Climate Tech Investors, Startups and Friends Happy Hour
Join us for a delightful evening networking reception of Colorado Climate Week at CSU Spur. Enjoy inspiring conversations and make meaningful connections with investors, startups and ecosystem partners.
Brought to you by: Blackhorn Ventures, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Future Energy Ventures, Vision Ridge Ventures, Powerhouse Ventures, Volo Earth Ventures, Colorado Cleantech Industries Association.
About Blackhorn Ventures: Blackhorn Ventures is a Denver-based venture capital firm backing early-stage companies that use software and off-the-shelf hardware to decarbonize the physical economy. We focus on asset-light, enterprise-grade solutions across renewable energy, building efficiency, and electrified transportation — companies that squeeze more output from existing infrastructure rather than building new atoms from scratch. We partner with founders who believe the next industrial revolution is won through intelligence, not just hardware.
About Ecosystem Integrity Fund: Ecosystem Integrity Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm backing Series A and B companies tackling the most underserved niches in sustainability. We invest across renewable energy, grid management, energy efficiency, electric transportation, green chemistry, and sustainable agriculture — with a systems-level lens that identifies where capital is scarce and leverage is highest. We partner with founders solving structural environmental problems where better technology genuinely changes the economics.
About Future Energy Ventures: Future Energy Ventures is an energy-native venture capital firm backing early-stage companies with digital, scalable, asset-light business models across Europe and North America. We focus on AI-driven, software-first solutions that improve grid efficiency, optimize power flows, and enable demand-side flexibility, industrial and urban electrification, and the integration of frontier technologies into the energy system. We partner only with founders committed to decarbonizing energy while making it more resilient, intelligent, and radically more efficient.
About Vision Ridge Ventures: Vision Ridge Partners is a Boulder-based sustainable real assets investor targeting energy, transportation, and agriculture — sectors responsible for over 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions. We take an operations-driven approach to transforming complex, undervalued assets into high-performing platforms for the energy transition, targeting net IRRs of 15–20% with capital from sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and public pensions globally. We back real-world infrastructure where the transition from carbon-intensive to sustainable operations creates durable, compounding value.
About Powerhouse Ventures: Powerhouse Ventures is an Oakland-based seed-stage venture capital firm backing the digital infrastructure layer of rapid decarbonization. We invest in software-first energy innovation companies at the earliest stages — taking technical and commercial risk that larger funds won't — a portfolio of companies operating across utilities, mobility, and energy technology. We partner with founders building the tools, platforms, and operating systems that make clean energy faster, cheaper, and smarter to deploy at scale.
About Volo Earth Ventures: VoLo Earth Ventures is a Snowmass-based early-stage climate venture firm founded by former RMI leaders. We back capital-efficient companies in energy, mobility, buildings, and industry that deliver unsubsidized economic returns alongside measurable carbon impact — using rigorous techno-economic analysis to separate durable businesses from subsidized bets. We partner with founders who believe decarbonization and financial returns are not a tradeoff.
About Colorado Cleantech Industries Association: Colorado Cleantech Industries Association is a statewide industry organization connecting entrepreneurs, investors, corporations, researchers, and policymakers to accelerate the commercialization of clean technologies across Colorado. We provide advocacy, programming, and sector-specific platforms — from grid modernization to sustainable aviation — that help founders access capital, customers, and policy support at the right moment. We exist to make Colorado a globally recognized hub for climate innovation, where the best clean technology companies choose to build.