Minimum secures £1.9m in seed funding from Octopus Ventures and others to scale carbon neutrality platform
Octopus Ventures led the seed round to support international expansion and product development.
Minimum provides a platform that helps businesses calculate and neutralise their carbon emissions through integrated offsetting projects. The technology allows companies to embed carbon calculation and reduction directly into their customer journeys and operational processes.
Carbon accounting platform Minimum has secured £1.9m in seed funding to expand its operations in Europe and the United States. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from Clocktower Ventures, Dutch Founders Fund, Plug & Play Ventures, and AGO Partners. The capital will be deployed to triple the size of the team, develop the customer offering, and advance the company proprietary calculation engine.
The London-based start-up enables firms across sectors such as real estate and on-demand delivery to measure and offset their environmental impact automatically. The fresh injection of capital arrives as consumer demand for corporate sustainability intensifies, pushing more businesses to adopt verifiable carbon reduction strategies.
From the founder
"Sustainability is becoming a major competitive advantage for businesses because consumers are, quite rightly, demanding it. Every business needs to understand and reduce their emissions wherever possible, and neutralize unavoidable emissions by supporting carbon removal and reduction projects. Those that don’t will be left behind. We built Minimum to make effective climate action so accessible for businesses that there is no excuse not to embrace it."
Freddie Evans
Co-founder and CEO at Minimum
Investor perspective
"There’s a huge commercial opportunity for businesses that demonstrate strong sustainability credentials but for most, it’s extremely difficult to achieve. Minimum is a game-changer because it embeds real-time emissions tracking directly into the business itself, and businesses can neutralize the emissions they are actually accountable for, rather than an arbitrary amount. Not only can this help them make their operations carbon neutral by default, but armed with an understanding of their carbon impact companies can provide much-needed carbon transparency to their customers and are better equipped to continuously improve the sustainability of their processes."
Nick Sando
Principal, Octopus Ventures
Use of funds
- 01Grow the team
- 02Continue product development
- 03Expand into international markets
Investors
Nick Sando
Octopus Ventures
Clocktower Ventures
Dutch Founders Fund
Plug & Play Ventures
AGO Partners