GoPower offers comprehensive portable solar energy solutions, designed to save you money and reduce your environmental impact. Their user-friendly solar panels eliminate the need for complex installations, allowing easy setup anywhere. Their portable solar power stations, providing up to 1000w/1280WH at 240v, are perfect for various applications such as home offices, garden rooms, boats, events, and more. With multiple output sockets and versatile charging options including solar panels and mains electricity, GoPower provides a greener and cost-effective energy alternative.
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£10,000
Rype addresses the dilemma of choosing between expensive or low-quality office furniture that contributes to carbon emissions and waste. By remanufacturing high-quality used office furniture, Rype offers cost-effective solutions with 80% lower carbon emissions and waste, while creating local jobs. Their mission is to significantly reduce office carbon emissions and costs through sustainable, circular economy practices, including exclusive furniture ranges made from waste materials. Rype's comprehensive services encompass furniture sourcing, remanufacturing, and employing marginalized individuals, contributing to a more environmentally friendly and socially responsible approach to office furnishings.
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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
Loowatt is delivering safe sanitation and generating energy from waste for sustainable business growth. Loowatt argues that poor sanitation leads to more than £150 billion being lost every year due to health care costs, decreased income and productivity. It aims to change this with its patented toilet. The toilet's waterless flush seals waste hygienically away and is the starting point for Loowatt's unique closed-loop processing system. Loowatt works closely with the local utility partners and ensures that waste is safely collected, treated, and transformed into biogas to generate electricity and heat with nutrients captured for organic fertiliser production. Loowatt has processed 555 tonnes of waste and served more than 250,000 people. The company will use the investment to scale-up manufacturing, complete development of the Loowatt Pro data transmission system, and develop an aftersales monetisation strategy for large international contracts, starting with the City of Manila.
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£1,101,180
Biohm is an eco-conscious bio-technology company that is revolutionising construction through nature-inspired innovation. The company has adopted methods such as circular construction system, biomimicry, and triagomy. Some of the company’s carbon-negative bio-based materials include building insulation made out of Mycelium (the root structure of mushrooms) and ORB (Organic Refuse Biocompound), a 100% natural sheet material made out of food and agricultural surplus. For its innovation, Biohm won the Waitrose and Partners Plan Plastic Prize: The Million Pound Challenge and a Power to Change grant worth £600,000 to build sustainable living premises. It has also been shortlisted as one of The United Nation’s ‘Young Champions of the Earth’. The company will use 38% of the investment to grow its team, 22% to scale Research and Development (R&D), 22% to protect its Intellectual Property (IP), and 18% for product accreditation.
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Expired
investment:
£790,700
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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Expired
investment:
£722,468
Solivus is a solar technology company that aims to enable mega-buildings, homes and communities to lower their carbon footprint and generate local green energy through the company's proprietary solar solutions. Its patent-pending innovation, Solivus Arc, utilises thin-film solar technology to power homes and electric vehicles. The company asserts that Solivus Arc provides an alternative to rooftop solar and has incredible low-carbon credentials. Solivus aims to also enter the commercial and agricultural markets with its products. It will use 50% of the investment in product development and R&D, 40% in growing its team, and 10% towards legal and marketing costs.
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Expired
investment:
£1,619,048
RheEnergise is an energy company that plans to transform pumped hydro technology and boost its capacity with its patented High-Density Hydro (HDH) technology. The company asserts that, by installing HDH on smaller hills and combining it with its HD Fluid R-19, businesses could produce 2.5 times the energy compared to low-density pumped-hydro. RheEnergise aims to install multiple HDH projects to meet the UK's growing energy needs. The company has agreements with entities like SSE, WelshPower, GreenCat Renewables and REG-Power. It is currently using its funding grants of ~£270,000 over the next nine months to build a defendable "Moat" of IP (Patents, Design and copyrights, know-how, and trade secrets) across six critical integrated sub-systems. The company will use the investment received to hire key personnel, progress patents, and accelerate its activities.
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Expired
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£850,000
Innovate Recycle (IR) is a company that aims to reduce carbon emissions from burning discarded carpets. It asserts that only 2% of the 400,000 tonnes of discarded carpets in the UK is recycled, with the rest going into a landfill or being incinerated. IR further points out that burning waste carpet leads to an estimated CO2 impact of £16 million per annum in the UK. It wants to solve this crisis. IR is building a new carpet recycling plant in Northamptonshire that would be able to recycle carpets into reusable materials. They have already received grant funding of up to £2.35 million. IR claims that a single production line in the plant, at full capacity, can recycle up to 20,000 tonnes each year and generate 12,600 tonnes of polypropylene pellets. It will use the investment to expand to a second production line by Year 4 at the same facility.
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Expired
investment:
£2,650,000
Plug-N-Go is a company that provides electric vehicle charging infrastructure with the aim of sustainably electrifying transport. The company has 24 charge points that are accessible to users via its app. It sources 100% renewable energy from its partners at Octopus Energy. Air pollution is contributing to 40,000 early deaths a year in the UK that Plug-N-Go is striving to change. The global electric vehicle charging stations market will reach USD 27.7 billion by 2027 from an estimated USD 2.5 billion in 2019. The company hopes to become a strong contender in this segment. Plug-N-Go is in discussions over multi-site agreements with the Co-operative Society and Eden district council and has received interest from Associated British Ports. Its goal is to install 3,800 EV charge points for the public in 5 years at sites where drivers are already parking. The company will use the investment to deliver EV charging stations to businesses across the UK.
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Expired
investment:
£176,008
