The Environmental
Technologies Fund
ETF Partners supports talented entrepreneurs and management teams with investment capital and experience. Our funds come from institutional investors, global corporations and family offices. We create value by investing in technology companies that make a difference.
We call it sustainability through innovation.
Smart Energy
There is a revolution occurring in the energy industry. It started with new production methods – with renewable energy. Their more intermittent nature created new problems, which are being solved with the tools of the information technology revolution. Now we are also seeing exciting new business models and new business opportunities. This is not just about saving energy – a big enough benefit on its own – but about using it more intelligently as we move towards a more sustainable and prosperous world.
Smart Energy | Smart Industry | Smart Cities
There is a revolution occurring in the energy industry. It started with new production methods – with renewable energy. Their more intermittent nature created new problems, which are being solved with the tools of the information technology revolution. Now we are also seeing exciting new business models and new business opportunities. This is not just about saving energy – a big enough benefit on its own – but about using it more intelligently as we move towards a more sustainable and prosperous world.
Smart Energy | Smart Industry | Smart Cities
Smart Industry
We are at the early stages of a new industrial revolution. The information technology revolution is just beginning to change the industrial landscape as the ‘industrial internet’ enables equipment; things; even bits of material; to communicate and collaborate. This will do more than enable far greater use of resources – itself a fundamental environmental benefit – it will also create great new business opportunities for more sustainable prosperity through innovation.
Smart Energy | Smart Industry | Smart Cities
We are at the early stages of a new industrial revolution. Technology trends like the industrial internet and advanced robotics, new materials and composites, as well as additive manufacturing are set to disrupt the industrial landscape. This will do more than enable far greater use of resources – itself a fundamental environmental benefit – it will also create great new business opportunities for more sustainable prosperity through innovation.
Smart Energy | Smart Industry | Smart Cities
Smart Cities
Over half of humanity now live in cities, and cities are changing. Modern cities are becoming more akin to intelligent organisms, with technology enabling nerves and senses. As the information technology revolution moves from the desktop and the phone into the urban environment, innovation is enabling us to move towards a sustainably high quality of life, though the efficient, intelligent use of resources.
Smart Energy | Smart Industry | Smart Cities
Over half of humanity now live in cities, and cities are changing. Modern cities are becoming more akin to intelligent organisms, with technology enabling nerves and senses. As the information technology revolution moves from the desktop and the phone into the urban environment, innovation is enabling us to move towards a sustainably high quality of life, though the efficient, intelligent use of resources.
Smart Energy | Smart Industry | Smart Cities
Video: We launched our Corporate club more than ten years ago to provide a window on innovation for large corporations and to enable exciting young technology companies to make key corporate contacts. Since then the events have gone from strength to strength. Our latest event was held recently at the Royal Academy in London.
Comments from the judges: “We were impressed by ETF Partners focus on environmental impact through innovation and the firm’s impact assessment approach”
Gartner, the world’s leading research and advisory company, has published its Cool Vendors in edge computing, 2018. Wirepas is highlighted in Edge Computing and Greenbrid in Application Architecture, Infrastructure and Integration.
Video: Rob Genieser is interviewed by TechTour on "Europe Is Taking The Lead In Sustainability"
The awards, which recognize companies that make a significant contribution to the worldwide water industry, were part of GWI’s Global Water Summit. GWI cited Voltea’s “successful commercialization of its CapDI© technology” as a key factor in earning the award.
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Metalysis, the U.K. technology company with a solid-state process to produce valuable, 3D printable alloy powders, has raised £12m ahead of commercial production from its Generation 4 (“Gen4”) industrial scale expansion project.
We are glad to see our portfolio companies E-Leather, Vulog and Telensa make the Tech Tour Growth 50 list in 2018.
Metering & Smart Energy International and BusinessWire
In the UK, Essex and Hertfordshire County Councils have partnered on a pilot of multiple smart city services using existing communications infrastructure deployed by Telensa.
We're delighted that Telensa's successful growth in international markets has been recognized in the 2018 Sunday Times Lloyds SME Export Track 100, a list of Britain's top 100 small and medium-sized (SME) companies with the fastest-growing international sales over the past two years.
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The Premio Inicia awards the most innovative companies for product originality, technological contribution and business scalability. The Inicia jury selected companies based on their business potential and their capacity to impact and transform the economy.
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Flyability has been awarded investor’s favorite idea in the clean mobility category during the World Future Energy Summit (WFES), a platform dedicated to the innovation and digitalization trends driving transformation in the global energy mix.
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By Forbes Contributar Suparna Dutt D'Cunha
The past few years have seen a flurry of innovation in drones and their application across many different industries. Since standard outdoor drones suffer several technical constraints when flying indoor due to their reliance on GPS signal and vulnerability to impacts, Flyability designed Elios, which its innovators describes as the “collision-tolerant drone.”
We are pleased to announce that our portfolio company E-Leather (www.eleathergroup.com) has raised £70m, which will be invested in a state-of-the-art facility to meet demand from a range of sectors, from aviation and transport through to consumer sectors.
The Global Cleantech 100 represents the most innovative and promising ideas impacting the future of a wide range of industries, according to the players in the market.
Video: Voltea Releases New CapDI for Horticulture Video!
The study reveals that Telensa has retained its market share lead over Silver Spring Networks, Philips Lighting and Echelon, with almost double the number of deployed smart streetlight nodes as its nearest competitor.
In its decision to choose Wirepas for the award, Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, highlights the strength and fit-for-purpose of Wirepas Connectivity as a product for Massive IoT, versatility regarding different applications, and the business need-driven approach of the company.
Judges’ comment: “ETF was one of a number of GPs in the impact space that had entered, which was great to see. ETF stood out due to its strong sustainability framework, which is embedded in the firm’s investment activities with good examples of strong ESG impact.”
Video: Flyability underground mine inspection at Lac Des Iles
Video: Wirepas Connectivity is a de-centralized radio communications protocol for large-scale IoT applications. What we offer is the protocol software that can be used in any device, with any radio chip and on any radio band.
Rotherham-headquartered specialist metals technology company Metalysis has entered the second phase of its partnership with a Canadian company exploring the use of novel rare earth metal alloys in 3D printed permanent magnets.
ETF Partners today announces a €6m growth equity investment in Corporater, a Norwegian software company that delivers a highly flexible management platform to businesses and organisations around the globe.
“Nike introduces its latest “super material” — engineered specifically with the company’s long-term business and sustainability goals in mind, and manufactured in partnership with UK-based firm E-Leather”. Read the article here
The 2017 ranking winners are Ava, L.E.S.S. and Flyability, startups which are expanding globally and have already raised multi-million financing.
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We are pleased to announce that our portfolio company Vulog (www.vulog.com) has successfully raised $20 million in growth financing.
ETF Partners, Cisco and McRock Capital have invested €8.3 million in operational intelligence specialist Worldsensing. The capital will be used to accelerate its growth in the Smart Cities and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) markets.
Swiss company Flyability offers Elios, a collision-tolerant drone. Instead of relying entirely on necessarily imperfect sense and avoid technology, they take an innovative approach: the drone is inside of a freely rotating cage.
SMEs need government support and encouragement to deliver innovation and operational benefits to the rail industry, writes Roy Freeland, president of Perpetuum Ltd.
