Built environment
Built environment
The construction industry makes up half of all raw materials extracted from earth and half of all waste generated. We invest in solutions that accelerate sustainable construction and living to enable a decarbonisation of the built environment.
We invest in solutions that accelerate sustainable construction and living
The built environment is responsible for a disproportionate share of global emissions, resource use, and waste – yet change has been slow.
Our investment thesis
We back solutions that reduce operational and embodied emissions in buildings, focusing on technologies that are price-competitive, scalable, and ready for adoption in a conservative industry.
What we are looking for
- PropTech and HVAC solutions with measurable impact
- Building retrofitting and on-site renewables
- Upcycled and recycled materials that reduce embodied carbon
Our investments within built environment
We back founders tackling one of the world’s most urgent and overlooked climate frontiers by introducing low-carbon materials and circular construction.
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Circular building products at scale
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Acoustic products made from eelgrass
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“We invest in solutions that make sustainable buildings the default – not the premium option.”
Explore all our investment verticals
- Circular economy
- Built environment
- Biosolutions
- Climate tech
- Energy
- Food & agriculture
Explore all 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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Have a venture where impact and growth scale together? We invest early and work side-by-side powered by the whole Footprint Firm team.
Isabella has built experience in sustainability consulting at The Footprint Firm, working across areas such as ESG strategy development, initiative definitions, KPI setting and roadmap development, GHG inventory calculations and decarbonisation, ESG DD processes, double materiality assessments, and CSRD reporting readiness.
Isabella is very passionate about raising sustainability awareness and creating lasting social impacts. She comes from an international background and has studied in Denmark, India, the USA and Italy, mastering Danish, Spanish, English and Italian fluently. During her master studies, Isabella engaged in 180 Degrees Consulting, the largest and leading social impact student consultancy worldwide where she held a position of consulting director being in charge of client acquisition and guiding consultants on projects.
Isabella holds a Master of Science in Innovation & Global Sustainable Development from Lund University and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Siena. She wrote her Master’s thesis on innovation and climate change adaptation practices in the Costa Rican coffee context, where she spent 4 months conducting research and fieldwork.