Strategic
Supporting Barclays' goal of transitioning its businesses, customers and communities to a net zero and net-negative long-term operating model
Sustainable Impact Capital
Our Sustainable Impact Capital Programme, led by Barclays’ Principal Investment team, will invest £175m over the next five years in the equity of fast-growing, innovative and environmentally-focused early-stage companies, whose values are aligned with those of Barclays and which target the goals and timelines of the Paris Agreement.
From the acceleration of innovative carbon-efficient technologies and supply-chains to supporting the development of viable markets for carbon capture and sequestration, the Programme is seeking out and supporting clear scalable propositions that deliver both environmental benefits and economic returns.
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Accelerate the transition to a net zero future by investing £175m over five years in the equity of innovative and environmentally-focused early-stage companies. -
Invest in propositions that are Strategic, Impactful and Economic.
Impactful
Reaching meaningful environmental benefits, particularly with respect to the evolving need for decarbonisation
Economic
Achieving long term commercial success by investing in scalable innovators
Latest News
Barclays leads a $6.6M Seed Round in RESPONSIBLE, a company whose mission is to help solve fashion’s sustainability problem
This marks the largest seed round of capital to be secured to date within the reCommerce sector, giving RESPONSIBLE the opportunity to make a meaningful change in the industry.
Barclays joins Series A funding round of energy storage technology company Energy Dome
Barclays joins fellow investors 360 Capital and Novum Capital Partners in Series A Funding Round, and Agreement Reached with Strategic Investor A2A for an Initial 100 Megawatt-Hour, Grid-Connected CO2 Battery Deployment.
"The world won’t achieve net zero without innovation"
How Barclays’ £175m Sustainable Impact Capital programme is backing innovative companies tackling climate change.
Barclays and SaveMoneyCutCarbon announce collaboration to help Corporate Banking clients reduce carbon emissions and energy bills
Barclays Corporate Banking clients will be able to utilise SaveMoneyCutCarbon’s services, helping them to pivot operations to more sustainable practices.
Our Investments
80 Acres Farms
80 Acres Farm is addressing the challenges of sustainability and food security by growing food with vertical farming technology. This uses 99% less land and 97% less water than traditional farming but provides 300 times more yield.
AirEx
AirEx is a fast-growing cleantech start-up, which delivers the first smart airbrick technology in the UK, helping homeowners improve air quality whilst also reducing their energy bills, and accelerating the decarbonisation of the UK housing sector.
Air Protein
Air Protein is crafting the world's first air meats, turning elements in the air into sustainable proteins with a novel carbon-negative process inspired by NASA. This company's aim is to feed the planet's growing population with meat made from air that eliminates the compromise between taste, nutrition and climate threat.
Deep Branch
Deep Branch is a carbon dioxide recycling company that uses microorganisms to convert CO2 from industrial emissions into high-quality products to enable global sustainable animal nutrition.
ECOncrete
ECOncrete Tech is a pioneering start-up delivering high-performance ecological concrete technologies. ECOncrete‘s innovative concrete technology enhances marine and coastal infrastructure by inducing the formation of bio-habitats, while preserving functional and structural properties.
Energy Dome
Energy Dome is an energy storage technology company that fights climate change using CO2 as part of the solution to accelerate the world’s transition to renewable energy.
Origami
Origami is using state-of-the-art smart technology to help companies utilise green energy, and therefore harness the opportunities provided by the global transition away from fossil fuels towards net zero.
RESPONSIBLE
RESPONSIBLE is a technology company that exists to fight for a circular future. Founded in 2021, the company is on a mission to help solve fashion’s sustainability problem with a new premium take on reCommerce that will open the category to end-customers and brands alike.
SaveMoneyCutCarbon
SaveMoneyCutCarbon is a digital aggregator, providing a unique marketplace focused on sustainability. Offering cost-effective products and solutions to businesses and consumers seeking to reduce their carbon footprint and be more sustainable.
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Principal Investments (PI) make strategic investments and enable entrepreneurial ideas to grow by investing, while monetising mature assets to recycle capital, with purpose.
1. Orginate
- Develop relationships
- Identify trends
- Incubate ideas
- Identify technology
2. Execute
- Evaluate opportunities
- Secure partnerships
- Support balance sheet restructuring
3. Scale
- Provide growth capital
- Connect to the Barclays ecosystem
- Board/Shareholder representation
- Commercialisation of opportunities
- Turnaround strategies
4. Monetise
- Trade sale
- IPO
- Secondary Sale
- Re-cycle capital
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Leverage Barclays resources to create and further enhance an ecosystem that supports green financing. Through growth capital and dynamic collaboration, we co-create a vision to build the impactful companies of tomorrow.
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Contact Us
To contact someone in the Principal Investment business, please email piteaminbox@barclays.com