Industrial Decarbonization grants — page 5
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Industrial decarbonization is where the largest single climate cheques get written. The EU Innovation Fund (€40bn+ through 2030), US DOE Industrial Demonstrations Program ($6.3bn IIJA-funded), UK Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF), and the EU Just Transition Fund all target heavy industry, primarily steel, cement, chemicals, refining, and glass. Cheques are large (€20M–€500M typical for a Innovation Fund award) and competitive. Listed below are the open industrial decarbonization grant calls in that landscape, taken from each funder's own notice and re-checked on every refresh.
Industrial grants are capital-heavy and correspondingly slow. The recurring large pots are the EU Innovation Fund, the US Industrial Demonstrations Program, and the UK Industrial Energy Transformation Fund, all of which expect a named site, a credible counterfactual for emissions saved, and matched investment already committed. Smaller circular-economy and waste calls come through EU LIFE, national environment agencies and local authorities, where the eligibility is broader and the cheques are far smaller.
This page lists open industrial decarbonization grants currently tracked by Raise Lens — 538 of them right now, sorted with the soonest deadline first. Every listing has been classified against the sustainability taxonomy rather than matched on keywords, so what appears here is industrial decarbonization work rather than anything whose description happens to mention it.
The funders publishing industrial decarbonization grants here include Climate Capital, Tach2yone, SE Ventures, among 2 others. Who is funding matters as much as what: eligibility, reporting burden and the realistic timeline to a decision vary far more between funders than between individual calls.
Geographic coverage on this page spans GLOBAL, NORTH-AMERICA, APAC, LATAM, EUROPE. Eligibility is usually tied to where the work happens or where the applying organisation is registered, and the two are not always the same — worth checking before investing time in an application.
Network Fund: Quarterly-subscription micro-fund investing $25K checks into 50-60 early-stage climate tech startups per…
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A quarterly subscription micro-fund that deploys $25K checks into 50-60 early-stage climate tech startups annually across energy, infrastructure, and climate adaptation sectors. Open to accredited investors with a $5,000/quarter minimum commitment, offering follow-on investment access via SPVs.
Growth Equity & Buyout
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Growth equity and buyout capital for mature energy transition companies with proven business models, strong revenues, and positive unit economics ready to scale. Targets low-carbon energy sector companies with unique technologies and exceptional management teams.
A major European industrial company's venture capital arm investing in climate tech, sustainability, and energy management
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The funder is the corporate venture capital arm of Schneider Electric, investing in growth-stage startups developing climate tech, sustainability, energy management, and industrial automation solutions. The fund provides both financial capital and commercial acceleration through Schneider Electric's global network.
Mining Water Tech Pilot Program
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A pilot pathway program supporting mining water technology startups by connecting them with pilot deployment opportunities in the mining sector. The program is designed to help water-tech companies validate and scale solutions within mining operations.
Catalysing Large-Scale Capital
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The funder is seeking capital partners and investees to shift investment toward low-carbon growth across energy, nature, and materials systems, with a focus on rapid industrial decarbonization and natural capital value creation. The grant supports long-term sustainability investments and is likely structured as a blended-finance or catalytic-capital programme rather than traditional grants.
Energy Transition
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The funder invests in growth-stage companies accelerating the energy transition through renewable energy infrastructure deployment and AI-driven industrial applications. The fund targets companies solving energy transition challenges and is open to applicants at the growth stage.
European Climate Tech Fund
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The funder Climate Tech Fund backs ambitious founders building disruptive hardware, software, and AI-native solutions in energy, industrial decarbonization, and systemic resilience. The fund targets seed-stage companies with selective pre-seed and early Series A investments across Europe, particularly DACH, France, UK, and Nordics.
Core Fund
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SFV Core Fund provides seed to Series B equity investments in infrastructure technology companies focused on energy transition, AI compute, and national security across Europe and North America. The fund backs founders building category-defining solutions at the intersection of urban infrastructure, energy, and industrial technology.
Climate-Focused Early-Stage Venture Fund
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The funder invests equity capital in early-stage startups developing innovative carbon-reduction or carbon-avoidance technologies across production, power, and consumption systems. The fund targets founders building climate tech solutions and leverages deep expertise in energy, commodities, climate, technology, and market analysis.
Deeptech Accelerator Fund
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The funder' Deeptech Accelerator Fund invests in early-stage deeptech, climatetech, and digitalization startups from India targeting global markets. The fund supports innovation-first ventures building solutions in emerging technology sectors with climate and sustainability applications.
Pre-Seed Climate/Deep Tech Fund
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Pre-seed VC fund investing €250k in climate and deep tech startups across energy, mobility, industry, and resource efficiency sectors. Provides six months of operational support and non-dilutive grant assistance in exchange for minority equity.
Early-Stage Climate Tech VC Fund
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Early-stage venture capital fund investing in high-impact climate tech startups across decarbonization, clean energy, agriculture, and industrial efficiency at seed and early-stage rounds. Targets companies radically transforming industries to address climate change with a thesis that impact and profits align.
A European Climate-Tech Venture Fund
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The funder Fund provides early-stage equity investment (Pre-Seed to Series A) for European green technology companies in climate mitigation, resource efficiency, waste prevention, and biodiversity protection. The fund targets hardware and software startups across agriculture, energy, manufacturing, transport, and water/waste sectors, with rigorous impact vetting via life cycle assessments.
A US climate-tech venture fund
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The funder's Core Fund invests in early-stage companies developing technologies and solutions to reduce CO2 emissions, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and deploy climate cooling or geoengineering approaches. The fund targets startups across energy, transportation, industrial materials, agriculture, and carbon capture sectors.
Early-Stage Climate Tech Fund
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The funder is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in deep tech, climate, and frontier technology companies across earth observation, space propulsion, AI infrastructure, sustainable chemicals, and clean energy. The fund targets pre-seed to Series A companies globally, with geographic reach across USA, APAC, and beyond.
Berlin Venture Builder
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The funder's venture builder programme in Berlin supports the formation and scaling of climate-tech startups through hands-on incubation and mentorship. The programme is open to founders building climate solutions and extends the funder's proven model into continental Europe.
A Multi-Strategy Investment Fund
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The funder is a multi-strategy investment fund with ~$1B AUM that deploys capital across venture, private credit, and public market structures to fund breakthrough technologies in clean tech, industrial, and life sciences. The fund targets next-generation innovations across these three sectors and welcomes investment inquiries from qualifying companies and projects.
Global Industrial Energy Transition Venture Fund
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The funder Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund investing globally in technically differentiated solutions for industrial energy transition across chemicals, steel, aviation, heavy mobility, and construction. The fund targets lower-carbon systems, operational performance improvements, supply chain resilience, and distributed infrastructure.
Deep Tech: Backs scientific breakthroughs and university spinouts across energy, space tech, robotics, and synthetic…
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This grant funds scientific breakthroughs and university spinouts in deep-tech sectors including energy, space technology, robotics, and synthetic biology/chemistry. It targets early-stage companies and research teams commercializing innovations from academic institutions.
Investment Portfolio
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The funder provides equity investments in startups developing supply chain innovation technologies, with emphasis on decarbonised shipping and clean technologies that create value for Maersk and its customers. The fund leverages Maersk's domain expertise and operational scale to support portfolio company growth.
Venture Clienting Programme
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The funder partners with early-stage startups to co-develop and validate technology solutions addressing near-term supply chain challenges, with a focus on digitisation and decarbonisation. Selected startups progress through a structured Proof of Concept cycle with the goal of establishing long-term commercial partnerships.
Fund II: €160M fund focused on early-stage enabling technologies for physical industries including manufacturing…
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€160M venture capital fund investing in early-stage enabling technologies that improve productivity, resilience, and decarbonisation across manufacturing, energy, logistics, infrastructure, and built environment sectors. Targets companies across Europe and North America developing industrial AI, robotics, advanced materials, carbon capture, and related deep-tech solutions.
Early-stage venture capital fund for enabling technologies in physical industries
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Early-stage venture capital fund investing in pre-seed to Series A companies developing enabling technologies for physical industries including manufacturing, energy, logistics, and infrastructure. The fund targets companies driving productivity improvements, resilience, and decarbonisation outcomes.
A Major Oil Company's Low-Carbon Venture Arm
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The funder is a corporate venture arm investing in and partnering with startups and technology companies to commercialize low-carbon technologies including carbon capture, direct air capture, and industrial decarbonization solutions. The fund targets early-stage to growth-stage cleantech companies developing emissions-reduction technologies.
Climate-Focused VC Fund
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The funder is a venture capital fund providing pre-seed to Series A follow-on investments in climate-adjacent and deep tech companies across energy, manufacturing, logistics, circular economy, and agtech sectors. The fund targets early-stage startups with experienced founding and operating teams across Europe, USA, and Latin America.
a Swiss industrial-engineering corporate venture fund
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The funder is a corporate venture capital fund investing in breakthrough industrial technology startups across robotics, IoT, AI, energy transition, and related sectors. The fund makes 6-8 new investments annually with typical equity stakes of 5-20%, targeting companies that advance industrial decarbonization and digital transformation.
A Swiss industrial-automation company's venture fund
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The funder invests in early-stage startups developing motion and drive systems, energy optimization, and industrial automation technologies that improve safety and reliability. The fund targets companies aligned with ABB's industrial automation and energy-efficiency goals.
A Swiss Industrial Technology Company's Venture Fund
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The funder invests in early-stage startups developing smart, sustainable energy solutions across industrial electrification, e-mobility, smart cities, and power distribution. The fund targets companies aligned with ABB's energy-transition strategy and industrial decarbonization goals.
Purpose-Driven Early-Stage Venture Fund
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The funder Fund is a purpose-driven venture capital fund investing in transformative technology companies across climate, health, AI, and consumer sectors with global impact potential. The fund backs founders at various stages, though specific cheque sizes and stage preferences are not publicly disclosed.
A German automotive company's global early-stage venture fund
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The funder invests in early-stage companies building frontier technology across industrial decarbonization, energy transition, and mobility innovation. The fund targets hardware and software startups solving problems for large enterprises, including battery technology, semiconductors, and cleantech pioneers.
Fund II: A $275M venture fund investing in frontier energy, industrial, and climate technology companies
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A $275M venture fund investing in early to growth-stage companies developing frontier technologies across energy, climate, industrial, and mobility sectors. Targets companies solving decarbonization, efficiency, carbon management, and sustainable materials challenges.
LV 360 2
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LV 360 2 is a parallel investment fund launched by the funder in partnership with Regione Lombardia, targeting early-stage companies in deep-tech, climate-tech, and digital sectors. The fund invests in startups across the funder's focus areas with emphasis on innovation in climate and technology solutions.
a European early-stage venture fund
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The funder Early Stage Fund provides venture capital to European startups developing deep tech, climate tech, and digital-first solutions from Pre-Seed through Series B. The fund prioritizes sustainable technological progress and builds a European portfolio across these innovation areas.
Corporate Venture Innovation Fund
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The funder Fund is a corporate venture investment arm of Tokyo Gas that provides early-stage funding to startups in the new energy economy and sustainability sectors, including decarbonization, hydrogen, energy-as-a-service, and digital transformation. The fund targets innovative companies advancing the energy transition and sustainability outcomes.
a venture-stage deep-tech fund
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The funder invests in venture-stage companies developing breakthrough technologies across Future of Industry & Work, Materials & Production, and Energy & Mobility that target trillion-dollar market transformations. The fund backs deep-tech and climate-adjacent innovations in AI, robotics, advanced materials, energy transition, and circular economy.
Venture Capital Fund
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The funder invests in technology startups solving critical global problems with outsized returns and impact potential across multiple funding stages. The fund targets deep-tech and impact-driven ventures capable of scaling solutions.
Steel Decarbonization Innovation Fund
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The XCarb Innovation Fund invests up to $100M in emerging companies developing commercially scalable technologies to decarbonize steelmaking and achieve net-zero carbon steel production. It targets early-stage innovators with transformative decarbonization solutions applicable to industrial steel manufacturing.
A European Climate Foundation's Core Investment Programme
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The funder invests €500k–€5M in early-stage deep-tech climate innovations across energy, materials, and industrial sectors with potential to significantly reduce global CO₂ emissions. The programme detects, de-risks, and deploys up to 100 radical solutions capable of major climate impact.
Environmental Technologies Fund
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The funder invests in innovative, early-to-growth stage companies across Europe developing cutting-edge environmental technologies and sustainable solutions. The fund targets ventures with game-changing potential in sustainability, spanning cleantech, quantum computing, cloud infrastructure, and supply-chain optimization.
The Green Platform Initiative
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A Norwegian government research and development initiative funding green transition and sustainable innovation projects across Norwegian industry. Eligible applicants can pursue R&D projects that advance clean energy, sustainability, and industrial decarbonization.
A European Climate and Health Tech Seed Fund
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The funder Impact Capital Fund provides pre-seed and seed stage equity investment (€50k–€150k initial, up to €500k follow-on) to ClimateTech and HealthTech startups in Europe with proof of concept and early traction. The fund prioritizes companies solving social and environmental problems and targets gender parity among portfolio founders.
Venture Investments
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EDP's corporate venture arm invests in emerging technologies and innovative solutions that advance the energy transition, including renewables, decarbonization, and energy management. The fund targets startups and scale-stage companies developing breakthrough solutions in clean energy and related sectors.
Clean Industrialisation
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This grant fosters multi-stakeholder collaboration (government, industry, academia, civil society) across Asia to advance clean industrialisation and low-carbon economic growth. It targets systemic industrial decarbonisation and clean energy adoption in the region.
Corporate Engagement
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This grant encourages and supports businesses in achieving net-zero emissions targets through collaborative engagement with the funder. It is designed for corporations seeking funding or partnership to accelerate their decarbonization and climate commitments.
Industry Decarbonization
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This grant supports high-emitting developing countries in decarbonizing industrial sectors, particularly hard-to-abate industries like steel and cement. It funds programmes that help transition industrial processes to low-carbon technologies and practices.
A Global Climate Tech Fund with Asia-Pacific Focus
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The funder invests globally (with APAC focus) in climate tech companies pursuing cost-competitive alternatives to fossil fuels, particularly in energy efficiency, clean transportation fuels, and industrial decarbonisation. The fund takes a hands-on private equity approach with a curated portfolio of ~14 companies.
Fund EX1: Exploratory fund sleeve (EX1) with open Investment Analyst hiring, focused on early-stage venture investments
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The funder is hiring Investment Analysts for an exploratory fund sleeve (EX1) focused on early-stage venture investments in climate tech and deep tech sectors aligned with their impact-scaling thesis. The fund targets companies in energy, cleantech, computing, connectivity, mobility, industrials, and materials.
Infrastructure-focused debt and equity fund – Innovation strategy for sustainable sectors
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The funder provides debt, equity, and growth capital to middle-market and family-owned private companies building sustainable infrastructure and technologies in energy, agriculture, waste, and industrial sectors. The fund targets companies with hard asset collateral and emphasizes environmental and social innovation.