Future Planet Capital is an impact-led venture capital firm that invests in innovative companies from the world’s top universities and research ecosystems, targeting global challenges such as climate change, education, health, security, and sustainable growth.

Future Planet Capital

Future Planet is the impact-led, global venture capital firm built to back growth companies emerging from the founders and science from the world's top universities.

Through a unique series of partnerships and relationships around leading universities, Future Planet has an unrivalled global level of access to entrepreneurs and businesses profitably solving the world's greatest challenges in Climate Change, Education, Health, Sustainable Growth & Security.

Our mission is not simply to deliver excellent returns but to create a lasting impact: by connecting the world's largest investors with its best minds, we believe we can profitably address the greatest challenges that humanity faces today.

The Future Planet Fund has been designed in close conjunction with sophisticated investors in order to provide multi-stage access to start-ups, spin-outs and growing companies, at a scale large enough to suit major sovereign wealth funds and similar institutions.

Halo Neuroscience

Vaccitech

Inivata

Kallik

Oxford VR

Quethera

Spectral Edge

23andMe

Perfectus Biomed

Breaking Free Online Limited

Clarivate Analytics

Agilent Raman Spectroscopy

Last week, several of the Future Planet Capital team attended the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA)'s ESG Conference 2024 to share their insights in various panel discussions throughout the day.
 
🔓 On the panel titled “What do we need to unlock the opportunities for private capital investment in the Net Zero transition?”, Ed Phillips, Investment Director discussed the importance of mobilising institutional capital to better leverage emerging deeptech climate solutions. 
 
🌎 Alexander Shadbolt, Investment Associate and Impact Lead joined the “What is impact?” panel to explore what “impact” really means for investors, and the ways in which Future Planet Capital understands and measures impact through value creation for people, profits, and the planet. 
 
🔮 Malika Arshad, Business Development Associate spoke to the future of ESG and impact, and how they might come to shape the investment landscape in years to come, on the “ESG: The Next Generation” panel. 
 
As always, Future Planet Capital is pleased to contribute to these important conversations. Thank you to the BVCA for hosting such an insightful conference. 
 
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As our Head of Global Venture, Ed Phillips says: 🌊 “There’s never been a better time to innovate in the Ocean” 🌊

#WorldOceanDay on Saturday highlighted the growing opportunity for ocean investment. As enabling technologies such as the internet, automation and cloud computing become more commonplace in legacy industries at sea, barriers to entry are falling for investors and entrepreneurs alike.

Future Planet Capital’s blue portfolio has grown in tandem, and we look forward to continuing this momentum in leveraging the ocean to create impact in the race against climate change. 

Check out some highlights below 👇 

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Today marks Future Planet Capital's first Partner Day, which promises to be full of insightful conversation and valuable networking. We look forward to welcoming guests from across our network and the investment ecosystem.

As part of a series of panel discussions throughout the day, we’re pleased to welcome a wide range of sector experts, whom we look forward to hearing talk about:

🔹 Impact Investing: Future Planet Capital’s inaugural Impact Report
🔹 The Blue Economy: the state of our oceans, challenges, and opportunities
🔹 Scaling Britain: supporting our most promising science and technology scaleups
🔹 Venture Capital in the UK economy

And in between these sessions, a selection of our many exciting portfolio companies will be on-site, ready to showcase their innovative, high growth-potential solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges - from each of our investment sectors.

Our Executive Chairman, Douglas Hansen-Luke has just kicked the day off with an important message: "We do not only need to have great ideas, we need to accelerate and scale up companies. Those that raise money most regularly are the ones that succeed and win. It's not just about having the best ideas." 

We’re looking forward to seeing many of you throughout the day!

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Partner Day yesterday. It was a pleasure to engage in such insightful discussion, hear from experts on such a wide range of topics and perspectives, and share an update on Future Planet Capital’s strategy and outlook for the rest of the year.

Covering everything from impact investing and the Blue Economy to scaleups and venture capital, each speaker session and panel provided a huge amount to think about. A special thanks to all those involved and who shared their thoughts: Katie Fulford-Smith Penny Holliday Brian Allen Rafael Manyari Chris Elphick Jerome Engel James Mawson Surjit Kooner Haren Arulanantham, PhD

We’ll be sharing deeper insights into these sessions over the coming weeks, so stay tuned. In the meantime, we hope everybody left yesterday with fresh ideas on how we can all contribute to solving the world’s greatest challenges, and look forward to putting words into action.

#futureplanetcapital #partnerday2024 #venturecapital #impactinvesting #blueeconomy #scaleups #science #technology #networking | UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund Midven

It’s great to see that NeoVac, one of Future Planet Capital’s portfolio companies, has been granted full authorisation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to begin clinical trials in the UK. 
 
With this being the first time NeoVac’s ground breaking Lipid Nanoparticles (LNP) will be tested in human volunteers, the trial marks a crucial step in the development of NeomiVac, the company’s mRNA vaccine against COVID-19.
 
Future Planet Capital has long-supported innovation in drug discovery, which forms a key part of its investment strategy. We’re proud to continue our support of the UK’s most promising biotech firms, such as NeoVac, and look forward to witnessing the positive impact this new trial will have on people’s lives across the globe.
 
#biotech #health #vaccine #innovation #venturecapital #impactinvesting | UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund Midven

Our portfolio manager, Lyle Pentith, attended an insightful evening earlier this week at the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA), alongside our portfolio company, Nuclera. The event included a keynote from the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt. and Shadow Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq, discussing how they are committed to Venture Capital as a key driver of growth for the UK economy. 
 
Co-founder and CFO of Nuclera Jiahao Huang, also the opportunity to discuss the current capital raise climate for growth-stage companies in the UK and directly with the Chancellor. 
 
A brilliant event focusing on the exciting future of the Venture Capital industry!
 
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