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.

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.

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.

BDC Venture Capital is a major Canadian venture capital investor that supports technology-based startups from seed through expansion. It provides financing, consulting services and securitization to help build strong Canadian businesses, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises and high growth potential. Established in 1975, it has invested in more than 400 companies spanning life sciences, telecommunications, information technology and advanced technologies, aiming to help Canadian companies become dominant players in their markets.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Antler is a global venture capital firm based in Singapore that backs early-stage technology companies. It runs incubation programs and provides a global community of co-founders, access to talent, expert advisors, expansion support, and capital to help startups grow. The firm targets a broad range of sectors, including healthcare, finance, software, energy, consumer and B2B technologies, and operates through regional programs across Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Carbon Streaming is a carbon credit streaming and royalty company that provides capital to carbon projects worldwide through streaming and royalty arrangements to acquire carbon credits and generate cash flow from their sale. It concentrates on high-integrity projects and maintains a diversified portfolio, including reforestation and biochar initiatives, with the aim of accelerating climate action and advancing net-zero goals. By offering innovative financing, it supports projects that might not otherwise be developed and seeks to deliver carbon reductions alongside social and economic co-benefits.

Almi Invest is Sweden’s leading early-stage venture capital firm, investing in scalable startups across sustainability, industry, technology, and life sciences. It supports companies from pre-seed to Series A and co-invests with independent private investors to accelerate innovation and long-term success. The firm emphasizes active ownership, providing strategic guidance, board participation, and access to a broad investor network to help startups scale responsibly. Almi Invest operates as part of the Almi Group and is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Almi AB, and regional partners, reflecting its public-private model. While focused on Sweden, its portfolio spans diverse sectors, with a mission to drive economic growth and environmental progress by backing entrepreneurs who create tangible impact.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Azimuth Capital Management is a Calgary-headquartered energy-focused venture capital and private equity firm that makes direct investments and co-investments in seed/startup, mid venture, early-stage, middle-market, and emerging companies across North America. It targets energy sector opportunities in oil and gas exploration and production, oil sands, non-conventional resource plays, energy infrastructure, services, and energy technology, with potential international opportunities. Investments typically range from 7.58 million to 36.12 million dollars and are held for more than ten years. The firm maintains a Mountain View office and operates with partners in Houston and Denver, reflecting a North American focus with related energy opportunities. The firm originated as Kern Partners, founded in 2000.

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.

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.

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.

WovenEarth Ventures is a boutique fund of funds manager that provides risk-managed access to early-stage climate tech venture capital. The firm enables diversified exposure to climate technology opportunities for investors, supporting startups across sub-sectors such as wildfire resilience, water, agriculture, and digital solutions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vision Ridge Partners is a Colorado-based asset management and private equity firm founded in 2008. It focuses on sustainability-driven investments and advises and invests in transformative growth companies across clean tech, clean energy, renewable energy, green building, future utility business models and advanced transportation. The firm targets opportunities in the energy, transportation and agriculture sectors and is based in Boulder, Colorado, with a focus on the United States and Japan.

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.

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.