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Impact

Backing start-ups where impact is the business

Impact isn't a metric. It's our mandate. We invest to transform, backing founders whose scalable solutions scale and shift entire industries toward a greener future.

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What we mean by impact investing

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Impact-led by design

We invest only where impact is embedded in the business model - intentional, measurable, and led from the top. Impact must shape mission, strategy, and revenue from day one.

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Meaningful change only

Every investment must clear a high contribution bar. We avoid marginal improvements and back solutions capable of delivering real, measurable, system-level environmental change at scale.

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Net-positive at system level

We assess solutions holistically to ensure they move the world forward without shifting harm elsewhere. Trade-offs are scrutinized to deliver net-positive outcomes across systems.

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Accelerating transformation

We invest where our capital, expertise, and network accelerate impact that would not happen otherwise - helping transformative ventures scale faster and reshape industries decisively.

Impact Report 2024

Our latest 2024 Impact Report provides insights into progress, outcomes, and learnings across our portfolio.

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Our 2024 impact report

Take a look to see how we work with impact, our portfolio companies' current performance and their impact potential.

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Impact stats

  • Avoided tonne CO2e projected in 2035

    3.24m

  • Share of portfolio with a lifecycle assessment

    73%

  • Taxonomy alignment (share of revenue)

    100%

  • Taxonomy alignment (share of CAPEX)

    99.6%

Our portfolio

Deep dive into how our portfolio companies create impact.

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We're on a missoin to decarbonize industries and scale impact solutions. Explore our investment verticals

  • Our current linear ‘take-make-waste’ system use 60% more resources than the earth can generate every year. We invest in solutions that enable reuse, upcycling and recycling of waste streams to enable a circular economy.

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KPIs & policies

Impact KPIs

Our fund impact KPIs define how we measure impact. Rooted in science, they help us assess impact in a rigorous and transparent way. Portfolio companies must contribute significantly to at least one defined impact KPI, embedding measurable positive impact at the core of their business model.

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Responsible Investment Policy

Our Responsible Investment Policy sets out how we integrate environmental, social, and governance considerations across the full investment lifecycle. It guides decision-making, risk management, and active ownership.

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Good Governance Policy

Our Good Governance policy sets out which policies, processes and procedures we help our portfolio companies get into place depending on their size and maturity.

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DNSH Criteria & thresholds

Our 'Do No Significant Harm' criteria and thresholds sets out what we consider to be signifcant harm. We use these criteria and thresholds to ensure our portfolio companies do not cause significant harm on social and environmental objectives.

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SFDR

As an Article 9 impact fund, sustainability is at the core of our investment approach. We provide transparent, sustainability-related disclosures in line with SFDR requirements, ensuring accountability, regulatory alignment, and clarity on how our investments contribute to positive environmental outcomes.

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PAI statements

We consider Principal Adverse Impacts (“PAI”). Take a look at our PAI statements here.

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Sustainability-related disclosures

We're an Article 9 "dark green" fund. Curious what this means? Take a look at our sustainability-related disclosures.

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Come venture with us

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Pitch us

Have a venture where impact and growth scale together? We invest early and work side-by-side powered by the whole Footprint Firm team.

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Super6

Revolutionising supercapacitor performance and value

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Investment vertical

Stage

  • Seed

Website

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The challenge

As the world transitions to a cleaner energy system, delivering reliable high-power electricity remains a major challenge. Current storage solutions struggle with slow charge/discharge rates, limited cycle life, reliance on critical minerals, and safety or temperature limitations. Without breakthrough technologies, industries from transport to datacentres face energy instability, high costs, and barriers to scaling clean power.

The solution

Super6 is developing next-generation supercapacitors that deliver up to 9.5 times higher energy density at 80% lower costs. Their devices charge and discharge rapidly, cycle thousands of times, operate safely across wide temperature ranges, and require no critical minerals. By enabling highly responsive, durable, and cost-effective high-power storage, Super6 provides a foundational technology for a cleaner, more reliable energy system, supporting electrified transport, grid stability, and a sustainable global energy transition.

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