Pippa Gawley
Founding Partner @ Zero Carbon Capital
London, United Kingdom
Pippa Gawley is a seed investor at Zero Carbon Capital in London focused on Biotechnology and Energy. Pippa is the Founding Partner of Pippa started angelinvesting in decarbonisation technologies in California seven years ago, where she was an active member of the impact investing ecosystem. Prior to that, she held a variety of roles in technology companies - general management, business analysis, and consumer-facing interactive user experience research and design. She holds a Masters degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
Last updated:
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Industries Pippa Gawley invests in
Stages Pippa Gawley invests in
Countries Pippa Gawley invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 2 (29%)
- Energy 1 (14%)
- Biofuel 1 (14%)
- Software 1 (14%)
- Industrial 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (29%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
Investments
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NetZeroNitrogen
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We are developing a highly disruptive alternative product for the $200 billion synthetic fertilizer market, thereby helping farmers worldwide to achieve same or better yields for less cost, less effort and less damage to the farm and its environment. | $6.7M / Seed / Jul 23, 2025 | |
IONATE
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IONATE is creating the hardware-software system for smart grids. Its Hybrid Intelligent Transformer (HIT) replaces traditional transformers with a smart version, integrating data and control of voltages, harmonics, and reactive power into one unit. The HIT helps stabilize power distribution across grids, power generation, industrial facilities, anddata centers, while also supporting real-time control nodes. | $17M / Series A / Feb 05, 2025 | |
Cambridge Electric Cement
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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. | $2.9M / Seed / Jul 04, 2024 | |
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NetZeroNitrogen
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We are developing a highly disruptive alternative product for the $200 billion synthetic fertilizer market, thereby helping farmers worldwide to achieve same or better yields for less cost, less effort and less damage to the farm and its environment. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Jul 12, 2023 | |
Actuation Lab
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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 | |
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IONATE
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IONATE is creating the hardware-software system for smart grids. Its Hybrid Intelligent Transformer (HIT) replaces traditional transformers with a smart version, integrating data and control of voltages, harmonics, and reactive power into one unit. The HIT helps stabilize power distribution across grids, power generation, industrial facilities, anddata centers, while also supporting real-time control nodes. | $4M / Seed / Aug 16, 2022 | |
Phycobloom
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Phycobloom is using synthetic biology to create novel strains of algae that will use atmospheric CO2 to create affordable and sustainable hydrocarbons. Phycobloom’s founders are Dr. Ian Hu, who has been genetically engineering algae for a decade, and Dr. John Waite, with a background in materials science and a passion for creating the sustainableenergy systems of the future. | Pre-Seed / Dec 02, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About Zero Carbon Capital
Zero Carbon Capital is on a mission to accelerate the zero carbon transition through investment in pre-seed and seed climate tech companies in the UK and Europe. We are looking for scientific, hardware innovations and vision-aligned, ambitious teams that are addressing unsolved emissions areas of at least 0.5Gt of CO2e per year by 2050.
Zero Carbon Capital Contacts
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Alex Gawley
Director
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Pippa Gawley
Founding Partner
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What does Pippa Gawley invest in?
Pippa Gawley invests primarily in Biotechnology, Energy and Biofuel startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 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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When did Pippa Gawley last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Pippa Gawley closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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