Vargas Holding
Vargas Holding is an incubator and active owner focused on building impact companies with regional or global leadership in sectors addressing climate change and geopolitical shifts. They employ a greenfield model, constructing commercially viable companies from the ground up through large-scale projects, vertical integration, and close customer collaboration. Vargas identifies opportunities in high-emission, hard-to-abate industries, providing financing, launch, and scaling expertise to ventures that can rewrite industry rules and accelerate decarbonization. Their evergreen perspective involves long-term involvement as their ventures scale, ensuring sustainable design across value chains for improved margins. Vargas' investment strategy targets areas where innovation, technology, and capital can be put to work to solve real problems and contribute to sustainable development. They seek companies capable of taking leading positions within their respective industries. The firm actively engages through board representation, ensuring ethical and responsible management and value creation. The firm's journey started with Polarium and evolved into a model for addressing hard-to-abate industries. They learned that combining sector expertise with experience in large investment cases and industrial transformation can create impactful businesses. This approach led to the development of their greenfield model.
Version One
Version One backs mission-driven founders who are early in new areas, focusing on those building and defining new markets and categories. They support founders committed to a vision of how the world should be and are obsessive about making it so. The firm seeks out founders with bold, innovative ideas and supports them from Day 1, even before the solution or category is fully clear. They aim to build companies with generational potential. They invest in technology that transforms the world. Their core beliefs guide their investments, and they actively share their learnings and viewpoints to help today’s innovators make a difference. They commit to building strong relationships with founders starting from the first meeting and continuing throughout the life of the company, all the way to exit. Boris Wertz is focused on crypto/web3, AI, climate/energy and India, looking for teams who solve big problems in a unique way. Angela Tran focuses on deep tech (robotics, climate/energy, bio/health), AI/ML, dev tools and enterprise SaaS startups.
Vito Ventures
Vito Ventures, part of the Viessmann Generations Group, focuses on making majority investments in regional market leaders with a strong local presence and diversified offerings. Their investment strategy centers around businesses built for long-term growth, particularly those that are key enablers of the green energy transition. They aim to build a more livable, sustainable planet through efficient, low-carbon systems. The firm's primary investment platforms include Grid Infrastructure, District Heating & Cooling (Pipes, Stations & Controls), and Clean & Cold solutions in both the US and EU. They partner with companies that share their values and provide operational expertise to unlock their full potential. Their investments are aligned with global sustainability goals, including greenhouse gas reduction, air quality improvement, and overall environmental health. Vito Ventures identifies and supports companies that directly contribute to a low-carbon future. For example, Gritec, a portfolio company, is pivotal in enabling decentralized renewable grids and delivering climate-resilient infrastructure. Similarly, Isoplus Group is revolutionizing heat distribution with high-performance pre-insulated piping systems, connecting renewable energy sources to district heating networks. aqotec implements regenerative heating solutions in multiple countries. The "Viessmann Way" serves as their guiding principle, emphasizing responsibility, innovation, and purposeful growth. Their approach is characterized by conviction, care, and a long-term perspective, reflecting a commitment to future generations. Vito Ventures aims to create scalable energy transition solutions and enhance system-wide resilience by leveraging specialized solutions within their ecosystem.
Voltares
Voltares focuses on developing, implementing, and operating renewable energy projects in emerging markets to contribute to CO₂ reduction and climate stability. The firm aims to avoid 1 million tons of CO₂ emissions by 2030 through long-term involvement in the asset lifecycle of renewable energy systems.
Voyagers.io
VOYAGERS.io supports a community of impact-driven individuals focused on solving global challenges in health-tech and climate-tech. It fosters peer support, networking, and investment funds to back early-stage companies within its network, emphasizing deep relationships and collaborative problem-solving.
Wind
Wind is a conviction-led VC firm based in Europe that focuses on backing deeptech companies addressing challenges related to sustainable change and European sovereignty. The firm aims to support entrepreneurs with sharp business instincts, bold ideas, and deep purpose, helping them reimagine various aspects of life, from how we eat and move to how we live, by creating more balanced and sustainable systems. They also focus on technologies that foster European strategic independence through investments in AI, cybersecurity, space, and defense. Wind aims to partner with founders relentlessly, providing advice and support, daring to innovate and investing in areas others might avoid, and propel positive change through their investments. Wind aims to provide substantial support for startups, leading to stellar returns for investors. They emphasize their commitment to advising and supporting founders through all stages, good or bad. The firm actively seeks game-changing innovators and seeks new ways to support them, investing boldly in areas others might avoid. The firm prioritizes investing in technologies that are impactful and contribute positively to society and the planet. Wind demonstrates a strong belief in the potential of deeptech to drive both economic growth and positive societal impact, investing in founders who are working to shape a better future. They actively seek out and support visionaries with the potential to transform industries and create strategic independence for Europe.
better ventures Business Angels
Better Ventures is a business angel network focused on investing in and supporting early-stage companies that are "fixing the world" by driving sustainable impact and generating financial returns. They prioritize companies addressing global challenges across various sectors, including climate, circularity, health, and others. Their approach involves providing not only capital but also access to a curated network of like-minded entrepreneurs and experienced business angels who can offer mentorship, strategic guidance, and operational support. The firm aims to identify and nurture companies that are changing the status quo and creating value beyond financial returns.
kopa ventures
Kopa Ventures, previously known as Wi Venture, is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in European climate tech startups. Founded by renewable energy pioneer Matthias Willenbacher, the firm targets companies in the Energy, Mobility, Nature, and Carbon Tech sectors. Kopa Ventures aims to empower early-stage startups to develop solutions for climate-positive change and tackle environmental problems. They assess the environmental impact of potential investments using a specific impact methodology that includes carbon metrics and biodiversity considerations. The firm emphasizes a commitment to a vision where the economy and nature can coexist in harmony, actively supporting innovations and entrepreneurs that combat climate change and redefine our relationship with nature. They invest in ventures shaping the future.
responsAbility
Invests in solutions addressing climate change, sustainable food systems, and inclusive economic opportunities in emerging markets, prioritizing measurable impact alongside financial returns.
Übermorgen Ventures
Übermorgen Ventures invests in early-stage startups that disrupt industries by addressing climate challenges—focusing on decarbonization, carbon removal, and climate resilience. The firm emphasizes scalable, high-impact solutions with measurable environmental outcomes, supporting founders building a zero-carbon economy.
360 Capital
Invests in sustainable technological progress, focusing on early-stage European startups that drive innovation in deep tech, climate tech, and digital-first solutions.
Bethnal Green Ventures
Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) invests in ambitious, diverse founders building tech-driven solutions to address global challenges like climate change, inequality, and poor health. They prioritize purpose-driven businesses that deliver measurable positive outcomes for people and the planet, emphasizing commercial viability alongside impact. BGV is the first UK VC certified as a B Corp and follows a rigorous, inclusive application process to support founders from all backgrounds.
BeyondNetZero
BeyondNetZero (BNZ) is General Atlantic’s climate growth equity fund. It aims to accelerate the structural shift in the world's energy and productive systems to mitigate and adapt for the net-zero transition. The fund supports companies scaling climate technologies at a critical inflection point in their growth journey. BNZ focuses on investing in high-growth, asset-light technologies that can magnify their reach and impact on decarbonization. The fund capitalizes on the timely opportunity presented by technological advancements, cost reductions, and the increasing commercial viability of solutions needed to meet net-zero decarbonization targets. The fund is actively partnering with entrepreneurs who are driving efficiencies for a low-carbon future, seeking to shape the energy transition through private capital. Their annual climate and sustainability report highlights the progress made by their portfolio on their Science-Based Targets and how they are driving progress in enabling the reduction and avoidance of greenhouse gases. BeyondNetZero's investment strategy appears to emphasize scalability and impact, supporting companies that can significantly contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning to a more sustainable future.
Clean Growth Fund
Clean Growth Fund is a specialist climate venture capital fund focused on empowering UK clean tech entrepreneurs with expertise and capital to tackle the climate crisis. They invest in UK-based innovations that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve resource efficiency. The fund actively supports its portfolio companies, recognizing the challenges faced by cleantech entrepreneurs. They provide ongoing support on strategy, commercialization, and business development through close collaboration with their sister-company, Carbon Limiting Technologies (CLT), an established early-stage incubator. Clean Growth Fund's investment strategy is centered around finding innovations that will abate significant amounts of CO2-eq per year. The fund prioritizes innovations across a range of sectors, including power and energy systems, transport and mobility, industrial decarbonisation, buildings and the built environment, agrifood and land use, circular economy, waste, and water. They are a founder-friendly and collaborative team with extensive experience in supporting early-stage SMEs. Clean Growth Fund offers access to a global network of operators, engineers, analytics experts, designers, and marketers. Portfolio companies benefit from regular Portfolio Days and networking events. The fund provides both financial and non-financial support. They understand the struggles of building and growing a cleantech business, offering assistance from their team of investors, engineers and comms experts. A core part of their strategy is to work with CLT, to provide further business scaling expertise. Clean Growth Fund aims to create tomorrow’s climate tech leaders, with a focus on sustainable investments. They are committed to aligning their mission and values with the companies they back, supporting their business development and raising their company profile.
Climate Tech Partners
Climate Tech Partners (CTP) bridges the gap between emerging technology companies and corporate climate ambitions. They focus on investing in top climate tech companies, believing that a collaborative investment model is needed to accelerate technology growth and industry adoption. They simplify engagement and bring the right partners together early, leveraging a team and expert network with deep experience and relevant connections. Through close collaboration with corporate partners, they gain a deep understanding of real-world needs, identify suitable technologies, and enable stronger validation to make better investment decisions and deliver superior growth outcomes. CTP's model is built on working with corporates to deploy technologies at scale, delivering significant emissions reductions while reducing operating costs. Their investment approach prioritizes companies leading with strong unit economics, cost parity or clear pathways to parity, productivity gains, and security of supply, with climate outcomes as a key benefit. This contrasts with a previous focus on companies primarily emphasizing climate impact. CTP also recognizes the underinvestment in adaptation technologies and sees liquid fuels as a major industrial opportunity. They emphasize the need for structured corporate offtakes and meaningful commercial engagement with early-stage climate companies, offering a partnership-led model to de-risk adoption through introductions, pilots, and structured procurement pathways. CTP sees Australia as well-positioned to be a leader in low-carbon fuels and believes that climate innovation in Australia extends beyond gigawatt-scale infrastructure, encompassing software, robotics, and automation to solve practical decarbonization bottlenecks. They are focused on supporting technologies capable of accelerating emissions reduction across hard-to-abate industries.
Climate-KIC
Climate-KIC positions itself as Europe's leading climate innovation agency and community. They aim to transform climate ambitions into systemic action by grounding climate action locally. Their strategy revolves around place-based transformations, learning by doing, climate entrepreneurship, and contributing to Europe 2030 missions. They facilitate collaboration within their community of over 150 global members, including universities, research institutions, cities, NGOs, and startups, to accelerate the transformation of cities, regions, and value chains for enhanced adaptation and climate resilience. Climate-KIC cultivates a critical mass to scale up both the supply and demand for climate change solutions, focusing on innovation that makes the biggest difference in transforming systems, supporting ambitious climate leaders to create change at the speed and scale required for systemic transformation. Climate-KIC leverages its network of members, comprising of bright minds, dynamic companies, strategic thinkers, and forward-thinking cities and public authorities committed to climate action and deep decarbonization through innovation. This network includes SMEs, larger corporations, start-ups, graduate students, researchers, climate experts, cities, public authorities, and NGOs. Their approach emphasizes deep collaboration between organizations and individuals within the community, uniting forces to find and implement solutions in integrated ways. Their programs encompass a wide range of initiatives, including supporting farmers towards climate-resilient food futures through FoodFutures, aiding over 100 European regions on a transformative climate resilience journey, promoting sustainable food systems in Ireland through Deep Demo Ireland, enhancing Tanzania’s climate resilience through the Adaptation Innovation Cluster, building capacity of innovation ecosystems in Latin America & the Caribbean, and accelerating European cities towards climate neutrality via NetZeroCities. They also integrate gender mainstreaming into climate innovation and empower leaders in climate innovation through the Climate-KIC Academy. Climate-KIC's impact is further amplified through community empowerment and the translation of global limits into local action, bridging the gap between global frameworks and on-the-ground implementation. Methodologies like the Butterfly Model and Reduction Roadmap are employed to couple CO2 reduction with ecosystem protection, land restoration, and a shift from extractive practices to regenerative solutions. The organization acts as a pivotal link between global climate and biodiversity limits and concrete sectoral pathways, enabling transformative change across various sectors and regions.
Finindus
Finindus is a Belgium-based investment company that provides early-stage and growth financing to innovative technology companies across Europe, with Flanders as its home base. They also invest globally in technologies aligned with their expertise and the strategic interests of their shareholders. Their investment strategy focuses on companies operating in the fields of materials, sustainable manufacturing, and Industry 4.0. Finindus seeks out outstanding entrepreneurial teams that possess unique, relevant, and sustainable competitive advantages with a positive impact in sizable industrial markets. They are deeply rooted in the Flemish steel industry, which gives them a great affinity for steel and metal-related technologies. They focus on identifying materials that offer high performance and functionality at an acceptable cost with minimal environmental impact. Finindus aims to reduce the environmental footprint of products, processes, and supply chains through investments in cutting-edge technologies. They invest in digital solutions and advanced hardware and software that improve industrial processes in terms of safety, environmental impact, quality, efficiency, reliability, and durability. The firm places high value on fairness, trust, respect, and commitment in their partnerships. They focus on value creation for all stakeholders, contributing their expertise in areas like financing, HR, and technology. Finindus investments aim to drive impact across several sustainable development goals, including affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth, industry innovation and infrastructure, responsible consumption and production, climate action, life below water, and life on land. They also provide access to an extensive industry network, including their sister company OCAS, a world-class metals research center, and their shareholders, ArcelorMittal and the Flemish Region.
Generation Investment Management
Generation Investment Management is a pure-play sustainable investment manager founded in 2004, pioneering the development of sustainable investing. Their vision is a sustainable world in which prosperity is shared broadly, wellbeing is achieved for all, nature is protected, and a habitable climate is preserved. Their mission is to deliver long-term, attractive, risk-adjusted investment returns and positive impact, while advocating for the adoption of sustainable investing by the wider market. They believe that sustainability factors have a material impact on companies’ returns over the long term and that a long-term investment perspective is best practice. They manage USD 30.0 billion (as at 31 December 2025) on behalf of their global client base of asset owners. Generation's approach involves integrating sustainability analysis into every investment decision, using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to evaluate businesses and management teams. This rigorous sustainability analysis is fully integrated into every investment decision they take. They operate four complementary strategies investing across public and private equity: Global Equity, Asia Equity, Growth Equity and Private Equity. Within Global Equity, they invest globally in a concentrated, high-conviction portfolio of public companies, aiming to identify sustainable business models and high management quality. A sustainable company, in their view, doesn't borrow from its future earnings, drives performance with sustainability practices, provides goods/services consistent with a net zero, prosperous, equitable, healthy, and safe society, and focuses external communication on long-term issues. They emphasize business and management quality in constructing their portfolio. Stewardship is an integral part of their approach, engaging with portfolio companies to protect and enhance investment value, provide sustainability guidance, and nurture ambition. This extends to proxy voting and active roles in private equity strategies. Generation is committed to aligning its investment portfolios with net-zero emissions by 2040, and participates in initiatives such as the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (NZAM).
Giant Leap Fund
Giant Leap Fund is an impact venture capital firm that invests in companies harnessing technology and innovation to reimagine industries and create transformational change across climate, health, and people. They believe that visionary founders will address significant social and environmental problems, creating opportunities for high-performing, sustainable businesses. The firm invests in companies that reduce carbon emissions and restore nature (Climate), improve clinical outcomes and access to quality care (Health), and improve education and empower social change (People). Giant Leap prioritizes companies demonstrating measurable, embedded impact, a compelling solution to an important problem, and a massive market opportunity. They also look for driven founders dedicated to their life's work and compelling traction. Giant Leap's investment strategy is deeply rooted in the conviction that investment and impact go hand in hand. They aim to back founders tackling humanity’s most pressing problems, proving that purpose and profit can thrive together. The firm actively supports its portfolio companies by opening doors to customers, mentors, and other investors, providing practical advice on topics ranging from ESOPs to founder wellbeing and recruitment strategy. They emphasize building long-term relationships with founders, offering a mix of space and support to uplift the overall capability of their businesses. The firm's values include an abundance mindset, prioritizing human connection, leading by example, playing the long game, and practicing radical candor. Giant Leap seeks to be generous and collaborative, valuing relationships and acknowledging the importance of diverse perspectives. They are committed to demonstrating the power of startups to solve global problems and guiding society towards a cleaner, healthier, and happier future. The firm is strategic in its decision-making, considering the consequences of their actions and inactions while respecting the past, present, and future. Giant Leap's approach to impact investing is evident in their portfolio, focusing on companies that are not only commercially viable but also create measurable positive change. They actively measure and report on the impact of their portfolio companies, tracking metrics such as CO2 emissions avoided, healthcare system savings, and the number of people impacted by improved workplace policies. This commitment to measurable impact, combined with their focus on long-term relationships and values-driven approach, sets Giant Leap apart as a leader in the impact venture capital space in Australia.
Gilde Healthcare
Gilde Healthcare operates with a dual mission: to invest in solutions that improve healthcare outcomes and reduce costs, and to address global challenges through investments in climate solutions. Their Healthcare funds target businesses enabling better care at a lower cost, while their Climate Solutions fund invests in energy transition, biodiversity, waste management, and pollution reduction. They aim to achieve outsized returns on impactful companies active in healthcare or climate solutions by leveraging deep industry knowledge.
Icos Capital Management
Icos Capital invests in high-growth climate tech startups, leveraging a Collaborative Venturing Platform to combine venture capital with corporate expertise in engineering, production, infrastructure, and market access to accelerate decarbonization efforts.
Inven Capital
Invests in visionary founders who prioritize impact over profit, fostering leadership and diversity to create job opportunities and drive climate-positive change in Europe and Israel.
Investisseurs & Partenaires
Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P) is a venture capital firm focused on financing and supporting entrepreneurs who are transforming Africa. Their mission is to contribute to the emergence of 500 champions of entrepreneurship in Africa by 2030. They aim to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, believing that their development is essential for economic, social, and environmental progress on the continent. I&P often targets entrepreneurs and SMEs overlooked by traditional investors, recognizing their significant growth and impact potential. The firm operates with the vision that a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, supported by locally anchored investors, is crucial for sustainable development and social cohesion in Africa. I&P's strategy includes not only providing financial support but also offering accompaniment and promoting the businesses they invest. This comprehensive approach aims to help companies scale, create jobs, and generate positive social and environmental impact. I&P emphasizes the importance of blended finance and impact investing, aiming to shape the trajectories of gender- and climate-focused Impact Funds in Sub-Saharan Africa. They actively engage in initiatives that promote sustainability and upscaling of smallholder programs. The firm publishes an annual impact report that offers an overview of the results achieved across its various activities, showcasing its commitment to transparency and accountability. With over two decades of experience, I&P has built a significant track record in the African investment landscape, collaborating with numerous companies and raising substantial capital. Their focus on impact, combined with a deep understanding of the local context, positions them as a key player in fostering entrepreneurship and driving sustainable development in Africa.
Katapult Ocean
Katapult is an impact investment company focused on highly scalable impact tech startups. They aim to address the world's greatest challenges through investments in technology companies that represent the fastest-growing markets and therefore, the greatest business opportunities. Their core belief is that tech can have tremendous positive consequences and their mission is to use tech for good. They see the shift in innovation arising from startup ecosystems and seek to invest in solutions requiring a significant transition of capital into new industrial solutions across climate-tech, ocean-tech, agri-tech, food-tech, ed-tech, and health-tech. Katapult emphasizes the need for a platform approach to scale impact, build companies, and bring in capital and talent. They aim to make many bets to make a real difference, and build an investment machinery to invest and build companies. Founded in 2016, they aim to be a leading player in impact tech.