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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.
101 firms in the directory fund energy and utilities companies at series b and later. Growth investors funding scale-up rather than product discovery, including firms that lead late rounds.
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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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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).
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…
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.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Impact venture firm pursuing a 'double bottom line' of top-tier venture returns alongside measurable social, economic and environmental benefit in the regions and sectors where it invests.
Germany
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities · Materials & Chemicals · Environmental & Safety
Backs visionaries decarbonizing industry and pioneers in software/cybersecurity across Europe.
Singapore
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities · Transportation & Logistics
Backs exceptional founders across Asia-MENA ('Empowering the Audacious').
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.
Ellicott City, Maryland, USA
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Maryland firm founded by Ron & Cyndi Gula (Tenable co-founders), self-funding investments to strengthen critical infrastructure and grow the cybersecurity workforce; 18 exits.
France
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Energy & Utilities · Transportation & Logistics
Backs companies accelerating decarbonization across carbon-emitting sectors.
New York, USA (office in Budapest)
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities
Provides growth and expansion capital to privately held SMEs in Central Eastern Europe.
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.
Porto, Portugal
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · Materials & Chemicals
Backs Iberian mid-market SMEs with expansion and build-up strategies to create sector-leading companies.
Chicago, IL, USA
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Software & Internet · Financial Services · Energy & Utilities
Thesis-driven early/growth-stage VC backing fintech, data infrastructure and vertical B2B software with hands-on operational support.
Silicon Valley, US
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Software & Internet · Healthcare & Life Sciences · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities · Materials & Chemicals
Strategic corporate VC connecting portfolio startups to LG Group's global network.
United States
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Software & Internet · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities
Provides flexible, tailored growth capital and network support to Pacific Northwest companies.
United States
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities
Invests growth capital in companies providing products, services and technologies to the energy value chain.
Arlington, Virginia, USA
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Software & Internet · Energy & Utilities
Concentrated growth-equity manager owning a small number of high-quality innovative growth businesses ('Own the Few. Own the Best').
New York, NY, USA
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Healthcare & Life Sciences · Financial Services · Energy & Utilities · Transportation & Logistics · Agriculture · Environmental & Safety
Invests in growth-stage companies providing climate adaptation and resilience solutions.
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Healthcare & Life Sciences · Consumer & Retail · Food & Beverage · Industrials & Manufacturing · Energy & Utilities · Environmental & Safety
Combines investment and operational experience to grow impact-oriented businesses in sustainability and wellness.
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.
New York, United States
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Software & Internet · Financial Services · Consumer & Retail · Energy & Utilities
Private investment firm and corporate/government advisor; Wolfensohn Capital Partners takes active-minority stakes in high-growth EM businesses.
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