Evok Innovations

Evok Innovations is a climate-focused venture capital firm launched in 2016 that invests in early- to mid-stage hard-tech companies working on the decarbonization of heavy industry. Its investment activity concentrates on proven technologies at Series A and B, selected on the basis of cost advantage, market potential and the ability of founding teams to navigate industrial markets. The firm operates across Canada and the United States.

The firm's sector remit spans energy technology, mining and minerals technology, industrial optimization, and climate adaptation and resilience - the foundational industries that account for a significant share of global emissions and where abatement depends on physical rather than purely digital innovation. That focus on hard tech, defined as technologies with substantial engineering and hardware content, shapes both the diligence process and the horizon over which portfolio companies are held.

Beyond equity capital, Evok provides portfolio companies with support drawn from its team's operating experience in industrial technology, particularly in commercialization and deployment within heavy industry. The firm also collaborates with industry partners to help scale transformative technologies from demonstration to industrial use. Its stated position is that industrial decarbonization and climate risk reduction in heavy industry are the organising objectives of the investment programme.