Pre-Seed Funding
Securing funding for your startup is a journey. Funding is usually a continuum starting with small amounts from competitions, personal funds, friends and family. The next stage (prior to raising "seed funding" or "Series A") might be from angel investors, crowd-sharing, tax-based incentive programs, government agencies, or a combination of all of these. Learn about some of your options both here and on the forum.
Geographic Breakdown
As we add more sources of information to this section we plan to split it out into different countries and regions. For the moment, everything is grouped together. Please check the forum for other suggestions and please add any there that we are missing so your peers in biodiversity entrepreneurship can learn and share.
The UK’s largest network of specialist investors fighting climate change.
Cerulean Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed stage Climate FinTech, SaaS and blockchain businesses tapping into the network effects of nature, renewable energy and climate-positive economies. Cerulean finds earth-scale (global) technology opportunities in areas like renewable energy, blue carbon, reforestation, biodiversity and regenerative agriculture.
Superorganism is the first venture firm dedicated to biodiversity. We work with founders bold enough to imagine an abundant future for humans and nature alike.
IndieBio is the world's first accelerator devoted to startups using biology to solve the world's largest problems. IndieBio is an SOSV program.
As a collective of entrepreneurs, we back green tech founders by providing capital and mentoring. With fair terms enabling them to make choices in favor of their vision. Co-invested pre-seed funding in Hula Earth in 2004.
Ponderosa Ventures is committed to driving radical change in the food, agriculture, and ocean sectors to meet climate, biodiversity, water, justice, and human health goals. We invest $100-750k in pre-seed and seed-stage companies globally, with a particular focus on the US and Europe. HQ Location: United Kingdom.
Evergreen supports early-stage, climate tech companies. We accept applications for pre-seed to series A investment on a rolling basis.
UK-focused. Sustainable investment for SEIS & EIS qualifying climate tech startups with the potential to deliver venture scale impact.
ReGen Ventures invests in regenerative technology companies created by wildly ambitious teams who want to radically transform our world for the better. Co-invested seed funding into Irish biodiversity-tech company Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering in 2024.
We enable all types of investors to invest in businesses they believe in and share in their success. We enable all types of growth-focused businesses to raise capital and a community in the process.
We back founders from Pre-Seed to Series B, with a focus on the Seed Stage. Our mission is to build a sustainable planet by empowering game-changing climate tech companies on a global scale.
Both Syndicate Room and SEEDRS are convenient channels through which to access SEIS & EIS investors. Syndicate Room is a co-investment network comprised of UK angel investors.
Even if your company is not currently resident in the UK this program is worth exploring. If it is a fit you can simply register an office in Northern Ireland or mainland UK to qualify. The programs are both tax relief schemes and you can receive a maximum of £250,000 through Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, more with EIS.
Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment.
This cluster aims at reducing environmental degradation, halting and reversing the decline of biodiversity on land, inland waters and sea and better managing natural resources through transformative changes of the economy and society in both urban and rural areas.
This is the Irish version of Syndicate Room. There are likely to be similar versions in your country.
Kickstarter campaigns make ideas into reality. It’s where creators share new visions for creative work with the communities that will come together to fund them.
Our sector-focused investment teams actively fund Climate Tech startups in their respective verticals, from circular economy marketplaces to sustainable fintech startups and beyond.
CREO is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to mobilize and catalyze high impact capital to drive the necessary transition to a low-carbon, sustainable, and prosperous future for all. Our impact goals include GHG mitigation, carbon removal, conservation and biodiversity, improved management of resources, and circularity.
Perhaps together we can convince the Irish government to commit to creating a "cluster" for biodiversity startups? Read more here!
Green Crowd is now an approved crowdfunding platform for green energy, ethical businesses, and sustainable infrastructure projects in Ireland.
We support early stage tech companies regenerating the planet. Bringing system change to the world’s food and agriculture ecosystem through nature-based solutions.