Jessica Burley

Planet A is a venture capital fund supporting European green tech startups that have a significant positive impact on our planet. Our mission is to promote an economy within the planetary boundaries by supporting innovation in four key areas: climate mitigation, waste reduction, resource savings and biodiversity protection. At Planet A we rely on rigorous scientific impact assessments to inform investment decisions and empower founders to manage and improve their impact. We’re the first European VC with an in-house science team that calculates life cycle assessments to quantify the impact of a startup. Our scientists hold the power to veto investments if there is no significant positive and quantifiable impact.

Planet A is a venture capital fund supporting European green tech startups that have a significant positive impact on our planet. Our mission is to promote an economy within the planetary boundaries by supporting innovation in four key areas: climate mitigation, waste reduction, resource savings and biodiversity protection. At Planet A we rely on rigorous scientific impact assessments to inform investment decisions and empower founders to manage and improve their impact. We’re the first European VC with an in-house science team that calculates life cycle assessments to quantify the impact of a startup. Our scientists hold the power to veto investments if there is no significant positive and quantifiable impact.

We believe that the climate and biodiversity crises are the most pressing challenges of our time, accelerating and worsening all other social and environmental issues. Our purpose is to support mission-driven entrepreneurs to realise their visions of a better planet for current and future generations. We believe that transformative ideas beat incremental ones and that the most valuable companies of our time will be solving our biggest problems. Our current portfolio includes, among others, Tier Mobility (change mobility for good), Planetly (intelligent CO2 management), Klima (climate-conscious living), Fountain9 (AI tackling food waste), Infogrid (smart and energy-efficient buildings), Ahara (sustainable nutrition), Klim (regenerative farming) and 900 Care (refillable products preventing plastic waste).

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