Lucy Rands

Partner at ETF Partners (Environmental Technologies Fund)

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Investor and Board Member
Jan 2025
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.
Investor and Board Member
Sep 2024
At Beams, we’re transforming home renovation – making it simpler for homeowners and greener for the planet. We believe that renovating a home should be just as special as living in one. The process should be easy and exciting, not overwhelming. But today, home renovation is often complex, stressful, and full of uncertainty. That’s why we’re rethinking it from the ground up – using technology to match homeowners with the right plan, the right design, and the right people to deliver high-quality, energy-efficient renovations. Since launching in 2022, we’ve built an end-to-end service that guides homeowners through every step of the renovation journey, from planning to design to build. And because we believe the green choice should always be the easy choice, we’re helping people create more energy-efficient homes for a better future for all. At Beams, we move fast, challenge the status quo, and tackle big problems with bold ideas. We value action, simplicity, and positive energy, fostering a culture of openness and always doing the right thing—for homeowners, for builders, and for the planet. If you’re excited by the opportunity to reshape an industry and make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you. For general enquiries, please email: hello@beamsrenovation.com For press enquiries, please email: press@beamsrenovation.com
Board Member
Jul 2022
Our mission is to transform the fashion industry by making it more transparent, sustainable, and responsible. 🌿 We support brands in reducing their environmental footprint and improving social conditions for workers through innovative solutions. ❇️ Our solution FAIRLY MADE® Our 360° B2B SaaS platform empowers brands to: - Track their supply chain with advanced traceability tools. - Measure their environmental and social impact. - Drive sustainable innovation with Ecodesign tools to create better products. With integrated Digital Product Passports, we centralize supplier data securely, simplify compliance, and enable B2C transparency. Join us to build a more sustainable future for fashion 👉🏼 https://eu1.hubs.ly/H02wYzt0
Board Observer
Apr 2020
Bringing the best of AI to the shipping industry, to make vessels and voyages more efficient. Les fuel burned = less cost and lower emissions.
Board Observer
Apr 2019
TravelTime is an API and set of plugins that can calculate travel times to many locations within milliseconds. By mapping multi-modal transport data in 60 countries, we can instantly return thousands of travel times for public transport, driving, walking, cycling or any combination of modes.
Board Observer
Apr 2019
TravelTime is an API and set of plugins that can calculate travel times to many locations within milliseconds. By mapping multi-modal transport data in 60 countries, we can instantly return thousands of travel times for public transport, driving, walking, cycling or any combination of modes.
Board Observer
Aug 2018
The Future of compute: Green, open, efficient - that's the motto of Cloud&Heat Technologies, a Dresden-based cloud service and technology provider. With its vision of holistic, open and sustainable solutions, the company develops and operates scalable digital infrastructures. Their digital infrastructures specifically rely on open source software, especially on the basis of OpenStack (the open source standard for cloud platforms), in order to bring more transparency to the cloud and data center market. In addition, Cloud&Heat Technologies aims to resolve the conflict arising from the rapidly growing demand for computing power (e. g. in the areas of deep and machine learning) and sustainability with the help of innovative technologies such as the use of water-cooled servers and reusing the server waste heat. With their innovative technologies, Cloud&Heat is improving the climate footprint across sectors. Since its foundation in 2011, the Saxon company has established a solid position in a broad network consisting of renowned players from business, research and politics. https://www.cloudandheat.com/imprint/ https://www.cloudandheat.com/privacy-policy/
Board Observer
Jun 2017
Worldsensing is a global IoT pioneer. We are experts in monitoring large-scale and civil infrastructure through IoT remote technology. Together with a global partner network, we serve engineering customers in 70+ countries across mining, construction, rail and structural health.
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2025
Investor and Board Member
Jan 2025
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.
2024
Investor and Board Member
Sep 2024
At Beams, we’re transforming home renovation – making it simpler for homeowners and greener for the planet. We believe that renovating a home should be just as special as living in one. The process should be easy and exciting, not overwhelming. But today, home renovation is often complex, stressful, and full of uncertainty. That’s why we’re rethinking it from the ground up – using technology to match homeowners with the right plan, the right design, and the right people to deliver high-quality, energy-efficient renovations. Since launching in 2022, we’ve built an end-to-end service that guides homeowners through every step of the renovation journey, from planning to design to build. And because we believe the green choice should always be the easy choice, we’re helping people create more energy-efficient homes for a better future for all. At Beams, we move fast, challenge the status quo, and tackle big problems with bold ideas. We value action, simplicity, and positive energy, fostering a culture of openness and always doing the right thing—for homeowners, for builders, and for the planet. If you’re excited by the opportunity to reshape an industry and make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you. For general enquiries, please email: hello@beamsrenovation.com For press enquiries, please email: press@beamsrenovation.com
2022
Board Member
Jul 2022
Our mission is to transform the fashion industry by making it more transparent, sustainable, and responsible. 🌿 We support brands in reducing their environmental footprint and improving social conditions for workers through innovative solutions. ❇️ Our solution FAIRLY MADE® Our 360° B2B SaaS platform empowers brands to: - Track their supply chain with advanced traceability tools. - Measure their environmental and social impact. - Drive sustainable innovation with Ecodesign tools to create better products. With integrated Digital Product Passports, we centralize supplier data securely, simplify compliance, and enable B2C transparency. Join us to build a more sustainable future for fashion 👉🏼 https://eu1.hubs.ly/H02wYzt0
2021
Board Member
Jul 2021
WE FUEL INNOVATION IN THE ENERGY BUSINESS There is a revolution going on in the energy business. Utilities depending on yesterday’s business models will be outsmarted by digital utilities that will serve a society in need of smarter energy solutions. With Utilihive we empower utilities to be ready for the future in months instead of years, enabling them to optimize grid operations, embrace the data economy, and to become a platform operator for smart city applications infrastructure. WHY GREENBIRD AND UTILIHIVE? Utilihive is a unique digital integration hub and iPaaS built for utilities. Greenbird believes that utilities powered by Utilihive can transform from traditional grid operators to platform operators that will create more innovative services in the new digital energy markets. They can be in the driver’s seat for driving innovation. Utilihive is built with cloud native technology and ready for the energy revolution. THE SECRET SAUCE Unlike a traditional approach for system integration for utilities, Greenbird offers out-of-the-box system integration for digital utilities. Forget about failing integration projects, hard-to-maintain solutions, and traditional middleware slowing down innovation. Decades of experience from a wide utility client base is built right into Utilihive. Greenbird is a true DevOps company, delivering unique time-to-market and reliability for Utilihive.
2020
Board Observer
Apr 2020
Bringing the best of AI to the shipping industry, to make vessels and voyages more efficient. Les fuel burned = less cost and lower emissions.
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