Contrarian Ventures

Contrarian Ventures is a climate tech venture capital firm investing at pre-seed and seed stage across Europe and Israel, with stated ticket sizes of EUR 1-4 million. The firm states it focuses on green energy, transportation, the built environment, industry and carbon markets, and explicitly excludes food and agriculture. Its stated thesis is backing economically superior technologies that outcompete incumbents rather than relying on subsidy or goodwill. Alongside investing it runs platform initiatives including the Energy Tech Summit, Climate 50, The Climate Brick and Growth Meets Capital.

€100M (Fund II, launched August 2022; Fund I was €12.5M per EIF) AUM 65/100 Power Score™ 2017 Founded Vilnius, Lithuania
Climate Technology Clean Energy Energy Mobility Industrial Technology
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Key Partners & Leadership

Rokas Peciulaitis
Founder & Managing Partner
Tomas Kemtys
General Partner

Firm Timeline

2017
Firm founded by Rokas Peciulaitis; first fund raised (€12.5M per EIF).
2019
Launched the Energy Tech Summit.
2020
Launched Climate 50.
2022
Raised its second fund; announced in August 2022 as a €100M climate tech fund.
2023
European Investment Fund commits €25M to Contrarian Ventures Fund II as an anchor LP under InvestEU.
2023
Firm states it returned Fund I with a single investment (referred to on its site as 'Dragon').
2024
Launched The Climate Brick.
2024
Launched Growth Meets Capital.

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