EARTHX ANNOUNCES 9TH ANNUAL E-CAPITAL SUMMIT: CATALYZING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE THROUGH INVESTMENT AND INDUSTRY INNOVATION

The E-Capital Summit is renowned for fostering meaningful connections and catalyzing investments & industry innovation in environmental sustainability, conservation, and cleantech across various industry verticals from energy to water to the built environment. Since its inception, the Summit has convened over 3,000 attendees from more than 25 countries, including executives from prominent investment firms and groundbreaking innovators. Participating innovators have secured significant funding, with past attendees collectively having raised over $5 billion in follow-on funding to advance environmental solutions. This year's event is organized in collaboration Strategic Partners Greentown Labs, Capital Factory, Unreasonable Group, and Austin Technology Incubator. 

"The EarthX E-Capital Summit stands apart as an essential gathering for anyone serious about driving pragmatic sustainability-related investments and industry innovation," says Vikram Agrawal, Senior Director of EarthxCapital, who helps EarthX curate the event. "This event uniquely merges business, investment, and political discussions, fostering candid, productive, and pragmatic conversations and countless opportunities to engage with established and emerging industry leaders that you simply won't experience elsewhere."

The 2025 E-Capital Summit theme, "Sustainability Investing: Navigating a New World," underscores the urgency and opportunity in accelerating the deployment of transformative environmental solutions during an era of global transition and reinvention. In addition to the numerous networking-focused events, this year's three-day convening will feature:

• Investment Forum: High-level discussions on sustainability investment trends and opportunities, featuring sessions led by senior industry, investment, and government leaders.
• E-Capital Connections: Curated, high-value networking opportunities pairing investors and innovators for strategic discussions and potential investments.
• E-Commercialization Connections: Innovator commercialization showcase enabling innovators to connect with potential customers or partners from industry.
• EarthX Climate Tech Prize: An impactful pitch competition spotlighting cutting-edge early-stage startups providing innovative solutions to global climate challenges.
• Woman-to-Woman Leadership Symposium: A new opportunity for women leaders in the sustainability investment space to engage with their peers and expand their network.

On April 24, EarthX will once again host its invitation-only EarthX Family Office Summit convening dozens of the world's leading families interested in or exploring sustainability-related investments, business, innovation, and philanthropy. EarthX expects significant participation of these global family offices in the 2025 E-Capital Summit.

The 2025 E-Capital Summit Investment Forum will feature senior industry leaders for an open dialogue on the outlook for sustainability investing. Confirmed 2025 speakers include:

• Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, Entrepreneur & Investor, Founder and Chairman, Tiger 21
• Jack Selby, Managing Director, Thiel Capital, LLC
• Tim Gallaudet, Former U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and NOAA Administrator
• Pablo Vegas, President and CEO, ERCOT
• Pat Wood, CEO, Hunt Energy Network (past Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and of the Public Utility Commission of Texas)
• Dr. Sylvia Earle, American Marine Biologist and Chairman of Mission Blue
• Dr. Vladimir Ryabinin, Former Executive Secretary of IOC and Assistant Director of UNESCO, Oceanographer, Climatologist, Meteorologist
• Sid Miller, Commissioner, Texas Department of Agriculture
• Vijay Manthripragada, CEO, Montrose Environmental Group

In addition, the keynote luncheon taking place on April 23 during the E-Capital Summit Investment Forum will feature General David H. Petraeus, retired four-star general and former CIA Director and current KKR Partner and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute.

The E-Capital Summit is a centerpiece program of Earthx2025's Congress of Conferences, a five-day premier forum that brings together the world's foremost leaders in business, investment, innovation, philanthropy, academia, government, public policy, and environmental advocacy. Ranked as one of the top 3 sustainability events in the U.S. by Sustainability Magazine, Earthx2025 is a dynamic platform that covers the full spectrum of industries, policies, and initiatives shaping the future of our planet. Among its 20-plus conference tracks, Earthx2025 will feature conversations around the future of energy, the circular economy, ocean investment and innovation, regenerative agriculture, and many other themes.

This expansive event is designed to foster dialogue and collaboration across all perspectives, inspiring tangible action in sustainability, finance, environmental advocacy, and conservation. A key focus of this effort is to drive investment into market-based solutions that can address the greatest opportunities and challenges facing our planet at scale.

"This year's E-Capital Summit takes place at a time where there is great political and market uncertainty around the future of business and investment in sustainability, clean technology, and green innovation," Agrawal says. "Our forum is an opportunity to engage openly and honestly about what really works, what is not working, and where are greatest opportunities at the moment to catalyze both impactful and pragmatic solutions to our country's and world's challenges."

EarthX is seeking applications from investors, startups, corporate leaders, dealmakers, and innovation and investment ecosystem leaders to take part in this invitation-only summit. Interested participants can apply at https://earthx.org/conferences/e-capital-summit/

About EarthX:
EarthX is a global environmental non-profit founded to inform, inspire, and drive impact towards securing a sustainable future for the planet. We apply an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, creating events, media, education, and public advocacy initiatives to galvanize awareness and action around key ecological and economic challenges. EarthX was founded in 2010 as Earth Day Dallas in an effort to increase environmental awareness in the local community. From 2010 to 2023, EarthX convened EarthX EXPO, the world's largest green gathering in the days surrounding Earth Day in April. EarthX's conferences and events convene governments, business and NGO leaders and a diverse array of attendees to cut across industry and political silos to bridge perspectives, leverage expertise, and foster multi-partisan collaboration that drives progress toward environmental solutions.

E-Capital Summit Innovation Partners

Activate Boston, AREI, ARPA-E, BRITE Energy Innovators, C10 Labs, Cleantech Leaders Roundtable, Cleantech Open, Cleantech San Diego, CleanTX, Cleveland Water Alliance, Climate - KIC, CSU Strata, Current, Energy Tech Nexus, Federal Labs Consortium, Gener8tor, Halliburton Labs, Impact Hub, Innovation Crossroads, Leaders on Purpose, LightWorks, Marine Research Hub, MaRS Discovery District, Maryland Energy Innovation Accelerator, MassChallenge, New Energy Nexus, New Ventures, North Texas Innovation Alliance, NYU Urban Future Lab, Ocean Exchange, SeaAhead, Seaworthy Collective, SMU Hunt Institute for Social Entrepreneurship, The Water Council, US India Chamber of Commerce, USGBC.

SOURCE EarthX