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The race to discover life-saving drugs by sequencing new genomes
Basecamp Research, a 42‑person biotech company based in London, is building a "digital tree of life" by sequencing environmental DNA from remote locations like Malta, the Arctic, Cameroon, Costa Rica, and Point Nemo..
ZeroAvia to build manufacturing hub in scotland
Zero-emission aviation leader will launch a Hydrogen Centre of Excellence and major manufacturing facility close to Glasgow Airport..
InnerPlant named a 2025 BloombergNEF pioneer for climate innovation in agriculture
InnerPlant, the seed technology company engineering crops that communicate their needs, today announced it was named a 2025 BloombergNEF (BNEF) Pioneer for innovation in agriculture..
Machine learning comes to machinery: AI meets manufacturing
Revolutionising production: How AI is reshaping the way we make everything.
Congratulations to Our Newly Promoted Team Members
We are excited to announce three promotions at Systemiq Capital. George Darrah and Jessica Stewart have been promoted to Investment Partner and Partner - COO respectively, while Louis Millon has been promoted to Investment Principal..
The Heat 2024. Electrify Everything: The Power Challenge Behind Data Centres
The surge in AI capex plays into the so called “capex super-cycle”, a combination of technology, energy transition, nearshoring, geopolitics, demographics and public investment..
Farmers are super adopters
We’ve all heard that ‘agriculture has an adoption problem’. Consultants, policy makers, businesses and VC’s alike have cast farmers as luddites, or at best holding outdated views, reluctant to adopt new technologies or regenerative agriculture..
Like it or not: Geo-engineering in space may hold the keys to climate change
The next frontier of SpaceTech solutions is fast approaching. In recent months, SpaceX achieved its greatest feat yet, with Starship completing its first successful test launch and soft simulated landing of both stages..
Systemiq Capital and Purpose Venture Group Partner to Accelerate Climate Solutions
Systemiq Capital and Purpose Venture Group (PVG) have announced a new partnership to accelerate climate solutions into the marketplace. PVG joins as a venture partner..
Proptech can help accelerate real estate decarbonisation
Proptech is a possible superhero that can make it faster, easier and cheaper for real estate investors to align climate goals with investment strategies..
Climate tech will take center stage in 2024
Thanks to a confluence of exciting technology trends, financial incentives, favorable policies and a shifting macroeconomy, 2024 looks set to be a milestone year for climate tech..
The energy transition will be led by companies who are all in
International oil and gas companies are structurally unable to lead the transition to clean energy..
The Beginning Of The End Of The Fossil Fuel Era
What a year it has been! A rollercoaster interest rate environment put an end to a decade of cheap money, deflating risk assets and pushing almost $6 trillion in to money market funds by December 2023..
The key to nature’s intelligence is artificial intelligence
Biological data is uniquely suited to building start-up value in an age of commoditised AI..
Full Speed Ahead
Climate tech is continuing to witness significant tailwinds, spurring governments, corporates, and investors to allocate more funding to climate tech solutions..
Textiles and fashion need a serious makeover
The fashion supply chain is under-digitalized and ready for disruption to become a more climate positive system..
Biology’s prize - the $5trn chemicals industry
Carbon sequestration, manufacturing and recycling – a big net-zero opportunity for biology if it can grow itself out of the lab..
Festive Fun | Systemiq Capital's Q4 2022 Highlights
As we draw to the close of 2022, climate tech continues to boom despite a massive adjustment in the tech industry..
EVs are not enough
Cars in and around cities cost the environment, society, and the economy. Venture Capital can play a role in minimising them..
The case for techno-optimism today
We need techno-optimism grounded in the reality of today not 2030..