciences, environment, and tourism, among others, and prefers investments that spur job creation and economic development. The fund can take minority or majority stakes, including in business succession scenarios, and typically backs projects ranging from a few hundred thousand to several million Canadian dollars, often with loans up to two million. Investment horizons vary from five to ten years for equity, longer for succession financing, with a focus on Quebec-centric opportunities and regional economic impact.

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

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

Based in Paris, A Plus Finance is an independent investment firm specializing in venture capital and the management of funds dedicated to innovation. It focuses on information technology, environment and e-business in France, and also pursues opportunities in real estate and private equity. The team combines financiers and entrepreneurs, providing practical management insight and a long-term development perspective for portfolio companies. The firm manages about €220 million in assets and typically invests between €1 million and €4 million per project, reflecting a goal of supporting growth-stage and promising early-stage ventures in the French market.

Turkey Development Fund is an economic development agency based in Istanbul, established in 2019. It aims to advance Turkey’s sustainable development by investing in companies and funds that support strategic sectors and cultivate the early-stage venture capital ecosystem, including through sub-funds. The organization seeks to develop the enterprise landscape by backing new generation startups. Assets are managed by a board of directors.

Antler is a global venture capital firm based in Singapore that backs early-stage technology companies. It runs incubation programs and provides a global community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, expansion support, and capital to help startups grow. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, finance, software, energy, consumer and B2B technologies, and operates through regional programs across Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond.

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

Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group is Lenovo’s accelerator and venture capital unit that backs core technology and internet-related ventures worldwide. It focuses on areas such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and robotics, aligning investments with Lenovo’s business research and development and strategic initiatives. By integrating Lenovo’s global resources and expertise, LCIG incubates startup ideas, funds early-stage innovations, and pursues new business directions to promote Lenovo’s future innovation and development.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla. The firm backs entrepreneurs with venture assistance, strategic guidance, and capital, focusing on bold, early-stage technology companies. It invests across sectors including AI, climate and sustainability, enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics, and frontier technologies. Based in Menlo Park, the firm manages several funds to support startups across stages, prioritizing ventures that address large markets and have potential for significant social and economic impact.

Parkwalk Advisors is a London-based venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early-stage to growth-stage technology companies, with a particular emphasis on spin-outs derived from UK universities and research institutes. It targets UK-based, often unquoted companies across sectors such as artificial intelligence, big data, life sciences, materials, cleantech, future mobility, medical technology, quantum computing and related fields, and operates with a stage-agnostic approach from seed through later rounds. The firm leverages academic networks, technology transfer channels and venture networks to access deal flow and support portfolio companies. Founded in 2009, it has been aligned with IP Group as part of its corporate structure, reinforcing its focus on intellectual property-backed innovation. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Siparex Group is a Lyon, France based private equity firm founded in 1977 that engages in multi-sector investments across software, commercial products, business services, manufacturing, e-commerce, life sciences, educational technology, robotics and drones, fintech and healthcare services, targeting transactions in France and Western Europe as well as the United States; the firm has grown into an independent, international investor over more than three decades, leveraging its regional roots and diverse sector focus to support growth and operational improvement in portfolio companies.

Technip Energies is a global engineering and technology company that delivers end‑to‑end solutions for the energy sector. The firm designs, engineers, constructs, and supplies equipment for onshore and offshore infrastructure, including LNG terminals, downstream facilities, and marine projects. It has a strong record in green initiatives, developing hydrogen production, biofuels, CO2 capture and storage, and sustainable chemistry solutions. By integrating advanced technologies and project management expertise, Technip Energies supports the transition to cleaner energy systems worldwide.

The FSE Group is a UK-based not-for-profit investment group consisting of several subsidiaries that deliver funds and related services. Surpluses are reinvested to support its mission rather than being distributed to shareholders. The group provides funding through its subsidiary finance and fund management entities, including Finance East, which funds businesses in the East of England, and a regulated fund manager that delivers regulated activities. The organization focuses on early-stage and growth-stage ventures in renewables and social enterprise, aiming to support startups and growing businesses with regional and sector-specific funding.

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

Volta Energy Technologies is a venture firm founded in 2017 and based in Naperville, Illinois, focused on battery and energy storage technologies. It identifies and supports entrepreneurs and companies solving key technical challenges in transportation, the electric grid, and portable electronics, and collaborates with strategic investors to bring transformative energy storage solutions to market. The firm works with researchers and industry partners, including research agreements with national laboratories such as Argonne National Laboratory, to validate technologies and accelerate development. By helping corporate partners leverage breakthrough energy storage innovations, Volta aims to create strategic advantages for its clients while delivering financial returns.

Rainmatter Capital is the corporate venture capital arm of Zerodha, based in Bangalore, India. It funds and incubates early-stage Indian fintech startups and health ventures, with a focus on the capital markets space. The organization offers mentorship, workspace support, and investment, typically ranging from $100,000 to $1 million in exchange for minority stakes, to startups across the country. Through its programs, Rainmatter Capital aims to accelerate innovation in fintech and related sectors by providing capital and hands-on resources to entrepreneurs.

Chrysalix Venture Capital is a Vancouver-based venture capital firm founded in 2001 that specializes in industrial innovation and clean-tech. It invests in early-stage startups globally that address energy efficiency, renewable energy, manufacturing and related sectors, and provides portfolio companies with deep industry and technical knowledge, management and board support, and access to capital. The firm also supports IP management and facilitates networking with industrial and financial partners. Its focus areas include artificial intelligence, data analytics, sensor components, the Internet of Things, robotics, blockchain, advanced materials, and chemicals, alongside broader clean-tech and renewable technologies.

Yinxinggu Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Hangzhou, China, focusing on early-stage investments in internet, big data, cloud computing, and advanced manufacturing, along with other emerging technologies, to support the digital upgrading of industries.

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

Future Industry Ventures, headquartered in Senningerberg, Luxembourg, is a growth equity firm that invests in technology and Industry 4.0 sectors across Europe. It supports companies that aim to advance future industrial systems by enabling connected, automated, and data-driven processes, helping businesses in manufacturing, supply chains, and related services leverage innovative digital technologies.

Jet Investment is a Czech private equity firm based in Brno that targets mid-market, late-stage and distressed opportunities across manufacturing, industrial and technology sectors in Central Europe. The firm typically pursues majority stakes with management control and focuses on sectors including engineering, rail, automotive, petrochemicals and chemicals, natural gas, wood processing, technical textiles, industrial machinery, engineering services, and related materials and equipment. Investment parameters commonly involve equity up to €100 million, with target companies generating up to €200 million in sales and EBITDA up to €30 million.

Shinhan Venture Investment is a Seoul-based venture capital firm founded in 2000 that backs a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, gaming, industrials, power and energy, consumer and retail, and information and communications technology, with a focus on opportunities influenced by aging populations and disruptive technologies. The firm engages in both early-stage venture investments and later-stage control investments, pursuing opportunities shaped by megatrends such as IT convergence and alternative energy.

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

SFC Capital is a United Kingdom-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that makes early-stage investments in UK startups, including pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs companies across sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer, enterprise, green tech, medical technology, and hospitality, providing capital plus strategic guidance to support growth and product development. The firm operates a model that combines an angel network with seed funds to back SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, aiming to offer exposure to a diversified portfolio while delivering hands-on support to portfolio companies.

Aster Capital is a Paris-based venture capital firm founded in 2000, with offices in Paris, London, San Francisco, Tel Aviv and Nairobi. It backs early- to growth-stage companies in mobility, energy, and industrials, with a focus on digital and deep-technology across Europe, North America, and Africa. The firm pursues direct investments as well as fund-of-funds strategies and seeks to acquire minority or majority stakes with board representation in portfolio companies. Its focus areas include renewable energy, clean transportation, energy efficiency, smart manufacturing, IoT, nanotechnology and other enabling technologies that support sustainable resource management and infrastructure. Aster Capital collaborates with portfolio companies to accelerate growth, drawing on a broad ecosystem of experts and strategic partners to help expand markets and scale operations.

Entrepreneur First is a London-based accelerator and seed-stage technology investor that supports exceptional individuals to found technology companies. It uses a talent-first model, funding and mentoring people before teams form, and operates six-month programs in Europe and Asia with global offices in London, Paris, Berlin, Singapore, Bangalore, New York and San Francisco to connect founders with startup ecosystems. The organization funds early-stage ventures and takes an equity stake in the companies it helps establish, aiming to increase the supply of high-potential tech startups worldwide by pairing standout talent with mentorship and capital.

Par Equity is a venture capital and private equity firm backed by Scottish Enterprise, based in Edinburgh with an office in San Francisco. It specializes in early‑stage and growth investments in technology companies, including software, deep tech and digital health, targeting opportunities in Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland, with cross‑border expansion between the United Kingdom and the United States. The firm funds proprietary technology and proven products poised for international growth, supporting UK companies expanding to the United States and US entrants seeking a UK presence. Typical investments range from £0.25 million to £2.5 million, with enterprise values up to about £10 million. It also provides angel capital to investee companies and focuses on cross‑border deals to accelerate scale.

Almi Invest is Sweden’s leading early-stage venture capital firm, investing in scalable startups across sustainability, industry, technology, and life sciences. It supports companies from pre-seed to Series A and co-invests with independent private investors to accelerate innovation and long-term success. The firm emphasizes active ownership, providing strategic guidance, board participation, and access to a broad investor network to help startups scale responsibly. Almi Invest operates as part of the Almi Group and is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Almi AB, and regional partners, reflecting its public-private model. While focused on Sweden, its portfolio spans diverse sectors, with a mission to drive economic growth and environmental progress by backing entrepreneurs who create tangible impact.

Root Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco that was founded in 2013. It funds early-stage technology companies driven by technical teams and focuses on deep-tech areas such as hardware, robotics, software and manufacturing, as well as related technology sectors. The firm supports startups through capital and guidance to advance product development and scale operations, with an emphasis on engineering excellence and market-leading potential.

State Development & Investment Corporation is a state-owned investment holding company based in Beijing, China, with a diversified portfolio spanning infrastructure investments, financial services, and international business; it engages in electric power, coal development, ports and shipping, urban environmental protection, biomass energy, health, and related sectors, and provides financial services, asset management, consulting, engineering design, property management, and project services, while pursuing direct investments and international trade and cooperation; the company aligns its development activities with national strategies, integrating industrial investment with financial services and global operations to support economic growth and optimize its asset mix through strategic planning and government-market collaboration.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm established in 1974 with additional offices in Osaka and Nagoya. It focuses on seed, development stage, and startup investments across healthcare, life sciences, biotechnology, information technology, electronics, artificial intelligence, fintech, SaaS, and other high-technology sectors, with an emphasis on the Japanese market and relevance to Japan. The firm also engages in investment syndication for Japanese opportunities.

Founded in 1987, Tinicum Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in New York. It specializes in investing in early to mid-stage industrial technology companies, focusing on innovative ventures that require industry-specific experience and patient capital.

Climate Investments is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2016. It operates as the investment arm of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), a collaboration of ten major oil and gas companies pursuing the energy transition. The firm targets early- and growth-stage opportunities across a broad range of sectors including energy, technology, transportation, buildings, cement, steel, chemicals, power and agriculture, as well as related industrial fields. Its focus is on funding technologies and business models that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enable lower-carbon solutions, helping to accelerate decarbonization in the energy system and beyond.

Imperial Innovations is the technology-transfer office of Imperial College, dedicated to commercialising leading UK academic research from the Cambridge, Oxford, and London region. It integrates technology transfer, intellectual property protection, licensing, and company incubation to bring promising research in therapeutics, medtech, engineering, materials, and information communication technology to market.

Energy Impact Partners is a New York-based private equity and venture capital firm that funds and supports companies enabling the energy transition. It invests globally across venture, growth, credit, and infrastructure to advance energy efficiency, renewable generation, smart grid, energy storage, and related software and services. The firm collaborates with entrepreneurs and industrial partners to scale innovative technologies and business models, pursuing co-investments with strategic allies to accelerate deployment of sustainable energy solutions.

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.

Korea Investment Partners is a Seoul-based venture capital and private equity firm with decades of experience in funding bold, innovative entrepreneurs. It operates globally with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale and manages multiple funds totaling several billions of dollars in assets under management. As the venture capital and private equity arm of Korea Investment Holdings, KIP backs a broad range of sectors including information technology, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, mobility and gaming, as it seeks to help companies scale and commercialize new technologies. The firm emphasizes long-term value creation and has built a diversified portfolio across Asia and beyond.

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

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

Subhkam Ventures is a Mumbai-based investment firm operating as a family office and principal investment vehicle, engaging in private equity, venture capital, and public market investments. It seeks to invest in start-ups and midsized companies, providing initial-stage funding and growth capital across industries including infrastructure, biotechnology, financial services, aerospace, telecom, real estate, tourism, waste management, and healthcare.

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