EDF Pulse Ventures
EDF Pulse invests in innovative companies driving the energy transition by developing low-carbon electricity production, smart grids, and flexibility solutions to combat climate change. Leveraging EDF’s 80-year expertise in innovation, the program supports startups aligned with sustainable energy goals.
Epopée Gestion
Epopée Gestion is a regional investment fund focusing on supporting entrepreneurs and local economies in France. They invest across multiple asset classes, including innovation and digital, transitions for SMEs/mid-sized companies, sustainable real estate, and infrastructure and climate. Their investment approach is characterized by providing expertise in strategic acceleration and internationalization, leveraging an experienced and accessible team with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Epopée Gestion aims to foster the emergence of champions within their target regions, actively participating in the ecological transition while preserving the history and local character of the assets they invest. They appear to prioritize companies demonstrating collaborative approaches and innovative models, exemplified by their support for companies like Shopopop and Entech.
Junction Growth Investors
Junction Growth Investors is an investment fund dedicated to accelerating the energy transition by scaling innovative solutions. They recognize the urgency of climate change and aim to address it by backing ambitious climate-tech entrepreneurs. Their investment strategy focuses on growth equity and buyout capital, providing companies with the resources needed to expand their footprint and achieve critical mass. They seek opportunities to create value for shareholders while simultaneously mitigating climate change. The firm is committed to the Paris Agreement and Green Deal CO2 reduction targets, setting KPIs for portfolio companies to reach net-zero emissions and incentivizing their own team to meet these goals. Junction focuses on scaling existing technologies that have already been invented and brought to market. They invest in SMEs and scale-ups, in both B2B and B2C segments within the services and tech areas. They provide both growth equity and buyout capital, but do not invest in early-stage VC. The firm primarily targets companies headquartered in Europe. The firm aims to be more than just a source of capital, offering a playbook developed from their own experiences at the intersection of shareholder value creation and climate change mitigation. The team combines entrepreneurial and investment experience within the energy transition, possesses extensive knowledge of the energy industry and related markets, and has a strong network of industry experts.
Maxrich Ventures GmbH
Maxrich Ventures GmbH is an impact investor focused on technology-driven companies that save lives. They aim to be a 'booster' for their portfolio companies, providing not only financial support but also access to their extensive network, knowledge, and years of experience. The firm emphasizes an open and transparent communication forum through the MAXRICH INVESTORS CLUB, where investors receive weekly updates on the progress of their portfolio companies. This close relationship allows investors to actively contribute beyond capital, leveraging their expertise to guide and support the startups. Founded after Max and Rich met in 2005, the firm has helped over 150 companies get established. The founders have experience in building businesses and securing seven-figure financing rounds for tech startups. This experience translates into guidance for their portfolio companies, helping them navigate the challenges of scaling and growth. They invest in companies with innovative solutions to global challenges such as world hunger, climate change, and pandemics, aligning financial returns with positive societal impact. Maxrich Ventures operates an accelerator program to identify and nurture promising startups. They actively seek out companies with key technologies that can solve major problems facing humanity. The firm aims to support startups from early stages through their growth, providing the resources and connections needed to succeed. They focus on companies who are addressing global scale problems with technology, such as cell therapy, renewable energy, and reproductive health.
Possible Ventures
Possible Ventures invests in early-stage companies focused on solving the world's most pressing challenges. Their investment strategy centers around backing founders working on solutions across climate, energy, health, and society. They seek sustainable initiatives like carbon capture, energy transition, food & agriculture, and new materials, as well as circular economy and space exploration for alternative resources. In health, they target new tools and models for drug discovery and precision medicine, aiming to improve health and longevity. For society, they invest in AI-supported software tools, financial inclusion, and upskilling initiatives to boost productivity and create a more equitable future. The firm looks for frontier technologies in deep tech, life sciences, and software platforms that are unlocking unprecedented innovation. They emphasize the convergence of diverse disciplines, such as science, engineering, and entrepreneurship, believing that interdisciplinary teams drive breakthrough ideas and solutions. This can happen anywhere, and they are open to exploring new regions and building relationships with entrepreneurs and investors globally. Possible Ventures focuses on pre-seed and seed rounds, providing support to startups at the early stages of their development. They may also consider later-stage companies demonstrating strong growth potential and alignment with their investment strategy. They are relentlessly optimistic, choosing to focus on possibilities rather than risks, with a commitment to harnessing technology as a force for good to improve the lives of future generations.
Smartworks Innovation
Smartworks Innovation is a corporate venture capital (CVC) firm that partners with startups to bring new solutions and technologies into the Wiener Stadtwerke Group (WSTW Group). The firm focuses on solutions with high innovation or climate protection potential that are technologically and economically scalable. This collaboration is intended to strengthen the innovative ability and competitiveness of the WSTW Group and create solutions for sustainable mobility and energy transition. Smartworks Innovation operates in cooperation with the innovation management of the Wiener Stadtwerke Group, which is a modern infrastructure service provider with approximately 17,000 employees. The WSTW Group encompasses various divisions including Energy, Energy Grids, Transport, Funeral Services and Cemeteries, and Car Parks. The firm's investments align with the strategic goals of the WSTW Group, particularly in areas related to energy transition, sustainable mobility, and the broader infrastructure ecosystem. By integrating startup solutions into its operations, the WSTW Group aims to enhance its services and adapt to future challenges in a dynamic and sustainable manner.
Kiko Ventures
Kiko Ventures is a cleantech venture capital firm dedicated to redefining what's possible in the fight against climate change. They aim to invest in science-based businesses with the potential for significant impact on planetary sustainability. Their approach is characterized by deploying permanent capital, allowing them the flexibility to invest across various stages and remain committed throughout the growth journey of their portfolio companies. They seek to back businesses and breakthroughs that support the return to a regenerative world, where people and the planet can thrive. Kiko Ventures is focused on early-stage, science-based, and impactful companies. They emphasize the importance of enduring technological advantages that can withstand market cycles. Their investments are exclusively in companies with a core focus on improving planetary sustainability and tackling climate change. As part of IP Group, Kiko Ventures has the financial backing to support companies from early stages to late-stage success, demonstrating a commitment to long-term growth and impact. They look for companies commercializing disruptive technologies to combat climate change. Kiko Ventures believes that technology holds the key to solving the world's greatest problems, particularly those related to climate change. They actively seek out and support companies with the potential to make a substantial difference in reducing emissions, promoting sustainability, and fostering a regenerative future. Their investment strategy is geared towards creating a positive impact on both the environment and the financial success of their portfolio companies.
Northstar Ventures
Northstar Ventures invests venture capital in early and later-stage, high-growth companies tackling global challenges, focusing on climate tech and healthy ageing. They aim to achieve both venture and impact returns, partnering with companies and investors driven by financial success and a desire to make a real difference. They offer more than just funding, providing expertise, experience, and a powerful network to help their portfolio companies grow and achieve lasting impact. Rooted in the north of England, they have a global outlook and a unique perspective and approach. They are committed to supporting businesses that can create positive change on a local, national and global scale. The firm is passionate, committed, and enthusiastic about what they do, and what they want to achieve. They are committed to the North East and the communities in it, while firmly believing that the solutions and innovation created within the region can be scaled up to benefit citizens globally. They believe in collaboration, with their partners and also their investees. When they invest, they support the company with their networks and expertise, as well as funding. They have experience in building successful companies at all stages of the journey and work with companies to help make their vision a reality. They are focused on reimagining the future, investing in ambitious teams with solutions that will help solve societal challenges and are primed to scale up globally.