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Top Energy & Power Investors 2026

121 VC firms investing in energy & power, ranked by portfolio depth and activity.

Research by F4 Fund|Based on 2,900+ researched VC firms

Ranked by sector depth: the share of each firm's classified portfolio in this sector, its absolute count of investments here, and how recently it last invested. Firms need at least three portfolio companies in the sector to appear.

F4 Intelligence Brief
October 2026

F4 Fund tracks 121 VC firms that actively invest in energy & power, with check sizes ranging from $25K – $5000M (median: $3M). As of October 2026, 92% of these firms lead or co-lead rounds. Rankings are based on F4's proprietary analysis of 2,900+ researched VC firms. Ranked by how much of each firm's portfolio is actually in this sector, and how recently it invested.

121
Active Firms
Meet quality criteria
$3M
Median Check
92%
Lead Rounds
Lead or co-lead
55
Avg Portfolio
Companies per firm
7.1
Avg Team
Investment professionals
30%
Warm Intro
Prefer warm intros
All StagesPre-Seed(78)

Energy & Power Investor Rankings

#FirmCheck SizePortfolioLeads?Last investedDecisionIntro
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Breakthrough Energy Ventures

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.

United States
$500K – $50M45Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
3+ moOpen
2
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Virescent Ventures

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.

Sydney
$1M – $15M37Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
3
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Future Energy Ventures

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.

Essen, Germany
$1M – $10M49Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
4
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Mubadala

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.

Abu Dhabi
$5M – $5000M103Both
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
5
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AP Ventures

AP Ventures backs technically differentiated solutions across the hydrogen value chain, carbon capture and utilisation, and industrial decarbonisation, investing early and working closely with founders through commercialisation, industrial deployment and scale-up.

London
$500K – $15M28Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
6
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Powerhouse Ventures

The energy transition requires software infrastructure. Legacy utilities and energy infrastructure operate with 20th-century tools. Grid modernization, EV adoption, renewable integration, and industrial decarbonization all need modern software layers. Strategic corporate access validates product-market fit.

Oakland
$150K – $5M26Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
7
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Constellation Technology Ventures

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.

Baltimore
$2M – $10M23Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
8
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Energy Foundry

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

Chicago
$1M – $5M23Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
9
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My Climate Journey Collective

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.

San Francisco
$500K – $3M49Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
10
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Overture VC

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.

Los Angeles
$250K – $5M39Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
11
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Volo Earth Ventures

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.

Colorado
$500K – $5M33Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
12
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Gigascale Capital

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.

Palo Alto
$500K – $5M27Both
May 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
13
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ClearSky

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.

West Palm Beach, FL
$1M – $60M69Both
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
14
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Energy Impact Partners

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.

New York
$2M – $20M27Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
15
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Crosscut Ventures

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.

Los Angeles
$500K – $10M27Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
16
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Andera Partners

Companies grow best with the right partners alongside them. Andera Partners provides capital and hands-on operational support (acquisitions strategy, digitalisation, CSR, networking, internationalisation, human capital, operational improvement, financing) across six specialised strategies spanning life sciences, green infrastructure, SME/mid-cap growth capital, and mezzanine financing.

Paris
$1M – $160M289Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
17
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Energize Capital

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.

Chicago
$10M – $30M39Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
18
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Transition VC

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.

Bengaluru, India
$2M – $5M19Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
19
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Clean Energy Ventures

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.

Boston
$500K – $15M37Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
20
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Lowercarbon Capital
#21 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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.

New York
$1M – $15M33Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
21
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Toyota Ventures

Toyota's early-stage venture arm backing deep tech and climate tech founders in AI, robotics, computing, aerospace, mobility, energy and carbon capture.

San Francisco
$1M – $10M96Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
22
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Grok Ventures

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.

Sydney
$2M – $30M27Both
~Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
23
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Prelude Ventures

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.

San Francisco
$100K – $5M53Both
Mar 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
24
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Climate Capital

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.

San Francisco
$25K – $250K33Both
Mar 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
25
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Piva Capital

We invest in founders and emerging companies with foundational, cross-industry technological solutions at the inflection of scientific breakthrough and mass-market impact, transforming trillion-dollar industrial, materials, and energy markets.

San Francisco
$1M – $15M19Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
26
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Voyager

The world is transitioning from finite fuels and brittle processes to one powered by efficiency, automation, and machine intelligence. We invest in frontier technologies that are cheaper and higher-performing than fossil alternatives, building the foundational infrastructure for durable economic growth and abundance at global scale.

San Francisco
$500K – $5M15Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
27
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LG Technology Ventures

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.

Silicon Valley
$1M – $30M73Both
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
28
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PXN Ventures

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.

Manchester, UK
$260K – $10.4M102Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
29
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Lightrock

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.

London
$10M – $50M22Leads
May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
30
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Lifeline Ventures

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.

Helsinki
$100K – $3M137Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
31
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4impact capital

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.

The Hague, Netherlands
$250K – $2.5M23Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
32
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Cyan Ventures

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.

$500K – $3M23Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
33
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Cycle Capital

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.

Montreal
$5M – $40M24Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
34
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Hongtai Fund (Aplus Capital)

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.

Beijing
$1M – $30M40Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
35
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S2G Ventures

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.

Chicago
$2M – $100M44Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
36
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Wireframe Ventures

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.

San Francisco
$500K – $2M37Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
37
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Collab Fund

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.

New York
$500K – $10M45Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
38
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Zero Carbon Capital

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

Portsmouth, UK
$125K – $1.3M13Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
39
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Chevron Technology Ventures

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.

Houston
$2M – $20M55Follows
Jan 2026 · Active
3+ moOpen
40
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BMW i Ventures

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.

Mountain View
$500K – $10M72Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
41
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Energy Capital Ventures

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.

Chicago
$1.5M – $2M13Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
42
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Demos Capital

Category accelerator with a built-in venture fund: the accelerator work is the diligence, and conviction can become capital for companies building foundational technologies that create new markets.

Minneapolis
$200K – $400K14Follows
Oct 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
43
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Speciale Invest

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.

Chennai
$800K – $1.2M29Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
44
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UVC Partners

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.

Munich
$1M – $10M53Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
45
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Prime Movers Lab
#47 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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.

Jackson, Wyoming
$2M – $30M35Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
46
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Julian Capital

First check for deeptech founders building across all deeptech sectors (chips, energy, robotics, medtech, materials science, aerospace). We provide more than capital—we become your growth team, design your website, and offer hands-on go-to-market support backed by deep expertise in startup scaling and commercialization.

San Francisco
$750K – $1M17Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
47
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Trust Ventures
#62 · Emerging 100 · 2026

Backs founders building generational companies in markets where public policy and regulation, not technology, are the primary barrier to progress -- energy, housing, healthcare, insurance, and advanced manufacturing. Pairs capital with in-house legal and policy strategy to help portfolio companies navigate and reshape regulatory environments.

Austin
$250K – $30M19Follows
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
48
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Extantia

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.

Berlin
$1M – $5M29Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
49
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Active Impact Investments

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.

Vancouver
$250K – $3M42Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
50
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8090 Industries

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.

New York
$500K – $5M19Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
51
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Climactic

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.

San Francisco
$1.5M – $3M20Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
52
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Divergent Capital

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.

New York
$250K – $1M48Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
53
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In-Q-Tel (IQT)

Transformative national security solutions emerge from early-stage private-sector startups developing frontier technologies. IQT identifies, evaluates, and leverages innovations to accelerate government adoption while enhancing commercial success. As of May 2026, IQT is emphasizing mission investing through fewer larger bets in autonomy, contested logistics, critical infrastructure, and technologies that can move to mission use quickly.

Washington
$250K – $3M43Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
54
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Transition Global

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.

London
$100K – $5M17Both
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
55
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World Fund

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.

Berlin
$1M – $10M22Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
56
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Union Square Ventures
#50 · Top 100 · 2026

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.

New York
$1M – $6M60Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
57
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Almi Invest GreenTech

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.

Gothenburg, Sweden
$500K – $1.5M15Both
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
58
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Dolby Family Ventures

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.

San Francisco
$2M – $7M97Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
59
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b2venture

b2venture backs outlier entrepreneurs at the earliest stages across Europe, leveraging a multi-generational community of founder-turned-angel-investors to provide capital, expertise, and network access from seed through IPO.

Berlin
$250K – $5M33Both
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
60
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Chakra Growth Capital

Backs operator-founders applying breakthrough technology (agentic AI, physical AI, enterprise AI) to large, entrenched, atoms-heavy or regulated markets that have resisted digitization the longest.

Saratoga, CA
$100K – $3M23Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
61
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Shor Capital

Backing ruthlessly iterative founders at pre-consensus stages. We invest in founders before the broader market recognizes the opportunity, focusing on individuals who demonstrate exceptional ability to iterate quickly, navigate complex challenges, and maintain unwavering dedication to their vision.

Miami
$100K – $500K27N/A
~Oct 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
62
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CDH Investments

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.

Beijing
$5M – $50M50Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
63
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Scribble Ventures

AI companies are built differently. We back the world's best AI native founders and help them reshape our world for the better. We go wide on product and deep on GTM.

San Francisco
$300K – $1.5M121Leads
~Oct 2026 · Active
~1 wkOpen
64
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Seraphim Capital

Space has a unique role in addressing the world's most pressing problems and represents a $trillion investment opportunity. We back visionary entrepreneurs transforming science fiction into science fact using space technology and space-based data to solve challenges in sustainability, connectivity, and digitalization at global scale.

London
$250K – $25M124Both
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
65
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Commonweal Ventures

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.

New York
$500K – $2M27Both
~Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
66
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Avila VC

Invest at the intersection of bits and atoms to rebuild foundational industries - energy, manufacturing, materials, and infrastructure - for abundance, sustainability, and human flourishing.

Miami
$250K – $2.5M19Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
67
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Starlight Ventures

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.

Miami
$250K – $2.5M15Leads
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
68
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Systemiq Capital

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

London
$3M – $5M32Leads
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
69
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Future Ventures
#57 · Top 100 · 2026

Support passionate founders forging the future. Invest in seed and early-stage companies with unique ideas that have potential to reinvent entire industries. Focus on frontier technologies that make the world better and don't prey on human frailty.

San Francisco
$500K – $10M33Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
70
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Inveready

Enduring performance comes from a shared structure beneath apparent diversity: tailor-made equity, debt, and hybrid structures across specialized platforms, aligning interests between investors, teams, and companies at every stage of growth.

Barcelona
$1M – $5M192N/A
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
71
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Empirical Ventures

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.

Bristol, United Kingdom
$100K – $750K36Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
72
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Main Sequence

Main Sequence backs deep tech founders solving humanity-scale problems, especially companies connected to publicly funded research and spinouts that can turn breakthrough science into global businesses.

Eveleigh, NSW, Australia
$250K – $500K14Leads
May 2026 · Active
~1 moN/A
73
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Spiral Capital

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.

Tokyo
$330K – $3.3M90Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
74
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Investible

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.

Sydney
$250K – $3M100Both
~Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
75
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Avesta Fund

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.

Denver
$150K – $500K25Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
76
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Cerulean Ventures

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.

Santa Barbara, CA
$500K – $750K23Leads
~May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
77
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6 Degrees Capital

We partner with founders building the next generation of mission-critical enterprise software, teams harnessing AI across the stack, and builders reinventing how finance moves, is managed, and creates opportunity.

Antwerp, Belgium
$1M – $8M44Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
78
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Refactor 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.

Burlingame, CA
$1M – $2M49Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 wkOpen
79
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Garage Capital

The best companies are built by founders for founders. Garage invests at the earliest stages in high-potential Canadian and YC startups, providing capital plus experienced operational advice from GPs who have built, scaled, and sold venture-backed companies. The goal is to make world-class early-stage capital accessible within Canada so founders don't need to go to Silicon Valley.

Kitchener, ON, Canada
$1M – $5M49Both
~Oct 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
80
▶
Equal Ventures

Bridging the digital divide by investing in founders deploying technology within legacy industries (climate/energy, insurance, retail, supply chain). We make high-conviction bets at the deployment phase of technology cycles, before they are consensus.

New York
$1.5M27Leads
May 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
81
▶
Moxxie Ventures

Exceptional founders living in the future deserve operators who provide more than capital. We partner with founders on go-to-market, brand, storytelling, and team building.

San Francisco
$500K – $2M68Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
82
▶
Voyager Capital

Investing in the modern economy through AI-driven business solutions, software-driven hardware, sustainable agriculture, and supply chain technology in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada, being the first institutional partner in a founder's journey.

Seattle
$1M – $5M68Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
83
▶
Dorm Room Fund

Write the first check for founders still in school or just out, backing the builder before the idea or product is settled.

$90K – $500K319Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
84
▶
Neotribe Ventures
#87 · Top 100 · 2026

Breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination — deep tech with the potential to create new product categories. We bring company-building skills and operating expertise to help founders find product-market fit.

Menlo Park
$1M – $80M70Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
85
▶
Clave Capital

Clave partners with universities, hospitals, and research centers to turn Spanish scientific research into investable companies (tech transfer) in health, food, and industrial technology, while also backing established industrial SMEs and renewable energy infrastructure.

Pamplona, Spain
$300K – $3.1M70Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
86
▶
Building Ventures

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.

Boston
$100K – $10M43Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
3+ moReq'd
87
▶
Linear Capital

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.

Shanghai
$1M – $10M79Leads
~Oct 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
88
▶
Acurio Ventures

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.

Bilbao, Spain
$100K – $3M95Both
~Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
89
▶
Toba Capital

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.

Los Angeles & Newport Beach, CA
$500K – $10M44Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
90
▶
Avaana Capital

Back visionary founders using frontier innovation to build globally competitive solutions for India and the world, with value beyond capital through domain insight, industry linkage and catalytic capital.

Mumbai
$120K – $2M26Both
May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
91
▶
Ribbit Capital
#18 · Top 100 · 2026

We back rebels who challenge the status quo and reshape financial systems through technology. The best fintech founders see structural inefficiencies before others and have the conviction to build something fundamentally better. We partner with them not just with capital, but with hands-on operational expertise, regulatory fluency, and deep financial services networks.

Palo Alto
$2M – $100M150Leads
~Oct 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
92
▶
Heartfelt Capital

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.

Berlin
$100K – $400K161Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
93
▶
Virta Ventures

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.

$100K – $750K28Both
Mar 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
94
▶
Crucible Capital

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.

New York
$500K – $3M30Both
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
95
▶
Shorewind Capital

Backing frontier, technically ambitious founders solving civilization-scale problems in energy, biology, maritime logistics, defense, and human performance rather than incremental software.

Burlingame, CA
$1.3M – $43M31N/A
May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
96
▶
Galvanize Climate Solutions

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).

San Francisco
$1M – $40M70N/A
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
97
▶
Humba Ventures

We invest in hard tech and hard sectors—companies building solutions to difficult, underexplored problems that others won't. Unlocking society's potential depends on founders willing to build what others won't. We're hyper curious, drawn to difficult and underexplored areas.

San Francisco
$250K – $1M39Leads
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
98
▶
Green Generation Fund

Back founders building technologies that reshape the foundational sectors of food, agriculture, energy and resources, across deep tech, AI and consumer and marketplaces.

Berlin
$500K – $2.5M26Both
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
99
▶
Trucks Venture Capital

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.

San Francisco
$500K – $2M63Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
~1 moN/A
100
▶
Draper Associates

Invest in bold, visionary founders building transformational businesses long before the world believes in them. We back founders solving impossible-seeming problems across frontier sectors: AI/robotics, crypto, biotech, aerospace, and unconventional ideas.

San Mateo, CA
$500K – $30M31Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
~1 wkOpen
101
▶
Abstract Ventures
#28 · Emerging 100 · 2026

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

San Francisco
$100K – $1M276Both
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
102
▶
M1C

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.

Miami Beach, FL
$100K – $500K30Follows
Feb 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
103
▶
Mission One Capital

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.

Miami
$100K – $500K32Both
Feb 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
104
▶
Riot Ventures
#24 · Emerging 100 · 2026

Modernize critical industries through deep technology. We are dedicated to backing ambitious, technically sophisticated founders solving hard problems in traditionally underserved sectors. We provide capital, operational guidance, board partnership, and network access—supporting companies from pre-seed through growth stages.

$500K – $100M28Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
105
▶
Third Sphere

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.

San Francisco
$250K – $3M24Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
106
▶
Deeptech Labs

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.

Cambridge
$125K – $440K63N/A
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
107
▶
Balderton Capital

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.

$500K – $15M200Leads
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
108
▶
Demea Sustainable Investment

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.

Paris
$1M – $30M36Both
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
109
▶
DBL Partners

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.

San Francisco
$2M – $50M46Leads
Oct 2025 · Active
~2 moN/A
110
▶
Rosecliff Ventures
#78 · Emerging 100 · 2026

Rosecliff's Frontier Technology Thesis focuses on AI, aerospace, defense, energy resilience, and space infrastructure.

New York
$500K – $10M107Both
Mar 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
111
▶
Aera VC

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.

Singapore
$500K – $20M33Leads
Jan 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
112
▶
Giant Ventures

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.

London
$500K – $15M35Both
Dec 2025 · Active
~2 moOpen
113
▶
Wonder Ventures

Invest in Southern California's best founders earlier than anyone else. No idea is too early. We fund companies earlier than most VCs, providing not just capital but hands-on support and operational expertise. Our founder-first philosophy and No Ghosting Rule ensure responsive, engaged partnerships.

Santa Monica
$250K – $2M51Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~1 wkReq'd
114
▶
Cantos
#57 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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.

San Francisco
$400K – $1.5M42Leads
Dec 2025 · Active
~1 moReq'd
115
▶
Wave Function Ventures

Deep tech hardware companies in aerospace, defense, energy, robotics, and industrial manufacturing represent the next generation of durable, high-return ventures. The fund backs founders at the earliest stage — sometimes pre-incorporation — who are building hardware solutions to the world's most important problems, leveraging government contracts and non-dilutive funding alongside venture capital.

Los Angeles
$150K – $750K12Leads
Oct 2025 · Active
~1 moOpen
116
▶
CE-Ventures

Corporate venture platform of Crescent Enterprises investing in early- to late-stage high-growth companies and venture funds globally, unbound by sector or stage, across consumer, deep-tech and biotech.

Sharjah, UAE
$2M – $7M52Both
Jan 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
117
▶
Partners Resolute

Invest in people and products that leverage technological breakthroughs or superior user experience to radically change the status quo. Focus on structurally sound, strategically defensible business models that create and capture new markets. True partnership approach: value-add extends beyond capital to include strategic guidance, operational expertise, and network introductions.

$250K – $8M57Leads
Jan 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
118
▶
TransLink Capital

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.

Palo Alto
$500K – $7M95Both
May 2025 · Active
N/AN/A
119
▶
Snatched Ventures

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.

San Francisco
$500K – $5M25Leads
Feb 2025 · Active
N/AN/A
120
▶
Footprint Coalition

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.

Los Angeles
$250K – $15M32Leads
Jan 2024 · Active
~1 moReq'd
121
▶
Batch Ventures

Specialized, community-driven funds indexed into proven networks (Y Combinator, CTOs and VPs of Engineering) to deliver diversification, domain expertise and direct founder impact.

San Francisco
$100K – $200K135N/A—N/AN/A

Investment Patterns

Check Size Distribution

<$500K
14 (12%)
$500K-$1M
8 (7%)
$1M-$2M
27 (22%)
$2M-$5M
24 (20%)
$5M-$10M
22 (18%)
$10M+
26 (21%)

Stage Coverage

What other stages do these firms also invest in?

Pre-Seed
64%
Seed
91%
Series A
74%
Series B
32%
Growth
19%
series_c
7%

Sector Overlap

What other sectors do these firms also invest in?

Climate Clean Energy
87%
Energy Power
86%
Robotics Automation
60%
Developer Tools Infra
50%
Manufacturing Industrial
49%
Enterprise Software
46%
Healthcare Digital
45%
Biotech Life Sciences
44%

Frequently Asked Questions

Q

How many Energy & Power investors does F4 track in 2026?

F4 Fund tracks 121 VC firms that actively invest in energy & power. Ranked by sector depth: the share of each firm's classified portfolio in this sector, its absolute count of investments here, and how recently it last invested. Firms need at least three portfolio companies in the sector to appear.

Q

What is the typical check size for energy & power investors?

Based on F4's analysis, the median check size for energy & power investors is $3M, with a full range from $25K – $5000M. The distribution breaks down as: 14 firms in the <$500K range, 8 firms in the $500K-$1M range, 27 firms in the $1M-$2M range, 24 firms in the $2M-$5M range, 22 firms in the $5M-$10M range, 26 firms in the $10M+ range.

Q

Do energy & power investors lead rounds?

Among the 121 firms tracked, 92% lead or co-lead rounds, and 3% typically follow. Founders seeking a lead investor should filter for firms marked "Leads" or "Both" in the rankings table above. Lead investors typically set deal terms and anchor the round.

Q

What should I look for in a energy & power investor?

The best energy & power investors combine domain expertise with an active portfolio in the space. Among these firms, 30% prefer warm introductions, and the average firm has 55 portfolio companies. Look for firms whose check size matches your raise, whose stage preference aligns with yours, and who have a track record of supporting companies in your sector through multiple growth phases.

Q

How often is this energy & power investor data updated?

Firm profiles are continuously updated through F4's research pipeline, which combines LLM-powered web research, portfolio analysis, and transcript extraction. The ranking data refreshes every 12 hours. Editorial analysis is reviewed weekly. Individual firm profiles are re-researched on a 30-day cycle or when new information surfaces.

Related Investor Categories

Investors on this page also frequently invest in these sectors

Climate & Sustainability87%›
Robotics & Automation60%›
Developer Tools & Infrastructure50%›
Manufacturing & Industrial49%›
Enterprise Software46%›
Healthcare & Digital Health45%›