Bekir Sami Acar

Energy transition investor

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2021
VC🌍 United Kingdom
11
Total investments
2
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4
Mid stage
2
Late stage
17y
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Portfolio

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Mar 2021
QLM Technology Ltd is a UK-based photonics technology and analytics company with operations in England, Wales and California. QLM has developed a unique, patented Quantum Gas Lidar that can detect, visualize, locate and accurately quantify emission rates of greenhouse gases (GHGs), enabling customers to identify their largest GHG emitters for remediation in the most cost-effective manner. QLM’s lidar technology is inherently scalable to low cost at high volume, enabling wide deployment.
Investor
Jun 2020
The app for sustainable investments. Make an impact on climate change with your savings. Capital at risk.
Investor
Apr 2020
Thrift+ is the pre-loved fashion marketplace. We want to end fashion waste. By making secondhand seamless. Shop over 500,000 clothes from top high street and designer brands. All quality checked by us. All packaged and shipped by us. Moneyback guarantees and 30 day returns? Another plus. Recirculate your pre-owned clothes and earn Thrift+ Credits. We take care of the listing, packing and shipping. We’re Thrift+. We love pre-loved.
mid stageRetail
Investor
Nov 2018
BetterPoints has been changing behaviours in transport and health since 2010. We combine behaviour change science with our unique technology and targeted communications. Whether you want people to walk to the park, cycle to work, wheel to the shops, use public transport in town, attend an event, engage with a consultation, recycle more… BetterPoints campaigns motivate them to do it and make it engaging and rewarding. BetterPoints programmes cycle repeatedly through four key steps – Gamification, Tracking, Rewards, and Messaging – to motivate new activities until they become new behaviours. We combine rewards, technology and expertise with more than 40 behaviour change techniques. BetterPoints programmes produce masses of anonymised data to build graphs, charts and heatmaps for analysis, reporting and modelling, for example: – CO2 emissions avoided – Transport habits – Healthy activity – Calories burned – Behaviour change We combine user-generated data (waypoints, transport modes, speed, time, duration, eligibility, rewards), with demographic data (age, gender, postcode etc) and survey responses. BetterPoints works with clients across all sectors in the UK, Europe and beyond.
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Oct 2018
Piclo’s mission is to decarbonise the grid. We develop software solutions that make our energy networks smarter, flexible and more sustainable. Piclo Max, our market access platform, enables flex sellers (such as EV and battery owners) to access all electricity markets from one place. Piclo Flex, our flexibility services marketplace, enables flex buyers (system operators) to source flexible electricity from flex sellers during times of high demand or low supply. To date, Piclo has over 300,000 registered flexible assets representing 22 GW of registered flex capacity, with flexibility contracts awarded totalling £74m and 2.6 GW+ of flexible capacity procured. Piclo currently operates in six global markets: in the UK, supporting all six Distribution System Operators (UK Power Networks, SP Energy Networks, Electricity North West, Northern Powergrid, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks and National Grid Electricity Distribution); and the Transmission System Operator (TSO) (the ESO); in Ireland (ESB Networks), Italy (E-Distribuzione), Portugal (E-REDES)); in Australia (CitiPower, Powercor); and in the United States in New York State (National Grid) and Connecticut (United Illuminating). Aside from its leading position in the UK, Piclo has a growing presence in Europe, USA and the Asia-Pacific.
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May 2018
At Powervault, we are on a mission to pioneer a sustainable energy future. We provide the most intelligent, economic and sustainable energy storage systems for homes and businesses. Our products store solar energy and affordable electricity from the grid, helping save you money while you help protect the environment. We design and manufacture Powervault here in the UK. In its initial market application the product stores ‘free’ electricity generated by solar panels during the day, then releases the stored energy during the evening when household demand peaks, delivering a 50% reduction on electricity bills. The initial addressable UK market of 1m solar PV owners is about to expand rapidly as regulation drives the roll out of smart meters enabling ‘smart tariffs’. This will allow any of the 26m UK homes to benefit from storing electricity when it is cheap to use at expensive ‘peak’ times.
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Apr 2018
Beam is a leading deep technology company, using AI and autonomy on robotic ships and underwater robots to service offshore wind farms. Beam is empowering the global energy transition by delivering cutting edge automation that provides immediate time and cost savings across all lifecycle stages of a wind farm. Our mission is to change ways of working in the sector and improve the commercial case for offshore wind compared to oil and gas. Headquartered in the UK and recognised as one of Europe’s fastest growing tech companies, Beam operates across global markets and employs over 200 people.
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Dec 2017
CODA provides innovative energy and asset solutions that help commercial and industrial customers to reduce their energy costs and improve their environmental performance. Where many other solutions focus on the monitoring and data elements, CODA goes one step further, delivering control of individual energy consuming assets with our patented edge-based devices and software.
Experience · 16 entries
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Investments (11)
Founder (1)
Board (3)
2021
Investor
Mar 2021
QLM Technology Ltd is a UK-based photonics technology and analytics company with operations in England, Wales and California. QLM has developed a unique, patented Quantum Gas Lidar that can detect, visualize, locate and accurately quantify emission rates of greenhouse gases (GHGs), enabling customers to identify their largest GHG emitters for remediation in the most cost-effective manner. QLM’s lidar technology is inherently scalable to low cost at high volume, enabling wide deployment.
2020
Investor
Jun 2020
The app for sustainable investments. Make an impact on climate change with your savings. Capital at risk.
Investor
Apr 2020
Thrift+ is the pre-loved fashion marketplace. We want to end fashion waste. By making secondhand seamless. Shop over 500,000 clothes from top high street and designer brands. All quality checked by us. All packaged and shipped by us. Moneyback guarantees and 30 day returns? Another plus. Recirculate your pre-owned clothes and earn Thrift+ Credits. We take care of the listing, packing and shipping. We’re Thrift+. We love pre-loved.
mid stageRetail
2018
Investor
Nov 2018
BetterPoints has been changing behaviours in transport and health since 2010. We combine behaviour change science with our unique technology and targeted communications. Whether you want people to walk to the park, cycle to work, wheel to the shops, use public transport in town, attend an event, engage with a consultation, recycle more… BetterPoints campaigns motivate them to do it and make it engaging and rewarding. BetterPoints programmes cycle repeatedly through four key steps – Gamification, Tracking, Rewards, and Messaging – to motivate new activities until they become new behaviours. We combine rewards, technology and expertise with more than 40 behaviour change techniques. BetterPoints programmes produce masses of anonymised data to build graphs, charts and heatmaps for analysis, reporting and modelling, for example: – CO2 emissions avoided – Transport habits – Healthy activity – Calories burned – Behaviour change We combine user-generated data (waypoints, transport modes, speed, time, duration, eligibility, rewards), with demographic data (age, gender, postcode etc) and survey responses. BetterPoints works with clients across all sectors in the UK, Europe and beyond.
Investor
Oct 2018
Piclo’s mission is to decarbonise the grid. We develop software solutions that make our energy networks smarter, flexible and more sustainable. Piclo Max, our market access platform, enables flex sellers (such as EV and battery owners) to access all electricity markets from one place. Piclo Flex, our flexibility services marketplace, enables flex buyers (system operators) to source flexible electricity from flex sellers during times of high demand or low supply. To date, Piclo has over 300,000 registered flexible assets representing 22 GW of registered flex capacity, with flexibility contracts awarded totalling £74m and 2.6 GW+ of flexible capacity procured. Piclo currently operates in six global markets: in the UK, supporting all six Distribution System Operators (UK Power Networks, SP Energy Networks, Electricity North West, Northern Powergrid, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks and National Grid Electricity Distribution); and the Transmission System Operator (TSO) (the ESO); in Ireland (ESB Networks), Italy (E-Distribuzione), Portugal (E-REDES)); in Australia (CitiPower, Powercor); and in the United States in New York State (National Grid) and Connecticut (United Illuminating). Aside from its leading position in the UK, Piclo has a growing presence in Europe, USA and the Asia-Pacific.
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