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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shunwei Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2011 that focuses on early to growth-stage investments in China's internet and information technology sectors. It seeks opportunities in technology, media, telecommunications, high technology, new media, games, internet services, and rural internet, with an emphasis on internet-enabled businesses and related IT applications. The firm concentrates on Chinese startups while pursuing selective cross-border opportunities in East Asia, and it supports incubation and scaling through multiple funds. Its investors include sovereign wealth funds, fund of funds, university endowments, and family offices, reflecting a diversified capital base to back ambitious entrepreneurs in the digital economy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quadrille Capital is a Paris-based private equity and venture capital firm that makes global investments in technology and energy. Founded in 2001, it originated as Quilvest Ventures before spinning out in 2012, and maintains offices in Paris and San Francisco. The firm focuses on information technology, internet, healthcare, cleantech, and energy sectors, including oil services, exploration and production, midstream, power, and renewables. It supports both fund investments and direct portfolio opportunities, offering access to high-performing funds and selective portfolio companies, and pursues customized partnerships with corporate groups.
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.
The Summit Group is a London-based venture capital investment firm founded in 1985 that targets early-stage opportunities in the United Kingdom. It seeks portfolio companies across finance, marketing, business services, property services, medical services, and energy, with a focus on seed and startup rounds. The group may also consider distress refinancing and buyouts for more mature businesses. Its activity is centered in the United Kingdom, reflecting a regional emphasis on investing in growth-oriented companies within the country.
ServiceNow provides cloud-based enterprise software that defines, structures, and automates services across organizations. It specializes in workflow automation to streamline IT service management and IT operations, asset management, and IT business management. It offers digital workflow products for customer service, human resources, security operations, governance, risk, and compliance, and field service management. The Now Platform underpins these capabilities, delivering service catalogs and portals, configuration management, performance analytics, and app development tools to connect departments and automate cross-functional processes globally.
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.
McRock Capital is a Toronto-based private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Scott McDonald and Whitney Rockley. It specializes in growth capital and later-stage investments in industrial technology across the United States, Canada and Europe, with a focus on intelligent infrastructure. The firm backs companies delivering IIoT software, sensor and hardware-integrated solutions for sectors such as power, water, oil and gas, transportation and building efficiency, including grid automation, digital oilfield, advanced manufacturing and smart city applications. McRock maintains a Toronto headquarters and an additional office in Calgary, reflecting its Canadian base while pursuing opportunities in digital industrial markets globally.
Valora Investimentos is an independent asset management firm founded in 2005 by the Valora Group, leveraging the group's experience in the oil and gas sector to guide asset management and investment activities.
Questor Technology is an environmental clean technology company headquartered in Calgary, Canada, that designs, manufactures and services high-efficiency waste gas combustion systems. Its proprietary combustion technology helps safely manage methane, hydrogen sulfide, VOCs, hazardous air pollutants and BTEX while supporting energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions reductions, regulatory compliance and community acceptance. The company also has heat-to-power generation capabilities and markets its solutions to oil and gas projects as well as landfills, waste-to-energy processes and other industries, including syngas, waste engine exhaust, geothermal and cement plant waste heat. Questor serves clients internationally across the oil and gas sector and beyond, offering systems for waste gas incineration, related burner services and power generation.
Zynik Capital is an investment firm founded in 1983 and based in Vancouver, Canada. It has completed transactions totaling over three billion in assets and engages in turnarounds, buyouts, leveraged finance, venture capital start-ups and other special situations across a wide range of markets. The firm seeks opportunities in sectors including automotive, construction, mining, oil and gas, aerospace and other industrial areas, as well as banking, health and wellness, services, technology, resources and manufacturing. Zynik emphasizes a global view paired with local insights and employs a structured investment approach to identify underperforming opportunities and pursue attractive returns for stakeholders.
SFC Energy is a Germany-based provider of fuel cell and related power technologies for off-grid and on-grid applications. It develops, manufactures and markets portable, stationary and mobile energy solutions based on fuel cells, including complete system assemblies and power management products, as well as monitoring and control tools such as SCADA systems. The company offers EFOY Pro fuel cells and a range of portable units (JENNY, EMILY) and modular energy packages for remote or hazardous environments, military and surveillance applications, and industrial needs. Its markets include oil and gas, defense and security, industry, and clean energy and mobility, with products designed for remote power, hybrid power, and grid-independent operation. SFC Energy is headquartered in Brunnthal, Germany, and was founded in 2000.
Kenda Capital is an independently owned investment manager based in The Hague, Netherlands. It functions as the manager of the Shell Technology Ventures Fund 1, working closely with Shell and other investors to support the development of new energy technologies. The firm combines energy sector expertise with a growth-focused investing approach, backing technology companies in areas such as communication and networking, software, manufacturing, subsurface visualization, well construction and automation, automated production operations, and processing facilities; it is also active in upstream oil and gas assets and selectively engages in downstream oil and gas, renewable energy, and by-product recycling technologies. Through its technology-driven approach and relationship with Shell, Kenda Capital seeks step-change innovations that improve energy efficiency and reduce costs.
Atom Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, with an additional office in Beijing. It focuses on early-stage investments across technology-driven sectors including smart hardware, smart manufacturing, healthcare, internet and mobile internet, pan-entertainment, online-to-offline, B2B, and consumer upgrade opportunities, and has historically invested in media, gaming, automotive, education, and e-commerce.
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.
IQT focuses on advancing innovative technology solutions tailored for the intelligence and defense sectors. By fostering the development of cutting-edge tools, IQT aims to enhance the capabilities of these communities in their efforts to ensure national security. The organization plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between emerging technologies and their practical applications within government agencies, ultimately contributing to the safety and protection of the nation.
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.
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.
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.
Industrya is a venture capital firm based in Seraing, Belgium, founded in 2020, that backs companies in Industry 4.0, energy transition, and new materials, with an active approach to support portfolio growth and technological advancement in these sectors.
Cortado Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, founded in 2020. It backs capital-efficient, technology-driven B2B companies across insurtech, biotech, fintech, energy tech, aerospace, and agtech, with a focus on opportunities in Oklahoma.
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.
FORWARD.one is a venture capital firm based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2017. It invests in European technology companies, with a particular emphasis on scaling promising startups and delivering strong returns for its investors. The firm draws on a team of financial professionals, engineers, entrepreneurs and scientists to support founders through strategic guidance, product development and market entry. It focuses on hardware innovations and aims to turn breakthroughs into commercial success by bridging technical potential with market readiness.
Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, it funds software and technology companies across seed to growth stages, with emphasis on web and mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, fintech, consumer Internet, artificial intelligence, and biotech-adjacent ventures. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and provides strategic support and networks to portfolio companies.
Paladin Capital Group is a global investment firm that provides venture, expansion, and growth capital to technology, product, and service companies, with a focus on dual-use solutions for commercial and government markets. It combines financial expertise with national security and technical know-how to add value across market sectors and company stages and aims to be an active investor by offering guidance, access, and relationships to portfolio companies. The firm emphasizes digital infrastructure resilience and backs technologies that enable monitoring, management, and defense of critical infrastructure dependent on cyberspace. Paladin is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in New York, Silicon Valley, London, and Luxembourg.
Investinor is a Norwegian venture capital firm based in Trondheim that invests in Norwegian startups with high growth potential and strong international orientation. Founded in 2008, it focuses on companies in internet, software, semiconductors, energy, cleantech, marine, and life sciences sectors, supporting ventures from early growth to expansion.
Bessemer Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm founded in 1911 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It backs startups across seed to growth stages, focusing on software, cloud, cybersecurity, fintech, consumer and healthcare technologies, and high-growth business models. The firm operates internationally, supporting portfolio companies from early product development through scale, and has backed well-known names such as Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, Wix and others. BVP emphasizes helping founders establish durable foundations and guides companies through multiple growth phases, leveraging hands-on operational support, strategic networks, and cross-border expertise. With a diversified approach that includes consumer, enterprise and deep-tech investments, the firm seeks to build lasting companies that matter across global markets.
Vertex Ventures is a global network of operator-investors and venture capital firms that supports technology and healthcare startups across the United States, China, Israel, India and Southeast Asia. It partners with entrepreneurs by offering hands-on operating experience and broad access to capital, talent, partners and customers to help build global businesses. The firm focuses on early to growth-stage investments in software infrastructure, developer tools, data, security, vertical SaaS, enterprise software and healthcare technologies, drawing on a wide international footprint that includes the US, Israel, Singapore and China. Vertex Ventures emphasizes active portfolio involvement and leverages the broader Vertex network to create value for portfolio companies through strategic guidance and partnerships.
The Innovation Fund is a venture capital firm based in Schaerbeek, Belgium. It targets investments across healthcare, life sciences and biosciences, material science and process technology, hygiene and cosmetology, and recycling technology, with activity in healthcare services, healthcare devices and supplies, and B2B and commercial services. The fund also engages in related sectors including chemicals, advanced materials, cosmetics, recycling, cleanTech, nanotechnology, plastics and rubber manufacturing.
Qbic Fund is a venture capital firm based in Ghent, Belgium, focused on early-stage investments in life sciences, new materials and information technology. It supports spin-off companies from the Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp university associations and from VITO, using a close partnership with these institutions to gain early access to promising research projects. The firm conducts in-depth, independent review followed by hands-on involvement and strategic support for portfolio companies, targeting software, deeptech, biotech and medtech alongside broader healthcare and life science opportunities. With more than €30 million under management, it operates across multiple sectors and emphasizes collaboration with academia to nurture research-driven startups.
Parkwalk Advisors is a London-based venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early-stage to growth-stage technology companies, with a particular emphasis on spin-outs derived from UK universities and research institutes. It targets UK-based, often unquoted companies across sectors such as artificial intelligence, big data, life sciences, materials, cleantech, future mobility, medical technology, quantum computing and related fields, and operates with a stage-agnostic approach from seed through later rounds. The firm leverages academic networks, technology transfer channels and venture networks to access deal flow and support portfolio companies. Founded in 2009, it has been aligned with IP Group as part of its corporate structure, reinforcing its focus on intellectual property-backed innovation. The company is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
EquityPitcher Ventures is an early-growth venture capital firm based in Zurich, Switzerland. It backs B2B companies across the DACH region and collaborates with industry experts, investors, and exit partners to help entrepreneurs access know-how, networks, and capital needed to scale.
Industry Ventures is a San Francisco-based investment firm that specializes in venture capital liquidity solutions and fund investments. Founded in 2000, the firm manages over eight billion dollars in assets and pursues a flexible, multi-strategy approach that includes secondary investments, primary commitments, and funds of funds in the private technology sector. It operates a global network with offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, and London to connect limited partners with venture capital opportunities and to support smaller venture funds and growth-stage investments. Industry Ventures’ platform emphasizes access to later-stage secondaries and technology growth equity, aiming to provide liquidity options and diversified exposure within the venture ecosystem.
RRE Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology companies, primarily in seed and Series A rounds, across a broad range of sectors. Founded in 1994, the firm looks for innovative, scalable business models and supports companies aiming to leverage technology to create value. Its investment scope spans artificial intelligence, climate, consumer technology, cryptocurrency, enterprise software and services, financial technology, healthcare, media, real estate, robotics, and space, with activity across the United States and Canada.
Phaze Ventures is an Oman-based venture capital firm with an office in Dubai. Founded in 2018, it provides equity investments across seed, early-stage, Series A and growth rounds to startups in deeptech, artificial intelligence, Web3, information technology, fintech, energy, logistics, and cleantech. The firm pursues opportunities globally, supporting portfolio companies operating in the Middle East, Europe, and North America.
Legend Capital is a Beijing-based venture capital firm and the investment arm of Legend Holdings, established in 2001 to become a leading venture capital manager in China. It manages up to about US$700 million across four funds and focuses on high-growth ventures with operations in China or markets related to China, particularly in early-stage information technology including network applications and services, outsourcing and professional services, and infrastructure components such as IC design, as well as mid-market growth in consumer goods, clean technology, healthcare, equipment manufacturing, and modern services. As an active investor, Legend Capital provides portfolio companies with strategic resources, business development support, and market guidance to help them scale in the Chinese market. Notable investments include Joyo.com, SinoCom, Solarfun Power, Spreadtrum Communications, China Sunshine Paper, and VanceInfo, among others.
SET Ventures is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm founded in 2007 that invests in European technology companies with a focus on sustainable energy and digital infrastructure. The firm targets early-stage startups and also engages in later-stage opportunities, prioritizing sectors such as energy generation, distribution and storage, energy efficiency, and related applications including smart buildings, smart cities, mobility, and industrial processes. Its portfolio emphasizes smart energy solutions that combine software, data analytics, and hardware components to enable carbon-free energy systems. SET Ventures backs companies with a strong digital DNA across information and communication technology, clean energy technologies, and grid-related innovations, aiming to improve energy generation, transmission, storage, and consumption. The firm is known for active involvement in portfolio companies, often taking a seat on supervisory boards to guide growth and scale across Europe.