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Financing  

Sustainable

  Innovation

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 Mission

Leif Capital is an independent British investment bank. 

 

Nature thrives on competition and symbiotic collaboration. Every evolutionary niche is filled with winners.

 

Our mission is to help you develop and finance yours.

 

Leif Capital's clients come from both sides of the capital-raising 'table', joined in their pursuit of sustainable innovation. 

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We want to help our clients not only to survive, but to prosper. 

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Mission

Recent Transactions

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Series A2, 2021 

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Series A, 2021 

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 Series A2, 2020 

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 ‘Match fund’ for foundation industries, 2020

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Clients
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Clients

We advise start-ups that need to raise capital, ‘grown-ups’ that want to invest capital and governments that want to support sustainable innovation.

 

Independent investment companies, corporate VCs and government innovation agencies seek our support in sourcing investments and co-investors.

 

All are united in seeking out profitable and impactful growth.

Services

Services

The common thread among the services we offer is our ability to align interests. Large corporations need to think like start-ups.  Start-ups need to understand large corporations. Governments want to support start-ups and innovative corporations. Investors want financial and impactful returns. We find fertile ground among them.

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Investment Advisory 

Private and public capital now has unprecedented appetite for investing in industrial sustainability. We seize this historic opportunity.

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Innovation agencies, family offices, financial and corporate investment companies draw on our extensive knowledge of sustainable investment strategies among their actual and potential peer groups.

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Our services include identifying and qualifying investment opportunities and co-investors, management of investments (including portfolio company acceleration and/or sale). Sometimes, we simply introduce our investors to each other to explore the potential for collaboration.

If you need capital for growth, we will find you investors that provide expertise and access to markets, as well as money. The investor network available to our clients is global and draws upon our experience and success in Europe, North America, and Asia.

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We differentiate between slow money, but slow money that is worth waiting for, and time-wasting “innovation tourists” who should be avoided.

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We advise our clients not just on which investors they should be approaching, but how they should be approaching them; writing and designing their pitch decks, critiquing their financial and business models, IP and go-to-market strategies, so as to prepare them to answer all the questions that investors ask.

Sometimes you just need to focus on winning and servicing clients.  Raising or investing capital has already happened or can wait.

 

Leveraging our global network of corporations and service providers, we can quickly identify the right routes to market.

 

Having clients, and a pipeline of potential clients, is typically the best foundation for raising and/or investing capital.

Commercialisation

Capital Raising 

Sectors

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In our experience, the breakthroughs we’ve seen in mobility and energy are mostly underpinned by advances in materials. The path to net zero transport and power requires further material innovation combined with reliable and scalable manufacturing.

Advanced Materials 

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 The science is clear, the market opportunity is accelerating and the transition to a net zero economy will provide excellent returns for investors. We are active from hydrogen to renewables to energy storage to carbon capture.

Net Zero

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Mankind is getting back on the move. Leif Capital works with companies who are delivering the new infrastructure, technology and business models needed for e-mobility - drones, autonomous vehicles, etc - and who are enabling the smart cities of the future.

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Approximate isn’t good enough. We can’t think of a sustainable technology that isn’t advanced by ultra-precise manufacturing down to the micron level. From mirrors on satellites to solar thin film printer heads and windows on lunar dwellings, ultra-precise manufacturing is required.

Precision Manufacturing

Sectors

Learning 

Unless experience is refreshed by constant learning, it becomes bias. Our best qualification as advisors is our readiness to listen, engage and learn. We regularly meet with, and introduce, clients and colleagues, old and new. We drink the best coffee in London. Feel free to drop by. 

Learning
Blogs

Working alongside our clients’ media advisors, Leif Capital interviews client senior management and secures the interviews’ publication in investor media. 

Reports 
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Leif Capital can also position its clients in ‘thought leadership’ reports that feature several of leading innovators (investors and venture-backed start-ups) in a particular ‘theme’ or investment category.

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Events

We also introduce and interview our clients at leading venture conferences (digital and ‘real’). Such ‘outreach’ helps reinforce the message with targeted investors.  It may also help identify / ‘uncover’ new investors that had not previously been considered. 

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Tom Whitehouse

Founder and CEO

Tom Whitehouse has twenty years’ experience in the financing of early and growth stage sustainable technology businesses; in energy, materials and manufacturing, and investment management. He founded Leif Capital after a ten-year career as a foreign correspondent with the BBC and the Guardian. Since 2014 he has also been a senior advisor (energy and transport) and contributing editor at Global Corporate Venturing, the research and publishing business. Entrepreneurialism is in Tom’s blood. As a child, he worked for a series of successful family businesses in the brewing, gaming and greetings cards industries. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University; speaks Russian, Czech, bad French, and can swear quite well in Albanian.

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Dr. Alex Westlake

Investor in Residence

Dr. Alex Westlake has over twenty years’ experience in founding and financing sustainable technology businesses in Europe and Asia. He co-founded and led the £100m AIM IPO of Camco, a global emissions reductions business, and has raised over $1bn in project and carbon finance for over 1GW of renewable power (both wind and solar) across China. He is also Chairman of Microbas, a Swedish precision manufacturing business. Alex’s current portfolio of private investments is valued at more than $100m. Alex is a chartered Engineer with the UK’s Institution of Engineering and Technology, and has PhD in Wind Energy from Durham University.

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The Team

Tom is an ex-journalist with a keen grasp of what makes technology businesses succesful and ‘investable’. Alex is an engineer who brings strong financial, commercial and technological acumen, as well as decades of experience in investment.  We’ve known each other for twenty years. 

Contact Us

Contact Us

Leif Capital

Henry Wood House, 

2 Riding House Street,

London, UK 

W1W 7FA

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