Top 20 Clean Energy Startup Investors in Australia in May 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Clean energy startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Clean energy companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Clean Energy Startup Investors in Australia in May 2025
Investor | Clean Energy Australia investments |
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Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund | 3 |
Clean Energy Finance Corporation | 2 |
Quantexa | 1 |
AlbionVC | 1 |
Synertec Corporation | 1 |
Engie Factory | 1 |
Hazy | 1 |
AfterWork Ventures | 1 |
Mirvac Ventures | 1 |
Alberts Impact Ventures | 1 |
Kara Frederick | 1 |
Direct Capital Private Equity | 1 |
Blackbird Ventures | 1 |
Robin Chiang | 1 |
Victorian Clean Technology Fund | 1 |
Virescent Ventures | 1 |
ReNu Energy | 1 |
Ed McManus | 1 |
Taronga Ventures | 1 |
Energy Estate | 1 |
Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund The Fund makes seed & follow-on investments in clean energy focused startups from approved accelerators, incubators, university programs & angel
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Investment focus
- Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Energy
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Enosi — Enosi traces ‘your’ energy – matching site-specific, half-hourly energy demand with site-specific, half-hourly generation data – across the grid. From this Enosi: - Allocates, sorts and prioritizes settlements of that energy supply amongst a defined “community” - Delivers price and usage data to that community’s common retailer for easysettlement on monthly retail bills
- Oxamii — Oxamii is a peer-to-peer marketplace that allows businesses to purchase renewable energy from local producers.
- BlockTexx — BlockTexx is an early stage clean technology company that recovers polyester and cellulose from textiles and clothing.Through an Australian developed patent pending process that combines chemical recovery technology and advanced manufacturing to produce high quality recycled materials of rPET pellets and cellulose powder from textile waste.BlockTexx is positioned at the end of the value chain, where raw materials and end-of-use solutions have the highest environmental impact and revenue potential.
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation invests using a commercial approach to overcome market barriers and mobilize investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and low emissions technologies. They seek to catalyze and leverage private sector funding for the commercialization and deployment of clean energy technologies necessary for thetransition to a carbon-constrained economy.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- Australia, United States, Spain
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- Ampol — Ampol connects our proud history with everything our business is known for today, our trusted high-quality products, our commitment to customer service, local communities and the largest leading transport fuels network in Australia.
- Neoen — Neoen is an independent energy company, develops, finances, builds, and operates power plants based on renewable energies in France, Portugal, Australia, Mexico, Egypt, and El Salvador. It operates solar, wind, and biomass power plants. The company, through its subsidiaries, also specializes in the development of marine renewable energy projects inFrance; supports photovoltaic project developers and investors in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of solar power plants in France and abroad; and develops solar and wind farms.
- JET Charge — Australia's #1 supplier and installer of EV charging stations for homes and businesses, expert solutions for all EV infrastructure needs.
Quantexa helps bring context to data so you know every decision is the right decision, at the right time.
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- Gridcog — Gridcog provides holistic software to plan, track, and optimize your transition to a decentralized and decarbonized energy future.
AlbionVC supports visionary founders with long-term capital and scale-up expertise. Founded in 1996, today we are partners to UK early-stage B2B software and healthcare companies. AlbionVC manages c. $1 billion of venture funds, currently invested in over 50 companies. AlbionVC is the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group LLP, which isauthorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
- IONATE — IONATE Ltd. is a technology company developing next-generation Hybrid Intelligent Transformers.
- Infact Systems — Infact Systems is a company that focuses on bringing affordability and credit information into the 21st century. They facilitate the sharing of real-time, contextual data, primarily in the banking industry. Their mission is to increase responsible financial behavior by providing real-time data for modern credit. They offer integration andcustomization services for HPZone, particularly in terms of connecting with external laboratory systems. Infact Systems also provides services to help women take control of their finances.
Synertec is a diversified Technology and Engineering company focussed on developing and delivering environmentally sustainable solutions for challenging industry sectors including energy, critical infrastructure, and highly regulated industries.
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Investment focus
- CleanTech, Power Grid, Clean Energy
- Seed
- Australia
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- PHNXX — PHNXX provides containerised clean and reliable energy solutions for business operations.
Engie Factory is a start-up accelerator of the Engie Group that supports startups related to sustainability, making them grow rapidly until they become companies and contribute to the market, with products and services. It began operation in 2016, with its headquarters in Santiago in Chile.
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- CleanTech, Clean Energy, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Chile, Singapore, Mexico
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- PHNXX — PHNXX provides containerised clean and reliable energy solutions for business operations.
- Polar Cold — Polar Cold provides cold rooms-as-a-service on a monthly subscription, conveniently installed onsite at customer facilities. Polar Cold is dedicated to advancing sustainability in the cold chain space.
- Verta Bioenergy — Bespoke drop in replacement pellets to decarbonise industrial coal use. Minimal investment required. Decarbonising one plant at a time.
Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
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- Gridcog — Gridcog provides holistic software to plan, track, and optimize your transition to a decentralized and decarbonized energy future.
We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
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- Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
- Primary — Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways.
- Matilda Migration — Migration made simple. Specialising in Employer Sponsored visas and Partner visas. With a 99% success rate for ultimate peace of mind. Visit us now.
Ventures arm of Mirvac Pty Ltd
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Investment focus
- Energy, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia
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- Mys Tyler — Finally, an app that brings you body-relevant fashion inspiration. Discover like-minded, like-bodied creators sharing the outfits they love on Mys Tyler.
- Allume Energy — Apartment residents can now access solar energy directly from their rooftops and share it fairly with their neighbours thanks to our world-first technology, SolShare.
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- Energy, Renewable Energy, Music
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Australia
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- ULUU — ULUU is an ocean material that replaces plastic and actively benefits the world.
- Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
- Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.
Kara Frederick is a General Partner at Reinventure Group, a venture capital firm backed by Westpac. She has spent more than 15 years at the intersection of financial services and technology, including as an investor and a founder. She has executive experience within banking in the US and Australia. Kara is a graduate of Princeton University,co-heads Princeton's Alumni Council in Australia, and resides in Sydney with her family.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Energy, Clean Energy
- Seed
- Australia
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Direct Capital is a private equity manager established in 1994. Today Direct Capital remains owned and managed by three of its founding directors, Ross George, Mark Hutton and Bill Kermode. The team has grown to 13 investment professionals, who together have 110 years of private equity experience.Direct Capital seeks to be a pre-eminentprovider of equity capital to Australasian businesses lacking ready access to the stock market, with a focus on increasing shareholder wealth in private companies, and assisting shareholders to release value.
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- Software, CRM, Energy
- Funding Round, Private Equity
- New Zealand, Australia
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- Beca — Engineers and consultants making everyday better for our clients and the community.
- POP — POP is a holding company led by entrepreneurs to build a specialist insurance ecosystem.
- Momentum Energy — The power company owned by Australia's largest renewable generator. See how our prices compare to other gas and electricity providers in 2 minutes.
Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
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- Ravio — Ravio allows you to understand compensation in your market in real-time. Make smarter salary, equity and benefits decisions without touching a spreadsheet.
- Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
- Wonder Studios — Producing world-class original content
Robin Chiang
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- Apps, News, Energy
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States
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- Porter & Sail —
- Allume Energy — Apartment residents can now access solar energy directly from their rooftops and share it fairly with their neighbours thanks to our world-first technology, SolShare.
Clean technology fund for early stage ventures
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Investment focus
- Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Australia
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- Allume Energy — Apartment residents can now access solar energy directly from their rooftops and share it fairly with their neighbours thanks to our world-first technology, SolShare.
Virescent Ventures invests in founders, technologies, and businesses that can help achieve zero emissions and beyond.
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- Renewable Energy, Solar, Battery
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, Philippines
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- Xefco — Xefco is a company that develops novel textile and coating technologies. It uses a global network of research partners to develop advanced manufacturing solutions and apply cutting-edge materials science, with an emphasis on functional enhancements, sustainable manufacturing, and decreased resource consumption.
- Hysata — Hysata is a developer of hydrogen electrolyzer designed to accelerate the world's shift away from fossil fuels to green hydrogen
- Gridcog — Gridcog provides holistic software to plan, track, and optimize your transition to a decentralized and decarbonized energy future.
Geodynamics Limited engages in the exploration and development of zero emissions, renewable energy generation from hot fractured rocks (HFR) in Australia. The company has HFR geothermal tenements in New South Wales, Queensland, and in the north-eastern part of South Australia. Geodynamics Limited was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Milton,Australia.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Enosi — Enosi traces ‘your’ energy – matching site-specific, half-hourly energy demand with site-specific, half-hourly generation data – across the grid. From this Enosi: - Allocates, sorts and prioritizes settlements of that energy supply amongst a defined “community” - Delivers price and usage data to that community’s common retailer for easysettlement on monthly retail bills
Ed McManus is Deliveroo Australia's chief executive officer.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Clean Energy
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Gridcog — Gridcog provides holistic software to plan, track, and optimize your transition to a decentralized and decarbonized energy future.
Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business.
Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia.
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- Software, Construction, Clean Energy
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- United States, Australia, Canada
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- WINT — WINT Water Intelligence mitigates water-related risks via AI & IoT-based leak detection including auto valve shut-off to protect your property
- Ampd Energy — Ampd Energy is driven by its vision for an emission-free future for construction. Ampd Energy pioneered the use of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in urban construction with its flagship product, the "Enertainer". The Enertainer electrifies construction sites and provides clean, quiet and fully automated energy delivery, allowingconstruction to transition away from fossil fuels.Compared to fossil fuel generators, the Enertainer: reduces carbon footprint by up to 85%; is 32x quieter; emits zero diesel fumes; eliminates diesel handling and usage risks; has zero maintenance and refuelling downtime; and is economically justified for operational cost savings. As an IoT enabled device, the Enertainer can be remotely monitored anytime and anywhere, providing a deep level of data-transparency for data-driven decision making.Website: www.ampd.energy LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ampd_energy
- Enteligent — Enteligent is a solar product company focused on higher efficiency and harnessing more solar electricity. Enteligent's products reduce conversion losses and other inefficiencies that result in up to a 25% loss of solar rooftop electrical generation. Enteligent is on a mission to increase the effectiveness of solar electricity and providehomeowners with energy independence.
Energy Estate provides strategic consulting, transaction advisory and project development services to the global energy sector.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Enosi — Enosi traces ‘your’ energy – matching site-specific, half-hourly energy demand with site-specific, half-hourly generation data – across the grid. From this Enosi: - Allocates, sorts and prioritizes settlements of that energy supply amongst a defined “community” - Delivers price and usage data to that community’s common retailer for easysettlement on monthly retail bills
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