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Elbow Beach is pleased to announce it has partnered with Imperial College London on the MSc Cleantech Innovation Programme, a joint postgraduate programme between the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment and the Dyson School of Design Engineering, designed for the next generation of cleantech innovators. Jonathan Pollock, CEO of Elbow Beach, will begin Elbow Beach’s contribution to the programme on 1st December 2025, with a keynote lecture and ideation workshop.

Elbow Beach is pleased to announce a £1.5 million investment in Upcycled Plant Power (UPP), a pioneering UK food-tech company creating sustainable, hypoallergenic vegetarian protein products from previously wasted broccoli crops.

Elbow Beach is pleased to announce its further investment in Allye Energy, who today announced it has successfully completed a $2.5 million seed funding round to accelerate deployment of its smart battery energy storage technology, backed by strong commercial momentum with a confirmed order book of$2.7 million and project pipeline exceeding $10.7 million. The strategic funding combines equity and debt financing, providing flexible capital to support the scale up of manufacturing and delivery of energy storage systems to both grid-connected and off-grid applications where traditional power infrastructure is unavailable or insufficient.

Elbow Beach has invested in sees.ai, the UK’s leading autonomous aerial solutions pioneer, as part of a £3.65million funding round alongside Sustainable Future Ventures, Hearst Ventures and WakeUp Capital. This funding will accelerate sees.ai’s ability to deliver unprecedented insights that transform how critical infrastructure is designed, developed and managed nationally and internationally.

Elbow Beach backs Glasgow-based pioneer as demand surges for zero-emission all-terrain vehicles in mining, defence and construction sectors. Preliminary customer orders for 246 vehicles equating to value of £17,388,8902 expected to create up to 300 new manufacturing jobs in Scotland.

Cornerstoned by the British Business Bank, Elbow Beach’s second fund has secured £63M in commitments to date, including up to £50M from the Bank itself. The fund aims to back up to 36 UK startups over four years, supporting pioneering technology solutions to major industry challenges. This follows the success of Elbow Beach’s first £20M fund.

Elbow Beach Capital announces its further investment in battery technology company Anaphite. Anaphite has raised a $13.7 million Series A round, which was co-led by World Funds and Maniv.

Elbow Beach Capital announces its further investment support of battery technology company Anaphite. The overall funding of £1.6m consists of £685k grant funding via the Investor Partnerships Future Economy programme and more than £880k committed by private investors.

Elbow Beach is pleased to announce a £1m follow-on investment in Munro Vehicles, a manufacturer of all-electric 4x4 vehicles and Scotland’s only volume production car company. This investment takes Elbow Beach’s commitment to Munro to £1.7m+ and it remains Munro’s largest single investor.

On this year’s International Day of Climate Action, Elbow Beach Capital hosted its first ever Portfolio Day. The theme of the day was ‘Catalysing Sustainable Growth’, and it explored how start-ups can successfully balance risk management alongside commercial development to unlock sustainable growth.

Elbow Beach Capital has invested £1.5m into Fieldwork Robotics, developers of the world's first autonomous raspberry harvesting robot. The robot, named Alpha, analyses the crop, decides when to harvest the raspberries, and places them in punnets ready for delivery to supermarkets.

Elbow Beach Capital is pleased to announce that The Elbow Beach Foundation is supporting three new charities, Energy Sparks, Beefy’s Charity Foundation, set up by former England Cricket Captain Ian Botham, and Coeliac UK.

Elbow Beach Capital has led a £900k seed investment round into battery technology and energy storage pioneers, Allye. Allye provides distributed energy storage at the grid edge working in partnership with electricity networks to accelerate decarbonisation while enabling end-users to lower energy costs by up to 50%.

Elbow Beach Capital is delighted to become the latest member of the Green Finance Institute.

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