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Venture capitalPalo 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.
66 firms in the directory fund energy and utilities companies at seed. Firms funding companies with a product in market and early revenue, priced on traction rather than multiples.
Head office location. Most firms invest well outside it.
66 firms
Search all 1224Palo 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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…
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.
New York, New York
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · Transportation & Logistics
High-conviction pre-seed fund led by two female operator-investors, leading first rounds for 20 to 25 science and engineering founders outside traditional Silicon Valley networks.
Pacific Northwest, USA
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Software & Internet · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities · Media & Communications
Arts-based approach backing pre-seed founders where technology gives superpowers to creators and brand builders.
New York, USA
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Software & Internet · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities
New York/Los Angeles VC investing across AI-driven software, consumer brands and climate technologies; 900+ investments, 26 unicorns.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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Software & Internet · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities
Early-stage 'first check' VC backing AI and deep-tech founders where AI meets workflows, infrastructure and the physical world (robotics, GPU/inference infra, autonomy, defense).
Singapore
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Energy & Utilities
Unearths, invests in and scales deep-tech startups into global leaders across five funds.
London, UK
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities
Backs European deep-tech founders building frontier-technology companies that disrupt industrial norms (200+ founders since 2005).
Ra'anana, Israel
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities · Transportation & Logistics · Agriculture
Backs Israeli entrepreneurs building companies that matter and make a difference.
Zurich, Switzerland
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Food & Beverage · Energy & Utilities
Science- and software-focused early-stage venture investing in disruptive European startups from seed onward.
Brixen (Bressanone), Italy
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Energy & Utilities · Real Estate · Education · +1 more
Non-profit business angel network backing Alpine-region founders with risk capital and expertise.
Newport Beach, CA, USA
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities
Early-stage (seed/Series A) VC backing SaaS, IT infrastructure and climate/energy companies, pledging half of its profits to charitable causes.
New York, New York, USA
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities
Venture firm combining engineering and financial-structuring expertise to back seed-through-growth startups in AI, health tech, digital infrastructure and blockchain.
Fayetteville, AR, USA
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Healthcare & Life Sciences · Energy & Utilities
Venture-development firm that creates and seed-funds high-impact life-science companies by licensing technologies from research institutions.
San Antonio, TX, USA
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities
Founder-led capital backing technical founders staying scrappy until product-market fit.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Software & Internet · Food & Beverage · Energy & Utilities · Media & Communications · Transportation & Logistics · Environmental & Safety
Canada's largest climate tech seed fund backing capital-efficient, market-ready companies delivering immediate customer ROI.
Madrid, Spain
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Backs defensible early-stage tech where value lies in proprietary data, domain depth and physical systems; ~20-year track record, 4th-generation fund.
New York, New York, USA
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Software & Internet · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · Transportation & Logistics · Real Estate
Seed investor in the 'Aquarius Economy' (energy abundance, foundational-industry resilience, agent-to-human coordination), investing on day one with hands-on support.
Seattle, USA
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities
Seattle pre-seed VC led by Kirby Winfield writing $250K-$750K first checks into AI-infrastructure and 'SaaS 3.0' startups. Note: CSV domain 'offerup.com' is a data error; real firm domain is…
Poland
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Software & Internet · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities
Seed VC backing Polish/CEE entrepreneurs developing breakthrough energy and industrial technologies deployable within 2-5 years.
New York, New York, USA
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities · Construction · Environmental & Safety
Invest in AI-powered SaaS that integrates into workflows and drives direct business impact.
Houston, TX, United States
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · Transportation & Logistics
Invests at industry inflection points where technology, regulation or market shifts let software rewire complex asset-heavy and regulated operating models.
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PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, Q2 2026 (As of June 30, 2026), page 10. Figures are United States medians across all sectors; this report does not break valuations out by sector, so these are not sector-specific.
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