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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

EnCap Investments is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1988 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, with an additional Dallas office. It specializes in investments across the oil and gas value chain, including upstream exploration and production, and midstream infrastructure such as natural gas pipelines, gathering, processing, compression, storage, and transportation. The firm also targets energy infrastructure and clean energy initiatives within the energy transition. It typically provides equity on a deal-by-deal basis, with typical investment sizes in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, and may support reserve acquisitions and drilling projects. Its geographic focus includes the United States, Canada, and Mexico. EnCap Investments pursues opportunities in early-stage to growth-oriented companies and is registered as an investment adviser, emphasizing partnerships with operators and infrastructure developers to build long-term value in the oil, gas, and energy services sectors.

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.

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.

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.

Kimmeridge is an energy-focused alternative investment manager based in New York. The firm concentrates exclusively on the energy sector and, with in-house geology, land, and operations expertise, owns and operates its assets directly. It provides equity asset management, public engagement, private investments, and carbon solutions designed to accelerate the energy transition, with a portfolio that includes early-stage unconventional exploration.

European Investment Fund (EIF) is a public institution established in 1994 to improve access to finance for Europe's small and medium-sized businesses. It designs and develops venture capital and guarantee instruments to support SMEs and to catalyse private investment, aiming to build a robust European equity ecosystem. EIF engages in venture capital, growth capital, and guarantee operations, backing innovative entrepreneurs primarily in technology and life sciences, as well as across other sectors. Through cornerstone investments and fund participation, EIF seeks to crowd in private investors and stimulate venture activity across Europe. Its equity portfolio has grown substantially, with assets under management exceeding EUR 14 billion, reflecting its broad role in strengthening SME finance and supporting entrepreneurship and growth.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ecosystem Integrity Fund is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2010 that finances early-stage companies advancing environmental sustainability. The firm seeks to demonstrate that sustainable practices can coexist with solid financial returns and targets investments in sectors including energy, transportation, clean tech, climate resilience, agriculture and food, water, and waste management, with emphasis on resource efficiency, biodiversity, and environmental remediation. It pursues impact investments aligned with ESG goals and often supports companies across North America, with later vintages expanding to Canada and Europe. Investments typically occur at the early growth stage, with capital deployed to help portfolio companies scale solutions that reduce environmental impacts and strengthen ecosystem integrity.

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.

Overture VC is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, founded in 2021, that concentrates on early-stage climate-tech startups. It provides investment capital and practical government strategies to help portfolio companies navigate the regulatory landscape and access public sector support. By assisting founders in winning government support and addressing regulatory complexity, Overture VC aims to accelerate the development and deployment of climate solutions. The firm focuses on ventures that pursue a sustainable future and seeks to empower founders to scale their innovations by aligning policy, funding, and market pathways.

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.

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.

AENU is an impact venture capital firm based in Berlin that backs early-stage climate-tech and social impact companies across Europe. The firm pursues systemic transformation in venture capital toward impact, accessibility, and stakeholder alignment, aiming for long-term investments that solve the climate crisis and advance social equality. Its focus spans climate and ecosystems, energy, food and agriculture, resources, buildings, mobility, enterprise solutions, and equality and education initiatives.

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.

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.

NGP Energy Capital Management is a private investment firm focused on energy. Founded in 1988 and based in Irving, Texas, it manages a family of private equity funds and makes direct equity investments across the oil and gas value chain, including production, acquisition, exploration and development drilling, midstream services, energy efficiency, and power technology, as well as related energy businesses. The firm also pursues opportunities in water resources and services, food and agriculture, and coastal protection. It primarily targets North American companies, including the United States, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean and Central America, with typical investment sizes from 2 million up to 500 million dollars. It may co-invest in direct oil and gas property interests alongside portfolio companies and maintains offices in Houston, London, Santa Fe, and Stamford to support a broad geographic reach.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Icehouse Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Auckland, New Zealand. Founded in 2003, it backs brave Kiwi founders with unique insights building global companies and focuses on investing in early-stage companies across New Zealand.

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 focused on acquiring low-risk, conventionally producing oil fields. The company seeks to minimize risk and maximize the recoverability of existing reservoirs through targeted acquisitions, with a geographic focus on the Southwest United States. Its core assets include the Twin Lakes San Andres Unit, Slick Unit Dutcher Sands, Askarii Resources, and the Minerva-Rockdale Field.

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.

Pale Blue Dot is a Malmö, Sweden-based venture capital firm founded in 2020 that funds early-stage startups in Europe and the United States. It concentrates on B2B, information technology, and climate technology, and pursues impact investments aimed at sustainable solutions across energy, transportation, agriculture, and related sectors. The firm supports companies seeking scalable, innovative technologies and seeks to generate positive climate and societal impact while leveraging cross-border opportunities between Europe and North America.

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 the global resource, infrastructure, and industrial sectors. The firm pursues both private and public investments with a long-term fundamental approach aimed at delivering superior returns for investors. In its private strategy, Talara partners with management teams to develop upstream oil and gas properties in the lower middle market, while its public strategy provides endowments, pensions, and other clients with exposure to liquid real assets. The investment team emphasizes value across interconnected supply chains through concentrated equity portfolios and leverages insights from both private and public portfolios to access deal flow and market intelligence. As an employee-owned firm that serves client needs, Talara aims to build lasting relationships and maintain high levels of service.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Ananda Impact Ventures is a Europe-focused early-stage investment firm that backs technology-enabled companies with a positive social and ecological impact. Headquartered in Germany with an office in London, it operates across Europe and focuses on sectors such as health, education, inclusion, sustainable consumption, and the future of work. Founded in the early 2010s, the firm targets early-stage opportunities across Europe, including the DACH region, the UK, Benelux and the Nordics, with the aim of scalable, sustainable solutions. The firm emphasizes backing ventures that address social challenges while delivering growth, and its portfolio includes Klim, Open Bionics, IESO Digital Health and Ororatech.

EverStream Energy Capital Management is a Minnesota-headquartered asset management and private equity firm that invests in energy infrastructure and renewable energy projects. Founded around 2011–2012, the firm targets late-stage and growth investments across solar, wind, and natural gas infrastructure, including production, storage, and transportation assets and related off-take contracts. It manages funds and pursues project acquisitions in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, with typical transaction sizes of about $5 million to $20 million and exit horizons of six to twelve years. The firm maintains offices in Wayzata, Minnesota; Madrid; Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; Tokyo; and Miami, reflecting a global footprint focused on expanding sustainable energy infrastructure.

Wollemi is a global climate specialist investment firm that funds and supports businesses operating in the climate sector. Headquartered in Sydney with a presence in the United States, the firm concentrates on investments that advance the sustainable economy, including energy transition, waste-to-value, industrial decarbonization, and natural capital and agriculture.

Ridgeline Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Boulder, Colorado, established in 2013. The firm focuses on natural foods and active lifestyle companies, investing in founders and businesses that seek more than just financial support. Ridgeline Ventures provides strategic guidance, operational expertise, and access to a broad network, drawing from its team’s experience as former operators. The firm is particularly interested in brands that emphasize healthy living and have strong, passionate teams. Ridgeline Ventures prioritizes flexibility in its investments, allowing it to engage at various stages of company development and lead investment rounds when appropriate. Their commitment to helping companies make a positive impact on people's lives drives their investment strategy.