Christian Hernandez Gallardo

VC Investor accelerating our sustainable transition

📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
16
Total investments
5
Early stage
6
Mid stage
4
Late stage
12y
Years active

Portfolio

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Investor & Board Member
Jan 2024
AtmosZero is reimagining the boiler room for a decarbonized future. Our electrified Boiler 2.0 has drop-in applicability across industry, the built environment, and wherever steam is used today.
Investor & fomer Board Member
Apr 2023
Hometree is a home energy services company on a mission to accelerate the transition to net zero. By fixing, installing and financing home energy hardware, were helping homeowners transition to low-carbon living, when they’re ready. Heating is responsible for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. If were serious about hitting those net zero goals to mitigate the climate emergency, we need to act. The transition has already begun but it’s a mammoth task and it won’t happen overnight. We know the challenges on the table – with soaring energy costs, expensive heat pumps and home infrastructure challenges, homeowners are left with many pressing questions - which option should I choose - heat pump or hydrogen boiler? Who will install the equipment - and- how will I afford it? Thats where Hometree comes in. We understand that homeowners will make the journey at their own pace - and our role is to assist them along the way. Today, we offer boiler and home emergency cover - but we’re rapidly expanding our products and services to install and finance low-carbon home energy hardware, so that we can help steer more UK homeowners to a cleaner and brighter future. Decarbonisation will transform the way we all heat our homes and this is just the start of the Hometree journey. Lets transform home energy together.
late stageUtilities
Investor & Board Member
Jun 2022
Blue Frontier has pioneered an innovative smart air conditioning system that operates with ultra-high efficiency. By adjusting the concentration of a salt solution, we achieve cooling with minimal energy consumption. This breakthrough enables our air conditioner to utilize less than half the electricity conventional systems require. Moreover, our A/C can operate without drawing electricity during its functioning, allowing us to shift energy consumption to non-peak periods—when electricity costs are lower and predominantly sourced from renewable energy. Beyond the imperative of energy conservation, our air conditioning system stands out as a superior alternative. Our technology enables the independent regulation of humidity and air temperature, a feat challenging to achieve with traditional A/C systems. Combined with intelligent distributed control systems, this capability ensures a consistent optimal comfort experience—never too hot or too cold, but just right.
mid stageManufacturing
Investor and Board Member
Feb 2022
LEKO Labs is accelerating the global transition to carbon negative construction with building materials powered by AI optimization and robotic manufacturing.
Investor and Board Member
Sep 2021
At Ampd, we bring pure power to your challenging environments, transforming the construction industry into a more sustainable future for all. Our focus is on driving the energy transition, using state-of-the-art battery energy storage technologies, connectivity and data science to electrify, connect and optimize the industrial and construction sectors. We’ve developed the Ampd Enertainer™, an advanced and compact energy storage system (ESS) to replace the dirty, noisy and hazardous diesel generators that power the world’s construction. Know when, where and how your clean, quiet power is used. Get connected!
Board Member & Investor
Jun 2021
Nodes & Links is a pioneering technology company that partners with global leaders in project delivery, spanning large-scale infrastructure projects like roads, energy, and rail, to hyperscale construction projects such as data centers. Our platform leverages proprietary, peer-reviewed AI technology to provide instant access to critical project insights, automate complex workflows, and support smarter decision-making. As a result, projects are delivered faster, more sustainably, and at less cost. Find out more at nodeslinks.com.
Board Observer & Investor
Aug 2020
Concrete That Matters: CarbonCure Technologies is on a mission to make concrete a climate solution, reducing embodied carbon emissions in the built environment and transforming concrete plants into a worldwide network of carbon removal factories. Across the global concrete industry, CarbonCure is scaling an integrated decarbonization platform, offering concrete producers a suite of hardware, software and services to reduce the carbon footprint of their concrete products, reduce their production costs and meet the surging demand for green building materials without compromising performance. CarbonCure’s technologies are retrofitted into concrete plants without disrupting operations and seamlessly integrate with existing batching processes. CarbonCure injects captured CO₂ across the concrete manufacturing process, with commercialized solutions for ready mix concrete, precast concrete and reclaimed water. Upon injection, CO₂ immediately mineralizes in concrete, becoming permanently embedded. Even if a structure is later demolished, the nanoparticles of mineralized carbon will not return to the atmosphere. This mineralization also enables producers to reduce the amount of cement needed for each batch of concrete. Carbon XPRIZE Grand Prize winner, Cleantech 100 Hall of Fame Company and a category leader in low carbon concrete technologies and carbon removal, CarbonCure delivers a true win-win, with climate benefits for the world and economic benefits for concrete producers in one of the worlds hardest-to-decarbonize industries. For more information, visit carboncure.com.
late stageConstruction
Board Observer & Investor
Jan 2018
Unacast is a global location intelligence and insights company transforming our understanding of human activity in the physical world. Using state-of-the-art machine learning and artificial intelligence, Unacast extracts valuable information from location data, delivering trustworthy, reliable, and privacy-friendly location intelligence. Companies across industries, at every stage of growth, rely on Unacast’s actionable human mobility insights to make more informed decisions that better align with the world around them. For more information, please visit unacast.com.
Board Member & Investor
Oct 2017
LloydsDirect by LloydsPharmacy. Order, track and get reminders for your NHS prescriptions – all in one place. With free delivery or collection at LloydsPharmacy.
Board Member & Investor
Jul 2016
Red Sift enables organizations to anticipate, respond to, and recover from cyber attacks while continuing to operate effectively. The award-winning Red Sift application suite is the only integrated solution that combines four interoperable applications, internet-scale cybersecurity intelligence, and innovative generative AI that puts organizations on a robust path to cyber resilience. Red Sift is a global organization with offices in North America, Australia, Spain, and the UK. It boasts a global client base across all industries, including Domino’s, ZoomInfo, Athletic Greens, Pipedrive, and top global law firms. Red Sift is also a trusted partner of Entrust, Microsoft, Cisco and Validity, among others. Learn more at redsift.com. The Red Sift Pulse Platform A Digital Resilience Platform built for an evolving attack surface. Applications loved and trusted by 1,000+ organizations to protect your infrastructure, domains and email are brought together, sharing insights and learning. OnDMARC Award-winning, cloud-based DMARC, DKIM and SPF configuration and management. Certificates Continuous certificate discovery and monitoring. Brand Trust AI-driven brand impersonation discovery and monitoring. ASM ​​Automated, continuous attack surface management.
Board Observer & Investor
Mar 2016
Credit where its due. Backed by Experian.
Board Observer & Investor
Sep 2014
We’re on a mission to get people out more. We’ve always believed that a gig can change lives. So in 2014, we created a platform for fans to experience more of the shows they love. From music legends and world-renowned festivals to underground club nights and artists who are just starting out, we search high and low to bring fans around the world incredible live shows and streams. Want to know more? www.dice.fm.
Board Member & Investor
Sep 2014
Hole19 is the platform connecting the world of golf. On the consumer side we are building great on-course & off-course experiences for golfers in over 150 countries. A mobile platform allowing golfers to plan & track their rounds of golf, as well as a social platform to connect with other golfers and golf courses. On the B2B side, Hole19 offers tools for golf courses to engage with & acquire new customers. Were looking to reinforce our Engineering Team. Check out our career page for more information. More on www.hole19golf.com
Board Member
Jul 2014
Adglow collaborates with advertisers and agencies around the world to upscale their social advertising campaigns. We combine technology and services to reach engaged audiences, drive impactful campaigns, and create new efficiencies. With 500 customers served by experienced staff in 15 countries, we are the global leader in social media advertising services. Our proprietary technology increases the effectiveness of advertiser’s social media advertising campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat. Tik Tok and Amazon. Our expert teams work with advertisers to make social advertising a sustainable and profitable part of their media mix. If youre looking for a partner with the experience to help you navigate an ever increasingly complex marketplace that puts as much emphasis on people as it does technology, then we would love to speak you and discuss the best way to support you.
Board Member & Investor
Apr 2014
KeyMe Locksmiths is the nation's most trusted 24-hour emergency locksmith providing guaranteed service quality. KeyMe locksmiths specialize in residential and commercial lockouts, lock repair and installation, vehicle key fob replacement, door re-keying, and key copying. Our network of self-service kiosks are located in thousands of retail locations across the country supporting duplication of brass keys as well as sophisticated electronic keys such as RFID and vehicle transponder keys. KeyMe is growing rapidly and has raised over $150M from top-tier investors including Battery Ventures, BlackRock, Brentwood, Comcast Ventures, Questmark Partners, Ravin Gandhi, RiverPark, and White Star Capital. For more information, please visit www.key.me/kiosks to find a KeyMe location near you or contact us at support@key.me or (855) 343-5776.
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Board (16)
2024
Investor & Board Member
Jan 2024
AtmosZero is reimagining the boiler room for a decarbonized future. Our electrified Boiler 2.0 has drop-in applicability across industry, the built environment, and wherever steam is used today.
2023
Partner & Member of the Executive Leadership Council
May 2023
Urban Partners is a leading European urban investment manager, owner and operator with a 20-year track record of delivering strong, risk-adjusted returns through market cycles. We develop and actively manage high-quality assets in prime locations across Northern Europe. Urban Partners was founded as Nrep in 2005. Urban Partners has more than €25 billion in assets under management through multiple strategies across the capital structure. We invest with high conviction in urban environments where we see strong, resilient economies and outsize growth potential.
Investor & fomer Board Member
Apr 2023
Hometree is a home energy services company on a mission to accelerate the transition to net zero. By fixing, installing and financing home energy hardware, were helping homeowners transition to low-carbon living, when they’re ready. Heating is responsible for 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. If were serious about hitting those net zero goals to mitigate the climate emergency, we need to act. The transition has already begun but it’s a mammoth task and it won’t happen overnight. We know the challenges on the table – with soaring energy costs, expensive heat pumps and home infrastructure challenges, homeowners are left with many pressing questions - which option should I choose - heat pump or hydrogen boiler? Who will install the equipment - and- how will I afford it? Thats where Hometree comes in. We understand that homeowners will make the journey at their own pace - and our role is to assist them along the way. Today, we offer boiler and home emergency cover - but we’re rapidly expanding our products and services to install and finance low-carbon home energy hardware, so that we can help steer more UK homeowners to a cleaner and brighter future. Decarbonisation will transform the way we all heat our homes and this is just the start of the Hometree journey. Lets transform home energy together.
late stageUtilities
Investor & Board Member
Apr 2023
Decarbonizing the Worlds Legacy Buildings Kelvin’s technology reduces wasted energy, saves money, and enables pinpoint temperature control for apartments in legacy buildings.
2022
Investor & Board Member
Jun 2022
Blue Frontier has pioneered an innovative smart air conditioning system that operates with ultra-high efficiency. By adjusting the concentration of a salt solution, we achieve cooling with minimal energy consumption. This breakthrough enables our air conditioner to utilize less than half the electricity conventional systems require. Moreover, our A/C can operate without drawing electricity during its functioning, allowing us to shift energy consumption to non-peak periods—when electricity costs are lower and predominantly sourced from renewable energy. Beyond the imperative of energy conservation, our air conditioning system stands out as a superior alternative. Our technology enables the independent regulation of humidity and air temperature, a feat challenging to achieve with traditional A/C systems. Combined with intelligent distributed control systems, this capability ensures a consistent optimal comfort experience—never too hot or too cold, but just right.
mid stageManufacturing
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