Industrial Decarbonization grants — page 8
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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 Buoyant Ventures, Overture VC, Nucleus Capital, 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, EUROPE, AFRICA, LATAM, EEA. 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.
Early Stage Venture Fund for Physical-World AI
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The funder invests in AI, software, and hardware companies that improve resource efficiency, resilience, and decarbonization across energy, industrials, food & agriculture, mobility, water, and computing. The fund targets Seed and Series A stage startups.
Early-Stage Venture Fund for Critical Technologies
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Early-stage venture fund investing in energy, AI, resilience, and industrial transformation startups, with in-kind support for government engagement and regulatory navigation. Targets founders building solutions in energy transition, AI applications, and industrial decarbonization.
NC–II: Second fund continuing the thesis of first-check investment in frontier technical teams across Programmable…
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The funder's second fund provides first-check venture investment to early-stage technical teams building frontier solutions in programmable biology, food technology, and neo-industrial sectors. The fund targets companies across Europe and the US with up to $1.1M in initial capital.
NC–I: First-check pre-seed fund investing in technical teams at the earliest stage across Programmable Biology, Food…
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The funder's pre-seed fund invests up to €1M in technical teams at the earliest stage across Programmable Biology, Food Technology, and Neo Industrials. The fund targets founders and early-stage companies in Europe and the US with cheques as lead or co-lead investors.
an early-stage mobility venture fund
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Early-stage venture fund investing in transportation decarbonization (EVs, materials, software) and digitization of logistics and automotive supply chains. Targets early-stage startups building the future of low-carbon and connected mobility.
Third Energy Transition Fund
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Growth equity fund investing in scaling companies across clean energy, mobility, built environment, and industrial decarbonization sectors. Targets growth-stage ventures driving global energy transition and decarbonization.
US Climate Tech Venture SPV Program
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The funder invests up to $1M in early-stage deep tech startups focused on climate and sustainability breakthroughs in areas like electrochemistry, synthetic biology, robotics, ML, and materials science. The fund targets scientific founders at Seed or Series A stage, primarily from the greater Boston ecosystem.
A European Venture Fund
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The funder is a European VC firm investing €196M across early-stage to growth-stage tech companies driving decarbonization and digitalization in industrial tech, energy transition, mobility, logistics, and agriculture. The fund backs companies solving climate and sustainability challenges across these five core sectors.
A Deep-Tech Materials Venture Fund
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The funder Fund III is a first-money-in venture capital fund investing up to $352M in pre-seed and seed stage deep tech companies developing material science innovations in clean tech, advanced materials, and health. The fund targets companies at the intersection of digital and physical innovation solving sustainability and health challenges.
Green Industrialisation
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This grant supports African economies in developing low-carbon industrial pathways that create jobs and retain economic value on the continent through policy, planning, and investment ecosystem support. It targets industrial decarbonization and green economy transitions across Africa.
Decarbonizing Energy & Industry
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This grant funds the establishment of green industrial hubs and accelerates net-zero transformation of carbon-intensive industries like cement and steel through partnerships with organizations such as Mission Possible Partnership. It targets organizations working on industrial decarbonization and low-carbon materials production at scale.
Climate Technology Venture Fund
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The funder Venture Capital Fund invests in early-to-growth stage founders building transformational technologies in energy, industry, materials, and built environment sectors with measurable decarbonisation outcomes. The fund targets companies that deliver both strong financial returns and real-world climate impact.
a European deep-tech climate equity fund
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Pre-seed and seed investment fund for deep-tech climate companies founded by scientist-entrepreneurs across Europe, targeting transformative scientific innovations in decarbonisation that reduce costs and emissions across industrial sectors. Structured as a closed-ended alternative investment fund (limited partnership) backing companies in hydrogen, nuclear, materials, circular economy, and sustainable fuels.
A Major Deep Tech Venture Fund
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The funder's Deep Tech Fund invests in early to growth-stage startups developing globally competitive deep technology solutions across energy, mobility, advanced materials, agriculture, robotics, AI, and biotech. The fund targets founders building frontier innovations for India and international markets.
A European Climate Tech Seed Fund
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The funder Core Fund provides pre-seed and seed stage equity investments of EUR 1-4m to climate tech founders across Europe and Israel. The fund targets companies in green energy, transportation, built environment, industry, carbon, and climate sectors.
European venture capital fund for climate and sustainability tech
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The funder invests €1–10M in early-stage and growth-stage tech companies solving global challenges in energy, climate/industrials, and healthcare across Europe. The fund targets European founders building scalable solutions to decarbonization and sustainability problems.
A Climate-Focused Venture Fund
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MCJ Collective Venture Fund backs early-stage founders building climate and clean energy solutions across electrification, nuclear, grid infrastructure, and AI-enabled industrial tech. The fund targets companies rewriting industries to accelerate the clean energy transition.
A European Venture Capital Fund for Sustainability
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The funder is a lead investor deploying capital from pre-seed through Series B in cleantech, deep tech, food, mobility, and sustainable industry companies focused on post-carbon and sovereign Europe themes. The fund provides not just capital but also operational support via a community of ~40 operators per deal, with focus on go-to-market acceleration, key hires, and board-level guidance.
a climate-tech venture fund
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The funder Climate Fund invests pre-seed and seed capital in software and hardware companies addressing climate change through decarbonisation, climate resilience, and breakthrough sustainability innovations. The fund targets early-stage founders across Europe and the US working in climate tech across all sectors.
A Deep Tech Fund for Breakthrough Science Commercialization
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The funder Ventures' Deep Tech Fund invests in science-based founders developing breakthrough technologies to solve large-scale challenges in space, climate, AI, food security, healthcare, and industrial productivity. The fund backs companies from early stage through growth, with unique access to Australian research institutions via CSIRO partnership.
a Southeast Asian venture fund (Follow-on)
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The funder Fund V is a $183.6M follow-on investment vehicle deploying capital into portfolio companies across seed through Series B+ stages in deep tech, life sciences, hardware, and climate sectors. The fund targets early-to-growth stage companies in these verticals that have already received initial the funder backing.
Endurance: Private equity strategy making control and minority investments in mature, profitable software and services…
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The funder is deploying private equity capital to acquire control or minority stakes in mature, profitable software and services companies that advance the energy transition, targeting enterprise values between $50–500M. This is an active investment vehicle for established businesses in the energy-transition software and industrial-services space, not a traditional grant.
Ventures
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The funder is deploying up to $30M in venture equity to lead Series A, B & C rounds in earlier-stage digital solutions addressing energy transition, climate, and industrial decarbonization. The fund targets companies building software, platforms, and digital tools that enable decarbonization and industrial digitization across energy, climate, and critical infrastructure sectors.
European Climate Tech Fund
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The funder Climate Tech Fund invests in early to growth-stage European climate tech startups developing decarbonisation technologies across energy, food, materials, buildings, and aviation sectors, using a proprietary science-based Climate Performance Potential methodology. Eligible companies must demonstrate high climate impact potential and operate in priority decarbonisation domains.
Pilot Pathway Program
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A pilot program by the funder in partnership with Current that enables emerging companies to test mining water technology innovations at operating mining sites. The program provides a structured pathway for early-stage innovators to validate solutions in real-world mining environments.
Early Stage Venture Fund for Critical Minerals Technology
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Early-stage venture capital fund investing in technology innovations across the critical mineral value chain, including responsible development, operational excellence, and recycled materials. Targets pre-seed, seed, and Series A companies in the US and Canada.
a US climate-tech venture fund
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Evōk Innovations Core Fund invests in hard-tech companies developing transformative technologies for heavy industry, energy, and industrial decarbonization with measurable climate impact. The fund takes a hands-on, company-builder approach, supporting founders from early institutional stages through scaling.
An Early-Stage Sustainability Venture Fund
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The funder invests in early-stage startups building transformative companies at the intersection of mobility, industrial innovation, and energy. The fund partners with ambitious founders from the earliest stages across emerging sectors including semiconductors, AI, space-tech, digital manufacturing, and logistics.
Northern European Climate Tech Fund
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The funder Fund invests up to $8.8M in Series A deep-tech and decarbonization companies across the Nordic and Baltic regions, with focus on transportation, healthcare, and digital infrastructure to reduce carbon footprint. The fund backs ambitious founders scaling globally in climate-critical sectors.
Early-Stage Venture Fund
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Early-stage venture fund making equity investments in technology companies addressing digital divide across climate, insurance & benefits, retail, and supply chain & logistics sectors. Targets high-conviction bets at seed and Series A stages with a concentrated portfolio approach.
Early-Stage Climate Technology Fund
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Early-stage equity investment fund backing pre-seed and seed-stage startups commercializing scientific breakthroughs in energy, materials, manufacturing, and agriculture with climate and sustainability impact. Targets hard tech and deep tech companies addressing trillion-dollar industrial markets.
a US sustainable-industry venture fund
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The funder invests in Seed to Series B stage companies developing technologies to decarbonize industrial processes and enable sustainable supply of critical minerals, materials, and clean energy. The fund targets demonstrable results across upstream minerals, sustainable energy inputs, materials decarbonization, and CO2 capture with 3-10% ownership per holding.
A Deep-Tech Venture Fund
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The funder Core Fund invests in early-stage to pre-IPO companies commercializing scientific and technological breakthroughs, with a focus on deep-tech, life sciences, climate tech, and advanced materials. The fund backs world-class teams globally and typically takes board representation, making it suitable for founders with disruptive innovations ready to scale.
Sustainability Accelerators
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Equity-based accelerator program that invests in early-stage startups advancing clean energy, industrial decarbonization, and sustainable resource development to strengthen American energy leadership. Provides up to $100,000 in funding and support services to portfolio companies in the sustainability and clean-energy sectors.
European AI and Software Venture Fund
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The funder Fund is a specialist venture capital fund investing in applied AI solutions that make energy systems, industrial operations, and critical infrastructure smarter and more resilient across Europe. It targets early-stage companies (Seed through Series A) developing climate-tech and energy-transition technologies.
Hard Tech Entrepreneurial Fellowship in Singapore
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A fellowship programme for hard-tech innovators based in Singapore, modelled on the US Activate Fellowship and covering sectors including energy, carbon-capture, advanced manufacturing, computing, agriculture, biotech, aerospace, transportation, water, and materials. The programme supports early-stage founders and teams developing deep-tech solutions.
Activate Fellowship Programme
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A two-year fellowship for hard-tech innovators commercializing hardware-based technology innovations across energy, materials, computing, and other deep-tech sectors. Fellows receive support to advance their projects from prototype/early commercialization stage, with a $2M prior funding cap.
Collective Fund
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Collective Fund invests in transformative businesses across physical AI, built environment, energy, industrial transition, and digital infrastructure sectors. The fund targets venture-scale companies building solutions in robotics, construction, energy systems, and industrial decarbonization.
a climate venture fund
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ICOS IV is a growth-stage venture capital fund targeting breakthrough climate technologies capable of delivering 1 GT CO2e reduction or avoidance by 2050, using a Collaborative Venturing Platform model that pairs innovators with sector-leading corporations for financing, engineering, infrastructure, and market access.
Latin America Strategy
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This is a capital mobilisation partnership between the funder, the International Finance Corporation, and Itaú Unibanco targeting institutional investment across energy, industrial decarbonisation, circular economy, and food systems in Latin America. The grant funds projects and initiatives that attract private capital to climate and sustainability solutions in these four sectors.
Climate Solutions Growth Equity Strategy
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Growth equity investments in climate solutions targeting radical emissions reduction or removal in hard-to-abate sectors including energy, industry, food systems, and nature-based solutions. Targets transformational climate technology and business model companies rather than incremental improvements.
Quantum Innovation Fund – Venture Capital
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The funder invests venture capital in early-stage energy technology and decarbonization solution companies. The fund targets transformative companies working on energy innovation and sustainability technologies.
Hydrogen Filling Stations for Heavy Vehicles
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This was a Norwegian government support programme from the funder that funded the establishment of hydrogen filling stations for heavy trucks along key transport corridors, primarily the Oslo–Trondheim route. The programme is no longer active as of June 2025.
Forstudie Karbonfangst 2030
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The funder is funding feasibility studies (forstudie) for carbon capture technologies and solutions targeting 2030 deployment in Norway. The grant supports research, planning, and pre-commercial development of carbon capture systems by energy companies, technology developers, and research institutions.
Project Grants from the EU Innovation Fund
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EU Innovation Fund grants support Norwegian and European actors developing and scaling new climate technologies that reduce emissions and strengthen Europe's competitiveness. Projects with high technological and financial risk compete for funding through annual calls for proposals.
What Support Does a Norwegian State Energy Agency Offer Applicants to an EU Innovation Fund
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The funder provides financial and advisory support to Norwegian applicants preparing submissions to the EU Innovation Fund, Europe's leading climate technology commercialization scheme. Support includes up to 500,000 NOK in application preparation costs, project evaluation, strategic guidance, and webinar training.
Auction for Decarbonization of Industrial Heat
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This is a competitive auction scheme under the EU Innovation Fund that provides fixed payments per tonne of CO2 saved to projects replacing fossil industrial heat with electric and renewable heat technologies. Eligible applicants across the EEA compete on cost-effectiveness, with winners receiving support over up to 5 years post-implementation.
Project Establishment Support for EU Innovation Fund
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This grant supports Norwegian enterprises in preparing high-quality applications to the EU Innovation Fund by covering feasibility studies, labour costs, analyses, and consultant fees during the project establishment phase. It targets companies developing technologies that deliver substantial emission reductions aligned with EU climate targets toward 2050.