Ecologi is dedicated to motivating and enabling businesses to expedite global climate action. Through Ecologi Zero, their carbon footprinting tool with Xero, customers can calculate emission and establish reduction objectives, while also funding tree planting and high quality carbon avoidance and removal projects.
They can share their impact dashboard encourage and inspiring others, and all of this is made possible through monthly Climate Action subscriptions, PAYG Impact shop, and Ecommerce API.
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Plantwork Systems (PWS) is an eco-conscious, technology company providing sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions to the wastewater treatment industry. It is the developer, owner, and provider of a range of proprietary technologies such as TN-REM, NUTREM®, and the deHoxar Spiral Separator. These products aid in nutrient removal, improved filtration, sludge thickening. This leads to wastewater treatment plants recycling more water, reducing their energy requirements, and minimising water scarcity. The company has generated combined revenues of £1.44 million since July 2017. PWS is seeking funding of up to £1 million, at a pre-money valuation of £6 million. It will use the investment to accelerate its growth and bring more innovative products to the market.
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£244,865
Earth Broadband stands out as one of the UK's pioneering green broadband providers, revolutionizing the way people use broadband services for environmental good. Founded by Luke Chapman in 2022 after witnessing climate change effects in Indonesia, the company aims to reshape broadband services, offering wildlife-themed packages and facilitating monthly contributions to planet-saving initiatives. Using innovative AI technology, Earth Broadband enhances customer service while empowering users to contribute to environmental causes by planting trees and removing ocean plastic through their app. The company's strategy focuses on achieving large-scale impact with a small, efficient team, aiming to revolutionize broadband provision.
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£308,580
Ripple is the UK's first-ever clean energy ownership platform. The company aims to enable households and businesses to own new wind farms and solar parks and have the electricity they generate supplied to their home or business premises via the grid. It endeavours to become a segment leader in the $11 trillion global wind and solar market. Ripple has overseen £1 million+ transactions on its platform to date. It has featured in publications like The Times, CNBC, Independent, Business Green, and This Is Money. It has also garnered 5300+ pre-registered customers. The company will use 40% of the investment for marketing purposes, 40% for projects and business overheads, 10% for Non-UK projects, and 10% for website and application development.
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£442,282
Central Plains Group (CPG) is a farming company with a vision to build an integrated zero-waste farming and processing operation to supply the rapidly expanding starch, bioplastics and plant protein markets globally. It aims to be a contender in the aforementioned markets that are expected to be worth more than $30 billion by 2026. CPG previously built and ran a large-scale farming operation in Eastern Europe for over 25 years, over 200,000 hectares of land and earning more than $250 million in profits. It aspires to take things further by promoting sustainable farming and contributing to the zero-waste bio-economy. CPG established its core feedstock farming platform in Ukraine achieving over £3 million worth of revenue with a net profit of £300,000 having supplied 11,000 tonnes of crisping potatoes to Pepsico and Ukraine Supermarkets. CPG will use the investment to actualise the construction of a 15 tonne/hour starch production facility powered by a green energy source.
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£3,031,685
Emission Solutions (EMSOL) empowers organisations to take everyday steps to reduce emissions through their real-time emission monitoring and analytics system. EMSOL's open framework platform is built with networks of sensors like air and noise pollution, vehicle tracking, and working with any asset tags and emission sensors which enables EMSOL to perform real-time measurements with location tags and calibrated sensors. Data from these platforms are easily shared on dashboards, through notifications and gives detailed real-time data on urban noise, air quality, and vehicle pollution. To date, EMSOL won Rushlight Environmental Analysis Award, achieve yearly income targets, rated 5th place in the national PowerUp Index and 4th in the London and South East region. Moreover, EMSOL also won a fully funded project sponsored by DFT to deploy EMSOL technology into the rail sector. The company will use the funds to expand its customer base and increase the number of deployment sites.
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Elemental is an agricultural food technology company that converts 78% of beef processing waste into sustainable fertiliser. The company claims that its technology can potentially reduce global beef CO2 emissions equivalent to 50 million cattle. Elemental asserts that its technology has been developed through extensive R&D and protected by patents in 60+ countries. The company raised £1.5 million on Crowdcube in late 2019, signed agreements for 14 projects in the UK and Europe using its technology, built a demonstrator plant and agreed to install its technology on commercial terms at 6 UK abattoirs. The company states they will use the investment to operationalise their first plant by December 2021 and grow their business across different verticals.
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Carbon Gold (CG) is an organic biochar producer and retailer. It claims that its products can replace harmful pesticides, last longer, and lock away CO2. The company's sales increased by 253% from £77,000 to £272,000 in 2020 with sales in 17 countries worldwide. CG's organic products employ biochar, a type of charcoal made from sustainably sourced materials. CG further enriches it with multiple strains of fungi, bacteria and minerals, that support healthy soil biology. The company is partnering with the Woodland Trust, is certified by the Soil Association, and is also a certified B Corp. The company will use the investment to boost its marketing, international development, and manufacturing.
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Pawprint is a behavioural change platform that is on a mission to fight climate change. The platform allows people to measure, understand and reduce their carbon footprint, and fight ‘climate change’ by giving people bite-sized chunks to focus on. It aims to be the middleman, helping brands reach and understand their audience by offering these brands personalised challenges to help their reduce carbon footprint. The market for behavioural change platforms is slowly gaining solid traction with established brands such as Fitbit, Strava, and Calm. Pawprint aims to capitalise on this collective concern and deliver services that help mitigate those concerns.
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Hydro Wind Energy (HWE) is developing technologies to solve global issues of low-cost clean electricity, grid-scale energy storage, and seawater desalination. Its OceanHydro Wind technology harnesses offshore altitude wind using kites, stores the energy subsea and releases it on demand as electrical energy. HWE has also developed SubSea RO Wind technology to desalinate seawater into potable freshwater. The company has developed QuenchSea, which it asserts is the world's only low-cost handheld seawater desalination device. HWE has featured in publications like Wired, Euronews, Business Insider, and Yahoo Finance. It was selected as one of the top 100 start-ups shaping the 4th Industrial Revolution by the World Economic Forum (WEF). HWE will use the investment to fund technology development, product development teams, international expansion, and scale QuenchSea globally.
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