Returnal
Pre Seed Round in 2025
Returnal is a retail-focused business that specializes in product trade-ins and refurbishment. It extends the lifecycle of products by collecting them, refurbishing them, and redistributing them to partner networks, thereby promoting sustainability and helping retailers expand their market share through repeated sales.
Rookwood Operations
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Rookwood Operations specializes in sustainable phosphate management. It develops a platform to extract and repurpose excess nutrients from water, land, and farm waste, creating natural, bio-based materials. This process supports sustainable agriculture, improves environmental outcomes, and reduces dependence on mined phosphate resources. The company serves water utilities, farmers, and land developers.
PlantSea
Pre Seed Round in 2023
PlantSea produces sustainable products using seaweed and aquaculture materials. It specializes in bioplastics items as biodegradable alternatives, including seaweed-infused paper, punnets, and mulch film, helping businesses adopt eco-friendly packaging to reduce plastic waste.
LabCycle
Pre Seed Round in 2022
LabCycle provides recycling services for hazardous lab plastics and produces 100% recycled laboratory consumables, advancing a circular economy for single-use plastics in research and healthcare. It recycles laboratory waste from public and private labs using proprietary sorting systems, material segregation, decontamination methods, and a specialized supply chain to ensure safety, compliance, and sustainability. By replacing traditional disposal methods such as incineration and autoclaving, LabCycle aims to reduce CO2 emissions and energy use, supported by ongoing pilots with the NHS and other laboratories and a growing pipeline worldwide. The technology is patent-pending and designed to scale across lab networks.
Cleaner Seas Group
Seed Round in 2022
Cleaner Seas Group specializes in developing innovative technologies aimed at removing microplastics from various environments, including land, sea, and air. Their core expertise lies in creating sustainable solutions for everyday living, with a focus on manufacturing and licensing high-quality microfibre filter technology for washing machines. These filters are designed to capture the smallest microplastic pollution, enabling consumers to adopt sustainable practices.
Halocycle
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2020, Halocycle is a waste management company specializing in plastic recycling. It employs microwave processing technology to convert plastic waste into oil and gas, with a focus on recycling chlorine-containing plastics like PVC. This innovative approach reduces plastic waste entering landfills or the environment.
CauliBox
Seed Round in 2021
CauliBox offers reusable food packaging solutions, streamlining processes like sourcing, returning, washing, and collection. Their digital platform aims to make sustainability convenient for businesses, reducing single-use waste while lowering costs.
recupuk
Seed Round in 2017
recupuk produces reusable and recyclable plastic cups ideal for sporting stadiums, festivals, and arenas.