Carbon Trust
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
Carbon Trust is a VC fund in London focused on Energy and Manufacturing. Our mission is to accelerate the delivery of a sustainable, low carbon economy by helping businesses, governments and organisations across the globe to reduce carbon emissions and increase resource efficiency. We have a global team of more than 200 sustainability experts, including engineers, financiers and policy specialists, and almost twodecades of experience in the climate change sector. We reinvest surpluses from group commercial activities into our mission.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
- Last fund:
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Industries Carbon Trust invests in
Stages Carbon Trust invests in
Countries Carbon Trust invests in
Contacts
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Charlie Blair
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Geoff Smyth
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James Persad
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James Rawlins
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Paul Huggins
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 7 (28%)
- Manufacturing 6 (24%)
- Solar 4 (16%)
- Information Technology 4 (16%)
- Chemical 3 (12%)
Stage
- Funding Round 11 (44%)
- Grant 2 (8%)
- Series C 2 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (4%)
- Series A 1 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 15 (60%)
- Uganda 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Charlie Blair
Marine Technology Accelerator Manager
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Marine Technology Accelerator Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Geoff Smyth
Head of Technology and Delivery
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Head of Technology and Delivery | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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James Persad
Marketing Manager
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Marketing Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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James Rawlins
Associate Director, Policy and Markets
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Associate Director, Policy and Markets | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Paul Huggins
Associate Director, Carbon Trust Programmes
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Associate Director, Carbon Trust Programmes | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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KAMIM Technologies LTD
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KAMIM Technologies is a leading solar EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) company. We specialize in crafting tailored solar energy solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. Beyond conventional solar solutions, we emphasize creating solar-powered systems, especially for the agricultural sector. Our innovativeproducts such as solar-powered cold rooms, irrigation systems, and driers aim to revolutionize agricultural productivity and sustainability. We were founded by members with over 40 years of combined industry experience. | $372.2K / Pre-Seed / Nov 22, 2023 | |
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KAMIM Technologies LTD
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KAMIM Technologies is a leading solar EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) company. We specialize in crafting tailored solar energy solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. Beyond conventional solar solutions, we emphasize creating solar-powered systems, especially for the agricultural sector. Our innovativeproducts such as solar-powered cold rooms, irrigation systems, and driers aim to revolutionize agricultural productivity and sustainability. We were founded by members with over 40 years of combined industry experience. | $10K / Pre-Seed / Aug 10, 2023 | |
Ozo Innovations
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Ozo Innovations Ltd (Ozo) is a fast growing company built by a team of experienced professionals who have a vision to bring to market a new generation of safe, energy efficient and eco-friendly sanitisation and cleaning products.At Ozo, we do not believe that one size fits all applications. Our solutions scale from small domestic fridge devicesreducing food spoilage in the home, to large scale devices for the commercial hotel/restaurant trade to truly massive installations across whole food factories, greenhouses and farms.Ozo has a variety of different technologies and platforms which are suitable for a range of applications in different markets, but where these aren’t quite right, we work with our customers to understand their requirements and constraints, and design appropriate solutions for them. | $786K / Grant / Jan 30, 2019 | |
Innovex
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Innovex specializes in IoT solutions for monitoring solar energy systems and robotic applications. | $379.8K / Grant / Jan 01, 2019 | |
Concurrent Thinking
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Concurrent Thinking is based in Warwick, UK, and has a long heritage in the design and implementation of large-scale computing infrastructures and software for High Performance Computing. Our background provides us with a unique perspective on holistic approaches for system management and the design of scalable computing products that can meet therequirements of the next-generation data centre. | $1M / Apr 08, 2014 | |
Helveta
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Helveta Ltd develops technology products for the timber and food sectors. It offers The CI World platform, an interactive cartography application that provides auditable traceability, asset tracking, resource and forest use mapping, and chain of custody control for extended supply chains; and allows monitoring logging activities, and to export datapoints and associated icons to GIS products enabling the online sharing of maps among communities over the Web. The company serves growers, farm managers, agronomists, and buyers. Helveta Ltd was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Oxford, the United Kingdom with operations in Nigeria, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, and Cameroon. | $1.6M / Jun 14, 2013 | |
Eight19
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Eight19, located in Cambridge, UK, develops and manufactures plastic photovoltaics for energy harvesting, for the internet of things and for off-grid applications. Through the innovative use of industry-standard, high-volume, roll-to-roll processes and solution-based organic photoactive materials, the company has a highly cost-effective route forscaling-up its technology to supply the largest markets. Eight19 is currently producing modules on a small scale for commercial partners with applications in indoor energy harvesting for wireless sensor and controllers, signage and display, and outdoor power for portable electronics. Our plastic PV modules benefit from flexibility, thinness, light-weight and robustness. | $6.5M / Aug 21, 2012 | |
ACAL Energy
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ACAL Energy is a developer of Fuel Cell systems, modules and consumable chemicals for a range of uses including stationary, residential and automotive applications requiring larger than 1 kW of power. Its innovative designs will deliver substantial cost savings in Fuel Cell systems and performance improvements in PEM ('Proton ExchangeMembrane') that will accelerate the adoption of PEM Fuel Cell technologies in key markets. | $1.3M / May 08, 2011 | |
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Eight19
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Eight19, located in Cambridge, UK, develops and manufactures plastic photovoltaics for energy harvesting, for the internet of things and for off-grid applications. Through the innovative use of industry-standard, high-volume, roll-to-roll processes and solution-based organic photoactive materials, the company has a highly cost-effective route forscaling-up its technology to supply the largest markets. Eight19 is currently producing modules on a small scale for commercial partners with applications in indoor energy harvesting for wireless sensor and controllers, signage and display, and outdoor power for portable electronics. Our plastic PV modules benefit from flexibility, thinness, light-weight and robustness. | $5.9M / Sep 18, 2010 | |
Green Biologics
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Green Biologics is a revenue generating industrial biotech company based in Oxfordshire aiming to become the world's leading supplier of advanced fermentation technologies for conversion of biomass to renewable fuels and chemicals. | $6.1M / Series B / Jul 30, 2010 | |
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Co-Investors
Oxford Capital
6 deals together
3i Group
2 deals together
Midven
2 deals together
Scottish Equity Partners
2 deals together
Add Partners
1 deal together
Albion Investors
1 deal together
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What does Carbon Trust invest in?
Carbon Trust invests primarily in Energy, Manufacturing and Solar startups, most often at Funding Round and Grant stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Carbon Trust includes Charlie Blair (Marine Technology Accelerator Manager), Geoff Smyth (Head of Technology and Delivery) and James Persad (Marketing Manager), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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