Date | Title | Description |
25.01.2024 | OnePlanetCapital supports Clean Tech company Terrafend in latest raise | OnePlanetCapital supports Clean Tech company Terrafend in latest raise |
08.12.2023 | What does the 50% drop off in Global VC volumes mean for Climate tech? | What does the 50% drop off in Global VC volumes mean for Climate tech? |
04.12.2023 | OnePlanetCapital wins Team of the Year at Growth Investor Awards | OnePlanetCapital wins Team of the Year at Growth Investor Awards. The OnePlanetCapital team behind their flagship Climate Change EIS Fund took the Team of the Year awards last Thursday amongst stiff competition from the likes of Albion Capi... |
04.10.2023 | OnePlanetCapital leads £1.7m round into MDFRecovery | The OnePlanetCapital Climate Change EIS fund has led a £1.7m round into the groundbreaking technology company MDFRecovery. MDF Recovery has a patented solution for the only effective industrialised process to recycle Medium Density Fibreboa... |
15.09.2023 | Climate Tech update: acquisitions in the space are on the up with London as the epicentre of deal making | Climate Tech Investing covers an array of technology solutions designed to address climate change and its environmental effects. This can be done by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (mainly C02 and methane) or adapting our systems to envir... |
05.09.2023 | OnePlanetCapital increases the tempo of climate change venture capital investing with successful summer 2023 deployment | The OnePlanetCapital Climate Change EIS Fund has had a successful inaugural summer raise with just under £3m GBP incoming from investors and deployments into 3 new companies as well as an existing follow-on investments into portfolio compan... |
04.09.2023 | OnePlanetCapital achieves 3 Growth Investor Award Nominations! | OnePlanetCapital achieves 3 Growth Investor Award Nominations |
25.07.2023 | Why climate change investing is such an interesting growth space over the next decade | The One Planet Capital flagship fund is an EIS fund that focuses on early-stage companies combating climate change. One of the key challenges in educating investors about the climate change EIS fund is to explain how the impact-driven natur... |
26.06.2023 | Climate tech: 4 big reasons to consider investing in it | There’s a real buzz around climate tech in the market today as it’s very different to other more traditional investment sectors. Unlike other sectors that are more unpredictable or more volatile, the climate tech sector is vast and offers l... |
26.06.2023 | Is EIS worth the extra admin? | Some investors we speak to often regard Venture Capital Trusts, or VCT’s, as the go-to choice for tax planning and accessing venture capital investment. But, is this a fair assessment, and what do the other options look like? We explore usi... |
21.06.2023 | The rise and rise of second-hand fashion | There has always been a market for second-hand clothes, whether the hand-me-downs of old, the charity shops on every high street in the country or the selective vintage shops of larger towns. However, recent years have seen a paradigm shift... |
13.06.2023 | The OnePlanetCapital Climate Change EIS Fund leads £2.7m round into Bristol based Perceptual Robotics | The OnePlanetCapital Climate Change EIS Fund leads 2.7m round into Bristol based Perceptual Robotics |
27.04.2023 | OnePlanetCapital complete a successful 2022-23 with 400% growth and circa 5m GBP raised | OnePlanetCapital complete a successful 2022-23 with 400% growth. |
26.04.2023 | OnePlanetCapital Climate Change EIS Fund backs Climate Tech company Airex | OnePlanetCapital Climate Change EIS Fund backs Climate Tech company Airex |
18.04.2023 | OnePlanetCapital Climate Change EIS Fund leads investment round into RAD Propulsion | OnePlanetCapital Climate Change EIS Fund leads investment round into RAD Propulsion |
03.02.2023 | Climate Tech view - systematic issues are starting to hold back wind energy | Climate Tech view - systematic issues are starting to hold back wind energy |
12.01.2023 | Will climate tech make good in 2023 on its bumper funding year of 2022? | Will climate tech make good in 2023 on its bumper funding year of 2022? |
16.12.2022 | OnePlanetCapital invests into bio-plastics business, Kelpi | OnePlanetCapital is excited to announce that it has recently invested into Kelpi, a company that is replacing single-use plastics with premium performance bioplastics that harness the novel properties and environmental benefits of seaweed. |
29.11.2022 | Climate Change State of the Nation - a review of 2022 by OnePlanetCapital | 2022 has been a year of extremes. From extreme flooding in Pakistan and an intense European wildfire season to war in Ukraine and a repositioning of renewable energy as a pillar of national defence. The year was brought to a close by a lack... |
22.11.2022 | OnePlanetCapital re-invests into &Sisters | OnePlanetCapital has provided follow-on funding for portfolio business &Sisters to further support its growth. &Sisters is on a mission to reimagine the future of female health, starting with safe, sustainable and beautifully design... |
08.11.2022 | OnePlanetCapital has provided follow-on funding for portfolio business Earthly. | OnePlanetCapital has provided follow-on funding for portfolio business Earthly.org to further support its growth. Earthly helps corporate clients invest in nature-based solutions that remove carbon and restore bio-diversity. |
08.11.2022 | OnePlanet Capital closes tranche 3 of its Climate Change fund and invests into Diode. | OnePlanet Capital closes tranche 3 of its Climate Change fund and invests into Diode.
OnePlanetCapital has successfully closed tranche 3 of its climate change fund with 100% growth in investor funds year on year. Its first investment from t... |
19.10.2022 | Legislation is driving innovation in the climate change ecosystem | One of the reasons that the climate tech investment space is so different and resilient at the same time is that a lot of the companies we see are backed by regulation. This creates a unique dynamic in this sector as you not only have corpo... |
21.09.2022 | How B2B SaaS companies are accelerating the battle against climate change | Many investors naturally think of core renewable energy businesses such as wind and solar when we talk about climate change investments. But the reality is that every sector of the economy is becoming involved in tackling climate change, fr... |
03.08.2022 | VCT vs EIS: Is EIS worth the extra admin? | VCT vs EIS: Is EIS worth the extra admin?
Are EIS and VCT investments interchangeable? Some retail investors we speak with often regard Venture capital trusts (VCT’s) as the go to vehicle of choice for tax planning and accessing venture cap... |
20.07.2022 | 4 BIG reasons to consider an investment in climate tech | 4 BIG reasons to consider an investment in climate tech.
Amid the current market volatility, it is worth spelling out why the climate tech sector that OnePlanetCapital specialises in, is very different from most investment sectors. |
30.06.2022 | CleanTech as a diversifier amid market turmoil | 2020 and 2021 were years of strong investment into clean tech and ESG in general. Years of ignored warnings about climate change were finally became with Mark Carney famously quoting in June 2021 ‘’Addressing climate change is an amazing co... |
14.06.2022 | OnePlanetCapital Portfolio update | As the OnePlanetCapital team begins to shift focus onto the next investment tranche here is some insights into how the current investments are progressing as the 2022/2023 tax year gets underway. |
01.06.2022 | Why climate change is such an interesting investment space over the next 5 years | The OnePlanetCapital flagship fund is an EIS fund that focuses on early-stage companies combating climate change. One of the key challenges in educating investors about the fund is to explain how the impact driven nature of the fund combine... |
10.05.2022 | OnePlanetCapital Fund Update | As we move into the new financial year here is an update on recent developments at OnePlanetCapital……
We finished the 2021/2022 tax year with 4 investments into EIS qualifying early-stage businesses that really demonstrate the range and the... |
19.01.2022 | OnePlanetCapital portfolio update | The OnePlanetCapital Sustainability EIS fund invests into high growth potential companies that are combating climate change. Following the successful deployment of capital into its first tranche there has been good news from two of these in... |
06.01.2022 | OnePlanetCapital makes investment into zero emission delivery company – Zedify | We are delighted to have completed our most recent investment in to a business called Zedify. We are backing Rob King (CEO) and Sam Kean (CMO) the founders of Zedify and are excited to support their vision of disruption in the delivery mark... |
16.12.2021 | OnePlanetCapital completes first round of inaugural investments | OnePlanetCapital is delighted to complete its first round of investments. Here is why we love these companies and the potential impact they will have on climate and environment…. |
05.11.2021 | COP26, political will and early stage investing | We are very excited to close our first tranche of investment just as COP26 starts…….with investments into Earthly.org, Radpropulsion.com and Zeigo.com. |
19.10.2021 | Why do early-stage sustainable start-ups have such high growth potential? | With the launch of The OnePlanetCapital Sustainability EIS Fund, we are seeing the unprecedented ‘green industrial revolution’ really take shape… |
05.10.2021 | 2050 and sustainable investment themes for a greener planet | Dire news about climate change and the extreme weather events of 2021 has dominated the news over recent months and it is easy to get pessimistic. The BBC put out an article last week that 60% of young people are ‘extremely worried’ about c... |
20.09.2021 | The problem with ESG scores | Earlier this month Bloomberg wrote a great piece entitled “How wall Street is Gaming ESG scores’’. The summary of the article was that there are vast inconsistencies between fund managers’ stated climate objectives and the reality of their ... |
09.08.2021 | OnePlanetCapital will invest into Earthly (ww.earthly.org) | Earthly offers climate change solutions to businesses both large and small offering a broad range of nature-based offsetting solutions to balance carbon impact. |
09.08.2021 | OnePlanetCapital Sustainable EIS Fund makes inaugural investments | Exciting times as OnePlanetCapital, the Sustainability EIS Fund, will make its first investments into a series of exciting companies that bridge strong potential investor returns with climate change impact. |
01.02.2021 | ESG and early-stage investing | ESG investing is obviously the talk of the town. ESG inflows are incredible and growing at about 17% per annum. Globally standing at about 50 trillion USD of assets, a recent Deutsche bank report forecasted 150 trillion USD of assets by min... |
09.11.2020 | Venture capital in a time of crisis | In March 2020 we were on the verge of launching a green EIS impact fund called OnePlanetCapital. After 8 months of planning, sourcing partners and developing the game plan we were literally days from going live and starting to raise funds….... |
28.05.2019 | Venture capital and growth | There is a lot of discussion these days about whether economic growth is really a good thing. Endless GDP growth cannot be sustainable, we are limited by our planets’ resources ultimately and the biosphere that we inhabit. |