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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Founded in 2001, Chrysalix is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Vancouver. It invests in and supports innovative technologies addressing global industrial demands, with a focus on clean-tech, renewable energy, agriculture, AI, data analytics, and advanced materials.

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices across North America. It provides access to venture investing for individual accredited investors, particularly alumni networks, by offering diversified portfolios of venture opportunities and allowing members to invest alongside fellow alumni in ventures led by peers. The firm backs early-stage and later-stage opportunities across technology, consumer, healthcare, financial services, and other sectors, with a sector- and geography-agnostic approach. It typically invests between $10,000 and $3 million per deal and emphasizes the involvement of alumni connections and an institutional lead investor in opportunities. Alumni Ventures also offers focused funds to broaden participation, enabling accredited investors to access venture portfolios diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. The model aims to democratize access to venture capital while maintaining rigorous selection standards through alumni networks.

Founded in 1995, SOSV is a global venture capital firm headquartered in New Jersey. It focuses on seed-to-growth stage investments in deep tech innovations, primarily in bio-tech/life sciences and hardware/robotics sectors, with a commitment to human and planetary health.

BMW i Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of BMW Group, based in Mountain View, California, with offices in San Francisco and Germany. It makes Series A and B investments in automotive technology and related areas worldwide, focusing on transportation, energy, information technology, mobility, SaaS, manufacturing, and sustainability. The firm seeks opportunities that can influence BMW's current and future businesses across manufacturing, services, and mobility, including hardware, software, and digital platforms. Investments span the United States, Canada, Europe, and Israel.

NexGen Energy is a Canadian uranium exploration and development company focused on acquiring, evaluating, and developing uranium properties in Canada, with projects in the Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan. The company holds a 100% interest in the Rook I project, a large land package comprising 32 contiguous mineral claims covering about 35,065 hectares in the southwest Athabasca Basin. Its flagship property is the Radio Uranium Project in the Athabasca Basin. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

BP Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2007, investing in private technology companies to accelerate innovation across the energy sector. With over $400 million invested across more than 40 entities and over 200 co-investors, BP Ventures focuses on Oil & Gas Value Chain, Low Carbon Technologies & Fuels, and Energy Usage & Trading, delivering near-term business value while backing breakthrough innovations for a sustainable future.

Founded in 2020, Seven Seven Six is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology companies. It provides comprehensive support to founders through workshops, networking opportunities, and resources.

Founded in 2015, Soma Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco. It focuses on investing seed capital in early-stage software startups globally, with a notable track record including investments in companies now valued at over $60 billion combined.

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

Superorganism is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2022 that backs startups at the intersection of biodiversity, climate, and sustainable development. It funds companies across agriculture, forests, oceans, soil, pollution adaptation, circular economy, cities, and ecosystem resilience, including enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, genomics, remote sensing, and robotics. The firm emphasizes measurement, reporting, and verification to track impact and outcomes, with a focus on climate, biodiversity, and ecosystem categories. Through early-stage to growth investments, Superorganism aims to advance innovative solutions that protect ecosystems, improve resource efficiency, and drive sustainable economic growth.

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.

Metsä Spring serves as the venture capital arm of Metsä Group, focusing on investments in promising startups and early-stage companies that align with the Metsä Group business ecosystem. The firm operates globally, providing not only financial support but also access to Metsä Group's extensive network and expertise. It emphasizes the importance of collaboration and co-creation among diverse organizations, recognizing that successful innovations often stem from such partnerships. Additionally, Metsä Spring acknowledges the significance of individual contributions and personal relationships in fostering effective teamwork and driving business success.

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.

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.

CD Capital UK Limited is a London-based venture capital firm established in 2006, specializing in investments within the natural resources sector. The firm primarily targets growth equity financing and early-stage investments, focusing on a diverse range of commodities including zinc, copper, nickel, tungsten, molybdenum, uranium, coal, steel, iron ore, gold, silver, diamonds, and oil and gas. CD Capital typically invests a minimum of $1 million in its portfolio companies and aims for exits through various strategies such as initial public offerings, asset sales, and joint ventures. The firm also emphasizes co-investment opportunities with entrepreneurial owners, with a significant focus on mining companies, particularly in Latin America.

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.

Voima Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Finland, founded in 2019. It invests in early-stage deep-tech startups across the Nordics and Baltics, spanning bio and new materials, medical technologies and life sciences, imaging and optics, IoT and electronics, robotics, software and ICT, and AI. It provides seed to Series A/B funding and partners with portfolio companies to accelerate growth, supporting science-driven ventures that address global challenges. Cornerstone investors include VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the European Investment Fund, with backing from Finnish private and institutional investors.

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.

Established in 2021, InBC Investment is a strategic investment fund headquartered in Victoria, Canada. It focuses on investing in small and medium-sized businesses based in British Columbia.

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 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.

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.

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.

Established in 2015, Evergy Ventures is the venture capital arm of Evergy. It focuses on investing in growth-stage and early-stage companies within the energy sector, with a particular interest in customer energy solutions, energy infrastructure industries, renewables services, and related areas. The firm prefers to invest using equity and debt instruments, primarily in North American companies.

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.

Amerocap is a private equity firm based in Miami Beach, founded in 2012, focused on proprietary investments, private equity and venture opportunities across diverse sectors, with an emphasis on energy, natural resources and defense.

About Antelopus Energy Antelopus Energy Private Limited is a newly formed Exploration & Production company. It focused on monetizing discovered and stranded resources in the Indian Subcontinent. We operate 3 Contract Areas. Two Offshore Assets, one each in West and East coast of India and one onshore Contract Area in Assam. the company expertise lies in value creation through reservoir management, leveraging technology deployment (like Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery), operational efficiency and speed of execution, with safety and sustainability of core value.

Carbon Direct provides a carbon management platform that helps organizations reduce and remove carbon from the atmosphere. By combining scientific carbon knowledge with financial capital, the company delivers an end-to-end solution that turns carbon science into climate action. Its platform defines quality criteria for carbon credits, supports reductions in supply chain emissions, promotes the procurement of low-carbon fuels and materials, and enables large-scale purchase of carbon credits and removals. The company aims to scale carbon removal into a global industry through cross-functional expertise, addressing opportunities, risks, and applications of various removal and utilization technologies for clients seeking to meet climate goals.

True North Venture Partners, established in 2011, is a Chicago-based venture capital firm with additional offices in Arizona. It specializes in early and late-stage investments, focusing on industries such as energy, water, agriculture, and waste. The firm seeks to be the first investor in its portfolio companies, typically investing between $0.1 million and $25 million, with the capacity to invest more when appropriate. True North Venture Partners aims to support transformative businesses led by exceptional entrepreneurs, providing capital and expertise to drive global industry change.

Founded in 2014, Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate dedicated to supporting the LGBT+ community. It invests globally in companies led by LGBT+ founders or C-suite executives at all stages of growth, focusing on inclusivity and positive social change.

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.

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.

Africa Oil is a Canadian oil and gas company with assets in Kenya and Ethiopia as well as Puntland (Somalia) through its 41% equity interest in Africa Energy Corp. Africa Oil's East African holdings are within a world-class exploration play fairway with a total gross land package in this prolific region in excess of 200,000 square kilometers. The East African Rift Basin system is one of the last of the great rift basins to be explored. Several new significant oil discoveries have been announced in the Lokichar basin of Kenya in which the Company holds a 50% interest along with operator Tullow Oil plc. The Company is listed on the TSX and on Nasdaq Stockholm under the symbol "AOI".

SFC Capital is a United Kingdom based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that focuses on early-stage investments, including pre-seed and seed rounds, in sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer products, enterprise solutions, green technology, medical technology, and hospitality. It backs UK startups through an Angel Network and seed funds, providing capital and guidance and offering access to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying investment opportunities. The firm is described as a leading seed investor in the UK.

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.

Westwater Resources is a company focused on developing energy-related materials, including battery-grade graphite and uranium projects. It advances battery materials through its Coosa Graphite Project and Coosa Graphite Mine in Alabama and holds lithium-bearing mineral properties in Nevada and Utah, with expansion following the acquisition of AGC. The company also develops uranium projects in Texas, New Mexico and the Republic of Turkey, reflecting diversification into energy minerals and related mining activities.

Midnight Sun Mining explores and evaluates mineral properties in Africa, focusing on the discovery of world-class copper deposits within the prolific Zambian-Congo Copperbelt. Its primary asset is the Solwezi Project in Zambia, strategically located adjacent to major mining operations.

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

Tribeca Asset Management is a private equity and venture capital firm based in Bogotá, Colombia, founded in 2006. The firm specializes in investments across various sectors, including healthcare, consumer goods, energy, media and communications, industrial goods, and luxury consumer products. It focuses on acquiring both full and majority stakes, as well as significant minority interests that allow for active participation in decision-making processes. Tribeca Asset Management primarily invests in companies within Colombia and Latin America, targeting businesses with sales between $10 million and $100 million and EBITDA of $5 million to $20 million. Typical investment amounts range from $3.4 million to $70 million, with a particular interest in sectors displaying strong growth potential, including natural resources and power generation. The firm also pursues opportunities for mergers that can enhance value in its portfolio.

Centamin is an established gold producer renowned for its Sukari Gold Mine in Egypt. It operates responsibly, prioritizing partnerships with local communities and stakeholders to create enduring value.

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.

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm based in Edinburgh. It focuses on investing in early-stage, high-growth technology companies across Northern England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.

Established in 2005, SMBC Venture Capital is a Tokyo-based corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. It invests primarily in early-stage companies operating within the information technology, life sciences, services, and manufacturing sectors.