# Top 50 Renewable Energy Startup Investors in Australia in May 2026

## Blackbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.

## Grok Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Software, Internet of Things

Grok Ventures is a private investment company. They back world-class teams solving big problems to shape a better future. They invest in fast growing technology-enabled businesses.

## Nicholas Assef
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Energy, Battery

Investment banker, founder, angel capitalist. FOcussed on industrial technology applications including renewable energy and recycling technology.

## Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Energy

Artesian Clean Energy Seed Fund The Fund makes seed & follow-on investments in clean energy focused startups from approved accelerators, incubators, university programs & angel

## Main Sequence Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

We work with inventors who are building something hard from their unique expertise in science. These inventors are building the industries that will thrive for the decades to come. We have a unique working model to accelerate a company's pathway to scale.

## Southern Cross Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy

Southern Cross Venture Partners was launched in 2006 by veteran venture capitalists who have managed and operated companies themselves. Southern Cross Venture Partners assist early stage technology companies that demonstrate the potential for exceptional growth and market leadership build significant businesses. The founding principle of SouthernCross is partnership -- they are passionately committed to doing everything they can to help their portfolio companies succeed. Their team has a strong record of utilizing their start-up and management experience, industry knowledge, network of business/customer relationships, and recruiting skills to assist in building significant shareholder value.Southern Cross is currently investing in companies that fit their investment criteria. They prefer to act as lead or co-lead in the early stages where they have experience that can help build value rapidly. They do not have a minimum investment amount, however, a typical initial investment will be $2 million to $5 million with an ability to invest more money in later rounds.

## Artesian VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.

## CP Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

CP Ventures is a VC fund that invests internationally in early stage, highly scalable, breakthrough technology companies driven by the 4IR

## Taronga Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Real Estate, Smart Building

Taronga Ventures is an investment firm that invests in emerging innovation, technology, and business.
Taronga Ventures is headquartered in Australia.

## Virescent Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Solar, Semiconductor

Virescent Ventures invests in founders, technologies, and businesses that can help achieve zero emissions and beyond.

## ACAC Innovation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Renewable Energy

ACAC Innovation provides angel investment, mentoring and support to game-changing startups. We work with founders to turn their innovative ideas into successful businesses.

## Bluescope Steel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Semiconductor, Renewable Energy

BlueScope is a leading steel supplier and manufacturer for the building and construction industries, delivering high-quality steel products globally. Find out more!

## Kiko Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Smart Home, Clean Energy

Kiko is a venture capital firm

## Possible Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology

Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.

## Australian Food & Farming Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Environmental Consulting

Australian Food & Farming Fund invests in early-stage innovations.

## Melt Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Hardware, Manufacturing

We provide venture capital, expertise and advice to advanced manufacturing-focused Australian startups with global ambitions.

## Linked Group Services
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mackay, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, Bitcoin, Renewable Energy

Linked Group Services is the provider of multiple services to the mining and resources, construction, agricultural and government sectors.

## Alberts Impact Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, Energy, Events

We back pioneers who share our vision for a better tomorrow.

## Hostplus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, Renewable Energy, Software

Join our leading Australian superannuation fund, committed to putting our members first, with a low admin fee and strong returns. Become a member today!

## New Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Manufacturing, Information Technology, Software

New Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in corporate spinouts. It focuses on incubation, seed, and early stage investments. The firm invests in underleveraged or underutilized corporate assets; technology or concept ready for commercial product development that is not seeking capital for additional research; product andunderlying technology that is meaningfully differentiated along dimensions that matter to potential customers; and where preliminary research suggesting there are customers willing to pay for the product or service. It seeks to commercialize corporate technologies through the creation of independent ventures.

## IAG Firemark Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Insurance, Property Management

IAG Firemark Ventures is a corporate venture capital and incubation firm of Insurance Australia Group that began operation in October 2016, with its headquarters in Sydney in Australia and offices in Surry Hills in Australia and Singapore. It seeks to make minority seed, early-stage, and late-stage investments. It prefers to invest in companiesfrom the insurance, financial technology, insurance technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, cybersecurity, and internet of things sectors in Australia and Singapore.

## Direct Capital Private Equity
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Private Equity
- Focus: Software, CRM, Energy

Direct Capital is a private equity manager established in 1994. Today Direct Capital remains owned and managed by three of its founding directors, Ross George, Mark Hutton and Bill Kermode. The team has grown to 13 investment professionals, who together have 110 years of private equity experience.Direct Capital seeks to be a pre-eminentprovider of equity capital to Australasian businesses lacking ready access to the stock market, with a focus on increasing shareholder wealth in private companies, and assisting shareholders to release value.

## ReNu Energy
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Milton, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Geodynamics Limited engages in the exploration and development of zero emissions, renewable energy generation from hot fractured rocks (HFR) in Australia. The company has HFR geothermal tenements in New South Wales, Queensland, and in the north-eastern part of South Australia. Geodynamics Limited was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Milton,Australia.

## CSIRO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Campbell, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Solar

As Australia's national science agency and innovation catalyst, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology.

## AES
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Private Equity, Grant
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar

AES provides affordable and reliable energy to customers around the world through its distribution businesses and thermal and renewable power generation facilities. With more than 30 years of experience, diverse mix of generation and utility sources provides the strength and flexibility to adapt to local and regional market needs, maximize plantefficiency and deliver reliable, affordable electricity.

## Mirvac Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, Fashion, E-Commerce

Ventures arm of Mirvac Pty Ltd

## Westoz Funds Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy

Westoz Funds Management is focused on investing in small to mid-cap ASX listed securities, generally connected to Western Australia.

## 77 Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Energy Storage

77 Partners provides early capital, deep mentorship, and global connections to high potential founders in Queensland and Australia.

## Victorian Clean Technology Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Clean technology fund for early stage ventures

## The Melt
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gardners Bay, Tasmania, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Renewable Energy

The Melt is a complete Industrial prototyping lab with on-site access to rapid prototyping equipment including engineering tools, software design suites, and the experts required to drive it all.

## Climate Venture Capital Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Renewable Energy

Climate Venture Capital Fund is a group of investors, scientists, business people, and experts in change.

## Glenn Butcher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Renewable Energy

Glenn Butcher - Venture Partner @ CP Ventures

## Queensland Investment Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services

Queensland Investment Corporation is an investment company.

## Kestrel 0x1
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Software

We are a thesis driven technology investment fund. Picking winning investments is hard and having an opinion and view of where the world is heading is our edge.Technology has always been a rapidly evolving sector and the pace is only accelerating. We expect the world in 20 years to look starkly more different than the world of 20 years ago. Nowis the time to build the companies that will shape that future.Our founding team has decades of combined experience across the technology, investing, and banking sectors. We work closely with our portfolio companies to maximise their success and in turn maximise returns for our investors.

## Euroz Hartleys
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Legal, Energy, Internet

Dedicated financial services firm focused on providing high quality financial advice and wealth management to a broad range of clients.

## IP Group Australia
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Semiconductor, Renewable Energy

Ip Group Australia build and support outstanding intellectual property-based companies.

## ACME foundation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Battery, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy

Impact investment

## David Griffin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering

David Griffin - CEO @ Vortini

## Providence Asset Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Solar, Energy, Battery

Investor in renewable energy businesses

## Ampol
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Energy Storage

Ampol connects our proud history with everything our business is known for today, our trusted high-quality products, our commitment to customer service, local communities and the largest leading transport fuels network in Australia.

## Clean Energy Finance Corporation
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Energy, Solar, Renewable Energy

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation invests, applying commercial rigour, to increase the flow of finance into the clean energy sector. Their mission is to accelerate Australia's transformation towards a more competitive economy in a carbon constrained world, by acting as a catalyst to increase investment in emissions reduction. They do thisthrough an investment strategy focused on cleaner power solutions, including large and small-scale solar, wind and bioenergy; and a better built environment, with investments to drive more energy efficient property, vehicles, infrastructure and industry. The CEFC also invests with co-financiers to develop new sources of capital for the clean energy sector, including climate bonds, equity funds, aggregation facilities and other financial solutions. The CEFC operates under the Clean Energy Finance Corporation Act 2012.

## Emlyn Scott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Emlyn is a successful founder and investor with personal investments in fast growing tech companies like Kami, A.Kin, MealMe, Segna, and EnsuredIt. Managing Partner at CP Ventures and the founder of OpenMarkets Group, Australia's second-largest retail broker. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s secondlargest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Masters Business Administration (MBA), Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI), and Bachelor of Economics (BEc).

## Energy Estate
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Clean Energy, Renewable Energy

Energy Estate provides strategic consulting, transaction advisory ​and project development services to the global energy sector.

## Vestas Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Semiconductor, Renewable Energy

With our strategic partnerships we are taking our collaboration initiatives to the next level. The partnerships range from strategic awareness campaign to commercial partnerships.

## Brisbane Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.

## Sydney Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Apps

Sydney Angels is a not-for-profit angel investment membership organisation. Since our establishment in 2008, they have stayed true to our mission of supporting the early-stage ecosystem by running processes and events that connect our investing members with promising early-stage companiesThey believe that encouraging smart investment in startupcompanies will benefit both our members’ portfolios and Australia’s emergent innovation economy.They see this as the ultimate win-win situation. Sydney Angels is led by an elected committee of ten volunteers who meet weekly. It is supported by an operations manager and alliance partners.

## National Australia Bank (NAB)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Docklands, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing, Series C, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

National Australia Bank provides financial services to individuals and businesses in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It operates through Consumer Banking and Wealth, Business and Private Banking, Corporate and Institutional Banking, and New Zealand Banking segments. National Australia Bank acceptstransaction accounts, savings accounts, term deposits, and deposit accounts; and specialized accounts, such as foreign currency, business interest, statutory trust, community free saver, and farm management accounts. It also provides home loans; personal loans; agribusiness loans; business market and option loans; agribusiness loans; equipment and vehicle loans; debtor, invoice, and trade finance; and documentary trade, as well as business overdrafts and bank guarantees. Moreover, National Australia Bank offers insurance products consisting of car, home and content, landlord, travel, life, and injury insurance products; and pension, superannuation, self-managed super funds, and financial planning and advisory services. Further, it provides investment products; credit, debit, and business cards; payments and merchant services; travel services; online banking services; small business services; and international and foreign exchange solutions. National Australian Bank operated through a network of 719 branches and business banking centers, and 2,695 ATMs as of September 30, 2017. It began operation in 1982, with its headquarters in Adelaide in Australia.

## John P. Clifford Jr.
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Solar, Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering

Mr. Clifford is Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Travelers, a position he has held since May 2007. Mr. Clifford has led Human Resources for the company since the April 2004 merger of The St. Paul Companies, Inc. and Travelers Property Casualty Corp. Prior to the merger, he led Human Resources for The St. Paul Companies after beingpromoted to Senior Vice President of Human Resources in 2002. Mr. Clifford, who has more than 30 years’ experience in Human Resources, joined The St. Paul Companies in 1984 as a compensation analyst. He was promoted to Compensation Manager later that year; to Compensation and Benefits Officer in 1994; and to Vice President of Compensation and Benefits in 1999.

## Archangel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing

Archangel is an early stage venture capital fund based in Australia. We work with great founders and investors to build game changing companies together.

## Robin Chiang
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1

Robin Chiang

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