Zachary Webb

Head of Investments EMEA - Catalyst Funds at M&G Investments

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
12
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Board Observer
Sep 2024
CytoReason is a tech company transforming biopharma’s decision-making from trial and error to data-driven using an AI Platform of computational disease models. With its extensive database of public and proprietary data, the company maps human diseases – tissue by tissue and cell by cell. Researchers of all levels rely on CytoReason’s technology to make data-driven decisions across the drug development life cycle. Scientists can identify potential targets, prioritize indications, and stratify patient populations. Program leaders can compare drugs across multiple diseases or multiple drugs within a single disease. C-level executives can gain valuable tools to manage and optimize entire drug portfolios.
Board Member
Aug 2024
We enable next generation cooling and automation for data & energy-intense environments by integrating our pristine, highly-efficient & sustainable technologies. Solving the challenges of today and powering the use cases of the future. Submer helps enable datacenters that make sense through products, platforms, APIs, processes and installations that will move hyperscalers, colocation and huge industries to new levels of efficiency and innovation.
Board Member
Jul 2022
BRUSA has been innovating power systems for electromobility since 1985. We have seen the decarbonised future coming since then, and we are ready to build it today. As the world moves towards emissions-free mobility, BRUSA HyPower has been established to bring that heritage of innovation to reality. Between power and propulsion, our technology is the intelligent, efficient link that puts hydrogen to work.
Board Member
Jan 2022
Developing Climate Positive Homes for Low Carbon Living
Board Member
Aug 2021
Ardcairn Capital is an established, responsible development finance lender backed by M&G Investments that offers flexible lending solutions from €2m to professional developers who are undertaking residential development projects in the Republic of Ireland.
Board Observer
Oct 2017
Huq is a leading provider of data intelligence, delivering accurate and actionable mobility insights to empower strategic professionals in government, retail, real estate, and finance to make informed decisions with confidence. Founded in 2014, Huq has been at the forefront of utilising cutting- edge technologies and innovative mobility research methods. Today, Huq proudly serves 300+ local councils, investors, as well as some of the largest retail and real estate companies.
Board Member
Jul 2016
Founded in 2008, Airsynergy is one of the most innovative cleantech companies in the world. Airsynergy invents, patent protects, engineers and commercialises revolutionary, renewable power generation technology. Airsynergy products provide reliable, affordable, renewable power, bringing energy independence to places never thought possible. Energy Re-imagined.
Board Member
Jul 2016
FenestraPro is a powerful façade design software that supports the design and construction of beautiful, high-performing buildings. Our platform collaborates with architects to calculate and report how design projects can become more sustainable. From the addition to canopies or changing glazing requirements, FenestraPro reports changes to the design using real-time data calculations, demonstrating to users how they can meet net-zero carbon initiatives and reduce project cost.
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2025
Board Observer
Jan 2025
UBQ Materials transforms hard-to-recycle household waste, including organics, into a climate-positive material that can be used to replace oil-based plastics and composite materials. By using UBQ™ material, brands and manufacturers can reshape how most things are made by helping divert waste from landfills and incinerators, removing and avoiding GHG emissions, and preserving finite natural resources. For some things theres recycling. For everything else, theres UBQ.
2024
Board Member
Nov 2024
Reactive Technologies is a grid resilience technology company helping grid operators, electric utilities, and regulators transition to net zero and ensure resilient renewables-based power grids. Its groundbreaking products, including the first-of-its-kind GridMetrix® technology, bring unprecedented transparency to grid operations by measuring grid inertia and other functions with a high degree of accuracy. Reactive Technologies has worked with some of the most advanced electric utilities in the world and consistently delivers accurate grid data that informs better planning, full utilization of electricity supplies, and cost savings while enabling an accelerated transition to clean energy. It is backed by several of the world’s leading climate tech venture and management firms, including BGF, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Eaton, and Accenture Ventures, and is a 2022 Bloomberg New Energy Finance Pioneers winner. Reactive Technologies has an international presence, with its commercial offices located in the UK, USA and Australia, and its R&D center located in Finland.
Board Observer
Sep 2024
CytoReason is a tech company transforming biopharma’s decision-making from trial and error to data-driven using an AI Platform of computational disease models. With its extensive database of public and proprietary data, the company maps human diseases – tissue by tissue and cell by cell. Researchers of all levels rely on CytoReason’s technology to make data-driven decisions across the drug development life cycle. Scientists can identify potential targets, prioritize indications, and stratify patient populations. Program leaders can compare drugs across multiple diseases or multiple drugs within a single disease. C-level executives can gain valuable tools to manage and optimize entire drug portfolios.
Board Member
Aug 2024
We enable next generation cooling and automation for data & energy-intense environments by integrating our pristine, highly-efficient & sustainable technologies. Solving the challenges of today and powering the use cases of the future. Submer helps enable datacenters that make sense through products, platforms, APIs, processes and installations that will move hyperscalers, colocation and huge industries to new levels of efficiency and innovation.
2022
Head of Investments EMEA - Catalyst Funds
Oct 2022
M&G Investments is a global asset manager. Our network of investment teams connect world-class research capabilities with the diverse experiences and views of experts across multiple asset classes. We call this Intelligence Connected. We’ve been putting our clients at the centre of everything we do for over 90 years. And after launching Europe’s first-ever mutual fund back in 1931, we now invest in public and private assets – including fixed income, equities, multi-asset, real estate, private credit, infrastructure and private equity. Today, we manage over £313bn* on behalf of individual and professional investors, including banks, pension funds, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, charities and advisors. And by investing for our internal client, we further enhance our ability to understand and act on our clients’ objectives. As part of M&G plc, the international savings and investment business, we also have a shared purpose to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. *As at 31 December 2023
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