Top 50 CleanTech Startup Investors in United Kingdom

Investor	CleanTech United Kingdom investments
Parkwalk Advisors	8
Par Equity	7
Oxford Science Enterprises	4
Biz Stone	4
Paul Forster	4
IP Group	4
QVentures	3
Finance Yorkshire	3
Cambridge Angels group	3
Social Impact Capital	3
NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance	3
Sky Ocean Ventures	3
TrueSight Ventures	3
Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman	3
True Ventures	3
Carbon13	2
Crowdcube	2
Green Angel Ventures	2
Climate VC	2
SFC Capital	2
Octopus Ventures	2
Jenson Funding Partners	2
Astanor Ventures	2
Acequia Capital (AceCap)	2
Holly Branson	2
Sam Branson	2
Transition	2
The Conduit Connect	2
Kindred Capital	2
Entrepreneurs Fund	2
Enterprise Ventures	2
Embryo Ventures	2
EIT Food	2
ArcTern Ventures	2
BGF Ventures	2
Oxford Science Enterprises	2
Oxford Technology Management	2
HG Ventures	2
AgFunder	2
Saltwater Capital	2
Serge Chiaramonte	2
Lupa Systems	2
Verve Ventures	2
Lowercarbon Capital	2
Torch Capital	2
Asymmetry Ventures	2
Sustainable Ventures	2
ACE & Company	2
Ascension	2
All On	1

Parkwalk is a London-based fund management firm. Parkwalk invests in UK technology companies that have IP backing and freedom to operate, generally spun out of UK universities. Their funds seek to generate capital gains for their investors, enhanced by the attractive tax relief provided by EIS. Parkwalk entered this investment sector in 2009,anticipating a wave of tax-efficient incentives launched by the UK Government to stimulate innovative emerging technology companies and thereby help drive economic growth.Parkwalk utilises academic, technology transfer, venture capital and personal networks developed over many years to gain access to the highest calibre deal-flow. In 2017 Parkwalk joined forces with IP Group plc, a leading intellectual property commercialisation company that is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol IPO. As at March 2019 the combined group has net assets of £1.2bn.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Psyomics — Technology to support better mental health assessment - accelerating patients to the right care pathway, first time.
Oxford Endovascular — Oxford Endovascular are developing a novel treatment for treating brain aneurysms. The Oxford technology uses a special laser-cut metal alloy which has a shape-memory. It can be posted into a catheter during surgery, inserted into the brain and opened up into a tiny tube mesh (‘flow diverter’) that fits into the natural shape of the blood vessel.This diverts the blood away from the aneurysm, allowing it to heal.
Cambridge Electric Cement — Cambridge Electric Cement is a sustainable cement start-up. Its breakthrough process co-recycles steel and cement to produce a low carbon, circular cement product that offers very low emissions[1], circular, and scalable alternative to existing cement production.

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Computer
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Cyacomb — Cyacomb has created a ground-breaking digital forensic tool helping law enforcement, cloud companies and social media to fight against harmful online content.
Artus — Artus is a revolutionary heating and air conditioning product. Applications include residential, commercial and high-precision environments.
iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.

Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Amber Therapeutics — Developing intelligent bioelectrical therapies that can adapt, respond and learn from each person's individual physiology
Oxford Endovascular — Oxford Endovascular are developing a novel treatment for treating brain aneurysms. The Oxford technology uses a special laser-cut metal alloy which has a shape-memory. It can be posted into a catheter during surgery, inserted into the brain and opened up into a tiny tube mesh (‘flow diverter’) that fits into the natural shape of the blood vessel.This diverts the blood away from the aneurysm, allowing it to heal.
Grey Wolf Therapeutics — By targeting the ERAP proteases in the antigen presentation pathway Grey Wolf aims to change the antigen repertoire in cancer.

Biz Stone is the Co-founder and CEO of Jelly Industries, Inc. He previously worked at The Obvious Corporation as a Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer. Biz Stone attended Northeastern University.

Investment focus

Software, Messaging, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
Ristretto — Ristretto electric bikes - representing the pinacle of superior riding performance - the 512 combines design with sustainable luxury

Paul Forster

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

AccelerComm — Our patented, market-leading IP solutions for 4G and 5G are configurable for quick, high-performance implementations across a wide range of applications.
Crescendo Biologics — Crescendo Biologics is a new Cambridge-based company whose vision is to deliver next-generation antibody therapeutics based on novel class-leading platforms.The focus of the company is on developing platforms that will address key issues in generating high-affinity, soluble, human VH antibody fragments. These are the smallest fragments thatretain antibody binding, and have many desirable properties as potential therapeutics. Crescendo will then utilise these platforms for product development of in-house targets or in partnership with other companies.
Enterprise Therapeutics — Enterprise Therapeutics is a drug discovery company dedicated to the researchand development of novel therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases.In diseases such as cystic fibrosis, asthma and COPD the lungs become congested with mucus leading to difficulty in breathing. New disease modifying therapies that target the underlyingmechanisms of mucus congestion will reduce the frequency of lung infections and improve patient quality of life.

QVentures sources, screens, and invests in top-tier start-ups from Seed to Series B. Our investors consist of Family Offices, Institutional Investors, UHNWIs, and Cashed-out Entrepreneurs. We look for disruptive companies with a proven product-market fit, set to scale from Seed to Series B. We focus on Enterprise SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Tech,FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, InsurTech and HealthTech and more. We look for quality management teams, large addressable markets, proven traction, sustainable business models, route to scale and quality investors.To apply for investment, please fill out this short form to be reviewed: https://qventures.typeform.com/to/zZPOWf

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

sqcdp — We work with manufacturing clients to make paper systems redundant, introducing smart, efficient systems to capture production data through your teams.
PORTAIRE — Bring your team together and simplify your work from product discovery to procurement.
PROSPECT 100 — PROSPECT 100 is building the digital space for co-creation, democratizing the creative industries

Finance Yorkshire is an investments company that provides seedcorn, loan and equity linked investments. At the start of 2017, Finance Yorkshire received funds from the Sheffield and Leeds City Regions to invest until the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) was operational. NPIF was launched in February 2017. Please click here for detailsFinance Yorkshire provides seedcorn, loan and equity linked investments, specifically to help small and medium sized businesses meet the gaps in the market for the funding they need for growth and development. Finance Yorkshire has been developed as a European JEREMIE* initiative and is capitalised by grants from UK Government, European Regional Development Fund and finance from the European Investment Bank. (*JEREMIE stands for Joint European Resources for Micro to medium Enterprises)Finance Yorkshire is supported by the Regional Growth Fund (RGF). The RGF has supported eligible projects and programmes raising private sector investment to create economic growth and lasting employment. It has invested £2.7 billion to help businesses in England to grow; and is expected to create or safeguard over 557,000 jobs by the mid 2020s.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Health Care, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ProvePiracy — ProvePrivacy helps organisations demonstrate data protection compliance under UK Data Protection legislation through a single integrated platform.
Proton Group — Formed in 1971, Proton is an independent quality led manufacturing company with the philosophy of high quality at our core, supplying innovative, technologically advanced chemical hygiene solutions. P...
Music Factory Entertainment Group — Music Factory Entertainment Group is a music and media company that works in the music, events, and education sectors.

The Cambridge Angels are a group of high-net worth investors who have proven experience as successful entrepreneurs in internet, software, technology and bio-technology. Members invest in and mentor high quality start-up and early-stage companies in these sectors in the Cambridge (UK) area and throughout the UK.Typical funding requirements thatthe Cambridge Angels meet are in the range of £50,000 to £500,000 - although it is worth noting that several of their portfolio companies have received more than £1m in funding from their Members over several funding rounds.Their Members have been responsible for a large number of the “Cambridge Phenomenon” success stories over recent years. Therefore, in addition to providing funding for early-stage companies, the Cambridge Angels also offer start-ups the considerable benefit of a wide range of expertise, contacts and directly relevant experience in establishing and growing entrepreneurial businesses successfully.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

BugBiome — Reinventing Pest Control. Protecting People, Animals, and the Planet
Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
Monument Therapeutics — Monument Therapeutics is a biotechnology company intended to develop drugs to treat serious diseases of the central nervous system.

We are the earliest investors in mission-driven founders until their companies are attractive to top-tier VCs.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Nanotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Quell — An immersive first-person fitness game you can play anywhere - Quell is the future of fitness gaming.
Tiamat Sciences — Animal-free proteins derived from plants. Affordable, scalable, flexible. Join the protein revolution and help to shape a more sustainable future.
Dextrous Robotics — Dextrous Robotics is a robotics company that develops AI-enabled warehouse robots. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

Mercia Equity Finance is a regional investor that focuses initially on uncovering the hidden value. It uses both of its managed funds and its proprietary capital to invest across four distinct asset classes: venture, private equity, and debt, referred to as their 'Complete Capital Solution’. It aspires to be the first choice for investors,investees, and employees, and, by aspiring to be the first choice, they believe that Mercia will deliver superior returns for business owners, shareholders, and fund investors alike.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Suiso — Suiso is developing a breakthrough microwave-driven pyrolysis process which generates Hydrogen by decarbonising Natural/Bio Gas. Ventured backed and based in Sheffield UK, Suiso is a winner of the BEIS Low Carbon H2 Supply scheme. It plans to deliver shipping container sized Hydrogen generators, with a capacity to provide of up to 1,000kg ofHydrogen daily. A competitive benchmarking exercise, in the BEIS study, has confirmed that Suiso will have the lowest cost of H2 in a number of key H2 applications and lower Carbon emissions than grid powered electrolysis. By producing Hydrogen at the point of use, Suiso eliminates the expensive distribution costs incurred by large scale centralised H2 producers, one of the primary obstacles to the widespread adoption of Hydrogen. Suiso’s process reduces CO2 emissions by 97%+ versus steam methane reforming, utilizes 80% less energy than electrolysis and has very low equipment capital costs making it one of the most affordable Hydrogen production technologies. Suiso captures the Carbon in the Natural/Bio-Gas in the form of solid Carbon Black which has significant commercial value in the production of tyres, batteries, inks, other applications.
Envoke — The engagement Platform for your Virtual Instrument.
Invincibles Studio — We're an independent games studio, making exceptional football games for mobile devices that have been downloaded over 50 million times.

Sky Ocean Ventures is a bold new creation that will support breakthrough thinking and invest in promising new ideas that will help turn off the plastics tap.They

Investment focus

CleanTech, Sustainability, Packaging Services
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
United Kingdom, Chile, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Xampla — Xampla: Drop-in replacements for single-use plastic, eliminating plastic pollution. Biodegrade quickly & safely. Named world's most promising cleantech co.
Circulor — Circulor is a leader in bringing traceability to complex industrial supply chains. We help customers to demonstrate responsible sourcing, to monitor inherited emissions from the supply chain and to underpin their circular economy ambitions. We help procurement and sustainability professionals see and manage what was previously invisible.
Naturbeads — Naturbeads creates biodegradable, sustainable and cost competitive cellulose microbeads to replace currently used microplastics.

TrueSight Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed deals.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
Carmoola — Ready to hit the road? Find the car of your dreams and make your money move. Spread the cost with flexible payment plans to get new wheels, on your terms.
Cordless — Bridging the gap between voice and text

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / -Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger) - Equity Markets - Real Estate - FX - Commodity - Bonds - Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT - Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories: - Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint - Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi - D2C / B2C - Food & Beverages - Pharma - Media & Entertainment

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Agnikul — Agnikul is a space tech startup that designs, manufactures, tests, and launch orbital-class rockets for micro and nanosatellites. They currently work out of the National Center for Combustion R&D at IIT-Madras. Rocket scientists, engineers, ex-bankers and space lawyers are a part of their team. This unique blend of people is one of theirbiggest strengths. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Log 9 Materials — The spirit of innovation remains the cornerstone of every mission here at Log9. We have failed numerous times in this mission of ours, only to learn from them
Toffee Ride - Learning App for Classes I - IV — Toffee Ride is a learning App that is singularly focused on helping your child develop a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts.

A Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focused on early stage technology startups. We invest in brilliant people who bring ideas that matter to life.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
Smashing — Smashing, an invite-only app by Daily Reader Labs, tackles content overload and social media burnout
Enveda Biosciences — Enveda Biosciences is a biotechnology company building new medicines from plants. It harnesses the complexity of the natural world to tackle today’s biggest healthcare challenges. With the help of the advancements in knowledge graphs, machine learning, and metabolomics, they discover the next generation of small molecules. Its technologiessystematize the discovery of small molecules and novel targets for complex diseases. By probing novel chemical space and mechanisms of action, they are breaking the status quo for challenging diseases with a need for effective treatments, such as fibrosis or neurodegeneration.Enveda, launched in 2019, is based in San Francisco, California.

Carbon13 is the venture builder for the climate-emergency

Investment focus

Sustainability, Environmental Consulting, Biotechnology
Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Infyos — Infyos helps battery players overcome opaque and high-risk supply chains through supplier visibility and risk identification.
Materials Nexus — Accelerating change to net-zero materials
Pattern Project — Manny - Digital Twin and AI for On-Demand Garment Manfacturing

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced investor, we make it simple to buy and sell shares in Europe's most exciting high-growth businesses.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Financial Services, FinTech
Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Seed
United Kingdom, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Internxt — Stand for privacy, switch to Internxt. Internxt's open-source cloud storage services protect your right to privacy. Internxt Drive, Photos, Send, and more.
ThinkSono — ThinkSono is a company at the cutting edge of medicine and technology.
Rematch — Rematch is a video editing application that allows users to edit, record, and share videos and highlights of the game.

Green Angel Syndicate is the only UK angel investment syndicate specialising in the fight against Climate Change and Global Warming.

Investment focus

Energy, Renewable Energy, Construction
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

heata — heata supports people living in fuel poverty, It enables companies to significantly reduce their carbon footprint while saving families up to £450 per year on their energy bills. It is a ground-breaking green distributed compute network that uses computation waste heat to heat people's homes' water.
Mykor — Mykor manufactures low-carbon mycelium insulation made from biomass and powered by biotech.
Albotherm — Smart transitioning coating technology - A bright idea for shade.

Climate VC helps to find, foster and fund innovative startups to have a global and gigatonne-scale impact on the climate.

Investment focus

Environmental Consulting, Manufacturing, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kita — Parametric insurance products that remove carbon delivery risk from buyers and sellers in the voluntary carbon market
CUR8 — CUR8 is committed to establishing a global market for carbon reduction. Carbon removal methods include increased rock weathering, direct air capture, forests, construction, soil, biomass, oceans, and new technologies.
Preoptima — Real-time whole life carbon (WLC) analysis from concept to demolition

SFC Capital, the UK's most active seed investor (PitchBook, 2020), provides capital and support to British startups. By combining its Angel Network and Seed Funds, SFC has created a unique model that allows investors to get exposure to SEIS- and EIS-qualifying businesses, either directly or through a diversified portfolio curated and managedby SFC’s expert team. In 2020, SFC received a £10m allocation from Business Investments as part of the Regional Angels Programme in support of SFC's mission to back promising early-stage companies from every corner of the UK.SFC Capital is an Appointed Representative of SFC Capital Partners Ltd which is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 736184).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Lemon — Lemon helps you manage your SaaS subscriptions for free, and save money by discovering wasted spend.
Unibloom World — Unify targets with operational projects, make scenario simulations with cost impact in real time, compare new ideas, optimise actions and turn it into actionable projects with clear financial, regulations and business impact. Release burden from Sustainability Teams!
Blue Skies Space — Blue Skies Space provides access to space science data from low-cost space missions.

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression
Swiipr Technologies — Restore passenger and staff confidence with contactless solutions post Covid 19/ SARS by embracing Swiipr’s mobile and web technology solutions for issuing; Welfare for disruption, compensation, crisis, staff, operational expenses and more! Automate and streamline operations. Reduce paper and plastic consumption. Reduce human touch points andgo contactless

Invest in Jenson EIS & SEIS Funds whilst supporting Growth Capital schemes accessing a diverse Portfolio, which is deploying this tax year.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tesel — Tesel has a big ambition to get all ESG services and companies hanging out in the same place. We connect businesses who understand that ESG is essential to commercial success, not just a box to be ticked, and we bring them together in our marketplace.
RezKit — RezKit is a travel booking systems helps shopkeepers and online retailers can operate efficiently and profitably thanks to a wide variety of instruments at their disposal.
Swoperz — Welcome to Swoperz, JOIN THE SWOPPING REVOLUTION

Astanor Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on entrepreneurs regenerating the food, blue ocean economy, and agriculture sector. The firm targeting technology-enabled companies across the agri-food value chain, leveraging disruptive technologies to bring about a future of food that is nourishing, regenerative, trusted, and ultra-fresh. Itrings together capital, deep sector knowledge, and a strong network of entrepreneurs, impact investors, technologists, scientists, farmers, chefs, policymakers, and food lovers to give rise to a future of food that is nourishing, regenerative, scalable, trusted, and delicious.Astanor Ventures was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Food and Beverage, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Robovision — Take control of your AI vision with Robovision's award-winning platform to manage vision intelligence in smart marchines
ProducePay — ProducePay provides a wide array of payment solutions to the fresh produce industry and its agents. Produce Pay was first conceived at Cornell University. With strong support from experienced faculty and the student body, it was able to rapidly gain momentum. Produce Pay obtained recognition from Cornell’s entrepreneurial community and was soondubbed "The Next Johnson Start-Up," in reference to Cornell’s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Reshape Biotech — Fully digital microbiology developed by Reshape Biotech

We are a leading early-stage investment platform. We are at the center of a global ecosystem that attracts and fuels the technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Insempra — Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance.
Red Rover — We're on a mission to reimagine the multiplayer gaming landscape, with an emphasis on crafting groundbreaking survival experiences that champion player agency and drama.
ExpressionEdits — Redefining the status quo of protein expression

Holly Branson Chief Purpose and Vision Officer at Virgin.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Logistics, Transportation
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oxwash — Powered by Vanish, Oxwash provides on-demand laundry and eco-friendly dry cleaning services, creating a simple and sustainable laundry service for all.
Papaya — Papaya offers platform to source, run and manage your electric vehicles.

Sam Branson Co-founder at HiddenLight Productions.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Laundry and Dry-cleaning
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oxwash — Powered by Vanish, Oxwash provides on-demand laundry and eco-friendly dry cleaning services, creating a simple and sustainable laundry service for all.

Transition, a new climate tech venture capital firm that focuses on Seed and Series A startups recently launched.

Investment focus

Software, Environmental Consulting, CleanTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Heat Geek — Heat Geek offers expert advice on all aspects of the heating industry. Browse our knowledge hub online now.
Reel Energy — Reel empowers all companies to procure renewable electricity that makes a real difference for the climate.
Electricity Maps — Electricity Maps provides actionable electricity carbon data. We help companies effectively reduce their emissions, while differentiating their offerings.

We source & connect the most promising high growth impact investing opportunities to mission-aligned investors. Read all about our The Conduit EIS Impact Fund.

Investment focus

Software, CleanTech, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Heatio — Heatio provides affordable renewable energy to homeowners.
Nebu~Flow — Nebu~Flow develops the next generation of nebulisers to enable the delivery of life changing treatments.
Sorted — Sorted is helping waste management companies to sort their recycled materials more efficiently.

A new model for Venture Capital where every founder we back becomes a co-owner of the fund

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
LabGenius — Finding the next generation of drugs with machine learning, synthetic biology and laboratory automation
Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives

Entrepreneurs Fund provides early stage and growth financing alongside active support to entrepreneurial teams. Their current areas of investment focus are Life-sciences, Water, Materials and Automotive Technology.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

OptiNose — Optinose is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on creating and bringing to market innovative products for patients with diseases treated by ear, nose, and throat (ENT) and allergy specialists.
Realeyes — Realeyes is the leader in ad testing for the attention economy. Our AI measures audience attention and engagement to inform creative performance and media efficiency.
General Fusion — General Fusion is developing fusion energy: a clean, safe, abundant and on-demand approach to generating electricity.

Mercia Asset Management provides equity and debt to UK businesses with growth ambition. We are your investment partners from scale-up to exit.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Funding Round, Seed, Post-IPO Equity
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Concepta PLC — Concepta PLC is involved in the development of products and a platform, which targets the personalized mobile health market with a focus on women’s fertility and unexplained infertility.
Plant Impact — PlantImpact is a biostimulant company proud to be part of Croda Plc, the name behind high performance ingredients and technologies that are relied on by industries across the world.
Blue-i Event Technology — Blue-i Event Technology specialising in the supply of Audio Visual Services to the events industry.

Embryo Ventures is a London-based venture firm that backs exceptional founders building transformational companies.

Investment focus

CleanTech, SaaS, Retail Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

OSSTEC — OSSTEC is bringing advanced technology to the operating room with metal 3D printed bone healing implants. The orthopaedic implants emulate natural bone structure and address high failure rates of existing implants, keeping patients who suffer with osteoarthritis healthy, active and enjoying life.
STAXY Ltd — STAXY is creating a sustainable future for travel by providing corporates and organisations with a mobility-as-a-service platform that enables employees and communities access to low-cost and convenient modes of transport.
TasteIndex — TasteIndex offers a simple system for consumers to find the products they love, with a recommendation system that is based on sensory intent science, chemical data, and AI. TasteIndex leverages the power of pattern recognition to effectively match supply and demand and is on a mission to become a global standard on taste for food and beverageproducts.

EIT Food is a European Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), which was set up to transform our food ecosystem. By connecting consumers with businesses, start-ups, researchers and students from around Europe, EIT Food supports innovative and economically sustainable initiatives which improve our health, our access to quality food, and our environment

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, AgTech
Grant, Seed, Funding Round
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

LenioBio — LenioBio develops rapid plant-based, cell-free protein expression that scales for research, development and production.
3D Bio-Tissues — 3D Bio-Tissues (3DBT) is a biotech startup spun-out from Newcastle University in 2019. Our ambition is to produce bio-equivalent tissues for clinical and cellular agriculture. We apply novel bio-inspired manufacturing processes to generate complex structures.
BioBetter — BioBetter is a foodtech company that develops plant-based platforms for the production of complex growth factors used in cultivated meat. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Israel.

ArcTern Ventures is a venture capital fund that provides early-stage capital to cleantech companies.The privately-backed venture capital fund provides early-stage capital to companies developing breakthrough ideas in the cleantech sector. The Fund has developed a unique early-stage investment model through its partnership with MaRS, one of thelargest innovation centers in the world.

Investment focus

Software, Energy, Renewable Energy
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Soly — Binnen tien jaar kunnen we de zon als energiebronweer op 1 hebben. Doe je mee? Sluit je aan bij enie.nl. Zonnepanelen, laadpalen en meer.
Trove — We do the hard work behind Circular Shopping. Get access to a new consumer behavior. See the Cycle of Circular Shopping and our Partnerships.
Recurrent — Eliminate range anxiety with EV battery reports for used electric cars. Recurrent reports replace the odometer for drivers, buyers and dealers.

In this venture capital deep-dive, we look at the rise of VC funding, and the pros and cons of raising investment from venture capitalists.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Software
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

ViaNautis — Precision Solutions
Artus — Artus is a revolutionary heating and air conditioning product. Applications include residential, commercial and high-precision environments.
Orbex Space — Founded in 2015, Orbex is Europe’s leading private launch services company, focused entirely on supporting the needs of the small satellite industry.Orbex has developed one of the most advanced, low carbon, high performance micro-launch vehicles in the world. They launch customer satellites into polar and sun-synchronous low Earth orbits from aunique, modern launch location in the heart of the European continent.They offer a flexible core launch service and a wide suite of supporting services that make life easier for customers. Their European location means shorter supply lines, easier communications and reduced operational costs. Their advanced launch vehicle means higher reliability, more flexible mission profiles and a regular, scheduled launch service.

Oxford Science Enterprises is the university-partnered venture firm. We work with the University of Oxford to build companies that create fundamental technologies: science-based businesses capable of tackling the planet’s toughest problems. We invest in life science, AI and software, healthcare, and deep tech to create companies taking onchallenges like nuclear fusion, quantum computing and developing treatments and cures for infectious diseases. Founded in 2015, we’ve raised over £600M to create a world-class technology ecosystem, and combine our deep experience with a network of investors, entrepreneurs and sector-experts to find co-investment, build businesses, and hire senior management talent.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Theolytics — Theolytics is a biotechnology company harnessing viruses to combat cancer. A step-change in the oncolytic viral therapy field, our phenotypic screening Platform enables the discovery and development of efficacious, targeted candidates suitable for intravenous delivery and optimised for a chosen patient population. In addition to advancing aninternal Pipeline of programs spanning both solid and liquid tumours, we are establishing select strategic partnerships to expand and accelerate pipeline development.
Oxford Endovascular — Oxford Endovascular are developing a novel treatment for treating brain aneurysms. The Oxford technology uses a special laser-cut metal alloy which has a shape-memory. It can be posted into a catheter during surgery, inserted into the brain and opened up into a tiny tube mesh (‘flow diverter’) that fits into the natural shape of the blood vessel.This diverts the blood away from the aneurysm, allowing it to heal.
Grey Wolf Therapeutics — By targeting the ERAP proteases in the antigen presentation pathway Grey Wolf aims to change the antigen repertoire in cancer.

Oxford Technology's SEIS fund and EIS fund enable private investors to access high growth technology startup opportunities and support UK innovation. SEIS and EIS tax reliefs offer downside protection, whilst gains can be tax free.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

OxCan — Enabling curative cancer treatment through early detection
Machine Discovery — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.
MitoRx Therapeutics — Developing revolutionary mitochondrial-protective therapeutics which reverse mitochondrial dysfunction to arrest decline in muscular dystrophy and neurodegeneration. MitoRx Therapeutics' first-in-class first-in-target platform has potential to arrest the progression of some of the most challenging diseases.

Partnering with innovative, high-growth companies that support a sustainable future in materials, infrastructure, environmental solutions and industrial systems.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Biotechnology, Renewable Energy
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Aclarity — Aclarity commercializes electrochemical water treatment systems for the complete destruction of contaminants in water. We offer a risk-free pilot of our technology.
INERATEC — INERATEC provides sustainable fuels, gas-to-liquid, power-to-gas and power-to-liquid application products.
Puraffinity — Puraffinity develops targeted materials for water treatment, focused on forever chemicals called PFAS. Our strategic intent is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030

AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Sylvarum — We improve the performance of hydroponic crops by hacking their metabolic system.
BioDefense — BioDefense presents Bioshield, which is made from food to protect your food, and it maximizes safety, freshness, and self-life for any fresh produce.
Plantik Biosciences — Plantik develops resilient crops through next-generation plant engineering technologies.

Saltwater is a holding company for owned and operated businesses as well as investments, founded by Ryan Graves.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, CleanTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pachama — Harnessing AI to drive carbon capture and protect global forests
Emitwise — Increase the accuracy of your Scope 1, 2 and 3 data and embed carbon into decision-making across your operation and supply chain.
NoCap — Emerging artists, are you ready to take your career to the next level?

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Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Trezy — Trezy is smart & simple software the helps you manage your business with real-time finance insights & automated cash-flow forecasting.
qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.

Lupa Systems is a private investment company founded in 2019.

Investment focus

Media and Entertainment, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Notpla — We are a combination of designers and chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We’re hard to define because what we’re doing hasn’t been done before. We create advanced packaging solutions that disappear, naturally.
Synthetaic — Synthetaic is a Delafield, Wisconsin-based company that grows large and high-quality datasets sufficient for machine learning. The company is able to extend AI into industries where data constraints have prevented previous applications of the technology. By focusing specifically on synthetic image data, which is more challenging to produce thancolumnar data, Synthetaic is able to address particularly high-stakes use cases.Through a collaboration with the University of Michigan, Synthetaic is developing a real-time tumor classification AI system that would assist surgeons in identifying what type of brain cancer is present while performing surgery. By combining high-fidelity 3D modeling and novel generative AI with germane, integrated modeling workflows, they deliver an end-to-end pipeline that ensures ultra-high accuracy.Synthetaic was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Delafield, WI, USA.
Rebellion Defense — Rebellion Defense helps our defense and national security agencies unlock the power of data across all domains. With our products, they can understand complex data, make better decisions, and act more quickly than ever before.

Verve Ventures has invested in more than 140 science and technology startups. We support visionary and resilient entrepreneurs from day one and are a reliable partner for the entire journey. We typically invest EUR 1-3m in early as well as later stage rounds of European high tech startups.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
Switzerland, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

Axelera AI — A powerful, efficient, cost-effective, and user-friendly hardware and software AI platform to accelerate computer vision in edge devices.
Neustark ag — Neustark enables zero-emissions concrete by capturing concrete production emissions from the atmosphere and permanently converting them to limestone. This climate positive limestone replaces cement and sand which are major cost drivers for concrete production.
C12 Quantum Electronics — C12 Quantum Electronics develop reliable quantum processors with carbon nanotubes. Its unique technology reduces drastically the error rate, making the platform a prime candidate for noisy intermediate-scale quantum applications. The Paris, Ile-de-France, France-based company was formed in 2019 by Pierre and Matthieu Desjardins.

Lowercarbon Capital backs kickass companies slashing CO2 emissions, sucking carbon out of the sky, and buying us time to unf**k the planet.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, Energy
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Zanskar — Zanskar develops a predictive platform informed by massive data for discovering previously unknown geothermal resources. Its platform includes subsurface characterization technology and massive data sets, enhancing and reducing risk in the exploration of geothermal resources.
Mosa Meat — Mosa Meat produces slaughter-free hamburgers. The burger is harvested from cow cells, rather than raising and slaughtering a whole animal. By growing meat naturally from cells, Mosa Meat strives to accelerate the transition to a truly sustainable global food system.
Xcimer Energy — Xcimer Energy offers a laser-driven fusion to provide cheap, abundant, and carbon-free energy. It is used to transform the energy marketplace that integrates low-cost excimer laser technology with the HYLIFE reaction chamber concept to design an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) system. This system overcomes long-standing obstacles to viable fusionpower.The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Redwood City,, California.

Torch Capital is a brand-focused investment firm built to shepherd the next generation of truly great mission driven consumer companies.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Food and Beverage
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!
Baselayer — Baselayer automates business risk assessment and eliminates B2B fraud in the financial sector. It offers services such as business verification (KYB), fraud detection, business onboarding optimization, risk profiling, portfolio monitoring & alerting, and workflow automation. Baselayer empowers 100s of financial institutions, governmentagencies, lenders, and fintech to unlock instant trust with any business in America.
Teal — Teal helps SMB software companies build accounting products for their customers.

Asymmetry Ventures invests in scalable early-stage companies with exceptional defensibility.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
SFA Therapeutics — SFA Therapeutics is a development-stage bio-pharmaceutical startup company focused on a new advancement in the treatment of chronic inflammatory disease - the use of microbiome-derived metabolites as drugs.
Rejuvenation Technologies — Rejuvenation Technologies is a biotechnology company that developed nucleoside-modified TERT mRNA to safely and rapidly extend telomeres. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Welcome to the home of Climate Tech. We are a full service ecosystem empowering sustainable start-ups to scale through community, investment, innovation and workspace.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Biotechnology
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Israel, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

PlantSea — PlantSea manufactures and develops sustainable products using seaweed and aquaculture materials. It offers bioplastics items as biodegradable alternatives. PlantSea is based in Gaerwen, England.
Uplift360 — Uplift360 is a greentech startup working in advanced material circular economy (redesign, reuse, regenerate and recycle), uniquely focused on the defence and security sector.
Danu Robotics — Danu Robotics manufactures AI guided robotic systems for sorting recyclable waste - highly accurate, modular multi-arm systems that retrofit into existing MRF operations and collates EPR data.

ACE & Company (“ACE”), founded in 2005, is a global investment group specialized in private investments with total assets of over $1.6 bn across three investment strategies and investment solutions. With headquarters in Geneva and offices in London, New York, and Cairo, ACE’s global presence brings the company in direct contact with sourcingpartners, investment firms, as well as entrepreneurs and provides investors unparalleled access to a network of opportunities. ACE’s passion is for finding investment opportunities where we have an advantage through many years of relationship building, a carefully developed position of knowledge in the sectors which we are active, and a culture of efficiency to gain first mover’s advantage. ACE’s purpose is to offer investors a long-term and collaborative investment approach that values honesty, transparency and rigorous execution, so that our strategies not only provide unique access to value accretive, risk-managed deals, but fosters what we consider our bedrock—trust.ACE’s progress has been marked by a globally respected track record since the Company was founded in 2005. In the last four years we have increased our total assets by fivefold and in 2017 received the Swiss Financial Supervisory Authority (FINMA) authorization.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
DePoly — DePoly is a spin off out of the LSMO lab at EPFL- Valais that has developed a novel technology allowing for the chemical recycling of PET plastic back to its main two components ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA). Our approach turns low valued materials (PET waste) into high-valued chemicals like TPA creating a circular economy. Weexpect this process to generate revenue from chemically recycling PET to TPA/EG, which can be sold back to industry to make new virgin PET plastic and allowing for a sustainable source of TPA and EG on the market.
Pledge — Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to measure, reduce and offset the climate impact of their products.

Ascension is an early-stage VC built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders.Run by an experienced and diverse team of successful entrepreneurs, we have been relentlessly dedicated to finding the UK’s best Seed-stage startups since 2014.Ascension benefits from the active industry connections essential forthe sourcing and development of deal-flow and due diligence. The team has co-invested with the UK’s leading angels and VCs, key to securing follow-on funding as the portfolio businesses move to their next stage of growth.We believe in building an inclusive, community driven brand that can benefit the wider UK tech ecosystem and strive to work with conviction, integrity, humour, and humility.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Heatio — Heatio provides affordable renewable energy to homeowners.
Saltroad — Get matched with an experienced HCPC Speech and Language Therapist based on your child's needs, your budget and your schedule. Loved by parents & children.
Nebu~Flow — Nebu~Flow develops the next generation of nebulisers to enable the delivery of life changing treatments.

All On: Energy Innovations. Powerful Collaboration. Our mission is to increase access to commercial energy products and services for under-served and un-served off-grid energy markets in Nigeria, with a special focus on the Niger Delta sources in Nigeria.

Investment focus

Renewable Energy, Energy, Solar
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Nigeria, France, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Koolboks — Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design.
Mobile Power Ltd — Mobile Power's innovative pay-per-use battery sharing network unlocks clean energy for households, businesses and electric transport in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Greenage Technologies Power Systems — Greenage Technologies is revolutionizing the use of solar energy systems in Nigeria. Our local manufacturing creates differentiation in local product purchases, services, and cost. We are the first indigenous mass producer of solar Inverter technologies in Nigeria. We currently have our footprint in 26 states out of the 36 states in Nigeria andlooking to launch in Ghana, Rwanda and Kenya in the near future.