Orion Resource Partners is an investment firm that provides flexible capital solutions to mining and natural resources companies worldwide. The firm focuses on debt, structured equity, and production-linked financing for base and precious metals projects, and also utilizes off-take arrangements, streaming, and royalties as part of its financing approach. With a disciplined, risk-adjusted investment process, Orion evaluates opportunities across publicly traded and private entities in the metals and materials sectors and offers capital solutions tailored to project development, production timelines, and capital structure needs. Headquartered in New York, the firm serves clients globally, aiming to align financing with value creation in mining ventures.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is a large Canadian financial services company with North American operations. Headquartered in Toronto, it offers a broad range of financial solutions for individuals and businesses, including commercial banking, wealth management, personal banking, small business services, and cross-border banking. The organization also provides investment banking services through its subsidiaries, handling debt and equity financing, mergers and acquisitions advisory, and capital markets activities. Its asset management units manage portfolios for high net worth individuals, pension plans, foundations, and institutions, and they launch mutual funds and hedge funds. The venture capital and private equity arm, CIBC Capital Partners, makes direct, fund and mezzanine investments to support growth, restructurings, and acquisitions across sectors in North America and abroad. The company emphasizes client-focused service, long-term investment in its people and communities, and strong cross-border capabilities.

RCF Management, LLC is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in buyouts, early venture, later stage, emerging growth, growth capital, bridge, industry consolidation, PIPES, development capital, rollup, and distress situations. The firm does not invest in oil and gas sector. It typically invests in opportunities that arise due to corporate financial issues and not project related technical issues. The firm also provides bridge loans and credit support. It invests in all hard rock mineral commodities and in mining and metal companies, growth oriented mining companies, mining industry software, enterprise software, metal and mineral mining machinery and equipment and precious metals and mineral. The firm seeks to invest in junior mining companies with projects at the scoping study or pre-feasibility stage. The firm prefers to invest in innovation, emerging technologies, commercialization and/or market expansion of innovative mining technology products. It also invests in a range of debt-oriented funding alternatives to both development and operating stage companies. It seeks to invest globally with a focus on Australia, Europe, Canada and United States. It seeks to invest up to $500 million in a single transaction but prefers to invest initially from approximately $1 million to approximately $300 million and third party funding up to $1 billion. It also invests in the form of convertible debt, equity, royalties, letters of credit and direct project interests. The firm also focuses on earlier stage risk in exploration, early project de-risking, scoping studies, and strategic opportunities and provide funding across capital spectrum. The firm also participates in equity placements or on-market acquisitions of common stock and seeks to acquire controlling stakes and majority and minority. It seeks to exit its investments between three and five years through merger and acquisition, block sales to institutional investors, or market sales into liquidity and holds minority and majority stakes in its portfolio companies. It prefers to take a seat on the Board of its portfolio companies. RCF Management, LLC was founded in 1998 and is based in Denver, Colorado with additional offices in Perth, Australia; Toronto, Canada; Jericho, New York; Santiago, Chile; and London, United Kingdom.

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.

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.

Eldorado Gold Corp is a Canadian gold and base metals producer with mining, development, and exploration projects in Europe, Asia, and South America, and operations in Turkey, Canada, and Greece. It maintains a portfolio of assets including Kisladag, Efemcukuru, Skouries, Perama Hill, and Certej, and emphasizes responsible operations, safety and environmental standards, and partnerships with local communities.

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.

Calibre Mining Corp is a Canada-based company focused on the exploration, development and production of gold and other metals in Nicaragua. It operates a multi-asset portfolio of projects in the Mining Triangle region, including the Pan Gold Mine, Borosi Gold Project, Valentine Gold Mine, Limon Mine and Mill, Libertad Mine and Mill, and Gold Rock, as well as the Borosi Concessions. The company pursues value through discovery and development of gold resources across its properties, with most revenue derived from the sale of gold and silver from its Nicaragua-based operations.

Endeavour Silver Corp is a Canadian mineral company engaged in the evaluation, acquisition, exploration, development, and exploitation of precious metal properties in Mexico and Chile. It operates the Guanacevi and Bolanitos silver mines in Mexico and the El Cubo silver-gold mine in Guanajuato; it is developing the Terronera project and maintains exploration programs in Mexico, Chile, and the United States. In 2012 it acquired Mexgold Resources and its subsidiaries, expanding its producing assets in the Guanajuato district.

Novo Resources is a mining exploration company focused on evaluating, acquiring, and exploring gold properties, with projects in Australia, Canada, and the USA, including Beatons Creek and Marble Bar paleoplacer gold prospects in Western Australia and a right to earn a significant interest in the Pilbara Paleoplacer Gold Project. The Beatons Creek Tenements cover exposures of Archaean pyritic conglomerates that host gold mineralization and have a history of shallow reef mining dating back to the late 1800s. Novo Resources pursues exploration and development of paleoplacer and other gold targets through acquisitions and earn-in arrangements.

Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Jackson, Wyoming. It funds research and invests in technologies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a focus on sectors such as energy, transportation, industrial materials, agriculture, and other climate-related innovations.

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.

DCVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, that backs entrepreneurs pursuing deep-tech solutions to major global challenges. It invests in startups across artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate tech, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense and security, prioritizing companies that combine scientific breakthroughs with computational advantage to reduce capital expenditure and operating costs. The firm operates as a registered investment adviser and maintains specialized arms, including a life sciences focus through DCVC Bio, supporting early-stage biotechnology and related ventures. DCVC emphasizes interdisciplinary, data-driven collaboration to accelerate development and deployment of transformative technologies, and it partners with founders across seed to growth stages through multiple funds and programs.

Troilus Gold is a Canadian-based mineral resource company focused on restarting and expanding the former Troilus gold and copper mine, located in the Frotêt-Evans Greenstone Belt in Quebec. The company advances the Troilus project through advanced-stage exploration and early development on a 43,500-hectare property near Chibougamau, Quebec, aiming to unlock the asset’s production potential.

Premier African Minerals is a mining company active in Africa that explores, evaluates and develops mineral properties, focusing on tungsten, lithium and tantalum. It operates projects through RHA and RHA Mauritius for wolframite, and through Zulu and Zulu Mauritius for lithium and tantalite, supported by its head office.

EIT RawMaterials, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, supports the European raw materials sector by funding early-stage startups in mining, exploration, processing, recycling, and substitution. The organization also serves as a platform that connects business, academia, research, and investment to foster disruptive and breakthrough innovations. By engaging schools and higher education, it cultivates the next generation of raw materials professionals and researchers. Through its activities, it aims to strengthen innovation, collaboration, and competitiveness across the raw materials value chain in the European Union.

Lion Selection Group is a Melbourne-based investment company publicly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. It pursues long-term investments in the mining sector with a focus on junior mining opportunities, including early-stage exploration and development projects. The group pools investors' capital to form a diversified portfolio of mining-related companies, aiming to provide sustained exposure to the sector through patient, growth-oriented holdings.

Evok Innovations is a venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, focused on cleantech and energy-transition technologies. It backs early-stage companies developing decarbonization solutions across North America, including carbon management, clean fuels, electrification, and critical minerals, with investments spanning sectors such as cleantech, energy and infrastructure to accelerate deployment of critical energy transition technologies.

Voyager (US) is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco and New York that makes early-stage investments in climate technology companies across mobility, energy, materials, food, the built environment, analytics, industrial systems, and carbon removal. It partners with founders at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages to support decarbonization and climate solutions.

GFG Resources is a North American-focused precious metals exploration company that advances district-scale gold projects in tier-1 mining jurisdictions. It acquires, explores, and develops gold properties in Canada and the United States, including the Pen and Dore gold projects in Ontario and the Rattlesnake Hills property in Wyoming. Pen gold project spans about 475 square kilometers southwest of Timmins, Ontario; Dore covers about 212 square kilometers in Ontario; Rattlesnake Hills encompasses about 30,400 acres in Natrona County, Wyoming. The company is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada, and seeks to maximize value by advancing these projects on the ground.

Foundamental is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in construction, mining, renovation technology, and related verticals for the real world. The firm backs builders and category-leading startups from inception, supporting pre-seed to Series A rounds while reserving a substantial portion of its capital for follow-ons. With a global footprint across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Foundamental engages across construction, design technology, robotics, supply chains and related industries, aiming to back transformative companies such as Infra.Market and Speckle. It emphasizes hands-on support and long-term involvement beyond board meetings to help founders navigate early-stage challenges and scale impactful technologies.

Sarama Resources is an exploration company focused on discovering gold deposits in West Africa. It holds exploration licenses in Burkina Faso, Liberia, and Mali.

New Pacific Metals is a Canadian-based mining company focused on the exploration and development of silver, gold, lead and zinc properties in Bolivia and Canada. In Bolivia, the company advances the Silver Sand project and other properties including Carangas and Silverstrike. In Canada, it owns the Tagish Lake Gold Project in Yukon, which it acquired in 2010; the project features infrastructure such as an all-weather road, a 300-tonne-per-day mill, a tailings reclamation site, service buildings and an all-weather camp. The company operates from its Vancouver headquarters and pursues value through its mineral portfolio in Bolivian and Canadian districts.

Global Energy Metals is a cobalt-focused explorer and developer that seeks to provide exposure to the rechargeable battery and energy storage materials market through a diversified portfolio of cobalt assets. The company pursues projects in Canada, Australia and the United States, including the Werner Lake cobalt project in Ontario; the Millennium cobalt project and Mount Isa prospects in Queensland; and the Lovelock Mine and Treasure Box projects in Nevada. Incorporated in 2015 and headquartered in Vancouver, it pursues an aggregation strategy that combines direct investment in advanced cobalt assets with streams, off-take agreements and physical material supply to end users. A distinguishing element is a strategic partnership with Beijing Easpring Material Technology that links the supply chain with downstream manufacturers, aiding project finance and metallurgical feasibility. Global Energy Metals aims to diversify cobalt supply away from the DRC and to build a reliable supply chain aligned with strict end-user specifications for the lithium-ion battery sector.

Great Quest Fertilizer is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on advancing the Tilemsi phosphate project in Mali. Since 2009, it has acquired several phosphate concessions, defining an initial resource of 32.6 million tonnes at a grade of 23.4% P2O5.

KORE Mining focuses on precious metal exploration and development in North America. It holds the Imperial and Long Valley gold development projects in California, United States, and the FG Gold and Gold Creek exploration projects in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. The projects offer multimillion-ounce gold development opportunities and have the potential for near-surface, open-pit, heap-leachable deposits. The exploration portfolio shows strong discovery potential within an established mining district, combining relatively low technical risk with meaningful advancement potential.

Alpha Future Funds is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 with operations in Munich, Germany, and Luxembourg. It makes multi-stage investments across venture capital and private equity, spanning energy, sustainability, artificial intelligence, robotics, digitalization, software and mining equipment, technology and related services. The firm aims to support founders by leveraging an international network, capital, and hands-on experience in company building, seeking to partner with entrepreneurs early in their growth. Its investment approach targets companies advancing the low-carbon economy, the electric vehicle revolution, and the global battery transition, with the goal of helping portfolio companies emerge as leaders in sustainable markets.

Aruma Resources is an Australian mineral exploration company focused on gold and lithium exploration. Its Western Australia portfolio includes the Pilbara gold project along with Saltwater, Melrose and Scotia South prospects, while the Capital Project near Goulburn, New South Wales, broadens its geographic footprint. The company also pursues lithium opportunities with the Mt Deans Lithium Project and holds additional gold prospects such as Salmon Gums and Carter Well. Spanning about 1,572 square kilometers, Aruma employs a research-driven exploration model supported by an experienced board and management team to identify high-grade, sediment-hosted gold deposits. Based in West Perth, Australia, the company was incorporated in 2010 and seeks to advance its asset base through discovery and development across Australia.

Platina Resources is an Australian-based mineral exploration and development company focused on precious metals and base metals. It acquires and explores mineral deposits in Australia, the United States, and Greenland, with projects advanced through exploration, development, and joint ventures. The company’s portfolio includes the Challa Gold Project in Western Australia (100% ownership), the Skaergaard Project in eastern Greenland, and the Platina Scandium Project in New South Wales, along with a 30% stake in the Munni Munni project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Core targets include platinum group metals, gold, zinc, and other base metals. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Mount Hawthorn, Australia, the company also engages in strategic investments in other mining and exploration ventures to support its growth.

Zynik Capital is an investment firm founded in 1983 and based in Vancouver, Canada. It has completed transactions totaling over three billion in assets and engages in turnarounds, buyouts, leveraged finance, venture capital start-ups and other special situations across a wide range of markets. The firm seeks opportunities in sectors including automotive, construction, mining, oil and gas, aerospace and other industrial areas, as well as banking, health and wellness, services, technology, resources and manufacturing. Zynik emphasizes a global view paired with local insights and employs a structured investment approach to identify underperforming opportunities and pursue attractive returns for stakeholders.

Magna Terra Minerals is a Canada-based precious metals exploration company headquartered in Toronto. It pursues acquisition and exploration of mining properties and maintains a portfolio that includes two district-scale, resource-stage gold projects in New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, along with activity in Argentina's Santa Cruz region within the Deseado Massif and projects in Quebec. The company focuses on advancing its exploration portfolio across Canada and Argentina, with favorable mining jurisdictions and an experienced management team guiding its strategy.

Great Western Exploration is an Australian mineral exploration company focused on gold, copper, nickel and base metals. It operates through Mineral Exploration and Finance and Administration segments and pursues a portfolio of projects in Western Australia, including the Finlayson Gold Target and Golden Corridor Project in the Kalgoorlie region, the Atley Gold Project in the Youanmi district, the Lake Way Potash Project near Wiluna, and the Yerrida South project as well as the Yerrida North joint venture and the Yandal West gold project. Incorporated in 2007 and based in Perth, the company concentrates on identifying, evaluating and exploring mineral properties with potential for precious and base metal deposits.

Liquid 2 Ventures is a San Francisco, California-based venture capital firm that provides seed-stage and early-stage investments to technology startups. Founded in 2015 by Joe Montana, Mike Miller, and Michael Ma, the firm focuses on technology companies across software, telecommunications, media, and other TMT sectors, offering early funding and strategic guidance to its portfolio companies.

Provident Capital Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in Singapore with significant activity in Indonesia. It concentrates on Southeast Asia investments, focusing on telecommunications, infrastructure, mining, real estate, plantation, and biofuels. The firm uses a selective investment approach, committing substantial funds to opportunities where strong management capabilities have been developed within the group, and it tends to concentrate its activities in Indonesia.

Lexington Gold is a gold exploration and development company focused on advancing gold projects in the United States and South Africa. Its activities include exploration in the United States and South Africa and ownership of properties such as the Witwatersrand gold fields, Jones Keystone and Loflin, Argo, Carolina, and the Jennings-Pioneer project, with the aim of delineating resources and progressing toward development opportunities.

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.

Centamin is a gold mining company with its flagship Sukari Gold Mine in Egypt, operating both open-pit and underground mining to supply ore feed. The company engages in exploration, development, and production of precious metals across multiple regions, including Egypt and projects in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Jersey, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Centamin emphasizes responsible mining practices and aims to build long-term value through partnerships with local communities and stakeholders. Based in Saint Helier, Jersey, the firm has a history dating to 1970 and focuses on expanding its resource base while maintaining safety and environmental standards.

Solstice Gold is a Canadian gold exploration company focused on mineral resource properties in Ontario and Nunavut. It pursues district-scale gold projects including Qaigtuq Gold, Red Lake Extension, Atikokan Gold, and Strathy Gold, and holds interests in other projects such as Raven-Furniss, Stewart Lake, and lithium ventures Kamuck, Pakeagama, and Church & Purdom. The company concentrates on identifying opportunities, conducting exploration, and advancing promising discoveries toward development, leveraging management expertise to create value within Canada's mineral sector.

Midnight Sun Mining is a mineral exploration company focused on copper, cobalt, nickel, and gold in Africa, with its flagship Solwezi Project in the Zambia-Congo Copper Belt. The Solwezi licenses cover 506 square kilometers, and the company holds a 60% interest in them. The project is located near major copper operations, including First Quantum’s Kansanshi Mine, underscoring the area's mining context. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

CMC Metals is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on acquiring and exploring properties in Canada and the United States with the aim of developing high-potential silver-zinc-lead deposits into production. It owns the Silver Hart property in Yukon, comprising 116 contiguous and partial mineral claims over about 2,200 hectares, and holds an option to earn up to 100% of the Terra Nova property in the Gander Subzone of central Newfoundland, consisting of 71 claims over roughly 1,775 hectares. The company was incorporated in 1996, was formerly Bellevue Capital Corp, and changed its name to CMC Metals in 2005; it is headquartered in Vancouver. The business emphasizes progressing properties toward development and production through experienced management and efficient resource utilization.

Guideline Geo is a geophysics and geo-technology company that provides sensors, software, services and support to map and visualize the subsurface. It delivers complete solutions and applications expertise worldwide in four growth areas: detecting and mapping groundwater, environmental and geological risk assessments, infrastructure site investigations and mineral exploration. The group includes the MALA and ABEM brands and conducts sales globally to offer technical leadership in subsurface mapping.

Maris Capital is an investment holding company based in Grand Baie, Mauritius. It focuses on investing in early-stage and startup SMEs across Africa, with portfolio interests in property services, business services, mining, and agriculture and forestry. The firm aims to build scalable, cash-generative businesses through active management, community engagement, and ESG risk oversight, pursuing sustainable, long-term growth in the African market.

Aurum Ventures is a venture capital firm based in India that specializes in investing across various sectors, including telecom, automotive, renewable energy, and real estate. The firm emphasizes long-term proprietary investments in diverse businesses both in India and internationally. Currently, Aurum Ventures is particularly focused on real estate investments in India, as well as mining opportunities in South America and junior mining ventures in East Africa. Founded by Ashish Deora, the company is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Ospraie Management is an investment management firm specializing in basic industries and commodities across global public and private markets. It manages and structures investment vehicles such as hedge funds and other strategies, and it operates a venture arm that funds solutions aimed at helping farmers achieve a more sustainable future.

Day One Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, with an additional office in New York. It focuses on early-stage investments in disruptive technologies across AI and machine learning, fintech (including blockchain), consumer products, edtech, healthcare and mental health, marketplaces, AR/VR, quantum, space, climate and energy, and other frontier sectors; it typically invests from $100,000 to $5 million across pre-seed to seed rounds and occasionally Series A. The firm backs customer-obsessed portfolio companies and spearheads their communications, taking a hands-on approach to support growth. The founder is Masha Drokova.