Contrarian Ventures is a founder-first climate platform backing bold builders before it’s obvious - with conviction, speed, and zero BS. Contrarian Ventures is not just another VC firm. Founded in 2017, long before “climate tech” became fashionable, we operate like a startup and think like long-term investors. We back founders tackling the hardest problems in climate. Our role is simple: be the first cheque in, the most aligned partner at the table, and the platform that helps founders win. We don’t chase consensus or headlines. We build conviction, punch above our weight, and play long-term games with long-term people - founders first, climate always.

Altrove is a deep-tech materials science startup that uses Artificial Intelligence and lab automation to discover, synthesize, and scale alternative materials to critical inorganic components. The company focuses on creating substitutes for materials that face supply chain, regulatory, or sustainability risks—such as rare-earth-based magnets and other high-performance inorganic materials used in sectors like electric vehicles, aerospace, renewables, and electronics.

Beebop is a software designed for power grid orchestration. Beebop's orchestration middleware enables utilities, grid operators, manufacturers, and VPP technology leaders to manage residential asset fleets, enhancing value delivery to end-customers.

Bees & Bears is a climate fintech company that specializes in financing renewable energy solutions such as photovoltaic systems, energy storage, and heat pumps. The company offers an embedded finance solution that makes renting energy-related technologies like solar panels and heat pumps easy and affordable. Bees & Bears collaborates with manufacturers and suppliers of Clean Tech (eco-friendly equipment like energy storage systems, heat pumps, solar panels, electric vehicle charging stations, etc.) and enables them to provide integrated financing options to their clients. This way, manufacturers can transition to a hardware-as-a-service approach.

BeZero Carbon is a carbon ratings agency. We equip world-leading organisations with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to make better climate decisions. Our aim is to scale investment in environmental markets that deliver a sustainable future.

Cariqa is the next-generation transactional platform for EV charging, merging closed-loop charging protocols with open-loop payments to create a seamless, scalable, and compliant financial infrastructure. By streamlining pricing, billing, and cash flows, we empower Charge Point Operators to optimize utilization and maximize profitability—while eliminating intermediaries that add cost and complexity. This not only makes charging more profitable for operators but also ensures fairer, more transparent pricing and a frictionless experience for drivers.

Chooose builds software to enable the lower carbon fuel value chain.

Decade Energy is a logistics electrification and smart energy solution provider.

Operator of an intelligence maintenance platform intended to optimize the production of renewable energy assets by real-time wind farm analysis. The company's platform provides owners and operators with failure prediction alerts and actionable insights by monitoring and predicting with the use of machine learning techniques and available operational data within the organization, enabling customers to take part in customizing and adapting functionalities to reflect the company's operational governance, optimize asset performance, and retain key operational knowledge.

Eliq is the open energy data platform that makes sense of energy data. Since its foundation in 2015, Eliq has partnered with the leading European energy providers and banks to service energy users with personalised energy management. Powered by robust machine learning algorithms, Eliq's platform translates billions of data points into digestible patterns, personalised insights, and advice for effective and sustainable energy management. Eliq unlocks energy data access for businesses and equips energy providers and banks with energy insights that accelerate the energy transition, gain more control over their sustainability goals, and create an enduring relationship with their customers. Eliq is active in Europe and has offices in Sweden, the UK, and Lithuania.

Ember builds and operates electric bus networks that give people a zero-emission, convenient, and affordable way to get from A to B. It’s the first company in the world to take a full-stack, tech-led approach to bus travel, creating a compelling alternative to cars for a much broader customer base. The Ember operating system manages the whole network – everything from timetabling and ticketing to charging and maintenance – delivering a dramatically better service at lower cost. Over 10,000 customers per week ride with Ember, and the number is growing quickly.

Fusebox develops an energy management platform that integrates and optimizes distributed power resources. The company offers modular SaaS solutions for power utilities, commercials, and industries to integrate renewable energy, reduce energy imbalances, and generate revenue. The company's cloud-based solution allows clients to manage assets like PV parks, energy storage systems, and consumption patterns, reducing energy imbalances by 95%, saving 35% on costs, and increasing revenue by 40%.