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.
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.
Closed Loop Partners is a New York-based private equity firm founded in 2014 that focuses on investing in and scaling businesses across the United States and Canada to advance the circular economy. The firm operates through three integrated platforms: an investment group known as Closed Loop Capital Management, an innovation center called the Center for the Circular Economy, and an operating group called Closed Loop Builders, collectively serving as a platform for systems change. Closed Loop Partners manages venture capital, growth and buyout private equity, and catalytic private credit investment strategies on behalf of global corporations, with a focus on sustainable consumer goods, advanced recycling technologies, packaging innovation, and supply chain solutions that reduce waste and emissions. Its approach seeks to generate net positive environmental and social outcomes while delivering value and sustainable profitability for portfolio companies and partners.
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.
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.
Green Angel Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage climate technology investments. It seeks to back inventions and startups with potential to mitigate climate change across sectors including energy, carbon removal, nature-based solutions, food and agriculture, transport, industry and recycling. The firm aims to support the commercialization and scaling of climate solutions and positions itself as a reference early-stage investor for UK climate innovation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Daphni is a Paris-based venture capital firm and platform founded in 2015 that funds technology startups with a European footprint and international ambition. It operates as a VC platform supported by the daphnipolis community of more than 200 entrepreneurs, executives, academics, artists and advisors, and a digital platform that emphasizes efficiency and transparency. The firm focuses on user-oriented tech companies and seeks opportunities across Europe and the United States, investing primarily in early-stage to growth rounds, including seed, startup, early venture and Series B. It targets ventures addressing market-oriented users across B2B and B2C models and avoids traditional fund-specific language, aiming to back startups with scalable, user-centric approaches. Through its platform, Daphni aims to support founders with practical resources and a collaborative ecosystem to accelerate international expansion.
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.
Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, established in 2013. It targets individual accredited investors who previously had limited access to venture capital by enabling alumni from top entrepreneurial schools to invest together in ventures led by fellow alumni. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with sector expertise. It offers focused funds that provide accredited investors access to a diversified venture portfolio by type, sector, stage, and geography. The organization engages in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments across technology, consumer, financial services, health care, life sciences, and other sectors.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania is a non-profit organization founded in 1982 that supports the region's technology ecosystem. Based in Philadelphia, it acts as a capital provider and catalyst for early-stage and growing technology companies across information technology, health, and physical sciences by offering seed-stage funding and related resources to accelerate commercialization. The organization facilitates university–industry partnerships and regional initiatives that connect scientific research with market opportunities, with the aim of creating jobs and strengthening entrepreneurial communities in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Through its programs and partnerships, it supports adoption of new technologies and helps build a robust regional innovation ecosystem.
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.
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.
High-Tech Gründerfonds is a Germany-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology companies in Germany. Based in Bonn with an additional office in Berlin, it operates as a public-private partnership that supports high-tech startups across information technology, software, hardware, life sciences, chemistry and related fields. HTGF provides initial funding and follow-on capital to eligible young companies, often taking minority stakes and participating as lead or co-investor, while offering hands-on guidance from experienced investment managers and startup experts. Since its founding in 2005, the firm has backed numerous startups and facilitated the growth of portfolio companies through multiple funds aimed at early stages. The model combines both public support, involving government and financial institutions, with private investor participation to nurture startups from concept to market.
SFC Capital is a United Kingdom-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that makes early-stage investments in UK startups, including pre-seed and seed rounds. It backs companies across sectors such as software, technology, e-commerce, consumer, enterprise, green tech, medical technology, and hospitality, providing capital plus strategic guidance to support growth and product development. The firm operates a model that combines an angel network with seed funds to back SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, aiming to offer exposure to a diversified portfolio while delivering hands-on support to portfolio companies.
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.
Chalmers Ventures is a Gothenburg, Sweden-based venture capital firm that supports startups through incubation, seed and early-stage investments, and growth financing. It operates programs such as an incubator, startup camp, accelerator, and technology transfer initiative, and emphasizes a connection to the Gothenburg region and Sweden. The firm focuses on information and communications technology, new materials, environmental engineering, medical technology, and biotechnology, and it conducts balance sheet investments, typically taking minority stakes in participating companies.
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.
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.
Global Brain is a Tokyo-based venture capital firm founded in 1998 that backs technology companies from seed stage through growth rounds. It targets a broad range of sectors including AI, cloud and software, fintech, robotics, life sciences, media, and mobility, and pursues global investments across Europe, North America, Africa and Asia-Pacific. The firm emphasizes hands-on support and resources for portfolio companies, aiming to help them scale beyond financing. It operates a pure investment fund alongside corporate venture funds formed with leading public companies across telecom, real estate, financial services, beverages, agriculture and food, logistics, and electronics.
Innovation Works is a Pittsburgh-based venture capital firm established in 1999 that targets seed-stage technology companies in Southwestern Pennsylvania. It provides capital, business guidance, and other resources to high-potential startups and is the region's largest seed-stage investor. The organization also helps manufacturers adopt new technologies and pursues investments in robotics, artificial intelligence, medical devices, retail technologies, and enterprise software.
Volta Circle is a London-based single-family office established in 2019 that invests in technology-driven startups across climate, food, and circularity with the aim of enabling founders to create maximum value, scale, and impact. The team operates across Europe and Asia, including Geneva, Milan, London, and Bangkok. The firm follows an evergreen approach, primarily targeting early-stage opportunities (seed to Series A) with capability for follow-on investments, and focuses on circular economy solutions that prevent pollution, enable closed-loop consumption, and valorize waste. Its investment focus covers supply chain optimization, novel materials, recommerce platforms, responsible brands, waste management, and advanced recycling. Volta Circle is backed by the founders of Indorama Ventures.
Regeneration.VC, based in Los Angeles, is an early-stage venture firm focused on advancing consumer-driven climate innovation rooted in circular and regenerative principles. The firm targets investments that span design, including materials and packaging, as well as consumer brands and products that promote sustainable use. Additionally, Regeneration.VC invests in reuse technologies, such as reverse logistics and marketplaces, designed to enhance environmental impact while also offering significant financial returns. Through its strategic approach, the company aims to support solutions that align economic growth with ecological sustainability.
Congruent Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Oakland and San Francisco that specializes in early-stage investments in climate technology and sustainable solutions across North America. The firm backs technology companies in mobility and urbanization, energy transition, food and agriculture, and sustainable production and consumption, with opportunities spanning hardware, software, and services that can scale while reducing energy and resource use. Founded in 2017, Congruent Ventures emphasizes positive environmental impact alongside growth and operates as an exempt registered adviser.
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Vienna, with offices across Europe and in San Francisco. It specializes in early-stage investments in technology sectors including deep tech, fintech, health, industrial tech, marketplaces, software as a service and infrastructure, climate tech, crypto, and emerging markets. The firm runs specialized investment teams aligned to these industries and offers an in-house Platform+ team providing tailored operational support, such as growth marketing, human resources, US business development and networking assistance throughout the portfolio journey. Speedinvest seeks to be a hands-on partner, sometimes taking operational roles for a period to help portfolio companies scale, and emphasizes hands-on collaboration with founders to accelerate growth.
Founded in 2019, The Climate Pledge is Amazon's corporate venture capital program, based in Renton, Washington. It funds and supports companies developing low-carbon technologies and services that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enable decarbonization across industries.
CDP Venture Capital is an Italian venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Rome. It invests in startups and growth companies across Italy, spanning sectors such as consumer products and services, information technology, fintech and insur-tech, healthcare and life sciences, software as a service, artificial intelligence and machine learning, virtual reality, big data, advanced manufacturing, energy, education and training, agriculture materials, and other technology-driven areas. By backing early and growth-stage ventures, it aims to support Italy's economic development and the innovation ecosystem.
D3 Jubilee, headquartered in Seoul and San Francisco, focuses on impact investing that supports entrepreneurial innovation with social and environmental benefits, channels capital to ICT start-ups delivering high socio-environmental value to improve the lives of low-income families, women, and immigrants, and advances environmental sustainability across Korea, the United States, South America, Africa, and India.
Flat6Labs is a Cairo-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm and accelerator in the MENA region. Since 2011 it has built a network of startup programs that support entrepreneurs from pre-seed through pre-Series A, and operates offices across the region including Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Amman, Beirut, Jeddah, Manama, and Tunis. The firm regularly funds more than 100 startups annually and provides a range of investment tickets from 50,000 to 500,000, supported by a broad investor network and extensive mentorship, investor, and corporate connections. Flat6Labs focuses on accelerating the growth of technology-driven startups by combining capital with mentorship, partnerships, and opportunities to scale regionally.
SVG Ventures|THRIVE is an investment and accelerator firm based in Los Gatos, California, focused on sustainable agri-food, agritech, food tech, and related supply chains. The company provides support, acceleration, mentorship, validation, and venture-building services to early-stage technology companies, often in collaboration with public and private partners on strategy, innovation and global expansion. It prioritizes climate-smart and ESG-oriented opportunities and backs startups operating in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Since its formation in 2010, SVG Ventures|THRIVE has built a network to help portfolio companies scale through strategic guidance and industry connections.
New Enterprise Associates is a U.S.-based venture capital firm founded in 1977 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It invests in technology and healthcare companies across stages and geographies, supporting startups from seed to growth. The firm operates globally with investments in the United States, Asia, and Brazil among others, and has a long track record of portfolio IPOs and acquisitions. It has over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital.
Quadia is a regulated investment manager focused on social and environmental finance. It provides equity and debt financing and investment solutions to institutional, private and corporate clients. The firm targets investments in circular products and materials, sustainable food and agriculture, energy efficiency, smart energy, sustainable consumption and production, health and nutrition, education and urban infrastructure, with a view that sustainability supports risk management and economic valuation. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, Quadia operates primarily in Europe and maintains an office in Luxembourg. Founded in 2010, it concentrates on growth capital and direct impact investments, aligning capital with sustainable development objectives.
Katapult Group is an Oslo-based accelerator and venture firm founded in 2016 that invests in early-stage technology startups, with a focus on climate and ocean-related initiatives. The company operates Katapult Accelerator, a program that supports startups in environmental, societal, and exponential technologies, and Katapult Ocean, an ocean-focused venture initiative. Together, these platforms aim to steward capital and innovation toward sustainable development, aligning impact with technology and fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration.
Blue Horizon Corporation is a Zurich-based venture capital firm founded in 2016 that backs European companies in agriculture, food tech, beverages, and related sectors. The company focuses on plant-based and other innovations that improve the food system and works with farmers, food producers, and distribution networks to advance sustainable products and processes across the value chain. It operates in European B2B and B2C markets, seeking to combine capital with strategic guidance to help portfolio companies scale and reach customers while delivering environmental and social impact.
Maki.vc is a venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Helsinki, Finland, with Nordic roots and a global investment approach. It backs early-stage companies across deep tech, artificial intelligence and machine learning, healthcare technology systems, consumer products, and commercial services, investing across Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The firm emphasizes strong intellectual property, scientific advances, and deep customer understanding as it supports companies from inception through Series A and beyond.
Evergreen Climate Innovations is a Midwest-focused nonprofit organization that provides catalytic capital and strategic support to climate technology startups. Formerly Clean Energy Trust, it funds and mentors early-stage ventures to accelerate the development and deployment of climate solutions across the Greater Midwest. The organization aligns philanthropic and corporate contributions through its 501vc investment fund and builds an ecosystem of investors, donors, and collaborators to broaden access to innovation and deliver environmental, economic, and social impact.
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.
Ara Partners is a private equity and infrastructure investment firm headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in Boston, Washington, D.C., and Dublin. The firm specializes in industrial decarbonization, investing in energy efficiency, renewable energy, industrial process electrification, waste management, and sustainable chemicals. It provides growth capital and buyout support to help portfolio companies scale and accelerate environmental progress, focusing on sectors such as manufacturing, chemicals and materials, energy efficiency, green fuels, and food and agriculture. The firm pursues impact investments and collaborates with portfolio companies to advance decarbonization across the industrial economy, and operates as a registered investment adviser.
Fifth Wall is a venture capital firm focused on technology for the global real estate industry. Founded in 2016, it is described as the largest venture capital firm dedicated to technology for the Built World and manages about $3.0 billion in commitments and assets. The firm maintains a global network of more than 90 strategic limited partners from over 15 countries, including major real estate owners, operators and corporate backers. It connects real estate owners and operators with entrepreneurs who are redefining the Built World, seeking transformational investments and collaborations with portfolio companies across real estate technology, climate tech and related sectors.
Nefco is an international financial institution that supports the early scale‑up of Nordic green technologies in global markets. It has financed and implemented more than 1,500 projects across energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean water and sanitation, waste management, and cleaner industrial processes. By providing capital for these initiatives, Nefco accelerates the transition to environmentally and climate‑friendly solutions worldwide.
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.
Villgro is an incubator and early-stage investor headquartered in Chennai, India, focused on supporting social impact startups. It backs ventures across healthcare, education, agriculture technology, energy and related sectors, including healthtech, edtech, agtech, clean technology and non-financial services, by providing incubation support and seed funding. The firm typically undertakes equity or quasi-equity investments of up to about Rs 6 million (roughly US$0.1 million) to eligible startups. Established to nurture ventures at the earliest stages within the Indian region, Villgro operates as a platform to develop innovative solutions addressing social needs.
Founder One is an impact investment firm founded in 2022 and based in Istanbul, Turkey. It focuses on early-stage technology ventures, investing at the idea and seed stages in initiatives that pursue measurable social or environmental impact.
One Planet Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 and based in London, United Kingdom. It focuses on early-stage investments in climate, environmental services, clothing, technology, building, and transport sectors, seeking to back companies that offer sustainable and low-carbon solutions.
At One Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm established in 2020 that backs early-stage startups with a focus on disruptive deep tech and technology-enabled solutions. The firm seeks companies in consumer and business products, energy, information technology, materials, and resources sectors, including climate tech, cleantech, agtech, and food tech, aiming to improve unit economics while reducing environmental footprint. It invests primarily at seed and Series A stages and pursues opportunities worldwide, with activity across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania. The firm emphasizes ventures that are regenerative for planetary health and have the potential to scale into healthy, durable businesses, integrating strong teams, scalable business models, and meaningful environmental impact. In short, At One Ventures supports teams that strive to create a net-positive impact on nature through technological innovation.
IMM Investment is a Seoul-based independent private equity and venture capital firm established in 1999. The company engages in mezzanine and growth investments and pursues opportunities in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, corporate restructuring, private equity, industry consolidation, management buyouts, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and cross-border transactions. It concentrates on medium-sized companies operating in information technology infrastructure, wireless communications, software, contents, and other technology-enabled sectors, with a particular emphasis on information technology, healthcare/biotech, and manufacturing. The firm typically takes an active role in governance and strategic direction and focuses on opportunities within South Korea and cross-border contexts. IMM Investment aims to support portfolio companies through growth, expansion, and consolidation, leveraging its long-standing relationships with institutional investors and investment professionals.
Merck Ventures is the strategic corporate venture capital arm of Merck. It invests in innovative technologies and products with the potential to significantly impact Merck’s core business areas, and takes an active role in portfolio companies by collaborating with entrepreneurs and co-investors to translate innovation into commercial success. Based in Amsterdam with offices in the United States and Israel, Merck Ventures pursues global, early-stage investing and company creation, including spin-offs that leverage Merck’s science and technology base.