Key Takeaways
- • Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), a climate technology venture capital firm investing in North America and Europe, has appointed Aruna Ramsamy as Managing Partner, based in its London office to lead European operations.
- • Ramsamy's mandate covers identifying and structuring new investments, guiding portfolio companies through growth inflection points, and participating in growth of CEV's asset management platform.
- • Ramsamy previously served as Venture Partner focused on Growth Equity at Extantia and Managing Director of Just Climate, the $1.5B Generation Investment Management-backed vehicle scaling industrial climate solutions.
- • The appointment supports CEV's expansion into early-growth and growth-stage investing and its new fund development, according to the firm's announcement.
Summary
Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), a venture capital firm investing in climate technologies in North America and Europe, announced the appointment of Aruna Ramsamy as Managing Partner, according to a PRNewswire release dated October 27, 2026. The move is positioned by the firm as a strategic step to expand its capabilities in early-growth and growth-stage investment, deepen its presence in Europe, and add experience to a growing set of active portfolio companies.
Based in CEV's London offices, Ramsamy will lead the firm's European operations, drawing on experience across venture capital, growth equity, and asset management in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. Her responsibilities include identifying, assessing and structuring new investments, guiding portfolio companies through critical growth inflection points, and participating in the growth of CEV's asset management platform.
Daniel Goldman, Managing Partner at Clean Energy Ventures, said Ramsamy's experience across venture capital, growth equity and project finance would support CEV's deeper engagement with companies entering their next phase of growth. He noted her work financing large-scale, first-of-a-kind industrial projects.
Before joining CEV, Ramsamy was a Venture Partner focused on Growth Equity at Extantia and Managing Director of Just Climate, an investment business established by Generation Investment Management with a $1.5B fund to scale industrial sector solutions. Earlier, she held senior leadership roles at Climate Investment (formerly OGCI), a $1B+ fund investing in advanced energy and climate technologies across Europe and North America. From 2010 to 2017, she led investments at the Soros Economic Development Fund, a $300M fund supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in frontier markets.
Ramsamy also has board experience at Svante, Stegra, Metron, Econic Technologies, Ontruck, Ascend Elements, and others. In her own remarks, she said CEV has built a differentiated deep-tech portfolio over the past decade and that the firm will now focus on accelerating commercialization of its portfolio and developing investment platforms to scale those companies. She cited Europe's decarbonization priorities as increasingly aligned with industrial competitiveness, energy security, and economic growth.
CEV describes itself as a company builder investing in climate tech with potential for multi-gigaton CO2 reductions over three decades, typically supporting solutions from seed stage through commercialization.
Based in CEV's London offices, Ramsamy will lead the firm's European operations, drawing on experience across venture capital, growth equity, and asset management in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. Her responsibilities include identifying, assessing and structuring new investments, guiding portfolio companies through critical growth inflection points, and participating in the growth of CEV's asset management platform.
Daniel Goldman, Managing Partner at Clean Energy Ventures, said Ramsamy's experience across venture capital, growth equity and project finance would support CEV's deeper engagement with companies entering their next phase of growth. He noted her work financing large-scale, first-of-a-kind industrial projects.
Before joining CEV, Ramsamy was a Venture Partner focused on Growth Equity at Extantia and Managing Director of Just Climate, an investment business established by Generation Investment Management with a $1.5B fund to scale industrial sector solutions. Earlier, she held senior leadership roles at Climate Investment (formerly OGCI), a $1B+ fund investing in advanced energy and climate technologies across Europe and North America. From 2010 to 2017, she led investments at the Soros Economic Development Fund, a $300M fund supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in frontier markets.
Ramsamy also has board experience at Svante, Stegra, Metron, Econic Technologies, Ontruck, Ascend Elements, and others. In her own remarks, she said CEV has built a differentiated deep-tech portfolio over the past decade and that the firm will now focus on accelerating commercialization of its portfolio and developing investment platforms to scale those companies. She cited Europe's decarbonization priorities as increasingly aligned with industrial competitiveness, energy security, and economic growth.
CEV describes itself as a company builder investing in climate tech with potential for multi-gigaton CO2 reductions over three decades, typically supporting solutions from seed stage through commercialization.
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