Charlie Neish, Author at Elbow Beach Capital

TRANSFORMING CARBON EMISSIONS INTO CLEAN ENERGY

27 November 2024

Elbow Beach Capital has led a £2.4m funding round into carbon utilisation company, Barton Blakeley. Barton Blakeley has developed a chemical process which permanently removes industrial CO2 emissions and efficiently converts them into synthetic silica.

PORTFOLIO COMPANY ANAPHITE RAISES $13.7 MILLION

1 October 2024

Elbow Beach Capital announces its further investment in battery technology company Anaphite. Anaphite has raised a $13.7 million Series A round, which was co-led by World Funds and Maniv.

£1.6M FUNDING FOR BATTERY STARTUP, ANAPHITE

13 March 2024

Elbow Beach Capital announces its further investment support of battery technology company Anaphite. The overall funding of £1.6m consists of £685k grant funding via the Investor Partnerships Future Economy programme and more than £880k committed by private investors.

STRENGTHENING COMMITMENT TO SCOTTISH EV MANUFACTURER

18 December 2023

Elbow Beach is pleased to announce a £1m follow-on investment in Munro Vehicles, a manufacturer of all-electric 4x4 vehicles and Scotland’s only volume production car company. This investment takes Elbow Beach’s commitment to Munro to £1.7m+ and it remains Munro’s largest single investor.

Catalysing Sustainable Growth: Risk Management and Building a Network for Change

15 December 2023

On this year’s International Day of Climate Action, Elbow Beach Capital hosted its first ever Portfolio Day. The theme of the day was ‘Catalysing Sustainable Growth’, and it explored how start-ups can successfully balance risk management alongside commercial development to unlock sustainable growth.

Backing the world’s first raspberry picking robot

10 August 2023

Elbow Beach Capital has invested £1.5m into Fieldwork Robotics, developers of the world's first autonomous raspberry harvesting robot. The robot, named Alpha, analyses the crop, decides when to harvest the raspberries, and places them in punnets ready for delivery to supermarkets.

Foundation Supports Three New Charities

26 July 2023

Elbow Beach Capital is pleased to announce that The Elbow Beach Foundation is supporting three new charities, Energy Sparks, Beefy’s Charity Foundation, set up by former England Cricket Captain Ian Botham, and Coeliac UK.

From the Grid, to the People

11 July 2023

Elbow Beach Capital has led a £900k seed investment round into battery technology and energy storage pioneers, Allye. Allye provides distributed energy storage at the grid edge working in partnership with electricity networks to accelerate decarbonisation while enabling end-users to lower energy costs by up to 50%.