The oversubscribed round was led by Oyster Bay Venture Capital to advance research and development on plant-based materials.
"Once optimised and patented, we will raise our next round to co-locate this continuous process alongside a brewery, enabling immense production outputs. We initially applied our technology to beer breweries and whisky distilleries because of their robust supply chains. As part of this raise, we will also prioritise commercial partnerships to introduce products to the fashion and other industries, starting on a small scale."
The equity round was led by Green Angel Ventures and the Development Bank of Wales.
"Current carbon fibre material formats are expensive, hard to form into shape and highly wasteful with poor recycling routes. It is more expensive than aluminium and has a much higher footprint CO2e than steel, yet more than 90% end up in landfill."
The financing was led by TSP Ventures to support the commercial rollout of the company's soil testing technology.
"This funding builds on the successful commercial trials PES carried out with large agronomy companies and farm businesses in 2022. It enables PES Technologies to complete product development, power product launch in 2024 and hire the key commercial and administrative staff needed to turn our potential into a commercial success story."
The seed round was led by Mark Boost with backing from Green Angel Ventures and British Gas.
"Data centres are fundamental to our modern lives but they do use (and waste) enormous amounts of energy. All the processing energy ends up as heat and more energy is spent getting rid of it. But heat is useful, why waste it? At heata we’re reusing it to help tackle fuel poverty in a cost of living crisis; another key challenge of our time. This enables a step change in sustainable compute with a genuine social impact."
— Chris Jordan, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
