Our Portfolio
8+ Ventures is super proud to back a diverse range of businesses all doing their part to transform the way we live on the planet
Trine makes it easy for everyone to invest in solar energy in emerging markets where it has the most impact on CO2 avoidance and peoples' lives. Through its crowdfunding platform, Trine investors can get a triple return on their investments, solar companies gains easy access to capital and people in secluded areas gain access to clean energy. Trine has enabled investments of approximately €100 million into solar installations around the planet.
Planboo is a global provider of biochar carbon removal, committed to fighting climate change and fostering global equality. Their cutting-edge technology equips landowners in the tropics to digitally Measure, Report, and Verify (MRV) carbon removal in real time, generating reliable carbon credits that help businesses achieve their net-zero targets. Planboo’s impact is far-reaching both in binding carbon, improving soil health, and increasing farmers’ incomes. Their projects have been supported by tech giants such as Spotify, Klarna and Workday.
LazeraH, building on Professor Leif Holmlid's pioneering work in ultra-dense hydrogen and muon generation, is exploring the frontiers of antimatter technology. Their research into neutron annihilation could potentially unlock a revolutionary new source of clean energy. If successful, LazeraH's innovations might fundamentally transform global energy production, offering a glimpse into a future powered by the mysteries of quantum physics.
Re:Meat is Sweden’s first cultivated meat production company. Animal agriculture is the main reason the global food system emits one third of all green house gases. Re:meat addresses this by developing enabling technologies for cultivating meat, aiming to create a turnkey demo plant in collaboration with strategic industry players. Compared to meat substitutes, cultivated meat requires no consumer behaviour change. More importantly, they reduce their emissions by up to 92% compared to consumption of conventional meat.
Nobon is a financial platform that enables funding in carbon credit projects. It integrates an efficient carbon credit market where investors and sellers can trade, buy and sell carbon credit. The secure and simple platform allows financial capital to flow into communities and smallholder farmers to reinvest in their activites. In other words, Nobon creates impact on both financial inclusion and food security.
Kenyan-based Taimba is revolutionising food access and affordability in Africa’s urban centres by enabling efficient supply chains that tackle the massive challenge of food waste. Through their mobile-based, cashless, B2B eCommerce platform, Taimba connects farmers with small and medium size vendors and supermarkets in African urban markets. Through digitisation of food supply chain, they reduce post-harvest food waste by 90% and lower the cost of daily groceries, while simultaneously improving incomes of both farmers and retailers.
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Arbon Earth utilises the deep sea bed to bind carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Their solution of growing macro-algae on their oceanpods offshore, sinks to the deep ocean when fully grown with binded carbon dioxide. This is a natural process which Arbon Earth is able to scale up and measure. Their carbon dioxide removals are safe and efficient for clients that wish to fight climate change by offsetting their carbon emissions.
Chanzi tackles urban waste management issues in East Africa where such infrastructures are insufficient. Inorganic waste streams such as plastics are recycled into raw materials whilst organic waste is converted into nutritious protein for animal feed and fertilizer using black soldier fly larvae. The feed and fertiliser replace options that are known for inefficient land use and are harmful to the climate and environment. They are also cheaper and increase yields for arable and livestock farmers alike.
Peatlands cover only 3% of the earth's land, but store twice as much carbon as the world's forests. All over the world, peatlands are being drained for farming and peat exploitation. ZukunftMoor provides a solution by rewetting drained peatlands and establishing large-scale farms with sphagnum moss. As a precursor to peat, sphagnum moss can completely replace climate-damaging peat in soils for plant production. ZukunftMoor enables the soil industry to phase out peat, creating new income for farmers in peatland regions and significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.