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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DCVC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that backs entrepreneurs developing deep technologies across artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense, security, and related deep tech sectors. The firm emphasizes combining advances in science and technology with computing and algorithmic advantage to enable more with less and to reduce capital expenditure and operating costs for portfolio companies. DCVC operates as a registered investment adviser and invests across stages to support transformational breakthroughs that benefit society.

Blackbird Ventures is an Australasian venture capital firm founded in 2012 that backs technology startups from idea to IPO, investing from seed to later stages across Australia and New Zealand. The firm focuses on ambitious founders and aims to foster generational ownership. Its portfolio includes notable early rounds such as Canva and CultureAmp, and totals over 100 companies with a value exceeding $7B.

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.

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.

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.

BMW Group is a premium automobile and motorcycle manufacturer based in Germany that produces luxury cars, convertibles, touring motorcycles, and related mobility services. It operates a global sales network and 31 production and assembly facilities in 15 countries, and offers premium financial and mobility services. The company emphasizes sustainability and digitalisation through Efficient Dynamics, aiming to reduce fuel consumption and emissions while maintaining competitive value chains. Its brands include BMW, Mini Cooper, Rolls-Royce, and BMW Motorrad, and it focuses on innovation in production technology, electrification, and on-demand mobility to shape the future of personal mobility.

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.

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.

IQT focuses on advancing innovative technology solutions tailored for the intelligence and defense sectors. By fostering the development of cutting-edge tools, IQT aims to enhance the capabilities of these communities in their efforts to ensure national security. The organization plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between emerging technologies and their practical applications within government agencies, ultimately contributing to the safety and protection of the nation.

Foundamental is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments in construction, mining and related vertical technologies. It targets pre-seed to Series A rounds and reserves a substantial portion of each fund for follow-ons to support portfolio growth. The firm operates globally, with activity across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Africa, and maintains offices in San Francisco and Singapore to work closely with portfolio companies. Foundamental seeks to back builders and category-creating companies at the intersection of 3D design, construction, blue-collar workforce, robotics, supply chains, logistics, and industrial manufacturing, aiming to be an early partner from day zero. Its approach combines technology and industrial experience to help founders navigate early-stage challenges. Foundamental is positioned as a leading provider of vertical technology investment for the real world.

ThreeD Capital is a Toronto-based venture capital firm, founded in 1987, that makes seed, early-stage and growth investments across technology-enabled sectors such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, electric vehicles, esports, Internet of Things, junior resources, renewable technologies, and related areas. It employs a merchant banking approach, characterized by a selective investment mandate, high barriers to entry, and active involvement with portfolio companies, including strategic advice and access to its professional network to support growth and value creation.

S2G Investments is a multi-stage investment firm that targets venture and growth-stage companies in food and agriculture, oceans, and energy sectors. It provides capital to businesses shaping the future of food systems and energy resources and supports entrepreneurs and leadership teams with market-driven solutions intended to deliver greater value, improved results, and superior performance relative to conventional options.

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.

Aberdeen International is a resource investment company and merchant bank focused on private, micro- and small-cap metals and mining companies. It pursues equity participation in pre-IPO and early-stage resource firms with undeveloped or undervalued high-quality resources, aiming to unlock value by supplying managerial, technical, and financial resources to help companies reach their potential. The firm operates across jurisdictions with low to moderate political risk and leverages its association with industry partners to actively build value in its portfolio.

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

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.

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.

Cowin Capital is an investment firm based in Shenzhen, China, founded in 2000, specializing in private placement equity investments in small and medium-sized enterprises with a long-term horizon. It funds pioneering ventures across a range of sectors, including health, technology, telecommunications, energy, electronics and environmental protection, and supports growth from early stage through expansion. The firm has invested in hundreds of companies and has facilitated numerous exits or public listings, reflecting a track record of helping portfolio companies scale and reach new markets.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Artesian Capital Management is an Australian-based alternative investment management firm with a global footprint. Founded in 2004, it began with credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies and later expanded into principal investments in seed and early-stage ventures. The firm operates from Sydney and Melbourne and has extended to international locations, launching early-stage venture funds including a China-focused vehicle and outlining plans for Southeast Asia. It partners with accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs to back high-potential ventures and manages funds across equity and debt investments, currently overseeing over AUD 255 million.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Group 11 Technologies develops a sustainable in-situ recovery process for mineral extraction. This process minimizes environmental issues and carbon footprint by extracting precious metals like gold while reducing noise, dust, and greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional open pit or underground mining.

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.

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.

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.