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Contrarian Ventures
Venture capital · Vilnius, Lithuania · Europe
Contrarian Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs climate tech founders at the earliest stages. It also runs a platform of programs including the Energy Tech Summit, Climate 50, and The Climate Brick to support its portfolio founders.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEducationIndustrial & Manufacturing
In its own wordsclimate techenergycarbonsolarelectric vehiclesdecarbonization
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Or find every investor that fitsContrarian Ventures lists 29 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (18%), Education (18%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (16%). It invests most often alongside Extantia, Kickstart Innovation and Molten Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Contrarian Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Contrarian Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 29. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 13% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 38% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 1 |
| '26 | 5 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 66th | 29 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 63% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 96th | 28% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 9th | 18% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 91th | 8 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Education | 18% | 7% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 16% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 13% | 3% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 11% | 6% |
| Fintech | 5% | 12% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 5% | 1% |
| Climate & Energy | 4% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Extantia | 3 |
| Kickstart Innovation | 2 |
| Molten Ventures | 2 |
| Adara Ventures | 1 |
| Aidiom | 1 |
| Alven | 1 |
| Ananda Impact Ventures | 1 |
| Angel Invest | 1 |
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 togetherCompare Contrarian 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 Contrarian Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 22 Oct 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Feb 2026 | Series A | |
| 31 Oct 2025 | Seed | |
| 16 Oct 2025 | Seed | |
| 24 Sept 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Contrarian Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Contrarian 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides energy systems, including heat pumps, photovoltaic systems, and wallboxes, for homes. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Altrove designs and manufactures alternatives for critical materials using physics-based AI and lab automation | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Beebop orchestrates distributed energy assets into measurable, tradable, and reliable value at grid scale with infrastructure-grade trust. | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bees & Bears offers invoice and installment purchase options for renewable energy systems | FintechEducation | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| BeZero Carbon applies independent, risk-based, project level carbon ratings for investing in carbon projects | Climate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Bleu Robotics builds the AI that lets a humanoid robot take on manual tasks on a factory line | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Cariqa provides direct payments infrastructure for electric vehicle charging | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Chooose provides software to help companies manage and scale their sustainable aviation fuel programs. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Decade Energy develops energy storage, charging infrastructure and software to supply power for electric vehicle fleets at depots. | Mobility & LogisticsClimate & Energy | Apr 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Delfos Energy provides a renewable energy asset performance platform | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Ember operates an electric bus service across Scotland. | Mobility & Logistics | Portfolio page | ||
| Fusebox provides a SaaS platform for virtual power plant and energy management system | EducationE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| H2pro produces green hydrogen using decoupled, membraneless electrolyzers | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Hepta provides various engineering and project management services, including high-voltage substation design and electrical network planning. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Inbalance Grid operates and creates electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the Baltic states and Central and Eastern Europe. | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Indurex provides an AI-native platform for engineering intelligence in industrial environments, delivering resilience, observability, and dynamic risk management for cyber-physical systems. | CybersecurityIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Jumptech connects automotive brands, energy companies and installers to deliver compliant projects faster and at scale using their software | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company operates an online platform for shopping and delivery of various products | E-commerce & MarketplacesFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Marvin provides a platform for supply chain infrastructure to reduce risk and unlock market access in global trade | Industrial & ManufacturingFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Metafuels develops new and affordable sustainable aviation fuel solutions | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Feb 2026Series A | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 12 Nov 2026- Site
- cventures.vc
- Last read
- 12 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 29
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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