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Axeleo Capital Green Tech Industry I is the debut climate and industrial technology fund raised by Axeleo Capital, an independent French venture capital manager that has expanded its platform from B2B enterprise software into the green economy. The fund represents Axeleo Capital's strategic entry into deep industrial technology, targeting European startups at the critical transition from laboratory to first commercial factory, addressing the capital gap between research grants and scaled manufacturing investment. The fund focuses on financing the first commercial factories of European industrial startups dedicated to the ecological transition, investing across four impact-driven verticals: energy technologies including novel renewable energy sources and storage systems; chemistry and advanced materials including biomaterials and plastics recycling; agriculture and food systems including bio-based fertilizers, pesticides, and food innovation; and sustainable mobility including electric motor technologies and decarbonization of air and sea transportation. Axeleo targets 15 to 20 investments across Europe with lead ticket sizes ranging from EUR 3 million to EUR 10 million, focusing on founders with proprietary technology and a credible path to scaled industrial production. Axeleo Capital Green Tech Industry I announced a first close at EUR 125 million in November 2024 against a total target of EUR 250 million. Anchor commitments came from the Révolution Environnementale et Solidaire fund (Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale), Bpifrance via the Fonds National de Venture Industriel as part of France's Plan France 2030 industrial policy, and the Veolia environmental services group. The fund is actively fundraising toward its EUR 250 million target, making it one of the largest dedicated industrial climate tech vehicles raised in France.

The Decarbonization Partners Fund I focuses on investing in late-stage venture capital and growth private equity for next-generation companies that support the acceleration of decarbonization and the transition to a net-zero economy. The fund has attracted a diverse set of over 30 institutional investors representing 18 countries, including public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, and corporates and family offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The diversity and depth of the investor base reflect the global nature of the opportunity around climate investing, directly aligning with Decarbonization Partners’ global focus. The Fund’s target investments include companies that drive intentional, material, and measurable decarbonization outcomes. It invests in companies with de-risked technologies that are ready to scale and can benefit from BlackRock and Temasek’s complementary platforms and deep access. The Fund’s investments span several innovative decarbonization technologies, including sustainable materials, clean hydrogen, science-based carbon management services, low-emissions battery recycling, EV fleet management, and thermal energy storage for industrial applications. The partnership aims to invest in companies that provide solutions and technologies to help accelerate global efforts to achieve a net-zero global economy by 2050. The sectors targeted for investment include Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization, Bio and Low Carbon Products, Next Generation Energy, Advanced Mobility, Carbon Management Services, and Digital Transformation. The team has built a robust pipeline of proprietary deal flow and intends to continue executing on this in the coming months. The Decarbonization Partners team, which has grown to over 25 members, includes experienced venture capital and growth equity investment and portfolio management professionals across offices in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, London, Paris, and Houston. The team was intentionally constructed to provide portfolio companies with trusted value-add partners who bring significant technical and operational experience to the table.

Energize Ventures Fund III, with $430 million in capital commitments, is a VC fund by Energize Capital. The fund went over its initial target of $350 million. This fund aims to invest in early-stage companies developing digital and software-enabled solutions that drive energy and industrial transformation. The closure of Fund III brings Energize Capital's total assets under management to over $1.8 billion. The fund focuses on asset-light, digital-first climate solutions, particularly in sectors such as industrial digitization, next-generation infrastructure, and the energy transition. Energize Capital plans to invest in companies at the Series A to C stages, with average check sizes ranging from $15 million to $20 million. Initial investments from Fund III include Tyba, a battery optimization software platform; Archive, a resale technology solution for brands; and Nira Energy, a grid interconnection software platform for energy developers. Energize Ventures Fund III is backed by a diverse group of institutional, corporate strategic, family office, and impact investors. New limited partners include Sweden’s Första AP-Fonden (AP1), Capricorn Investment Group, Reference Capital, Keeling Capital, Keysight Technologies, and WEX Venture Capital. Returning investors comprise GE Vernova, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Builders Vision, UBS, and WEC Energy Group.

The Inlandsis Fund is the inaugural carbon finance vehicle created by Inlandsis ManagementCo, a joint initiative of Priori-T Capital and Fondaction Asset Management, both headquartered in Montréal, Québec. Launched in 2017 with a fund size of CAD $30 million and backed by Fondaction as its lead investor alongside more than fifteen institutional and strategic investors from Québec and across Canada, the fund operates over a ten-year investment horizon through 2027. The fund pioneered a unique project-finance model for the North American carbon market: it provides upfront capital to developers of greenhouse gas reduction and natural sequestration projects in exchange for the future stream of carbon credits generated by those projects. This structure addresses a critical financing gap by giving project developers the liquidity needed to implement and certify emissions-reduction initiatives before credits can be sold on compliance markets. Typical project investments range from CAD $2 million to CAD $15 million, targeting compliance markets including the California-Québec linked cap-and-trade system, California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), the Alberta carbon market, and voluntary carbon markets. Since inception, the Inlandsis Fund has supported more than 45 individual projects spanning nature-based and industrial decarbonisation sectors. As of May 2025, portfolio projects have collectively protected 22,456 hectares of land and generated reductions or removals totalling over 3 million tonnes of CO₂ equivalent. Notable portfolio projects include Bluesource dairy farm methane reduction, The Climate Trust grassland conservation programme in the western United States, and the Northeast Wilderness Trust forest preservation initiative in Vermont. The fund's commercial success validated the model and led Fondaction Asset Management and Priori-T Capital to launch Inlandsis II in 2022, which closed at nearly CAD $130 million in 2024.

Inverness Graham Green Light Fund is the inaugural dedicated impact-focused buyout fund from Inverness Graham Investments, a lower middle market private equity firm headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The Fund reached a final close in October 2024 at $238 million, surpassing its $200 million target, with commitments from both existing Inverness Graham investors and several new U.S. and European institutional investors, representing strong institutional demand for the firm's environmental sustainability thesis applied to the lower middle market.The Green Light Fund pursues control buyouts of high-growth, lower middle market businesses delivering measurable environmental sustainability outcomes. Rather than targeting future-generation clean technologies, the Fund focuses on companies that provide "Environmental Sustainability Now" — products, software, and services that improve efficiency and support environmentally sustainable solutions available in the marketplace today. Target segments include Energy Monitoring & Management, Sustainable Packaging, Data Center Technology & Services, Supply Chain Software & Services, and Managed IoT Services. Investment sizes are calibrated to the lower middle market, consistent with Inverness Graham's existing flagship buyout strategy.The Green Light Fund completed three investments in its initial deployment phase: Concord Servicing, a specialty loan servicing software provider; Custom Agronomics, a developer of nutrient efficiency products for agriculture; and My Yield, a seed treatment solutions provider. With $160 million raised from new investors to the Inverness Graham platform, the Fund validates strong institutional interest in lower middle market sustainability buyouts. The Fund represents Inverness Graham's deliberate expansion into the growing market for businesses enabling decarbonization and improved environmental outcomes today.

Magnesium Capital I focuses on profitable European companies with proven technologies or tech-enabled services that are positively impacting the decarbonisation of the production, distribution, and consumption of energy. The team has been backing the buyouts of such businesses for a number of years on a direct deal basis. Since inception, Magnesium has completed seven platform investments, signed six follow-on acquisitions, and exited two investments for 4.2x gross MOIC. The fund targets high-growth, profitable businesses in Europe and the UK that support the energy transition. It likes to partner with entrepreneurial management teams and support them on their next stage of growth. Magnesium looks for companies with competitive advantages in their core technology or tech-led service that have a positive impact on the way energy is produced, distributed, or consumed. The fund takes controlling stakes in each of its investments but considers significant minority positions in certain circumstances. The fund closed its inaugural Fund, Magnesium Capital I, at its hard cap of €135m, exceeding the €100m Fund target. The final close occurred less than a year after the Fund’s first close with Magnesium attracting blue-clip institutional investors from the US, Europe, and the UK. The combined impact of these portfolio companies already directly contributes to the avoidance of over 30 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per annum, demonstrating their focus on impactful investments with positive environmental outcomes. The fund prefers investments ranging from €15 million to €50 million in companies with enterprise values of €25 million to €100 million.