Emerald is a globally recognized venture capital firm, founded in 2000, that manages and advises assets of over €1 billion from its offices in Zurich, Toronto and Singapore. The firm invests in start-ups that tackle big challenges in climate change and sustainability, with four current funds, hundreds of venture transactions and five third-party investment mandates, including loan guarantees to over 100 start-ups.
Bold Ideas. Bright Future.

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world’s most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results.

Climate Investment (CI) is an independently managed industrial decarbonization investor. The firm provides early-stage through growth equity capital to innovative companies globally. CI has 43 climate tech companies in our portfolio across our key investment themes of energy, transportation, buildings and industry. We partner with large corporations, governments and non-profit organizations to help scale their market adoption and GHG impact. Climate Investment is headquartered in London, with an office in Houston and San Francisco.

The Swedish Energy Agency is dedicated to its vision of sustainable energy for all and catalysing Swedish energy innovations within and beyond Sweden’s borders. Our assignment is to unite sustainability, competitiveness, and security of energy supply for cost-efficient energy systems with minimum impact on health, environment and the climate.

We promote the export of innovative Swedish products and solutions within cleantech and attract international investments to Sweden. We also strive to have a positive impact on policy development, knowledge transfer, and the exchange of best practices. The Swedish Energy Agency is the largest public funder of R&D in the Nordics within energy.

Inven Capital is a venture capital fund investing in climate tech startups across Europe and Israel. It is backed by a major European energy utility ČEZ, a.s. and by the European Investment Bank (EIB), having EUR 500m at its disposal over two fund generations. We seek investments into climate tech growth stage startups and all areas within decarbonization are close to our heart. We target late-stage growth opportunities with business model proven by sales and with significant growth potential. We focus on creating long term value through active support of the companies and their founders and aim to build strong consortia of friendly investors together with us at the board.

SET Ventures was founded in 2007 with the sole purpose of backing European innovation in clean energy. At that time, we were one of the only investors in this space, but almost 20 years later, we’re proud to not only have raised our fourth fund but to have helped turn the energy transition from an afterthought into a global movement.

The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) is the country’s competence centre for issues relating to energy supply and energy use at the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC).