INVESTING FOR a GIGATONNE-SCALE IMPACT

The climate crisis is the greatest threat we have ever faced but also the greatest opportunity to shape our civilisation.

We fund elite founding teams that are building solutions to decarbonise the economy & our lives.

Who are we

Climate VC is an S/EIS fund investing into pre-seed and seed climate startups. Our EIS fund is now fully deployed.

We need to look at how to decarbonise every aspect of our day-to-day life and the economy. That means changing the way we; grow food and what we eat, move around, generate electricity & make things. The solutions, some established, some crazy, are being dreamt up by bold founders. We want to help ignite that early spark.

CLIMATE VC PORTFOLIO

Carbon Removals

CUR8 is dedicated to raising the bar on carbon removal. They build platinum standard portfolios to draw down CO2 from the atmosphere.

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Climate Finance Data

AI-powered platform for environmental impact data, analytics, and research.

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Enhanched Weathering

Enhanced rock weathering is based on what nature’s been doing for millions of years. Undo just speed things up. 

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CARBON INSURANCE

Carbon insurance for the climate crisis.
Insuring high quality carbon removals drives down the cost of capital allowing removals projects to scale much faster.

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ENERGY

Ocean thermal energy conversion. Affordable, clean, baseload power for tropical island nations.

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Graphene

Incorporating graphene into battery materials via an inexpensive and scalable process.

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BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Slashing waste in the production of steel by detecting defects before they happen.

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RAIL FREIGHT

Improving the reliability and capacity of rail networks to promote the shift of freight from road to rail with 25% savings in emissions.
We led the round.

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CARBON REMOVALS

High quality natural regeneration at scale. Supported by intelligent software & groundbreaking computer vision.
We led the round.

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FOOD SYSTEMS

Pioneering carbon-negative staple foods from agroforestry in Latin America.

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GREEN FINANCE

Accelerating the deployment of clean technology through lending to SMEs. In Kenya, South Africa, India & beyond.

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BUILT ENVIRONMENT

The Carbon Hub for all building needs. A software product suite addressing the embodied as well as operational carbon impact of construction in a single solution.

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Soil Health

Frontier soil health testing for the regenerative agriculture transiton.

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Insect Genetics

Improving Black Soldier Fly genetics to supercharge the insect protein markets.

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Scaling Bioreactors

Scaling Bioreactors for Biomanufacturing.

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NATURE & CAPITAL

Nature restoration software to accelerate the $500Bn nature market.

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Meet the Team

Peet Denny

FOUNDING PARTNER
Multiple founder.
Operator / Investor CTO of leading Fintech. AI specialist and space enthusiast.
Stanford University Graduate School of Business - Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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James Knight

INVESTOR
Engineer, maker, founder.
Specialist in Natural Capital, Carbon Removals & Climate Finance.

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Doug Scott

CO-FOUNDER, ADVISOR
Serial founder and angel investor, 400+ investments.
CEO & Founder of RedBrain (£1bn incremental sales last year); Cornerstone investor of Climate VC.

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ADVISORY BOARD

Marta Krupinska

Founder & CEO of Cur8. Previously head of Google for Startups, Chair of ACUA Ocean & Chair of Youth Business International.
Ed Gillespie

Member of Greenpeace’s Board of Directors, green entrepreneur & environmental campaigner.
Mark Stevenson

Speaker & advisor to governments, NGOs & corporates on net zero strategies.
Jim Mann

Founder & CEO at The Future Forest Company and UNDO. Serial founder in tech & climate change.
Michael Pawlyn

Central to The Eden Project, Sahara Forest Project and Architects Declare a Climate & Biodiversity Emergency.