Built environment. Future energy. Dual-use by design - engineered so the next economy stays affordable for everyone.
We build companies at the intersection of the built environment and future energy, working with the infrastructure that already exists - so decarbonisation reaches the people who actually need it, not just the people who can already afford it.
Buildings, energy, mobility and materials, attacked as one system. The built environment is roughly 40% of emissions; the energy that powers it is the other half of the answer. We work where those two meet.
Retrofit and repurpose, not greenfield. Every asset earns its keep twice - a solar carport is energy infrastructure and shelter; a building data layer is operations and decarbonisation. One investment, two returns.
A clean economy only the wealthy can afford is not a climate solution. We engineer the unit economics so decarbonised housing, energy and mobility stay accessible - by default, not by subsidy.
On how practical and economically rational it is to build, to run, and to make do more than one job at a time. That is not something software can solve on its own - which is why every company we touch combines three things at once.
Engineered for the real duty cycle, not the spec sheet. Capital and steel doing more for less.
Smart control on top, so the same asset earns its keep across multiple jobs - and gets better with use.
The savings have to reach the end user. More output, more services, more goods - for the same money, or less.
Done right, the products and services that keep getting more expensive today end up genuinely cheap - and some of them, eventually, free. That is what we mean by future economy and new energy: not a label, but a measurable result.
We're a Climate and Built Environment venture studio practising this combination across our own builds and the pitches we validate from outside founders. The bar is the same for both.
A venture studio means we originate, validate and operate companies in-house - de-risking the earliest, riskiest stage with our own hands before scaling.
Concepts come from inside the studio and from outside founders. Both are tested against the same studio mantra - hardware that earns its keep, automation that makes it cheaper, services that pass the gains on. If a pitch carries the mantra, we go to work on it; if it doesn't, we say so honestly.
A shared studio team - product, engineering, growth, finance - spins each company up fast. Founders join to operate, not to assemble a back office from scratch.
We stay hands-on through the dangerous early quarters: first revenue, first hires, first customers. Operator scar tissue, applied repeatedly.
Once a company finds its footing, a dedicated team takes over. The studio retains equity and recycles every learning into the next build.
A studio is judged by what it has actually built. These are live companies across the thesis.
Solar carports for commercial parking lots - turning idle asphalt into generation assets across Europe and North America.
A data and intelligence layer for the building stock - benchmarking, technical specs and operational insight for property owners and managers.
Utility and billing infrastructure for multi-unit buildings - clarity and automation where today there is spreadsheet chaos.
New company concepts in validation across the thesis - heat-as-a-service, building-integrated solar, modular renovation and EV fleet charging.
The themes we are actively researching and originating companies around - all within the built environment, all on the economics.
Decarbonised heating sold as an outcome, not a boiler.
Generation woven into facades and roofs, not bolted on.
Prefab retrofit systems that cut deep-renovation cost and time.
Charging infrastructure built around real fleet duty cycles.
For co-builders, partners and operators who want to build climate companies on the infrastructure that already exists - and on economics that actually reach people.
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