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Mission: To give everyone access to human-centred welfare services.
Our Take: The social enterprise is revolutionising welfare services with AI. The latest product, Magic Notes, has already been adopted by 20k+ social workers and is saving them 8 hours of admin a week.
Mission: To help create safe, sustainable, efficient, and attractive workplaces through user-friendly SaaS tools.
Our Take: EcoOnline is tackling unsafe work environments head-on, constantly expanding into new EHS areas (like sustainability and climate risk management) and growing through strategic acquisitions.
Mission: To power people decisions with the truth.
Our Take: Building a fairer future for hiring by using data to uncover bias and drive equitable interviews. With $50M in funding, the team is now developing a suite of “intelligent agents” to empower talent leaders and streamline recruitment.
Mission: To change the way books are published by giving authors and publishers access to talented professionals, powerful tools, and free educational content.
Our Take: Supporting 1M+ authors, they're helping diverse voices ship better books. Fully remote and a culture built on a low-carbon ethos.
Mission: To equip the workforce to win in the AI era.
Our Take: The edtech unicorn is on a mission to shape the workforce of tomorrow, launching a national AI initiative to train 15,000 new AI apprentices over the next two years.
Mission: To power students from low-opportunity backgrounds into top universities and careers
Our Take: In a country with some of Europe’s lowest social mobility, Zero Gravity is making waves. It's boosted lifetime earnings by £270M so far, with eyes set on reaching £1B.
Mission: To make cheap renewable energy accessible for everyone.
Our Take: In just 3 years, Fuse Energy has rocketed from startup to unicorn. Founded by ex-Revolut execs, the company is now channeling its latest funding into Project Zero, a bold initiative to build a decentralised renewable energy network.
Mission: To help decarbonise the world.
Our Take: A core part of the OVO Group, it's been ramping up platform capabilities through strategic acquisitions. The focus is now on accelerating growth in the Australian market.
Mission: To make a big green dent in the universe by building a truly sustainable energy system globally.
Our Take: UK’s largest energy supplier and a major force in renewables investment. Its latest fund is opening the door for pension schemes & private wealth investors to directly support the energy transition.
Read more about Octopus Energy
Mission: To make the power of solar accessible to all UK households.
Our Take: The highest candidate save rate on the list, Sunsave is making major strides. A £113M raise will accelerate rooftop solar deployment across England & Wales, and support new product launches to meet rising demand.
Mission: To make clean power accessible across the world.
Our Take: A leader in battery storage critical to the UK's net zero transition, Zenobē has achieved a major milestone by developing and operationalizing Europe's largest battery site.
Mission: To help homeowners affordably decarbonise their homes and keep them running smoothly.
Our Take: Last year’s £50M funding is set to finance up to 35k residential solar panel systems, batteries, and heat pumps, bringing Hometree closer to its goal of decarbonising over 1 million homes by 2030.
Mission: Helping energy utilities transform operations to improve the lives of 1 billion people by accelerating the energy transition.
Our Take: Spinning out from Octopus to become independent after a staggering 483% profit surge in 2024. It's eyeing expansion into new sectors, including water and broadband.
Mission: To lower carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping our customers reduce theirs at the same time - we call this Plan Zero.
Our Take: Recently launched a new business unit dedicated to renewable energy generation. By repowering existing wind farms, it’s helping push the UK closer to the government’s target of 30GW onshore wind by 2030.
Mission: Rebuilding the energy transaction system, making it transparent and fair.
Our Take: Rewriting the rulebook for B2B energy with a direct model that bypasses traditional market middle men. Already saving businesses over £20 million and matching more than 350,000MWh of renewable energy transactions.
Mission: To build the world's largest energy efficiency platform.
Our Take: Recently out of stealth and off the back of a new rebrand, Zuno is a startup tackling the 34% of global CO₂ emissions produced by buildings.
Mission: To create a world that does more with what we already have by prolonging the lifespan of electronic devices through circularity and repair.
Our Take: One of France's biggest unicorns and a certified B Corp, they’re driving toward profitability with the UK as its fastest-growing market (sales surging 80% year-on-year).
Mission: To accelerate the move to a circular economy.
Our Take: The B-Corp secured £110M in debt financing to fuel growth in its D2C channel and Raylo Pay offering. The payment solution has been a breakout hit, with retailer adoption increasing 10x in the last 6 months.
Read more about Raylo
Mission: To change the world for the better by making refurbished products the new normal.
Our Take: Proving that circular economy and profitability aren't mutually exclusive. They hit profitability this year while expanding across 11 EU countries and saving over 270k tonnes of CO2, 900 tonnes of e-waste, and 94B litres of water.
Mission: To become the number one refillable bathroom brand globally.
Our Take: Following explosive sales growth, acquired by Unilever. Now backed by the consumer giant's distribution networks and R&D capabilities, Wild is positioned to make sustainability truly mainstream.
Read more about Wild
Mission: To transition the world's supply chain to a net-zero economy.
Our Take: Since a $10M funding round, they've been rapidly expanding the product suite to serve the world's most carbon-intensive sectors, including manufacturing and commodities.
Mission: To deepen the understanding of our changing planet and inspire meaningful action.
Our Take: $18M Series A this year and now gearing up for global expansion. Starting in NY, then rolling out across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Read more about Climate X
Mission: To enable companies to effectively decarbonize and transform their business sustainably in light of financial implications.
Our Take: Following Series A funding, focused on international expansion and product development. Announced a major new partnership with Zalando demonstrating carbon management's far-reaching industry impact.
Read more about Cozero
Mission: To provide reliable, globally recognized sustainability rating and insights, enabling all companies to reduce risk, drive improvement and accelerate positive impact on our planet and society.
Our Take: Riding the wave of stepped-up ESG reporting, EcoVadis operates across 250+ industries worldwide and leads the space with large clients including Johnson & Johnson and Unilever.
Mission: To revolutionise business sustainability, starting with waste and recycling.
Our Take: With consistent 20%+ YoY growth over the past decade, completed two strategic acquisitions this year alone to significantly scale its UK and London capabilities.
Read more about First Mile
Mission: To improve recycling efficiency and minimise the environmental impact of waste.
Our Take: Last month launched Deepnest, the world's first AI-powered waste intelligence platform. If globally deployed, it could unlock up to $100 billion in recyclable value annually by 2040.
Mission: To make known and reduce the sustainability impact of all economic activities on the planet.
Our Take: Expanding across Nordic, EU and UK markets. Its acquisition of Eivee last year significantly expanded market reach and capability to serve major European corporations.
Read more about Normative
Mission: To make it easy to do good on a global scale.
Our Take: Partners include LinkedIn, Canva, and Atlassian, and in 2024 facilitated over $3 billion in charity donations, triple the previous year. Fresh Series A funding will fuel product development.
Read more about Goodstack
Mission: To create brighter financial futures for millions of people.
Our Take: The financial wellbeing platform serves 300+ organizations across 100 countries, counting Samsung, PayPal and Virgin Atlantic among its impressive client roster.
Mission: To empower businesses to grow by providing a smart payment option that grows with their business.
Our Take: One of it’s key offerings, Pliant Earth, tracks and compensates CO2 emissions from business travel. A new partnership with Conferma expands access across Europe, scaling climate-conscious corporate spending.
Read more about Pliant
Mission: To build the UK's greener, digital bank providing hard-working people across the UK with sustainable ways to save, borrow and spend.
Our Take: Reported its third consecutive profitable year with £572M in green and 'pathway to green' lending, empowering customers toward lower-carbon lifestyles while saving money.
Read more about Tandem
Mission: To lead a change in one of the oldest industries on the planet.
Our Take: With an ambitious 2030 vision to enable transparent, sustainable, waste-free global food movement, Choco is already making a major impact across 6 countries, connecting 10k suppliers with 15k restaurants.
Read more about Choco
Mission: To revolutionise corporate catering by delivering innovative, tailored meal solutions that meet the needs of the modern workplace.
Our Take: Following its acquisition by Berlin-based EatFirst, it's been expanding its offering and pushing into new European markets including the Netherlands and Germany.
Mission: To be the most-loved way to eat dinner.
Our Take: After delivering a second consecutive year of profitability, it’s now shifting to growth mode, directly challenging supermarkets and takeaways to reshape the mainstream dinner market.
Read more about Gousto
Mission: To inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste together.
Our Take: The B Corp is making massive strides against food waste in Europe and the US, saving 400M meals through 175k partners. A potential new funding round could catapult it to unicorn status.
Read more about Too Good To Go
Mission: To make patients healthier and healthcare staff happier.
Our Take: This year, launched Accurx Scribe with Tandem Health, an AI scribe tool saving hours weekly for the current 200k users across GP practices, hospitals, and mental health settings.
Read more about Accurx
Mission: Creating a more confident world, where everyone can take control of their health to lead happier and healthier lives.
Our Take: Experiencing rapid growth across US, UK and EU markets with global revenue more than doubling between 2023-2024. Serves millions through top brands including Dermatica, MedExpress, and ZipHealth.
Read more about HeliosX
Mission: To use AI and machine learning methods to accelerate and improve the drug discovery process.
Our Take: Google DeepMind's drug discovery spin-off raised $600M this year, positioning for a major milestone: AI-designed drugs entering clinical trials by year-end.
Mission: To improve the clinical research experience and build a better clinical research organization.
Our Take: Raised Series B to develop its platform, Citrus. As the only major provider offering fully integrated CRO services, it's well positioned to disrupt the $112B CRO industry.
Read more about Lindus Health
Mission: To amplify the impact of healthcare professionals.
Our Take: Closed $15M Series B to consolidate UK market position and expand in France. Already leading among independent clinics, and it's now gaining increasing adoption by large operators.
Read more about Semble
Mission: To simplify payments in primary care and automate crucial, administrative tasks for the support team by providing an integrated platform.
Our Take: Helps professionals focus on patients while making private healthcare more accessible. Rapid growth secured a £750M forward flow agreement.
Mission: To use AI and machine learning methods to accelerate and improve the drug discovery process.
Our Take: The global charitable foundation plans to deploy £16B over the next decade, tackling three critical challenges: mental health, infectious disease, and climate and health.
Mission: To improve the health and wellbeing of every girl and woman worldwide.
Our Take: Recent funding propelled Flo to unicorn status. With 76M monthly active users, the company is eyeing strategic acquisitions while expanding into the perimenopause space.
Read more about Flo
Mission: To ensure that everyone who wants a family, has the chance to try.
Our Take: 15% need fertility assistance but only 2% accessing it. Gaia has broadened offerings to include egg freezing, donation, and embryo batching. $14M funding will support scaling in US.
Mission: Extend the healthy years of lives for a large part of the population focusing on life-impeding conditions like hormonal imbalance, obesity, hair loss and menopause.
Our Take: Raised £29M to build international presence, particularly in Brazil and underserved markets, while accelerating product development to optimize patient outcomes.
Read more about MANUAL
Mission: To empower people to take control of their health.
Our Take: Following its first profitable year in 2024, Numan secured a $60M funding round in July. This will be used to fuel expansion into female health, enhance screening & preventative care programs, and drive international growth.
Mission: To make running training effective, enjoyable and easy for everyone.
Our Take: Major acquisition by Strava aims to create the world's biggest fitness app. Runna maintains independent operations while integrating with Strava's platform for enhanced user value.
Read more about Runna
Mission: To change the face of skincare.
Our Take: Successfully disrupting skincare with 100% year-on-year growth and £10M Series B funding in 2023. Since then, have continued to innovate personalized products and secured key partnerships with John Lewis & Boots.
Mission: To make top-quality service convenient and accessible worldwide.
Our Take: Ramping up expansion in the US and Middle East while strengthening its EU base. In London, over half of journeys are now electric, a number set to climb thanks to new partnerships.
Mission: To build the most-loved delivery network at scale, powered entirely by electricity, for a delivery experience you can actually look forward to: fast, reliable and uncomplicated.
Our Take: With new funding, Hived is accelerating driver recruitment and expanding to more UK cities.
Mission: To make sending and receiving parcels a breeze.
Our Take: The eco-friendly parcel delivery business plans to invest nearly £600 million in UK operations through 2029. This ambitious expansion is already visible through its strategic acquisition of Yodel.
Mission: To lead the transition towards Net Zero here in the UK and abroad.
Our Take: Achieved a stellar 160% growth in 2024 and landed fresh funding to meet surging demand for both new and used EVs.
Read more about The Electric Car Scheme
Mission: To make train travel as smooth as possible to allow travellers to make greener travel choices.
Our Take: Europe’s #1 rail travel platform is putting AI at the core of its strategic vision to accelerate product development and innovation.
Mission: To enable every innovation that leads to clean energy future.
Our Take: Raised a Series A this year to scale partnerships with automakers & energy device manufacturers, grow its team, and support new clients, paving the way for wider EV adoption.
Mission: To empower opportunities through sustainable transportation.
Our Take: Achieved profitability in UK & Ireland operations while delivering explosive 175% YoY revenue growth in the US. Impressive clients include Amazon, Barclays and UPS, a $23M funding round is fueling continued expansion.
