# Top 20 Clean Energy Startup Investors in Oceania in June 2026

## Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Clean Energy

Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund The Fund makes seed & follow-on investments in clean energy focused startups from approved accelerators, incubators, university programs & angel

## Clean Energy Finance Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series B
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Real Estate

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.

## Direct Capital Private Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Software, CRM, Energy

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.

## Synertec Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Richmond, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, Power Grid, Clean Energy

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.

## Robin Chiang
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, News, Energy

Robin Chiang

## AfterWork Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

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

## AlbionVC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

AlbionVC supports visionary founders and technologies with long-term capital and scale-up know-how. Founded in 1996, it was amongst the first to back leading global success stories such as Booking.com, Egress, Quantexa and Oviva. With £1bn in AUM and over 100 exits successfully realised, it funds venture breakthroughs that drive real outcomes forfounders, investors and society. AlbionVC is the technology investment arm of Albion Capital Group, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. For more information please visit: https://albion.vc/

## Taronga Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Construction, Energy

Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business.
Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia.

## ReNu Energy
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milton, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

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.

## Blackbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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.

## Alberts Impact Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Music

We back pioneers who share our vision for a better tomorrow.

## Energy Estate
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Energy Estate provides strategic consulting, transaction advisory ​and project development services to the global energy sector.

## Victorian Clean Technology Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Clean technology fund for early stage ventures

## Quantexa
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1

Connect fragmented data to reveal real-world relationships so humans and AI can make trusted decisions at scale.

## John Clifford
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Software

John Clifford

## Kara Frederick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Energy, Clean Energy

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.

## Unruly Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Italy, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, CleanTech, Clean Energy

Investing in the crazy before it becomes normal

## Virescent Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Solar

Virescent Ventures invests in founders, technologies, and businesses that can help achieve zero emissions and beyond.

## Engie Factory
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, Clean Energy, E-Commerce

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.

## Mirvac Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, Fashion, E-Commerce

Ventures arm of Mirvac Pty Ltd