Our Ventures

Clean Ammonia on Demand

Phil Hunter, CEO
Dr. Yubiao Niu, CSO

We are Nium. A climate company using novel nanotechnology to decarbonise industry. We’re cleaning up the most polluting chemical industrial process on our planet: ammonia production. Introducing Clean Ammonia on Demand. Our novel nano-technology and light touch engineering delivers decarbonised, decentralised, democratised ammonia production and a cleaner future for energy, food and fuel.

Discover new materials in months, not decades.


Dr Jonathan Bean, CEO
Dr. Robert Forrest, CTO
Dr. Jon Pillow, CSO
Nic Stirk, CCO

Materials Nexus aims to discover next-generation materials for everyday objects that don’t cost the earth. It uses artificial intelligence to find sustainable, cheaper and better performing alternatives to the advanced materials used to build the technologies we consider essential for a net-zero world. Materials Nexus’ ground-breaking software is able to accurately predict the properties of sustainable materials and understand the costs and processes involved in scaling and manufacturing them – all within months, not decades.

Recovering methane from water

Nestor Rueda-Vallejo, CTO
Louise Parlons Bentata, CEO

Bluemethane has developed a novel route for the abatement of scope one emissions from water. Their technology improves operational efficiency of water treatment plants and reservoirs whilst remaining energy positive.

Google Maps of heat loss

Lucy Lyons, CEO
Matt Goodridge, CTO

Kestrix is on a mission to unlock energy retrofits of existing buildings at scale. To do this they are building the ‘Google Maps of heat loss’ – they commission thermal drones flights over whole neighbourhoods at a time, and develop computer vision and machine learning algorithms to quantify and map heat loss from buildings in 3D, as well as generate energy efficiency retrofit roadmaps. It is effectively the automated energy surveyor – or the data layer to power the climate transition of existing buildings.

Green steel, clean cement

Eliot Brooks, CEO
Will Knapp, CSO
Freddie Scott, CTO

Cocoon is capturing CO₂ into industrial waste and upcycling this into a green cement alternative to decarbonise the steel and cement industries. This mineralisation process has been the focus of the Chief Scientist Officer’s research and Cocoon is now commercialising it at scale.

Digital twins accelerate biomanufacturing innovation

Chris Spier, CEO
Martin Patz, CTO

Biomanufacturing is at a pivotal moment, needing accelerated R&D to unleash its full potential, currently constrained by traditional and iterative lab-centric methods. Differential Bio’s solution: digital-first experimentation through a digital twin of microbial fermentation, a strategy that promises to redefine efficiency and innovation in the sector.

Develops biodegradable high-performance bio-aerogel insulation.

Tafadzwa Motsi, COO

Tara Love, CTO

Theresa Hoffman, CEO

NanoPlume develops next-generation bio-aerogel insulation that is ultra-light, ultra-thin, high-performing and fully biodegradable which makes advanced thermal insulation more affordable and sustainable. Its technology helps industries such as cold chain logistics and construction improve energy efficiency, reduce material use and maximise space.