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Future Thinking: Reflecting on BEFF 2025

Future Thinking: Milestones in Sustainable Ocean Finance…

Future Thinking: The Power of Collaboration, Build...

Future Thinking: The Power of Collaboration – Building Businesses of&helli...

Future Thinking: Unlocking Innovation Through Part...

Future Thinking: The Power of Collaboration – Unlocking Innovation Through...

Future Thinking: The Ultimate Deep Tech Frontiers

Future Thinking: Space and Defence – The Ultimate Deep Tech…

Future Thinking: Space Innovations Driving Impact ...

Future Thinking: Space Innovations Driving Impact on Earth and Beyond…

Future Thinking: Strategic Technologies

Future Thinking: Happy New Year & Focus on Strategic Technologies…

Future Thinking: DC to VC

Future Thinking: DC to VC…

Future Thinking: Geopolitics and Global Survival

Future Thinking: Geopolitics and Global Survival…

Future Thinking: Launch of the BCF

Future Thinking: Launch of the BCF & Invite to FPC…

Future Thinking: Unlocking Funding for Defence &am...

Future Thinking: Unlocking Funding for Defence and Security + Insights…

Future Thinking: Defence and Security Portfolio Hi...

Future Thinking: Unlocking Capital for Defence and Security & Blue…

New fund offers innovative route for pension inves...

British pension savers will be given a new and innovative route to invest in pri...

Spotting potential and commercialising academic di...

Here are two questions for venture capital: how do you spot potential in a sea o...

Douglas Hansen-Luke, Executive Chairman at Future ...

Our Executive Chairman, Douglas Hansen-Luke recently featured as a signatory in ...

Future Planet Capital | Partner Day – May ‘24 | Th...

Future Planet Capital recently hosted its inaugural Partner Day at the spectacul...

Sam Altman Talks AI and Fusion (amongst other thin...

By Lyle Pentith, Portfolio Manager Last week, I had the privilege of attending a...

Unlocking the potential of the UK’s best, fast-gro...

When it comes to science and technology scale-up investment, Britain has reached...

Engineering Biology: High Impact, High Growth

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Dinner is Served

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Reflections on COP28

Reflections on COP28 By Douglas Hansen-Luke, Executive Chairman COP28 deserves t...

Future Planet Capital Makes Strategic Investment i...

Future Planet Capital is thrilled to announce that it has made a strategic pre-s...

Backing the UK’s top Life Science companies

The UK has one of the most vibrant and diverse life science sectors in the world...

Saving lives through drug discovery

Last week, we saw once again how our universities and academic institutions are ...

Future Thinking: Defence & Security

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£102m UK Innovation Science and Seed Fund prioriti...

The UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), independently managed by Future...

Future Thinking: Supply Chain Security

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TIMPSON GROUP PARTNERS WITH FUTURE PLANET CAPITAL ...

Future Planet Capital, together with the investment arm of Timpson Group, has su...

Future Thinking: What lessons can we learn from CO...

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Future Thinking: The Nexus of Innovation and Globa...

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Future Thinking: The Next Generation Healthcare

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Lord Wei and Future Planet Capital call for global...

The Wei Forward Report II, which launches today, curates industry and academic i...

Future Thinking: The future of Fusion Energy looks...

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Future Planet Capital invests into Direct Ocean Ca...

Global investors, including Future Planet Capital, are supporting the developmen...

Climate Change: Can renewables do it all to get to...

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Priya Guha joins Future Planet Capital’s Inv...

Future Planet Capital, the international impact-led venture capital firm, is ple...

Talking Tech Transfer Podcast featuring Douglas Ha...

Talking Tech Transfer Podcast featuring Douglas Hansen-Luke Future Planet Capita...

Investing in the blue economy

Investing in the blue economy By Lyle Pentith, Portfolio Manager Change is comin...

Future Thinking: MIT Solve & FPC Workshop Stra...

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Future Planet Capital backs Roslin Tech’s momentum...

03 November 2022 – Future Planet Capital (“FPC”), the international ventur...

Xfund’s humanities graduate entrepreneurs – the ne...

Xfund’s Humanities Graduate Entrepreneurs – The Next Generation of Success By Do...

EdTech: Back to School

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A Better Future Planet: Urgent need to reduce Emis...

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The Research Programme for The Wei Forward II laun...

At the beginning of the month (5th July), Lord St John of Bletso, FPC Advis...

Meet Dr Steven Chance, the Founder and CEO of Oxfo...

Meet Dr Steven Chance, the Founder and CEO of Oxford Brain Diagnostics, the comp...

Global Innovation & Local Action

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Venture Capital Can Help Protect Our Oceans and Bu...

The ocean is a key environmental and economic resource that covers more than 70%...

Solve at MIT 2022: working together to profitably...

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Technology: Changing the fight against Cancer

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Does Vaccination Increase Inequity?

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Future Thinking: Blue Ocean Economy

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Future Planet Capital launches new €20m Blue Ocean...

Future Planet Capital, the international venture capital and impact investor, is...

Future Thinking: Vaccines, Infectious Diseases &am...

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Future Thinking: EdTech

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The Wei Forward: Impact Report

Why impactful investing is the way forward in 2022 by Lord Nat Wei of Shoreditch...

Fusion Energy- The Future of the World’s Ene...

The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) first invested in Tokamak Ener...

The Democratisation of Venture – Is it Time ...

Future Planet Capital was founded with the vision of connecting the world’s bigg...

Future Thinking: Terra Carta

COP26, Future Planet and Terra Carta

Future Planet’s Climate Change Showcase #COP26 🌍🚨 We are delighted that at...

Venture Capital Battles in the Fight Against Clima...

Future Planet Capital were honoured to have been invited to #COP26 by His Royal ...

Future Planet launch oversubscribed Series A follo...

Future Planet Capital was the first institutional VC firm to open its doors to t...

Future Thinking: The Heart of Healthcare

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Mobile Money, African Start-ups and the SDGs

Financial inclusion is an intermediary target in 8 of the 17 SDGs. Consequently,...

Future Thinking: The Global Security Challenge

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How consumer attitudes will be critical in determi...

The Green Revolution of the 20th century radically transformed the way we grow o...

EdTech: Facilitating the Future of Learning

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Sustainable Growth

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A Better Future Planet – Series Summary

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Food For Thought – VC & Livestock Produc...

The impact of livestock production: Livestock supply chains account for 14.5% of...

Food for thought – VC & AgriTech

Food for Thought: Why VC Investment in Sustainable Agricultural Practises is Ess...

Environment & Agriculture

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Sustainable Consumption

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Energy And Emissions

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Norman Foster Foundation release their highlights ...

A better Future Planet

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The Year Of EdTech

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Longevity Forum: Prof. Sarah Gilbert Lecture

This week saw the First Annual Lecture of the Longevity Forum, delivered by Prof...

The challenge of climate change – in the mid...

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The global challenge of food security & biodiv...

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The race to a COVID-19 vaccine

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What is Quantum Computing & how could it chang...

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Climate Change, COVID 19 & How do we Build Bac...

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Founders Interview: Douglas Hansen-Luke

This week, we are interviewing Future Planet’s founder and Executive Chairman, D...

Future Planet For All

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Future Thinking: COVID Challenge

“At Future Planet we are committed to doing our bit to support the national and ...

Future Thinking: Education

“Quality education for all creates resilient and self-sustaining populatio...

Future Thinking: Global Pandemics

“Dealing with the risk of infectious diseases most decidedly ranks within the gl...

Future Thinking: Climate Change

Check-out the latest issue of our “Future Thinking” Newsletter on Climate Change...

Spinning Out – Techworld

“Universities are pretty much the source of inventiveness,” Douglas ...

University Venturing – NCUB

In Mike Rees’ recent consultation to the National Centre for Universities and Bu...

Five More Game Changing Companies

Congratulations to Bibliotech, winner of the 2019 Future Planet Awards! The&h...

FPC Host Dr. Liam Fox in Korea

During his maiden visit to Seoul last Friday (5th October), the Secretary o...

The Times – University Challenge

Taking a bright idea from academia and turning it into a successful business pre...

New Frontiers in University Innovation

“Recent years have seen accelerated and fundamental changes to the ecosystem of ...

Future Planet Capital sponsor UC Berkeley Entrepre...

The University of California has just announced the five finalists of its new “I...

HM Treasury Announces Future Planet Capital partne...

Around £1.4 billion worth of commercial deals, an agreement to accelerate the fi...

The Budget: Where are the International Investors?

Excellent news for British Innovation this week as the Chancellor unveiled measu...

The Budget: Fully Driverless Cars on UK Roads by 2...

This week, Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Budget announced govern...

Private Equity For Public Impact

Few people are more familiar with the intricate and complex realities of “double...

Patience is a Virtue

This week, we discuss our submission to the Government's recent consultation 'Fi...

All Work and All Play for Imperial’s SAM Lab...

On the back of a $4.5 million Seed financing round in 2015, SAM Labs – dubbed “t...

Refrigeration Revolution

Today, the winner of the 2017 Future Planet Award for Healthcare is diversifying...

Biodegradable: The Rise of Bluepha

Bluepha, winner of the Future Planet Award for SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, is pioneering...

Why Xfund Loves “Liberal Arts” Entrepreneurs

“Peter Thiel [the PayPal co-founder] studied Philosophy at Stanford. Ben Silberm...

On the Hunt for World-Changing Companies

On May 23rd a panel of judges, chaired by Lord Norman Foster, will quiz five fas...

Taking Flight: Inside a Drone Insurance Innovation

Since launching in 2016, Flock has raised half a million pounds from a combinati...

The Education Entrepreneur

Rajeeb Dey MBE, the youngest member of Future Planet’s advisory committee at the...

From Beijing Venture to Global Growth

"Tsinghua University has been the number one-ranked university in China for year...

Wanted: World-Changing Companies

This week we speak with Lord Wei, one the judges of the upcoming Future Planet A...

The Future Planet Blog: The Rise of British Univer...

Last week, The Rise of British University Venture Funds - Part One explored the ...

The Future Planet Blog: The Rise of British Univer...

British venture: immature or ahead of the curve?The road from laboratory to indu...

The Future Planet Blog: Best Minds, Brilliant Idea...

In January 2017, the recently incarnated British Innovation Fund (sub-advised by...

The Future Planet Blog: Best Minds, Brilliant Idea...

Last month saw the official launch of the British Innovation Fund, an evergreen ...

The Future Planet Blog: Best minds, brilliant idea...

Innovation. We have the money. We have the minds. Now we need the Mojo. Douglas ...