First Imagine Ventures

First Imagine! is a European venture capital firm, founded in 2016, that invests in what it calls AdapTech: technologies intended to strengthen resilience, autonomy and productivity in the face of geopolitical and environmental disruption. The firm says its investment focus spans distributed energy and microgrids, desalination and precision agriculture, resource recovery and recycling, and industrial automation and robotics, with artificial intelligence as a theme running across these areas. Portfolio companies referenced on its site include ventures working on wildfire monitoring, utility software platforms, small gas turbines, photovoltaic panel recycling, floating solar technology, fuel cells, textile fibre made from potato waste, local energy sharing, microalgae-based production, and high-temperature heat pumps.