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We're seeking a Development & Support Engineer

22/1/2021

 

We are Hiring

Green Angel Syndicate is the only angel investment syndicate in the UK specialising in the fight against Climate Change and Global Warming. With a rapidly-growing membership of more than 220 people, we are also one of the UK’s largest angel syndicates. We invest in startup companies with the technology, team and determination to effect the large-scale changes the world needs to avoid the worst aspects of climate change.

GAS is operated by a rapidly growing team of about a dozen people, and this is an exciting time for us. As well as increasing the number and size of investments our members make into companies fighting climate change, we have launched our first FCA approved Fund. This will allow us to make a bigger impact, faster.
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GAS launches the Climate Change Fund

8/12/2020

 
By Antoine Pradayrol
Green Angel Syndicate, the UK’s angel syndicate specialising in the fight against climate change and global warming, has just launched the GAS Climate Change Fund, for EIS and SEIS investors.

This marks an important change in the working life of Green Angel Syndicate. The success of our work over the past three years has convinced us that it is time for a widening of our capacity, so we can make more investments of a larger size, with more people supporting what we do, and hence, crucially, with a larger impact in the fight against climate change.
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Review of John Nangle fireside chat -22 October 2020

10/11/2020

 
By David Sheridan
​On 22nd October, the Green Angel Syndicate Insights programme was delighted to welcome John Nangle, Energy Lead in the Cabinet Office, to a virtual fireside chat with GAS CEO, Nick Lyth. An audience of over 50 members and guests were treated to an insight into the complexities of the  politically and economically nuanced world of UK government energy policy.

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We're seeking an Investment & Deal Executive

3/11/2020

 

We  are hiring

Green Angel Syndicate is the only angel investment syndicate in the UK specialising in the fight against Climate Change and Global Warming. With a rapidly-growing membership of more than 200 people, we are also one of the UK’s largest angel syndicates. GAS is operated by a team of about a dozen people, and this is an exciting time for us. As well as increasing the number and size of investments our members make into companies fighting climate change, we are launching our first Fund shortly. This will allow us to make a bigger impact, faster.
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GAS portfolio impact assessment - October 2020

22/10/2020

 
By Antoine Pradayrol
Six months ago, we published GAS’s first portfolio impact assessment, calculating for the first time the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that are being avoided thanks to our portfolio companies.
​As promised at the time, we are now publishing a six-month update - a great occasion for, in fact, three types of updates: (i) taking stock of the growth of each business and therefore of its impact; (ii) revising and improving our impact calculation methods where we could; and (iii) adding GAS’s new portfolio companies into the mix.

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Dr Matthew Hannon opens the GAS Insights Programme

18/8/2020

 
By David Sheridan
​Last Thursday (13/08/20) Green Angel Syndicate launched its Insights Programme, a series of talks designed and promoted by the GAS Members for the Members that will broaden our knowledge and insight into the issues raised by entrepreneurial investment into the fight against climate change and global warming.

​Our opening speaker was Dr Matthew Hannon, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, attached to the University of Strathclyde Business School. Dr Hannon leads UK thought on the links between the energy transition we know needs to happen, the innovation that is required if it is to happen and the entrepreneurialism that is essential to bringing these innovations to life.  In other words, Matt is one of the world experts on the very things that Green Angel Syndicate is striving to achieve. 

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What’s the good of another tiny brick in the wall?

8/6/2020

 
By Nick Lyth
​We’re dying of corona virus, the global economy is in nosedive, climate change is coming to batter us into submission, America is burning, and all we can offer is a new brick?  Is it worth it?  Who cares?
​We care.  It is worth it.  It may be a tiny innovation, but it is an intelligent air brick, that will improve the regulation of ventilation and humidity in social housing, which in turn will raise the flow of clean air, and reduce the scale of polluted lungs and infectious diseases, and that will help to improve the health of the home owners, while reducing their expense on heating and the health system, and so will encourage a greater sense of well-being, at the same time as lowering energy use and carbon emissions, and thus help to lower global warming, minimise climate change, and lower the spread of corona virus, while reducing the toxic gap between rich and poor throughout the western world.   It’s called AirEx, and we are arranging an investment in it right now. 
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​A small innovation with a domino effect rippling through the entire social, economic and medical fabric of our community.

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What is the best-kept secret about behaviour change?

19/5/2020

 
By Nick Lyth
That it is NEVER rational, it is only enforced.
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Since the start of the 1990’s, when the facts about climate change and global warming had become obvious to all; when the problems with resource use and resource allocation were overwhelmingly clear; when the Brundtland Report had articulated a new system for global social and economic self-preservation which was adopted by all the World leaders at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit; Behaviour Change has been referenced as a necessary pre-condition for solving these problems.
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Chris Stark, CEO of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change, talks Covid-19 and climate change

11/5/2020

 
By Antoine Pradayrol
​On 7 May, Green Angel Syndicate organised a Zoom-powered ‘fireside chat’ with Chris Stark, CEO of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change. The event drew strong interest, with 82 attendees dispersed in as many thumbnails on the screens. Its timing was perfect, just a day after the CCC had published a letter to the government with precise, crystal clear advice on how to embed climate-positive actions in its plans to drag the economy out of the profound recession caused by the Covid-19 crisis.

​​​​This blog summarises the main points made by Chris, in our own words.
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GAS portfolio survey shows long-term optimism

15/4/2020

 
By Chris Joly
​Green Angel Syndicate is the only angel investment syndicate in the UK specialising in investments that are of benefit to the Green Economy.  As such, its priority focus has always been resource use sectors, where innovations are needed to make the ways we use food, water, energy, waste and recycling more sustainable for the challenge we face.  ​
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Green Angel Syndicate’s first portfolio impact assessment

6/3/2020

 
By Antoine Pradayrol
Tackling global warming and climate change, by supporting businesses that develop solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and more generally that help the environment. That is Green Angel Syndicate’s core mission – and we are determined to make the largest possible positive impact.
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But what is this impact? How can we measure it? In our view, it must be measured as the impact that our portfolio companies are making, as a group. Indeed, this aggregate impact is what Green Angel Syndicate Members’ investments are making possible, by helping these companies grow.

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Climate Catastrophe – is shareholder pressure the cause?

7/2/2020

 
By Nick Lyth
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​In the explosion of public protest concerning climate change that we saw last year, there has been an element of radicalisation.  This has led to explicit claims that capitalism is to blame and has to change from, among others, the Extinction Rebellion.  ​Among the assertions made, shareholder pressure is isolated as a cause for the harmful growth of the companies whose products cause us the most harm, and increase the dangers of climate change.

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String of follow-on investments highlights progress of Green Angel Syndicate portfolio companies

13/1/2020

 
By Antoine Pradayrol
Over the past two years, Green Angel Syndicate members have invested in 17 young and ambitious companies developing ground-breaking solutions to tackle global warming.

​Of those investments, a third were completed less than a year ago, and 11 were completed during 2018, so none of them is more than two years old – and it is still too early to know how successful these endeavours will ultimately be.

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November 2019 pitch event review

4/12/2019

 
By Antoine Pradayrol
​Our 28th November pitch event at Browns Covent Garden in London broke another record in terms of attendance, and our eager audience of angel investors was treated with five high quality pitches from five ambitious companies in five very different areas of the green economy.

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September 2019 pitch event review

30/9/2019

 
​Our 26th September pitch event at Urban Innovation Centre in Clerkenwell, London, was packed with more than 90 attendees and a fantastic line-up of five companies. The companies represented very different sectors, from buildings to industry to electric vehicles to online second-hand shopping. However, all of them had not only a very strong investment case but also a very clear contribution to make to solving the climate crisis – so all were perfectly aligned with Green Angel Syndicate’s objectives:
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  • IndiNature – 100% plant-based home insulation system;
  • Coomtech – Energy efficient drying technology for bulk materials;
  • Ventive – Naturally intelligent ventilation for new buildings;
  • Flexible Power Systems – Enabling the optimal deployment of electric vehicle fleets;
  • Thrift+ – Innovative circular economy model for the second-hand clothes.

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