Societe Generale is a European financial services group offering a broad range of banking and financial services, including retail, corporate, and investment banking, as well as securities services, asset management, and payment and cash management. The group serves individuals, businesses, financial institutions, and public sector clients through a global network and emphasizes sustainable finance and the energy transition, financing renewable energy, infrastructure, and related projects. Its activities cover advisory, capital markets, structured finance, and financing solutions across sectors such as energy, infrastructure, technology, and financial services. The company pursues responsible innovation and strong governance, with focus on risk management, compliance, and transparency. By leveraging digital solutions and cross-asset expertise, Societe Generale aims to deliver stable, long-term value for clients while promoting financial inclusion and stakeholder engagement.

EIT InnoEnergy is an innovation engine focused on sustainable energy, established in 2010 to drive clean-tech innovation across Europe and the United States. It supports early-stage climate tech and energy ventures through minority equity investments and value-added services that de-risk and accelerate growth, while building an ecosystem that fosters resilient clean-tech value chains and helps portfolio companies scale toward a net-zero economy.

Gaia Impact is a Paris-based impact investment firm focused on building a zero-carbon economy by funding companies that deploy decentralized renewable energy solutions, with a primary focus on accelerating the energy transition in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. It supports SDGs 7 and 13 and reports impact such as 1.9 million people gaining energy access, 440,000 tonnes of CO2 avoided, and 1,542 jobs created or supported through January 2024. Investments follow SFDR Article 9 requirements and are overseen by an independent Impact Committee to validate results. Gaia Impact maintains a presence in Paris and Nairobi.

Breakthrough Energy is a global platform dedicated to accelerating innovation in clean energy to address climate change and meet the world’s growing energy demand. Established in 2016 and based in Kirkland, Washington, the organization invests in and partners with companies across manufacturing, electricity, agriculture, transportation, and buildings to develop and deploy breakthrough technologies such as carbon removal, sustainable materials production, green hydrogen, and advanced energy storage, with the goal of providing affordable and reliable energy while minimizing environmental impact. It promotes a public-private approach to mobilize governments, research institutions, engineers, and investors, and supports minority investments across seed to later stages through venture activities managed by an executive team.

The European Innovation Council is a European Commission initiative that supports Europe’s deep-tech innovators, researchers, and startups. It funds breakthrough research and technology transfer projects, and delivers equity-like investments through the EIC Fund, as well as prizes and acceleration services to help teams scale. The council also co-invests with private investors in early-stage ventures and places emphasis on high-impact technologies with ESG relevance. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Brussels, it concentrates on deep-tech sectors including defence and dual-use technologies, while promoting international collaboration and market access for awardees. It aims to strengthen Europe’s innovation ecosystem by sharing data, hosting events, publishing insights, and fostering partnerships that accelerate the journey from lab to market.

Lowercarbon Capital is a venture capital firm that concentrates on climate technology investments, backing early-stage to growth-stage companies across energy, manufacturing, climate resilience, and related sectors. Based in Jackson, Wyoming, the firm supports its portfolio with strategic guidance and access to a network of industry experts to accelerate development and scale real-world solutions that reduce emissions and advance sustainability. Its focus includes technologies such as solar, wind, carbon capture, and alternative chemical processes, as well as solutions in transportation, industrial materials, and agriculture. Lowercarbon Capital has raised more than $200 million and seeks opportunities with founders and teams tackling climate change through innovative, practical applications. The firm emphasizes a hands-on, partner-led approach that helps startups navigate growth challenges and scale impact.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is a global investor in energy infrastructure, founded in 2012. The company develops and finances large-scale projects that support the energy transition, including solar and wind power, advanced bioenergy, energy storage, transmission, and low-carbon fuels. It operates in more than 30 countries across Europe, Asia and North America, managing approximately 37 billion euros in assets from over 200 institutional investors and employing a workforce of over 2,300 professionals. CIP seeks to create long-term value through sustainable, resilient energy infrastructure and has pursued strategic initiatives such as expanding UK battery storage capacity and scaling European biogas production.

Inspired Evolution Investment Management is a Cape Town-based private equity and venture capital firm focused on sustainable environmental and energy technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2007, it targets growth across energy generation, energy efficiency, renewable energy, water treatment, waste management, green chemistry and related infrastructure, with a pan-African footprint that includes Southern Africa and other regional markets. The firm engages across multiple growth stages, often acting as a lead investor, and takes significant minority or majority stakes while providing advisory services. It relies on a multidisciplinary team with a track record of aligning development goals with commercial returns, leveraging a broad regional network to support portfolio companies and accelerate clean energy deployment and resource efficiency projects. Its presence spans offices in Africa and Europe, reflecting its pan-African reach.

Allied Irish Banks is a commercial bank established in 1966 and headquartered in Dublin. It provides financial services to individuals and businesses, including personal and business loans, mortgages, savings and deposits, treasury, and life insurance, as well as corporate banking. The bank serves medium to large-sized clients and has operations in Ireland and the United Kingdom through Allied Irish Bank (GB), emphasizing relationship-driven service for business customers. It caters to sectors such as software, information technology, marine, retail, healthcare, and ag-tech, while combining traditional branch banking with digital banking capabilities.

SET Ventures is an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm specializing in early-stage to growth equity investments in European energy technology companies. Founded in 2007, it backs startups that digitalize and decarbonize the energy system, with emphasis on smart energy solutions, distributed energy, energy storage, and platforms enabling energy efficiency across buildings, mobility, and industry. The firm targets companies developing software and hardware that improve energy generation, transmission, distribution, and use, including smart grids, IoT, data analytics, and grid-scale technologies. It often takes an active role, including board seats, to support portfolio companies through scaling, with a focus on European market expansion. Investments range across stages and focus on business models that combine intelligent software or services with hardware, and seek to drive emissions reduction and cleaner, more efficient energy systems. SET Ventures operates from Amsterdam and has raised multiple funds to back ambitious founders in the energy transition.

Congruent Ventures is an early-stage venture firm based in San Francisco, California, focused on climate tech and sustainability across North America. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build category-defining companies addressing mobility and urbanization, energy transition, agriculture and food, and sustainable production and consumption, supporting ventures from formation capital to Series A. It aims to maximize environmental impact alongside venture returns and works closely with founders to scale their ventures. With more than $1 billion in assets under management across climate-focused funds, Congruent is among the largest early-stage climate portfolios and an active investor in the climate and sustainability ecosystem since its founding in 2017.

Kopa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on climate tech startups across Europe, especially the DACH region, investing in Energy, Mobility, Nature, and Carbon Tech. Founded in 2017 and based in Europe, the firm backs startups from pre-seed to Series A, aiming to accelerate a climate-positive economy. It combines financial support with access to a network of industry experts and partners to help portfolio companies scale. The firm emphasizes impact alongside financial returns, assessing traditional carbon metrics and broader environmental KPIs, and leverages a team of entrepreneurs to provide mentorship and strategic guidance.

Global Brain is a Tokyo-based independent venture capital firm founded in 1998 that invests in technology companies worldwide from seed to pre-IPO stages. It focuses on sectors such as advertising, agritech, foodtech, AI, blockchain, climate tech, cloud software-as-a-service, commerce, and cybersecurity, and provides hands-on support and resources to portfolio companies. The firm operates an accelerator program called GB Xlimit for pre-Series A startups and collaborates with corporate venture funds and large corporations to back strategic investments. With a global portfolio and a track record of exits through mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings, Global Brain manages flagship funds and maintains a broad network of operating and investment partners to foster new industry creation.

Katapult is a venture building company based in Oslo, founded in 2015, that operates as a family of organizations including a venture fund, an investment platform supporting early-stage impact startups, a non-profit foundation driving systemic initiatives, and an annual event fostering collaboration. It seeks to accelerate systemic change toward a regenerative world by mobilizing people, technology, and capital, with a focus on technology and planetary resilience, particularly in the ocean economy, climate, food systems, and sustainable development. Over more than a decade it has backed hundreds of portfolio companies across 50 countries, and its philosophy centers on responsible stewardship of exponential technologies and the Symbiocene, aiming to create a thriving, regenerative future.

SOSV is a global venture capital firm focused on deep tech investments that address human and planetary health, backing seed-to-growth startups and delivering hands-on programs that accelerate product development, customer acquisition, and fundraising. It operates accelerator-like facilities for deep tech founders, including IndieBio in San Francisco and New York (referred to as SOSV SF & NY) and HAX in Newark, offering labs, offices, engineering support, mentorship, and broad access to an investor network. With a large and active portfolio across dozens of countries, SOSV supports hundreds of pre-seed and follow-on investments annually from its New Jersey base and through its global network, emphasizing long-term founder support beyond initial funding and fostering collaboration among portfolio companies and investors.

Persistent is a Nairobi-based venture builder and investment firm focused on accelerating climate solutions across Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2012, it provides customized venture-building support alongside equity and debt investment to early-stage climate ventures, enabling growth through strategic and operational services such as corporate structuring, CFO support, and international expansion. The firm concentrates on Africa’s emerging energy and low-carbon markets and backs portfolio companies including Altech, Ecobodaa and TRÍ. By combining hands-on venture building with capital, Persistent aims to deliver financial returns while delivering social and environmental impact, expanding access to sustainable energy and other climate solutions across the continent.

Addor Capital is a venture capital firm based in Nanjing, China. It backs early-stage to growth-stage companies across sectors including green technologies, semiconductors, new materials, healthcare and life sciences, information technology, and advanced manufacturing in China. The firm reports assets under management exceeding 100 billion RMB and operates an ecosystem of affiliated platforms under the Yida Hub brand to support portfolio companies and knowledge sharing, with emphasis on research capabilities and investor protection.

Mitsubishi UFJ Capital is the venture capital arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, investing in seed and development-stage startups across life sciences, information technology and high-technology sectors with a focus on the Japanese market. Based in Tokyo with offices in Osaka and Nagoya, it pursues a diversified investment program and supports portfolio companies through active collaboration to accelerate growth and readiness for IPOs. By leveraging MUFG’s global network, it seeks strategic partnerships and cross-border opportunities for portfolio companies, including sectors such as healthcare, biotechnology, AI, fintech, SaaS, electronics, and ICT.

Energy Impact Partners is a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2015 that focuses on accelerating the energy transition. It invests globally across venture, growth, credit, and infrastructure in energy, sustainability, and technology, partnering with energy incumbents and industrials to bring innovative solutions to market. The portfolio includes energy storage, microgrids, grid security, clean energy technologies, and utilities management, with examples such as Form Energy, Dragos, Arcadia, Urbint, and Enchanted Rock. The firm has deployed over $4.5 billion in committed capital and manages more than $2.5 billion in assets, supported by a team of over 100 professionals, and maintains a global footprint that includes European expansion through a dedicated European fund and activities in Europe. Energy Impact Partners collaborates with a broad ecosystem of portfolio companies and corporate partners to scale sustainable energy solutions.

Skyview Ventures is a Nashville-based venture capital firm founded in December 2008 that pursues investment opportunities in renewable energy. It builds a portfolio of companies across North America focused on environmental commodities, solar project finance, electric vehicle infrastructure, and early-stage startups. The firm administers three operating subsidiaries—Skyview Finance Company, which has facilitated more than $1 billion in REC transactions since 2010; Davis Hill Development, which develops commercial solar projects and microgrids in the Eastern US and Caribbean; and SKYCHARGER, a provider of EV charging solutions—supporting decarbonization and sustainable communities.

ArcTern Ventures is a Toronto-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that provides early-stage capital to cleantech and climate-focused startups. The firm supports decarbonization across sectors such as clean energy, energy efficiency, circular economy, advanced manufacturing, mobility, and food systems, balancing financial returns with environmental impact. It pursues a hands-on approach, leveraging its global network and domain expertise to help portfolio companies scale. With a global investment outlook, ArcTern looks to North America and Europe through its funds, and maintains offices in Toronto, San Francisco, and Oslo to connect founders with markets and partners.

Based in Seoul, South Korea and founded in 2006, L&S Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on incubation, seed, early-stage, and expansion investments across technology and energy-related sectors. It seeks opportunities in semiconductors, components, equipment, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud, big data, mobile and network technologies, e-healthcare, electronics and consumer electronics, telecommunications equipment, and media content creation and distribution, as well as green energy areas such as solar, wind, fuel cells, LEDs and electric vehicles, along with machinery, nanotechnology, robotics and telematics. The firm concentrates its activity in South Korea, with emphasis on the Seoul metropolitan area, the Gyeonggi region, and Chungnam province.

responsAbility Investments is a Zurich-based impact asset manager focused on private market investments in financial inclusion, climate finance, and sustainable food. Founded in 2003, the firm aligns with the United Nations SDGs to finance micro and SME growth, climate solutions, and sustainable agriculture in emerging economies. It manages about USD 5.4 billion in assets across roughly 334 portfolio companies in 69 countries and has mobilized over USD 17.1 billion in impact investments. In 2022 it became part of M&G plc, expanding capabilities in impact investing. The company emphasizes ESG measurement and reporting and serves institutional and private investors with solutions designed to deliver market returns alongside measurable social impact. Headquartered in Zurich, it maintains a global presence with offices in Lima, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Tbilisi, and Singapore.

IMM Investment is a Seoul-based asset manager and private equity/venture capital firm that engages in multi-asset investments across venture capital, growth equity, mezzanine, and infrastructure. The firm targets information technology, healthcare/biotech, manufacturing, and related high-growth sectors, and often takes an active management role to support portfolio companies. With offices in Seoul, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, it serves institutional investors and partners with innovative entrepreneurs through a diversified platform and cross-border strategies.

FJ Labs is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Fabrice Grinda. It specializes in marketplaces and consumer-facing startups and is stage-agnostic, making seed to Series A investments with typical checks ranging from 50,000 to 5,000,000. The firm backs founders pursuing network effects and scalable models across consumer internet, e-commerce, fintech, and related sectors, aiming to support transformative growth. Its portfolio includes companies such as Alibaba Group, Beepi, BrightRoll, Betterment, Adore Me, and Earnest, reflecting a broad approach to marketplaces and consumer ventures. FJ Labs emphasizes passion, execution, and tenacity in founders and actively seeks new opportunities to back impactful businesses.

Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm based in Munich, Germany, pursuing a long-term, hands-on partnership with ambitious startups. It targets pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds, providing significant capital alongside strategic and operational support to help portfolio companies become global category leaders. Picus works closely with founders on core decisions, including product strategy, go-to-market, talent acquisition, fundraising, and international expansion, drawing on a broad B2B and investor network to accelerate growth. The firm emphasizes a disciplined yet entrepreneurial investment approach, aiming to accompany ventures across their lifecycle over the next 5-10+ years. Portfolio sectors include financial services and fintech, HR, energy and climate, healthcare, logistics and mobility, real estate and construction, cybersecurity, crypto and web3, climate and renewable energy, and solar technology, among others. Picus seeks to partner with teams that demonstrate conviction and scale potential, offering expertise and resources to help build market leaders worldwide.

Vireo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Berlin, Germany, that funds European startups in energy and mobility through digital solutions. The firm focuses on seed and pre-seed investments, backing companies involved in electrification, decarbonization, decentralized renewables, energy transport and storage, smart infrastructure for energy usage, and e-mobility. It combines deep energy and mobility expertise with active mentorship and strategic guidance, offering network access to support portfolio companies as they scale. Guided by ESG principles, the firm seeks long-term value by helping technically innovative startups accelerate green transformation across Europe.

Union Square Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm founded in 2003 that focuses on internet-enabled businesses and markets with large network effects. It invests across stages, from early to growth, and seeks firms in the applications layer of the web, internet services, and mobile sectors that can build sizable networks. Typical investments start around one million dollars, with larger initial bets possible in certain rounds, and companies can receive up to about twenty million dollars in a single round. The firm emphasizes active involvement with founders and often aims for meaningful equity ownership, commonly in the 15% to 20% range, and it generally acts as a lead investor. Its portfolio spans areas such as social media, marketplaces, developer tools, learning, health, fintech, climate tech, crypto networks, web3 and other technology-enabled services, with activity in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and other major hubs.

The Westly Group is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm focused on clean technology and the digitization of energy, mobility, buildings, manufacturing and industrial tech, with a portfolio spanning seed, early and mid-stage startups. It backs companies across energy, water, transportation, software, digitalization and cybersecurity, investing primarily in North America and Europe. The firm has raised multiple funds and manages hundreds of millions of dollars, and has a track record of early investments in high-profile companies such as Tesla, SentinelOne and Luminar, reflecting its commitment to transforming foundational industries through sustainable innovation.

Enlight Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and headquartered in Daegu, South Korea. It concentrates on investing in early-stage technology startups across various industries and adds value through long-term, ecosystem-building partnerships beyond capital. The firm operates multiple funds, with assets under management around KRW 4,877 billion (about USD 3.6 billion), and has backed hundreds of portfolio companies, demonstrating sustained activity and a commitment to fostering innovation.

MassVentures is a Massachusetts-based venture capital firm founded in 1978 that provides seed and early-stage funding to high-growth startups. It supports ventures as they move from concept to commercialization and offers mentorship, strategic guidance, and access to industry connections to help build scalable businesses. The firm backs innovations across quantum computing, clean energy, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing, and robotics, and operates programs such as MV Capital, MV Accelerate, and MV Spinouts to fund companies, accelerate commercialization, and translate academic research into viable enterprises. By leveraging the Massachusetts innovation ecosystem, MassVentures aims to bolster entrepreneurs outside traditional hubs and foster sustained growth within the regional economy.

Prelude Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that invests in early-stage startups developing solutions to mitigate climate change. The firm focuses on sectors including built environment, carbon management, compute, energy, food and agriculture, manufacturing and industrials, and mobility, seeking category-defining companies that can scale to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Founded in 2013, Prelude provides capital and strategic support to portfolio companies to accelerate climate innovation and create impactful, commercially viable businesses.

WIND Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Empresas COPEC S.A., investing in startups and scaleups in energy, new mobility, and retail. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, it pursues global investments with a focus on Latin America, leveraging COPEC’s resources, expertise, and market access to accelerate growth. Since 2020, WIND Ventures has deployed about $156 million across eight countries, supported by a global-to-local open innovation platform that connects startups with COPEC’s operations. The firm aims to build a sizeable portfolio of strategic companies in energy, mobility, and convenience, helping founders scale through COPEC’s network and capabilities, and is regarded as a leading corporate venture investor in Chile and Latin America.

Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company is a venture capital firm based in London and Berlin that focuses on early-stage technology startups across Europe, providing seed funding typically in the range of 200,000 to 250,000 pounds. The firm targets pre-seed to seed rounds, supports founders from the earliest stages without leading rounds or joining boards, and relies on a team of experienced partners specializing in investing, operations, finance, and fundraising. It also maintains a community of more than 900 founders to aid investor connections, problem-solving, and decision-making. Through its early capital and ecosystem support, the firm aims to empower startups to grow and compete within the European technology landscape.

Khosla Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park. It provides venture assistance, strategic advice, and capital to entrepreneurs and invests across stages in technology-driven sectors, including artificial intelligence, healthcare, sustainability, digital health, consumer technology, and related deep-tech fields. The firm seeks to back bold ideas with a long-term perspective, often partnering with founders to help scale innovative products and business models. It emphasizes support beyond funding, offering strategic guidance to build companies with durable value and focusing on transformative technologies that address large markets.

Lerer Hippeau is a New York-based venture capital firm that specializes in seed and early-stage investments in North America. It supports founders across a broad range of sectors, including fintech, blockchain, hardware and robotics, healthcare, marketing services, media and entertainment, software, and consumer businesses, with a preference for disruptive ideas and brand-building. The firm has built a large, active portfolio of more than 400 companies and is known for hands-on involvement, helping portfolio companies at product, growth, and go-to-market stages. Notable investments include Guideline, K Health, Allbirds, MIRROR, ZenBusiness, and Thrive, reflecting a track record of backing consumer and enterprise startups. Lerer Hippeau maintains a strong presence in the New York startup ecosystem and operates as a registered investment adviser.

Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, that expands access to venture investing for accredited individuals by co-investing with leading venture capital firms and enabling participation through various structures such as funds, syndicates, and investment clubs. It collaborates with top firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and Y Combinator and supports opportunities across pre-seed to growth stages, across multiple sectors and geographies. The firm emphasizes rigorous due diligence, transparency, and diversification, leveraging a broad network of alumni investors and partners to connect founders with strategic capital and resources. With a global footprint and active involvement in the venture ecosystem, Alumni Ventures aims to broaden participation in venture capital while maintaining disciplined, founder-friendly investing.

Kima Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Paris with an office in London that concentrates on early-stage investments, typically from seed to Series A. It often acts as lead investor and provides funding, a wide network, and hands-on support to help founders recruit teams, learn quickly, and execute toward growth. The firm emphasizes rapid decision-making to keep fundraising smooth and allow founders to focus on building the business, and it operates as a network of founders and experts sharing a pay-it-forward mindset. Founded in 2010 and backed by Xavier Niel, Kima Ventures has backed over 400 startups in 24 countries, reflecting its global reach.

Aster Capital is a European venture capital firm headquartered in Paris that provides early-stage to growth funding and strategic support to deep tech and climate-focused startups. It concentrates on mobility, energy and industry sectors and backs companies across Europe, North America and Africa. The firm emphasizes digital technologies, cleaner energy, industrial optimization and decarbonization, offering portfolio companies access to an ecosystem of corporate partners, industry experts and mentors to accelerate commercialization and scaling. Aster Capital operates from multiple offices in Paris, London, San Francisco, Tel Aviv and Nairobi, and pursues cross-border investments while aiming to help accelerate innovation and sustainable growth in its portfolio.

Earth Foundry is a Chicago-based venture capital firm founded in 2012 that specializes in early-stage investments in energy, cleantech, water, waste, mobility, agriculture, and infrastructure technologies. The firm collaborates with leading institutions and provides capital alongside strategic support to help portfolio companies develop and scale hardware, software, services, and materials science solutions that address critical industrial challenges and advance sustainable energy systems.

IBG Beteiligungsgesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt is a state-backed venture capital firm based in Magdeburg, Germany, functioning as the central funding instrument of the State of Saxony-Anhalt to foster sustainable, competitive economic development in the region. Financed by the state and the European Union through IBG-Fonds, it invests in small and medium-sized technology companies based in Saxony-Anhalt, typically taking minority stakes of up to 24.9% and up to about €10 million per portfolio company with a five- to seven-year horizon. The firm targets seed, start-up, growth-stage and mezzanine investments across sectors including computer software, industrials, energy and environmental technologies, communication technology, healthcare and life sciences, biotechnology, chemicals/materials, renewable energies, medical engineering, technology and related fields, and it may act as a co-investor. Through public funding and its networks, it supports portfolio companies to expand and strengthen regional competitiveness and employment.

New Climate Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups developing carbon reduction or avoidance technologies across energy, climate tech, food/ag tech, and related sectors. Founded in 2021 and based in Houston, the firm takes an active, diversified approach, drawing on experience in energy, commodities, climate, technology, finance, regulation, and market analysis. It collaborates with entrepreneurs by providing operational support, strategic guidance, and access to a global network of investors, startups, and corporate partners to help early-stage companies grow and scale.

BDC is a government-owned financial institution in Canada that supports small and medium-sized enterprises with financing, consulting, and investment services. It provides business loans, working capital, equipment and real estate financing, asset-backed and syndicated financing, subordinate financing, and growth investments through its investment arm. It also offers strategic planning, human resource management, and international expansion assistance. Operating nationwide with offices in both official languages, BDC focuses on helping SMEs grow, innovate, and create jobs across industries.

IFU – Investment Fund for Developing Countries is a Danish development finance institution that provides risk capital and advisory services to private-sector projects in developing countries. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Copenhagen, it finances through equity, loans, mezzanine, debt and guarantees, and frequently co-invests with Danish companies alongside local partners. The organization supports creating new companies, setting up joint ventures, and acquiring existing firms, with a focus on climate and agribusiness, renewable energy such as solar and wind, and utilities. It prioritizes investments in OECD DAC-listed countries across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, and often seeks board participation with exits planned in about five to seven years after repayment or sale. IFU also provides advisory services and can offer additional financing through partnerships, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises with modest revenue and staff. Its activities aim to promote private-sector development and sustainable growth in developing markets.

Giant Ventures is an impact-focused venture capital firm based in London, founded in 2019, that backs purpose-driven founders building companies with social and environmental impact; the firm seeks investments in climate, health and wellness, and inclusive capitalism, and pursues opportunities across technology sectors including AI, energy, healthcare, and quantum computing; it emphasizes a collaborative approach, supporting portfolio companies with mentorship, commercial introductions, and portfolio services to help them scale, and it shares insights through thought leadership and founder-focused content.

AENU is a Berlin-based venture capital firm focused on backing climate-tech and social impact startups across Europe at the early stage. It seeks to drive systemic transformation in venture capital by prioritizing impact, accessibility, and stakeholder alignment, integrating climate performance into portfolio companies through its Systemic Impact Framework. The firm typically acts as a lead or co-lead investor and provides board representation to support portfolio companies. Its early-stage investments target disruptive hardware, software, and AI-native solutions in areas such as energy, industrial decarbonization, and systemic resilience, with typical initial checks in the EUR 1-5 million range and potential follow-ons up to about EUR 10 million. The team emphasizes founders with entrepreneurial track records and aims to partner with ventures that advance climate solutions and social equality in Europe.

TRIREC is a Singapore-headquartered venture capital firm focused on decarbonization and climate innovation. It supports innovative companies across stages and geographies to accelerate climate impact and business growth, employing a long-term, future-focused approach and leveraging proprietary networks. The firm operates across multiple pools of capital and backs a growing portfolio across energy, mobility, buildings, industries, food and agriculture, and other climate-related sectors, with unicorns among its portfolio. TRIREC positions itself as a bridge between East and West from its Singapore base, pursuing opportunities in the evolving low-carbon economy to advance planetary health through entrepreneurship and responsible governance.

Big Basin Partners is a venture capital firm and early-stage technology investment partnership based in Saratoga, California. Founded in 1997, it targets investments across sectors including computer hardware, cybersecurity, the Internet of Things, semiconductors, internet software services, application software, medical devices, healthcare, alternative energy, and education. The firm focuses on entrepreneurs at the earliest stages, including those who have not yet raised traditional venture capital funds or may not have a formal business plan, and it helps narrow potential target markets to the few that will matter in the initial growth phase.

SDIC Innovation Investment Management is the private equity and venture capital arm of State Development & Investment Corp. It makes investments across technology and manufacturing sectors, including mobile internet, internet of things, cloud computing, big data, information technology services, industrial robotics, and intelligent manufacturing. The firm also targets high-end medical equipment, diagnostics, high-value consumables, modern agricultural equipment, ships and marine engineering, new materials, clean energy, energy conservation, and healthcare; for new energy vehicles it focuses on intelligent upstream and downstream supply chains, power batteries and systems, and related technologies. Founded in 2009, the company is based in Beijing with an additional office in Asia. The firm aims to support development and deployment of innovative technologies through private equity and venture capital investments.

Fifth Wall is a venture capital firm focused on technology for the built environment and the real estate sector. Founded in 2015, it targets PropTech and related technologies spanning smart buildings, energy efficiency, climate tech, and real estate software, supporting both early-stage and growth-stage investments. The firm maintains a broad network of strategic partners, including large real estate owners and operators, corporates, and investors, to help portfolio companies scale within real estate ecosystems worldwide. Fifth Wall emphasizes connecting entrepreneurs with industry players to drive adoption of innovative technologies across the built world and globally.