Announcing the launch of the Sustainable Ventures EIS & SEIS funds
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Sustainable Ventures announces the launch of the Sustainable Ventures EIS & SEIS funds: the latest and most ambitious Sustainability Funds.
Sustainable Ventures, a leading UK climate-tech investment firm, is thrilled to announce the launch of two new Sustainability Impact Funds, opening this week.
The new funds continue the legacy of the seven previous Sustainable Ventures’ cohorts, which have successfully supported early-stage climate-tech startups, helping them scale through tailored programmes, mentorship, and access to funding.
A new standard for Sustainability Impact:
Both the EIS and SEIS funds have adopted the FCA’s new ‘Sustainability Impact’ label, meaning the funds invest in solutions to sustainability problems with the an aim to achieve a positive impact on people or the planet.
The funds will use the EU Taxonomy as their benchmark for company selection. This tool was created to tackle greenwashing and to help investors understand whether an economic activity is environmentally sustainable. Companies will, therefore, only be considered for this fund based on whether they have the potential to make a significant contribution to climate change mitigation or adaptation, protection of water or marine resources and ecosystems, pollution control or the transition to a circular economy.
A new investment manager
For the first time, Sustainable Ventures has partnered with Sapphire Capital Partners LLP (“Sapphire’), multi-award winning investment manager specialising in SEIS and EIS funds. This relationship will allow the funds to scale more effectively whilst driving more flexibility for investors and investee companies.
To be eligible for investment, potential investee companies will need to offer:
Scalable Solutions: the funds will support ventures with the potential to deliver significant environmental benefits
High-Impact Models: Prioritising startups with the potential to achieve measurable, transformative sustainability outcomes when at scale
Tax-Efficient Investments: Advance assurance from HMRC of SEIS/EIS eligibility as an added benefit to encourage purpose-driven investors to fuel innovative climate-tech startups.
Julia Groves, Investment Committee Member for Sustainable Ventures said:
“This is real venture capital. Sustainable Ventures has a track record of investing early into climate tech innovators, taking intelligent risks and building successes with real environmental impact. The numbers already show that their strategy of funding and supporting entrepreneurs is paying off, with better returns for investors than the majority of the EIS fund industry. Now with these two new funds, we are stepping up our game and refining our focus on the impact of portfolio companies, so that our investors can make a profit while making a difference.
“The funds have adopted the FCA’s new Sustainability Impact label which we warmly welcome, as it helps distinguish the Sustainable Ventures approach from those who just dabble in the sector. Sustainable Ventures have supported more than 700 climate tech innovators over the years, and the numbers show that it is the combination of this mentoring with true venture capital, that leads to success.
“I can’t think of a better place for purposeful entrepreneurs to grow their businesses sustainably, and to me it just feels like coming home.”