Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm. The firm prefers to invest in businesses that are involved in information technology, e-commerce, digital media, advertising, software, gaming, data, analytics, mobile, and infrastructure.

Madrona

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies across various sectors. RRE Ventures invests in early-stage companies, often participating in Seed and Series A funding rounds. They look for innovative technology solutions and scalable business models.

RRE Ventures

Conversion Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that seeks to partner with top entrepreneurs leveraging emerging technology to tackle the toughest problems in the global economy. Conversion Capital was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.

Conversion Capital

Perot Jain, L.P. is a Dallas-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage investments. Their firm was founded by long-term business partners, Ross Perot Jr. and Anurag Jain, in 2014. They not only set out to understand how technology would shape the business landscape over the next 20 years, but they also wanted to take an active role in building these industry transforming companies. Their mission is to provide timely capital and resources while delivering the highest quality strategic advice to assist their portfolio companies in achieving their maximum potential. Their unique ability to leverage their affiliated operating entities differentiates us from their peers and helps drive early customer traction and accelerated growth for their partners. Their goal is to become the premier early stage focused venture capital firm in the Southwest.

Perot Jain

Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm. Founded in 1998 by Dan Levitan and Howard Schultz, the firm has offices in San Francisco and Seattle. Maveron investments include Zulily, Allbirds, Common, August Home, eBay, Capella Education, General Assembly, and Trupanion. Maveron's name was coined from the words ''maverick'' and ''vision.'' Maveron funds seed and Series A companies that empower consumers to live on their terms. Based in SF and Seattle and invest coast-to-coast. Maveron has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Maveron

Expansion Venture Capital, is a venture capital firm focused in early and growth stage companies. Located in New York City, EVC was founded by brothers, Joseph and Ryan Melohn.   EVC’s team is comprised of entrepreneurs. Fifteen years of combined experience has enabled EVC to help build great companies across the US.  As entrepreneurs, “we have been in their shoes and speak the same language”.  We pride ourselves on being available for our teams of entrepreneurs 24/7. We work side by side with them, providing intellectual capital and assistance in any way we can. From mentorship to business development, raising capital, getting the right press, are some of the ways “we work for you”. When one of our founders have a question we want to be the first place they turn. Their success is our success!  We are founder friendly! “Entrepreneurs, not VCs, build great companies”

Expansion Venture Capital

Version One Ventures backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages. Full thesis here: https://versionone.vc/updated-thesis/

Version One Ventures

StartX is a 501(c)(3) Stanford-affiliated nonprofit in Silicon Valley that runs one of the world’s top startup accelerator programs. Its mission is to advance the development of the best entrepreneurs through experiential education and peer learning. Since launching in 2010, it has supported more than 450 companies and 1000 entrepreneurs, from early to pre-IPO stage, working across a wide spectrum of industries.    StartX and StartX Med, dedicated to medical and biotechnology innovation, provide founders with access to a powerful network of entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and industry partners, along with office space and a variety of other resources. Based in Palo Alto, the accelerator also operates StartX-QB3 Labs and the Stanford-StartX Fund. We are funded by Stanford University, Stanford Health Care, Microsoft, Steelcase, Hyundai, Oriza Ventures, Nissan, Panasonic, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Analog Devices, Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, and many others. For more information, visit startx.com The company is associated investment vehicle, the Stanford-StartX Fund is a partnership between StartX, Stanford University and Stanford Health Care.  It can invest only in StartX companies who raise qualified rounds of venture capital using objective criteria; it is founder opt-in.

StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)

BADR Investments is a private investment and advisory house that have created strategies and pioneered initiatives for economic growth in various countries around the globe. Capitalizing on its international and strategic capabilities and its entrepreneurial skills of a venture capitalist, BADR Investments acted as a catalyst for economic development in diverse countries and has allowed the creation of a portfolio of initiatives covering sectors along the entire spectrum of economic activities.

BADR investments

Invus recognizes that every company is unique and that extraordinary business performance cannot be achieved by following a formulaic approach. Due to their unique structure, they have a great deal of flexibility in the types of companies and situations where they can get involved. They know that real transformation takes time and that it is never a straight line. They fully align their incentives with their partners and have the wherewithal and long-term commitment to see through any bumps along the way. They have been successfully empowering owner-managers since 1985. They have been reinvesting the same pool of money from the same group of European families (through their Artal investment vehicle) since their founding. Today they manage over $4 billion in an evergreen fund and work out of offices in New York, London, Paris and Hong Kong.

Invus

Vulcan Capital invests across all stages of corporate development through leveraged buyouts, growth capital, distressed/turnaround, and early-stage venture capital as well as public equity value investing. The firm's portfolio spans a range of industry sectors, including media and communications, energy and natural resources, financial and information services, technology, and life sciences. Vulcan Capital is the private investment group of Vulcan Inc., the organization founded by Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.

Vulcan Capital

TotalEnergies Ventures is the venture capital arm of Total. As part of Total's commitment to a better energy future, TotalEnergies Ventures is focused on finding, funding and fostering high-potential start-ups which will contribute to creating a low carbon future. Current areas of interest include Renewables, Distributed Energy, New Mobility, Energy Access, Energy Storage, Bio-Plastics, Circular Economy, Carbon Capture and Hydrogen.

TotalEnergies Ventures

Based in Boston, MA, Rose Park Advisors is a specialized investment firm, co-founded by Clayton and Matthew Christensen, focused on making investments in companies whose strategies are based on harnessing the benefits of Disruptive Innovation. Rose Park invests in disruptive opportunities across industries, geographies, and company stage and size, providing capital and expertise to help companies achieve disruptive success.

Rose Park Advisors

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is a global integrated business enterprise that develops and operates businesses across virtually every industry including industrial finance, energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, living essentials, and environmental business. MC's current activities are expanding far beyond its traditional trading operations as its diverse business ranges from natural resources development to investment in retail business, infrastructure, financial products and manufacturing of industrial goods.

Mitsubishi Corporation

Thayer Ventures (Thayer) invests in technology companies with a focus on the travel industry. This industry represent more than $10 trillion in annual global economic activity, is thriving with entrepreneurial activity due to disruptive changes within the sector that began more than a decade ago. Recent consumer trends have accelerated this disruption for operators across the travel world, creating unprecedented opportunities for technology providers to make significant inroads into what was previously a closed market. Additionally, travel industry suppliers are dealing with massive shifts in travel planning, organizing and booking driven by the Internet and social media platforms. As a result, the travel industry is being forced to rapidly deploy new technologies in order to exploit the opportunities created by this shifting consumer behavior. The combination of these factors has created a unique environment for innovative technology providers to make significant inroads into this massive, growing, and evolving marketplace.

Thayer Ventures

Chaac is focused primarily on the Princeton University and Los Angeles tech ecosystems, but has flexibility to invest outside of those two networks as well.

Chaac Ventures

Renewable Energy Group produces and supplies renewable fuels like biodiesel and renewable diesel, renewable chemicals, and other products. It also utilizes an integrated procurement, distribution, and logistics network to convert natural fats, oils, greases, and sugars into lower carbon intensity products.  With 14 active biorefineries, a feedstock processing facility, research and development capabilities and a diverse and growing intellectual property portfolio, REG is committed to being a long-term leader in bio-based fuel and chemicals. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Ames, Iowa.

Renewable Energy Group

Invus Opportunities is a sister fund to The Invus Group, an equity investment firm founded in 1985 with over $8 billion of evergreen capital. Invus Opportunities is focused on partnering with market-leading management teams and investors in private transactions globally. With a differentiated heritage and capital base, Invus Opportunities brings a complementary dimension to growing companies and investor groups seeking to create lasting value. Invus Opportunities both leads rounds of financing and co-invests in syndicated financings, and currently manages over $1.5 billion.

Invus Opportunities

Equinor Ventures invests in and supports innovative companies to shape the future of energy.

Equinor Ventures

Cercano Management is an investment firm.

Cercano Management

Enterprise Holding Ventures is the venture capital arm of Enterprise Holdings.

Enterprise Holding Ventures

Booster

Booster is energy delivered, integrated logistics, and society’s solution for decarbonizing last-mile delivery. We reinvented the way vehicles get power for 120,000+ customers and 300+ businesses. Their customers have saved more than eight million miles and four million pounds of CO2 emissions. With Booster, businesses can add back more than 31K labor hours every year, plus 68 thousand miles of wear and tear and $700K spent on fueling. Booster was established in 2015 and operates in San Mateo, California, United States.

Booster Fuels is a company that provides mobile fueling solutions for transportation and logistics companies. Its technology allows for on-site fueling of vehicle fleets, eliminating the need for vehicles to travel to traditional gas stations. This mobile fueling approach aims to increase efficiency, reduce fuel costs, and minimize vehicle downtime for fleet operators. Booster Fuels positions itself as a partner to companies seeking to maximize fleet efficiency, lower operational costs, and transition toward more sustainable and environmentally friendly fuel sources. By bringing the fuel directly to the customer's location, Booster Fuels aims to help companies reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and achieve their sustainability goals.

Transportation and Logistics

Fueling the future: Tech powering the oil and gas value chain

Oil & Gas Tech

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Booster Fuels is a company that provides mobile fueling solutions for transportation and logistics companies. Its technology allows for on-site fueling of vehicle fleets, eliminating the need for vehicles to travel to traditional gas stations. This mobile fueling approach aims to increase efficiency, reduce fuel costs, and minimize vehicle downtime for fleet operators. Booster Fuels positions itself as a partner to companies seeking to maximize fleet efficiency, lower operational costs, and transition toward more sustainable and environmentally friendly fuel sources. By bringing the fuel directly to the customer's location, Booster Fuels aims to help companies reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and achieve their sustainability goals.

2DA is a company that offers a product called Bayzyen to optimize the petroleum liquids supply chain. The company aims to address the challenges faced by companies in accurately tracking and valuing their inventories of crude and refined products, both in transit and in terminals.
The traditional approach to scheduling and tracking these commodities has been hindered by disparate systems, differing transaction views, and a lack of integration across various platforms such as pipeline bulletin boards, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, energy trading and risk management (ETRM) systems, spreadsheets, and production tracking tools. This has made it difficult for companies to obtain a clear and timely view of their physical positions, hampering their ability to optimize operations and trading activities.
Recognizing these difficulties, 2DA developed Bayzyen to improve the value of available data in the energy space. The product likely leverages advanced analytics and data integration capabilities to provide companies with a unified and real-time view of their inventories, enabling more efficient scheduling, tracking, and optimization of their petroleum liquids supply chain operations.
Key customers and partnerships
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2DA Analytics

Axon4D Technologies is a technology and services company focused on providing monitoring solutions for large external floating roof (EFR) and internal floating roof (IFR) storage tanks. The company deploys a patented Fiber Optic Sensing System (FOSS) around these tanks to enable near real-time monitoring of various operational parameters.
Axon4D's key product offerings include floating roof level and tilt monitoring coupled with tank fill level tracking to pinpoint potential asset integrity issues. The system also provides wet sensing capabilities to detect presence of water or hydrocarbons in the annular pontoons of floating roofs. Additionally, it can sense ponding on the tank roofs. The data is presented through a secure web portal accessible from any device.
By providing real-time insights, Axon4D's technology aims to drive operational excellence through improved asset integrity monitoring, reduced operational costs of up to 30%, decreased risk via better monitoring, reduced emissions and downtime, and enabling more predictive maintenance. In comparison to traditional point-in-time visual inspections, the company's continuous monitoring approach can provide 85% reduced field time requirements.
As of August 2017, the company highlighted specific benefits such as enabling near real-time data collection, continuous monitoring, proactive issue identification before problems arise, and automated settlement checks at any time through its proprietary API and EPA-oriented structural monitoring technology.

Axon4D Technologies

Beyond Limits is an American company founded in 2014 that specializes in providing cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. The company's proprietary Hybrid AI technology combines traditional numeric AI tools like machine learning and neural networks with symbolic AI techniques, enabling human-like reasoning and overcoming the limitations of conventional AI solutions.
Beyond Limits' AI models are trained on extensive datasets and industry expert knowledge to deliver in-depth insights, sophisticated explanations, and recommendations that mimic human cognitive processes. This groundbreaking technology helps businesses across industries such as oil & gas, manufacturing, energy, utilities, and healthcare to foresee potential problems, diagnose issues, and recommend effective solutions.
Unlike traditional data analysis methods, Beyond Limits' technology interprets data in context, offering nuanced, reliable, and actionable insights. This innovative approach empowers businesses with a new breed of AI-driven solutions. In March 2022, Beyond Limits acquired Altec Products, Inc., a leading provider of integrated document management and workflow solutions, to accelerate product growth and drive digital transformation.
Key customers and partnerships
Beyond Limits has established strategic partnerships and integrations focused on digital transformation and AI-readiness across key sectors worldwide. In the Asia Pacific region, the company formed a collaboration with Infosys Compaz to offer its Cognitive AI solutions alongside Infosys Compaz's digital services to over 2,000 customers. Additionally, Beyond Limits signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kaplan Higher Education Institute to promote AI and data science talent development in Singapore.

Beyond Limits

CorrosionRADAR designed and supplied the world's longest range Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) monitoring technology in 2022 for pipelines, refineries, and other applications. The patented system enabled the transition from manual inspections to automated monitoring and from reactive to predictive corrosion management. Earlier detection aided in corrosion prevention, lowering costs and risks. The technology continuously monitored, detected, and localized corrosion and moisture under any insulation type, even in inaccessible and inhospitable locations. It was compatible with assets having complex geometries and operating in extreme temperatures.
Key customers and partnerships
In February 2023, CorrosionRADAR announced a technology collaboration with Antea, a global leader in risk-based asset integrity management (AIM) software with 3D digital twin capabilities. The partnership integrated CorrosionRADAR's real-time corrosion monitoring technology with Antea's AIM and inspection data management software (IDMS) with risk-based inspection (RBI) capabilities. This enabled predictive corrosion management for operators in the process and oil and gas industries, reducing inspection and maintenance costs by up to 65%, decreasing the likelihood of unplanned shutdowns, and significantly increasing the efficacy of inspection plans. Additionally, Antea's contextualized digital twin visualizations allowed operators to remotely monitor the external corrosion status of their assets in near real-time.

CorrosionRADAR

Cortex is a company that provides a blockchain-enabled platform to facilitate secure and transparent data sharing among internet of Things (IoT) devices and network partners across industries. The company's core offering is a decentralized ledger system that enables permissioned network members to exchange IoT data without the need for central control or management. This approach eliminates the risks of data tampering, fraud, and cyber-crime, while ensuring the highest levels of security, performance, and stability.
Cortex's platform leverages blockchain technology to store an immutable and transparent record of all data transactions, allowing network participants to collaborate with confidence. The company's solution aims to reduce the time, cost, and risks associated with managing sensitive information by providing an auditable trail for regulatory compliance, contract management, identity management, and citizen services.
Cortex's business model revolves around enabling enterprises to unlock new value streams by monetizing IoT data securely and transparently within their partner ecosystems. The company's mission is to disrupt industries globally by rewriting the rules and changing the way the world works through the adoption of its blockchain-enabled data-sharing platform.
In November 2023, Arm introduced the Cortex-M52, a new microcontroller core featuring Arm Helium technology designed to bring AI capabilities to smaller and lower-cost IoT devices than what is possible with SoCs based on the Arm Cortex-M55 core. The Cortex-M52 provides a simplified migration path from previous Arm Cortex-M generations for applications in sectors like automotive, industrial control, predictive maintenance, and wearable sensor fusion.
Key customers and partnerships
In November 2022, Cortex partnered with Alcatel Lucent Enterprise to develop an innovative digital workplace using the latter's teleconferencing solution, Rainbow, as a backbone. The partnership aimed to create an open, versatile, inclusive, scalable, and privacy-aware extended reality (XR) framework for remote cooperation, facilitating activities involving physical interaction with remote objects.

Cortex

Hardware and software solutions leveraging robotics, AI, sensors, Big Data, and drones to automate and enhance the oil and gas field exploration, extraction, and drilling processes.

Platforms for monitoring pipeline networks, oil and gas wells, and storage tanks, utilizing AI, sensors, and aerial imagery for data-driven decision-making and optimization.

Solutions utilizing advanced analytics and real-time data to predict operational outcomes, optimize schedules, and deploy predictive maintenance strategies to improve operational efficiency and minimize cost.

Solutions that use technologies like quantum sensing and electromagnetic tech for the detection and containment of gas leaks and oil spills, ensuring environmental protection.

Solutions specializing in safely storing and transporting oil and gas through the use of camera systems, sensor technology, AUVs, and ROVs, with a focus on inspection, explosion risk detection, and efficient delivery.

Operators of marketplaces that connect players across the oil and gas industry, facilitating trading, price tracking, and the buying, selling, and leasing of oil rights.

AI, IoT, and Big Data used to remotely operate fields and manage them

Robots used to remotely operate fields and manage them

Building digital twins to monitor and manage oil rigs (a limited number of companies such as IBM)

Platforms and solutions to develop sustainable processes across the oil and gas value chain

Supply chain transparency with regard to the distribution of oil and gas

Booster

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