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  ACT Blade Ltd

  

  Edinburgh | Energy & Electricity | @ActBlade

  ACT Blade's vision is to produce the next generation of wind turbine blades for a net-zero future. The company is developing a lightweight and modular blade using sustainable and cost-effective processes and materials capable of delivering a step-change increase in energy production and reduction in costs.

  http://actblade.com/

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  Ambue

  

  Oxford | Buildings & Cities

  Ambue gives people information and advice to use energy more efficiently in their homes, by creating a unique Digital Twin of each home which is used to analyse the energy use and automatically generate technical documents, so that contractors can carry out the work. Our users save energy, which means they save money, put less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and help combat global warming.

  https://www.ambue.com/

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  Better Origin

  

  Cambridge | Agriculture | @BetterOrigin

  Better Origin develop and operate insect bioconversion solutions that allow farmers and food producers to turn food and agricultural wastes into valuable nutrients through insects. The company's goal is to democratise access to insect farming so that any farmer can access insect waste repurposing possibilities, in turn helping reduce the footprint of agriculture.

  https://betterorigin.co.uk/

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  Bx Technologies Limited

  

  London | Carbon Removal & Offsetting | @BxEarth

  At Bx, we’re on a mission to show everyone that food can restore the Earth. Our climate technology platform helps consumers to choose fruit and veg that’s putting carbon back into the soil. We also work with the growers that produce these crops – helping them adopt regenerative farming methods with practical, data-powered clarity. Through our platform, growers, retailers and consumers gain the knowledge to turn intention into action.

  https://bx-earth.com/

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  Carbon Infinity

  

  London | Carbon Removal & Offsetting

  Carbon Infinity is developing a cost-effective, modular technology called direct air capture (DAC), removing carbon dioxide directly from the air in the atmosphere. Advanced carbon-capture sorbent material and module design, combined with waste heat or renewable energy and water, can be used to form the building blocks of the industrial economy; whether non-petrochemicals, plastics, synthetic fuels for aviation or shipping, and atmospheric carbon-enriched products (concrete, carbon nanotubes). Carbon Infinity is initially focused on facilitating the de-fossilisation of hard-to-decarbonise sectors.

  https://www.carboninfinity.com/

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  Catagen Ltd

  

  Belfast | Transport | @Catagen

  CATAGEN is a clean air data company providing emissions testing services to the world's leading car and motorcycle brands. It uses a proprietary toolset to help these brands meet or exceed global emissions standards. Using this knowledge and data, CATAGEN is developing PED, a new product which mines the unique data and uses models to create a software technology platform to inform individuals about their emissions footprint to create behaviour change.

  https://catagen.com/

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  Earth Blox

  

  Edinburgh | Environmental Monitoring | @EarthBlox

  Earth Blox is a code-free, cloud-based, Lego-like SaaS that allows up-skilling of global teams in planetary scale satellite intelligence. Users can DIY their own Earth Observation Solutions using Earth Blox's modular blocks to rapidly identify illegal activities like deforestation and mining, monitor a supply chain, manage post-disaster recovery and support nature-based solutions. Earth Blox enables anyone, anywhere to customise their own satellite intelligence to exactly suit their needs.

  https://www.earthblox.io/

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  Electric Assisted Vehicles Limited

  

  Oxford | Transport | @EAVcargo

  EAV are the leading provider of last-mile transport solutions specifically designed for our evolving urban environments - making them zero-emission, low cost, reliable and future-proof.

  https://www.eav.solutions/

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  EMSOL

  

  London | Smart Cities | @emsol_iot

  EMSOL deploys leading-edge air pollution monitoring in conjunction with state-of-the-art, real-time vehicle tracking technology. By intelligently combining these datasets, EMSOL can, with unparalleled accuracy levels, identify exactly the who, what, where and when of pollution. This allows EMSOL customers to evolve from passive ‘observers’ into proactive climate heroes and achieve their net-zero goals.

  https://emsol.io/

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  Gardin

  

  Oxford | Agriculture | @GardinAgritech

  Gardin’s remote sensing technology aims to empower food producers by monitoring and delivering insights on plant health versus the growth environment to reduce waste and make growing food more sustainable. Gardin’s full-stack solution is engineered to measure plant crop physiological traits such as photosynthetic activity, biotic and abiotic stress and nutritional density. It will also drive correlations between the physiology of the plants/crops and the growth environment so producers can make meaningful interventions exactly when needed.

  https://www.gardin.co.uk/

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  Magway

  

  London | Supply Chain Solutions | @Magway_Limited

  Magway is an all-electric, zero-emissions, low-footprint, high-capacity delivery system. It has the capacity to take up to 90% of online delivery vehicles off our roads, drastically reducing congestion, pollution and the carbon footprint of shopping online. Magway can deliver the equivalent of 20,000 40ft container loads through each 1m diameter pipe per week, giving people what they want, when they want it, efficiently and sustainably.

  https://www.magway.com/

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  measureable.energy

  

  Reading | Energy & Electricity | @MeasurableUK

  measurable.energy’s platform aims to eliminate all wasted energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from buildings, automatically and without any extra burden to occupants. The m.e platform focuses on Small Power, sometimes known as Plug Load power, which can account for up to 40% of a commercial buildings’ energy consumption and has no useful management system. The m.e platform is designed to fit into this management gap, reducing total energy costs and GHG emissions by up to 50%, providing around a 4-year payback, and boosting occupant sustainability behaviour.

  https://measurable.energy/

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  Miralis Data

  

  Lancaster | Energy & Electricity | @Fuuseio

  Miralis Data develops products that support the transition to zero-carbon vehicles and make companies more productive and efficient through better use of their vehicle fleets and the goods that travel on them. Miralis' main product is Fuuse, an electric vehicle charge point management platform that enables organisations to deliver more for their drivers, minimise operational costs and create new revenues.

  https://fuuse.io/

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  Oxwash Ltd

  

  Oxford | Washing | @oxwash

  Oxwash offer sustainable, on-demand laundry and dry cleaning services to both B2B and B2C market segments. Oxwash is a tech company at heart, with an in-house team of developers building a scalable solution to power the international laundry revolution.

  https://www.oxwash.com/

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  Paua Tech Limited

  

  London | Transport | @EvPaua

  Paua makes public electric vehicle charging a simple experience with a mobile app for drivers to find, charge and pay for charging through aggregating chargepoint providers and drivers. Businesses are supported with a centralised billing function and a fleet managers dashboard.

  https://www.pauatech.com/

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  PowerMarket

  

  Oxford | Energy | @PowerMarketAI

  PowerMarket is digitalising and consolidating the entire life-cycle for enterprise solar assets, saving customers over 90% of their time and resources by providing an alternative solution to the current management which is riddled with long, expensive, fragmented and manually driven processes and software tools.

  https://www.powermarket.ai/

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  Qualis Flow

  

  London | Buildings & Cities | @QualisFlow

  Qflow enables developers and construction teams to better manage their materials and waste. Using a unique combination of artificial Iintelligence and machine learning, Qflow automates the digitisation of material tickets and waste transfer notes as they enter construction sites, independent of supply chain systems. Qflow provides direct access to critical information on site, ensuring quality and safety of products.

  https://qualisflow.com/

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  Ripple

  

  London | Energy | @RippleEnergy

  Ripple enables people and businesses to part-own large scale wind farms and have the low cost, green electricity they produce supplied to them via the grid through utility partners. Ripple is the UK's first clean energy ownership platform, making fractional wind farm ownership and supply simple and affordable. The mission is to make clean energy ownership affordable and accessible to everyone.

  https://rippleenergy.com/

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  Satellite Vu

  

  London | Buildings & Cities | @satellitevu

  Satellite Vu will monitor the temperature of any structure on the planet in near real-time to determine valuable insights into economic activity, energy efficiency and carbon footprint. The high-resolution infrared dataset will enable better business decisions and accelerate our journey to net zero. Satellite Vu brings a new category of satellite data to solve our global challenges.

  https://www.satellitevu.com/

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  Solar Polar

  

  Peterborough | Energy | @SolarPolar

  Solar Polar has developed solar cooling that delivers the cheapest Watt of cooling. The system is designed to manufactured in the developing world and provides cooling for refrigeration and air-conditioning without any electricity or gas, using only natural refrigerants.

  https://www.solar-polar.co.uk/

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  Solivus Limited

  

  South East | Energy & Electricity | @solivus

  Solivus’ mission is to enable mega-buildings, homes and communities to lower their carbon footprint and generate their own local green energy through a suite of solar solutions. The company uses new organic thin-film solar technology to design products that are opening up vast new markets previously unavailable to traditional solar, both in the UK and internationally. Solivus makes a positive difference by creating truly sustainable, clean energy products, made using the latest innovations in renewable energy. One of Solivus' solar fabrics, which is manufactured by Heliatek, won the 2020 Innovation Award at the World Energy Summit.

  https://www.solivus.com/

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  Sourceful

  

  Manchester | Supply Chain Solutions | @sourceful

  Sourceful is an end-to-end sourcing and supply chain platform focused on sustainability. With Sourceful, businesses can source, configure and design sustainable packaging from a network of vetted suppliers and automate their inventory replenishment. They can also leverage Sourceful's proprietary life cycle assessment tool to understand the impact of product decisions in real-time and offset their carbon footprint to achieve net zero.

  https://www.sourceful.io/

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  Sphera

  

  Durham | Buildings & Cities | @spherauk

  Sphera is an award-winning speciality materials start-up focusing on low carbon, next generation construction material alternatives for the race to Net Zero. Their products include the world’s first carbon zero and carbon negative concrete blocks, and admixtures to accelerate concrete curing rate and decrease cement content. These innovations help to simultaneously tackle climate change and plastic pollution.

  https://sphera.uk/

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  Spherics Technology

  

  Bristol | Carbon Calculation | @Sphericstech

  Spherics is a cloud-based platform to help businesses measure, mitigate and manage their climate impact. The system integrates with established software packages and tracks and visualises the client's carbon footprint in near real-time. It then makes custom suggestions on how to reduce the impact by matching company data trends with climate science research, to offset any unavoidable carbon emissions.

  https://spherics.io/

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  Sunswap Ltd

  

  London | Transport | @sunswap_ltd

  Sunswap is developing hardware and software to accelerate the decarbonisation of transport refrigeration. Sunswap's battery- and solar-powered transport refrigeration unit (TRU) replaces dirty and loosely regulated diesel incumbents currently used by supermarkets and other refrigerated fleet operators.

  https://www.sunswap.co.uk/

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  Supercritical

  

  London | Carbon Removal & Offsetting | @gosupercritical

  Supercritical help businesses get to net zero by measuring their carbon footprint and selling them high quality carbon removal offsets.

  https://gosupercritical.com/

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  Sylvera Ltd

  

  London | Carbon Removal & Offsetting | @SylveraCarbon

  Sylvera considers itself the equivalent of Moody's credit ratings for carbon offsets. The company uses machine learning and satellite data to rate nature based offset projects. The market reference data produced is being adopted by the biggest buyers, traders and exchanges.

  https://www.sylvera.com/

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  The Tyre Collective

  

  London | Transport | @Tyre_Collective

  The Tyre Collective is a cleantech company building innovative solutions to save our air from tyre wear. Tyre wear is the second-largest microplastic pollutant in our oceans and a stealthy source of air PM pollution. The company is spearheading the capture and monitoring of tyre wear, accelerating the shift towards zero-emission mobility.

  https://www.thetyrecollective.com/

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  Tred

  

  Leeds | Finance

  Tred is a consumer fintech whose mission is to make money work for people and the planet. Its first product is the UK’s first green debit card that lets users track, reduce and offset their carbon footprint as they spend, and plants trees with profits. The company will soon be launching more products, like green investing and a sustainable marketplace, to help people turn more of their money green.

  https://www.tred.earth/

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  Unicorn Biotechnologies Ltd

  

  Cambridge | Biotech & Life Sciences | @Unicornbio

  Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. The full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasing product quality. By providing a clear path to take cellular agriculture products to industrial scales, the company aims to drive the transition to animal free agriculture.

  https://unicornbiotechnologies.com/

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  Xampla

  

  Cambridge | Biotech & Life Sciences | @XamplaUK

  Xampla makes a replacement for specific microplastics and single use film packaging, targeting three launch applications with a patented, next generation material: plant protein. Xampla aims to become one of a handful of biobased majors by 2040, supplying plant-protein and other related materials to the major plastics customers.

  http://www.xampla.com/

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  ZUoS Ltd

  

  Edinburgh | Energy & Electricity | @ZUoS_energy

  ZUoS is an energy services platform to plan and operate a decarbonised energy system. ZUoS provides the ability to predict, schedule and control flexible demand at the local level in homes and businesses. By focusing locally, ZUos provides visibility and control enabling more renewables, low carbon heating and EV charging to be installed within each community.

  https://www.zuos.co.uk/

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  Compare Ethics

  

  @compareethics

  Compare Ethics verifies businesses' sustainability credentials using patent-pending technology and ensures clear returns on investment for businesses increasing their sustainability standards. For consumers, it provides a trusted source of sustainability information.

  https://compareethics.com/

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  Loopcycle

  

  @Loopcycle_

  Loopcycle is a product traceability platform redefining the management, recovery and resale of valuable secondary products. Loopcycle aims at revolutionising the way that businesses manage, recover and resell their physical assets, driving integrity within the reuse marketplace. By embedding a unique product ID, called ‘Cyclecode’, the platform facilitates whole product lifecycle visibility and direct interactions between manufacturers and end-users where intermediaries control product distribution. Loopcycle is helping businesses to deliver the net-zero carbon target and move towards a circular economy while maximising their commercial value.

  http://www.loopcycle.io

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  Shwap

  

  @https://www.brands.shwap.uk/

  Shwap is a software solution to help fashion, homeware and lifestyle retailers monetise the secondary market of their products, and earn revenue from products they’ve already sold. Shwap's technology leverages peer-to-peer resale in order to give the UK’s 200,000 retailers a means to monetise the secondary market of their products without incurring operational costs. Shwap developed software that retailers can integrate into the e-commerce stores, or point-of-sale systems that enables Shwap to identify and then manage the lifecycle of products as they move between different owners. Using this software Shwap has created a frictionless resale platform that creates products listings in real time as users shop.

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  Voltric

  

  South West | Smart Cities (including Transport & Autonomous Vehicles) | @voltricuk

  Voltric is a mobility-as-a-service provider dedicated making the growing demand for all forms of mobility practical, sustainable and efficient. The all-inclusive electric vehicle subscription service allows consumers to access a range of road-ready, electric cars all for one price per month without the concerns of managing insurance, tax, MOT and everything needed to get onto the road.

  http://www.voltric.co.uk