Orion Resource Partners is a New York-based alternative investment manager that provides flexible capital solutions to mining and natural resource companies worldwide. The firm focuses on debt, structured equity, and production-linked financing, with capabilities in convertibles, offtake agreements, streaming, and royalty investments. It targets publicly traded mining entities in base and precious metals and uses a disciplined, risk-adjusted investment process. By offering tailored capital structures and active portfolio management, Orion supports growth and resilience in the metals sector across global markets.

CIBC Capital Partners is a Toronto-based investment firm specializing in direct, fund, and mezzanine investments. It provides subordinated debt and equity to mid- and late-stage private or public companies for growth financing, acquisitions, management buyouts, and recapitalizations. The firm prefers investments in later-stage companies undergoing financial restructurings, with a focus on sectors such as Industrials, Healthcare, Biotechnology, Financials, and Technology. It typically invests CAD10-20 million ($9.81-$19.61 million) per company, based primarily in Canada, Europe, and Australia.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups through active, founder-first development programs. Its flagship initiatives HAX and IndieBio provide facilities, engineering resources, services, and laboratory equipment to accelerate product development and prepare companies for subsequent funding rounds. SOSV focuses on deep technology across health, environmental, and cross-border software sectors, aiming to solve human and planetary health challenges. In addition to providing capital, the firm emphasizes intensive programmatic support to help portfolio companies move quickly from seed toward growth, including customer acquisition and scale. The firm operates globally with a bias toward startups targeting rapid international expansion, especially in Asia, and tends to back a small cohort of high-potential companies to accelerate their progress and attract leading investors.

Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Jackson, Wyoming, that funds research and invests in companies developing technologies to reduce CO2 emissions and advance decarbonization, with a focus on energy, transportation, industrial materials, and agriculture.

Fonds de solidarité FTQ is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Montreal, Canada, with additional offices in Quebec. Established in 1983, the firm specializes in investing in small and medium-sized businesses across various sectors, including natural resources, aerospace, agri-food, life sciences, and culture. It primarily focuses on projects that require funding of $3 million or more and provides loans up to $2 million. The firm actively seeks investment opportunities in Quebec, particularly in regions such as Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Montérégie. Fonds de solidarité FTQ invests in a range of activities, including business succession, financial restructuring, and market development, while avoiding sectors like retail, real estate, and biotechnology. It typically engages in equity financing and unsecured debt with investment horizons ranging from five to ten years. The firm aims to support projects that positively impact the Quebec economy and often takes either minority or majority stakes in its portfolio companies.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development finances projects and provides advisory services to the public and private sectors. It supports new ventures and expansion in existing companies through project financing, loans, and equity or quasi-equity investments, including equity funds and guarantees, and it partners with private entities to invest across sectors such as banking, energy, manufacturing, infrastructure, information technology, and services. The bank also helps publicly owned entities privatize and restructure municipal services and engages in policy reform dialogue and advisory services, along with trade finance and loan syndication. Founded in 1990 and headquartered in London, it operates across regions including Southeastern and Central Europe, the Baltic States, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, Central Asia, and parts of the Middle East and Africa, aiming to foster market-oriented change and private sector development by mobilizing capital for sustainable investments. It has invested more than €130 billion in over 5,200 projects.

Breakthrough Energy Ventures is an investor-led venture capital firm based in Kirkland, Washington, focused on climate and energy technology. It makes minority investments across seed, early, and later stages in companies delivering environmental services, climate technology, and cleantech solutions. The firm seeks scalable technologies that provide reliable, affordable power while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and supports innovations that address energy access, infrastructure, and transportation needs. Its mission emphasizes patient, impact-oriented investing to accelerate the transition to low-emission energy systems.

EnCap Investments L.P., established in 1988, is a Houston, Texas-based private equity firm focused on the oil and gas industry. It specializes in seed, start-up, emerging growth, and early venture investments, typically allocating between $10 million and $350 million per deal. The firm primarily invests in upstream and midstream oil and gas companies, with a particular interest in natural gas pipelines, processing facilities, and energy infrastructure projects. EnCap also considers investments in the energy transition sector. It operates from offices in Houston and Dallas, Texas.

Eldorado Gold is a Canadian gold and base metals producer with mining, development and exploration activities in Turkey, Canada and Greece, operating a portfolio of assets including Kisladag, Efemcukuru, Skouries, Perama Hill and Certej, and maintaining long-term partnerships with local communities, while emphasizing responsible operations with high safety and environmental standards and engaging with stakeholders to support the communities where it operates.

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.

Kimmeridge is an energy-focused alternative investment manager and investment firm based in New York. Founded in 2012, it concentrates on the energy sector, providing private investments and equity asset management, and developing carbon solutions to accelerate the energy transition. The firm pursues opportunities in early-stage unconventional exploration, backed by in-house geology, land, and operations expertise, and it owns and operates its energy assets directly.

Calibre Mining is a Canadian exploration-stage company focused on precious metals. It operates primarily in Nicaragua's Mining Triangle, with a portfolio including the Borosi Concessions, Pan Gold Mine, Valentine Gold Mine, and other properties.

BDC Capital is a Canadian investment firm that specializes in providing capital to climate technology companies across Canada.

Clean Energy Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in climate technology and advanced energy innovations. The firm targets technologies and business model innovations that address climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, with emphasis on energy storage, grid connectivity, renewable energy production, clean transportation, and the water-energy nexus. It seeks scalable solutions ready for commercial deployment and supports them with capital and guidance to accelerate growth. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Clean Energy Ventures is the venture capital arm of Clean Energy Venture Group and concentrates its activity in the United States and Canada, drawing on the group’s network and operational experience to help portfolio companies scale.

Established in 2001, The Icehouse is a not-for-profit organization based in Auckland, New Zealand. It supports small and medium-sized enterprise owners and entrepreneurs by providing growth assistance. Backed by the New Zealand government, it focuses on helping Kiwi founders build global companies.

Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.

Premier African Minerals Ltd explores, evaluates, and develops mineral properties across Africa, focusing primarily on tungsten, lithium, and tantalum elements.

Desjardins Capital is the private equity and venture capital arm of Mouvement des caisses Desjardins, based in Quebec, Canada. It provides growth capital, mezzanine, and select debt financing to early-stage through mature companies across industrial, manufacturing, technology, and service sectors, with emphasis on health care, life sciences, and biotechnology. The firm also supports cooperatives, including worker-owned and housing cooperatives, and network cooperatives, financing development, acquisitions, expansions, and succession plans. It primarily invests in Quebec and surrounding regions, and can finance growth, acquisitions, management buyouts, and modernization. Investments may be equity or debt, including unsecured loans, with instruments ranging from senior debt to equity, and tenures typically five to eight years for equity and three to five years for debt. The firm often takes minority stakes with board participation. It does not invest in natural resource exploration or financial services. Desjardins Capital traces its roots to 1974 and operates within the Desjardins Group.

The Ecosystem Integrity Fund is a private equity and venture capital firm based in San Francisco, with offices in Los Angeles and New York, that targets early- to late-stage investments in environmental sustainability and climate-related sectors. It backs companies and projects in clean technologies, energy, transportation, water, agriculture, building materials, waste management, habitat conservation, and related areas that advance resource efficiency and biodiversity while addressing threats to ecosystem integrity such as land fragmentation and contamination. Typical initial commitments range from about 0.5 million to 5 million dollars, with investments primarily in North America and increasingly global opportunities. The firm seeks both financial returns and measurable ESG impact by supporting scalable solutions across energy, climate resilience, and environmental remediation.

Overture VC is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It focuses on early‑stage climate‑technology companies, providing capital and expertise to help them navigate government and regulatory challenges. The firm supports visionaries working toward a sustainable future.

Founded in Berlin, Germany, AENU is an impact fund driving systemic transformation in venture capital by focusing on long-term investments in early-stage European climate-tech and social impact companies.

Africa Oil Corp is a Canadian oil and gas company that holds assets in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia through a 41% equity stake in Africa Energy Corp. Its East African holdings cover more than 200,000 square kilometers within a world‑class exploration play in the East African Rift Basin, one of the last major rift basins to be explored. The company has a 50% interest in the Lokichar basin of Kenya, where recent significant oil discoveries have been announced in partnership with operator Tullow Oil.

Founded in 2011, DCVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm invests in early-stage companies utilizing deep tech to solve complex problems across sectors such as artificial intelligence, exascale computing, climate, engineering, materials science, robotics, space, water, biology, defense, and security.

Aberdeen is a global investment company focused on the resource sector. It actively invests in and builds private, micro-, and small-cap resource companies, providing managerial, technical, and financial resources to unlock their potential.

Troilus Gold is a Canadian development-stage resource company focused on the potential restart and mineral expansion of the former producing Troilus gold and copper mine in Quebec.

NGP Energy Capital Management is a private equity and venture capital firm focusing on energy investments. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, with offices in Houston, London, Santa Fe, and Stamford, it manages a family of energy-focused funds. The firm invests across the energy value chain, including oil and gas exploration and production, midstream, oilfield services, energy efficiency, alternative energy, natural gas gathering and processing, and power technology, as well as related areas such as water resources, food and agriculture, and coastal protection. It targets a range of capital events from seed and startup funding to growth equity, middle-market and later-stage buyouts, and may co-invest in direct oil and gas property interests alongside portfolio companies. Typical investments span from a few million to several hundred million dollars, with a North American focus and selective international opportunities. The firm aims to partner with management teams to support growth and help navigate the challenges of the energy industry.

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.

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.

Founded in Sweden, Pale Blue Dot is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups addressing global challenges with innovative and sustainable solutions. They focus on sectors such as energy, food and agriculture, transportation, and materials.

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.

Novo Resources is a gold exploration company focused on evaluating, acquiring, and exploring properties in Australia. Its primary projects include the Beatons Creek and Marble Bar paleoplacer gold projects in Western Australia.

HPS Investment Partners is a global investment firm focused on non-investment grade credit. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it operates with offices worldwide. The firm originated as a unit of Highbridge Capital Management, a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, and was acquired by its principals in 2016, with J.P. Morgan retaining the hedge fund strategies. HPS manages a broad set of capital-structure strategies, including syndicated leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, privately negotiated senior secured debt, mezzanine financing, asset-based leasing, and private equity, serving clients across industries such as insurance, healthcare, media, retail, logistics, and marine.

Ananda Impact Ventures is a Germany-headed venture capital firm with an office in London that makes early-stage investments across Europe in consumer goods, healthcare, technology and education, targeting ventures that address social and ecological challenges with scalable, sustainable impact and focusing on sectors such as health, inclusion, aging populations, long-term unemployment, future of work, and sustainable consumption across the DACH region, the United Kingdom, Benelux and the Nordics.

Global Energy Metals focuses on acquiring and developing high-quality cobalt assets to provide investors exposure to the growing demand for cobalt in rechargeable batteries and electric vehicles. The company's portfolio includes projects in Canada, Australia, and the United States, with a strategic partnership with Beijing Easpring Material Technology Co. for project finance, metallurgical support, and material purchase.

Brainforest is an impact venture studio and accelerator based in Zürich, Switzerland, founded in 2019. It supports early-stage ventures focused on forests, climate change, agriculture, biodiversity, and health by providing financial backing and strategic development to scale sustainable solutions.

Founded in 2010, SVG Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. It focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies operating within the agrifood, supply chain, sustainability, and climate sectors.

Cowin Capital, established in 2000, is a Shenzhen-based private equity firm specializing in early-stage investments. With 18 years of experience, it focuses on supporting the growth of small and medium enterprises, primarily in the energy, communication, electronics, and environmental protection sectors. Cowin Capital takes a long-term approach, aiming to create value through strategic partnerships and operational support. It has successfully invested in over 300 companies, with 60 becoming publicly listed and 150 achieving successful exits. Notably, Cowin Capital was one of the first venture capital institutions to be listed on the New Third Board (NEEQ) in China.

Platina Resources is a mineral exploration company focused on acquiring, exploring, and developing projects rich in precious metals such as gold, platinum group metals, zinc, and base metals. Its primary assets include the Challa Gold Project in Western Australia and the Skaergaard Project in Greenland.

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.

Petrolia Energy is an oil exploration, development and production company that focuses on acquiring low-risk, conventionally producing oil fields to minimize risk and maximize recovery of existing reservoirs. It concentrates on acquisitions in the Southwest United States and its assets include the Twin Lakes San Andres Unit, Slick Unit Dutcher Sands, Askarii Resources, and Minerva-Rockdale Field.

Antelopus Energy is an exploration and production company focused on monetizing discovered and stranded resources in the Indian Subcontinent. It operates three contract areas: two offshore assets on the west and east coasts of India and one onshore area in Assam. The company specializes in value creation through reservoir management, deploying technologies such as chemical enhanced oil recovery, and emphasizes operational efficiency, rapid execution, safety, and sustainability.

Talara Capital Management is a real asset investment firm focused on global resource, infrastructure, and industrial sectors. The firm is 100% employee-owned and operates across private and public markets, using a long-term fundamental approach to generate value for investors. In private investments, Talara seeks to partner with management teams to develop upstream oil and gas properties in the lower middle market, pursuing flexible, control-oriented or structured real asset opportunities. In public markets, the firm provides investors with exposure to liquid real assets through focused, research-driven equity portfolios. The firm leverages synergies between its private and public portfolios to access deal flow and market intelligence, and emphasizes enduring relationships and client service. Talara is headquartered in New York with an additional office in Houston and operates as a registered investment adviser.

Sigma Lithium is a Canadian company engaged in lithium exploration and development. It holds four mineral properties totaling approximately 191 square kilometers in the Minas Gerais state of Brazil.

BMW i Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Bayerische Motoren Werke, investing in technology companies that support BMW's current and future mobility, transportation, and services businesses. Based in Mountain View with offices in San Francisco and Germany, the firm pursues global investments, including North America, Europe, and Israel. It focuses on early to growth-stage opportunities in automotive technology, software, SaaS, AI and machine learning, hardware, energy, digital platforms, and related sectors such as supply chain, fintech, e-commerce, and oil and gas. BMW i Ventures seeks to accelerate portfolio companies by combining capital with strategic guidance, helping them scale quickly and deliver real-world impact across manufacturing, transportation, and services within BMW's ecosystem and beyond.

Great Western Exploration is an Australian mineral exploration company focused on gold, copper, nickel and base metals. It holds interests in multiple Western Australian projects, including Finlayson Gold Target, Golden Corridor, Atley Gold, Lake Way Potash near Wiluna, Yerrida South, and the Yerrida North joint venture, as well as the Yandal West gold project. The company operates through Mineral Exploration and Finance and Administration segments and has been active since 2007, based in Perth. It evaluates and develops mineral properties, pursuing acquisition and exploration of assets with potential for gold, copper, zinc and sulfide deposits.

K1W1, established in 1999, is a family office based in Auckland, New Zealand. It specializes in providing early and later-stage venture capital investments to startups and businesses within New Zealand.

Lexington Gold is a company engaged in gold exploration and development. Its primary focus lies on projects in the United States and South Africa.

Magna Terra Minerals is a Toronto-based precious metals exploration company focused on advancing highly prospective gold projects in top-tier mining jurisdictions. With a significant interest in Argentina's Deseado Massif, the company aims to capitalize on the country's improving political environment and experienced management team.

Planet A Ventures is a European greentech venture firm that supports sustainable solutions. It employs an in‑house science team that performs life‑cycle assessments to evaluate a startup’s environmental impact. The scientists can veto investments that do not demonstrate significant, quantifiable benefits. The firm focuses on European green‑tech startups that deliver measurable environmental improvements while building scalable businesses.

New Pacific Metals Corp. is a Canadian-based exploration and development company focused on precious metal properties in Bolivia and Canada. It explores for silver and gold, and also targets lead and zinc. The company’s Silver Sand project is located in the Potosí Department of Bolivia. It also holds the Tagish Lake Gold Project in Yukon, Canada, with extensive mineral claims and established infrastructure including a mill and support facilities. Other Bolivian projects include Carangas and Silverstrike. The company aims to advance its mineral discoveries through continued exploration and eventual development.