Our Investors

The Lightsmith Group is a sustainable private equity firm that launched the first private investment fund for climate resilience and adaptation. Lightsmith invests in growth-stage companies providing technology-enabled business services and solutions in the areas of energy, water, food and agriculture, and climate resilience.

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Marubeni is one of the diversified conglomerates headquartered in Japan. With its global network of 133 branches in 68 countries, Marubeni’s multifaceted business activities includes domestic, import and export trade, and investment activities across a variety of industries. In the power sector, Marubeni delivers safe & stable supply of power fully supported by a worldwide network of strongholds for project development, asset management and services offerings as Energy Solution Provider. With its “Marubeni Long-Term Vision for Climate Change” announced in March 2021, Marubeni strives to achieve its action plans for “Contributing to low-carbon/carbon-free goals through business activities”.

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Sabanci Climate Ventures is the venture capital arm of Sabanci Holding, which engages with energy and climate-related technology startups and VC fund investments. Sabanci Climate Ventures invests in renewable energy generation, smart grid, battery, and energy storage, as well as EV infrastructure technologies. Learn more at www.sabanciclimatetech.com.

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Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America’s largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 27,600 people.

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Lightrock is a global impact investing platform that backs purpose-driven companies tackling the world’s biggest challenges. Lightrock invests in companies that pursue scalable and tech-driven business models around the key impact themes of people, planet, and productivity/tech for good. Lightrock’s portfolio includes more than 90 high-growth companies across Europe, US, Latin America, India, and Africa, supported by more than 105 Lightrock professionals based in 6 global offices. Lightrock is backed by LGT, the international private banking and asset management group, and other leading global institutions.

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SE Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund created in partnership with Schneider Electric. Based in California, and working with entrepreneurs around the world, SE Ventures provides capital to big ideas and bold entrepreneurs who can benefit from Schneider Electric’s deep domain expertise, R&D assets, and global customer base.
Our investment team is focused on building strong relationships with entrepreneurs to advise, invest, and act as strategic accelerants for high potential startups with a focus on energy management, electric mobility, cybersecurity, Al, and Industry 4.0.

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Founded in 2017, G2 Venture Partners is a venture and growth investing firm focused on emerging technologies driving sustainable transformation across traditional industries. Based in Portola Valley, California, the firm seeks to invest in sustainable ventures operating in the transportation, manufacturing, energy, agriculture, supply chain, and logistics sectors.

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Edison International (NYSE: EIX) is one of the nation’s largest electric utility holding companies, providing clean and reliable energy and energy services through its independent companies. Headquartered in Rosemead, California, Edison International is the parent company of Southern California Edison Company, a utility that delivers electricity to 15 million people across Southern, Central, and Coastal California. Edison International is also the parent company of Edison Energy, a global energy advisory company delivering comprehensive, data-driven energy solutions to commercial and industrial users to meet their cost, sustainability, and risk goals.

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Established in 1996 as one of the first corporate venture funds in the oil and gas industry, Shell Ventures acts as an investor and partner to help commercialize innovative businesses. The organization works with startups and companies, from their early stages to their scale and growth phases, and makes minority investments, which help develop new technologies and disruptive business models that accelerate energy and mobility transformation.

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Benhamou Global Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on Enterprise 4.0 technology innovation. The partners at BGV drove successive waves of enterprise technology disruption in Silicon Valley and have over 300 years of combined operational experience. The firm adopts a global outlook, sourcing companies from innovation hubs around the world, and invests in cross-border ventures anchored in Silicon Valley. BGV has offices in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel, and maintains a presence in France and India.

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National Grid Partners (NGP) is the venture investment and innovation arm of National Grid plc., one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the world. NGP invests for strategic and financial impact and leads companywide culture transformation efforts. The organization provides a multifunctional approach to building startups, including innovation (new business creation), incubation, corporate venture capital, business development, and culture acceleration. NGP is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has offices in Boston, London, and New York.

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