Sponsors
Sponsors & partners
Port of Antwerp-Bruges
CTS sponsor and session co-host
Port of Antwerp-Bruges is Europe's second-largest port and home to the continent's largest integrated chemical cluster, formed from the 2022 merger of the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge. Committed to climate neutrality by 2050, it is turning heavy industry into a proving ground for large-scale decarbonisation — cleaning up Europe's industrial base while keeping it competitive.
City of Antwerp
CTS sponsor and session co-host
The City of Antwerp is Belgium's second-largest city and the capital of Antwerp province, a dense hub of industry, port activity and small and medium-sized businesses. Through its innovation and sustainability programmes, it helps local companies — especially SMEs — turn energy costs and grid pressures into opportunity, strengthening the economic backbone that keeps the wider region resilient.
IGMN
CTS sponsor and session co-host
IGMN (Innovation Growth Media Network) is an Amsterdam-based media and growth agency that builds online media strategies and campaigns to help brands reach their markets. In a go-to-market context, it helps climate companies build the commercial traction and visibility that turn strong technology into a durable, independent business.
ABN AMRO SIF
CTS sponsor and session co-host
ABN AMRO's Sustainable Impact Fund (SIF) is a €500 million impact fund, wholly owned by the Dutch bank, investing in companies that drive the energy transition, circular economy and social impact across north-western Europe. By providing later-stage venture and growth capital to proven climate businesses, it helps European innovations scale at home rather than stall for want of capital.
Amsterdam Standard
CTC partner, sponsor and session host
Amsterdam Standard is an Amsterdam-based software company providing nearshore development teams and AI-assisted engineering, with a focus on clean-tech and climate-tech SaaS. It gives European impact companies the technical capacity to build and scale their products without being held back by hiring bottlenecks.
Colesco Capital
CTS sponsor and session co-host
Colesco Capital is a sustainability-led private credit firm, spun out of Rabobank in 2020 and rooted in the Benelux, that finances circular and climate-led mid-market companies across Europe. It bridges the funding gap for scaling climate technology by providing the debt companies need to build their first commercial-scale projects.
Improved
CTS sponsor and session co-host
Improved Corporate Finance is an Amsterdam-based M&A and corporate-finance boutique specialising in the Technology, Energy and Mobility sectors, with deals executed across more than 20 countries. By guiding climate-tech founders through funding rounds and exits, it helps European companies stay well-capitalised and independent as they grow.
SFPIM
CTS sponsor and CTC partner
SFPIM is a Belgium's sovereign wealth fund, the Federal Holding and Investment Company (Société Fédérale de Participations et d'Investissement / Federale Participatie- en Investeringsmaatschappij), wholly owned by the federal state. It provides "smart capital solutions" to Belgian SMEs and scale-ups and holds strategic stakes across sectors like life sciences, finance, aviation, energy transition and infrastructure.
Arches Capital
CTS sponsor and session co-host
Arches Capital is an The Netherlandss -based syndicate of over 100 angel investors, backed by a ~€22 million fund, investing early-stage capital in B2B software companies across the Benelux. It channels experienced entrepreneurs' capital and expertise into the region's next generation of startups, deepening Europe's early-stage funding base.
Rockstart
CTS sponsor and session co-host
Rockstart is an Amsterdam-founded accelerator and early-stage investor that has backed more than 350 startups across Energy, AgriFood and Emerging Tech. It pairs capital with hands-on scaling support, building the pipeline of energy and food innovators that Europe's transition depends on.
Endgame Capital
CTS sponsor and session co-host
Endgame Capital is a Brussels-based seed-stage climate-tech fund backing near-market technologies that win on cost and performance rather than subsidies. It focuses on solutions that can cut large volumes of CO₂ within a short commercialisation window, helping Europe deploy proven climate technology quickly.
Essent
CTS sponsor and session co-host
Essent is the largest energy company in the Netherlands and part of the E.ON group, supplying electricity, gas, heat and energy services to millions of households and businesses, with Belgium as its second home market. As an incumbent investing in decarbonisation and energy efficiency, it sits at the centre of Europe's energy-system transition.
Norrsken Evolve
CTS sponsor and session co-host
Norrsken Evolve is the early-stage fund and founder programme of the Norrsken Foundation — the impact ecosystem set up by Klarna co-founder Niklas Adalberth — investing a €57 million fund in startups building Europe's sustainable, resilient future. It combines pre-seed capital with intensive in-person scaling support for founders across the continent.
TerraReporting
CTS sponsor
Terra Reporting is a Brussels-based ESG/sustainability reporting software company and Microsoft partner, built on Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. Their AI-driven platform handles ESG data collection, double materiality assessments, and CSRD-aligned reporting.
4impact capital
CTS sponsor and session co-host
4impact capital is a Netherlands-based venture firm investing in early-stage European 'tech-for-good' companies that use digital innovation to tackle climate and social challenges, backed by a €68 million second fund. Focused on the Benelux, Nordics and German-speaking Europe, it helps software-driven impact ventures scale across the continent.
CTC partner
CTC partner
VP Capital is the impact-driven investment company and family office of the van Puijenbroek family — a Dutch-Belgian family with roots in the textile industry (HAVEP) dating back to 1865, and a certified B Corp. It deploys its capital and network for sustainable progress, investing directly and thro…
Endeit Capital
CTC partner
Endeit Capital is an Amsterdam-founded European growth-capital firm, investing since 2006 with offices in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Stockholm, backed by 72 entrepreneurs and a €300M+ latest fund.
Goeie Grutten
CTC partner
Goeie Grutten Impact Fonds is a Netherlands-based impact investing fund focused on the sustainable energy transition and responsible, healthy food (production). It backs proven, scalable, impact-driven companies (not start-ups) mainly in the Netherlands and neighbouring countries with capital, netwo…
De Roos
CTC partner
De Roos is an Amsterdam-headquartered international full-service law firm (with an office in Brussels), founded in 2011 and a certified B Corp — the 'law firm for changemakers.' It advises founders, fast-growing startups and scale-ups, and impact-driven organisations across corporate/M&A, intellectu…