Pebble Investment Partners LLP

Pebble Investment Partners brings together all the elements needed to finance early-stage companies in the plant and microbial sector, with the goal of creating a safer, healthier, sustainable and more profitable world. The firm focuses on three global challenges: feeding the world (increasing crop yields, developing pest-resistant crops, advancing plant-based foods), tackling global health threats (leveraging plants and microbes to transform dietary quality and reduce healthcare burdens, and as a source of pharmaceutical chemistries), and fixing environmental degradation (reducing fossil-based fertilisers, improving carbon sequestration, and restoring soil health). Pebble operates from the John Innes Centre in Norwich — a world-leading plant science and microbiology research institution — and targets founders commercialising innovations in agri-biotech, industrial biotech, plant genomics, and microbiology, particularly spinouts from the Norwich Research Park ecosystem.