The £6m round was led by Clean Growth Fund, Eurazeo, and Aviva Ventures to scale low-carbon heating infrastructure.
"Decarbonising heat is critical to achieving our net zero targets. Rendesco’s heat network solutions provide a cost-effective and efficient route to delivering the low-carbon heat required for the transition away from gas to renewable alternatives. This investment aligns with our commitment to empower early-stage entrepreneurs to tackle the climate change crisis."
The seed round was co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton
"AI computational needs are increasing by 10 times every 18 months. This leads to distributed training and inference across large numbers of xPUs. Collective data movement across the servers in the data centre becomes a bottleneck which in turn limits the training and inference completion time. This requires a fundamental shift in the co-design of next generation networked systems."
Clean Growth Fund backed the Cambridge biotechnology startup to accelerate the commercial rollout of its HBx biofuel.
"Clean Growth Fund’s investment in HutanBio, coupled with the strong commercial interest in HBx now being shown by potential customers from around the world, is hugely exciting and underlines the company’s massive potential. We have been patient and rigorous in our scientific work to ensure that HBx is market-ready, demonstrating the world-class expertise and tenacity of our team. We believe that HBx unlocks the biofuel puzzle, with the capability to produce a cost-effective biofuel an order of magnitude greater than any other oil-crop."
The funding round was co-led by Clean Growth Fund and Pymwymic to support research and commercialisation.
"Intensive agriculture and overuse of agrochemicals have contributed to a 70% biodiversity loss in the past 50 years, which has been made worse by the damaging effects of climate change – drought, soil warming and higher levels of CO₂."
