Emerald Technology Ventures
emerald.vc Direct + LP
Emerald Technology Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on sustainable industrial innovation. It invests in companies across sectors such as energy, materials, water, and automation, and also manages funds for external partners.
Emerald Technology Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2000. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from seed to growth, in energy, materials, water & Wastewater and automation & Industrial AI. Over 1 billion in commitments since founding under management and 90 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in sustainable industrial innovation”
— Emerald Technology Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- Energy, Materials, Water & Wastewater, Automation & Industrial AI, Food & Agriculture, Packaging
- Founded
- 2000
- Assets under management
- over 1 billion in commitments since founding
- Portfolio
- 90 companies
Team, as Emerald Technology Ventures publishes it
- Gina Domanig Managing Partner, CEO
- Markus Moor Senior Partner, Chief Investment Officer
- Hans Dellenbach Senior Partner, CFO, Head of Corporate Development
- Charles Vaslet Senior Partner, Chief Revenue Officer
- Helge Daebel Partner, Head of Water
- Christoph Frei Partner, Head of Energy
- Cédric Mutz Partner, Head of Portfolio Performance
- Fredric Petit Partner, Head of Materials & Packaging
- Mehran Zaker Partner - Head of Automation & Industrial IT
- Simone Riedel Riley Head of Technology Fund
- Michal Natora Senior Investment Director, Future and Frontier Technology Lead
- Frank Balas Senior Investment Director - Energy
Names and roles exactly as listed on emerald.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 67 co-investors found.
- Burnt Island Ventures 3 shared companies: crewcarbon.com, sewerai.com, waterly.com
- Redstone 2 shared companies: hiboo.io, enspired-trading.com
- Caygan Capital PTE. LTD. 2 shared companies: stormharvester.com, genecis.co
- Chevron Technology Ventures 2 shared companies: maxwellandspark.com, sea-machines.com
- Innovation Industries 1 shared company: enocean.com
- SET Ventures 1 shared company: enocean.com
- InnovationQuarter 1 shared company: kalpana-systems.com
- ISAI 1 shared company: hiboo.io
- Trihill Capital 1 shared company: hiboo.io
- Cambridge Angels 1 shared company: xampla.com
and 57 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Emerald Technology Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://emerald.vc/name, is_investor, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://emerald.vc/aboutlayer, type, invests_in_geographies, description, founded
- https://emerald.vc/teampeople
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Record 423 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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