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Chrysalix Venture Capital

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Chrysalix is a global venture capital fund with a long history commercializing step-change innovation for resource intensive industries. We invest in intelligent systems, energy technology and resource productivity solutions to deliver outsized financial returns and environmental sustainability.

By teaming up with leading industrial companies and outstanding entrepreneurs, Chrysalix connects market driven problems to breakthrough solutions.

Our investments include breakthrough technologies like intelligent systems for mining, fast-charging electric vehicle infrastructure, carbon capture, battery intelligence, fusion energy, and wastewater management.

INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY

  1. TECHNOLOGY: We invest early in breakthrough innovations at the heart of science and technology that are driving disruptive impact in resource intensive industries.
  2. MARKET: We have deep connections into large industrial markets and a track record of successfully discovering future disruptors in those markets.
  3. COMMERCIALIZATION: We have the processes and resources to build, mentor, scale and connect high-growth companies with big industrial applications.

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