# Kero Development Partners

> Kero Development Partners is a VC fund in Chester backing Water and Energy. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chester, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kero-developmentpartners/about/
- Website: https://www.kerogroup.com/

Kero Development Partners is a VC fund in Chester focused on Water and Energy. Kero Development Partners invests in innovative engineering technologies that solve real world problems and have positive impacts on society or the environment.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.7M–$6M |
| Series A | $3M–$14M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $650k–$4.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Water | 1 | 9% |
| Energy | 1 | 9% |
| CleanTech | 1 | 9% |
| Recycling | 1 | 9% |
| Industrial | 1 | 9% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Zac Hall | MD | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zac-hall-8255 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AssetCool | AssetCool is a thermal metaphotonics company. It produces photonic coatings and materials that enhance the functionality of electrical networks. | $13.7M | Series A | Jul 03, 2025 |  |
| PES Technologies | PES Technologies has created technology that powers a game-changing soil health analysis tool, allowing farmers and agronomists to make the best decisions for their farms as quickly as possible. | $1.7M | Seed | May 13, 2025 |  |
| PES Technologies | PES Technologies has created technology that powers a game-changing soil health analysis tool, allowing farmers and agronomists to make the best decisions for their farms as quickly as possible. | $2.9M | Seed | Oct 30, 2023 |  |
| Zak Mobility | Zak Mobility is a proprietary wheel technology that integrates a hub motor and suspension within the wheel. It supports key drivers for the move to new types of urban transport, last-mile delivery, and adventure or utility vehicles. | $650.4K | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 11, 2023 |  |
| AssetCool | AssetCool is a thermal metaphotonics company. It produces photonic coatings and materials that enhance the functionality of electrical networks. | $3M | Series A | Aug 14, 2023 |  |
| Go Eve | Innovations to accelerate the transition to EVs. | $3.9M | Seed | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| DEScycle | DEScycle is a startup that deploys next generation metals processing infrastructure to recover metals from waste streams, such as e-waste. Their mission is to turn domestic waste streams into sovereign metal supply. | $6M | Seed | Apr 18, 2023 |  |
| Actuation Lab | Actuation Lab is addressing the problems of high servicing requirements and poor longevity of current actuators in the Marine, Mining and Offshore Industries. |  | Seed | Dec 20, 2022 |  |
| Zelim | Zelim is a technology company that specializes in unmanned search, rescue and recover people with the help of technology. | $2.8M | Seed | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| Power Roll | Power Roll Limited was established to develop and commercialise its highly innovative proprietary energy storage and energy generation technologies. Power Roll technologies exhibit a range of significant benefits and advantages over existing technologies such that it is likely that the technology can prove extremely disruptive across a wide rangeof applications and markets. Power Roll has a strong intellectual property portfolio, with 15 different patent families already established. These patent families are spread across all three technologies with five directly related to Energy Storage, nine related to Solar PV and one focusing on the nano-barrier technology. | $4.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 19, 2021 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Indigo 7 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/indigo-7-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [TSP Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tsp-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Green Angel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/green-angel-syndicate) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [Acceleris Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acceleris-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Kero Development Partners invest in?

Kero Development Partners invests primarily in Water, Energy and CleanTech startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kero Development Partners's check size?

Kero Development Partners typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$6M at Seed, $3M–$14M at Series A and $650k–$4.2M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kero Development Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Kero Development Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Kero Development Partners?

The team at Kero Development Partners includes Zac Hall (MD). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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