Net Zero Investor Index

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Dairy farming emits over 1.7 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent a year. Better Dairy is building the future of food by developing completely animal-free dairy products that are molecularly identical to traditional dairy, using a similar process to beer brewing. Removing animals from dairy production isn’t only great for animals and the environment, but gives consumers better food options and food manufacturers better ingredients.

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LettUs Grow design the farms of the future. Their aeroponic farming technology and farm management software for indoor and vertical farms delivers higher crop yields, reduces the environmental impact of agriculture and makes farmers’ lives easier. The products also enable people to grow produce nearer to the point of consumption, which reduces the carbon footprint left by fresh produce.

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Small Robot Company is reimagining farming to make food production sustainable. By using robotics and artificial intelligence to maximise the yield from crops, they offer a brand new model for sustainable, efficient and profitable farming called Per Plant Farming. It involves their farmbots individually caring and farming each plant. This increases yields, soil quality, biodiversity, and reduces carbon emissions and chemicals by up to 90%.

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Electron is an energy technology company unlocking value in decarbonising energy systems by enabling granular, market-based interactions. Electron’s product, ElectronConnect, is a market platform for use by network operators, distributed energy resource operators and others to optimise the combined use of network capacity and zero carbon, zero marginal cost power. Ultimately, the deployment of multiple applications of ElectronConnect will deliver a system-wide market infrastructure offering opportunities for innovation and efficiency in energy system management which are not available in the undigitised systems of today.

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Hark’s mission is to improve the way the world performs, through energy analytics and industrial IoT technology. The Hark Platform is a cloud platform that allows Energy Managers and Asset Operators to easily connect to, monitor and control their Buildings, Energy Meters, Energy Storage Systems and Industrial Process assets.

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Naked Energy is redefining solar energy solutions and tackling the global challenge of decarbonising heating and cooling. Their product ‘Virtu’ is 44% more efficient than existing solutions and takes up 40% less space. Virtu combines solar heat and power, saves the customer money and saves the planet - all within a single elegant product that is easy to install and maintain.

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Surple helps businesses make smarter energy decisions through their energy management software. They pull data from buildings into their cloud-based software, which runs analytics to provide actionable insights to their users, helping them to reduce energy use, carbon emissions and ultimately their costs. Businesses in the UK have an opportunity to collectively save £6bn through energy efficiency and Surple is making this process easier to manage.

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Giki creates digital products to help people live more sustainably. Giki Zero is an interactive, step by step, guide which helps people to understand, track and reduce their environment footprint. Giki Zero Pro helps companies put sustainability on the agenda for all employees and provides the tools for staff to build their personal path to Net Zero. Giki, which stands for Get Informed, Know your Impact, is a Social Enterprise.

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elmo is a carbon neutral electric car subscription service providing flexible and affordable EV 'usership'. The platform offers fully-integrated, personal e-mobility, with insurance, maintenance, breakdown, road tax and a carbon offset donation included as standard. On top of this, elmo is the world’s first MaaS (mobility-as-a-service) platform to include a home charge point, discounted renewable energy and public charging access - all wrapped into a single monthly bill.

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Ember is the world's first 100% electric intercity bus operator and is building its own ultra rapid charging network. Ember's mission is to make a zero-carbon, zero-traffic world a reality. Its tech led approach delivers an integrated platform for managing vehicles, chargers, routes and drivers - allowing them to operate EVs at the world's highest mileages. Ember’s technology improves the passenger experience, supporting a modal shift away from cars and improving social inclusion.

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Artemis Technologies is an applied technologies company, established in 2018, as a spin-off from the successful America’s Cup sailing team, Artemis Racing. Based in Northern Ireland, and firmly established as one of the world’s leading maritime design companies, Artemis Technologies is on a mission to lead the decarbonisation of the maritime industry, and become the market leader in delivering high-speed zero-emission vessels and green maritime technologies

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Manufacturing and recycling supply chains are complex, global and often involve dealing with human rights or environmental issues. Circulor empowers businesses to fully manage their supply chains and drive responsible sourcing and recycling. Circulor creates an immutable record of the chain of custody of materials, linking the end products to their source. This traceability data also enables organisations to make informed decisions to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Airex has a mission to end fuel poverty. Aiming to reduce home energy consumption, Airex is an IoT-enabled smart ventilation control that helps reduce heat demand in homes, whilst managing indoor air quality. The system's in-built smart sensors monitor and analyse environmental conditions, while its cloud based algorithms automatically regulate air flow. Airex is approved by UK energy regulator Ofgem to be adopted under the ECO (Energy Company Obligation) scheme.

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Pivot is an analytics company with a focus on the zero carbon transition of the UK’s social housing sector. Pivot’s platform combines data driven engineering with risk analytics and insurance, bridging between energy management and risk management. The platform and risk analytics are integrated with a global A- Rated insurance company who will underwrite the project performance therefore making the projects financeable on or off balance sheet. No other software links projects to finance using insurance. Pivot de-risks investment decisions and introduces capital at scale.

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Changing the focus of the housing industry to decarbonisation, Sero provides a digital platform that supports housing providers and their residents to reach net zero by sitting at the intersection of home comfort, buildings and energy systems. Working across new build and retrofit, Sero develops homes that complement changing energy systems using their energy platform, expertise, optimised design, construction and commissioning process. This saves residents money, effort and saves our world.

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At Greyparrot, we automate waste composition analysis using AI-based computer vision to monitor and sort waste at scale. Greyparrot provides waste analytics and new insights previously unavailable to waste managers, producers and regulators to help increase recycling rates. Our end-to-end Waste Recognition System is currently deployed on moving conveyor belts in sorting facilities to measure large waste flows.  Waste composition information is key to help facilities increase recycling/recovery rates, enhance product quality, and understand the carbon footprint of the products we consume and the waste we generate end-to-end. Greyparrot is also collaborating with suppliers of hardware and machinery to bring waste management into the 21st century. Our team is committed to unlocking the financial value of waste, which will, in turn, support our transition to a circular economy and keep our environment clean for generations to come.

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Tackling the issue of unsustainable materials, Lixea’s BioFlex process takes any type of woody biomass that normally would be unrecyclable and separates the components to make them usable by converting them to products, such as high-quality fine and bulk chemicals, bioplastics, renewable fibres and biofuels once again. It does this by using low-cost, environmentally friendly solvents, called liquid salts or ionic liquids.

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The true extent of the environmental and climatic impact of our throwaway culture is becoming worryingly clear. Reath enables businesses to break the pattern and transition away from single-use, by applying track and trace technology to solve the data problems inherent in reuse models. They are currently developing the world's first global Open Data Standard for reusable packaging.