# Top 50 Clean Energy Startup Investors in June 2026 ## Clean Energy Venture Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brookline, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing CEVG is an angel investor collective that invest in and mentors early-stage cleantech and climatetech startups across North America. ## Energy Impact Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy Energy Impact Partners LP (EIP) is a global venture capital firm leading the transition to a sustainable future. EIP brings together entrepreneurs and the world's most forward-looking energy and industrial companies to advance innovation. With over $2.5 billion in assets under management, EIP invests globally across venture, growth, credit,and infrastructure. ## Clean Energy Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy Clean Energy Ventures invests in scalable early-stage climate tech startups and clean energy technologies addressing global climate change. ## Acumen - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Financial Services Acumen is a nonprofit venture fund that invests in early-stage companies bringing critical services like agriculture, clean energy, education, financial inclusion, healthcare and workforce development to low-income communities in 14 countries across East and West Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Since 2001, Acumeninvested $128 million in 128 companies that have transformed the lives of over 308 million low-income people. ## Khosla Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Menlo Park, California, United States - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies. ## Novastar Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Agriculture, Health Care, Internet For the many, not just the few. For good. ## Safar Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing Safar Partners is a seed- to growth-stage venture fund investing primarily in technology companies out of MIT, Harvard, and the University of Rochester. We invest in platform technologies in the cleantech and advanced materials, AI/IT and robotics, and life science/medical device areas. ## Wonder Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet Wonder Ventures invests in entrepreneurs who have great ideas. Who build the world’s most innovative technology companies in order to address the world’s toughest challenges. Who think of long-term solutions that span generations.We are based in Santa Monica, CA. We actively invest in Los Angeles, New York City, Silicon Valley, Washington D.C.and anywhere great teams are located. ## Anzu Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Software, Manufacturing Anzu Partners invests in breakthrough clean tech, industrial, and life science technologies with $1B in assets under management across venture, credit, and public structures. ## Antler - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Build your next company with Antler, a global day zero investor enabling exceptional founders to start great companies, from the very beginning. Apply now! ## Active Impact Investments - Type: VC Fund - Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, CleanTech We support environmental resiliency through profitable investment. We provide capital and talent to accelerate the growth of early-stage climate tech ventures catalyzing the transition from finite to infinite sources of energy, food, water & products. ## Crosscut Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Crosscut is a venture capital firm in Los Angeles. We partner with early-stage founders to build extraordinary technology companies from Seed to Series A. ## Third Sphere - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Real Estate, Transportation Early-stage fund focused on rapid, scalable climate action and targeting outsized impact and outsized returns. ## Climate Investment - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series B, Series C - Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, CleanTech OGCI Climate Investments focuses on delivering the transition to lower carbon emission energy sources. The leaders of the ten major oil and gas companies are committed to the direction set out by the Paris Agreement on climate change. They support its agenda for global action and the need for urgency. Through their collaboration in Oil and GasClimate Initiative (OGCI), they can be a catalyst for change in their industry and more widely.OGCI aims to increase the ambition, speed and scale of the initiatives they undertake as individual companies to reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of their core oil and gas business – and to explore new businesses and technologies. ## Prelude Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Software, Energy, Renewable Energy Prelude Ventures invests in and supports early-stage startups with the greatest potential to mitigate climate change. For us, climate is everything. ## Grantham Foundation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Environmental Consulting, Energy Grantham Foundation seeks to protect and improve the health of global environmental issues and supports individuals and organizations. It also supports communication and collaboration in environmental protection, with an emphasis on climate change.The foundation focuses on communications to enable the general public to understand that climatechange represents the world’s primary environmental threat today and that mitigating and adapting to a changing climate will lead to a more sustainable and prosperous future.Grantham Foundation was founded in 1997 by Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. ## Austin Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet Austin Ventures is a venture capital and private equity company that specializes in partnering with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build companies. It was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. ## Unruly Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Italy, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, CleanTech, Manufacturing Investing in the crazy before it becomes normal ## Alumni Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Access curated startup investment opportunities and diversified venture capital exposure designed for accredited investors. ## Collaborative Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Health Care Collaborative Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward. ## Shell Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Software Shell Ventures invests in companies to speed up development and deployment of new technologies which complement our business. ## Starlight Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Miami, Florida, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Energy, Health Care Starlight is a venture capital firm for founders addressing the world’s most pressing challenges & opportunities. We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale in four main areas: the energy transition, industrializing synthetic biology, space technology, and novelcomputing & communications platforms.Starlight was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida. ## SOSV - Type: VC Fund - Location: Princeton, New Jersey, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Software SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates. HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment. ## Foothill Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Altos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund that invests in seed-to-A-round startups in the United States. It is a successor fund to the TEEC Angel Fund. Foothill Ventures was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California. ## Foundation for Innovation and Technology (FIT) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Debt Financing, Grant, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology The Foundation for Technology Innovation gives financial assistance to creative and technological projects at various phases of development. FIT funds projects in energy and the environment, information and digital technology, life sciences and health, precision industries, and nutrition and agriculture. ## Chrysalix Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy Leading global venture capital fund that invests in resource intensive industries across North America and Europe. ## Wayra - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense. ## New York Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Software New York Ventures is dedicated to encouraging innovation and fueling economic growth in communities across the State. This venture capital investment arm of Empire State Development is one of New York State's business resources and innovation investments, including the Governor's START-UP NY program, Innovation Hot Spots, the RegionalEconomic Development Councils, the Centers of Advanced Technology and Centers of Excellence networks, and the SUNY 2020 Initiative. ## Faraday Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Founded in 2011, Faraday Venture Partners is a pan-European Venture Capital firm investing in European innovative early-stage startups via its network of Clubs of Investors and its own Funds. ## Taronga Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Construction, Information Technology Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business. Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia. ## Powerhouse Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Energy, Solar Powerhouse Ventures backs entrepreneurs building the digital infrastructure for rapid decarbonization. ## Finindus - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zelzate, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Industrial, Renewable Energy Finindus provides early stage financing and growth capital to innovative companies active in the area of materials, material processing and sustainable manufacturing. We are funded by ArcelorMittal and the Flemish Region and linked to OCAS, the world class metals research center located in Belgium. ## Clean Energy Finance Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Amplify Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Education, Artificial Intelligence Invest in transformational technologies that can achieve large scale solutions globally. ## GAIA Impact Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Solar, Energy, Renewable Energy Gaia Impact Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in renewable energy that builds long-term partnerships with startups operating in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia with a strong environmental and social focus. The firm supports businesses enabling sustainable and affordable energy provision to local communities. In regions where energymixes are highly carbonized, it supports technological innovations and business models enabling a cost-efficient diffusion of renewable energy on a large scale. ## BDC Capital Cleantech Practice - Type: VC Fund - Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series C - Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Manufacturing We can help you meet the capital-intensive needs of scaling and achieve timely growth. We offer more flexible equity financing and commercial loans. ## The Engine - Type: VC Fund - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing A home for Tough Tech founders. ## Countdown Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Columbia, Missouri, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Aerospace, Manufacturing Investing pre-seed / first checks in founders building hard tech companies. ## Breakthrough Energy Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing Focused on developing and deploying the critical climate solutions our world needs to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. ## Magnetic Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, FinTech We are a global technology investor, sponsoring true progress. ## Congruent Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Energy, Robotics Congruent Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in Mobility and Urbanization, Energy Transition, Food and Agriculture, and Sustainable Production & Consumption sectors. We look for technology companies that will positively impact our energy and resource consumption. If we see an opportunity to partner with a like-minded teamfocused on scale across hardware, software, or services, we’re interested. ## Gaingels - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments. ## Vireo Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Software, Renewable Energy We believe that electrification and digitalization are the backbone of decarbonization and green transformation. Vireo Ventures is a seed- and pre-seed-stage VC. We invest in European tech start-ups that drive electrification. As Vireo we take the long-term view and support our portfolio companies wherever possible. ## Investible - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally. ## Climentum Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: CleanTech, Energy, Clean Energy A Venture Capital firm investing into European early-stage tech companies attacking CO2 emissions ## CenterPoint Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dallas, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series C, Series B, Series A - Focus: Electronics, Manufacturing, Information Technology CenterPoint Ventures is one of the largest early-stage venture capital firms based in the Southwest. Founded in 1996, we have helped scores of entrepreneurs build successful, enduring companies that deliver long-term value to investors, founders, employees and customers alike. ## Braemar Energy Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A - Focus: Manufacturing, Energy, Renewable Energy While energy has been a key to global development since the dawn of the electronic age, the beginning of the new century has seen a tremendous surge in the technology advancements, market activity and the strategic importance of energy around the world. While many companies and investors have sought to take advantage of the tremendous opportunitytoday's energy industry presents, the unique market issues, scientific contributions and complex web of interrelationships require a specialized expertise.Braemar Energy Ventures was formed in 2002 to create a venture capital firm with that expertise. Focused exclusively on technology and communications opportunities in the energy sector, Braemar Energy Ventures has both the industry and operating knowledge to select promising young companies, bring them into the larger energy world and guide them to reach their full potential.The firm's four principals have a long history of successful investments, as well as experience financing and operating companies in the energy sector. Together, they have been responsible for investing in almost 40 energy technology companies, including early stage companies which have grown to become some of the most successful in the sector.Braemar Energy Ventures works with management teams who are skilled in their industry but who can benefit from Braemar's assistance with strategic direction and financing issues. Having worked with many early stage companies, the Braemar Energy Ventures principals understand the challenges that many young companies face and provide invaluable counsel to their portfolio companies on longer-term issues, allowing management to focus on daily operations. ## Climate Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy Diversified investments in the most promising early stage climate startups backed by top tier VCs. ## E3 Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy E3 Capital invests in growing, entrepreneurial businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing the lack of electrification in the region with new technology and innovative business models. The fund is backed by Schneider Electric, the leading energy management multinational, and a number of public-sector investors. ## Gimv - Type: VC Fund - Location: Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Gimv, a trusted European investment company, helps mid-market businesses create sustainable value through growth capital and expertise across diverse sectors. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co