Cleantech Group

The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) provides its clients with practical advice on foreign markets and on-the-ground intelligence to help them make better, more timely and cost-effective decisions in order to achieve their goals abroad.

Trade commissioners offer services across a wide range of trade sectors, to those members of the Canadian business community who contribute to Canada’s economic growth, have a demonstrated capacity for internationalization and have good potential to add value to the Canadian economy.

The Trade Commissioner Service promotes Canada’s economic interests in global markets, by engaging in a range of activities, including:

• contributing to export market development
• conducting advocacy and foreign market access activities
• understanding and analyzing trade policy
• attracting foreign investment to Canada
• developing a network of international business contacts
• identifying and communicating business leads
• fostering strategic alliances
• linking Canadian businesses to global value chains
• supporting licensing and venture capital linkages
• promoting joint-venture partnering and foreign equity investment
• facilitating R&D collaboration and technology transfer
• promoting responsible business conduct
• facilitating Canadian direct investment abroad

TD SECURITIES INC.
TD Securities is the wholesale banking arm of TD Bank Financial Group (NYSE: TD), one of North America’s largest banks with a market capitalization of over C$160 billion (US$130 billion) and over C$1.7 trillion (US$1.4 trillion) of assets. In 2010, TD Bank became the first North American bank to achieve carbon-neutral status and in November 2020 became the first Canadian bank to set a target to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions associated with operations and financing activities by 2050.

TD Securities is a globally recognized leader in capital markets and advisory services, with 15 offices and over 4500 full-time employees located in financial centers across the globe. This includes dedicated teams to advise and support clients as they work to capture opportunities in the low-carbon economy, including a newly established Sustainable Finance and Corporate Transitions Group, which works closely with clients to support their transition plans through ESG-related advice, financing, and affiliated products. These commitments also include a newly established principal investing strategy aimed at supporting emerging technologies that can have a meaningful impact on our path to a low-carbon economy.

Our focus is on the entire spectrum of clean technology, including advanced materials, agriculture, carbon capture, hydrogen, mobility, new energy, renewable fuels, and smart building technologies. Our reach is global and our track record is significant. We look forward to working with you to advance your initiatives in all aspects of ESG and energy transition.

Callaghan Innovation was born out of the simple but powerful idea that Aotearoa New Zealand’s intergenerational prosperity would come not through traditional businesses or business models, but from smart, bold entrepreneurs creating innovative, new companies that are not just world-class but are also working to make the world better.

Our role is to act as an enabler for this new breed of companies; to champion, guide, support and advise them as they make a positive impact on Aotearoa New Zealand and the world.

For the past three decades, Chubb has provided a wide range of renewable energy, technology, and manufacturing companies with scalable, future focused insurance solutions. With an integrated worldwide network of branches and affiliates, Chubb’s global expertise, risk engineering, and claims services help Clean Tech companies keep pace with the velocity of changing risks. To learn more about Chubb, please contact your local agent or broker today.

Emerald is a globally recognized venture capital firm building a sustainable future at the crossroads of industry and technology. Founded in 2000, it is a pioneer in open innovation, providing multi-national corporations with rich deal flow and insight in the sectors and markets of tomorrow. Emerald has managed and advised assets of over €1 billion from its offices in Zurich, Toronto and Singapore. The firm is dedicated to tackling big challenges in climate change and sustainability via over 500 venture transactions and five third-party investment mandates, including loan guarantees to over 100 start-ups.

Foresight is Canada’s cleantech accelerator. In collaboration with our Helix 5^TM collaborators – innovators, industry, investors, government, and academia – Foresight is relentlessly driving cleantech innovation in Canada. Our audacious goal is that Canada be the first G7 country to reach net zero. Our mission is to accelerate the growth and impact of cleantech ecosystems across Canada to achieve deep decarbonization and net zero climate targets through problem-driven innovation. 

Since inception in 2013, Foresight has made a meaningful impact in the cleantech innovation ecosystem. We have supported 1000+ ventures in our accelerator programs, 150+ industry partners through our industry programs, and 300+ investor firms through our various access to capital programs. Foresight’s leadership has helped secure $1.44 billion in capital, $419 million revenues, and 7,250+ high-paying jobs for our ventures with an economic impact of over $2+ billion. Our domestic and international engagement includes collaboration with 2,000+ stakeholders, rightsholders, and partners. We have a strong history of strategy, ecosystem mapping, and partnership building that positions Canada as a global leader in cleantech innovation.

Foresight considers that the innovation we promote and accelerate has to answer industry needs. Therefore, we also run Innovation Challenges to ensure this innovation is market driven. 

We have run over 52 Innovation Challenges. These challenges have brought more than $31 million in direct funding for innovators and are projected to reduce 68.9Mt CO₂e emissions by 2033.

Idemitsu in San Jose, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. IAH was established in 2020 to serve as a holding company for Idemitsu Kosan’s subsidiaries in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil.

The purpose of IAH as a holding company for the subsidiaries is to develop and implement group financial structure for the Idemitsu Kosan Group in the Americas and to strengthen internal audit and internal controls, as well as to provide administrative and strategic support, such as Human Resources. IAH strives to generate value by enhancing performance and utilizing resources among the group companies in North and South America.

IAH also aims to expand existing businesses and develop new businesses in the Americas, creating value by identifying collaborative opportunities with entrepreneurial innovators. The target areas are carbon-neutral transformation, a recycling-oriented society, and next-generation mobility and communities.

At Kilpatrick Townsend, we are at the legal forefront of the global energy market’s evolution. We provide trusted legal counsel and representation in government relations, including on tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and transactional advice to clients who actively shape the future of clean energy production, storage solutions, sustainable fuels, carbon recapture, and other groundbreaking technologies. Our approach to solving legal problems combines strategic thinking, meticulous research, and innovative problem-solving to deliver exceptional results and together with our clients, we are shaping the energy landscape while making a positive impact on the world.

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm.

We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to rewKorn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. ard and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers.

Origin Merchant Partners (“Origin”) is an independent North American investment bank with offices in Chicago, Montreal, and Toronto. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and restructuring/recapitalization advisory services across a range of sectors, including Environmental & Sustainability, delivered by a team of more than 50 professionals.

Our Environmental & Sustainability practice is focused on companies that provide customers with solutions and services that support environmental sustainability and impact initiatives. We regularly engage with strategic and financial buyer and investor groups that have significant interest, across size and stage range, with respect to businesses focused on waste/recycling, waste-to-energy, EV battery ecosystem, clean energy/energy transition, clean infrastructure, and other circular economy activity.

San Diego Community Power provides clean energy with the goal of creating a more sustainable and equitable future for all San Diegans. As a locally-run, not-for-profit public agency, San Diego Community Power is committed to providing competitive electricity rates, while reinvesting back into the communities it serves. San Diego Community Power provides transformative solutions to our region’s climate action goals to chart a bold path to a cleaner, greener future. The organization launched in 2019 and now serves nearly 1 million customers, making it the second largest community choice aggregation program in California.

Breakthrough Energy Fellows are focused on key technologies that will be critical to moving the world to net-zero emissions by 2050 including hydrogen, electrofuels, cement, steel, food and agriculture, long duration energy storage, carbon dioxide capture, storage, sequestration, offshore wind, solar, advanced materials, and efficient building technologies. The Fellows program provides patient capital along with expert advice, funding, and mentorship to support innovators on their path to commercialization, including a stipend for living expenses, funding for technology and product development, access to scientific and business expertise, investors, policy experts, and our world-class network of partners.

Morrison Foerster transforms complexity into advantage. With our collective intelligence, we shape powerful legal strategies that move your business forward while living our shared values.

We solve your most critical multidimensional challenges in a way that provides clarity around the risk you are facing and gives you confidence in your chosen path. We pair diversity of perspective with a strategic consultative approach to craft the tailored strategies you need. We foster trusted partnerships that are defined by winning for you when it matters most.

Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, Fortune 100 companies, and leading technology and life sciences companies. Whether established for decades or just an entrepreneur’s idea, we represent organizations as they grow, innovate, disrupt, and develop into leading industry players and household names.

At Sea Change, we deliver the talent solutions you need to solve the climate crisis.

Sea Change is a Talent Venture company that delivers an end-to-end talent advisory and acquisition platform to investors, start-ups, and cutting-edge corporates focused on the most pressing problem facing the world today: Climate Change.

Our advisory services range from talent due diligence for climate tech investors to reduce recruiting-related execution risk, to market intelligence and talent roadmaps to help portfolio companies accelerate hiring strategies.

Our Executive Search team serves the needs of both early-stage companies and corporates, while our Professional search group can build teams quickly across all business units, including technical.  The combination of these services allows Sea Change to be a true talent partner to its clients, offering specialized teams and tools to solve whatever talent challenge you may face as an investor, start-up CEO, corporate executive, or business unit leader.

Cleantech San Diego is a member-based business organization that positions the San Diego region as a leader in the cleantech economy by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, engaging in advocacy efforts to promote cleantech priorities, supporting energy entrepreneurs through the Southern California Energy Innovation Network, and encouraging more equitable investment across the San Diego region. Learn more at cleantechsandiego.org.

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) fosters an influential network of professionals to further the roles of women in growing the green economy and making a positive impact on the environment. Founded in 2011, WCS is a nonprofit organization made up up nearly 1000 professional women and men working to build the green economy. Our members range from the students and entry level professionals, to Founders, C-Suite executives and investors. WCS meets once a month to network and learn the latest developments in the green movement, as well as attain new business and personal skills from speakers and panelists. Topics covered include: renewable energy (solar, wind biofuel, etc), water, smart grid, biomass, carbon reduction, sustainable transportation, energy efficiency, sustainability, green buildings and many other technologies that aim to make our world a cleaner, more sustainable place.