16 innovative climate tech ventures join EarthScale’s inaugural cohort

Over the next 12 months, these ventures will embark on a journey designed to bridge the gap between prototype and commercialisation. The programme will help IP-rich climate tech startups and spinouts advance significantly in their technical, manufacturing and commercial readiness, positioning them to secure Series A investment.

The cohort spans diverse industries from the built environment to energy, and agritech to sustainable fashion, representing the full breadth of UK innovation. Collectively, they employ just under 200 people, and over a third of the ventures are based outside London.

Introducing:

• Aed Energy: Innovative thermal storage systems designed to optimise the use of low-cost materials combined with our novel heat-to-power technology.

• A&B Smart Materials: Reinventing the “magic powder” inside diapers and soil enhancers with sustainable, biodegradable polymers that absorb hundreds of times their weight in water while protecting the planet.

• BioTwin: Replacing steel in interior walls with hemp-based studs – reducing embodied carbon by 71% and boosting acoustic and thermal comfort.

• Carbon Cell: An alternative to polymer-based foams, with a patent pending, plastic-free foam made from carbon-negative biochar.

• Circular11: Transforms waste-bound plastic into low-carbon fencing, furniture, and landscaping products through cutting-edge material science and machine learning.

• HyperGen: Clean power generator using small jet engine (micro gas turbine) technology to replace traditional piston-based fossil fuel generators.

• Ki Hydrogen: Co-produces green hydrogen and biogenic CO2 at fossil cost-parity for SAF, green methanol, and other green fuels and chemicals.

• Matoha Instrumentation: Affordable and portable plastics and fabrics identifier machines to enable the circular economy.

• Mykor: Insulative building systems for planet and human health with advanced biotechnologies.

• Nova Biochem: Sustainable alternatives to traditional petrochemicals using waste streams from pulping and agriculture.

• Ponda: Next-gen textiles from plants grown on regenerated wetlands.

• Power & Water (KP2M): Revolutionises water treatment with sustainable, high-performance sonoelectrochemical systems.

• Solena Materials: Combining computational design, machine learning, and automation to create novel classes of protein-based fibres to replace petrochemical-derived materials.

• Sention Technologies: Advanced acoustic and data-driven diagnostics that improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of batteries.

• Tewke: Optimising home energy consumption and delivering next generation home automation.

• Equisera: Their RiPR technology produces carbon-negative fuels from biogenic materials, accelerating the transition to a fossil-free, decarbonised future. Formerly known as Wild Hydrogen.

“Our inaugural cohort brings together 16 brilliant, driven ventures tackling climate challenges head-on. It’s fantastic to welcome them into the EarthScale community.

 

This group represents exactly what the UK does best, translating world-class research into solutions that can genuinely move the needle on climate change and also create new jobs, skills, and economic opportunities in the process.”

Melissa Mahdi, Programme Manager of EarthScale

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