204 active venture and growth firms state that they invest in energy and utilities. Each was read against its own website; firms that turned out to be advisories, lenders or recruiters were removed, as were funds that have wound down.
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Makes venture capital investments in solutions solving real-world problems and improving human and environmental health (team now within American Century Investments).
Berlin, Germany (and San Francisco, USA)
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities
Backs technical founders building technologies that redefine markets.
Palo Alto, California, USA
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Software & Internet · Financial Services · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities
First partner to exceptional teams, backing category-defining companies early.
Menlo Park, United States
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Early-stage VC investing $4-8M into enterprise IT infrastructure, enterprise software, data analytics and cloud application companies.
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
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Software & Internet · Financial Services · Energy & Utilities · Transportation & Logistics
Research-led growth-equity firm partnering with founders scaling commerce and infrastructure technology.
Houston, Texas, USA
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Energy & Utilities
Independent early-stage venture and advisory firm investing in seed-to-Series B energy, climate-tech and non-energy startups, plus private secondaries.
Paris, France
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Energy & Utilities
Independent AMF-approved French manager backing promising deeptech and biotech companies through primary and secondary investments, providing capital and resources to help them scale.
San Francisco, USA
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities · Media & Communications · Environmental & Safety
Early-stage, risk-oriented technology venture firm ('Venture Humanism') backing accountable, mission-driven technologies. Notable early bets/exits include Twitch and Niantic.
London, United Kingdom
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Energy & Utilities · Materials & Chemicals · Environmental & Safety
Backs deep-tech founders solving hard problems in large markets from seed through growth.
Paris, France
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Consumer & Retail · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · +2 more
Edmond de Rothschild PE affiliate providing impact-oriented growth capital to companies serving African and European markets, with ESG integration.
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Energy & Utilities
Positions itself as the first investor for technical founders - engineers, researchers, and scientists - backing them to build next-generation infrastructure, AI/ML, data, and digital biology…
Menlo Park, California, USA
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities · Media & Communications
Backs innovators building generation-defining technology companies from seed to growth, with a platform model of operational support.
London, UK
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Energy & Utilities · Education · Environmental & Safety
Angel investment network and EIS fund backing early-stage, women-led technology startups.
Berlin, Germany
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Software & Internet · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Leads pre-seed rounds backing ambitious European founders from day one with hands-on support.
Austin, TX, USA
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities
Operator-led VC concentrating in high-conviction applied-AI verticals that collapse cost structures and replace legacy workflows.
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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Healthcare & Life Sciences · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · Media & Communications
Aberdeen-based business angel syndicate whose HNW/sophisticated members co-invest in emerging high-growth Scottish companies alongside the Scottish Co-Investment Fund.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Business & Professional Services · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Partners with founders from idea to growth, providing hands-on support across talent, marketing and customer development on Bain Capital's institutional platform.
San Francisco, United States
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities
Scaling human potential with artificial intelligence via an AI-native, high-touch venture model.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Consumer & Retail · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities
Thesis-driven, technology-focused investor backing founders and teams at all stages of growth.
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Software & Internet · Consumer & Retail · Food & Beverage · Energy & Utilities
Early-stage venture firm investing in Danish/Nordic startups at seed and Series A.
Sofia, Bulgaria
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Healthcare & Life Sciences · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities
Backs export-oriented niche players and domestic market leaders led by visionary management with a proven track record, in sectors with high growth or consolidation potential.
San Francisco, United States
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Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities · Media & Communications
One of the oldest crypto-dedicated VC firms; invests across the crypto stack (DeFi, infrastructure, consumer, gaming, identity) from seed through growth.
Washington, D.C. metro, USA
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Backs market-defining cybersecurity founders from seed through scale, led by former operators.
New York, United States
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Provides expansion capital to category-defining B2B software companies, increasingly centered on an AI-software thesis, backing later-stage SaaS and infrastructure businesses.
New York, NY
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Inception/pre-seed venture firm that partners with technical founders pre-product to build enterprise dev-tools, infrastructure, security and AI-native software companies.
Birmingham, AL, USA
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Energy & Utilities · Agriculture
Growth-equity venture firm backing technology companies with scalable, value-additive solutions across agtech, cleantech, healthtech and fintech.
Paris, France
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities
An AMF-approved French private equity manager investing growth capital into SMEs and tangible-asset businesses in lifestyle and strategic sectors; acquired by Acer Finance in 2024.
Sausalito, California, United States
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Software & Internet · Financial Services · Energy & Utilities
Curated angel investment consortium that matches vetted cannabis-sector founders with a member network of accredited investors, prioritising quality over deal volume.
Santa Monica, CA, United States
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities · Education
Inflection-point seed/pre-Series A investor backing companies with demonstrated market adoption that are not yet ready for a traditional Series A.
San Francisco, California
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Software & Internet · Financial Services · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Alphabet's independent growth fund backs category-defining companies scaling from startup to scale-up and gives them access to Google operating expertise.
Princeton, New Jersey
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Energy & Utilities · Media & Communications
Healthcare-only venture firm backing disruptive care-delivery and life sciences companies that deliver more care to more people for less money; portfolio includes athenahealth, Cubist and Sirtris,…
Paris, France
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities · Transportation & Logistics
Global multi-stage VC that acts as a bridge between startups and industry, using 20+ corporate LPs and Fortune 500 relationships to scale portfolio companies across continents.
New York, New York, United States
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Healthcare & Life Sciences · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · Materials & Chemicals · Media & Communications · Environmental & Safety
Early-stage fund formed with InSitech (US Army ARDEC partnership intermediary) to commercialise dual-use security and defence technologies for both government and commercial markets.
New York, NY, USA
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities
Provide flexible growth capital to leading middle-market decarbonization strategies while delivering returns and climate impact.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Software & Internet · Consumer & Retail · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · Media & Communications · Real Estate
Invests internationally in technology companies enabling digital transformation of mature industries, pairing capital with market-entry advisory (sister vehicle Cogito Ventures does early stage).
Vilnius, Lithuania
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · Transportation & Logistics · +1 more
Lithuanian state/EU-funded evergreen co-investment fund (100% subsidiary of national development bank ILTE) that invests only alongside at least three accredited business angels or other VCs, using a…
Alexandria, VA, United States
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities · Media & Communications · Transportation & Logistics
Long-standing communications-and-technology specialist that partners with entrepreneurs to build category-defining enterprise IT, digital infrastructure and mobility businesses (Zayo, Cologix, Cloud…
San Francisco, California, USA
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Software & Internet · Financial Services · Energy & Utilities
Early-stage, long-term investors in technology that transforms established industries.
Los Angeles, California
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Energy & Utilities
Backs founders modernising the infrastructure that powers wealth and health for the mass market, on the thesis that serving everyday Americans profitably produces outsized venture returns.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Energy & Utilities · Agriculture · Environmental & Safety
Canada's largest dedicated cleantech VC platform, backing companies commercialising technologies that cut emissions and resource use.
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