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OCTD Portfolio Ventures

Ventures within the OCTD portfolio represent diverse array of technologies and business models, each addressing a critical climate or development challenge. These are unique partnerships where OCTD helps innovators achieve commercial success and scale their solutions to a global audience. Our experts support founding teams through commercialisation, sales and accessing new markets, all in aim of transforming credible ideas into sustainable impactful enterprises.

Partner Ventures

Komunidad
(Climate Action Digital Platform)

Singapore / The Philippines

AI powered unified Climate Action Suite that integrates climate risk assessment, sustainability reporting and real-time multi-hazard disaster early warning systems.

LC3 
(Green Cement)

Cuba / Switzerland

A sustainable cement alternative made from limestone and calcined clay blend that reduces CO2 emissions up to 40% without requiring expensive plant modifications.

Allye Energy 
(Energy Storage)

United Kingdom

AI-optimized battery energy storage systems that utilize repurposed EV batteries and high-frequency power electronics to provide synthetic grid inertia and sub-millisecond response.

Circular Food Ecosystem
(AI Agri-tech)

United Kingdom

AI-enabled digital platform that applies predictive supply chain optimization to match retail surplus with redistribution providers, diverting organic waste from landfills and reducing methane GHG emissions.

Green Hand
(Digital Game)

United Kingdom

Culturally inspired role-playing game that integrates Anatolian folklore and Sufi mythology  with climate risk narratives, to engage audiences with contemporary digital storytelling.

Oxford Biodegradable Solutions Limited (OBSL)
(OCTD Spinoff)

United Kingdom

Soil bio-degradable solutions that meet the industry standards and matches the durability of conventional plastic, but biodegrades when it is buried in the soil. Currently under marketing trial and OUI patent filing, proving our model to develop an innovative solution through activating the ecosystem.

GIVE
(Green Hydrogen)

United Kingdom / United States

An Oxford University spinout that utilizes solar-powered seawater electrolysis with electrolyte-assisted polarization to reduce the costs of green hydrogen production.

Uptech Labs
(Agri-tech)

Turkiye

Deep-tech agritech solutions based on photon spectrum algorithms and ultra-efficient LEDs that deliver specific wavelengths to plants, achieving 82.6% energy efficiency and 2x faster seed-to-harvest.

Freshsens
(Agri-tech)

Turkiye

Scaling a wireless IoT-enabled storage technology that extends the shelf-life of high-value perishable produce by up to 400% without chemical preservatives.

VeVax
(Health)

United Kingdom

Addressing urgent unmet needs in bacterial vaccine development through innovative

Outer Membrane Vesicle (OMV) technology.

Nium
(Green Ammonium)

United Kingdom

Decarbonizing the global ammonia market using nanocatalysts and energy-efficient reactors to synthesize ammonia at low pressure and temperature, eliminating the heavy CO2 footprint of traditional process.

Excyton
(TurboLED®)

United Kingdom

Disrupting the display industry with patented TurboLED® technology, which uses stacked, independently controlled pixel units to reduce power consumption by up to 50% while expanding the color gamut to meet Rec. 2020 standards.

Nzatu
(Regenerative Agriculture)

Zambia

Operating Zambian social enterprise integrating regenerative agriculture and biodiversity protection with blockchain-traceable supply chain, enabling to link high-value organic produces to European retail market.

Philanthrify
(Blockchain)

United Kingdom

Restoring trust in the charity sector by a SaaS platform utilizing blockchain and AI to provide transparency and real-time impact reporting for donors, proven to increase donor contributions by 50%.

Are you a climate start-up?
(Submissions welcome)

Worldwide

If you are a climate tech start-up (any stage and subject) and you align with our vision​, contact us now as we would love to learn about your work.

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