Kopa Ventures

Azolla Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies with the potential for gigaton-scale climate impact. Azolla Ventures was created by Prime Coalition, a nonprofit organization that partners with philanthropists and other mission-driven investors to support market-driven innovations designed to catalyze, deepen, or accelerate solutions for climate change

Grok invests in technology enabled companies and projects that will decarbonise our planet. Lowering emissions, removing carbon, generating awesome returns - that’s our focus. We back teams in markets we understand - predominantly Australia and New Zealand, Singapore, North America, and Europe. At our core, we believe: Technology is the biggest lever we have to decarbonise the economy. Seeding and scaling climate tech into climate infrastructure is going to require trillions of dollars in private capital. We consider this the biggest economic opportunity of our lifetime. The funding requirements of climate tech and infrastructure are unique – the capital and capability needs to be flexible, focused and fit-for-purpose. SOLVING THE CLIMATE CAPITAL STACK: There is a major funding gap in climate tech. We solve this by investing equity early from our Venture team and when companies hit defined milestones our Infrastructure team can provide flexible forms of non-dilutive financing. We’ve been providing flexible funding since 2016. Our team brings specialist experience building technology businesses, investing across venture, infrastructure and debt, as well as owning and operating renewable infrastructure. We deploy this expertise to help our portfolio companies scale.

We love tech startups who are pushing the possibilities in materials science. From enabling sustainable energy solutions, to accelerating advanced materials breakthrough, to ensuring wider availability of sophisticated healthcare technologies, TDK Ventures is actively searching for solutions for difficult problems. TDK has a proven track-record of solving problems, since 1935. Our VC firm believes in a sustainable world where digital, energy, and environmental transformation will improve billions of lives. Our mission is to help accelerate learning, bring meaningful contributions to society, and invest in startups with similar ideals. We absolutely want to “move the needle”, by delivering meaningful financial results with our co-investors and bringing new powerful transformational business opportunities to TDK. By focusing on Scaling Impact, we ensure a sense of purpose and a sense of urgency, with both patience and speed in our investment decision making. TDK Ventures exists to provide every startup we invest in with the tools they need to bring their visions to life. Of course, this includes financial resources and support, but we also bring a full measure of TDK Goodness to our portfolio companies to help accelerate their success. Depending on their needs, we may provide early product validation, pilot programs, customer, channel, and ecosystem access, industry and outsourcing connections, market insights, materials, manufacturing, supply chain expertise, branding, and/or go-to-market mentorship.

We look for startups to address global climate and UN Sustainable Development goals in the following areas: Low carbon mobility solutions Sustainable Energy & Resource Optimization: We're looking for companies that can help power our societies with cleaner energy and optimize our resource utilization to hand over our beautiful earth to the next generations. Sustainable Food & Agriculture: We look at solutions that enable a regenerative and carbon-negative economy, such as alternative protein, ag innovation, carbon sequestration, and blue economy. Sustainable production and heavy industry: We support innovative technologies and solutions eliminating carbon from society in industry, such as alternative plastics, sustainable materials, and processing Decarbonized built environment: We support innovations that contribute to energy efficiency, low carbon construction, and end-use. Integrated Solutions: Further holistic decarbonization efforts such as carbon capture, circular economy, climate risk, insurance tech, green finance, behavioral change, consumer B2B+B2C solutions including carbon accounting, reporting, and more Vectors Impact Pledge We are dedicated to supporting companies that can create a positive impact in solving global challenges. We encourage our portfolio companies to sign the Vectors Impact Pledge, which they quantify their current positive impacts and their long term impact goals

We champion visionary founders who defy the norm.

At Direttissima, we believe that every business has its own summit to reach. Our mission is to support entrepreneurs as they take the most direct and effective route to the top. As growth partners, we help them gain strategic clarity, build high-performance teams and realize the full potential of their business. PrinciplesTechnological solutions shall create substantial impact: We work towards a sustainable world and back companies with a mission for positive change. Success happens collectively: We create an entrepreneurial eco-system for our portfolio companies, our investors and other partners. Company building needs long-term thinking: We focus on sound economics and support patient and proper business building. People make the difference: Individuals and teams are key in successfully scaling companies. We actively help to develop great teams. How we investGrowth stage: We provide funding to companies with proven business models, substantial product revenues and sound economics Substantial tickets: Our initial ticket size is €5-10M. We can invest a total of up to €15M per company. We like to lead, but are happy to co-invest European: We invest across Europe and are keen to support international expansion beyond Dedicated: We are co-creators and long-term partners. We focus on fewer investments, and go deep on those From entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs Our fund is backed by accomplished entrepreneurs, founders, business people. We leverage our eco-system of experienced entrepreneurs to the benefit of the emerging entrepreneurs we back. Our support on the direct path Focus Finding the most direct route can be challenging, due to the uncharted nature of the terrain. Deviations can be costly. As companies scale, they navigate new markets, new partners and new customer types. Focussing on the summit and fine-tuning the route is crucial. We help management teams to maintain strategic clarity at all times, cutting the direct path. The tool set Taking the steep route to the top is technically demanding. It requires advanced business building skills and superior execution, going well beyond what was necessary in the early company stages. We help growth companies integrate skills in product management, go-to-market, financial planning and operational efficiency, accelerating the ascent. Respecting nature As on any route to the summit, respecting and protecting the natural environment is essential. We cannot scale against nature. Companies taking this route should strive to maximize their positive impact. By integrating sustainable practices, they ensure long-term success while preserving the environment for future generations.