Startup/Scale-up

Dimple Patel, the new chief executive officer at nature intelligence tech company Nature Metrics, is facing one of her biggest challenges yet: scaling up the company to crack the fledgling $154bn market for nature-based solutions.

Can coffee made of lupine, chickpea and blackcurrant beans taste as good as the real thing? Dutch company Northern Wonder is working with agricultural researchers to make sure the end product resembles real coffee.

Finnish engineering company Coolbrook Oy has been granted loan financing by Nefco to launch a ‘game-changing’ technology which may slash industrial carbon emissions by 30%

Protix, a pioneering Dutch insect breeder backed by a wide range of impact investors, has landed a two-fold investment from Tyson Foods, the biggest meat company in the US.

The funding comes shortly after myenergi secured £30m in debt finance from UK lender HSBC.

All 12 investments will join Katapult’s accelerator programme to improve their growth prospects and strengthen their impact focus. 

Ahead of this month’s World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in London, investors in the sector discuss what startups can do to attract more investors and keep their own finances under control, as borrowing costs soar. 

The mobility-as-a-service startup has raised a total of £5m (€5.8m) to help staff at UK companies facing a lack of public transport infrastructure commute to work by accessing shared taxi and bus services.

DePoly has raised CHF12.3m in a seed funding round to scale its chemical recycling process. Investors backing the company include Dutch impact investor Infinity Recycling.

The fund, run by Azimut Investments, will provide debt to more than 50 Italian SMEs with a focus on improving environmental and social aspects of their operations.