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👋🇩🇪 Welcome Max!

Welcome Max Werny to the ZCC team, as an Associate based in Berlin.

Zero Carbon Capital’s Leap into Continental Europe: Welcoming Level Nine to Our Portfolio

Investing in Nanozyme Technology for Lignin Bioprocessing and Beyond We’re excited to announce our investment in Level Nine, a...

How we assess emissions reduction potential

At Zero Carbon Capital, we work with scientist entrepreneurs that are tackling the biggest unsolved problems of climate change. We invest...

Harnessing biology to produce sustainable ingredients - Announcing our investment in Twig

Today, Twig is publicly launching after several months under the radar. We are thrilled to announce that we invested in Twig in...

The biggest Cap Table mistakes and ways to avoid or fix them

Written in collaboration with Yair Reem from Extantia In the exciting world of startups, we often get swept up in innovative ideas,...

Feed the world: Announcing our investment in NetZeroNitrogen

We’re delighted to (finally) announce our investment in NetZeroNitrogen! The NZN team: Justin, Natalie, Alan, Thomas and Gary The...

Ammonia: fertiliser and future fuel

What is ammonia and what is it for? Ammonia is essential to human life on earth. The size of the global population today would be much...

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...

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...