Who’s in the Room at TechInvest 2026?

TechInvest is built for one thing: helping you meet the right people and get deals done. Before you commit your time, see exactly who else will be there.

This guide gives you a first look at:

• Early confirmed companies, from Exxon Mobil and BASF SE to Realta Fusion and Zanskar, plus investors like IFM Investors, Lowercarbon Capital, and Wollemi Capital
• Job titles in the room, spanning CEOs, Managing Directors, Heads of Investment, and Partners across corporates, funds, and government bodies
• How the event is designed for deal making, including Decision Circles, pre-event audience profiling, the networking dinner, and dedicated networking breaks built into the agenda

If you’re deciding whether TechInvest is worth your time, this is the fastest way to find out.

The race to secure domestic critical mineral supply chains, from rare earths to battery metals, has accelerated sharply as geopolitical pressures and clean energy demand converge.

This guide profiles ten companies operating at the frontier of extraction, processing and recycling, each having secured Pre-seed, Series A or Series B investment in the past 18 months, including Phoenix Tailings, KoBold Metals and Cyclic Materials.

Fusion energy raised $2.64bn in the twelve months to July 2025, the second highest annual total on record, as private capital accelerates alongside government milestone programmes.

This guide profiles ten companies at the frontier of unlocking unlimited nuclear power, each at Series A stage or beyond, spanning a diverse range of confinement approaches and commercial strategies, including Pacific Fusion, Realta Fusion and Proxima Fusion.

Geothermal is having its breakout moment. Over $600M has flowed into next generation geothermal ventures since 2021, with tech giants, utilities and the US Air Force now active buyers.

We have just published our Geothermal Ones to Watch guide, covering the Top 10 startups and early stage ventures pushing enhanced geothermal, deep drilling, AI-driven exploration and novel thermal architectures forward, including Sage Geosystems, Zanskar, Quaise Energy, XGS Energy and Eavor.

Our CEO and Founder, Alex Cameron, sat down with Green Sustainability ahead of TechInvest 2026 in Boston this September, to talk about what has changed since she founded Decarb Connect in 2020, and why she believes this year could mark a genuine inflection point for industrial hardtech.

Alex explains why the green premium has stopped working for industrial buyers, what investors are really looking for in leadership teams right now, and why chemicals, cement and steel are becoming some of the most active areas in the whole decarbonisation space. She also talks candidly about the shift from theoretical climate discussion to real deployment risk, and why firm power and critical minerals have become the defining themes of 2026.

“The issue wasn’t, is there technology. The issue was, is there technology that we, the industrials, believe will scale commercially and in the timeline we need. Otherwise we’re creating risk rather than managing it.”

Read the full interview to find out what Alex thinks separates signal from noise in today’s industrial investment market, and why she believes success in this sector comes down to one thing: deals being done.

The fusion company that broke a world record on day one

We sat down with Kieran Furlong, CEO and Co-Founder of Realta Fusion, for a conversation about the magnetic mirror revival, what real plasma progress looks like in 2026, and why the smartest money in deep tech is paying attention. Read the full interview here. 

What’s inside:

• Why the magnetic mirror, written off for 40 years, is the engineer’s answer to commercial fusion
• The WHAM machine results: 1 keV ion energies and what comes next
• What $60M raised, including Khosla Ventures and Future Ventures, actually signals
• Furlong’s unfiltered take on which fusion companies won’t survive the coming scrutiny
• Why China’s fusion ambitions might be the best thing to happen to Western investors

“We’ve crested the peak of the hype cycle. Smart investors are digging into the details – and that’s rightly putting a lot of fusion companies under pressure.”
– Kieran Furlong, CEO and Co-Founder, Realta Fusion