Mott MacDonald Ventures

We back early-stage startups transforming the built environment with construction technology, climate innovation, and urban infrastructure solutions. Our portfolio reimagines how we design, build, power, and manage cities, with software, data, and industrial intelligence. With Drees & Sommer as a strategic investor, startups gain instant market access and deep domain expertise. Our Principles The strategic focus drives ROI by investing in key industries, tech trends, and business models to secure lasting competitive advantages. Early stage investment fuels innovation by supporting emerging technologies and scalable business models for long-term growth. Build first emphasizes creating tangible solutions early to accelerate learning, adoption, and market impact.

We’re helping to create world-class businesses, drive transformation and accelerate change. As the corporate venture capital arm of BAT, we combine the distribution of a global corporation – from financial resources to international networks – with the innovation of a start-up. Who we helpAmbitious, passionate and talented entrepreneurs Innovative ESG solutions with the power to drive change Advanced sciences and technologies with the potential to impact society How we helpGlobal reach: Global distribution and marketing with the financial backing of BAT in more than 80 countries with over 11 million points of sale. Industry support: Portfolio support from industry experts together with legal expertise and regulatory insights. Growth-hacking: Accelerated growth programmes via our bespoke and powerful Labs for specialist categories.

Celtis Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with a broad investment mandate. We work closely with our portfolio companies and our investor community to create long-term value. Our team thrives on collaboration, entrepreneurship, and clear, authentic communication.

We invest in high growth, early-stage companies that leverage technologies and digitization to create societal benefit, efficiency, and scale aligned with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. We are a community of founders, operators, and investors with deep domain expertise, diverse networks, and a desire to help innovative companies grow. We look for massive markets that are well-timed and companies with high growth, reasonable valuations, and impact. We will focus on investments from ACTAI Global and Extreme Tech Challenge but not be limited to those communities. Digitization and data science are remaking many industries because they lower friction and usage cost and enable replicability and scalability. Digitization allows for the virtualization of physical assets and more efficient asset utilization. Some of these concepts are eloquently articulated by Bill Tai in a Medium post on “Currency in the 4th Industrial Revolution” from 2018. We also believe technology innovation is borderless, which means great companies can come from anywhere! One of the first companies coming out of the Extreme Tech Challenge was Canva in 2015, which was seeded from the ACTAI Global community. The need for unified and coordinated initiatives to support (primarily digital) innovation as a catalyst for growth within an overarching framework of sustainability has accelerated as economies shift from being based on oil to electrons. We are excited to partner with founders who are making a huge impact and provide them with the social and financial capital they need!

At Positive Ventures, each investment must create economic, social and environmental value. We invest in entrepreneurs who take on the mission of solving great social and environmental challenges, driven by technology, performance and impact. We identify courageous innovators that dare reimagine the folds of the social (and ambiental) fabric, seeking to build enterprises which are in service of society. The sense of purpose is the driving edge that unites us, and we support those entrepreneurs in their mission to transform society and the planet through disruptive solutions. We want to change the course of this great river in which the world’s capital flows. To us, each investment must create an economic, social, and environmental value. To achieve this, we only make what we call decisive investments, that are supported by evidence and key to achieve a more sustainable and inclusive economic model. We value entrepreneurs and businesses that practice values based on ethics, that have as part of their culture incorporating the best practices for all its stakeholders, measuring and evolving at each step of the way, at the same pace with the transformation they promote into the world. We are a part of the movement that transforms capital into positive impact. Together, we weave tomorrow.

We invest in businesses that deliver Sustainability Through Innovation. Investment patterns change, but good investments don't. Leaders We’ve spent nearly twenty years as the leader in sustainable investing – and we’ve been ahead of the curve ever since. Thesis We invest in companies with rapidly growing revenue that will have high impact and large-scale commercial success. Future We are leading the way towards a future where profit and purpose are connected. The future is now. Our values We are where profit and purpose align. The world is ready for change and we believe next generation technology holds the key to a better future for all.