| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.02.2026 | Hardtech Funding Gap: Tangible Secures $4.3M to Revolutionize Debt Financing | Fintech firm Tangible secured $4.3 million in seed funding. The London-based company streamlines debt financing for hardtech businesses. Its AI platform standardizes complex capital stacks. It specifically aids asset-heavy sectors like ener... |
| 17.02.2026 | Tangible Raises $4.3M in Seed Funding | Tangible, a London, UK-based provider of a platform that enables hardtech companies to access and manage debt financing, raised $4.3M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Pale Blue Dot, with participation from MMC, Future Positive Capital,... |
| 12.02.2026 | London fintech Tangible raises $4.3M in seed funding | A London-based fintech which helps companies access and manage debt finance has raised $4.3m in a seed funding round. The funding round in Tangible was led by Pale Blue Dot with participation from MMC, Future Positive Capital, Unruly, SDAC,... |
| 12.02.2026 | Tangible: $4.3 Million Seed Funding Closed To Build Scalable Debt Capital Stacks For Hardtech Companies | Tangible, a London-based fintech platform that helps hardtech companies access and manage debt financing, has raised a $4.3 million seed round as it aims to make structured finance more efficient for capital-intensive businesses. The seed r... |
| 20.12.2025 | Fuse Energy Secures $70M: Disrupting Global Energy with $5B Valuation | Fuse Energy, a UK energy disruptor, raised $70M, hitting a $5 billion valuation. Led by ex-Revolut executives, the firm integrates energy generation, trading, and supply. This vertical model slashes consumer costs and drives innovation. Fun... |
| 18.12.2025 | Founded by former Revolut executives, Britain’s Fuse Energy secures €59 million to scale energy operations | London-based energy company Fuse Energy, today announced an additional €59 million ($70 million) in funding to accelerate international expansion and fast-track their products to market – boosting its valuation to €4.2 billion ($5 billion).... |
| 14.03.2025 | This startup is filling the gap between natural and supplements and big pharma | When I heard about a startup calling itself a "post-chemical pharmacy", my interest was piqued. What does this even mean? Hopefully not homeopathy, which I've always been shocked that it is legal in many countries.
Lisbon startup ... |
| 15.11.2024 | Unlocking the Green Frontier: A Call to Action for Climate Investment | The world stands at a crossroads. On one side lies a future of sustainable growth, where green technologies flourish and industries transform. On the other, a stagnation fueled by outdated practices and a reliance on carbon-heavy products. ... |
| 15.11.2024 | Tangible secures £4M funding to bridge climate hardware financing gap | Climate hardware fintech Tangible has secured £4.0 million in funding.
Tangible helps harness the potential of asset-backed financing structures through innovative software that facilitates the structuring, modeling, and management of trans... |
| 06.04.2022 | Brilliant Planet | Co-authored by John Buttrick
Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even with significant emissions reduction, carbon offsetting will be essential to achievin... |
| 23.06.2021 | With two unicorns in two weeks, Draper Esprit is bullish on France | It’s been a mighty good fortnight for Draper Esprit. With two French portfolio companies achieving unicorn status in less than two weeks — not to mention a £111 million raise via another (non-French) portfolio unicorn — I started to wonder ... |
| 21.06.2021 | Holly and Sam Branson, Biz Stone backed Oxwash raises $3 million to take the dirty out of laundry | Oxford-based Oxwash is taking on the traditionally environmental trouble makers that are the washing and dry cleaning sector. The startup has raised $3 million in a seed expansion round from notables including Holly and Sam Branson, Twitter... |
| 20.05.2021 | Cervest secures $30 million in Series A funding to launch world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform and lead new $40 billion market | |
| 20.05.2021 | Cervest : secures $30 million in Series A funding to launch world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform and lead new $40 billion market | LONDON, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cervest, creator of the world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence (CI) platform, today announced it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Draper Esprit. Cervest seeks to help enterprises, financ... |
| 20.05.2021 | London-based climate intelligence platform Cervest secures $30 million in Series A round | London’s AI-powered climate intelligence platform Cervest has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Draper Esprit. Existing investors Astanor Ventures, Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital, and Future Positive Capital followed on, and ... |
| 08.02.2021 | These are the most promising French startups according to the French government | The French government and the government-backed initiative La French Tech unveiled the new indexes that identify the most promising French startups. The 40 top-performing startups are called the Next40, and the top 120 startups are grouped ... |
| 16.09.2020 | Dendra and its ‘forest-patrolling drones’ close $10m Series A from Airbus, others | Dendra Systems, a UK-Australian startup using a variety of technologies to rehabilitate damaged environmental ecosystems and capture carbon, has raised $10 million in funding.
The Series A round was co-led by Airbus Ventures, the VC arm of ... |
| 06.11.2019 | Is climate modeling-as-a-service the next frontier of risk management? UK startup Cervest says yes. | Businesses know they need risk management departments but the existing methodologies of identifying potential problems down the road have a massive blind spot, according to Cervest founder and CEO Iggy Bassi. Climate change could cost the U... |
| 20.06.2019 | Future Positive Capital’s Vision for the Future of Farming and Food | Sofia Hmich cut her teeth in agtech venture capital backing a startup involved in a nascent field: insect farming. That company, Paris-based Ÿnsect, has since gone on to raise more than $180 million to harvest bugs for its range of sustaina... |
| 28.05.2019 | London and Paris-based Future Positive Capital announces €51 million in the first close of its new fund to invest in deep tech social impact startups | By 2100, it is likely that we will see a four degree increase in global temperatures. By 2030, one billion people will be older than 65. The global population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, and by that time, 25% of the population ... |
| 28.05.2019 | Future Positive Capital Launches Pan-European Deep Tech Fund | Newly formed Paris and London based venture capital firm Future Positive Capital has launched its Pan-European deep tech fund and held the first close, at $57.1m.
Backers included top tier institutional investors such as Bpifrance, Draper E... |
| 28.05.2019 | Future Positive Capital outs $57M fund to back European startups tackling world’s ‘most pressing problems’ | Future Positive Capital, an early-stage VC firm co-founded by ex-Index Ventures associate Sofia Hmich, breaks cover today. The new pan-European fund, which has a first close of $57.1 million, will invest in “deep tech” startups right across... |
| 17.10.2017 | Who are the Leading Insect Farming Startups? | You can tell that the public is captivated by a particular food, when its mere existence on a menu makes the news. Insects are one such ingredient. Cricket ice cream, cricket granola, cricket meatballs, cricket bars, cricket pasta, cricket ... |
| 15.12.2016 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Clear Labs Raises $13m Series B from GV, Khosla, Soros-Linked Fund Invests in Arya Collateral, more | Clear Labs, a food analytics startup, raised a $13 million Series B from a series of venture capital heavyweights including Google’s venture arm GV, early-stage and angel funders Felicis Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Chinese internet, mobi... |
| 14.12.2016 | Ynsect Raises $15.2m Series B for Robotics-Enabled Insect Farm to Replace Unsustainable Fishmeal | Insect farming is starting to raise some big bucks as French company Ynsect reveals today that it has raised $15.2 million in Series B funding from a range of global investors.
Ynsect farms mealworm for use as a fishmeal replacement in fish... |
| - | With two unicorns in two weeks, Draper Esprit is bullish on France | It’s been a mighty good fortnight for Draper Esprit. With two French portfolio companies achieving unicorn status in less than two weeks — not to mention a £111 million raise via another (non-French) portfolio unicorn — I started to wonder ... |
| - | Belgium’s e-bike designer Cowboy saddles up with $80 million in new funding | Brussels-based electric bike designer Cowboy has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round. Through this funding, the drovers are aiming to wrangle core technologies, including manufacturing, in-house, as well as further develop, desig... |
| - | London-based climate intelligence platform Cervest secures $30 million in Series A round | London’s AI-powered climate intelligence platform Cervest has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Draper Esprit. Existing investors Astanor Ventures, Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon Capital, and Future Positive Capital followed on, and ... |
