# JLL Foundation

> JLL Foundation is a VC fund in London backing CleanTech and Recycling. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://foundation.jll.com

JLL Foundation is a non-profit impact investment firm providing zero-interest loans that enable startups to grow and thrive.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CleanTech | 3 | 43% |
| Recycling | 2 | 29% |
| Agriculture | 2 | 29% |
| Sustainability | 2 | 29% |
| Waste Management | 2 | 29% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Debt Financing | 4 | 57% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 43% |
| Senegal | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Christian Ulbrich | Global Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christian-ulbrich-df7a |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EELI Technology | EELI Technology Inc., a Silicon Valley–based critical minerals technology company, enables lithium production from sources once considered impossible to mine economically —cheaper, faster, electrified. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Solarbox | Solarbox is a developer of electric three-wheelers for last-mile logistics. The company's vehicles offer sustainable design, assembly, charging, and battery swapping methods, as well as a heavy load carriage system. |  | Debt Financing | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Courageous Land | Courageous Land is to counteract climate change while improving the health and abundance of all living things. Courageous Land designs and operates biodiverse multi-strata agroforestry systems, as well as develops technologies that are critical to our operations and beneficial to land stewards and buyers. |  | Debt Financing | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Novoloop | Novoloop is an upcycling company that provides a proprietary lifecycling platform to create chemicals and materials from plastic waste. Its Accelerated Thermal Oxidative Decomposition (ATOD) process chemically breaks down plastic films and packaging into monomers, which are then reassembled into virgin-quality TPU and recycled+ formulations. Thecompany operates a demonstration pilot plant in India in partnership with Aether Industries, producing up to 70 metric tons of TPU annually from mixed plastic waste. |  | Debt Financing | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Mycocycle | Mycocycle is an environmental remediation company that offers a process to decarbonize waste streams using fungi via mycoremediation. Treatment through our engineered ecosystems renders a non-toxic biomass available for use in the manufacture of new products. Our clients are waste management companies, landfill operators, material recyclingfacilities, manufacturers of petrochemical materials who want to become closed-loop in their process, and advanced materials manufacturers. |  | Debt Financing | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Courageous Land | Courageous Land is to counteract climate change while improving the health and abundance of all living things. Courageous Land designs and operates biodiverse multi-strata agroforestry systems, as well as develops technologies that are critical to our operations and beneficial to land stewards and buyers. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 22, 2024 |  |
| Solarbox | Solarbox is a developer of electric three-wheelers for last-mile logistics. The company's vehicles offer sustainable design, assembly, charging, and battery swapping methods, as well as a heavy load carriage system. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 25, 2024 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does JLL Foundation invest in?

JLL Foundation invests primarily in CleanTech, Recycling and Agriculture startups, most often at Debt Financing and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is JLL Foundation's check size?

JLL Foundation typically joins rounds of $1M–$2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds JLL Foundation participates in.

### How do I contact JLL Foundation?

Public channels for JLL Foundation include the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at JLL Foundation?

The team at JLL Foundation includes Christian Ulbrich (Global Chief Executive Officer). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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