• Modo Energy

  Participated · Series B · Dec 2025

  Founded in 2019 and headquartered in London, Modo Energy provides an AI-powered benchmarking and valuation platform for energy storage and renewable assets, including its AI analyst, Ko. The platform is used by more than 200 companies across 30 countries and covers 15 energy markets. Modo’s forecasts have helped finance over $3.8 billion of assets, and it is the only FCA-regulated benchmark provider for battery energy storage. The company employs a team of more than 75 analysts, data scientists, and engineers and plans to continue hiring as it expands into new markets. Recent capital raises include a Series B led by Molten Ventures six months ago with follow-on funding from MMC, and a $17 million growth funding package led by CIBC Innovation Banking, bringing total funding to $52 million. Modo intends to use the new funds to further develop Ko, invest in its platform, and expand sales and marketing efforts.

• Origami

  Participated · Series A · Apr 2016

  Origami is a technology company on a mission to build a green energy world powered by smart technology. It develops trading and automation software that provides power traders with real-time data and machine-learning decision support to reduce risk, improve visibility and capture opportunities in evolving energy markets. As renewable assets make energy systems more distributed, complex and volatile, Origami's software coordinates networks of renewables, flexible demand, and energy storage to improve efficiency and profitability. The company plans to use its new funding to enhance products, serve a growing customer base and scale up into international markets. The recent £20 million Series C, led by Barclays, was presented as evidence of rising investor appetite for tech that helps reduce global carbon emissions. Origami was advised on the transaction by Silverpeak. Origami Energy develops a software platform that harnesses energy flexibility by managing generation, storage and demand assets to enable greater use of renewables and increase profitability for energy market participants. Over the last 12 months the company has progressed from deploying commercial projects with industrial and commercial customers to signing multi-year partnership agreements with energy suppliers including SmartestEnergy (owned by Marubeni) and Good Energy plc. The company positions its technology as an enabler of new services for suppliers, traders and distributed asset owners. Leadership says the business will use new capital to continue delivery of its growth plans and become a strategic technology partner for large companies. The funding is intended to accelerate Origami Energy’s growth in the UK and to prepare the business for international deployment. The CEO and investors view recent commercial traction and the new investment as validation of the company’s commercialisation progress. Origami Energy develops a technology platform that manages distributed energy assets plugged into the electricity grid, including energy-using, generating and storing devices. The platform controls flows of power to match supply to demand in real time. Its services let customers tap new revenue streams, reduce carbon emissions, increase the marginal capacity of the network and improve security of energy supply. The company plans to use the new funding to move from field trials to large deployments across a wide range of customers, initially focusing on industrial and commercial sites. Origami is based in Cambridge and London and is led by CEO Peter Bance. The company previously raised £4 million in seed funding almost two years ago. Origami Energy develops a SaaS platform that manages the flows of energy and capacity between physical sites with power generation, energy demand and electricity storage. The platform enables renewable energy generators, storage providers and energy users to trade with each other at a micro-grid level and maximize the value of their assets. It creates a real-time marketplace for the distributed energy world. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth and build capabilities to bolster its service. Origami raised £3.5m in funding to support that expansion. Lead backers included Octopus Investments and Cambridge Innovation Capital, alongside two angel investors.

• Orbital Marine Power

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2013

  Orbital Marine Power designs, builds, and operates floating O2-class tidal-stream turbines engineered for harsh marine environments. Its technology platform is already producing power at the European Marine Energy Centre, and contracted deliveries will soon bring the fleet to six machines with a combined 14.4 MW capacity—enough to supply up to 18,000 homes. The company is advancing projects at multiple UK coastal sites, including Orkney and the Isle of Wight, while newly awarded licenses in Nova Scotia open a path to international expansion. Orbital emphasises UK domestic sourcing, projecting a £200 million industrial opportunity with roughly 70 percent of value flowing to local suppliers. Fresh capital will be used to scale manufacturing and accelerate global project development. By commercialising predictable tidal energy, the firm aims to position the UK as a global centre of excellence in this sector. Current backing from institutional investors and public agencies underpins its transition from demonstration to commercial rollout.

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