Orion Resource Partners is a global alternative investment manager focused on the metals and minerals sector. The firm provides flexible capital solutions to mining companies, including debt, convertibles, structured equity, and production-linked financing, as well as royalties, streaming, and offtake arrangements. It engages with both private and publicly traded entities across base and precious metals, leveraging deep sector expertise and a global network to support growth and project development. The company follows a disciplined, risk-adjusted investment process and emphasizes responsible investing across regions, seeking uncorrelated returns while contributing to sustainable infrastructure and decarbonization trends. Headquartered in New York, Orion operates worldwide to capitalize on longer-term dynamics in the metals and materials market.

Eldorado Gold is a Canadian gold and base metals producer with mining, development, and exploration activities in Turkiye, Canada, and Greece, and operations across Europe, Asia, and South America. The company owns and operates a portfolio of mines including Kisladag and Efemcukuru in Turkiye, Lamaque in Canada, and Olympias and Skouries in Greece, with development projects such as Perama Hill and Certej. It reports in three geographic segments: Turkiye, Canada, and Greece. Eldorado emphasizes responsible operations with strong safety and environmental standards and engages with local communities and stakeholders to support sustainable development and social benefits from its projects.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm founded in 1995 and headquartered in New Jersey. The firm focuses on seed-to-growth investments in deep tech sectors, including biotech and life sciences, hardware and robotics, and cross-border software with emphasis on markets in Asia. It supports startups from early stages with investment capital as well as resources such as laboratories, collaborative spaces, and expert mentorship to accelerate product development and market traction. SOSV operates purpose-built programs to help portfolio companies raise follow-on funding, scale operations, and reach customers, often through structured matchmaking and access to a global network of investors. With a broad portfolio spanning hundreds of companies worldwide, SOSV aims to foster innovation, build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems, and contribute to sustainable technological advancement.

Breakthrough Energy is a global platform dedicated to accelerating clean energy innovation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Through its three arms—Breakthrough Energy Discovery, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst—it provides funding and support across the full development cycle, from early-stage discovery and research to commercialization and deployment of scalable clean energy solutions. The organization builds a global collaboration network that includes entrepreneurs, universities, and industry leaders to develop and scale technologies that enable reliable, affordable, and low-emission energy. It promotes public-private partnerships with governments, research institutions, and capital providers to mobilize investment in transformative energy solutions. The overarching aim is to advance zero-emission energy alternatives that can meet global energy needs while improving energy access and competitiveness.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development provides project financing and banking products to banks, industries and private enterprises, including loans for projects, equity and quasi-equity investments, equity funds for smaller enterprises, guarantees and trade finance. It also offers policy reform dialogue and advisory services and supports loan syndication. The bank assists privatization and restructuring of municipal services and invests across sectors such as energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and real estate in Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on market transition and private sector development. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in London, it seeks to promote sustainable growth, job creation and higher living standards through financial support, advisory services and policy reform.

Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm focused on accelerating the transition to a clean economy by investing in companies developing technologies to reduce carbon emissions and deploy carbon removal solutions. The firm backs startups across energy, transportation, industrial materials, and agriculture, and provides strategic guidance, networking opportunities, and hands-on support to portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle, aiming to advance practical, science-based approaches to climate impact.

BDC Capital is the growth equity and venture investment arm of the Business Development Bank of Canada, based in Montreal with offices across Canada. It makes direct investments and fund investments to support growth in Canadian technology companies, focusing on information technology, energy, cleantech and healthcare; it targets early through growth‑stage opportunities and typically places minority stakes with board representation, often investing CAD 0.1 million to CAD 3 million as initial capital and up to CAD 15 million over the life of a company in growth rounds, while larger growth investments commonly range from CAD 3 million to CAD 35 million. The firm participates in syndicates and seeks to accelerate expansion, scale, and long‑term value creation, pursuing exits via initial public offerings, strategic sales, or leveraged management buyouts and aiming to help Canadian firms scale domestically and internationally.

Evok Innovations is a climate-focused venture capital firm headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, that backs early- to mid-stage hard-tech companies advancing the energy transition across North America. The firm targets technologies in energy, critical minerals, industrial optimization, decarbonization, carbon management, clean fuels, electrification, and adaptation and resilience for heavy industry. It provides hands-on support to portfolio companies, drawing on technical expertise, operational guidance, and fundraising assistance to help teams scale. Evok emphasizes collaborating with entrepreneurs and industry partners to accelerate commercialization and adoption of transformative technologies, leveraging its cross-border presence in Canada and the United States to connect innovators with customers, suppliers, and strategic allies.

Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a Canada-based private equity and venture capital organization that supports Quebec small and medium-sized businesses through a network of regional funds. It backs growth, business transitions, and development projects across sectors including manufacturing, information technology, life sciences, environment, tourism, and services, with an emphasis on job creation and regional economic development in Quebec. The organization provides a mix of equity financing and unsecured debt, may take minority or majority stakes, and can offer strategic and operational guidance alongside capital. Typical deal sizes span from a few hundred thousand to several million dollars, with investment horizons generally five to ten years for equity and longer in business succession financing; loans of up to several million are also available where appropriate. Established in 1983 and headquartered in Montreal, it seeks to strengthen the Quebec economy by supporting entrepreneurs and saving for retirement through its investment activities.

Sustainable Development Technology Canada is an independent, government-funded organization that funds Canadian cleantech projects and coaches the companies that lead these projects to market. It supports cleantech initiatives by creating jobs, enabling growth and exports for Canadian firms, and delivering environmental, economic and health benefits to Canadians. The organization operates at arm's length and builds networks with private industry, academia and governments at home and abroad to advance clean technology deployment within Canada.

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

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.

EnCap Investments is a Houston-based private equity firm that focuses on energy, including upstream and midstream oil and gas, natural gas pipelines, gathering, processing, storage, and related infrastructure. It provides growth capital for reserve acquisitions and drilling projects and pursues opportunities across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with a Dallas-area emphasis. Founded in 1988, EnCap supports independent energy companies through long-term partnerships, drawing on expertise in finance, operations, and strategic development while incorporating ESG considerations and the energy transition into its investment approach.

EIT RawMaterials is a Berlin-based European organization that supports innovation in the raw materials sector by linking industry, academia, and research and by investing in early-stage startups across the European Union in mining, exploration, processing, recycling, and substitution. It also runs educational initiatives to develop talent from school level to higher qualifications, aiming to build the next generation of raw materials innovators.

Founded in 2020, the European Innovation Council is a Brussels-based venture capital initiative that supports top innovators, entrepreneurs, small companies, and researchers with bright ideas. It co-invests with private investors in early-stage startups, prioritizes deep technology ventures, and pursues ESG-positive impacts to accelerate commercialization and scale-up.

Overture Ventures is a Los Angeles-based venture investment firm that funds and advises early-stage startups in energy, artificial intelligence, resilience, and industrial transformation. It supports seed and early-growth companies, helping founders win government support, navigate regulatory complexity, and access public-sector programs that aid commercialization. The firm combines capital with policy and government engagement, providing strategic guidance, network access, and collaboration with a government affairs partner to address policy-related challenges. By focusing on technologies that drive industrial and economic transformation, it helps portfolio companies scale solutions across energy, infrastructure, and climate-related systems.

HPS Investment Partners is a global investment firm that specializes in alternative credit and non-investment grade debt. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it offers capital solutions to institutional investors, financial advisors, and other clients across the credit spectrum, including private credit, asset-based finance, and liquid credit. The firm manages a range of strategies, from syndicated leveraged loans and high-yield bonds to privately negotiated senior secured debt, mezzanine, asset-based lending, and related private equity, with a focus on rigorous risk management and long-term partnerships. With a global footprint, it maintains offices around the world to serve diverse industries and client needs.

MPower Partners is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm that backs startups in Japan and abroad, across seed to late-stage rounds. It targets sectors such as healthcare, environment and sustainability, fintech, next-generation work, education, and consumer, with an emphasis on technology-enabled solutions that address societal challenges. The firm provides more than capital, offering strategic guidance and access to extensive networks to help portfolio companies scale and achieve durable growth. It supports ventures led by diverse founders and leverages its expertise in finance, asset management, and investment research to foster sustainable innovation within the Japanese ecosystem and globally.

DCVC is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California. It focuses on deep tech and life sciences, investing across artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense, and security, as well as related data-driven technologies. The firm supports early- and later-stage technology companies that leverage scientific discovery and automation to create scalable solutions. DCVC is a registered investment adviser.

Calibre Mining is a Canada-based mining company focused on the exploration, development and production of gold properties in Nicaragua. It maintains a portfolio of assets including the Pan Gold Mine, Borosi Gold Project, Valentine Gold Mine, Limon Mine and Mill, Libertad Mine and Mill, and Gold Rock, with operations primarily in Nicaragua and additional activity in the United States. The company derives revenue from the sale of gold and silver.

Katapult is an Oslo-based accelerator and venture capital platform that funds and supports early-stage technology startups, with emphasis on climate, oceans and other impact tech. Through Katapult Accelerator it runs a program offering up to $100,000 in funding for equity over about three months, with potential follow-up opportunities, and through Katapult Ocean it operates an ocean-focused venture fund. The group aims to mobilize capital for impact investing and to advance technology that addresses environmental and societal challenges, focusing on areas such as clean energy, ocean health, sustainable food systems and related exponential technologies.

Antler is a global venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Singapore that invests in technology companies and incubates startups across diverse sectors. It supports founders from day one with a worldwide community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, and expansion support, complemented by capital to help launch and scale ventures. Through regional funds and programs, Antler backs early-stage ventures across geographies, facilitating collaboration among founders and providing resources to help teams recruit, validate ideas, and enter markets.

Desjardins Group is a cooperative financial group headquartered in Montreal, Canada, founded in 1900. It offers a broad range of financial services to individuals and businesses, including personal banking products such as credit and prepaid cards, loans, fixed-rate investments, and insurance, as well as business financing, cash management, trade finance, payroll and HR solutions, and group retirement plans. The group also operates asset management, wealth management, venture capital, and securities businesses, providing institutional and corporate investment management, debt and equity capital markets, and research. Through its cooperative model and regional network, Desjardins supports development and growth across sectors in Quebec and across Canada while focusing on member and community prosperity.

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.

Metsä Spring is the corporate venture capital unit of Metsä Group that invests globally in startups connected to wood and forestry, and provides financing plus access to Metsä Group's international network and expertise.

Olive Tree Capital is a Boston-based venture capital firm that funds technology and life sciences companies across early-stage and growth stages. The firm pursues a diverse investment mandate, supporting ventures in artificial intelligence, blockchain, enterprise software, financial technology, healthcare, consumer goods, and related frontier technologies, with a global operating footprint. It emphasizes ethical business practices guided by the Golden Rule and seeks collaborations with entrepreneurs and partners aiming to create lasting value.

Ecosystem Integrity Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on environmental sustainability. It invests in early-stage companies across energy, transportation, climate tech, agriculture, water, waste management, green chemistry, and related areas, seeking to demonstrate that positive environmental outcomes can accompany compelling financial returns. The firm targets opportunities in North America and Europe and has supported portfolio companies through multiple funds since its founding in 2010. Investment sizes vary by vintage, ranging from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of dollars, with early funds typically at the lower end and later vintages deploying larger checks as opportunities permit. Its work emphasizes ESG considerations and impact alongside growth, combining sector expertise with strategic guidance to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable economy.

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.

Novo Resources is a natural resources exploration company focused on gold and copper properties in Australia, Canada, and the United States. It evaluates, acquires, explores, and develops mineral properties, with a current emphasis on the Beatons Creek and Marble Bar paleoplacer gold projects in Western Australia and a right to earn up to 70% in the Pilbara Paleoplacer Gold Project from the Creasy Group. The Beatons Creek Tenements cover Archaean pyritic conglomerates hosting gold mineralization analogous to the Witwatersrand system. The company also holds or advances additional projects, including Egina Gold Camp, Toolunga, Belltopper, and Tibooburra Gold Project, among others. Its operations are focused on exploration activities across multiple jurisdictions.

European Circular Bioeconomy Fund is a late-stage venture capital fund established in 2020 and based in Bonn, Germany. It invests in biotechnology and life sciences companies in Europe, with a focus on the circular bioeconomy and impact outcomes. The fund seeks to accelerate growth by partnering with entrepreneurs to scale late-stage circular bioeconomy ventures, prioritizing ventures that advance sustainable resource use and circular processes. Managed by ECBF Management, it adheres to EU SFDR Article 9 requirements to provide transparent impact reporting.

European Investment Fund is the EU's financing arm for small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-caps, providing financial instruments to improve access to affordable financing for businesses across their lifecycle, with a focus on innovation, growth, competitiveness, social impact and sustainability. The EIF leverages its capital base to foster public-private partnerships and allocates guarantees and equity funding to catalyze lending and investment for startups and small businesses throughout Europe, including EU member states, candidate countries and EFTA countries. It collaborates with partners to close funding gaps and support entrepreneurship and economic resilience.

NGP Energy Capital Management is a private equity firm focused on energy investments. Founded in 1988 and based in Irving, Texas, it manages capital across stages to back oil and gas production, exploration, development drilling, midstream activities, and related energy services, as well as energy efficiency, renewable energy, natural gas gathering, power technology, and other energy-related businesses. The firm may co-invest in direct oil and gas property interests alongside portfolio companies and also engages in related domains such as water resources, food and agriculture, and coastal protection, reflecting a broad energy and resource value chain approach. It serves North American and international markets and deploys capital through affiliated platforms including Natural Gas Partners, NGP Capital Resources Company, and NGP Energy Technology Partners.

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company focused on discovering, developing, and delivering medicines for serious chronic diseases, with a core emphasis on diabetes care. The organization produces and distributes insulin and other therapies aimed at treating diabetes and related conditions, while investing heavily in scientific research and biopharmaceutical innovation. Through partnerships and sustained commitments to accessibility, Novo Nordisk seeks to improve patient outcomes and support health systems worldwide. The company operates across many markets, supported by its production of insulin pens and a broad portfolio addressing obesity, rare blood and endocrine disorders, and other chronic diseases. It pursues long-term social responsibility and sustainability as integral to its business model.

Veriten is a venture capital firm founded in 2022 and based in Houston, Texas, that invests in energy sector startups and offers technical expertise and fact-based content on energy, technology, and environmental trends.

Founded in 2010, EIT InnoEnergy is a Europe-based innovation engine and investor focused on sustainable energy. It makes equity minority investments in early-stage climate tech and energy companies and provides value-added services to accelerate business cases, de-risk ventures, and scale technologies across Europe and the United States. Beyond financing, it supports workforce education and the development of resilient clean-tech value chains to advance a global net-zero economy.

Brainforest is an impact venture studio and accelerator based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2019, it supports ventures addressing forests, climate change, agriculture, biodiversity, and health by providing financial backing and programmatic support to help scale innovative solutions.

Almi Invest is a Swedish early-stage venture capital firm and part of the Almi Group. It funds startups across sustainability, industry, technology, and life sciences, from pre-seed to Series A, and typically co-invests with independent private investors to accelerate growth. The firm provides strategic guidance, active board participation, and access to a broad investor network to help portfolio companies scale. As part of Almi Group, Almi Invest collaborates with public funds and regional partners to support entrepreneurs and promote sustainable economic development in Sweden.

Envisioning Partners is a Seoul- and New York-based impact investing firm that invests in companies addressing societal challenges in climate and energy, health, and the future of work. Through venture capital and private equity approaches, it connects investment capital with innovative businesses to drive positive change, builds networks through its platforms, and seeks to support transformative companies that create lasting impact.

Azimuth Capital Management is a North American private equity and venture capital firm focused on the energy sector. Founded in 2000 as Kern Partners and headquartered in Calgary, it invests in oil and gas exploration and production, oil sands, non-conventional resources, energy infrastructure, services and energy technology, with attention to the energy transition. It makes direct investments and co-investments, pursuing growth- and middle-market opportunities, typically committing about $7.6 million to $36 million and maintaining long-term holdings of more than ten years. The firm operates across North America, leveraging operating partners to support portfolio companies.

Carbon Streaming is a carbon credit streaming and royalty company that provides capital to carbon projects worldwide through streaming, royalty, or similar arrangements to acquire carbon credits and earn revenue from their sale. The business focuses on building a diversified portfolio of projects involved with voluntary and compliance carbon credits, aiming to accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy by bringing capital to projects that might not otherwise be developed.

Troilus Gold is a Canadian-based development-stage mining company focused on restarting and expanding the former Troilus gold and copper mine and advancing the Troilus Project in Quebec. The project lies in the Frotêt-Evans Greenstone Belt, with a focus on gold and copper resources.

BMW Group is a global premium automobile and motorcycle manufacturer headquartered in Germany, encompassing brands BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce, and BMW Motorrad. It designs, produces, and sells luxury cars and motorcycles worldwide and offers premium financial and mobility services through a global production and sales network. The company emphasizes innovation in production technology and sustainability, promoting digitalisation and Efficient Dynamics to reduce fuel consumption and emissions while maintaining competitiveness. It operates multiple production facilities across countries and pursues flexible value chains to sustain leadership in premium mobility.

Gaingels is a venture capital organization focused on supporting LGBTQ+ founders and leaders and their allies. It invests across stages and industries, building a global portfolio of 130+ companies and deploying around $70 million in capital. Beyond funding, Gaingels helps portfolio companies recruit diverse C-suite and board talent and fosters a global community of investors, operators, and entrepreneurs working toward inclusive leadership and positive social change through business.

Nomadic Venture Partners is a Denver-based venture capital firm established in 2021 that funds early-stage companies in digital and light hardware solutions across the United States and Canada, with a focus on climate technology and decarbonization in natural resources, manufacturing, and transportation sectors.

AENU is an impact-focused venture firm based in Berlin, Germany, that invests in early-stage climate-tech and social impact companies headquartered in Europe. It seeks to drive systemic transformation in venture capital by emphasizing impact, accessibility, and stakeholder alignment, while providing long-term support to entrepreneurs solving the climate crisis and advancing social equality.

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.

Global Energy Metals is a mineral exploration company focused on cobalt and other battery-related metals, pursuing exploration and development across projects in Canada, the United States, Norway and Australia. It holds interests in the Werner Lake cobalt project in Ontario; the Millennium and Mount Isa projects in Queensland, Australia; and the Lovelock Mine and Treasure Box projects in Churchill County, Nevada. Incorporated in 2015 and headquartered in Vancouver, the company aims to build a diversified portfolio of battery metal assets to support the growing rechargeable battery and electric vehicle sectors.

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.

Platina Resources is an Australian mineral exploration company focused on acquiring, exploring, and developing metal deposits, including precious metals such as gold and platinum group metals, and base metals. The company holds 100% interests in the Challa Gold Project in Western Australia and the Skaergaard project on the east coast of Greenland, and a Platina Scandium Project in New South Wales, as well as a 30% interest in the Munni Munni project in the Pilbara region. Through these assets it pursues exploration, development, and potential joint ventures to advance projects. It operates in Australia, the United States, and Greenland. It was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Mount Hawthorn, Australia. It aims to create shareholder value through exploration and development, focusing on precious metals, specialty metals such as scandium, and base metals.

Counteract Partners is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that invests in climate tech, with an emphasis on carbon removal. It supports engineer and scientist entrepreneurs at the earliest stages, providing financial backing and strategic guidance to transform ideas into self-sustaining ventures capable of capturing or storing greenhouse gases. The firm backs ventures across energy, materials, resources, climate technology, agriculture technology, and clean technology, prioritizing research, prototyping, and market development to validate new approaches in emissions removal, including areas such as enhanced weathering, direct air capture, soil and blue carbon, afforestation, and sequestration.