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Energy Capital Ventures
Venture capital · United States · North America
Energy Capital Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on the natural gas value chain, which it calls Green Molecules. It invests alongside corporate limited partners in the energy industry and works with portfolio companies through board seats and active involvement.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingClimate & EnergyEducation
In its own wordsnatural gasenergygreen moleculesquantum computinggeothermalcritical minerals
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Or find every investor that fitsEnergy Capital Ventures lists 11 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Pre-seed, 33% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (47%), Climate & Energy (24%) and Education (18%). 71% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside APEX Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners and AP Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Energy Capital 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 Energy Capital Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 11. 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 | 33% |
| Seed | 33% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 33% |
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 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 27th | 11 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 77th | 67% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 96th | 27% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 82th | 47% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| APEX Ventures | 2 |
| Amadeus Capital Partners | 2 |
| AP Ventures | 1 |
| Aligned Climate Capital | 1 |
| Antares Capital | 1 |
| Blindspot Ventures | 1 |
| Cantos | 1 |
| City Light | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers11100%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 47% | 7% |
| Climate & Energy | 24% | 1% |
| Education | 18% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 6% | 15% |
| Food & Agriculture | 6% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Energy Capital 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 Energy Capital Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 25 Sept 2025 | Seed | |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Series C+ |
Round details for Energy Capital Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Energy Capital Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
11 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACTUAL develops low-carbon fuel projects across the globe, shaping them from the earliest stages into commercial-scale financeable assets that produce and deliver where it’s needed most. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Capture6 turns saltwater into fresh water and removes atmospheric CO₂ using an integrated system | Climate & EnergyFood & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| CarbonQuest turns industrial carbon dioxide emissions into economic value with a distributed carbon capture system | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and uses plasma technology to convert CO2 into sustainable chemical resources. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Sept 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Furno Materials is developing modular and energy-efficient cement plants to produce cement locally and efficiently | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Osmoses meets the world's smallest molecules with the planet's biggest challenge | Healthcare & BiotechClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Sapphire Technologies delivers power and cooling to energy infrastructure. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Sept 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Teragen Energy builds advanced fuel cell systems to bring fast, reliable, affordable, clean power where it's needed most. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Aug 2026Pre-Seed | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Vertus Energy develops and commercialises industrial hardware that applies targeted electrostimulation to electroactive microbes to convert carbon to fuel. | Industrial & ManufacturingIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- energycapitalventures.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 9 Sept 2025
- Companies checked
- 11
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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