Clean Growth Fund

www.cleangrowthfund.com

VCMatch tracks Clean Growth Fund as an investor focused on Climate/Cleantech, Energy, and AI/ML companies, Seed and Series A rounds, United Kingdom markets, and $500k to $5m check sizes. Upload your deck to compare your startup against the full private matching profile.

Check Size

$500k to $5m

Stages

Seed, Series A

Focus Areas

Climate/Cleantech, Energy, AI/ML

Geography

United Kingdom

Investment Thesis

Clean Growth Fund is a specialist climate venture capital fund founded in 2020 with a mission to empower UK-based early-stage cleantech entrepreneurs with expert capital and support to tackle the climate crisis. The fund believes that innovations significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions or improving resource efficiency are critical to addressing global warming. They focus on backing founders developing disruptive technologies across key decarbonization sectors, with a conviction that early-stage capital combined with operational expertise can create tomorrow’s climate tech leaders.

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Investment Focus

Who should take a closer look

Clean Growth Fund is most relevant for founders raising Seed and Series A rounds in Climate/Cleantech, Energy, AI/ML, and Data Infrastructure, especially across United Kingdom, with public check-size signals around $500k to $5m.

Focus statement

We invest in UK-based innovations that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve resource efficiency across power and energy systems, transport and mobility, industrial decarbonisation, buildings and the built environment, agrifood and land use, circular economy, waste and water. We typically make initial investments between £500k and £5m during Seed or Series A stages.

Value Add

Integrated support model through sister company Carbon Limiting Technologies (CLT) - the UK's most established early stage cleantech incubator providing ongoing commercialization support to portfolio companies
Team combining decades of experience in clean tech innovation and early stage investing with deep technical expertise (engineers, operators, analytics experts)
Founder-friendly approach with responsive, collaborative team that understands the challenges of building and scaling cleantech businesses
Extensive global network providing access to world-class operators, engineers, analytics experts, designers and marketers
Regular Portfolio Days and networking events creating peer learning and industry connection opportunities
B Corporation certified status reflecting commitment to impact alongside financial returns
Leadership recognized as thought leaders - Managing Partner Beverley Gower-Jones awarded OBE for services to Net Zero Innovation