Chevron is a multinational integrated energy company that explores for, produces, refines, and markets oil, natural gas, and chemicals worldwide. The company operates Upstream and Downstream segments, with refining facilities, large-scale marketing of fuels and lubricants, and related energy services. It maintains sizable reserves and a global footprint across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Chevron emphasizes affordable, reliable, and cleaner energy to enable human progress, and pursues technology-enabled improvements to efficiency and environmental performance. The company also maintains a corporate technology arm that scouts and integrates emerging technologies to support core businesses and future opportunities, including decarbonization, energy decentralization, and advanced materials. Founded in 1879, Chevron is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and remains a leading global energy player while pursuing ongoing innovation and responsible resource management.

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.

BP is a global energy company engaged in the full energy value chain, including upstream exploration and production of oil and natural gas, downstream refining and marketing, trading of energy commodities, and shipping services to support distribution worldwide. The company also operates a specialized aviation fuels division, Air BP, serving airports and airlines. In response to evolving energy demand, BP has significantly expanded investments in renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and biofuels through its Alternative Energy initiatives, aiming to transition toward a lower-carbon portfolio while maintaining core hydrocarbon operations.

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.

HPS Investment Partners is a global investment firm focused on non-investment grade credit across the capital structure. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in New York, it operates a worldwide network of offices. 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 after Highbridge’s hedge fund strategies remained with J.P. Morgan. HPS manages a variety of strategies, including syndicated leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, privately negotiated senior secured debt, mezzanine, asset-based lending, and private equity, and serves clients across industries such as insurance, healthcare, media, retail, logistics, and marine.

Energy Spectrum Capital is a Dallas-based private equity firm that specializes in energy infrastructure and related services. Founded in 1995, it pursues investments across the energy value chain, including midstream assets, oil and gas infrastructure, energy services, and power development. The firm targets North American opportunities, primarily in the United States and Canada, and typically makes equity investments ranging from about 50 to 200 million with follow-on capital as needed. Investments are structured as buyouts, growth and early-stage ventures, with an intended exit horizon of three to seven years. Energy Spectrum Capital provides strategic guidance and operational insight to portfolio companies and aligns with institutional investors seeking exposure to energy infrastructure assets.

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.

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.

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.

Energy Innovation Capital is a venture capital firm based in Orinda, California. It focuses on investing in early and growth-stage companies in the energy and digital technology sectors, aiming to address global energy challenges with transformative, market-leading solutions. The firm applies its industry expertise and networks through a collaborative approach to help entrepreneurs push the boundaries of what is possible.

Climate Investments is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2016. It operates as the investment arm of the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), a collaboration of ten major oil and gas companies pursuing the energy transition. The firm targets early- and growth-stage opportunities across a broad range of sectors including energy, technology, transportation, buildings, cement, steel, chemicals, power and agriculture, as well as related industrial fields. Its focus is on funding technologies and business models that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enable lower-carbon solutions, helping to accelerate decarbonization in the energy system and beyond.

Altira Group is a Denver-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1996 that invests in information technology, energy and oil and gas technology and services, as well as advanced manufacturing, IoT, climate technology, software-as-a-service, robotics and drones across the United States and Canada. It focuses on early- and growth-stage opportunities and supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance and customer relationships, including large oil and gas industry customers, to accelerate growth. The firm is a registered investment adviser and seeks technologies that enable efficiency and digital transformation in energy markets.

Mercury Fund is a Houston-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies across the United States, with additional activity in Ann Arbor. It concentrates on software, SaaS, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence, and emphasizes an operationally oriented approach to accelerate growth. Mercury Fund partners with both first-time entrepreneurs and experienced founders, offering strategic guidance and access to a broad growth-partner network to help startups scale, particularly in Middle America and other midcontinent markets. The firm manages multiple early-stage funds and maintains a focus on technology-driven businesses.

ProVenture Management is a Norway-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Trondheim, with an additional office in Stavanger, it primarily targets Norwegian technology companies. The firm backs digital technology startups and seeks opportunities in energy and oil and gas technology, marine and material technology, process and medical technology, and information and communication technology. It aims to be a lead investor in early rounds and prefers co-investors for portfolio companies, supporting growth through active involvement and its Norwegian network.

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs science and technology companies across stages. The firm focuses on transformational technologies and has supported early backers of SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook, and Airbnb. It pursues a founder-friendly approach that provides significant support with minimal interference, and it invests globally across sectors including software, artificial intelligence, aerospace, energy, healthcare, cybersecurity, biotech, and information technology. The firm targets opportunities from seed to growth stages and emphasizes solving difficult problems through innovative technology.

Par Equity is a venture capital and private equity firm backed by Scottish Enterprise, based in Edinburgh with an office in San Francisco. It specializes in early‑stage and growth investments in technology companies, including software, deep tech and digital health, targeting opportunities in Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland, with cross‑border expansion between the United Kingdom and the United States. The firm funds proprietary technology and proven products poised for international growth, supporting UK companies expanding to the United States and US entrants seeking a UK presence. Typical investments range from £0.25 million to £2.5 million, with enterprise values up to about £10 million. It also provides angel capital to investee companies and focuses on cross‑border deals to accelerate scale.

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.

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.

Mubadala Investment Company is a sovereign wealth fund owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi that manages a diversified, global portfolio across industries including technology, aerospace, energy, real estate, healthcare, agribusiness, and financial assets. Created in 2017 from the merger of Abu Dhabi investment entities, it pursues long-term value and economic growth for Abu Dhabi by investing domestically and internationally. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the company operates with a worldwide presence, maintaining offices in major markets such as Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, New York, and San Francisco, and a joint venture in Hong Kong. It focuses on strategic, value-driven investments spanning multiple sectors and asset classes to support diversification of the emirate’s economy and generate sustainable returns over time.

MassVentures is a Massachusetts-based venture capital firm that provides seed and early-stage funding to high-growth startups in the Massachusetts innovation economy, helping concepts move from idea to commercialization. Founded in 1978 as a quasi-public corporation by the Legislature of the Commonwealth, it is governed by an independent board and managed by experienced venture investors. The firm focuses on information technology, healthcare, cybersecurity, e-commerce, mobile, manufacturing, and robotics sectors in Massachusetts and operates accelerator programs to support portfolio companies. MassVentures leverages the state's entrepreneurial ecosystem, educated workforce, and centers of innovation to back early-stage ventures.

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.

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.

SICP is an investment firm that sources, executes and manages privately-held industrial and energy-focused investments for institutional and family office clients. It makes direct investments across the energy spectrum, from oil and gas to renewable energy, and provides strategic advice. SICP offers a bespoke alternative to traditional fund investments and works collaboratively with clients to tailor investments to meet their objectives.

Ascent Energy Ventures is a Denver-based venture capital firm founded in 2019 that funds startups advancing the digital transformation of the energy industry, including grid technologies, oil and gas tech, mining tech, climate tech, and energy transition tech. Its investment thesis centers on automation and the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve efficiency, reliability, and innovation across energy value chains.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It is stage-agnostic and focuses on marketplaces and consumer-facing startups, making seed and Series A investments. Typical checks range from 50,000 to 5,000,000 dollars. The firm supports early-stage companies across sectors such as e-commerce, fintech, ad tech, mobile, and software-as-a-service, seeking opportunities with high growth potential in the United States and internationally. Its portfolio includes a mix of consumer brands and marketplace platforms, reflecting an emphasis on business models that connect buyers and sellers or enable direct consumer experiences. FJ Labs aims to back entrepreneurs building scalable, disruptively positioned products and services, often partnering with founders early in their development to help accelerate growth.

Rockley Group is a venture capital firm based in Oxford, United Kingdom, with offices in Shanghai and Beijing. The firm focuses on growth and late-stage investments across sectors including sustainability, energy, information technology, data management, healthcare, industrial efficiency, and environmental technology, with additional emphasis on sensor systems and low-power technology. It targets opportunities in the United Kingdom and China, including regions such as Shandong and Shanxi. Typical deals range from €5 million to €15 million per transaction. The firm aims to back technology-driven companies in markets with large, timely opportunities that contribute to global sustainability and human well-being.

Hiway Capital is a venture capital firm based in Guangzhou, China. Established in 2007, it focuses on investments across manufacturing, healthcare, new materials and energy, agriculture, and enterprise services.

Montrose Lane is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in Houston, Texas, that invests in technology-based companies and partners with those developing energy solutions that are affordable, safe, and environmentally friendly.

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.

AP Ventures is an independent venture capital firm headquartered in London that focuses on early and growth-stage investments in technologies leveraging platinum group metals to address global challenges. Founded in 2014, the firm targets patentable and advanced technologies across sectors such as hydrogen infrastructure (production, storage, transport, and end-use applications including fuel cell systems), energy storage, water treatment and purification, sensors, durable electronics, and medical devices. Its portfolio emphasizes hydrogen value chain solutions, low-carbon and blue hydrogen production, electrolysis, and applications that enable decarbonization and sustainable energy. By investing in companies that exploit PGMs to support renewables integration, resource efficiency, and growing global needs, AP Ventures aims to back innovators with global reach and scalable impact.

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.

Energy Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Chicago that focuses on early-stage investments in the natural gas industry. The firm emphasizes ESG imperatives and the digital transformation of natural gas, supporting startups developing innovative technologies, including solutions for greener molecules. Its approach includes customized engagement with strategic limited partners, all of whom are publicly traded utilities, creating a platform that connects startup innovation with the scale of the natural gas industry to accelerate adoption.

Technip Energies is a global engineering and technology company that delivers end‑to‑end solutions for the energy sector. The firm designs, engineers, constructs, and supplies equipment for onshore and offshore infrastructure, including LNG terminals, downstream facilities, and marine projects. It has a strong record in green initiatives, developing hydrogen production, biofuels, CO2 capture and storage, and sustainable chemistry solutions. By integrating advanced technologies and project management expertise, Technip Energies supports the transition to cleaner energy systems worldwide.

BSK Investment is a Seoul-based private equity and venture capital firm that specializes in buyouts, early-stage and pre-IPO investments. Founded in 2010 and serving as the private equity and venture capital arm of BAIKSAN, it primarily backs South Korean companies with focus areas including information technology and services, chemicals and materials, energy, medical equipment, biotechnology and healthcare, research and development, and professional services. The firm tends to invest in small to mid-sized private companies at early to emerging growth stages, with pre-IPO commitments of 1–5 billion won, mezzanine financing of 10–20 billion won, and buyouts under 50 billion won, largely within Seoul, Gyeonggi Province, and Daejeon.

Blue Bear Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 that backs technology companies in energy, climate and industrial sectors. It concentrates on energy infrastructure, renewable energy, electric grid modernization, and climate-tech solutions enabled by AI and data analytics. The firm targets investments in Western Europe and North America, supporting companies across energy, IT, and related sectors to scale sustainable energy production, grid resilience, pollution reduction, and water and land management.

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.

Clark Hill is an international law firm founded in 1890 and headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. It employs more than 450 attorneys across 17 offices in the United States and Dublin, Ireland. The firm provides full-service legal counsel to businesses, public entities, and individuals. The firm offers advisory services across corporate and financial matters, government and public affairs, and personal legal services, with practice areas including acquisition financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, venture capital, private equity, mezzanine transactions, hedge fund transactions, bankruptcy, and joint ventures. Clark Hill serves clients across industries such as healthcare, insurance, mining, oil and gas, outsourcing, pharmaceutical, retail, tax-exempt organizations, telecommunications, internet and media, transportation, and logistics. It emphasizes multidisciplinary knowledge, industry insight, and a global network to deliver practical solutions and client service.

Struck Capital is a Santa Monica, California-based venture capital firm founded in 2014 that emphasizes a founder-first approach to seed investing. It sources opportunities through a broad network and backs technology startups across sectors including software, fintech, agtech, cryptocurrency, SaaS, and TMT, aiming to support entrepreneurs from early traction toward growth.

KAUST Innovation Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2010 and located in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. The firm focuses on fostering the emerging Saudi technology ecosystem by making seed and early-stage investments in high-tech startups across various sectors, including energy and environment, food and water, advanced materials, robotics, information and communications technology, and healthcare. By acting as a long-term strategic partner, KAUST Innovation Ventures supports its portfolio companies through mentorship and acceleration programs offered by its Entrepreneurship Center. The firm aims to cultivate an innovation-driven investment community and attract both local and international investors to contribute to the growth of innovative technologies in the region.

IP Group is a London-based venture capital firm that focuses on commercialising intellectual property from research-intensive institutions. It creates value by identifying early-stage IP, developing it into commercially viable opportunities, and forming strategic partnerships to support portfolio companies. The firm provides capital, strategic guidance, and industry insight to science- and technology-based businesses, with emphasis on clean technology, life sciences, and deep tech. With more than twenty years of experience, IP Group supports the growth of science and technology companies from inception toward scale, helping translate research into market-ready products and accelerate their impact.

Evok Innovations is a venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, focused on cleantech and energy-transition technologies. It backs early-stage companies developing decarbonization solutions across North America, including carbon management, clean fuels, electrification, and critical minerals, with investments spanning sectors such as cleantech, energy and infrastructure to accelerate deployment of critical energy transition technologies.

New Industry Ventures is a Moscow-based venture capital firm established by Gazprom Neft, Gazprombank, Russian Venture Company and VEB Innovations. It invests in technology startups operating in oil and gas, petrochemicals, energy, logistics, new materials and alternative energy. The firm focuses on technologies for exploration, production, processing, transportation and storage of hydrocarbons, as well as energy transmission and industrial infrastructure. It also backs digital products and Industry 4.0 solutions, resource and energy-saving technologies, and innovative projects that advance the Russian oil, gas and energy sectors and related industries.

Sixth Street Partners is a San Francisco–based financial services company and growth/expansion investor founded in 2009. It provides capital and strategic solutions to companies across a broad range of sectors, including software, fintech, healthcare IT, data infrastructure, and real estate, and operates a market solutions platform that offers products for markets and market investing. The firm acts as a registered investment adviser and pursues growth opportunities across technology, financial services, healthcare, energy, and media industries.

Fjord Invest is a Norwegian growth and expansion investment firm founded in 2003 and based in Førde, Norway. The firm targets companies across the Norwegian region, providing capital across multiple lifecycle stages—from start-up and seed to growth and buyout. Its sector focus includes business products and services, information technology, oil and gas, ICT, energy and environment, and the marine sector.

32 Degrees Capital is a Calgary-based private equity and venture capital firm focused on the energy sector. It pursues a diversified energy strategy and makes equity investments in collaboration with management teams in early-stage oil and gas companies as well as energy service, equipment, and manufacturing businesses. The firm targets private Canadian companies, while also considering opportunities in the United States and internationally, including various stages from early to late venture. Founded in 2004, it concentrates on oil and gas exploration and production and related energy services, equipment, and manufacturing sectors.

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.

Opifer is a venture capital investment firm established in 2013 and based in London, United Kingdom. The firm specializes in early-stage investments across various sectors, including oil and gas technology, geo-technology, medical, information technology, and innovative technologies. In addition to providing financial support, Opifer partners with companies by offering professional expertise in sales, development, marketing, project management, and legal services. The firm also facilitates connections with a global network, enhancing the growth and development potential of its portfolio companies.

AYR Capital is an independent private equity, venture capital and financial advisory firm focused on investments in Europe, Russia and the CIS, with activity in real estate, fast-moving consumer goods, oil and gas, energy, information technology and manufacturing. The firm also provides debt financing for growth opportunities and offers financial advisory services. Founded in 2014 and based in Moscow, AYR Capital pursues growth-oriented opportunities across CIS, Eastern and Western Europe and the United States, combining a disciplined risk management approach with a focus on value creation and strong relationships with investors and portfolio companies.

CIBC Innovation Banking is a division of CIBC that serves entrepreneurs and investors in the innovation economy. Backed by CIBC, it offers financial capital, a broad network of connections, and insightful service to help growth-oriented companies and their investors secure funding, form partnerships, and scale operations. The bank's team combines capital solutions with practical guidance and access to a wide ecosystem of industry partners to support startups and venture-backed businesses through key growth stages.