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Zero Carbon Capital
Venture capital · United Kingdom · Europe
Zero Carbon Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in deep tech climate companies, typically as first money at the earliest stage. It backs scientist-entrepreneurs with pre-seed and seed funding and support to take technology from the lab to a company.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEducation
In its own wordsclimatedeep techdecarbonisationhard scienceenergyindustrial
Your fit with Zero Carbon Capital
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Or find every investor that fitsZero Carbon Capital lists 21 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (33%), AI & Machine Learning (22%) and Education (19%). 67% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside Empirical Ventures, Extantia and Entrepreneurs First.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Zero Carbon Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Zero Carbon Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 21. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 75% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 53th | 21 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 82th | 75% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 90th | 19% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 62th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 33% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 22% | 18% |
| Education | 19% | 7% |
| Climate & Energy | 14% | 1% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 6% | 15% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 3% | 3% |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2095%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company15%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Empirical Ventures | 3 |
| Extantia | 3 |
| Entrepreneurs First | 2 |
| Happiness Capital | 2 |
| IQ Capital | 2 |
| Old College Capital | 2 |
| World Fund | 2 |
| AP Ventures | 1 |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Empirical Ventures
Compare Zero Carbon Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Zero Carbon Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 27 Jul 2026 | Seed | |
| 27 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 21 Apr 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Zero Carbon Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Zero Carbon Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
21 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuation Lab develops and supplies valves that prevent gas leaks and climate damage | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Anaphite Limited develops and applies dry coating technology for battery manufacturing. | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Biozeroc builds continuous processing infrastructure for industrial enzymes, including reactor hardware, automation, and consumables | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Climate Crop enhances plants to be climate-adaptive and more efficient by using gene editing to increase starch storage in plant leaves | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Echion Technologies develops and provides a niobium anode called XNO for industrial electrification applications | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Epoch Biodesign converts waste into recycled materials, including nylon 6,6, using its biorecycling technology and AI-enabled platform | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Exergy3 develops and provides thermal energy storage solutions to decarbonize industrial processes | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Apr 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| IONATE develops and manufactures hybrid intelligent transformers for power systems, including data centers and grids. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Kairos Carbon turns low-quality organic waste into high-quality carbon removal | Climate & EnergyAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Level Nine rebuilds catalysts from first principles to create new reactions, molecules, and materials for industrial chemistry | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Multus develops cell culture media for biomanufacturing using a data-driven design process | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nuclear Turbines designs and develops compact nuclear reactors for electricity generation | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Jul 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Nutropy produces milk proteins for crafting next-generation animal-free cheese and dairy products | Food & AgricultureClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| NetZeroNitrogen is developing a highly disruptive alternative product for the synthetic fertilizer market | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Phycobloom produces a sustainable source of energy by harnessing the power of algae to convert carbon dioxide into oil | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | May 2026Seed | Page + round | ||
| Reclinker recycles cement from construction waste using an electrically driven process to reduce carbon emissions. | Climate & EnergyIndustrial & Manufacturing | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| RepAir develops and deploys carbon capture technology to reduce industrial emissions and capture CO₂ from the air | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds technologies for affordable, scalable and sustainable e-fuel production, to enable net-zero aviation today. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company creates biofermented ingredients using frontier AI and automated biomanufacturing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- zerocarbon.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Apr 2026
- Companies checked
- 21
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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