Top Manufacturing & Industrial Investors 2026

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.

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.

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.

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.

We back high-growth B2B and industrial-tech startups in the industrial heartland of Europe, extending three decades of industrial private equity experience into venture-stage technology that modernizes manufacturing, logistics, and enterprise workflows.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Making the physical world machine-readable. Humans bridge disconnected engineering systems, factories, supply chains, and infrastructure through experience and intuition; intelligent machines cannot. Omni invests in the technologies building the connected data foundation AI requires to operate in the physical world.

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.

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.

Industrial sustainability hard tech where the sustainable solution is also economically superior — no green premium required. BetterWay backs non-software companies that change the economics of sustainability for legacy industry. Techno-economic analysis is the first filter; if the product cannot compete on price from day one, it is not fundable.

We find, fund, and empower entrepreneurs who turn technological advancements into hardware and software products that fundamentally improve industrial value chains, aiming to build category winners that form the backbone of a thriving, sovereign European industrial ecosystem.

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.

Drive economic growth and generate a long-term positive impact on society and the environment by backing the ecological transition across infrastructure, growth-stage SMEs, and climate-tech venture/scale-up companies.

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.

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.

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.

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 experienced operators acquiring profitable, consistently growing small-to-medium businesses through self-funded search and independent sponsor (ETA) deals. Prioritize speed, fair terms, and operator-friendly involvement.

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.

Physical industries face growing pressure to increase productivity, withstand operational and geopolitical risk, and decarbonise at speed, but legacy infrastructure and real-world complexity constrain deployment. KOMPAS backs founders building enabling technologies that operate in real industrial environments across manufacturing, energy, logistics, infrastructure, and the built environment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Founders need more than just capital—they need belief, community, and infrastructure to build great companies. We're the first believers in bold ideas at the earliest stages, providing campus access, daily support, and a community of exceptional builders.

Back founders upgrading the physical world across energy, buildings and infrastructure (Electrify, Automate, Fortify), early and before the market catches on.

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.

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.

Iron Wolf Capital backs exceptional technical founders building globally relevant deep tech and defence companies from the Baltic Sea Region and diaspora. The firm treats regional technical depth, capital efficiency, and category-specific expertise as the core source of advantage.

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.

Removing noise to see the signal: thematic, top-down research into structural demographic, technological, and policy shifts (Mega Trends), paired with founders who have true vitality. Signal Strength = Mega Trend x Founder Vitality.

Deep tech unlocks new and ground-breaking pathways to solve fundamental societal challenges. We back technical founders with unique, defendable IP addressing large markets, providing hands-on, long-term capital across the full company lifecycle.

Identify early-stage, foundational frontier technologies (machine learning, quantum computing, robotics, and related industrial-tech) with a high probability of becoming part of tomorrow's industrial landscape, and help technical founders turn them into practical industrial businesses.

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

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.

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.

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).

Investing at the intersection of Invention & Culture. We back founders building category-defining consumer companies where technology breakthroughs meet emerging human behavior. We see inflection points before they're consensus by tracking both emerging technology capabilities and emerging consumer demands.

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.

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.

The most valuable applications of AI-powered SaaS and robotics aren't in the spotlight; they're in the trenches, solving complex problems and delivering immediate, quantifiable ROI for enterprise customers in the 'dirty, dull, and dangerous' industries traditional venture capital overlooks.

Root Ventures is composed entirely of practicing engineers and hardware hackers who explicitly underwrite 'engineering risk' in technically challenging areas like robotics, developer tools, and manufacturing tech that many generalist funds avoid. They provide capital, operational support, and serve as an 'invisible employee' to technical founding teams.

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.

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

Backing transformative founders building exceptional companies across all sectors

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

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.

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.

Point72 Ventures backs ambitious founders building for big outcomes across critical domains. Going deep, not wide—the firm focuses on specialized investment theses in AI, Consumer, and Defense Tech, bringing deep sector insights, partnership, and hands-on support from seed to pre-IPO.

Conviction-based seed investing in ambitious founders applying technology—especially AI—to solve the world's hardest problems for every American. Operator-led with deep hands-on support across sales, engineering hiring, and Series A positioning.

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).

Boreal invests in capital-efficient Canadian B2B technology companies with early product-market fit, partnering with founders to build scalable go-to-market engines. The firm focuses on sectors systematically overlooked by larger funds: vertical SaaS & AI, industrial tech, fintech, digital health, and manufacturing. With Fund II, Boreal will not cover medtech and will not take scientific or pure R&D risks. Provides more formalized GTM support via JD Saint-Martin's operational expertise. Targets 15 investments from Fund II, 90% at seed stage with $1.5M-$3M initial cheques.

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.

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.

Nurture inspiring, globally-ambitious technology ideas through their critical early stage, financially and professionally, drawing on an international team's expertise in entrepreneurship, M&A, media/marketing, and operations, plus a network of experienced mentors.

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.

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.

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.

Digital transformation is everywhere except where it matters. The world's essential physical industries—manufacturing, supply chain, transportation, healthcare infrastructure, and energy—have failed to keep pace with technological innovation. These industries are ripe for transformation through digitization, automation, and physical AI. We partner with experienced operators and technical founders to rebuild critical infrastructure.

The next decade of AI moves into the physical economy, where labor is scarce and systems are fragile. Physical World backs Physical AI founders at pre-seed and seed across supply chain, labor, aerospace, energy, and resilience — markets shaped by chokepoints rather than trends.

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.

The physical world is wired; the constraint was never connectivity, it was intelligence. McRock backs Industrial AI -- software purpose-built to reason, predict, and act on operational data across manufacturing, logistics, energy, and other physical-economy industries.

Some of the next major global technology companies will be built in industrial technology, across connectivity and IoT, industrial intelligence and orchestration, and robotics and automation.

Back visionary founders and high-potential technology startups with strategic capital and operational support across a family of Turkish VC investment funds, each with its own sector and stage thesis.

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.

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.

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

Digital transformation is essential for legacy industrial sectors to solve critical challenges: labor shortages, material inflation, supply chain fragility, and infrastructure modernization. We partner with world-class founders building innovative solutions across manufacturing, construction, transport/logistics, and alternative energy.

Some of the next major global technology companies will be built in industrial technology. RunwayVC backs the technology stack behind that transformation: connectivity and IoT that makes industrial data available, industrial intelligence and orchestration that turns data into decisions, and robotics and automation that brings decisions into the physical world.

Backs breakthrough, IP-heavy deep-tech and medtech spin-offs from Dutch research institutes and universities (TNO, TU Eindhoven, TU Delft, LUMC, Radboudumc, Maastricht University), providing first institutional capital and syndicate participation for ventures with long development cycles addressing societal challenges in healthcare and technology.

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.

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.

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.

Entrepreneurship is one of the most powerful engines for impact and value creation. Back founders with purpose, grit, and urgency building consequential companies solving significant problems in healthcare, fintech, and industrials. Lead first checks, stay in trenches, and scale together.

Adapting the built world for future generations. We back visionary entrepreneurs redefining construction, real estate, and infrastructure through productivity, sustainability, and urbanization technology, backed by a network of top-tier construction-sector corporate LPs.

Outlier founders and ideas shape the future of humanity. We back ambitious founders building category-defining companies that create significant impact while generating returns that support non-profit and educational causes.

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.

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.

We back founders building the technology stack that runs Europe's industrial economy — from AI-native supply chains to autonomous production systems, investing along the full value chain of physical products.

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.

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.

Make exploratory investments in startups solving Yamaha Motor's long-term social problems: feeding the world sustainably, enhancing human possibilities, enabling longer and healthier lives, and moving people and goods around the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We invest in startups and venture funds, creating a symbiotic network that propels innovation. Our approach is characterized by long-term thinking and a 'give first' philosophy.

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.

Backing founders who use technology to remove friction in consumption, productivity, and financial access for the ~400M Indians beyond the top 50M most startups have historically targeted.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Backing IP-led innovation in science, engineering, and technology that can create durable, defensible value. Evaluates team drive, TAM scalability, and technology defensibility. Provides patient financing suited to hardware-adjacent, R&D-heavy businesses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Entourage backs and builds early-stage B2B SaaS and software companies, combining VC capital with venture studio and founder-operator support from zero to one and beyond.

Partner with elite, early-stage teams building differentiated and defensible technology. Provide Most Value Per dollar on founders' cap tables through capital and operational support.

Pax Technica: The next era of American global leadership will emerge from physical-world technological superiority — reinventing defense, energy, manufacturing, aerospace, and critical infrastructure. Backs mission-driven founders tackling the hardest industrial-scale problems.

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.

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.

Technology will define geopolitics. We invest in the Freedom Stack—foundational technologies critical to American national security and technological leadership. We partner with mission-driven founders building capabilities essential to American prosperity and strategic advantage.

Back mission-driven founders addressing significant global challenges through leading-edge technology. Provide flexible and patient capital, leveraging our time, resources, and networks to support portfolio company success. Focus on founders with authentic social and environmental missions alongside commercial viability.

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.

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.

We partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs building product-first companies that redefine their categories. In the US, we focus on transformative AI and enterprise software. In India, we back digital-native businesses solving local market problems at scale.

Mercia backs ambitious UK founders with early traction in software and AI, consumer, deep tech, and life sciences, and pairs capital with practical support through a long-term partnership.

Leverage the confluence of consumption, financial inclusion and technology across emerging low- and middle-income populations to build sustainable, scalable businesses that benefit investors and society.

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.

Inception-stage partner to ambitious founders building advanced technologies, from deep tech and AI for science to AI infrastructure and vertical AI, before the product or customers exist.

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.

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.

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.

5Y Capital seeks out, supports, and inspires lonely entrepreneurs, providing support from spirit to all business operations, believing that when founders others see as crazy are trusted, the world becomes a different place.

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.

Opportunistic investing in mission-critical, non-cyclical dual-use businesses, combining flexible capital with operating expertise from a network of national-security veterans to build scalable platforms aligned with strategic partner needs.

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.

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.

AI is the most consequential technology platform shift of our lifetimes. We back outlier founders building AI-native applications at the application layer, where AI is central to why the product exists, not a bolt-on feature.

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.

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.

We invest in technical breakthroughs that overcome the world's greatest challenges. We partner at inception with technically brilliant dreamers who see past impossible to inevitable. We evaluate scientific opportunities through both commercial potential and human impact lenses.

Anorak Ventures invests in teams building transformative technologies that reshape the real world. The next generation of great technology companies will not just live on the internet; they will rebuild infrastructure, strengthen domestic capabilities, enable frontier exploration, and solve critical real-world challenges through robotics, AI, 3D computing, and deep-tech innovation.

Partner with ambitious founders building category-winning companies. We believe great founders who understand execution, customer obsession, and operational excellence can build transformative companies. We provide capital, operational guidance, network access, and strategic partnership—not just funding.

Unearth, invest and grow startups into global leaders. iGlobe targets game-changing innovations at the frontier of deep tech — semiconductors, AI, quantum computing, and biotech — with a global orientation and a Singapore hub. Founded by Soo Boon Koh, Singapore's first female VC, the firm brings 25+ years of cross-border investing expertise and a top-quartile performance record.

Sierra believes enterprise software is being fundamentally transformed by cloud computing and AI. They invest in technical founders building the next generation of enterprise solutions that deliver superior ROI through better efficiency, automation, and capability. The firm particularly focuses on infrastructure, security, healthcare innovation, and emerging deep tech.

Invest in exceptional new-frontier technology companies that bring liquidity and efficiency to antiquated industries.

Building and investing in enduring services platforms and iconic consumer brands, combining family office values and private equity sophistication with an entrepreneurial spirit and permanent capital base.

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 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.

Canadians have built over $1 trillion in enterprise value globally, yet were initially backed by US VC not Canadian investors. We back founders with Canadian roots—regardless of where they build—because exceptional talent from Canada represents a sustainable, quantifiable selection edge.

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.

First-check capital for outsiders building the essential software that quietly runs the world: developer infrastructure, workflow intelligence and industrial software.

No single company can produce all the innovation required to serve real estate clients. JLL Spark invests in early-stage technology startups solving problems in commercial real estate, construction, and workplace management.

Deep tech startups at the edge of what is possible solve critical human and planetary health problems. SOSV backs founders combining scientific rigor with entrepreneurial grit, providing not just capital but access to specialized labs, manufacturing, and global expertise networks.

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.

Partner with premier, high-growth consumer companies across omni-channel retail/e-commerce, restaurants, branded consumer packaged products, and food & beverage, providing long-term growth capital as brands scale. A substantial share of fund capital comes from the general partners' own money.

Immigrants are strongly underrepresented in venture capital despite founding or co-founding 55% of America's billion-dollar startups. Immigration and entrepreneurship are parallel one-way journeys. We back exceptional immigrant founders because their success is not priced into the market.

Belief backs young, deeply technical founders building AI, robotics, infrastructure, and other systems-level companies toward a future of abundance.

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.

We invest in founders with deep technical expertise and a specific vision of the future. As former founders and company builders ourselves, we provide not just capital but steady partnership through early stages. We are contrarians who invest with conviction.

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.

We back MIT founders building deep-tech companies with defensible science or engineering advantages. We support the transition from researcher to founder, providing both capital ($500K-$5M) and operational support through the MIT ecosystem.

The most defensible companies are built on hard technology solving real problems at scale. We partner with technical founders leveraging deep domain expertise and the Tsinghua network to identify and nurture transformative innovations in deeptech, healthtech, and the data economy.

Pre-seed fund investing in technical founders building developer-facing tools and infrastructure. Focused on curiosity, velocity of learning, and rapid building. Believe the world is shaped by unique insights at the intersection of art/culture and math/science.

Back vertical singularities in the project economy (construction, AEC, infrastructure, heavy supply chains) that own capacity and compound optionality.

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.

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.

Pathbreaker invests in specialized engineering and product leaders solving critical global problems through emerging technologies (hardware and software). The fund believes AI, robotics, and computer vision will transform traditional industries over the coming decades. Pathbreaker focuses on companies tackling $100B+ problems at inception and pre-seed stages.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gender-diverse teams produce superior returns on equity. We fund exceptional women-led startups where women hold meaningful operating C-suite roles and own substantial equity. Research shows companies with diverse female leadership are 39% more likely to be above-average profitable, 30% more likely to outperform, and 20% more likely to improve business outcomes.

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.

Exceptional companies are built by founders with deep conviction, strong technical foundations, and the courage to tackle meaningful problems. Panache backs visionary founders from day one, providing capital alongside hands-on operational support and nationwide founder networks.

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.

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.

Partner with relentless founders through their most defining stages of growth, using an in-house Research team to underwrite and support commerce-infrastructure and AI-native technology companies.

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.

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 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.

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.

We back bold founders at the earliest stages with capital and deep operational support. High-conviction, long-term partnerships with founders solving real problems. Founder-market fit above all else. Speed, transparency, and staying committed through difficult times.

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.

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.

BITKRAFT invests in Synthetic Reality—the convergence of physical and digital worlds. We back gaming studios, interactive media platforms, and emerging technology (Web3, AI, AR/VR) that will define how humans experience entertainment and social connection in the future.

First-check investor in the most ambitious founders from angel to pre-IPO, backing pre-product/market-fit teams before the answers are clear; Fund VI focuses on AI-native companies.

Back the world's most ambitious and transformative entrepreneurs capable of building world-defining companies over 20+ years. Invest in founders with independent thought and first-principles vision to solve humanity's biggest problems across all sectors and geographies.

Built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs — NCV invests thematically in Next Coast markets (Austin, Midwest, Mountain West) at the Seed/Series A inflection point. They back glass-eating founders building category-defining companies in large markets, providing capital plus hands-on company building support via their 150+ expert network.

Back technical founders bringing AI to the physical world — manufacturing, logistics, construction, defence, energy, and infrastructure. Bridge the gap between AI pilots and production-deployed systems generating enterprise revenue.

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.

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.

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.

Investing in the picks and shovels of volatility caused by convergent forces (AI, Web3, Deep Science) intersecting with demographic shifts and climate change. We seek to create venture-scale returns by backing bold founders building more equitable, beneficial, transparent, and accessible structures.

With the aid of capital and experience, partner with entrepreneurs building deep-tech, smart-manufacturing, and internet-driven consumption businesses to transform their ideas into world-leading enterprises.

Technology is nothing unless paired with a clear investment strategy, adequate funding, a talented team, and an ecosystem of knowledge institutes, corporates, and mentors. DeepTechXL backs Dutch deep-tech startups building on key enabling technologies (advanced materials, digital tech, engineering & fabrication, nanotech, photonics, quantum) that address energy transition, security, health & care, and agriculture/water/food.

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.

If you invest in tech, you should use technology to do it. Blue Moon operates like a fintech company using proprietary AI/ML across all operations — sourcing 8,000+ deals/year, vetting with ML algorithms analyzing 53 personality traits, and supporting founders with AI tools. They seek exceptional B2B/Enterprise founders building in Infrastructure, Cloud, DevTools, AI, SaaS, Cybersecurity, and B2B Fintech.

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.

Gula Tech Adventures invests in startups solving critical cybersecurity and national security problems, with a focus on founders who combine deep technical expertise, business acumen, and mission alignment. Rather than a traditional VC, Gula Tech operates as a self-funded, impact-focused family office enabling long-term patient capital. The firm evaluates opportunities equally on three dimensions: the problem being solved, deal fundamentals, and team quality. Ron and Cyndi's success building Tenable enables hands-on mentorship, technical due diligence, and access to government and critical infrastructure networks.

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.

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.

Operator-led fund investing in ambitious founders building transformative AI applications. We partner with technical founders who understand AI/ML deeply and are solving real customer problems with capital efficiency. Great product is always the best marketing.

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.

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.

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.

We invest in the future of commerce by backing early-stage companies in vertical commerce, physical retail technology, and commerce infrastructure. We provide operational support alongside capital, working in the trenches with founders to build 100-year companies.

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.

Backing dynamically developing enterprises with global aspirations at seed and early stage across Internet/SaaS, IoT/Hardware, Renewable Energy Sources, and Life Science (MedTech/BioTech). 4-14 year investment horizon with a patient capital approach through multiple fund vehicles.

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.

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.