Circular economy
Circular economy
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.
We invest in solutions that enable reuse, upcycling and recycling of waste streams
Our linear “take-make-waste” economy is exhausting the planet’s resources. Circularity is essential to decoupling growth from extraction.
Our investment thesis
We invest in technologies that close material loops in the most resource-intensive value chains, focusing on advanced recycling, recovery of high-value materials, and circular resource inputs.
What we are looking for
- Advanced recycling of hard-to-handle waste streams
- Circular materials that replace virgin resources
- Scalable technologies with strong unit economics and feedstock security
Our investment within circular economy
We have backed founders building solutions within reusable products, upcycling and converting non-recyclable plastic fractions to a liquid chemical.
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SemperCycle
Enabling a circular, low-carbon economy for unrecyclable plastics
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“Circularity only works if it scales – we invest where circular solutions can truly replace linear ones.”
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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Come venture with us
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.
Mette brings experience from management consulting, including Rambøll Management Consulting’s Strategy & Sustainability Advisory team. Among others, Mette has project experience from creating and implementing decarbonization roadmaps, due diligence, training sessions and drafting sustainability reports. Mette has solid experience within the renewable energy sector. Moreover, Mette has worked with commercial due diligence and M&A, market analysis and organizational analysis.
Mette has a passion for green transitioning and fostering long-term business opportunities through the transition process. She thrives with complex problem solving and has a broad experience working on engineering-led projects, where her role has been to bridge complex technical insights with areas of commercial interest.
Before consulting, Mette worked with syndicated loans in Nordea and interned at UN Women (The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women).
Mette holds a Master of Science in Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Birmingham.