Engineering Climate Change

Levistor

Keith Pullen

• Technology: Levistor’s energy storage enables ultra-rapid charging for electric vehicles, eliminating the need for costly grid upgrades. 100 miles of range can be added in 5 minutes.

• Climate Impact: Access to ultra-rapid EV charging eliminates range anxiety, accelerating the shift to zero emissions electric road vehicles.

• Current Ask: Levistor seeks new customers requiring high-power energy storage with multiple daily charging cycles and investors to help us scale.

Enturi

Alex Shakeshaft

• Technology: Enturi develops and delivers portable, plug-and-play wind power systems designed to replace millions of diesel generators used in off-grid and remote settings worldwide. Our low-noise, low-blade-exposure technology is wildlife-friendly, rapidly deployable, and perfectly suited for a wide range of off-grid applications.

• Climate Impact: A clean, low-noise alternative to diesel, reducing emissions, enhancing energy security, and enabling sustainable off-grid power.

• Current Ask: We're currently seeking strategic investors, manufacturing partners, and pilot customers to support trials and our transition to scaled manufacturing.

2. Boosting Climate Finance

Scaling and directing finance to climate solutions while reducing risk for investors.

Renew Risk

Ashima Gupta

• Technology: Renew Risk provides cutting edge risk modelling and analytics focused solely on improving the financing, planning, and insurance for renewable energy assets around the world.

• Climate Impact: We’re helping secure the energy transition by quantifying the risks renewable energy assets are exposed to — integral for insurers, financiers and developers.

• Current Ask: For energy developers looking to evaluate the potential losses from extreme weather events or interested in a deep-dive analysis (an EML / PML study) of the risks to their offshore wind farm, solar farm or interconnector projects, we have the expertise to help.

Carbonetrix

Suhaib Arogundade

• Technology: Carbonetrix construction sustainability AI-Assistant provides intelligent carbon management tools and real-time visual dashboards that help construction and infrastructure organisations reduce Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions throughout the project delivery phase. Our solutions break down complex carbon reporting standards (e.g., PAS 2080) into simplified insights, empowering teams to spot emission hotspots, reduce embodied carbon, and generate stakeholder-ready reports with ease.

• Climate Impact: Carbonetrix is supporting the reduction of carbon emissions associated with construction process delivery which is currently set to grow to about 37.5 billion tCO₂e.

• Current Ask: Carbonetrix currently seeks to partner with and support interested and forward-thinking construction organisations desirous of limiting the impact of the projects they deliver to enable them to achieve clients' carbon targets and their own net zero goals.

3. Delivering a Nature-Positive Future

Integrating climate, nature, and biodiversity to restore ecosystems and go beyond net zero.

Waterwhelm

Alireza Abbassi Monjezi

• Technology: Waterwhelm’s solution achieves world’s LOWEST-EVER rate of electricity consumption and CO₂ emissions for water reuse and desalination. This proven technology is currently being commercially scaled up at two locations in the UK for industrial water reuse and undergoing a pilot project internationally for desalination.

• Climate Impact: Addressing the increasing gap between water supplies and demands globally by making the production of freshwater from wastewater or saltwater affordable, accessible and sustainable.

• Current Ask: The deployment of our proven solution at scale will unlock unprecedented opportunities. We ask all potential partners, investors and customers to join us in our journey to scale up this breakthrough technology.

LeafyColl

Ejaz Hussain

• Technology: LeafyColl is pioneering the world’s first plant-expressed, animal-free collagen using fast-growing leafy greens to decarbonise and democratise collagen supply chains.

• Climate Impact: Our solution avoids up to 43 kg of CO₂ per kg of collagen, replacing carbon-intensive animal and marine sources with a circular, plant-based system.

• Current Ask: We have raised £200k and are raising the remainder of a £500k pre-seed round and are actively seeking formulation partners and commercial pilots in cosmetics and nutraceuticals.

4. Championing Cleantech Innovation

Deploying breakthrough technologies to accelerate the climate transition at scale.

Fibe

Idan Gal-Shohet

• Technology: Fibe is developing mass-market textile fibres from agricultural residue, with the potential to double global natural fibre production.

• Climate Impact: Backed by leading brand collaborations, our process uses up to 99% less water, no land, and is carbon negative compared to cotton.

• Current Ask: We’re now opening our £3.2M seed round to build a demonstration plant and are actively seeking investors and brand partners to support our scale-up.

Evolutor

Joe Price

• Technology: Evolutor uses unique microbe evolution technology to build new bacteria that can rapidly convert end-of-life tyres into new sustainable rubbers and advanced biomaterials.

• Climate Impact: Evolutor's bacterial manufacturing closes the loop on tyre manufacturing. It has the potential to reduce the 38M tonnes of CO₂e/year from rubber manufacture, avoid 13M acres of tropical deforestation by 2030, and avoid 23M tonnes of CO₂e/year from waste tyre incineration.

• Current Ask: Evolutor is seeking investors to join a £2.5M seed round, and seeking process & product development partners.

Nanomox

Francisco Maralet

• Technology: Nanomox develops sustainable chemical processes to produce high-performance inorganic materials and recover critical metals from industrial waste.

• Climate Impact: Our technology reduces carbon emissions, cuts industrial waste, and enables circular production of essential materials.

• Current Ask: We’re seeking strategic partners and investment to build our first commercial-scale plant and accelerate global deployment.

5. Improving Standards and Disclosure

Enhancing transparency and accountability through better climate reporting or metrics.

Verv

Peter Davies

• Technology: Verv is an AI-powered climate solution that provides real-time, non-invasive monitoring, management and predictive maintenance of HVAC and refrigeration systems.

• Climate Impact: Our solution predicts HVAC maintenance issues before they become an issue, driving energy savings and cutting carbon emissions across the built environment.

• Current Ask: We’re seeking partners, customers, and investors to scale our predictive maintenance technology and accelerate the transition to net zero in commercial and industrial buildings.

Switchee

Tom Robins

• Technology: Switchee is a data and insights company helping social housing providers across the UK transform housing management and improve residents' quality of life. At the heart of Switchee’s smart solution is its in-home smart thermostat device, which unobtrusively collects valuable data points to deliver powerful, remote insights.

• Climate Impact: Switchee also provides data to optimise property performance, reduce heating bills for residents by up to 17%, and measure the impact of retrofit interventions, supporting the improvement of existing housing stock and a data-driven approach to achieving net zero goals.

• Current Ask: Without collaboration, innovation is a real challenge; and therefore we ask the industry, partners and peers to work alongside us to continue to develop, improve and better serve our customers.

Each of these startups is tackling climate change in bold, practical ways—but innovation needs partnerships to thrive. Whether you’re an investor, policymaker, academic, or fellow innovator, there’s an opportunity to support, collaborate or amplify their work. If you’re interested in connecting with any of the founders featured here, please get in touch with the Enterprise Hub team at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Let’s scale solutions, and build a cleaner planet for all.

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