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.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures is an investor-led venture capital firm based in Kirkland, Washington, providing patient capital to climate and energy technology companies across seed, early, and later stages. It concentrates on environmental services, climate change, climate technology, and cleantech, investing minority stakes to back technologies that deliver reliable, affordable power while reducing emissions and advancing zero-emission energy solutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Green Angel Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage climate technology investments. It seeks to back inventions and startups with potential to mitigate climate change across sectors including energy, carbon removal, nature-based solutions, food and agriculture, transport, industry and recycling. The firm aims to support the commercialization and scaling of climate solutions and positions itself as a reference early-stage investor for UK climate innovation.
Toyota Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Toyota Motor, based in the San Francisco Bay Area (Los Altos, California). It invests in early-stage startups worldwide, aiming to identify and bring disruptive technologies to Toyota's ecosystem. The firm focuses on frontier technologies across artificial intelligence, autonomy, mobility, robotics, cloud computing, climate tech, renewable energy, smart cities, digital health, fintech, materials, and energy, seeking to partner with founders to accelerate commercialization and scale. Through its investment programs, Toyota Ventures supports startups that align with Toyota's goals of advancing mobility, sustainable energy, and digital innovation, while providing strategic value to Toyota.
Hy24 is an investment platform dedicated to clean hydrogen infrastructure, aimed at reducing global carbon emissions. The platform focuses on funding early-stage and strategic projects that are essential for global decarbonization efforts. By investing in infrastructure critical to realizing hydrogen's potential as a low-carbon energy source, Hy24 supports initiatives that yield significant positive returns and align with global climate goals. Through its targeted investments, Hy24 plays a crucial role in advancing the development of hydrogen technologies and promoting sustainable energy solutions.
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.
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.
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.
ENGIE New Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of ENGIE, founded in 2014 to invest minority stakes in technology startups, primarily in cleantech, to complement ENGIE's activities and drive internal innovation. Based in Paris with offices in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, it pursues a global portfolio with investments across Europe, North America, Israel, and Asia, having deployed capital in over 23 deals.
BP is a global energy company engaged in the full energy value chain, including upstream exploration and production of oil and natural gas, downstream refining and marketing, trading of energy commodities, and shipping services to support distribution worldwide. The company also operates a specialized aviation fuels division, Air BP, serving airports and airlines. In response to evolving energy demand, BP has significantly expanded investments in renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and biofuels through its Alternative Energy initiatives, aiming to transition toward a lower-carbon portfolio while maintaining core hydrocarbon operations.
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.
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.
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.
MCJ Company is engaged in the personal computer manufacturing business; it also manufactures monitors, distributes PC peripherals, and engages in publishing.
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.
Hydrogen Capital Partners is a firm dedicated to supporting the rapid growth of the new hydrogen energy economy, where hydrogen serves as an emission-free energy source or fuel. The sector is experiencing significant development, offering substantial investment opportunities across the value chain. The Hydrogen Council projects investments exceeding Euro 435 billion by 2030.
Supernova Invest is a Paris-based European private equity and venture capital firm employing a multi-stage approach to back deep-tech startups and scale-ups. It invests across seed to growth stages in France and Europe, focusing on digital technologies, healthcare, industrial technologies, energy and environment, ecological transition, and related areas such as electronics, advanced materials, and instruments. The firm provides patient capital and strategic support to help portfolio companies scale globally, drawing on a network that includes CEA Investissement to connect start-ups with resources and services. It operates from Paris with an additional office in Grenoble and has a history of exiting portfolio companies through IPOs and M&A.
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.
Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Jackson, Wyoming. It invests in companies developing technologies to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a focus on sectors including energy, impact, transportation, industrial materials, and agriculture. The firm supports research and commercialization of emissions-reducing solutions and backing for entrepreneurs pursuing ways to lower emissions, remove carbon, and actively cool the planet.
Polytechnique Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris affiliated with Ecole Polytechnique. Founded in 2019, it invests in technology-led sectors and supports entrepreneurs from the school's ecosystem. The firm's focus spans energy, climate and environment, mobility, aerospace, biomedical engineering and health, industry 4.0 and robotics, new materials, the internet of things and digital applications, digital economy, cybersecurity, and finance.
Energy Revolution Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm established in 2021 that invests in hydrogen, energy storage, carbon capture, and advanced materials.
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.
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.
Founded in 2021, Mergus Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Nova Lima, Brazil. It targets technology companies operating in virtual experiences, human-machine interaction, new frontiers of the financial market, mobility and logistics, health and well-being, and nutrition and innovation in the product life cycle sectors.
360 Capital is a venture capital firm based in Paris and Milan that backs early-stage startups across Europe in deeptech, climate technology and digital sectors. With a 20-year track record, it supports entrepreneurs in developing ambitious, disruptive companies. The firm manages about €400 million in assets and maintains an active portfolio of more than 50 companies.
Union Square Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that funds technology startups across early, growth, and late stages. It concentrates on internet-native opportunities at the applications layer, internet services, and web services that generate large networks and network effects, with an emphasis on software, fintech, e-commerce, media, mobile, and related sectors. The firm typically makes initial investments around one million dollars, with occasional larger early-stage bets of two to three million, and it aims to deploy as much as twenty million dollars in a single company. Founded in 2003, Union Square Ventures operates globally with investments in companies based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and elsewhere, seeking scalable businesses that leverage information technology to transform markets and create significant network value.
Fifty Years is an entrepreneur-led venture capital firm based in San Francisco, founded in 2015. It backs founders using technology to tackle significant global problems and seeks companies that can be highly profitable while making a meaningful dent in the Sustainable Development Goals. The firm invests in early-stage opportunities across technology, energy, climate tech, materials, bioengineering, transportation, hardware, computation, communication, and health, with a focus on North America and Europe.
CRH Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of CRH, based in New York, founded in 2022. It invests in climate technology and construction technology startups, aiming to support companies that address themes making industry safer, smarter, more efficient and sustainable.
Nordic Alpha Partners is a venture capital firm based in Hellerup, Denmark, founded in 2017. It focuses on growth investments for Northern European SMEs with annual revenue around 10-150 million DKK and global potential, particularly in green tech, energy storage, and digital transformation. The firm seeks opportunities that enable or leverage industrial, green, or digital change and provides hands-on capital coupled with a value creation framework, access to industry leaders, and specialized operational support to accelerate growth. By partnering with ambitious management teams, Nordic Alpha Partners aims to scale businesses with international reach while deploying intelligent capital and strategic expertise.
Voyager (US) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, California and New York, New York. It focuses on early-stage investments in decarbonization and climate technology, backing Pre-Seed to Series A rounds in mobility, energy, materials, food, the built environment, analytics, industrial systems, and carbon removal.
SINTEF is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia. It creates value through knowledge generation and the development of technological solutions that are brought into practical use for industry and society.
UVC Partners is a venture capital firm based in Germany with offices in Munich and Berlin. It backs early-stage technology startups across Europe, focusing on B2B software, enterprise technology, industrial technology, and mobility. The firm typically makes initial investments ranging from €0.5 million to €10 million and can provide up to €20 million in total funding per portfolio company.
CDP Venture Capital is an Italian venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Rome. It invests in startups and growth companies across Italy, spanning sectors such as consumer products and services, information technology, fintech and insur-tech, healthcare and life sciences, software as a service, artificial intelligence and machine learning, virtual reality, big data, advanced manufacturing, energy, education and training, agriculture materials, and other technology-driven areas. By backing early and growth-stage ventures, it aims to support Italy's economic development and the innovation ecosystem.
Energy Innovation Capital is a venture capital firm based in Orinda, California. It focuses on investing in early and growth-stage companies in the energy and digital technology sectors, aiming to address global energy challenges with transformative, market-leading solutions. The firm applies its industry expertise and networks through a collaborative approach to help entrepreneurs push the boundaries of what is possible.
BDC Venture Capital is a major Canadian venture capital investor that engages across the development cycle from seed to expansion, concentrating on technology-based companies with high growth potential that can become market leaders. It supports the growth of Canadian businesses through financing, consulting services, and securitization, with a focus on small and mid-sized enterprises. Since its inception in 1975, it has invested in more than 400 companies spanning life sciences, telecommunications, information technology, and advanced technologies, aiming to foster innovation and scale across the Canadian economy.
Energy Impact Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in New York. It concentrates on financing companies that advance the energy transition and sustainable energy, investing across venture, growth, credit, and infrastructure. The firm operates globally, with activity in North America and Europe, and collaborates with energy companies and entrepreneurs to accelerate innovation in areas such as energy efficiency, smart grids, storage, alternative energy equipment, and related software and services. It manages more than $2.5 billion in assets and pursues opportunities across the energy and climate sectors.
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.
Ara Partners is a private equity and infrastructure investment firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Dublin. The firm specializes in industrial decarbonization, investing in energy efficiency, renewable energy, industrial process electrification, waste management, and sustainable chemicals. It provides growth capital and buyout support to help portfolio companies scale and accelerate environmental progress, focusing on sectors such as manufacturing, chemicals and materials, energy efficiency, green fuels, and food and agriculture. The firm pursues impact investments and collaborates with portfolio companies to advance decarbonization across the industrial economy, and operates as a registered investment adviser.
Airbus Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Airbus Group, based in Menlo Park, California. It makes early-stage investments in autonomous mobility, electrification, a low-carbon economy, advanced materials, manufacturing systems, next-generation computing, sensing, and security, among other technology areas. The firm provides hands-on support to its portfolio companies and leverages the resources and networks of its parent company, Airbus, and its supply chain. It also taps into the broader ecosystem of investors and partners to help startups scale. By combining strategic value with financial discipline, Airbus Ventures aims to back startups that advance aviation, mobility, and related infrastructure while driving innovation for Airbus and its ecosystem.
BackingMinds is a venture capital firm headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in 2016 by Susanne Najafi and Sara Wimmercranz. It invests in early-stage technology companies and pursues entrepreneurs outside traditional networks, offering more than capital through a commitment, collaboration, and a distinct mindset. The firm targets scalable, customer-centric businesses with proven revenue models and seeks to back teams where others do not, providing strategic support in addition to funding.
Suffolk Technologies is a Boston-based venture capital platform that funds the built environment technology ecosystem. It provides capital, resources, and networks to help daring founders bring innovations in construction, architecture, engineering, real estate, and infrastructure from concept to scale. The firm backs early and growth-stage startups transforming real estate development, property management, smart cities, and related sectors, leveraging its industry expertise to accelerate the adoption of breakthroughs across the built world. Suffolk Technologies has been recognized as a leading construction technology investor, with leadership including Wan Li Zhu, Jit Kee Chin, and Puneet Mahajan.
Stephen Industries, established in 1992, is a Finland-based, family-owned venture capital firm. It focuses on investing in health tech, greentech, and deep tech sectors, aiming to support innovative, environmentally conscious solutions.
Starlight Ventures is a Miami-based venture capital firm founded in 2017 that makes early-stage investments in technology startups. It backs founders tackling global challenges across energy transition, industrial biology and synthetic biology, space technology, and novel computing and communications platforms, emphasizing breakthrough science and scalable solutions. The firm conducts global investments and supports portfolio companies through early rounds, seeking to accelerate progress at scale by combining scientific insight with entrepreneurial execution.
Finvolve is a venture capital investment firm based in Gurugram, India, founded in 2022 as a joint venture between India Accelerator and Finolutions. The firm seeks to invest in the business-to-business sector, operating as a bridge between traditional wealth management and the startup ecosystem.
FTTF is a venture capital firm based in Munich, Germany that invests in pre-seed and seed startups across software, industrial tech, energy, agritech, space and proptech, with a focus on deeptech and companies leveraging Fraunhofer technologies.