Encouraging diversity in portfolio companies
We take an active role in most of our portfolio companies, in many cases taking a board director or observer seat. Many of our companies...
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Fueling the future: Zero Carbon announces investment in NitroFix
Fueling the future: Zero Carbon announces investment in NitroFix
Celebrating women every day
As a woman leader of a majority-woman VC firm (sadly still quite a rarity) I thought International Women’s Day would be a great...
POSITION CLOSED: Associate to scale our venture sourcing in Central Europe
Zero Carbon Capital seeks an Associate for its early-stage climate tech venture capital fund. About us: Zero Carbon Capital (ZCC) is an...
Grid-scale storage technologies: technical view
This is the second post in a series on long-duration energy storage. As mentioned in Part 1 of this post on grid-scale energy storage,...
Long-duration energy storage: enabling renewable build out
We need to decarbonise electricity generation. Electricity generation worldwide accounted for 12.3 Gt CO2e in 2020, or around a third of...
Investing in deep decarbonisation: our approach
Editor’s note: This the second article in a three-part series talking about the why, what and how of our investment thesis. You can read...
Multus announce $9.5m Series A round
We're celebrating the news that our Zero Carbon Fund (Fund 1) portfolio company, Multus Media have closed their Series A round. The round...
Rethinking industrial hardware: ZCC invests in Actuation Lab
We’re delighted to announce our investment in Actuation Lab, as part of a seed round that we are co-leading with our friends at Kero...
Sucking CO2 from the air: ZCC invests in RepAir
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our investment in RepAir, Inc. CEO Amir Shiner and the team at RepAir are developing a novel approach...
Deep tech pioneers: BioZeroc, ClimateCrop, Ionate
Congratulation to portfolio companies BioZeroc, ClimateCrop and Ionate on being named Hello Tomorrow Deep Tech Pioneers. We attended our...
The hard science we need to unlock deep decarbonisation
Deep scientific innovation is needed to solve the biggest challenges of decarbonisation.
🎓 Phycobloom are Breakthrough Energy Fellows!
Today Breakthrough Energy Ventures announced their first cohort of Fellows. We're super-excited that Phycobloom founders John and Ian...
👋 Welcome Chloe!
From understanding deep science breakthroughs to mapping the GHG emissions landscape, technical analysis has always been at the heart of...
Growing the team: Welcome Sarah!
We’re beyond thrilled to introduce Sarah Jones as the first Venture Associate at Zero Carbon Capital. The first hire for any startup is...
🔋 Anaphite raises £4.1m and appoints new CEO
Congratulations to portfolio company Anaphite on closing their £4.1m late-seed round led by Elbow Beach Capital and in which we...
🔌 Ionate raises £3.3m seed to upgrade electricity generation and distribution
Congratulations to ZCC portfolio company Ionate, who today announced their £3.3m seed funding round led by IQ Capital. This funding will...
More food, less land: ZCC invests in ClimateCrop
Today, we are incredibly excited to announce our seed investment in ClimateCrop Ltd, an Israeli company using state-of-the-art gene...
ZCC shortlisted for 3 UKBAA awards including Seed VC of the year
We're excited and humbled to have been shortlisted for no less than 3 awards from the UK Business Angels Association! The UKBAA does an...
👋 Epoch BioDesign and 👏 on your seed round!
Back at the end of 2020 (remember then!), we met Jacob Nathan, the CEO of a small UK-based company. He and his cofounders had identified...
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