Our purpose is Just Green Capital.
We wake up believing people and our planet deserve to feel safe, healthy, and happy.
We [humans] live 2 times beyond the natural limits of our planet.
Half of us live in poverty. But we live longer, get richer, and consume more every day. This will happen as our population grows from 8 to 10 billion by 2050.
We financed £1 of £6 trillion needed in 2022 [the most ever].
The green funding gap is widening, and we are falling further behind our Global Goals by 2030.
For investors, it is too complicated to access good green opportunities in private markets.
The financial sector, despite good intentions, makes it hard to invest in companies with planet-positive impact and financial returns.
The fear of negative PR is bigger than doing the right thing, so investors stay conservative to avoid being called out for greenwashing.
Institutional investors and governments lower this risk by focusing on above £400 million green deal-making with impact assessments made on a deal-by-deal basis.
The green pre-seed investment community grows driven by angel investors and digital-focused venture capital, but it comes with high risk.
In either case, the investments do not deliver a planet-positive impact today (but hopefully some by 2030).
For companies, it is hard to raise capital, and even harder for physical and industrial products.
Therefore, there is a need for capital in green revenue-growing companies at the late Seed to Series B stage, including project financing for infrastructure and production scaleup.
Companies that produce and sell physical and industrial products create a direct positive impact on our planet but have a hard time raising capital [receiving less attention and investment than digital companies].
We, therefore, have a great investment opportunity where additional capital drives planet-positive impact and revenue growth today, tomorrow, and beyond 2030.
Feel free to stay obsessed with digital technologies [software, online platforms, AI, machine learning, etc.], but these will only impact our planet indirectly [at best].