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Sustainable Ventures
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Sustainable Ventures is a UK-based climate tech investment firm founded in 2011 that backs early-stage, IP-rich climate tech startups from pre-seed through seed stage via SEIS and EIS tax-efficient funds. The firm invests in companies with the potential to make a significant contribution to climate change mitigation or adaptation, using the EU Taxonomy as its benchmark for company selection, and targets measurable environmental benefits across energy, mobility, agritech, circular economy, and deep tech verticals. Beyond capital, Sustainable Ventures operates Europe's largest climate tech ecosystem — supporting over 800 startups through a 12-month accelerator programme, curated coworking workspaces in London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Cambridge, grant-writing for non-dilutive funding, R&D tax credit support, and corporate partnerships with organisations such as Barclays and Google Cloud. The firm's SEIS and EIS Impact Funds have adopted the FCA's 'Sustainability Impact' label and target a 4x net return to investors over seven years.
Notable quotes
“"While there is not yet a silver bullet that will solve the climate problem overnight, a huge amount can be achieved through smaller projects and initiatives that collectively play a part in reducing greenhouse gases."”
“"Sustainable Ventures has a track record of investing early into climate tech innovators, taking intelligent risks and building successes with real environmental impact."”
“"We don't want it to be just another WeWork — there's got to be a genuine added value from being inside, and that comes from specialist expertise that we can bring in proximity to the startups."”
Team
Christopher Morris
Founding Partner
Joshua Armistead-Wood
Senior Investment Associate
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infiniti Recycling | Seed | — | 2025 |
| Anzen (Anzenwalls) | Seed | $1m | 2025-06 |
| Rovco | Seed | — | 2017 |
| Zeigo | Seed | — | 2019 |
| Sennen | Seed | — | 2019 |
| Concrete4Change | Seed | — | 2020 |
| Powervault | Seed | — | 2012 |
| E-Car Club | Seed | — | 2011 |
| AirEx Technologies | Seed | — | 2018 |
| MasterFilter | Seed | — | 2020 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Green Angel Ventures | 4 |
| SFC Capital | 2 |
| Innovate UK / UKRI | 2 |
| Crowdcube | 2 |
| Bristol Private Equity Club | 1 |
| Desai Ventures | 1 |
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