As the energy crisis continues to paint a bleak picture across the economic landscape, London-based residential energy services provider Hometree has secured $46m in equity funding to help millions of homeowners enjoy sustainable living by offering low carbon energy solutions in the home.

Green Angel Syndicate has made a further investment in flexible energy marketplace Piclo to support its positive growth into the Series B round.

Piclo, the world’s leading flexibility services marketplace, has closed its Series B funding round and raised £8.3 million to further strengthen its market leading position in the UK and Europe, as well as grow its international presence in the US, and Asia-Pacific. The funds will also support the rapidly growing team and further investment in product development.

Green Angel Syndicate has closed its Climate Change Fund fifth round with a record amount that is almost twice the size of its previous round, raised in less time than ever before.

Smart electricity storage company Powervault has closed a scale-up investment round of £3.8 million from existing and new investors, including Green Angel Syndicate and its Climate Change Fund. This equity investment round has triggered the conversion of £3.1 million in Loan Notes raised in 2020 under the British Business Bank’s Future Fund structure.

Powervault’s ambition is to cement its position and become the undisputed UK market leader for highly functional intelligent battery storage in the brave new world of renewable energy, the smart grid, the internet of things and electric vehicles.

Green Angel Syndicate has invested in pioneering seaweed company, Kelpi as part of the £3 million seed round.

pH3 Capital Ventures has launched its Beyond Blue Accelerator programme to drive the blue green economy. This is the UK’s first funded accelerator providing investment for startups in the wider ports and maritime sector.

Zero Carbon Capital has announced an investment in Actuation Lab, as part of a seed round that we are co-leading with Kero Development Partners, a specialist industrial hardware investor.

Clean Growth Fund has invested £2.5m in measurable.energy as part of its £4.5m Series A funding round. measurable.energy is an award-winning UK start-up technology company that designs and manufactures smart, machine learning enabled power sockets that reduce the energy costs of commercial buildings by more than 20%.

Climate tech start-up IPG has secured £1 million investment following a successful crowdfunding campaign on equity funding platform Seedrs, led by its existing shareholders and private investment fund GreenTribe.

London-based renewable energy investment platform PF Nexus has raised £625,000 in a seed funding round, supported by Angel Investment Network, the world’s largest online angel investment platform.

Nova Pangaea Technologies, the Teesside-based Clean Tech business, has raised £5.25m in a funding round led by Mercia Asset Management Plc, Par Equity and NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), with private investors also participating.

Round 4 of the Green Angel Syndicate EIS & SEIS Climate Change Fund opened on Friday 1st July and closed on 22nd September, having exceeded its minimum funding target by 50%. The round was evenly split between GAS members and non-members, and 45% of investors had invested in one or more previous rounds of the Climate Change Fund.