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Gaia Sciences Innovation Fund

Real progress on climate and nature starts with solutions grounded in rigorous science.

Investment Approach

GAIA Sciences Innovation (GSI) is a venture and growth investment fund and venture builder. Partnering with the world's largest and leading group of applied sciences institutes, the fund makes investments into commercially viable solutions to the pressing challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change.

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Our Fund

GSI is a £200m impact fund uniting the world’s largest network of leading science institutes to invest in and scale world-leading NatureTech and natural capital supply chain businesses—ranging from start-ups to scale-ups—that address climate change and biodiversity loss, both from within these institutions and the wider sector.

Sector Investment Themes
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Our Sector Themes

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    Nature and Climate Intelligence

    Providing technology and expertise that can underpin and unlock green financial markets. This includes technologies to measure, monitor and verify biodiversity and climate impacts, including technologies for environmental DNA collection and sequencing, sensors for tracking water and soil health, computational genetics, and AI for assessing climate and nature-related risks.

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    Human Supply Chain Resilience

    Investing in solutions that improve the resilience of human supply chains (from food to medicine) and ease pressures on ecosystems or adapt to changing conditions, for example through climate-resilient food crops, developing alternatives that displace drivers of deforestation such as meat, dairy and palm oil, and using plants for drug discovery or producing bioactive compounds.

  • green yellow and black bird on green plant

    Greening Real Assets

    Making commercial agriculture and forestry more sustainable and enhancing or restoring land and water-based ecosystems, with applications such as natural pest control, green fertiliser and products that enhance soil health, afforestation and habitat restoration advisory, enhanced carbon dioxide sequestration, and improved watershed management.

About Greensphere Capital

A leading sustainable investor for over a decade, Greensphere excels in scaling engineered and nature-based technological solutions to solve some of the biggest systemic risks facing our generation. Greensphere was the first fund manager chosen by the UK Government/Green Investment Bank, a mandate it won in 2012 against 23 other British and European fund managers. Greensphere has invested in technology, companies and assets in the renewable energy, agriculture and forestry supply chains, always operating a triple-bottom-lined approach that invests to improve ‘People, Planet and Profit’. We have consistently measured and reported on a range of these metrics in a market-leading manner.

Founded in 2011