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🎓 Phycobloom are BEV Fellows!
Today Breakthrough Energy Ventures announced their first cohort of BEV 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...
Echion sign deal to supply Morrow Batteries
Congratulations to ZCF portfolio company Echion on their latest partnership announcement, which will see them supplying their unique XNO...
Ionate wins EIC Award for Future Energy System
Congratulations to Matthew and Rob at portfolio company Ionate, who recently won the Energy Innovation Award for Future Energy System,...
£10m first-close for new £30m fund
Today we are announcing the £10m first close of our new Zero Carbon Capital 2022 LP fund. We’re excited to reach this milestone toward...
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[Closed] We're hiring: Venture Analyst to help us make sense of both companies and the world
About us: Zero Carbon Capital (ZCC) is an early-stage venture investor backing extraordinary companies building innovative scientific...
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[Closed] We're hiring: Venture Associate to scale our early stage company sourcing and assessment
About us: Zero Carbon Capital (ZCC) is an early-stage venture investor backing extraordinary companies building innovative scientific...
Clean concrete - Zero Carbon Capital leads pre-seed investment in BioZeroc
We’re thrilled to announce our recent investment in Cambridge-based bio-concrete start-up BioZeroc Ltd. We use more concrete than any...
ZCC and Innovate UK partner on Green Hydrogen competition
We're excited to be partnering with Innovate UK and KTN to support their "Generation, storage and distribution of hydrogen" programme....
Ionate selected for second cohort of Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult
Portfolio Company Ionate has been selected as one of 10 companies to join the government funded Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult. As...
MicroByre raise $15m Series A
Congrats to Angel Portfolio company MicroByre recently announce their $15m Series A led by Lower Carbon Capital. MicoByre have a low cost...
Sepion raises $16m Series A to accelerate commercialisation
Congratulations to Angel Portfolio company Sepion who closed a $16m round of funding led by Fine Structure Ventures this month. The money...
Update: ZCC awarded best newcomer at EISA awards!
Update: We were chosen as the winner in the "Best Newcomer" category! Sadly we couldn't be there in person but our Fund Managers Sapphire...