GROWTH TECHNOLOGIES: SCALABLE INNOVATIONS
Championing disruptive thinking, giving nascent ideas the opportunity to grow
Through its external investments, Pella has backed a range of scalable technologies that are looking to accelerate the move to ‘net zero’.
Energy Investments:
Through ERV and Prosemino, Pella is investing in pioneering clean tech, deep science opportunities, collaborating with some of the top academic institutions:
Energy Revolution Ventures: investing in early stage energy and clean tech
An early-stage, deep-tech venture capital firm focusing on clean energy that has a positive impact on climate, Energy Revolution Ventures is committed to accelerating the transition to a sustainable energy system.
Focused on hydrogen, energy storage, carbon capture and advanced materials ERV invests in Seed and Series A climate companies decarbonising energy with revolutionary deep science technologies.
ERV, in partnership with Prosemino, delivers an incubator program for early-stage energy and clean tech startups.
This program fosters innovation by providing deep technical expertise on-site as well as leading lab and testing facilities, particularly in hydrogen and electrochemical tech.
Prosemino: accelerating revolutionary clean energy technologies for a net zero world
Prosemino was built for clean energy innovators and start ups and is on a mission to accelerate the transition to net zero by addressing the critical barriers to moving climate tech from concept to commercial deployment at scale.
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Prosemino is working closely with entrepreneurs to incubate early-stage innovation and accelerate the commercialisation of electrochemical and clean technologies, as well as energy materials.
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Investments provide start-ups with access to hard-tech savvy capital, world-leading laboratories/facilities, industry, office space, technical expertise, mentorship and grant funding support.
Neura has developed proprietary hardware, software and business applications that make it uniquely positioned to provide technological solutions for the energy sector in South Africa.
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Neura’s goal is to partner with Eskom and South African municipalities to shift electricity demand from the morning and evening peaks to create savings
Energy Technologies:
Pioneering next generation technology
Lithium-ion battery recycling – Li-Cycle (NYSE: LICY) has developed a sustainable process for recovery of critical materials from all types of lithium-ion batteries.
Li-Cycle is on a mission to leverage its innovative Spoke & Hub Technologies™ to provide a customer-centric, end-of-life solution for lithium-ion batteries, while creating a secondary supply of critical battery materials.
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Low cost, safe, and environmentally friendly process
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Unparalleled recovery rate of ≥95% of all materials.
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Uniquely positioned to support a key element of the growing international movement towards zero carbon technologies.
Li-Cycle is a legacy investment - Pella was a founder investor and sold its position post IPO