Vilnius · Pre-Seed–Series A · 21 people tracked
Investment thesis
Contrarian Ventures invests in climate tech companies at the earliest stages, aiming to be the first cheque in before a space becomes obvious or crowded. The firm emphasizes speed, conviction, and long-term alignment with founders rather than following consensus. It positions itself as a full-stack climate platform, supporting founders through community and ecosystem initiatives such as the Energy Tech Summit, The Climate Brick, and Climate50. The team frames its mission around helping founders tackle the climate crisis with determination and long-term partnership.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 21 people
from the firm's website & curated & public directoriesWhat they invest in
from 26 of 36 portfolio companiesEnergy ×19Cleantech ×16AI & Machine Learning ×8Climate Tech ×8SaaS ×6Mobility & Transportation ×5Data & Infrastructure ×2Enterprise Software ×2
HQs:Germany×3United Kingdom×3Switzerland×2United States×2Australia×1Estonia×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 8 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×42 founders×33 founders×1
Investments · 36 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 32014 · 15 dated
Altrove uses physics-based AI and lab automation to design and manufacture substitutes for critical inorganic materials, aiming to develop alternatives faster than conventional R&D.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareNew MaterialsParis, FR
Thibaud Martin(CEO)inJoonatan Laulainen(CTO)in
Co-investorsCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)EmblemEntrepreneur FirstAlvenBpifrance
Beebop provides an infrastructure layer that sits between the power grid and distributed energy devices, offering real-time monitoring, automated dispatch control, and forecasting to orchestrate flexible assets such as household batteries, rooftop solar, and EVs.
CleantechEnergyIoT
PartnerTomas Kemtys· led
Co-investorsAngular Ventures
Bees & Bears operates a technology platform that lets installers offer end customers installment financing for green hardware such as solar panels, energy storage systems, and heat pumps, with real-time credit decisions and staged payouts to the installer.
CleantechEnergyFintech
Franziska Kunz(Founder)
Co-investorsExtantia CapitalUnruly Capital
BeZero Carbon provides independent, risk-based ratings and risk analytics for carbon credit projects across their full life cycle, using expert analysts, proprietary sector-specific models, and curated datasets.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechData & Infrastructure
Tommy Ricketts(Founder)in
Co-investorsHitachi VenturesMolten VenturesNorrsken VCTransLink CapitalExtantia CapitalIlluminate Financial
Cariqa operates a platform that connects EV charging operators and drivers directly, eliminating intermediaries to provide transparency and control in the charging market.
CleantechClimate TechEnergyFintechMobility & TransportationSaaSBerlin, DE
Issam Tidjani(Co-Founder and CEO)inStefano Bonetta(Co-Founder and CTO)Tamara Ciullo(Co-Founder and CCO)inMario La Pergola(COO and CFO)
Co-investorsAnthemis VentureTechstarsPlug and Play Ventures
Decade Energy provides electrification solutions for mobility and fleet depots, including grid upgrades, battery storage, charging infrastructure, and energy optimization software.
BiotechCleantechEnergyMobility & TransportationMountain View, US
Devin Scannell(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Alejandro Ortega Peniche(Founder)inBrian Naughton(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardElliot Hershberg(Director)
Co-investorsAnanda Impact VenturesBenchmarkGreenoaks
Delfos offers an AI-powered platform for monitoring and performance management of renewable energy portfolios, using predictive anomaly detection to reduce downtime and recover revenue for power plant operators.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy
Co-investorsVox CapitalDOMO.VCHeadline
Co-investorsInven Capital
Ember operates an all-electric intercity bus service in Scotland, running routes between cities including Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oban, Fort William and Inverness with airport connections.
CleantechClimate TechMobility & Transportation
PartnerRokas Peciulaitis· led
Co-investorsCarbonInven Capital
FormCraft is a WordPress form builder plugin that offers features such as auto-saving user input so form data persists across browser sessions.
Developer ToolsSaaS
Fusebox offers an operating system for virtual power plants (VPPs) that provides site-level optimization, real-time dispatch, and ancillary market workflows for managing distributed energy flexibility.
CleantechEnergySaaS
Co-investorsFly VenturesEneco VenturesSoulmates Ventures
H2Pro develops decoupled, membraneless water electrolyzers (DWE) for producing green hydrogen, designed for direct connection to renewable energy sources.
CleantechEnergyHardwareCaesarea, IL
Gideon Grader(Founder)in
Co-investorsBreakthrough Energy VenturesHorizons VenturesIN VentureWIND VenturesYara Growth VenturesArcelorMittal+1 more
Hepta is an engineering firm that provides design services for high-voltage installations (110kV–330kV), electrical and communication networks, lighting, roads, and BIM/3D visualization, as well as wind farm development.
CleantechConstruction TechEnergyTallinn, EE
Tanel Lomp(CEO, Board Member)
Co-investorsThorgate Ventures
Hepta Airborne provides an AI-enhanced software platform that analyzes drone, helicopter, LiDAR, satellite, and ground patrol data to detect and score anomalies on power grid transmission and distribution lines.
AI & Machine LearningEnergySaaS
Co-investorsAxon Partners GroupEIT InnoEnergyThorgate Ventures
Inbalance grid operates EV charging networks and builds charging infrastructure, offering an all-in-one solution that includes charging stations, software, and 24/7 operations.
CleantechEnergyMobility & Transportation
Intelligent EV charging solutions combining hardware, software, and 24/7 operations.
Delivers advanced analytics to optimise solar and wind plant performance.
Marvin builds AI-native supply chain infrastructure that uses AI agents to interpret trade regulations, manage documentation, and orchestrate cross-border workflows.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain
Metafuels develops aerobrew, a patent-pending proprietary technology that converts green methanol into sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) using renewable feedstocks such as green hydrogen and sustainably sourced CO₂.
CleantechClimate TechEnergyZurich, CH
Co-investorsEnergy Impact PartnersUVC PartnersVerve Ventures
Moixa was a UK-based home energy storage company, now part of Lunar Energy, focused on residential clean power and battery storage.
CleantechClimate TechEnergy
Co-investorsFirst Imagine!Perscitus LLP
PVcase provides cloud-based and AutoCAD-based software for solar energy project development, including tools for site selection, utility-scale ground-mount and rooftop solar design, and energy yield modeling.
CleantechEnergySaaSSector Agnostic
David Trainavicius(Co-founder & CEO)inDoug Geist(Co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer)inMelissa Nussbaum(CFO & COO)in
PartnerRokas Peciulaitis· led
Co-investorsEnergize CapitalHighland EuropePractica Capital
Zoomo is a company that offers region-specific services across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, but the page shown is only a region selector with no description of its actual product or business.
Sydney, AU
Mina Nada(Founder)
Co-investorsManiv MobilityVirescent VenturesWIND VenturesOneVentures
SatVu operates satellites that capture high-resolution thermal infrared imagery and video (up to 3.5 m resolution) of the Earth's surface, day and night.
Climate TechDefense TechSpace Tech
Anthony Baker(Founder & CEO)Toby Reinicke(Founder)
Co-investorsE2MC VenturesGrit VenturesIn-Q-TelMD One VenturesMolten VenturesSeraphim Space+5 more
Los Gatos, US
Michael Leigh(Executive Officer, Director)Joseph Golden(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardJack Guedj(Director)Maciej Kranz(Director)Mario Nemirovsky(Director)
Co-investorsSkyfall Ventures
Sterblue offered a cloud platform combining automatic drone flight planning, inspection data management, and AI-assisted defect detection for power and wind assets such as transmission lines, distribution grids, cooling towers, and wind turbines, serving utilities and wind operators.
AI & Machine LearningEnergyRobotics
Co-investorsTaver Capital
sun.store operates an online marketplace for buying and selling photovoltaic (PV) components from vetted suppliers, serving distributors, merchants, and installers across Europe.
B2B MarketplacesCleantechEnergy
Co-investorsMarket One CapitalMovens CapitalPUSH Ventures
Switchee provides smart thermostats, IoT sensors, and a data platform that gives social landlords real-time insight into home conditions to detect mould, reduce fuel poverty, and meet compliance obligations such as Awaab's Law.
EnergyIoTPropTech
Tom Robinsin
Co-investorsOctopus Ventures
Urbio provides an AI-powered software platform for planning and designing district heating networks, combining curated geospatial energy data, a digital twin, scenario design, and automated reporting.
AI & Machine LearningCleantechEnergy
Co-investorsKickstart InnovationThird SphereFounderful
Vianova operates a cloud-based intelligence platform that aggregates and combines mobility data from multiple sources, letting cities and businesses analyze insights and automate decisions.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureGovTechMobility & Transportation
Co-investorsKickstart InnovationLa Poste VenturesX-HUB TOKYO Global Startup Accelerator
Co-investorsFirst Imagine!
Provider of high-performance light electric vehicles for urban fleets and couriers.
Co-investorsArcTern VenturesVirescent Ventures
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesEmber · ember-energy.org · Aug 20, 2026
Fusebox · v2.my.dev.fusebox.fm · Aug 13, 2026
Decade · latamlist.com · Aug 4, 2026
SatVu · payloadspace.com · May 8, 2026
Delfos · renewablesnow.com · Mar 18, 2026
H2Pro · finder.startupnationcentral.org · Mar 11, 2026
Metafuels · esgtoday.com · Feb 19, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Contrarian Ventures made?
- Contrarian Ventures has 35 tracked investments, including 4 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Contrarian Ventures invest at?
- Contrarian Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Contrarian Ventures focus on?
- Contrarian Ventures focuses on Circular Economy, Cleantech, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, Energy, New Materials, Semiconductors.
- Where is Contrarian Ventures located?
- Contrarian Ventures is headquartered in Vilnius, LT.
- Does Contrarian Ventures lead rounds?
- Yes, Contrarian Ventures leads investment rounds.
- Who does Contrarian Ventures co-invest with?
- Contrarian Ventures most often shares deals with First Imagine!, Inven Capital, Kickstart Innovation, among 48 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the team#165 Christian Jølck, 2150 VC and Rokas Peciulaitis, Contrarian Ventures
The European VC · Rokas Peciulaitis
Ep 55: Rokas Peciulaitis - Managing Partner, Contrarian Ventures
Energy Impact Center · Rokas Peciulaitis
EUVC #47 Rokas Peciulaitis & Tomas Kemtys, Contrarian Ventures
The European VC · Rokas Peciulaitis
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Co-investors · 12
Headline is a global venture capital firm investing in early- and growth-stage founders, with teams on the ground across multiple continents.
Energy Impact Partners is an investment firm that connects entrepreneurs with major corporate partners to help drive the transformation of the global economy toward a more sustainable future.
Anthemis is an investment firm focused on the digital economy, backing companies that reshape financial services and the broader economy for wider benefit.
Ananda Impact Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in social enterprises based in Europe addressing social issues across the region. The firm focuses on early-stage and growth-stage companies in the social impact sector.
FJ Labs is an early-stage investment firm specializing in marketplaces and network-effect businesses, taking an angel-style co-investment approach alongside institutional venture funds worldwide.
Foobar is the investment company of Icelandic entrepreneur David Helgason that focuses on supporting startups and investing in technology to accelerate global decarbonization and sustainability efforts.
Elephant is a venture capital firm that invests in fast-growing, capital-efficient technology companies.
Better Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm backing mission-driven technology companies working to build a better world across climate, health, and workforce sectors.
Working Capital Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in technologies aimed at building resilient, responsible, and sustainable global supply chains.
Move Energy is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies developing hardware and software technologies for decarbonization in the power, transport, and buildings sectors.
Firms observed investing alongside Contrarian Ventures, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Contrarian Ventures's recorded portfolio.
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