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Top Climate & Sustainability Investors 2026

345 VC firms investing in climate & sustainability, ranked by portfolio depth and activity.

Updated September 29, 2026|Research by F4 Fund|Based on 2,181+ researched VC firms

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

F4 Intelligence Brief
September 2026

F4 Fund tracks 345 VC firms that actively invest in climate & sustainability, with check sizes ranging from $5K – $100000M (median: $2.5M). As of September 2026, 89% of these firms lead or co-lead rounds. Rankings are based on F4's proprietary analysis of 2,181+ researched VC firms. Ranked by how much of each firm's portfolio is actually in this sector, and how recently it invested.

345
Active Firms
Meet quality criteria
$2.5M
Median Check
89%
Lead Rounds
Lead or co-lead
47
Avg Portfolio
Companies per firm
7.9
Avg Team
Investment professionals
25%
Warm Intro
Prefer warm intros
All StagesPre-Seed(232)

Climate & Sustainability Investor Rankings

#FirmCheck SizePortfolioLeads?Last investedDecisionIntro
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Galvanize Climate Solutions

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

San Francisco
$1M – $40M70N/A
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
2
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AP Ventures

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

London
$500K – $15M28Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
3
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Carbon13

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.

Cambridge
$150K – $450K25Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
3+ moOpen
4
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Counteract VC

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.

London
$250K – $1M24N/A
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
5
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New Climate Ventures

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.

Houston
$250K – $2M30Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
6
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Energy Capital Ventures

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

Chicago
$1.5M – $2M13Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
7
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4impact capital

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

The Hague, Netherlands
$250K – $2.5M23Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
8
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Transition VC

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

Bengaluru, India
$2M – $5M19Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
9
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Grok Ventures

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

Sydney
$2M – $30M27Both
~Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
10
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Cyan Ventures

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

$500K – $3M23Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
11
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8090 Industries

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

New York
$500K – $5M19Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
12
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Virescent Ventures

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

Sydney
$1M – $15M36Leads
~Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
13
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Pacific Channel

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.

Auckland
$500K – $13M49Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
14
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Revent VC

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

Berlin
$500K – $3M24Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
15
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Extantia

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

Berlin
$1M – $5M29Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
16
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My Climate Journey Collective

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

San Francisco
$500K – $3M49Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
17
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Graduate Ventures

We empower alumni of Dutch universities to become world-changing entrepreneurs, backing founders with capital, knowledge, and a high-trust community to build the companies of the future in critical sectors, strengthening a competitive and sovereign Netherlands.

Rotterdam, Netherlands
$75K – $2M73Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
18
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Almi Invest GreenTech

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

Gothenburg, Sweden
$500K – $1.5M15Both
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
19
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Speciale Invest

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

Chennai
$800K – $1.2M29Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
20
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Systemiq Capital

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

London
$3M – $5M32Leads
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
21
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Norrsken Evolve

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.

Stockholm
$250K – $500K35Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
22
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Breakthrough Energy Ventures

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

United States
$500K – $50M45Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
3+ moOpen
23
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Future Energy Ventures

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

Essen, Germany
$1M – $10M49Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
24
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Baruch Future Ventures (BFV)

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.

Menlo Park
$250K – $10M38Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
25
▶
Closed Loop Partners

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.

New York
$1M – $20M24Leads
~Aug 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
26
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Cerulean Ventures

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

Santa Barbara, CA
$500K – $750K23Leads
~May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
27
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Active Impact Investments

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

Vancouver
$250K – $3M42Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
28
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Rhapsody Venture Partners

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.

Cambridge
$500K – $2M35Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
29
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Demea Sustainable Investment

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

Paris
$1M – $30M36Both
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
30
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Lowercarbon Capital
#21 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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

New York
$1M – $15M33Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
31
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CMPC Ventures

CMPC Ventures invests behind disruptive, scalable technologies and startups aligned with CMPC's forest, fiber, and bio-based materials businesses, aiming to diversify and complement CMPC's value proposition for the consumers of the future while driving real industrial adoption inside the company.

Santiago
$1M – $10M7Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
32
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Sustainable Ventures

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

London
$150K – $350K25Leads
Nov 2025 · Active
~2 moOpen
33
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Butterfly Ventures

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.

Oulu, Finland
$54K – $432K54Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
34
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Zero Carbon Capital

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

Portsmouth, UK
$125K – $1.3M13Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
35
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Constellation Technology Ventures

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

Baltimore
$2M – $10M23Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
36
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Climate Capital

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

San Francisco
$25K – $250K33Both
Mar 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
37
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Chalmers Ventures

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

Gothenburg, Sweden
$100K – $2.4M128Both
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
38
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Clean Energy Ventures

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

Boston
$500K – $15M37Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
39
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Tenacious Ventures

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

Manly, Australia
$200K – $1M13Both
Feb 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
40
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Investible

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

Sydney
$250K – $3M100Both
~Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
41
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Pachamama Ventures

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.

San Francisco
$200K – $500K10Both
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
42
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Lifeline Ventures

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

Helsinki
$100K – $3M137Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
43
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Avila VC

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

Miami
$250K – $2.5M19Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
44
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Chevron Technology Ventures

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

Houston
$2M – $20M55Follows
Jan 2026 · Active
3+ moOpen
45
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AENU

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

$1M – $4M14Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
46
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S2G Ventures

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

Chicago
$2M – $100M43Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
47
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Propeller VC

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

Boston
$500K – $2M19Both
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
48
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Nordic Foodtech VC

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

Helsinki
$300K – $2M19Leads
Jan 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
49
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Rockstart

Rockstart backs purpose-driven founders across AgriFood, Energy, and Emerging Tech, providing early capital, a structured Startup Support Package, and follow-on co-investment through Series B to help startups drive regenerative and sustainable change at scale.

Amsterdam
$50K – $2M55Follows
Dec 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
50
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Momentum Capital

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).

Toronto
$50K – $300K22Both
Sep 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
51
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Arborview Capital

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.

Chevy Chase, MD
$5M – $15M15Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
52
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Kompas VC

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.

Hørsholm, Denmark
$1.1M – $5.4M28N/A
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
53
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Moonstone Fund

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.

Milan, Italy
$10K – $50K49Follows
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
54
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Spiral Capital

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

Tokyo
$330K – $3.3M90Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
55
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Heartfelt Capital

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

Berlin
$100K – $400K161Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
56
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Starlight Ventures

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

Miami
$250K – $2.5M15Leads
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
57
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UVC Partners

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

Munich
$1M – $10M53Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
58
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TTT Medtech Fund

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.

Deventer, Netherlands
$250K – $2M22Follows
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
59
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Faber

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.

Lisbon, Portugal
$250K – $2.7M55Leads
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
60
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Cycle Capital

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

Montreal
$5M – $40M24Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
61
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Volo Earth Ventures

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

Colorado
$500K – $5M33Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
62
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Forward.one

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.

Amstelveen, Netherlands
$1.1M – $32M30Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
63
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ClearSky

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

West Palm Beach, FL
$1M – $60M69Both
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
64
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Gigascale Capital

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

Palo Alto
$500K – $5M27Both
May 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
65
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Andera Partners

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

Paris
$1M – $160M289Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
66
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Union Square Ventures
#50 · Top 100 · 2026

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

New York
$1M – $6M60Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
67
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Climactic

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

San Francisco
$1.5M – $3M20Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
68
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HAX

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.

San Francisco
$550K21Leads
~Jun 2026 · Active
~1 wkOpen
69
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Energize Capital

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

Chicago
$10M – $30M37Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
70
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Overture VC

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

Los Angeles
$250K – $5M39Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
71
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Prime Impact Fund

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

Cambridge
$1M – $4M16Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
72
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British Design Fund

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

London
$60K – $300K14N/A
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
73
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IIMA Ventures

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.

Ahmedabad
$100K – $500K30Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
74
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Tesi

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.

Helsinki
$1M – $30M31Follows
Jul 2026 · Active
3+ moOpen
75
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Innovation Industries

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.

Amsterdam
$1.5M – $150M41Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
76
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Axeleo Capital

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.

Lyon, France
$500K – $15M67Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
77
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Jeriko

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

Paris
$200K – $1M17Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
78
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SNØCAP VC

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.

Seattle
$250K – $2M11Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
79
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GO CAPITAL

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

Rennes, France
$200K – $5M34Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
80
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Prelude Ventures

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

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

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

Amsterdam
$5M – $20M10Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
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Matterwave Ventures

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.

Munich
$1M – $4M46Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
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Mubadala

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

Abu Dhabi
$5M – $5000M103Both
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
84
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Hitachi Ventures

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.

Munich
$2M – $10M56Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
85
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Pi Labs

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.

London
$350K – $2M59Leads
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
86
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World Fund

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

Berlin
$1M – $10M22Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
87
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Pale Blue Dot

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

Sweden
$500K – $2M47Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
88
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Sandwater

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

Oslo
$2M – $10M13Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
89
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Daphni

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

Paris
$300K – $6M25N/A
~Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
90
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Energy Foundry

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

Chicago
$1M – $5M23Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
91
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Congruent Ventures
#64 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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.

San Francisco
$250K – $3M34Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
92
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T.Capital

We provide more than capital - our investments come with the opportunity to access markets, expertise and partnerships that help businesses scale faster and smarter, leveraging Deutsche Telekom's market and engineering expertise.

Bonn, Germany
$2M – $300M33Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
93
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Sarsia

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

Bergen, Norway
$180K – $3.7M46Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
94
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Blue Ashva Capital

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

Mumbai
$1M – $10M14Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
95
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Rockstud Capital

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.

Mumbai
$500K – $1M14Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
96
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Transition Global

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

London
$100K – $5M17Both
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
97
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Avesta Fund

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

Denver
$150K – $500K25Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
98
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Breakout Ventures

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

San Francisco
$250K – $15M25Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
99
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Neotribe Ventures
#87 · Top 100 · 2026

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

Menlo Park
$1M – $80M70Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
100
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Clave Capital

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

Pamplona, Spain
$300K – $3.1M70Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
101
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Eka Ventures

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

London
$1.3M – $3.8M25Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
102
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Energy Impact Partners

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

New York
$2M – $20M27Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
103
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Prequel Ventures

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.

Berlin
$50K – $250K25Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
104
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Deep33

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

New York
$5M – $15M9Both
Apr 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
105
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Auxxo

Auxxo backs the strongest pre-seed and seed stage female-(co-)founded startups across Europe, driving equitable representation of women as founders and investors in venture capital.

Berlin
$380K – $880K56Follows
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
106
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Virta Ventures

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

$100K – $750K28Both
Mar 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
107
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Verdex Capital

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

Calgary, AB, Canada
$500K – $1M16Follows
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
108
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Commonweal Ventures

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

New York
$500K – $2M27Both
~Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
109
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Northern Gritstone

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.

Manchester, UK
$850K – $25M31Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
3+ moN/A
110
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CAS Star

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.

Xi'an
$300K – $20M78Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
111
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G2 Venture Partners
#58 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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.

Portola Valley, CA
$5M – $50M28Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
112
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MountTech Growth Fund - Kavachh

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

New Delhi, India
$500K – $5M8Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
113
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Momenta Ventures

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.

Meggen, Switzerland
$500K – $3M30Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
114
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Maia Ventures

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

Milan, Italy
$550K – $1.6M10Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
115
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Lewis & Clark AgriFood

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

St. Louis
$2M – $10M19Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
116
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Triple Point Ventures

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

London
$500K – $6M52Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
117
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Looking Glass Capital

Backing the most ambitious, mission-driven founders at pre-seed, in health, climate and energy, and economic drivers. Pre-consensus by design. We lead, co-lead, or anchor with a real check for the stage ($500K-$1M typical, up to $2M in Fund III), and help founders build out the rest of their round. We are currently investing out of Fund III (opened Jan 2026). 60 companies backed across 3 funds. Intentionally small and always on call — a single partner who reads every email and every deck, makes every decision, and strives to be founders' first call, for the good and the bad. No warm intro required — we read everything, and we answer quickly, even when the answer is no.

New York
$300K – $400K44Leads
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
118
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FoodLabs

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

Berlin
$100K – $2M51Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
119
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Empirical Ventures

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

Bristol, United Kingdom
$100K – $750K36Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
120
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Incubate Fund

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

Tokyo
$200K – $2M27Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moN/A
121
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node.vc

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

$750K – $2.7M22Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
122
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Powerhouse Ventures

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

Oakland
$150K – $5M26Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
123
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Material Impact Fund

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.

Boston
$100K – $10M36Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
124
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Agility Ventures

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

Kuwait City
$3M – $20M11Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
125
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Wa'ed Ventures

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.

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
$1M – $20M77Leads
~Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
126
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Bloomhaus Ventures

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.

Zug
$220K – $560K21Both
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksN/A
127
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AgFunder

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.

Silicon Valley
$500K – $5M41Both
Feb 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
128
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Vorwerk Ventures

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

Berlin
$1M – $10M57Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
129
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BGF

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

London
$3.8M – $38M22Both
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
130
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True Wealth Ventures

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

Austin
$250K – $1M22Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
131
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Elah Fund

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

Haifa, Israel
$1M – $10M11N/A
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
132
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Positron Ventures

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

Amsterdam
$250K – $3M11Both
~Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
133
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Chakra Growth Capital

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

Saratoga, CA
$100K – $3M23Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
134
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Invexor Venture Partners

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.

Santiago
$80K – $1.5M23Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
135
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Keen Venture Partners

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

Amsterdam
$1M – $10M42Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
136
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Crucible Capital

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

New York
$500K – $3M30Both
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
137
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Collab Fund

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

New York
$500K – $10M45Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
138
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Divergent Capital

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

New York
$250K – $1M48Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
139
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BMW i Ventures

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

Mountain View
$500K – $10M67Both
~Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
140
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PXN Ventures

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

Manchester, UK
$260K – $10.4M102Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
141
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Wave Ventures

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

Helsinki
$10K – $100K46Leads
May 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
142
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NATO Innovation Fund

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

Amsterdam
$1M – $16.5M26Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
3+ moOpen
143
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Backbone Ventures

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

Zurich
$300K – $500K43Leads
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
144
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Wireframe Ventures

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

San Francisco
$500K – $2M37Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
145
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Deeptech Labs

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

Cambridge
$125K – $440K63N/A
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
146
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IW Capital

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

London
$3.3M – $11M13Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
147
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Angel Invest

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

Berlin
$100K – $250K48Leads
~Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
148
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Caesar Ventures

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

Berlin
$150K – $1M52Both
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
149
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Aera VC

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

Singapore
$500K – $20M33Leads
Jan 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
150
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Automotive Ventures

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.

Atlanta
$100K – $1M52Follows
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
151
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DG Daiwa Ventures

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

Tokyo
$200K – $5M52Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
152
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Mercury Fund

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.

Houston
$100K – $5M53Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
153
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Ventech

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

Paris
$500K – $5M51Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
154
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SpeedInvest

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

Vienna
$250K – $30M55Leads
~Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
155
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High-Tech Gründerfonds

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

Bonn, Germany
$880K – $33M30Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
156
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Suffolk Technologies

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.

Boston
$150K – $10M59Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
157
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Panache Ventures

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.

Montreal
$500K – $3M83Leads
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
158
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Sistafund

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

Paris
$700K – $3M16Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
159
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WRF Capital

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.

Seattle
$100K – $2M33Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
160
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Launch NY

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

Buffalo, New York
$200K – $1M29Both
Apr 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
161
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Dolby Family Ventures

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

San Francisco
$2M – $7M97Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
162
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Munich Re Ventures

Funding the future of risk for the human endeavor. Munich Re Ventures invests in technologies and business models tackling the biggest risks facing the world, operating at the intersection of technology, venture capital, and the insurance industry.

San Francisco
$500K – $10M63N/A
Apr 2026
~2 moReq'd
163
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W23 Global

Grocery retail is being reshaped by technology and sustainability pressure. Backed by five global retailers on its investment committee, W23 Global offers founders accelerated pathways to global scale at start-up speed.

Sydney
$500K – $5M18Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
164
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Prime Movers Lab
#47 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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

Jackson, Wyoming
$2M – $30M35Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
165
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Prologis Ventures

We invest in bold ideas transforming supply chain and logistics. With deep industry expertise and Prologis' global network, we partner with companies redefining the logistics landscape.

Denver
$2M – $20M33Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
166
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Stage 1 Ventures

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.

Coconut Grove, FL
$500K – $10M61Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
167
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Amplify Capital

The most important problems make the best investments. We back founders in technical, regulated industries that don't have easy answers, across climate, health, and work.

Toronto
$540K – $2.2M23Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
168
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R7 Partners

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

Chicago
$100K – $5M36Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
169
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Sony

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.

$2M – $20M203Both
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
170
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Building Ventures

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

Boston
$100K – $10M43Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
3+ moReq'd
171
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Launch Africa

Pan-African fund solving the significant funding gap in Seed and pre-Series A investment. Backing ambitious African founders tackling critical continental challenges with operational support and investor network.

Mauritius
$100K – $2M42Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
172
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Promus Ventures

Back ambitious DeepTech founders tackling complex problems to advance daily lives across the world. Focus on People, Product, and Potential — investing in large, mature industries (space, manufacturing, mobility, health, energy) that need foundational technology transformations. Physical AI is a core conviction: hardware and software systems that act in the physical world. Invest early (Pre-Seed/Seed) and stay long-term through IPOs and acquisitions.

Chicago
$500K – $5M70Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
173
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Voyager Capital

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

Seattle
$1M – $5M68Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
174
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Third Sphere

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

San Francisco
$250K – $3M24Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
175
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LG Technology Ventures

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

Silicon Valley
$1M – $30M73Both
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
176
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Linear Capital

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

Shanghai
$1M – $10M71Leads
~Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
177
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KdT Ventures

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

Austin
$500K – $5M26Leads
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
178
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Bitspiration

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

Kraków, Poland
$50K – $1M10Both
~Apr 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
179
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Leblon Capital

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.

Munich
$150K – $10M110Follows
May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
180
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XAnge

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

5 Rue Feydeau, 75002 Paris, France
$1M – $15M13Leads
May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
181
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IQ Capital

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.

Cambridge
$500K – $40M75Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
182
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Entrepreneur First

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.

London
$250K – $5M78Leads
May 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
183
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Pillar VC

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.

Boston
$100K – $10M77Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
184
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Cibus Enterprise Fund

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

London
$2M – $20M21Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
185
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Point Nine

Invest in the future of software built on AI. We partner with technical founders to provide capital, unfair shortcuts, and operational support to accelerate their learning and help them reach their potential. We position ourselves as the first institutional investor for v0.9 stage founders.

Berlin
$1M – $10M43Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~1 wkReq'd
186
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Vitosha Ventures

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.

Sofia, Bulgaria
$100K – $1M80Both
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
187
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Rethink Impact

We seek mission-driven founders and teams leveraging breakthrough innovations in technology for the benefit of people and planet, with a primary focus on companies with female CEOs or women in senior C-level roles.

White Plains, NY
$2M – $10M44Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
188
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CDP Venture Capital

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

Rome
$250K – $10M14Both
May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
189
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McRock Capital

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.

Toronto
$1M – $15M22Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
190
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M1C

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

Miami Beach, FL
$100K – $500K30Follows
Feb 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
191
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Mission One Capital

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

Miami
$100K – $500K32Both
Feb 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
192
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Upper90

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

New York
$5M – $100M23Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 wkOpen
193
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Wilbe

We help scientists and engineers turn novel research into generational companies, writing the first check into scientist-led ventures on day zero, before a company or pitch deck exists.

London
$100K – $700K22Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 wkOpen
194
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Inveready

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

Barcelona
$1M – $5M192N/A
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
195
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GVFL Limited

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.

Ahmedabad
$30K – $2.4M32Leads
May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
196
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Astanor

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

Brussels, Belgium
$1M – $25M52Leads
Nov 2025 · Active
N/AN/A
197
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Seeder Fund

We accelerate the first financing rounds of promising digital entrepreneurs in Belgium and neighbouring countries, leading pre-seed rounds and co-leading or following at seed, with a fast and transparent decision process and the capacity to double down in later rounds.

Brussels, Belgium
$100K – $1.5M52Both
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
198
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Force Ventures

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

Bengaluru, India
$50K – $2M27Follows
Jun 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
199
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HearstLab

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

New York
$500K – $3M26Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
200
▶
Zacua Ventures

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.

San Francisco
$250K – $3M25Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
201
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Rethink Ventures

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

Munich
$528K – $5.3M23Both
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
202
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C2 Ventures

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.

New York
$100K – $500K56Both
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
203
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Cisco Investments

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

San Jose
$500K – $50M56Follows
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
204
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Collide Capital

Great companies are built at the intersection of communities led by diverse, fearless change agents. We invest in founders closest to the problems they're solving, who are most capable and passionate about tackling them.

New York
$250K – $3M26Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
205
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Crosscut Ventures

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

Los Angeles
$500K – $10M27Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
206
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GL Ventures

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

Beijing
$2M – $50M26Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
207
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IAN Angel Fund

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

New Delhi, India
$85K – $1.5M26Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
208
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Leaps by Bayer

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

Berlin
$5M – $100M58Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
209
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Riceberg Ventures

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

Zurich
$250K – $1M18Follows
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
210
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NP-Hard Ventures

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

$250K – $550K34Both
Mar 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
211
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TMV
#63 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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

New York
$250K – $10M66Both
~Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
212
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Better Ventures

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.

Oakland
$500K – $1M43Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
213
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Cocoa Ventures

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.

London
$150K – $500K26Follows
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
214
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Industrial47

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

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
$500K – $1.5M9Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
215
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Koch Disruptive Technologies

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

Wichita, KS
$5M – $150M67Leads
~Jul 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
216
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E2MC Ventures

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

Miami
$1M – $5M31Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
217
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Interface Capital

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

Berlin
$300K – $500K20Both
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
218
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Lockheed Martin Ventures

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.

Bethesda, MD
$500K – $5M32Both
~Jul 2026 · Active
3+ moReq'd
219
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Plum Alley Investments

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

New York
$750K – $3M31Both
Sep 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
220
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OMERS Ventures

Back ambitious founders building disruptive early-stage technology companies. We provide not just capital but access to OMERS' multi-asset institutional platform. Our permanent pension backing gives us patient, long-duration capital unconstrained by traditional 10-year fund cycles.

Toronto
$1M – $25M77Both
Sep 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
221
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dsm-firmenich Ventures

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.

Heerlen, Netherlands
$500K – $5M43Both
May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
222
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Blackfinch Ventures

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

Cheltenham, UK
$250K – $2.5M53Both
Feb 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
223
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Fen Ventures

We support entrepreneurs offering technology-based solutions with global scale potential, with a stated focus (though not exclusive) on Fintech, SaaS, and Biotech, and an emerging emphasis on AI-native startups given the pace of AI disruption.

Santiago
$200K – $1.5M34N/A
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
224
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Offline Ventures

The best ideas don't come from a screen—they're born offline in the real world. We invest in founders who build differently, prioritizing how they build as much as what they build. We believe original thinking, human-centric innovation, and founder wellness are prerequisites for building great companies.

New York
$250K – $5M36Both
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
225
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Olive Tree Capital

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

Boston
$250K – $5M36Both
~Aug 2026 · Slowing
N/AOpen
226
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Builders VC

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

San Francisco
$500K – $9M30Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
227
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BackingMinds

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.

Stockholm
$500K – $3M22Both
Oct 2025 · Active
N/AN/A
228
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Lightrock

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

London
$10M – $50M22Leads
May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
229
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Sondo Capital

Back technically strong founders with a real market pull in a massive market, wherever they sit in the stack, as long as the team has a genuine link to Norway.

Oslo
$190K – $580K36Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
230
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Graph Ventures

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

San Francisco
$5K – $5M37Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
231
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LOI Venture

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

Vancouver
$100K – $1M36Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
232
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Acurio Ventures

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

Bilbao, Spain
$100K – $3M95Both
~Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
233
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Balderton Capital

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

$500K – $15M200Leads
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
234
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Begin Capital

We back exceptional early-stage founders who treat their startup as a set of testable, numbers-backed hypotheses rather than just a compelling narrative. Season 2 is focused on Deeptech Software, AI infrastructure, and ops-heavy physical-world businesses like robotics and construction tech.

London
$500K – $8M34Both
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
235
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Beringea

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

London
$1M – $13M41Leads
~Jul 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
236
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InfoEdge Ventures

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

Gurgaon, India
$300K – $5M39Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
237
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Monks Hill Ventures

Backs Southeast Asian founders with strong business fundamentals and sizable market opportunities, applying a first-principles investing approach and pairing every portfolio company with an operating partner.

Singapore
$2M – $10M40Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
238
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Vanedge Capital

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

Vancouver
$1M – $15M42Both
~Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
239
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MS&AD Ventures

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

Menlo Park
$500K – $5M110Both
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
240
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B Capital Group

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

San Francisco
$250K – $50M40Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
241
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Digital Transformation Capital Partners

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

Hamburg
$5M – $50M40Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
242
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Hongtai Fund (Aplus Capital)

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

Beijing
$1M – $30M40Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
243
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Icehouse Ventures

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

Auckland
$100K – $10M42Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
244
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Vertis Venture

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.

Naples, Italy
$500K – $5M28Both
Feb 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
245
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Giant Ventures

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

London
$500K – $15M35Both
Dec 2025 · Active
~2 moOpen
246
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Obvious Ventures

The most valuable companies of our time will be the ones solving humanity's biggest problems across planetary health, human health, and economic health. We back exceptional founders building breakthrough solutions that create both financial returns and positive impact.

San Francisco
$5M – $12M44Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
247
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Huddle Ventures

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

Gurugram, Haryana, India
$500K – $1M43Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
248
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Toba Capital

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

Los Angeles & Newport Beach, CA
$500K – $10M44Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
249
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IvyCap Ventures

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.

Mumbai
$1M – $10M45Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
250
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MANTIS Venture Capital
#68 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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.

Santa Monica
$500K – $3M127Both
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
251
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InterVest

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

Seoul
$500K – $20M46Both
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
252
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Firstminute Capital

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.

London
$1.3M – $3.8M140Both
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
253
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FUSE

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

Bellevue
$1M – $10M47Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
254
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CDH Investments

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

Beijing
$5M – $50M50Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
255
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Norte Ventures

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

$200K – $1.5M50Both
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
256
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NVIDIA

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

$20M – $100000M51Both
~Sep 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
257
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Dalus Capital

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

Monterrey
$500K – $5M32Both
May 2026 · Active
~1 moN/A
258
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Winklevoss Capital

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

New York
$100K – $5M33Both
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
259
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byFounders

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

$500K – $4M83Leads
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
260
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Mundi Ventures

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

Madrid
$1M – $40M54Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
261
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Contrary

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

San Francisco
$100K – $15M57Both
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
262
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January Ventures

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

Boston
$500K – $1.5M20Leads
~Apr 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
263
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Greycroft
#92 · Top 100 · 2026

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

New York
$2M – $100M57Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
264
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Newion

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

Amsterdam
$1M – $10M56Leads
Jul 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
265
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Alumni Ventures

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

Manchester, NH
$250K – $5M63Follows
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
266
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5Y Capital

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.

Shanghai
$1M – $50M62Both
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
267
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EPIC Ventures

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

Salt Lake City, UT
$500K – $5M71Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
268
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Flashpoint Venture Capital

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

London
$2M – $30M89Leads
May 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
269
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All In Capital

Backing Indian founders who go 'All In' on their company, sourced and supported by a community of 150+ founders and operator-angels; sector-agnostic pre-seed/seed capital plus fast decision-making.

Mumbai
$250K – $600K79Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
270
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Chiratae Ventures

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.

Bengaluru, India
$250K – $2M84Leads
Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
271
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Nomadic Venture Partners

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.

Denver
$250K – $3M13Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 wksReq'd
272
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Clocktower Technology Ventures

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

Santa Monica
$500K – $20M107Both
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
273
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Oyster Ventures

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

San Francisco
$25K – $5M102Follows
~Jun 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
274
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Cintrifuse Capital

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.

Cincinnati
$100K – $500K44Leads
~May 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
275
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Benhamou Global Ventures

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

Menlo Park
$2M – $10M48Leads
May 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
276
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Freestyle Capital

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.

San Francisco
$1.5M – $3M140Leads
~Sep 2026 · Active
~1 moN/A
277
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Sony Innovation Fund

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.

Tokyo
$500K – $20M147Follows
Aug 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
278
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Horizons Ventures

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

Hong Kong
$1M – $25M39Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
279
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NextView Ventures

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

Boston
$400K – $4M174Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
280
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Initialized Capital
#77 · Top 100 · 2026

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.

San Francisco
$250K – $2M191Leads
Aug 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
281
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Trousdale Ventures

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

Los Angeles
$5M – $25M30Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
282
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Maple VC

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.

San Francisco
$500K – $1.5M57Follows
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
283
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GrainInnovate

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

Sydney
$25K – $5M16Follows
Oct 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
284
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Sovereign's Capital

We provide capital and strategic partnership to faith-driven technology founders in the U.S. and Southeast Asia who are building companies with defensible moats and thriving cultures, seeking top financial returns alongside human flourishing.

Atlanta
$300K – $4M79Both
Jan 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
285
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Endgame Capital

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.

Brussels, Belgium
$250K – $750K10Leads
Jan 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
286
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Index Ventures
#6 · Top 100 · 2026

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.

San Francisco
$500K – $50M380Leads
Sep 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
287
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Brick & Mortar Ventures

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.

San Francisco
$1M – $10M49Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
288
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DBL Partners

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

San Francisco
$2M – $50M46Leads
Oct 2025 · Active
~2 moN/A
289
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Spero Ventures
#73 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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

Redwood City, CA
$2M – $10M28Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
290
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Balnord

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

Gdańsk, Poland
$500K – $3M45Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
291
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Multicoin Capital
#84 · Top 100 · 2026

Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology will fundamentally restructure global financial systems. We invest in category-defining protocols and companies that reshape trillion-dollar markets through permissionless finance, technical innovation, and new economic paradigms enabled by blockchain. Particular focus on execution layers, DeFi infrastructure, stablecoins, payments, and emerging categories like DePIN, FHE, and crypto-AI intersection.

Austin
$100K – $5M130Follows
May 2026 · Active
~2 wksOpen
292
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42CAP

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

Munich
$500K – $3M56Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
293
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FTW Ventures

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

San Francisco
$500K – $5M24Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
294
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Silent Ventures
#97 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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

Dallas
$1.5M – $3M34Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
295
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TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good

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

Vancouver
$1M – $20M12Both
Aug 2025 · Active
~1 moOpen
296
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Startmate

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.

Sydney
$120K41Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
297
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Knoll Ventures

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

Atlanta
$500K – $3M37Both
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
298
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Long Journey Ventures
#35 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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

San Francisco
$500K – $2M68Leads
Apr 2026 · Active
~1 moOpen
299
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Spectrum Equity

We invest in emerging and current category leaders in software, artificial intelligence, and data businesses with proven value propositions, deep customer advocacy, scalable operating leverage, and resilient recurring revenue.

Boston
$25M – $250M96Leads
Mar 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
300
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Cofounders Capital

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

Cary, NC
$250K – $2.5M54Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
301
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HCVC

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

Paris
$100K – $2.5M30Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
302
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Opera Tech Ventures

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

Paris
$3M – $15M20Both
Jan 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
303
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Telluride Venture Fund

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.

Telluride, Colorado
$100K – $2M77Leads
Sep 2025 · Slowing
~2 wksOpen
304
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Vsquared Ventures

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

Munich
$540K – $5.4M35Both
Feb 2026 · Active
~2 moReq'd
305
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Odyssee Venture

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.

Paris
$1M – $10M36N/A
Feb 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
306
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seed + speed Ventures

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

Berlin
$500K – $2M47Both
Jan 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
307
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Elaia

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

Paris
$1M – $16M95Both
Feb 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
308
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Firebolt Ventures

We help extraordinary founders build enduring companies. We partner with founders early, back them through every stage, and share the operator network, market intelligence, and pattern recognition we've built across 400+ investments.

Palo Alto
$250K – $5M40Both
Feb 2026 · Active
N/AN/A
309
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Morgan Stanley Inclusive & Sustainable Ventures

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.

New York
$250K – $500K45Leads
Sep 2025 · Active
3+ moOpen
310
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Refactor Capital

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

Burlingame, CA
$1M – $2M48Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~1 wkOpen
311
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Failup Ventures

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

$200K – $2M53Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
N/AReq'd
312
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Ascend

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

Seattle
$250K – $750K60Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
~1 moReq'd
313
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Cantos
#57 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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

San Francisco
$400K – $1.5M42Leads
Dec 2025 · Active
~1 moReq'd
314
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Yes VC

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.

$30K – $1.5M46Both
Dec 2025 · Active
~2 wksOpen
315
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Spacecadet Ventures

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

New York
$250K – $1M99Leads
Dec 2025 · Active
~2 wksOpen
316
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Ravelin

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.

San Francisco
$100K – $500K18Follows
Nov 2025 · Active
~2 wksOpen
317
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Floodgate

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

$250K – $1M127Leads
Feb 2026 · Active
N/AOpen
318
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Westbound Equity Partners
#86 · Emerging 100 · 2026

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

Palo Alto
$100K – $5M53Both
Jan 2026 · Active
~2 moOpen
319
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Boost VC

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

San Mateo, California
$500K – $3M30Leads
Dec 2025 · Active
~1 wkOpen
320
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Acre Venture Partners

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

Santa Monica
$500K – $5M29Leads
Oct 2025 · Active
~1 moReq'd
321
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ToSeed & Partners

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

Siena, Italy
$100K – $700K10Both
Sep 2025 · Active
N/AN/A
322
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Tacoma Venture Fund

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

Tacoma, WA
$150K – $500K24N/A
Nov 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
323
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Serena Capital

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.

$100K – $15M115Leads
Dec 2025 · Active
~2 wksOpen
324
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Space Capital
#68 · Top 100 · 2026

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

New York
$250K – $3M40Leads
Oct 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
325
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TransLink Capital

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

Palo Alto
$500K – $7M95Both
May 2025 · Active
N/AN/A
326
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Ubiquity Ventures

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

San Francisco
$100K – $2M36Leads
Nov 2025 · Active
~1 wkOpen
327
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SJF Ventures

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

Durham, NC
$3M – $15M15Leads
Sep 2025 · Active
~1 moOpen
328
▶
Fusion VC

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

Tel Aviv
$150K – $500K99Leads
Nov 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
329
▶
Shrug Capital

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.

San Francisco
$500K – $2M114Both
Dec 2025 · Active
~2 wksOpen
330
▶
Impact Shakers

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

Belgium
$150K – $250K15Leads
Sep 2022 · Active
~1 moOpen
331
▶
TitletownTech

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.

Green Bay, WI
$200K – $2M39Both
Jul 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
332
▶
Vinners

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

Mumbai
$29K – $230K16Both
Apr 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
333
▶
10x Founders

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

Munich
$250K – $2.5M28Both
Jul 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
334
▶
Real Ventures

People, not money, build game-changing companies. Real backs Canadian, industry-agnostic, tech-enabled founders from pre-seed, taking a systems-level view of ventures correlated with profit and aligned with societal and planetary flourishing.

Montreal
$250K – $2M117Leads
Jun 2025 · Between
N/AOpen
335
▶
Diagram Ventures

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

Montreal
$250K – $5M36Both
Feb 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
336
▶
Snatched Ventures

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

San Francisco
$500K – $5M25Leads
Feb 2025 · Active
N/AN/A
337
▶
OIF Ventures

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

Double Bay, NSW, Australia
$250K – $10M54Both
Feb 2025 · Active
N/AOpen
338
▶
100Unicorns

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.

Mumbai
$250K – $3M116Both
Jan 2025 · Active
~1 moOpen
339
▶
Footprint Coalition

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

Los Angeles
$250K – $15M32Leads
Jan 2024 · Active
~1 moReq'd
340
▶
Trucks Venture Capital

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

San Francisco
$500K – $2M63Leads
Mar 2021 · Active
~1 moN/A
341
▶
Anthropocene Ventures

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.

San Francisco
$100K – $5M10Follows
Jul 2024 · Active
~2 wksOpen
342
▶
West Hill Capital

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

London
$1.3M – $25M33Both
Jan 2024 · Active
N/AOpen
343
▶
Responsibly Ventures

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

Huntington Beach, CA
$25K – $250K22Follows
Aug 2024 · Active
N/AOpen
344
▶
Concrete VC

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

Halifax, NS
$100K – $750K20N/A—N/AN/A
345
▶
Barrel Ventures

Entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs: we back companies transforming the future of the food industry across better-for-you consumer brands, food and ingredient technology, supply chain innovation, and vertical AI for CPG and food enterprises.

Evanston, IL
$250K – $1.5M36N/A
Mar 2022 · Active
N/AOpen

Investment Patterns

Check Size Distribution

<$500K
41 (12%)
$500K-$1M
32 (9%)
$1M-$2M
79 (23%)
$2M-$5M
68 (20%)
$5M-$10M
62 (18%)
$10M+
63 (18%)

Stage Coverage

What other stages do these firms also invest in?

Pre-Seed
0%
Pre-Seed
67%
Seed
0%
Seed
89%
Series A
0%
Series A
71%
Series B
31%
Growth
14%
series_c
9%

Sector Overlap

What other sectors do these firms also invest in?

Climate Clean Energy
80%
Healthcare Digital
55%
Enterprise Software
54%
Robotics Automation
52%
Biotech Life Sciences
44%
Developer Tools Infra
44%
Fintech Payments
43%
Manufacturing Industrial
39%

Frequently Asked Questions

Q

How many Climate & Sustainability investors does F4 track in 2026?

F4 Fund tracks 345 VC firms that actively invest in climate & sustainability. Ranked by sector depth: the share of each firm's classified portfolio in this sector, its absolute count of investments here, and how recently it last invested. Firms need at least three portfolio companies in the sector to appear.

Q

What is the typical check size for climate & sustainability investors?

Based on F4's analysis, the median check size for climate & sustainability investors is $2.5M, with a full range from $5K – $100000M. The distribution breaks down as: 41 firms in the <$500K range, 32 firms in the $500K-$1M range, 79 firms in the $1M-$2M range, 68 firms in the $2M-$5M range, 62 firms in the $5M-$10M range, 63 firms in the $10M+ range.

Q

Do climate & sustainability investors lead rounds?

Among the 345 firms tracked, 89% lead or co-lead rounds, and 7% typically follow. Founders seeking a lead investor should filter for firms marked "Leads" or "Both" in the rankings table above. Lead investors typically set deal terms and anchor the round.

Q

What should I look for in a climate & sustainability investor?

The best climate & sustainability investors combine domain expertise with an active portfolio in the space. Among these firms, 25% prefer warm introductions, and the average firm has 47 portfolio companies. Look for firms whose check size matches your raise, whose stage preference aligns with yours, and who have a track record of supporting companies in your sector through multiple growth phases.

Q

How often is this climate & sustainability investor data updated?

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

Related Investor Categories

Investors on this page also frequently invest in these sectors

Healthcare & Digital Health55%›
Enterprise Software54%›
Robotics & Automation52%›
Biotech & Life Sciences44%›
Developer Tools & Infrastructure44%›
Fintech & Payments43%›