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Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Venture capital · France · Europe
Breakthrough Energy is a global platform that works to accelerate clean energy innovation and build the industries of the future. It invests in and partners with innovators to turn breakthrough technologies into businesses across the five sectors of the global economy.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEducation
In its own wordsclean energyclimate techmanufacturingelectricityagriculturetransportation
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Or find every investor that fitsBreakthrough Energy Ventures lists 29 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 34 funding rounds, 7 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 41% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (32%), AI & Machine Learning (30%) and Education (18%). 83% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Collaborative Fund and Earthshot Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Breakthrough Energy Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundBreakthrough Energy Ventures does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 17% |
| Series A | 31% |
| Series B | 41% |
| Growth | 10% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 1 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 1 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 13 | 3 |
| '26 | 18 | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 66th | 29 companies |
| Recent activity | 98th | 18 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 57th | 17% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 56th | 32% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 32% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 30% | 18% |
| Education | 18% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 7% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 2% | 1% |
| Cybersecurity | 2% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Andreessen Horowitz | 6 |
| Collaborative Fund | 5 |
| Earthshot Ventures | 4 |
| Gigascale Capital | 4 |
| Lowercarbon Capital | 4 |
| Y Combinator | 4 |
| IQT | 3 |
| Impact Science Ventures | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers29100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Andreessen Horowitz
Compare Breakthrough Energy Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Breakthrough Energy Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Series B Led | |
| 30 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 15 Sept 2026 | Series B | |
| 1 Sept 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 12 Aug 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 3 Aug 2026 | Series B | |
| 30 Jul 2026 | Series C+ |
Round details for Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Breakthrough Energy Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
29 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cowboy Space Corporation builds a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence using satellites and rockets | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Antora develops and deploys thermal battery storage systems for industrial heat and power | Industrial & ManufacturingEducation | Jul 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Arinna builds ultra-thin, flexible solar technology for space infrastructure | Space & DefenseIndustrial & Manufacturing | Mar 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| ArkeaBio is a global agricultural bioscience company developing a safe, cost-effective methane reducing vaccine to lower emissions from cattle worldwide. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| Arnergy provides solar energy solutions for homes and businesses | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Apr 2025Series B · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| Brimstone produces cement, steel, aluminum, and critical minerals from a single rock using a breakthrough process. | Industrial & ManufacturingMobility & Logistics | Aug 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems is developing commercial fusion energy systems using high-temperature superconducting magnets and tokamak-based configurations. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Cowboy Space Corp is building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence using satellites and rockets to haul high-performance compute and optical data transmission | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Derapi provides a platform for building, running, and scaling energy programs, connecting devices, and managing data across the energy ecosystem. | EducationEducation | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Electra builds a new category of aircraft that can take off and land in just 150 feet using hybrid-electric technology | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Apr 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Fleetzero builds and designs cargo ships with modular designs, advanced manufacturing, and autonomous propulsion | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jan 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Form Energy develops and manufactures cost-effective, multi-day energy storage solutions, including iron-air batteries, to support a clean and reliable electric grid. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2026Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Fourth Power provides multi-day electricity storage solutions for data centers, large loads, utilities, and power producers | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2025Series A | Funding round | |
| H2SITE develops membrane reactor technology to separate and purify hydrogen from other molecules for transportation and storage purposes. | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Jun 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| Heron Power Electronics manufactures power electronics for the electric grid. | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Feb 2026Series B | Funding round | |
| KoBold Metals is a scientific mineral exploration and development company focused on critical minerals | Mobility & LogisticsIndustrial & Manufacturing | Mar 2019Series A · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| Kodama.ai builds remote control systems for logging equipment, such as skidders. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Mangrove Lithium refines lithium from diverse raw sources into high purity lithium hydroxide or carbonate using its patented technology. | Industrial & ManufacturingE-commerce & Marketplaces | Jan 2026Debt | Funding round | |
| Mantle8 explores and develops natural hydrogen resources using geology, geophysics, and geochemistry data. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | May 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| Mariana Minerals builds and operates autonomous mines and refineries, supplying minerals critical to modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. | Mobility & LogisticsIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- breakthroughenergy.org
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Mar 2019
- Companies checked
- 29
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