Fourteen of the UK’s most promising climate tech companies have been selected for EarthScale’s second cohort

Collectively, the companies employ over 100 people and have raised in excess of £20 million. More than a third are based outside London, reflecting EarthScale’s commitment to cultivating climate innovation across the whole of the UK.

Biomaterials & biotechnology

Arda Biomaterials
Transforms brewery and distillery spent grain into sustainable biomaterials. Their flagship product, New Grain™, is a plastic-, animal-, and rubber-free leather-like material for fashion, automotive, and interiors.

Cellcraft
The world’s first AI plug-and-play operating system for bio-manufacturing, turning any bioreactor into an intelligent, self-optimising system across biopharma, fermentation, cultivated meat, and cell therapies.

Radiant Matter
Creators of BioSequin™, biodegradable sequins made from renewable cellulose that are non-toxic, colourfast, and pigment-free – bringing sustainable innovation to the fashion industry.

SAGES
Transforming the dye industry by producing biodegradable, non-toxic dyes derived entirely from food waste.

Built environment

Anzen Technologies
Decarbonising hard-to-heat buildings with a solid-state thermoelectric heat pump that delivers low-disruption, refrigerant-free heating, cooling, and ventilation.

Blast Studio
Creators of Cupsan, a range of finished panels for furniture and interior fit-out made entirely from recycled coffee cups.

Kestrix
Using thermal drones and AI to map precisely how heat escapes from buildings and generate targeted energy retrofit plans, tackling the 20% of global emissions attributable to heating and cooling.

Carbon removal

Nellie Technologies 
Using proprietary biological and mechanical engineering to capture CO₂ at speed and scale, converting it into long-lasting biogenic materials that sequester carbon for over 1,000 years.

Circular economy

CircKit
An AI-powered Circular ToolKit for fashion and footwear brands; a modular, self-service platform empowering businesses to design sustainable products and embed circularity from the outset.

Danu Robotics
Deploying AI-guided, multi-arm robotic systems that retrofit into existing waste sorting facilities, improving the accuracy and efficiency of recyclable material recovery.

PulpaTronics
Transforms paper into conductive circuits to create metal‑free RFID tags that are affordable and sustainable to revolutionise how we tag and track everything.

Sorted
Empowering recycling facility managers to optimise operations and maximise material recovery through AI-powered technology.

Vuala
Intelligent, automated food waste handling powered by advanced robotics.

Energy

Keep Energy Systems
Developing advanced thermal and compressed air energy storage systems that capture surplus energy from intermittent renewables and release it as reliable, on-demand power.

“We are thrilled to welcome EarthScale’s second cohort of fourteen ventures that represent the very best of UK climate innovation. The diversity of sectors, approaches, and technologies on display is a reminder of just how much talent exists in this ecosystem.

 

We look forward to supporting each of them over the coming year and ensuring they have every possible advantage as they scale.”

Melissa Mahdi, Programme Manager of EarthScale

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