Top Climate & Sustainability Investors 2026

Galvanize invests at the intersection of energy innovation, resilience, and intelligence, backing the 'New Economy' companies essential to electrification, rising power demand, industrial modernization, and digitization -- from pre-seed food/agriculture/ocean/forestry ventures (Ponderosa) through growth-stage energy transition and AI-infrastructure companies (Venture & Growth).

Entrepreneurs will change the trajectory of climate change. We build ventures from pre-team/pre-idea founders with the potential to mitigate at least 10 million tonnes of CO2e annually at scale.

By 2050 the world needs to remove 5-10 billion tonnes of CO2e per year, a ~4,000x expansion of current carbon removal capacity. Counteract backs founders across every CDR pathway (DAC, mineralization, biomass, ocean, soil, MRV) rather than betting on one technology, prioritizing catalytic scale, novel science, self-sustaining economics, and regenerative co-benefits.

Resilient, Efficient, Clean, Affordable, Secure: emerging technologies can transform how the world produces, powers, and consumes without sacrificing current standards of living, especially technologies nearing price parity with incumbents and strengthening secure, resilient supply chains.

The world needs an energy expansion, not an energy transition. We back category-defining founders innovating across the natural gas value chain (Green Molecules) to meet surging energy demand from data centers, AI, and industrial manufacturing.

Companies that focus on sustainable and financial returns will outperform profit-led companies, and technology drives accelerated impact. We back tech4good founders building digital ventures across climate, energy, health, and future-of-work that combine measurable impact with strong financial performance.

India is uniquely positioned to lead a structural shift in global energy generation and consumption. We back engineering-led companies in the 'missing middle' - proven technical feasibility, early commercial traction, pre-PMF - across energy transition, industrial decarbonization, and (with Fund II) advanced manufacturing and semiconductors.

Technology is the biggest lever to decarbonise the economy. Grok solves the climate capital stack by backing early-stage climate tech founders (Venture) and following them with non-dilutive structured financing at scale (Infrastructure), with selective Lighthouse positions in system-change companies like AGL. Patient, flexible capital from a private family office enables them to move faster and stay longer than institutional VCs.

Massive growth in AI and electrification is straining our grid. The future belongs to businesses making energy cheap and programmable. We back founders early with breakthrough innovation and durable economic advantage.

8090 Industries backs technical founders building breakthrough zero-carbon and hard-tech innovations that offer a clear economic advantage over incumbent industrial processes, across decarbonization, nuclear/clean energy, geothermal, and advanced industrial manufacturing.

No need to choose between emissions impact and commercial impact. Virescent backs founders, technologies, and businesses that help achieve zero emissions and beyond — focusing on the largest, hardest-to-abate emissions sources across clean energy transition, mobility & smart cities, food & agriculture, and the circular economy. Invests in both deep tech hardware and software.

Investing in great people using breakthrough science and advanced engineering to create transformative impact across the future of food, health, and the environment. Long-term, active partner providing capital, expertise, and networks rather than passive investment.

The combination of purpose and profit amplifies performance. The next generation of extraordinary companies will harness technology to solve system-critical problems that fundamentally improve the lives of people and the longevity of the planet, across Health and Wellbeing, Economic Empowerment, and Sustainable Planet.

Capital is the greatest asset in the fight against climate change. Extantia backs pioneers re-engineering entire industries to be faster, cheaper, more resilient, and green, investing with impact but not for impact.

Back Swedish, privately held SMEs that create measurable climate or environmental benefit with scalable, proprietary technology. The fund favors energy transition, circular materials, industrial efficiency, mobility, and sustainable food or biosphere solutions where impact can be measured and the business can scale.

We back bold, early-stage founders building disruptive innovations deeply rooted in science, engineering, and technology, across Novel Energy & Planetary Health, Human Longevity & Synthetic Biology, Beyond Earth & Space Tech, Advanced Manufacturing, and AI Led Software. We prioritize exponential over incremental change and are often the first institutional check.

We back audacious founders building category-defining companies in systems we understand deeply, across Electrification, Decoding Nature, and Applied AI.

Europe's next generation of climate, resilience and deep-tech companies is being starved at the earliest, riskiest stage; a heavyweight operator network combined with a pre-seed fund closes that gap.

Innovation is essential to solving climate change while maintaining prosperity. Superior performance and affordability are prerequisites for global scale. We provide patient capital and technical expertise to help breakthrough climate technologies achieve commercial viability.

The future of energy will be defined by electrification and orchestration. As renewable generation scales, the ability to forecast, optimise, store, transport, and coordinate energy across power, transport, buildings, industry, and digital infrastructure becomes as important as producing it. FEV invests in the platforms, intelligence, and technologies that enable electrified energy systems to operate efficiently at scale.

Climate restoration through identification and scaling of 'n of 1' technology opportunities combining innovative tech, viable business models, and visionary leadership. Focus on achieving $1B+ valuations in <10 years with 'scale and speed' mentality.

The circular economy—where products are designed, manufactured, sold, refurbished, and recycled in closed loops—represents the future of sustainable economic value creation. We invest across R&D to commercial scale in foundational materials industries, providing not just capital but integrated support through our innovation center research and operating group execution.

Cerulean identifies systemic leverage points where proprietary data, AI scaling, and fintech can rapidly scale into transformative markets resistant to digital transformation. They back asset-light software companies building a nature-positive economy across supply chains, energy, natural capital, and climate finance.

Exceptional founders can build profitable businesses while solving urgent environmental challenges. We provide capital plus deep operational expertise in sales, talent, and fundraising. Focus on transition from finite to infinite sources of energy, food, water, and products.

Software is eating the world, but we're eating hard tech. We are the scientific founder's partner, providing capital and co-creation to help academic researchers translate deep science into commercial hard-tech companies.

Demea Sustainable Investment backs startups, SMEs, mid-caps, and infrastructure projects driving the ecological and agricultural transition, across agriculture, agri-food, energy, environment, sustainable solutions, and green industry, with capital ranging from venture and growth equity through buyout, infrastructure, mezzanine, and private debt.

Sustainable Ventures backs early-stage climate tech founders with venture-scale potential, providing SEIS/EIS-qualifying capital alongside an intensive 12-month accelerator programme of 1:1 operational support, grant-writing, and R&D tax credit assistance.

Disruptive ideas supercharged: back seed-stage deep tech and hardware (including hardware-interfacing software) companies in the Nordics and Baltics that deliver social or environmental impact, getting involved before revenue and pushing portfolio companies to revenue within six months.

Catalyse environmentally sustainable progress by backing visionary scientific founders whose technology can plausibly abate at least 0.5 gigatonnes of CO2e annually by 2050.

Champion innovation that expedites the shift towards cleaner, sustainable forms of energy by backing category-defining companies from post-lab-bench through growth stage, across power/renewables, electrification, emissions management, and energy digitalization.

Infrastructure is the critical layer for climate transition. Three pillars: (1) Energy Abundance - hyperscaling cheap clean energy for 2X grid capacity, (2) Physical Infrastructure - 100X energy storage and circular supply chains for robotics/autonomy, (3) Resilience & Adaptation - fortifying critical systems against climate disasters.

Chalmers Ventures transforms breakthrough Chalmers University research into successful, impact-driven global companies, blending venture creation with venture investing under one roof.

We help founders build a cleaner future by investing in disruptive, capital-light climate technologies that reshape how we produce and consume energy. Every investment must demonstrate potential to mitigate 2.5 gigatons of CO2 by 2050.

Climate solutions must be economically viable businesses. Fund technologies that profitably slash CO2 emissions, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and build climate resilience. Back technical founders solving "crazy scale" problems with 5-10+ year horizons.

Australia's first and only specialist agrifood tech VC, backing early-stage founders solving practical problems for Australian and comparable farming conditions to accelerate a resilient, regenerative agri-food future.

Investible backs the visionaries advancing humanity through technology, investing at Pre-Seed through Series A alongside Club Investible, its global syndicate of 250+ investors, and activating its network to help founders scale.

We invest in ambitious and determined teams that can one day become industry leaders, partnering with founders from the very beginning and supporting them throughout their growth with global operating experience.

CTV brings external innovation to Chevron and Chevron to external innovation. The fund operates 'inside-out' — starting with internal Chevron technology problems and finding startup solutions — across both oil and gas operations and lower carbon technologies. CTV invests in companies where Chevron can serve as both investor and early customer, de-risking technology through operational trials.

Rewriting the VC rulebook to deliver high returns with high impact. We invest in founders building climate and social impact technologies with intentional, measurable, net-positive outcomes at meaningful scale.

Invested at the seams of sector transition. S2G identifies opportunities at critical intersections of food & agriculture, oceans, and energy. The firm backs market-based solutions that deliver both economic returns and systems-level change across interconnected, commodity-driven, policy-sensitive sectors. S2G explicitly rejects siloed investing, instead seeking companies operating within Resource Efficiency, Mass Digitalization, Agile Supply Chains, and Conscious Customer themes.

The ocean holds tremendous potential for scaling climate and carbon solutions, yet only a fraction of climate venture capital flows to ocean-based solutions. We invest in founders building at the ocean-climate nexus with scientific rigor and commercial viability, backed by direct partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

We invest in deep tech for food - solving the hard underlying problems in food and farming with new technology built on scientific discovery and solid engineering.

We back founders of Indian origin building energy, industrial, resource-transition, and health technologies at pre-seed and seed, on the belief that innovations proven in India are scalable across the Global South. We evaluate opportunities on Mass (market size, team, problem acuity, timing) and Velocity (strategy, traction, customer validation, defensibility).

Sustainability is becoming central to consumer and business decision-making. We partner with management teams building environmentally sound, resource-efficient businesses that deliver returns to all stakeholders while benefiting the environment.

Back extraordinary founders leading the transition of energy and industry while solving inevitable impacts of climate change. Invest in startups rewriting industries to be cleaner, more profitable, and more resilient through strategic capital and ecosystem engagement.

We believe in the transformative power of individuals to drive systemic change and shape a more sustainable future. We champion visionary pre-seed/seed founders addressing humanity's most critical challenges over the next 30 years, regardless of sector or geography.

We draw startups that transform society with imagination and technology into a spiral of growth, focusing on vast market opportunities (industry transformation, DeepTech, industry-agnostic advanced technology) paired with strong management teams.

Europe's first cheque fund: the first institutional investor for exceptional European (and European-origin) founders, helping them go from 0 to 1 and reach product-market fit, backed by anchor corporate relationships with Axel Springer and Porsche.

We invest in teams and solutions that address multi-decade problems that humanity has no choice but to solve. Our focus is breakthrough science and technology applied to energy transition, life sciences, space, and next-generation computing.

UVC Partners invests in European B2B tech startups across DeepTech, ClimateTech, Mobility, and Software/AI, from pre-seed up to Series A, leveraging the UnternehmerTUM ecosystem to help portfolio companies build sustainable category leadership.

We invest in science- and mission-driven founders building deep tech that transforms large industries for good, across Applied Science & Digital Transformation and Climate & Ocean Tech.

Back growth-stage companies commercializing technologies that produce more with less resource intensity, across Deep Tech (microelectronics, photonics, digitalization), Circularity & New Materials, and Water Technologies, contributing to the net-zero transition.

Accelerate the global energy transition by investing in companies that unlock economic-led transformation of the energy economy. Focus on solutions winning on unsubsidized economics with proven technology and strong teams.

Technology without commercialization is just expensive science. FORWARD.one backs performance-driven European industrial technology founders obsessed with commercial execution, providing capital plus unfiltered operating feedback to build category leaders.

Deep, decade-plus operator relationships in cybersecurity and the energy transition give ClearSky superior deal flow, diligence quality, and the ability to accelerate portfolio company growth through strategic introductions.

Deep tech for climate impact — backing breakthrough science and engineering where the physical economy must be reinvented. Targets companies with products that are better, faster, and cheaper than incumbents, not just marginally greener.

We invest at the edge of large markets being transformed by technological and societal pressures. We seek companies that enable new behaviors and business models that incumbents cannot pursue, with strong network effects and broad access implications.

Software-first climate technology companies with immediate commercialization paths, led by experienced founder/operators. We invest at the intersection of impact and returns, providing founders with operator expertise, talent networks, and strategic guidance from technologists who have built multi-billion dollar companies.

Hard tech breakthroughs in the physical world will solve humanity's biggest challenges in climate, industrial automation, and human health. Founders with deep scientific expertise and engineering mindset can move at unparalleled speed when given access to fabrication infrastructure, global manufacturing partnerships, and hands-on mentorship.

Energize Capital backs asset-light technologies—primarily software and services—that advance the digitization and decarbonization of critical industries including energy, climate, infrastructure, and industrials. They seek solutions enabling the energy transition at scale, from early commercialization through profitable growth.

Transformative technology companies with gigaton-scale climate impact can emerge from early-stage ventures combining technical breakthrough with commercial viability. We invest catalytic capital to support high-risk, high-reward ventures addressing critical gaps in climate technology.

Great physical products, protected by strong IP and built by design-literate founders, can generate outsized returns while solving real consumer, health, and environmental problems. Every deal is structured to be SEIS/EIS eligible.

Backing fearless founders building disruptive, IP-driven deep-tech, digitalization, and climate-tech solutions from India, for the world, at the earliest and highest-risk stages.

Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd) is a state-owned investment company that helps Finland's most promising companies grow bigger. Tesi invests on market terms as a minority co-investor alongside private capital in Finnish startups, scale-ups, and industrial projects, as well as in VC and PE funds. Its mandate is both financial returns and economic impact — driving growth, jobs, and renewal in the Finnish economy.

Operator-led firm running two funds: Digital (Pre-Seed/Seed, €0.5M-€3M initial) backing enterprise infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI/DevTools and fintech automation founders from beta to global blue-chip accounts; and Greentech Industry (Series A/B, €3M-€10M initial) financing the first industrial plants (FOAK) of European cleantech and deep-tech companies bridging pilot to commercial scale.

The global food system drives roughly a third of greenhouse gas emissions while a third of food produced is wasted and 800 million people go hungry. We back ambitious foodtech and agritech founders reinventing the food system end-to-end, from producer to consumer, who can deploy intelligent, high-impact solutions at scale.

SNØCAP backs companies building the materials, molecules, and machines that power modern industry. We love businesses that create efficiency gains, reduce costs, reduce emissions, own IP, have scientific roots, show corporate interest, need engineering support, leverage ecosystems, and are raising their first institutional round.

Climate is the biggest challenge of our lifetime and the greatest business opportunity of the coming decades. We back visionaries accelerating climate innovation that will reshape our global economy for the betterment of people and planet. The most successful companies are born from a vision for a better future and the ability of that vision to create large, lasting positive impact. We invest in frontier technologies addressing climate across seven sectors: Built Environment, Carbon Management, Compute, Energy, Food & Agriculture, Manufacturing & Industrials, and Mobility. The best ideas come from everywhere—we operate where many venture firms can't or won't.

GO CAPITAL finances sustainable, responsible innovation rooted in the territories, backing high-growth companies in digital, health, cleantech, industry, and the maritime/blue economy across western and national France.

Profit is the result of doing the right thing, every day. Convent backs founder-led, commercially proven companies with sustainability at the core of their strategy, supporting the transition from a linear to a circular economy in agriculture, food, materials, and water.

Climate tech scales fastest when backed by corporate partnerships, not venture capital alone. We invest in B2B founders with breakthrough technology, sustainable unit economics, and clear paths to Fortune 500 adoption. Our unique advantage: direct access to 500+ Fortune 100 executives who can accelerate enterprise sales cycles from 18-24 months to 3-6 months.

Early-stage climate tech companies building the sustainable future. We invest in both software and hardware solutions addressing climate change through optimization, adaptation, and pioneering innovations. The next billion-dollar companies will be built with climate in mind.

Partnering with founders building world-changing innovation by blending the global power of Hitachi with the speed of independent venture investing, across Digital, Industrial, Environment, and Healthcare themes.

The real estate industry is analogue, antiquated, and carbon-intensive; today's technology isn't yet sufficient to make the built world fit for future generations, so we back founders building the digital and sustainable built world of tomorrow, from construction to cities to the future of work.

Decarbonization is a value driver. We invest in climate solutions that are economically competitive and can scale to 100Mt+ CO2e savings annually using our proprietary Climate Performance Potential methodology.

Sandwater backs early-stage deep-tech and impact companies that can improve climate systems, energy infrastructure, healthcare delivery, and industrial productivity. The firm favors software-hardware hybrid businesses with technical differentiation, measurable real-world impact, and a path to scale across the Nordics and Northern Europe.

Human-driven, community-powered, tech-augmented investing that backs real scientific, societal, and environmental shifts rather than trend-chasing or algorithmic sourcing.

Earth Foundry backs founders transforming critical industries, including energy, mobility, waste, water, agriculture, and infrastructure, using hardware, software, services, and material science innovations.

Congruent partners with audacious founders building transformative companies that solve climate challenges through innovation in atoms (hardware), bits (software), and business models. We leverage decades of climate tech expertise to support early-stage entrepreneurs creating solutions that do more with less.

Sarsia invests in technologies that can improve quality of life, society, and reduce negative impact on nature, connecting scientific solutions with competent capital across life sciences and technology/energy/sustainability.

We back deep tech companies navigating the Valley of Death between prototype and market, entering at TRL 4-5 where most capital dries up, and provide technology de-risking, manufacturing scale-up support, market validation, and global go-to-market help.

We back engineering-first founders building IP-driven, manufacturing-led businesses across advanced manufacturing, automation, energy, space, and defence, investing post-validation to help them scale production capability.

Backs founders building 'physical AI' companies that rebuild real-world systems at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industrial infrastructure — from semiconductors and nuclear power to wildfire suppression and critical materials. Fund II ($150M, 2026) marks a reframe from the original climate-first Planetary Boundaries thesis toward physical AI, though climate and compute demands are seen as increasingly overlapping.

Profit and purpose can form a virtuous cycle. We champion founders driving advanced energy, resource innovation, and economic opportunity. We believe that addressing humanity's biggest challenges requires innovative, scalable, profitable solutions. We help seed-stage startups bridge tech and deep-tech, venture and values-aligned investing.

The era of transformational science is here. Life sciences and industrial markets are being reshaped by founders who move fast and build at the intersection of biology, chemistry, computation, and AI. This is a step-change in how science becomes solutions. We back bold founders who go beyond solving technical problems to redefine entire markets.

Eka backs founders creating positive system change across three consumer-led mega trends: Life (access and affordability in essentials), Health (reactive to preventative healthcare), and Sustainability (decarbonization in consumer industries). The firm holds that impact and financial returns reinforce rather than oppose each other.

Technology and capital solutions for the global energy transition. We partner with entrepreneurs to build and scale innovative companies that power a better energy future, supported by collaborations with utilities and industrial incumbents.

Backs frontier deep tech companies solving physical infrastructure bottlenecks of the AI supercycle, especially compute, energy, quantum, AI infrastructure, robotics, and autonomous manufacturing across the U.S.-Israel corridor.

We back bold, growth-oriented founders transforming how the world is moved, powered, and built through AI and physical infrastructure innovation. We invest in early-stage companies making physical industries more profitable, efficient, and resilient through capital-efficient business models combining software, hardware, and structured finance.

Dedicated to advancing Canadian agriculture, Verdex invests in the entrepreneurs, technologies, and businesses shaping the future of food and agriculture, providing patient capital suited to agriculture's seasonal cycles and long validation timelines.

Entrepreneurs who work constructively with government to harness its unique strengths—scale, credibility, regulatory power, data, and funding—enjoy asymmetric advantages. 24% of venture-backed unicorns used government support. We partner with founders to unlock government as a growth lever.

Seizing the North of England's innovation opportunity by investing in science and technology startups with strong intellectual property solving global problems. Partners with the four Northern Arc universities (Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool) and the broader North of England ecosystem. Philosophy: profit with purpose — backing visionary founders with exceptional teams, breakthrough technology, and business models that deliver both financial returns and societal impact.

Originator of China's "hard tech" (硬科技) investment category: back deep, long-R&D-cycle science and engineering breakthroughs out of the Chinese Academy of Sciences network and top universities, from lab/PI stage through IPO, combining capital with an incubation platform and post-investment services.

We back deeply technical founders solving hard problems with innovative technologies. Combining capital with go-to-market expertise and structured fellowships, we partner with founders who have authentic personal connections to their problems and bring novel technological approaches to market.

Early-stage climate tech founders need more than capital—they need government relations expertise and regulatory navigation. We bridge venture capital with embedded public-sector strategy through Boundary Stone Partners, our government affairs firm co-founded by our team. We focus on sectors where policy is central: energy abundance, resilience, and clean industry transformation.

We help founders envision a more sustainable world by enabling them to unlock the full potential of transformative technology in traditional industries, investing at inflection points to help companies do more with less.

Strategic self reliance (Atmanirbhar Bharat) in deep technology and sectors of critical importance -- National Security, Defence & Aerospace, Digital Communications -- is both an existential need for India and a large commercial opportunity.

Material science and deep tech innovations drive outsized returns while solving urgent human problems. We back inception-stage founders turning lab breakthroughs into commercial products that make the world cleaner, more productive, and healthier.

Momenta backs software-defined industrial technologies that move industry from automation to autonomy, investing at the boundary where the physical world becomes digital across Physical AI, IIoT, edge intelligence, and secure compute. They partner long-term with founders and operators, using a network of corporate partners to help portfolio companies move from pilot to production.

Building a healthier, more efficient, and more resilient food system by backing entrepreneurs who apply science and technology to the agrifood industry's most pressing challenges, bridging Italy's established food industry with breakthrough AgriFoodTech innovation.

Growth capital for the next AgriFood system — backing founders reshaping how the world eats, lives, and sustains itself, with active board involvement and operator-level support.

Backing new ideas, clear vision, and an obsessive pursuit of change. Triple Point Ventures partners with exceptional early-stage founders across fintech, health, climate, and data & AI, aiming to meet founders early, move quickly, and lead pre-seed and seed rounds.

Backing the most ambitious mission-driven founders building software and software-driven companies during the earliest days of company building. We seek non-consensus opportunities that solve today's biggest challenges across health, climate, and empowerment.

Revolutionize the food system and improve both planetary and human health by backing audacious entrepreneurs working at the intersection of food, agriculture, climate, and health.

Backing 'Venture Scientists' — PhD-trained technical founders applying rigorous scientific methodology to build transformative companies from fundamental research. Focus on deep tech and life sciences areas that address climate change, resource scarcity, and healthcare accessibility. Targets university spinouts and science-led startups in areas that are difficult to diligence for generalist investors.

Incubate Fund provides unwavering hands-on support to visionary entrepreneurs from the earliest stages. As Japan's leading seed-stage VC, they go beyond capital to provide operational support, founder counseling, talent recruitment, and business introductions. Core question: 'Does this action lead to impact?'

We back visionary technology founders in the Nordic region driven by disruptive forces. Our thesis centers on three areas: New Experiences (gaming, new media, health tech), Platform Technologies (developer tools, infrastructure, fintech, IoT, machine intelligence), and Smarter Workplaces (productivity, developer tools, digital workplaces). As founders and operators ourselves, we bring hands-on operational mentorship to help mitigate risks and navigate building at scale.

Invest in emerging-technology companies that strengthen Agility's core supply chain, logistics, clean energy, and e-commerce businesses, offering founders access to Agility's global commercial network alongside capital.

Empower ambitious founders with capital, expertise, and network to build and scale transformative ventures, prioritizing startups that advance Saudi Vision 2030 and can localize frontier technology in the Kingdom.

Technology startups can address major global challenges. We back early and seed-stage IndustryTech, DeepTech, and CleanTech founders in the DACH region and US with capital plus network access, industry expertise, and strategic partnerships, using an evergreen structure with no fixed fund-life timing pressure.

Progress in food, agriculture, and human health lags other sectors due to structural constraints. We invest in deep technologies that remove these bottlenecks at scale—whether AI, biology, robotics, or materials science. We're not intimidated by threats to the status quo.

We invest in businesses in established markets with solid fundamentals, genuine customer demand, and a clear exit path, across Tech-Enabled Services, Vertical Software, and Mittelstand Transformation, with a focus on the DACH region.

BGF provides patient, minority growth capital to ambitious SMEs and deep tech/life sciences startups across the UK and Ireland. Founded to address the SME funding gap, BGF never takes controlling stakes, provides long-term support without fixed exit deadlines, and offers portfolio access to its talent network, operating specialists, and community platform.

Women-led companies outperform male-led peers financially while using less capital. True Wealth Ventures combines gender-lens investing with impact focus, exclusively backing women-led companies improving environmental and/or human health. This unlocks superior returns while creating measurable social impact.

Elah Fund partners with Israeli companies with real-world, revenue-generating products poised to become global market leaders, providing growth capital and operational expertise while embedding measurable ESG best practices (carbon reduction, diversity/inclusion, and strengthening Israel's economic vitality). The fund deliberately targets export-oriented companies located outside the Tel Aviv-Herzliya tech corridor, in Israel's Negev and Galilee periphery.

Positron assists scientists in turning outstanding research into successful companies, providing first-check capital to scientist-entrepreneurs across the natural sciences tackling major global challenges.

Find and accelerate early-stage Latin American startups with defensible technology through a large-scale scouting program (Discovery-A), pairing capital with hands-on mentoring and a bridge to US Series A financing.

Keen runs two parallel thesis-driven programs: backing AI software that makes Europe's SMEs radically more productive (Technology for SMEs), and backing commercial, software-enabled, dual-use defence and security technology built for multi-country European scale (Defence). Both theses are shaped through recurring 'thesis sprints' and a 'time first, money later' approach to founder relationships.

Human progress is defined by manipulating energy and atoms over spacetime. Software and open networks governed by tokens will transform the infrastructure economy. Crucible backs founders building digital infrastructure foundations at the intersection of energy, compute, and crypto. The firm has evolved to embrace 'Capital Markets Maximalism' — the view that financial engineering, not just software, is the key to capturing value in industrial infrastructure — and 'Industrial Resilience,' investing across five layers: dispatch & optimization, verification & ground truth, financial infrastructure, materials & supply, and defense & infrastructure security. Crucible now deploys capital across the lifecycle from venture to credit to direct infrastructure ownership.

Investing at the intersection of for-profit and for-good. Companies that make the world better AND deliver strong financial returns. The Villain Test ensures both impact and profit alignment.

The technologies shaping the future of the automotive ecosystem are increasingly developed by startups, particularly in AI, advanced manufacturing, sustainability, and connected mobility. BMW i Ventures backs founders who see problems clearly, build without constraints, and move fast — and helps them win by connecting them to one of the world's leading automakers as a customer, development partner, and network.

More than 80% of UK venture capital is concentrated in London and the South East. PXN backs high-growth founders in the North of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland with capital (£200K-£8M) plus hands-on, "more than money" operational support.

Wave Ventures backs Europe's most exceptional Gen Z founders at the earliest stage — angel and pre-seed — in the Nordics and Baltics. We invest before other VCs identify these founders, leveraging a rotating team of top university students embedded in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Tallinn startup ecosystems. We believe the most impactful companies of the next generation will emerge from this region.

NIF invests in cutting-edge science and engineering startups that strengthen the defence, security, and resilience of NATO Allied nations. Backed by 24 sovereign governments, NIF provides deep tech founders with unprecedented access to government procurement markets across 24 countries, connectivity to ~90 NATO-affiliated test centres, and 6,000+ Allied scientists. NIF leads initial investments with up to €15M and maintains substantial follow-on reserves.

We invest in underrepresented outperformers: first- and second-generation migrant founders, women in male-dominated industries, and founders from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, who we believe disproportionately possess the resilience, work ethic, and ability to inspire that predict founder success.

Extraordinary companies are built by driven founders whose mission to improve the health of people and planet is inseparable from their product. We partner with technical founders building technology solutions to the world's most important challenges across climate, health, biotech, and enabling technologies.

Deeptech Labs is the catalyst for deep tech success: it backs seed-stage startups where a novel underlying technology is fundamental to the business, and embeds each cohort in a network of entrepreneurs, researchers, and corporate partners to prepare them for a strong Series A.

We back ambitious UK founders building technology, MedTech, and SaaS businesses with commercial or clinical validation, providing capital, network access (IW Connect), and dedicated growth support (IW Catalyst).

Backs founding teams at the angel, pre-seed, and seed stages across Europe with fast, founder-friendly checks (~EUR 125K) and at least a year of hands-on coaching, focusing on AI, fintech, and deep tech.

We invest before investing: writing the first institutional check into founder-led teams building technology-driven, sustainable businesses that address real, structural problems across DeepTech, GreenTech, Digital Health, and FinTech.

Investing in breakthrough deep technologies that address humanity's greatest challenges. We allocate ~80% to climate solutions (carbon-negative materials, renewable energy, climate adaptation) and ~20% to frontier tech (aerospace, robotics, advanced materials, biotech). We operate as a venture-and-philanthropy platform backed by the Fukutake family, blending profit-seeking with impact objectives.

Automotive Ventures backs seed-stage founders across the mobility stack, from vehicle connectivity and autonomy to decarbonization, auto commerce, smart cities, and dealership technology, pairing capital with deep automotive-industry relationships and operational expertise.

Invest in and provide business-development support to startups building next-generation technology, bridging Japanese and global markets by combining Digital Garage's startup network with Daiwa Securities Group's capital and financial infrastructure.

Mercury backs disruptive AI and Blockchain-enabled startups outside Silicon Valley, with a focus on capital-efficient founders in the Central US reimagining core industries including fintech, enterprise software, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and logistics through their five investment themes: Work, Build, Journeys, Data, and Power.

Ventech backs founders who reimagine society with global technology visions — particularly AI-native vertical applications, industrial software, digital health, cybersecurity, and sovereignty plays across Europe. With 26 years of European VC experience, they are long-term conviction partners from Seed to exit, offering board-level support and international network access.

Backs globally ambitious technology companies from pre-seed and seed through selected growth rounds using specialist EMEA sector teams and a platform model for capital, customers, talent, follow-on investors, and operational support.

HTGF backs ambitious tech founders at pre-seed and seed stage to build international market leaders. As Europe's most active early-stage investor and a public-private multi-stage platform, it invests across Industrial/Climate/Deep Tech, Life Sciences/Chemistry, and Digital Tech with a mandatory German nexus. HTGF combines capital, deep technical expertise, and a vast network spanning German industry, science institutions, and the European VC ecosystem. The fund also supports companies through growth rounds via its Opportunity Fund (up to 30M EUR per company).

The $12 trillion built environment sector is ripe for digital transformation. Suffolk Technologies deploys capital, resources, and networks to help founders scale technologies in construction, architecture, engineering, real estate, and infrastructure. Uniquely positioned as the venture arm of Suffolk Construction, they provide operational test beds, jobsite access, and deep domain expertise that pure financial investors cannot.

Gender-balanced founding teams outperform. We back companies founded or co-founded by women (30%+ women equity ownership at pre-seed) across Healthtech, Fintech, Sustainability, and Deep Tech, leading from pre-seed to Series A across France, Europe, and the US.

WRF Capital funds the commercialization of cutting-edge technology spinouts from Washington research institutions, often as the first institutional money in, using licensing revenue earned from UW technology to seed the next generation of local founders.

Fund visionary entrepreneurs solving humanity's most intractable, long-horizon science and engineering problems, taking a poly-solution approach that backs many independent bets on the same hard problem (especially Alzheimer's disease and depression) rather than a single best guess, judged on both societal and financial impact.

Invest in disruptive deep tech and science companies transforming global industries, bridging the capital gap for early-stage entrepreneurs with a capital-efficient model spanning seed option-bets through growth-equity leads.

Intelligence is coming into the physical world through AI and robotics applied to atoms rather than bits. We back capex-heavy, long-horizon bets in hard-to-abate decarbonization sectors and hardware-heavy industrial systems that many traditional early-stage funds avoid.

We invest in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society. We foster Sony's future businesses through strategic early-stage venture investments, seeking technologies with potential to transform industries while building synergies with Sony Group business units.

The physical world is programmable hardware. We invest in entrepreneurs transforming the built environment across design, build, operate, and experience. Deep AEC domain expertise combined with technical innovation creates structural value. We partner with visionary founders using our network of 100+ AEC executives for pilots, feedback, and distribution.

We fundamentally reshape broken global systems by supporting founders who turn theory into action to build better world. Hardware-enabled solutions (80% portfolio) with software components solve transformative climate challenges in energy, infrastructure, transportation, water, and adaptation. We run toward hardware because less competition and less noise. Climate is about more than carbon—it's adaptation, resilience, and systems change.

LGV backs early-stage and growth-stage innovators with the strategic strength of LG Group's global resources. The fund invests in companies that stand to gain exceptional value from partnerships with LG's manufacturing, display, chemical, and energy business units, with a strong focus on AI, biotech, cleantech, and advanced materials.

Frontier Tech fund focusing on startups that apply advanced technologies to solve Real Problems. Three core verticals: AI Software & Applications, AI Hardware & Embodied Intelligence, and AI for Science & Manufacturing. 'See them as ourselves' — we succeed when our founders succeed.

We believe the greatest advancements of our lifetime will be the result of reprogramming chemistry and biology using creative technology platforms. We invest at the frontier of science, supporting founders re-architecting the world at a molecular level.

The only early-stage deep tech VC in CEE focusing on resilient technologies. We invest in founders building breakthrough technologies with proprietary IP in deep tech, MedTech, cleantech, autonomous vehicles/robotics, industrial, and resilient-tech. Technology must be genuinely unique and address real problems.

Backing founders rebuilding how the world is powered and built. We invest in frontier-tech startups solving three existential challenges: climate change, resource depletion, and inequality. We look for scalable business models where impact metrics are directly tied to financial performance and community benefit.

We back the boldest, most ambitious founders that seem unlikely to succeed, investing our own capital with no fund clock so we can remain invested indefinitely.

European early-stage fund backing founders building durable technology businesses across deep tech, SaaS, AI, energy transition, digital finance, and healthcare.

Frontier technology will underpin the next generation of globally significant companies. We back IP-rich, deep tech founders advancing intelligence, reinventing energy, accelerating computation, decoding biology, and building resilience — categories where traditional venture playbooks don't apply.

It matters not only which companies get started, but who starts them. EF identifies exceptional individual talent before a company, co-founder, or idea exists, and builds the company from Day Zero through cohort-based co-founder matching, an equity-free grant phase, and up to $250K in formation capital (via SAFE) once a team passes its Investment Committee.

Cibus Enterprise backs disruptive technology companies transforming the future of food and agriculture, partnering with ambitious teams with early commercial traction and clear product-market fit, positioned to deliver both outsized returns and meaningful impact.

The next wave of category-defining technology companies will be built from Southeast Europe, starting in Bulgaria. Vitosha backs execution-driven founders building global-from-day-one products, prioritizing team conviction over the idea itself.

CDP Venture Capital is a national venture platform that combines direct investing, fund-of-funds activity, accelerators, and technology transfer to strengthen Italy's innovation economy in strategic sectors.

Fuel the next industrial revolution by backing founders rebuilding how the world is powered and built — targeting energy independence, industrial resilience, and frontier industries. Uses AI, robotics, IoT, satellites, and blockchain to address climate change, resource depletion, and inequality, with a focus on companies where impact metrics are tightly coupled to business performance.

It's not how much you raise, it's how much you own. We provide capital-efficient hybrid credit and equity to help founders scale without excessive dilution.

We partner selectively, care deeply, and strive for excellence across sectors, helping founders leverage our decades of experience, extensive network, and valuable insights to build scalable and sustainable businesses in India.

The agrifood value chain has reached a tipping point where incremental change is not enough; systemic disruption and regeneration of the food and agriculture system is required to restore human, planetary, and economic health.

At the earliest stages, team > market > product > idea. Great founders find their way into large markets. Focus on unit economics and value capture alongside value creation. Strong emphasis on B2B managed marketplaces and India-first consumer/enterprise plays.

Gender diversity drives innovation and better financial returns. We invest in women-led startups building sustainable, profitable technology companies that solve strategic problems within Hearst's 360+ businesses while creating measurable impact on diversity in venture capital.

Rethink Ventures backs founders driving the digital, automated, and sustainable transformation of transportation - vehicle technologies, mobility, logistics, and energy - pairing capital with direct access to an automotive and logistics corporate network.

Backing founders whose vision of the future aligns with Cisco's technology roadmap across networking, security, cloud, collaboration, IoT, and AI, blending strategic and financial returns.

Prime Movers Lab partners with serial entrepreneurs building breakthrough scientific companies that tackle the world's biggest problems. We believe the best venture partners provide operational excellence, technical expertise, and hands-on support—not just capital. We invest in companies reinventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation, and agriculture.

Partner with visionary founders building category-defining frontier technologies that address humanity's most pressing problems. We invest in deep tech, hardware, and climate solutions emerging from technical communities like SpaceX, focusing on founders with big ambitions, not incremental ideas.

Back disruptive technology innovation early and support it with a deep value-creation team through supply chain, talent, ESG, and follow-on financing help, applying Hillhouse's long-term fundamentals-driven research process to early-stage investing.

Invest in and back innovative, technology-driven companies solving real-world problems, targeting large markets, led by founders focused on execution and excellence, using a risk-mitigated, high-return strategy backed by a large mentor and expert investor pool.

Leaps by Bayer invests in teams pursuing fundamental breakthroughs in life science targeting ten huge challenges across health and agriculture — from curing genetic diseases and cancer to transforming sustainable farming. They seek paradigm-shifting biotechnologies that move medicine from treating symptoms to curing or preventing diseases, and transform agriculture to nourish a growing population while restoring the planet.

We back mission-driven founders building breakthrough technologies to solve humanitys most complex, large-scale challenges. Like an iceberg, the most valuable invention is frequently invisible; we look past surface-level applications for deep, foundational innovation.

Europe must own and build its own technological infrastructure. We back product-obsessed technical founders solving the hardest foundational problems in robotics, deep tech, computational infrastructure, and defense. Technological innovation is essential to European sovereignty, prosperity, and resilience.

Upstate New York can be the region for high-growth startup success. We provide mentorship, capital, and connections to fuel innovation, job creation, and regional economic growth. Founders aligned with community impact, job creation, and solving regional challenges are ideal.

Back early-stage entrepreneurs shaping the industries that run the world, with deep domain expertise across AI & Automation, Health & Bio, and Logistics & Maritime, and true operating partnership beyond capital.

Mission-driven companies solve big problems at scale while building durable competitive advantages. We back founders leveraging science & technology to build the Better Economy where people and planet thrive.

Frontier technologies and medical breakthroughs offer the best opportunities to address fundamental human and environmental challenges. Diversity of founder backgrounds drives innovation and superior returns. Founders with domain expertise, technical credentials, and distinctive visions solve the world's biggest problems.

Cocoa is the founders' in-house VC: former institutional VCs writing fast, founder-aligned angel checks at pre-seed/seed, backing 'Killers with a Heart' - relentless, technically excellent founders paired with genuine EQ.

Backing the forerunners of India's Industrial Revolution across national security, space, and energy - creating $10B in Indian deep tech value this decade.

KDT backs principled entrepreneurs building disruptive technologies across connectivity, cybersecurity, healthcare, enterprise software, semiconductors, supply chain/manufacturing, energy, and fintech. KDT differentiates through Koch Labs® — connecting portfolio companies to Koch Industries' global commercial ecosystem and subject matter experts — enabling faster commercial deployment and scaling than traditional VC.

The space economy represents the next frontier for transformative economic opportunity and meaningful impact. We back pioneering founders building the technologies and services that enable humanity's expansion into space while creating value on Earth. We apply financial discipline (Wall Street cash-flow and intrinsic-value approach) to identify sustainable, scalable space businesses.

Partner with exceptional founders at the earliest stages, leveraging deep operator experience to help lay foundations for successful companies.

Invest in companies developing disruptive technologies in core defense business areas to build a pipeline that strengthens the defense industrial base. Over 60 portfolio companies have become Lockheed Martin suppliers, receiving $750M+ in contracts.

Investing with purpose, investing in progress: back startups strategically aligned to dsm-firmenich's Perfumery & Beauty, Taste Texture & Health, and Health Nutrition & Care business units, pairing capital with the parent company's scientific, technological and commercial resources.

Mubadala partners with world-class companies and institutions to drive transformational growth across strategic sectors and geographies. We believe in long-term value creation through patient capital, operational expertise, and global partnerships aligned with Abu Dhabi's economic diversification.

Back ambitious UK founders reimagining industries, screening for credibility, execution, and vision. Deploys EIS/VCT tax-advantaged capital into deeptech, fintech, and energy transition companies, with a broader appetite for hardware, industrial, and SaaS businesses.

Olive Tree Capital invests in groundbreaking technology and life sciences companies guided by the Golden Rule philosophy. As an evergreen vehicle without asset class limitations or holding period constraints, OTC can be a long-term partner to founders across any stage and geography.

Great venture returns come from revolutionizing existing, mission-critical industries burdened by legacy infrastructure, not from chasing trendy new sectors. We back seasoned operators solving messy, complex problems in healthcare, agriculture, construction, and industrials with technology that becomes truly mission-critical.

High-performing founders exist outside the networks of traditional venture capital; homogeneous investor networks create overvalued bubbles, and backing overlooked founders outside major-city networks is both an impact story and an investment edge.

We back growth-stage, technology-enabled companies delivering proven, scalable solutions to major social and environmental challenges across People, Planet, and Productivity, while targeting attractive financial returns.

Back the brightest early-stage founders under 30. We provide capital, mentorship, and network access to accelerate ambitious young entrepreneurs who graduate from our League of Innovators program or demonstrate exceptional founder quality.

Back founders from day one with founder-focused support across fundraising, growth, product, and international expansion. We believe diverse founding teams and global thinking drive exceptional returns.

Partner with visionary European founders at seed and Series A, leveraging the team's own operator experience and a network of 150+ international co-investors. Sector agnostic (excluding life sciences and crypto) with ~50 companies per fund. Strong focus on capital efficiency, unit economics, and realistic paths to profitability. Co-investor by default; will lead when it adds value.

Expand the AI ecosystem by backing technology visionaries solving complex problems to reshape our world. Focus on game changers and market makers in AI, robotics, biotech, autonomous vehicles, and applied AI. Leverage NVIDIA's unique position as GPU infrastructure leader to identify and support companies that will drive adoption of NVIDIA technology.

Balderton Capital backs European-founded technology companies with visionary founders building transformative businesses. The firm combines patient capital, operational expertise, and founder support to enable European entrepreneurs to build world-class companies.

Patient and intelligent capital for rapidly scaling entrepreneurial companies with a transatlantic footprint. US funds target Midwest Series A+ companies with ARR >$3M; UK funds target Series A/B companies with £1M+ revenue. Hands-on operational support through the Beringea Scale-Up Academy and transatlantic network.

Partner with passionate entrepreneurs building enduring, tech-enabled businesses in India. Be the first institutional investor and provide patient capital with long fund cycles, supporting companies from seed to pre-IPO.

Deep technology and hard tech company investing at inflection points. Partner with technical founders building infrastructure-level solutions for global scale. Founded 2010 on belief that next generation of transformative companies require deep technical expertise, not just capital.

Back extraordinary entrepreneurs throughout the company-building lifecycle from seed to IPO. Combine venture capital expertise with BCG management consulting to accelerate value creation. Support founders with capital, strategic guidance, and access to global networks.

DTCP is a multi-strategy sector specialist with €4.5bn AUM across digital infrastructure (data centers, mobile towers, fiber networks), enterprise SaaS (Series B+, $3M-$100M ARR, $5M-$50M checks), and European defence/dual-use technology. Founded in 2015 from Deutsche Telekom's M&A office; anchor LPs include Deutsche Telekom and SoftBank. Uses proprietary Flightpath data model (40+ SaaS KPIs) for Growth investments.

Serve industry, contribute to society, repay the nation through professional capability. Act as an industry integrator and innovation driver across advanced manufacturing, IT, new materials/new energy, life sciences, and tech-driven consumption, pairing capital with operational and industrial-resource support.

Back exceptional Kiwi founders building globally transformative companies, from day one to IPO. New Zealand founders represent a significantly undervalued asset class, and Icehouse provides capital plus an ecosystem of 3,000+ investors and deep operational support.

Capital and operational expertise to accelerate innovation, with a structural mandate to build the venture and growth-equity ecosystem of Southern Italy across digital, deep tech, medtech, industrial, and technology-transfer opportunities.

The biggest companies of the century will be built solving the world's most pressing problems. We champion ambitious founders using technology to reshape civilization around climate, health, and inclusive capitalism.

We invest before your success strikes other investors as inevitable — comfortable backing pre-revenue, ground-up building, and ready to lead with our full first cheque rather than piggy-backing on others' conviction.

Partner with exceptional founders building technology companies with long-term growth potential capable of fundamentally shifting markets for the common good. Provide capital, operational expertise, board participation, and network access to support founder vision and company building.

Back exceptional founding teams from premier Indian academic institutions (IIT, IIM) building scalable, technology-led businesses. Leverage the global alumni network for deal sourcing and post-investment support via the THRIVE platform.

Evaluate risk objectively, confront fear rather than avoid it, and prepare in advance for shifts in the capital markets; back technology-oriented startups with defensible barriers, global scalability, independence from conglomerate patronage, and exponential growth potential.

We invest in founders with laser-focused ambition to define technology across AI and deep tech. No stage is too early. Our role is to be their first call, fiercest champion and long-term partner from idea to impact.

Bet the founder, win the future -- FUSE invests early in exceptional founders before obvious market validation, prioritizing founder quality over category focus, and backs them with a network of 300+ operators, executives, and founders.

Investing in technological innovation to drive value creation with social impact, combining a VC lens on growth potential and industry trends with a growth investor's risk discipline. Sources opportunities in healthcare, AI & technology, consumer, and enterprise solutions, with a strong bias toward scientist-entrepreneur-led hard tech.

Norte is a pure-follower fund built by and for founders, believing in the power of goodwill and genuine relationships in a founder-built ecosystem. They co-invest in very first rounds of Brazilian and Latam companies with high visibility, operating more like a club of entrepreneurs than traditional VC. Core conviction: networks over geniuses, continuous work over overnight success, ecosystem value over fund stake size.

Back purposeful entrepreneurs building scalable technology solutions for significant Latin American problems, with emphasis on inclusion, climate innovation, and business productivity while generating positive impact and strong returns.

Backs determined entrepreneurs solving society's hardest problems in critical domains across the decentralized frontier, space exploration, atomic energy, and cellular/biotech sectors. Invests in companies and networks in their infancy when conviction is scarce.

The community-powered VC of the New Nordics. We invest in globally ambitious, impact-aware founders building companies that will solve the world's most pressing challenges. Superior financial returns come from responsible, impact-conscious investing that balances pure financial returns with positive social and environmental impact.

Identify and invest in the world's top talent before they start a company. Build lifelong relationships through a proprietary university scout network at Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and other elite universities. Back exceptional founders within 1-3 years of graduation before they are widely recognized.

Moonshot founders with differentiated industry expertise, outsized ambition, and demonstrated tenacity transform traditional industries. The best founders come from diverse backgrounds, not Silicon Valley networks. We back founders before they have product, customers, or revenue.

Partnering with brilliant founders to upend the status quo by investing in AI-driven software, sustainability technologies, and innovative consumer brands. We believe AI will dominate software over the next decade, and we seek to support founders reimagining industries across all three sectors.

Pressure-test the coherence between a market problem, a product solution, and a viable sales path. Look for an underlying market shift and people who can lead the journey, distinguishing durable growth drivers from one-off effects.

We democratize venture capital by providing individual accredited investors with professional-grade access to elite venture opportunities. We leverage our massive 850,000+ community network and 11,000+ investors to create unique value for founders, sourcing and diligencing deals alongside top-tier VCs (a16z, Sequoia, Khosla) without leading rounds. Our network is our competitive advantage—it compounds value for all stakeholders.

EPIC Ventures backs early-stage technology companies building in the information economy, with a focus on enterprise SaaS, healthcare technology, cybersecurity, and future of work. The firm believes the best way to build lasting companies is through genuine partnership with founders — providing capital, strategic guidance, operational expertise, and deep network access. Founded in 1994, EPIC helped build the Utah tech ecosystem and continues to be the foundational VC of the Mountain West.

Flashpoint invests in founders across their full journey via venture growth, growth debt, and secondary capital, focused on high-growth Series A tech companies originating from Europe, Israel, and MENA, acting as a patient, long-term partner rather than a transactional check-writer.

Backs 'The Audacious Entrepreneur' as a generalist, multi-stage Indian VC, sourcing untapped white-space opportunities across SaaS, consumer, fintech, healthtech, agritech, climatetech and deeptech, with a fast-turnaround Sonic seed program and growing focus on AI, spacetech, defencetech and quantum.

Specialized climate tech VC focused on decarbonizing heavy incumbent industries (mining, manufacturing, heavy transport). Invests in digital and light hardware solutions that help extract minerals faster, cheaper, and more sustainably. Co-founders bring deep mining operational expertise from Newmont and AngloGold Ashanti.

Financial services represents the largest venture opportunity with disproportionately small VC allocation. We invest in companies reinventing financial services with operator teams combining domain expertise and execution excellence.

Cintrifuse Capital catalyzes Cincinnati's startup ecosystem by providing critical early-stage venture capital to local founders who face greater obstacles than coastal peers. The firm combines direct pre-seed/seed investments (including the Venture Velocity cohort program) with a fund-of-funds strategy investing in national VCs with Midwest alignment, creating a dual engine for ecosystem development and financial returns.

Mantis invests opportunistically in Seed and Series A technology-enabled startups, leveraging deep social capital across tech, media, entertainment, and finance to provide unmatched GTM support. The firm is founder-obsessed and differentiates through celebrity network access, customer introductions, talent acquisition help, and brand amplification.

BGV backs hands-on, cross-border enterprise AI startups operating under the Enterprise 5.0 framework — companies that combine intelligent machines with human ingenuity to drive leapfrog productivity improvements. They focus on vertical AI (industry-specific, proprietary data) and horizontal agentic platforms (cross-functional automation), with a strong preference for immigrant founders pursuing US go-to-market strategies from France, Israel, and India.

We are serial founders turned venture capitalists. We invest in market leaders building soon-to-be massive tech companies. Our approach focuses on long-term success, not short-term gains. We roll up our sleeves, get creative, lead with empathy, and have fun along the way.

Actively champion founders and entrepreneurs, fostering a culture where startups thrive, while serving as the bridge to Sony that drives deeper engagements through technical expertise and network access. Focused on DeepTech, Entertainment, EnterpriseTech, Fintech/DLT, ClimateTech, and Location-Based Entertainment.

Mundi backs bold, purpose-driven founders building technology companies at the intersection of deep tech and critical global challenges. Core thesis: Europe has world-class talent and ecosystem but suffers from a scale-up funding gap at growth stages. Kembara fund (€750M) bridges this by providing Series B/C growth capital to European deep tech and climate champions.

Invest in deep science and disruptive technology companies that solve fundamental human problems—inequality, health, climate adaptation. We back founders with vision, instinct, and drive to scale impact.

Passion and vision matter more than pedigree. We seek founders with grit, audacity, and a spark of rebellion—regardless of background. We invest early, before success is inevitable, and support founders from 0-to-1 through Series A.

We invest in mission-driven companies that dare to tackle impossible challenges, striving to transform industries and create lasting societal impact. We seek founders with audacity to dream big, resilience to persevere, and potential to build forever companies that shape human history.

Back startups - Australian or global - building software, hardware, biological, genetic, or business-model innovations that improve the future profitability and sustainability of Australia's grain growers.

Near-market climate technologies with proven economics, low capex, and clear paths to rapid deployment — solutions that win on cost, speed, and performance, not subsidies or green premiums. Each company must demonstrate potential to reduce 50M+ tons of CO₂e annually by 2050.

We invest in who you are, not just what you do. We back visionaries and game-changers with character and global ambition. We partner long-term with founders, providing capital, operational support, and deep conviction in their vision.

Construction represents ~$11T in global economic activity with historically less than 1% IT spend. We back founders with deep AEC/Built World domain expertise building software and hardware that solves specific jobsite, design, and operations problems.

Top-tier venture capital returns alongside meaningful social, environmental, and economic impact — the Double Bottom Line — with no tradeoff. DBL invests in mission-driven founders across clean energy, agriculture, nature-based solutions, health, economic opportunity, mobility, and the space/Earth nexus.

Tomorrow's most valuable companies will be the ones tackling today's most meaningful challenges. Spero backs mission-driven founders across a healthy future, a sustainable future, and a fulfilling future, and partners with them long-term rather than transactionally.

We back the technological platforms of tomorrow — the picks and shovels of Europe's reindustrialisation. High-conviction early-stage investor in frontier and dual-use technology from space and healthcare to industrial resilience, rooted in the Baltic Sea Region, backing founders from pre-seed to exit and beyond.

MS&AD Ventures partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create innovative solutions across insurance, financial services, healthcare, and sustainability. Backed by the 5th largest global insurance conglomerate, they bring capital plus global distribution across 47 countries. They move fast (2-week decisions), focus on partnerships over ownership, and help companies scale internationally.

Backing seed-stage, tech- and data-driven B2B software companies across Europe with global ambition. Focus on Agility Drivers (verticalized, consumerized, XaaS solutions) and Seductive Solutions with genuine product-market fit. Invest in AI-first and AI-enabled businesses as well as frontier tech (BioIT, Space, DLT, Quantum Computing).

The $12 trillion food and agriculture industries still rely on centuries-old methods. We back disruptive science and technology to modernize the food system—from biotech and sensors to automation and software—to feed 10 billion people by 2050 while preserving nature and nurturing humankind.

Exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security companies. Silent Ventures takes a contrarian bet on defense tech at the earliest stages — concept, pre-seed, and seed — when most institutional capital is unavailable. The firm believes the next generation of great defense companies will be built by mission-driven startup founders combining private-sector speed with national security urgency.

We refuse to compromise between doing good and delivering strong financial and commercial returns. Portfolio companies gain access to TELUS's commercial networks, data-rich platforms, and deep expertise across agriculture, health, and connectivity giving them a unique edge as they scale.

Australians and New Zealanders have a disproportionate capacity to build category-defining startups given the region's risk-taking, underdog culture; a pay-it-forward mentorship model, where alumni founders mentor the next cohort, compounds returns for founders and investors over time.

Back outlier B2B founders who see around corners and intimately understand customer pain points, investing at the pre-Series A stage to bridge the gap between seed and Series A — especially in underserved non-coastal markets like the Southeast US.

We provide essential early-stage capital and hands-on, entrepreneur-to-entrepreneur support to B2B software ventures in the Southeast US, seeking to be the first institutional investor on the cap table.

NextView helps entrepreneurs build companies of consequence. We lead rounds for pre-traction companies leveraging software to solve mass-market human problems. We operate as equal partners with deep experience, acting decisively and empowering founders.

We back founders on a mission to industrialize scientific and technological progress. Hardtech startups solve difficult technological problems using interdisciplinary mixes of technology and engineering. We provide patient, supportive capital and community to help founders navigate R&D cycles and build technically defensible products.

Backing entrepreneurs that transform the face of finance, across visionary innovation, execution-driven leadership, and technologists building sustainable competitive advantages.

We are second believers in the magically weird. We back founders at concept stage who are building unconventional solutions with bold personalities that challenge the status quo. We provide capital, community, and genuine support—acting as a bubbe to our founders.

Exceptional entrepreneurs and innovative business ideas exist everywhere, not just traditional tech hubs. TVF invests in companies solving real problems in underserved regions, particularly the Colorado Plateau.

Backs transformative deep-tech entrepreneurs pursuing technically ambitious, capital-intensive breakthroughs years before markets validate them, providing capital plus hands-on partnership to help scale.

A growth accelerator for ambitious French companies built on a frank, direct and rapid entrepreneur-investor relationship, backing founders through start-up to pre-IPO growth phases with resilience and collective intelligence.

We back B2B software and software-driven hardware founders and pair capital with hands-on, customized sales and marketing support delivered by our in-house sales trainers.

A full stack investor for a complex world, backing tech disruptors with performance, values and care. Elaia partners with ambitious, technical founders from inception to leadership across two dedicated strategies: Digital Venture (B2B SaaS, AI, fintech, adtech, e-commerce) and DeepTech Seed (energy, aerospace, robotics, biotech, semiconductors), sourcing heavily from research institutions and lab spinouts.

Catalyze innovation and impact by supporting early-stage startups and nonprofits building solutions for a more inclusive and sustainable future. Four focus areas: Environment, Health & Wellbeing, Economic Empowerment, and Education & Human Capital.

The most enduring companies are created by founders willing to commercialize real science and scale real systems. We focus on hard tech at the intersection of computation and physical sciences—aerospace, biotech, energy, materials—where technical execution is the moat.

In this time of radical change, we back the best technical founders solving system-level problems. We invest early in the people reinventing work, life, and play for the AI era.

Ascend backs the most active pre-seed founders in the Pacific Northwest building SaaS 3.0 (vertical AI agents), Gen AI 2.0 (fast-follower infrastructure), and Frontier AI (AI applied to the physical world). Seattle has one in four of the U.S.'s AI engineers — Ascend captures that alpha as the first institutional check.

We invest in people who will transform the physical world. Near frontier technology solving climate change, disease, armed conflict, poverty, and existential risks. Technical founders building capital-intensive, long-horizon companies.

We invest in category-defining companies at Pre-Seed and Seed stages founded by entrepreneurs with authentic passion. Focus on founders working in climate, food, healthcare, AI automation, and frontier technologies. Philosophy: when the world says No, go toward the Yes as hard as you can.

Founders building the possibly impossible deserve capital plus marketing support. Great technology combined with exceptional storytelling and narrative development creates world-changing moonshots. We provide both the capital and the story-telling expertise to help founders achieve escape velocity.

Investing in founders building critical software that addresses the decay of Western infrastructure, institutions, and industrial base. Ravelin backs software-defined transformation of aerospace, defense, manufacturing, energy, and industrial sectors.

Breakthrough startups are designed futures, not lottery tickets. We back extraordinary founders with breakthrough insights before the world believes. We are co-conspirators, not just investors.

Technology is the 'new West' — Westbound invests financial and social capital into visionary, values-aligned founders to build a virtuous cycle of wealth and opportunity, with an explicit mission to close the racial wealth gap.

Back the quirky underdog pursuing seemingly impossible ideas. Frontier tech (aerospace, biotech, climate, robotics, crypto, AI, VR/AR) will create the next generation of legendary companies. Technical founders with deep domain expertise can solve the hardest problems in physics, chemistry, and computing.

Driving positive, lasting change in food and agriculture creates exceptional financial outcomes. Impact and return aren't trade-offs—they're intertwined. Both are essential. We invest in technologies and companies addressing human health, planetary well-being, responsible production, and climate solutions.

Support innovative, research-originated solutions for a better agrifood system, combining capital with hands-on venture-building and technical incubation for Italian university spinouts and deep-tech agrifood founders.

We back founders building companies with scalable growth potential, disruptive ideas, strong leadership, and community impact -- serving as an accountability layer for founders on the path to $10M+ in annual revenue.

We back bold entrepreneurs who think big and are committed to becoming the next major tech players. We invest from pre-seed to series A with strong operational support, focusing on technology-driven solutions across AI, climate tech, fintech, SaaS, and impact-driven sectors.

Space-based technologies — GPS, GEOINT, and SatCom — are the invisible backbone of the global economy. Space Capital invests at the intersection of space technology and global markets, backing founders building the infrastructure, distribution platforms, and applications that will generate the next wave of trillion-dollar outcomes.

Bridge US and global technology startups with more than 40 leading Asian multinational corporations, validating strategic partner intent pre-investment to accelerate go-to-market and drive follow-on co-investment.

Ubiquity Ventures invests in 'software beyond the screen' — B2B technology companies that apply AI and software to physical problems and systems. The three pillars are Smart Hardware (devices that sense and change the physical world), Machine Learning (AI for industries historically less penetrated by software), and Platforms (developer tools, security, and perception technologies for non-traditional computing). Check size: $1-2M seed, equal follow-on reserves for Series A.

High-growth companies creating a healthier, smarter, and cleaner future; cross-sector impact investing across climate, health, supply chain, education, employment, and government workflows.

Identifying culturally resonant, consumer-focused companies with differentiated products and founder teams that will capture global attention. We invest across technology, consumer behavior, entertainment, and culture—seeking to spot emerging trends before they reach mainstream awareness. We operate as a partnership combining rigorous deal selection with exceptional founder support, creative marketing, and deep understanding of consumer psychology.

Israel's leading pre-seed platform, backing first-time Israeli founders tapping into non-traditional industries. Invests $150K for 7.5% equity per company (up to $500K in the Digital Health track), paired with a 10-week intensive bootcamp and a 300+ person mentor network.

Impact Shakers backs diverse founders building impact businesses across climate tech, inclusion tech, and impact infrastructure, using capital plus ecosystem support to drive systemic change.

Invest in early-stage, scalable ventures with exceptional founders building emerging technology across Digital Health, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Agriculture, and Energy, digitally transforming industries core to the strengths of our Green Bay Packers and Microsoft partners and the Midwest region.

Capital plus mentorship: pool a network of ~150 CXO angel investors into a single SEBI-registered AIF shareholder to back early-stage Indian founders with checks, strategic guidance, and warm introductions to CXO networks and follow-on VCs.

European and DACH-region founders are well positioned to build category-leading global companies. Pair early capital with an exclusive network of 300+ entrepreneurs, VCs, and angels who have built and sold companies themselves.

High-conviction, early-stage investments in Fintech and Climatetech markets Diagram knows deeply through its own venture-building operations, partnering with founders on ambitious problems in large markets.

Backs DeepTech startups at the intersection of AI/ML, materials science, advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, optics, electronics, robotics, and blockchain — driving sustainable operational transformation across six thematics: transportation & logistics, energy & water, food & agriculture, fashion & beauty, precision medicine & aging, and retail & e-commerce. Requires commercial traction (min $1M revenue, 50%+ gross margins) and a minimum 10% ownership stake.

Sector and technology agnostic; backs exceptional founders building companies in large markets with a competitive advantage and tailwinds, evaluated on the '5 T's': Team, TAM, Traction, Timing, Terms.

Identify outlier early-stage Indian founders and back them with capital plus hands-on acceleration (mentorship, sector anchors, governance coaching, and a global demo day) to compound a portfolio of category leaders and future unicorns, emulating the Y Combinator model for India.

Global environmental challenges cannot be solved by established mega-corporations alone, but rather require breakthrough innovation from a diverse set of new companies. We combine venture capital with integrated storytelling and media to create culture-defining content around climate solutions and sustainable technology adoption.

Trucks funds entrepreneurs building the future of transportation across three mandates: decarbonized, safer, and more accessible. They back seed/pre-seed companies across autonomous vehicles, EVs, aviation, micromobility, aerospace, maritime, and logistics — any transportation sector at the frontier.

Invest in pre-seed and seed stage climate tech companies leveraging hard science and novel engineering to create a global economy more closely aligned with the earth's ecology. Focus on undercapitalized climate verticals (water, built environment, alternative materials) that will become major focus areas for larger institutions 2-4 years from now. Support technical founders transitioning from research to commercialization with business scaling expertise.

West Hill sources and syndicates £1-30m EIS/SEIS-qualifying capital raisings for high-growth UK and European technology and financial services businesses with strong IP, credible management with skin in the game, and a clear route to exit, drawing on a corporate finance network built over three decades.

Back remarkable teams building startups at the intersection of Sustainability and Social Good, using the UN SDGs as guideposts. The firm's 'impact moat' framework holds that mission alignment creates durable competitive advantage, making impact and venture returns mutually reinforcing rather than exclusive.

Great ideas and founders in Atlantic Canada that are ready to build massively scalable businesses; a by-founders, for-founders, hands-on value-add investor for the region's earliest-stage companies.