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Future Planet Capital announces Partnership with Owl Ventures
Future Planet Capital, the world’s first global platform to invest in leading…
The Budget: Where are the International Investors?
Excellent news for British Innovation this week as the Chancellor unveiled measures to unlock over…
The Budget: Fully Driverless Cars on UK Roads by 2021
This week, Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Budget announced government support for driverless cars. Amid pledges of…
Managers hard at work on sustainable development
As a number of pension funds around the world come to grips with implementing the…
Private Equity For Public Impact
Few people are more familiar with the intricate and complex realities of “double bottom-line” investing than Elias Masilela. In his almost-four-year tenure as CEO of the US$140 billion South African Public Investment Corporation (PIC), the asset manager for Africa’s largest pension fund (GEPF), he not only grappled with the integration of investment goals and socioeconomic influence: he championed it on the global stage.
Patience is a Virtue
This week, we discuss our submission to the Government's recent consultation 'Financing Growth in Innovative Firms'. Published last month as part of the 'Patient Capital Review', the consultation sets out research and proposals for how Britain can provide the long-term capital required to scale and grow innovative companies. The results of the review are set to inform part of Phillips Hammond's Autumn Budget on 22 November.
Patient Capital? Time for a national database to match investors with innovators
Last November, the Treasury launched the Patient Capital Review. Its aim was to identify the…
University start-ups aim for the Facebook formula – The Financial Times
Earlier this year, Future Planet Capital, a global innovation platform, announced the launch of…
All Work and All Play for Imperial’s SAM Labs
On the back of a $4.5 million Seed financing round in 2015, SAM Labs – dubbed “the Lego of the internet generation” – has ramped up its mission to take its child-friendly electronic engineering toys from the playroom to the classroom. The three-year-old start-up is now winning recognition for its educational impact, including a 2017 Future Planet Award. FPB recently caught up with CEO Joachim Horn.
Refrigeration Revolution
Today, the winner of the 2017 Future Planet Award for Healthcare is diversifying beyond its undoubtedly successful roots – keeping life-saving vaccines cold “off the grid” in some of the world’s poorest countries – and looking to take on the $90 billion* global refrigeration industry. This means new partnerships, new prototypes and, importantly, new potential investors. FPB went to find out more.