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Energize Capital is a leading climate software investor. We partner with best-in-class innovators to accelerate the sustainability transition. By investing in asset-light digital solutions, we help scale sustainable innovation and enable the new energy economy. Our team has decades of experience in the climate technology space, and we leverage our deep industry and operational expertise to guide our research-based, proactive and thorough investment approach. We support companies at various stages of maturity by helping them scale and realize their full potential, from early commercialization to the public markets. Investment Focus Areas Key themes at the intersection of software and… RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRIAL OPERATIONS ELECTRIFICATION & MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE DECARBONIZATION VENTURE CAPITAL STAGE: Series A, B & C PARTICIPATION: Prefer To Lead Round INVESTMENT AMOUNT: First Check $10–20M GROWTH EQUITY STAGE: Series C+ PARTICIPATION: Lead or Co-lead INVESTMENT AMOUNT: $25M+ OUR STORY Founded in 2016 and based in Chicago, Energize is backed by a diverse pool of strategic, institutional, impact and family office investors. Along with our extensive corporate network, our strategic LPs represent some of the most influential customers in the sustainability transition. They play an important role throughout Energize's value chain as an investor, from research and diligence to capital raising and commercialization. Energize strives to not only yield strong financial returns for our investors but also to accelerate the clean energy and sustainability transition.

“Spero” is Latin for hope. We help founders build a hopeful future. We’re a team of former startup founders, operators, and investors from landmark companies including eBay and Tesla. We invest in determined founders building mission-driven technology companies in three focus areas: wellbeing; sustainability; learning, work, and play. We prefer to lead or co-lead a $3-$10M round (late seed or Series A). Our typical check is $2-$4M, and we reserve capital for follow-on. We are conviction-based investors who play the long game. How We Work With YouWe have the conviction to lead and price your round. We participate in follow-on funding and help with subsequent fundraising. Our concentrated portfolio approach allows us to engage deeply with our founders. We’re supportive throughout the life of a company. Every one of our founders has full access to the entire Spero Ventures team. We know some ideas take time to catch on, so we offer patient capital. We are calm and steady partners in uncertain times. We help companies scale to serve billions of customers. We’ve done this as operators and founders, and as advisors and board members. We connect our companies to a network of founders, advisors, coaches, domain experts, and executive talent. We build community by bringing founders and leaders together through our CEO Summits, Product Leader Summits, founder breakfasts, workshops and thought-provoking events. We offer expert-led workshops that help founders with brand/storytelling, sales/go-to-market, consumer growth, and fundraising. Our focus Wellbeing Agency over physical and mental health People deserve to be in control of their own physical and mental health. For that, they need new kinds of information and access to care. What devices, apps, tools and services will help people live longer, healthier, more vibrant lives? How can genomics help us better understand our world and ourselves, and contribute to new solutions? Companies that answer these questions will make life worth living. Sustainability Protecting and preserving our planet Life is worth living on a healthy planet. But many of the largest systems we rely on - water, food, energy, transportation, product production and waste - were designed in a way that’s unsustainable and detrimental to our personal and planetary health. The economic, social, and health impacts of climate change and industrial pollution are growing too large to ignore: unprecedented droughts, fires and floods have disrupted millions of lives and result in billions of dollars of loss each year. How can we develop safer, more efficient systems? What can we do to improve power grids, recycling, environmental monitoring and disaster analytics? We invest in sustainability with conviction. Learning, Work, and Play Freedom in work and life Savoring relationships, art, joy, and laughter makes life worth living. Today, the way we do these things is changing. We can now learn, work, and play in hybrid ways that suit individual needs. This means self-directed learners need access to education and job preparation. Likewise, self-directed workforces need freedom, flexibility, and the ability to manage their goals. How can we provide better access to rewarding, satisfying work? What tools and support systems do people need to thrive? We invest in powerful visions for the future of learning, work, and play.

We go beyond early growth stage capital. We commit to the tech companies we invest in, providing them with access to our unique network of industry experts, leadership team and partners in Asia and the Middle East. Together we build a collaborative advantage to overcome the global water issues we are facing today. Naturally, we create impact by design. We invest to transform the world’s clean water supply. Natural Ventures has an impact-driven approach to investment that is at the centre of addressing the interrelated challenges arising from climate change, world population growth and the transformation of the world’s water system. Natural Ventures is focused on accelerating the transformation to a sustainable and economic supply of clean water. Let’s reimagine water together. Water around the world is rapidly changing from an abundant resource to a scarce one. We believe the inevitably increasing pressure on our water resources offers enormous opportunities for companies who offer breakthrough technologies in a profitable and scalable way. We are a team of seasoned investors with an excellent track record, experienced water, food and energy experts, entrepreneurs and leadership developers who have purpose-built Natural to help solve some of the world’s most pressing water and environmental issues. Natural Ventures has a unique proposition to its portfolio companies, combining a deep network in major markets in Europe and North America with particular and unique strength in areas of the world where water is scarce or infrastructure and urbanisation means that demand exceeds supply by an ever-increasing margin. The partners of Natural Ventures have extensive experience of living and working in the Middle East and Asia, and maintain a broad network of partners for manufacturing, distribution and delivering compelling solutions to the regions. We are on a mission to support purpose-driven entrepreneurs across three investment pillars across the Water – Energy – Food Nexus

We have a passion for technology and innovation and invest in phenomenal founders and world-class teams. Skip Capital is a private investment fund and a patient investor with a long-term investment horizon. We are passionate about technology and innovation, and its ability to create a better future. Along with our deep interest in technology and software, we also invest in future-aware infrastructure and companies in areas such as renewables, the future of health and wellness, recycling and waste, water, food, and data infrastructure. Skip Capital invests across multiple asset classes with investments in venture, infrastructure, and listed equities and in assets that straddle investment classes. We are unconstrained by traditional investment class boundaries. We bring private investment experience into the listed markets and vice versa, and bring networks and expertise between asset classes to make better investment decisions. We are an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that great ideas are not confined to any group within the population. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are backing pioneering businesses during their early-growth stage and get excited about solutions driving the systemic change of how energy is generated, distributed, stored, and consumed 🚀⚡

As a member of the Nemzeti Tőkeholding group, MFB Invest Befektetési és Vagyonkezelő Zrt. invests capital to support the growth of companies facing expansion and capital-intensive investments, as well as to development projects that are particularly important to the national economy, especially energy and green field projects. It operates within the group of the Hungarian Development Bank and Nemzeti Tőkeholding. Its aim to increase the integration of the Hungarian economy into Europe. In collaboration with market investors and international organizations, it establishes and oversees registered capital funds in Hungary, directing investments towards domestic companies. Through this, it efficiently allocates state resources, while catalysing the engagement of Hungarian private and international co-investors to ensure the successful implementation of numerous projects. It is also involved in traditional industries but places particular emphasis on the green economy, real estate development and achieving energy independence. It engages in tight professional and economic collaboration with the Hungarian Development Bank. Our investment operation in capital funds MFB Invest follows an indirect investment strategy. It establishes capital funds and guides them through their 5–15-year trajectory, securing resources within the funds with co-investors. It delegates the allocation of funds to private fund managers with a focus on various sub-markets so that: capital is distributed more efficiently in the economy, leading to improved aggregated success and returns on investments, with the addition of co-investor capital, state resources can offer amplified financing to enterprises for their development and growth, projects with the goal of correcting or eliminating market deficiencies and gaps, while contributing to the development of the economy, are successfully implemented. Investment areas Real estate investments: The growth rate of infrastructural and real estate investments significantly impacts overall economic growth. Through our investment funds focused on real estate development, we are dedicated to supporting developments and greenfield investments targeting domestic industrial, logistics and service facilities. Energy and innovation: Our investment funds, with a focus on energy efficiency and prioritizing renewable alternative energy sources, network development, and the country's innovation performance offer long-term capital financing through a predictable business model. Green investments: Apart from adhering to ESG compliance and strict regulations, our investment funds dedicated to green investments concentrate on renewable energy, green transport, sustainable cities, eco-friendly construction industry and real estate development, environmental protection, and on those agricultural areas which are particularly susceptible to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture: Our agriculture-focused investment funds are designed to support and develop the entire value chain of agricultural activities, including related supply, processing and distribution processes. International cooperations: Capital funds that strengthen the Hungarian economy's international relations system effectively support the inflow of foreign capital into key domestic industries. Collaborations, such as .the capital fund jointly established by the European Investment Fund and MFB Invest, accelerate the inflow of international capital. Traditional industries: Fortifying traditional industries is not merely an option; it is an economic and sustainability necessity. Through strategic capital funds, we support companies engaged in traditional sectors, including the machine industry, automobile industry, pharmaceutical and chemical industry, process manufacturing, tourism, and the food industry. About the Nemzeti Tőkeholding MFB Invest operates under the coordination of Nemzeti Tőkeholding Zrt., which is responsible for establishing a harmonized and predictable operational framework and norm system for capital funds with partial or full state backing. Additionally, it defines a unified strategic direction for the sufficient capital financing of domestic enterprises. The collective mission of the group members of Nemzeti Tőkeholding is to contribute capital to achieve the goals set by the Ministry for National Economy. In pursuit of this mission, they possess both direct and "fund of funds" investor competencies.