Clean Growth Fund

Clean Growth Fund is a specialist climate venture capital fund focused on empowering UK clean tech entrepreneurs with expertise and capital to tackle the climate crisis. They invest in UK-based innovations that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve resource efficiency. The fund actively supports its portfolio companies, recognizing the challenges faced by cleantech entrepreneurs. They provide ongoing support on strategy, commercialization, and business development through close collaboration with their sister-company, Carbon Limiting Technologies (CLT), an established early-stage incubator. Clean Growth Fund's investment strategy is centered around finding innovations that will abate significant amounts of CO2-eq per year. The fund prioritizes innovations across a range of sectors, including power and energy systems, transport and mobility, industrial decarbonisation, buildings and the built environment, agrifood and land use, circular economy, waste, and water. They are a founder-friendly and collaborative team with extensive experience in supporting early-stage SMEs. Clean Growth Fund offers access to a global network of operators, engineers, analytics experts, designers, and marketers. Portfolio companies benefit from regular Portfolio Days and networking events. The fund provides both financial and non-financial support. They understand the struggles of building and growing a cleantech business, offering assistance from their team of investors, engineers and comms experts. A core part of their strategy is to work with CLT, to provide further business scaling expertise. Clean Growth Fund aims to create tomorrow’s climate tech leaders, with a focus on sustainable investments. They are committed to aligning their mission and values with the companies they back, supporting their business development and raising their company profile.