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Solving the FOAK puzzle — Addressing Capex financing for first-of-a-kind plants in the green transition
“The green transition requires Infrastructure-like ticket sizes with a VC-like risk appetite“ as one of our friends in the investor space put it. As such tickets are unlikely to emerge as a significant financial product in the ecosystem, we need to find creative ways to overcome the challenge with the existing ecosystem players.
Why we Invested in Fermify: Cracking continuous precision fermentation for vegan cheese proteins
Fermify’s platform provides a solution for in-house production of casein proteins, which is the missing piece to produce vegan cheeses that taste great and have the right meltability and structure.
Why Invest in ZeroPoint: A Sustainable Future for Data Centers
ZeroPoint’s technology can drastically increase the energy efficiency of servers, delivering up to 50% more performance per watt by removing unnecessary information from the memory. This means that data centers can maximize performance and reduce energy consumption.
Why did we invest in Entocycle?
We finally have a solution to decentralize and localize production, solve the global feed shortage and accelerate the transition towards low-carbon alternative proteins, all at once.
Why did we invest in Qvantum ?
Europe is the world’s fastest growing heat pumps market. Heat pumps are favored by European government policies suggesting a trend of rapid adoption and a mass scale-up.
Why did we invest in Wayout?
Wayout’s business concept of producing water locally means dealing with several sustainability challenges at once. We have a 360-degree approach to water supply. It is one of our success factors.
Why we invested in one • fıve — a startup reimagining sustainable packaging products
Conventional plastics contribute about 4.5% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (World Economic Forum, 2021) — not to mention the numerous negative impacts on human health and biodiversity (more on that here). That’s why we’re so excited to invest in one.five. They are bridging the gap between research and commercialization to bring more sustainable alternatives to conventional plastics into the market.
Our investment in Continuum: a startup pioneering zero-emissions wind-blade and composite materials recycling
Continuum could be the first to market with a scalable, zero-emissions approach to industrial waste recycling. The construction of their first 36,000- ton capacity plant at the Port of Esbjerg, Denmark will start in 2023, and they will be ready to accept feedstock in late 2023.