Conduit Connect

We're the 2nd fastest growing cleantech company in the UK! 🌱 At the 2024 Deloitte #UKFast50 awards ceremony we scooped 9th place overall and 2nd in the cleantech category. It's been a landmark year for us - we're the only supplier of commuting services globally to be an accredited B Lab UK B Corp - recognising our commitment to communities and the planet as well as growing our own business. We also became a Living Wage employer, gained a spot on the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list all while surpassing 2 million passenger journeys! Read more about our journey, and how we support businesses to get the staff they need where, and when, they need them, below: #WorkplaceTransport #SustainableTransport #Recruitment https://bit.ly/48Fwd7G

🤘 Incredible milestone! congratulations Paul Rutten, Lisa Avenell and the whole Concert Bio team!

Big news! We're thrilled to announce our £6M Series A investment round! Led by Par Equity, and joined by Mercia Ventures, British Business Bank North of England (Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund I), Octopus Ventures, Calm/Storm, Conduit Connect, and our angel investors. This funding is a huge milestone in our mission to change the future of paediatric care through personalised preparation and psychological support for families. This investment enables us to scale our global operations and continue innovating our platform to support even more children, families, clinical trials, and hospitals ✨ A massive thank you to our investors, partners, and the families who inspire us daily. Together, we’re building a brighter, healthier future for children across the globe. Learn more about what's next for Little Journey Read the full press release in the comments 📖 #SeriesA #Paediatrics #Pediatric #HealthTech #Innovation

We are thrilled to announce our latest investment into Little Journey’s £6m Series A round, led by Par Equity and joined by Mercia Ventures, British Business Bank North of England (Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund), Octopus Ventures, and Calm/Storm. This funding is a major step forward in Little Journey’s mission to revolutionise paediatric care with personalised psychological support for young patients and their families. By empowering children and families to approach medical procedures with confidence and ease, Little Journey is making a lasting impact on paediatric healthcare.  This investment will be used to accelerate Little Journey’s expansion into the US market and fund key product enhancements to support children and families navigating their healthcare journeys. Congratulations to Chris Evans, Sophie Copley and the entire Little Journey team on reaching this milestone – the future of paediatric healthcare looks bright and we’re excited to support what’s next! For more details on Little Journey’s next steps, check out the full press release in the comments. 📖 #ConduitEISImpactFund #LittleJourney #PaediatricCare #SeriesA #HealthTech Gabrielle Morgan Eva-Maria Dimitriadis Alexander Shapiro Natalie Otwoma

We are thrilled to be recognized across Europe as leaders in advancing a more #CircularEconomy. ♻️ A few weeks ago, we were in Munich as one of the top 22 European startups pioneering groundbreaking technologies in the circular economy. None of this would be possible without the support and trust of our customers, who are dedicated to keeping recyclable materials out of landfills and incinerators and are embracing new technologies to make this vision a reality. #Recycling #WasteManagement #ComputerVision #ArtificialIntelligence

❓ Do you know what impact your business is having? 💼 For Conduit Connect's Eva-Maria Dimitriadis, it is vital that all businesses, no matter how small they are, know how to measure their sustainability. 🔗 To learn more about Conduit Connect's work with the next generation of impact-led businesses, click here: https://lnkd.in/eWhQGht5 #FinancingTheGreen #SMEs #ImpactInvesting #TheConduit #ConduitLive

🌱 Concert Bio publishes 2024 commercial trial results 🌱 We’re thrilled to share the early results of commercial trials for our first product, Overture™. This product was developed thanks to years of collaboration with over 30 growers in the UK and internationally to identify beneficial microbes specifically for hydroponic and other soilless systems. The growers helping us trial this product have reported remarkable outcomes in lettuce crop performance. 📈 Key Results: 🔹 9.9% average increase in lettuce fresh head weight compared to untreated controls. 🔹 20.9% highest yield increase reported – a true testament to the power of beneficial microbes in controlled environments. 🔹 82% success rate - our microbes increased yield in NFT, DWC and Ebb & flow systems, across a wide range of organic and inorganic substrates. These trial results were made possible by growers all over the world helping us collect our data and test our products. We are hugely grateful to all of you, and so excited to make this product a reality for you. A special thank you to Lucy Rushton and the team at the UK Agri-Tech Centre who have also helped us trial our products. For a deeper dive into our trials and results, check out the report below. Contact us (www.concert.bio/#contact) if you want to talk about trialling our product or to learn about our microbiome monitoring service. #ConcertBio #Hydroponics #AgricultureInnovation #SustainableFarming #PlantMicrobiome #Greenhouse

Excited to announce that Nebu~Flow has been shortlisted for the University of Glasgow Spin-out of the Year award which recognises high-performing commercial or social enterprise spin-outs from University of Glasgow research.  The winner will be announced at the #UofGPeopleExcellence celebration on November 21st.  Find out more about the awards here: https://lnkd.in/e3K5P5k5    

EMBARRASSING POST ALERT!! 🫣 Inspired by the brilliant story-telling by the awesome Anna-Sophie Deetjen and Paul Marchant, I've done my first ever video diary. But my children, in their usual subtle way, tell me that it's TERRIBLE!! 😆 What can I do better next time? Any advice welcome to help save me (and my boys) further embarrassment. 🙏 In the meantime, hopefully it still conveys the amazing story of ReBorn Homewares and the latest outstanding in-store display at John Lewis & Partners, featuring the new Bathroom range! 🥳 Thanks to your support, ReBorn is growing rapidly - helping to build a more circular and lower carbon economy. And I'm delighted to share that the ReBorn Crowdcube campaign has had 99 new investors is already 96% funded, with just a few final days to go! 💚 Would you like to be our 100th investor and join our mission to replace all plastic products at home, with one that’s ReBorn? If so, there are only 4% shares remaining so please invest now to avoid missing out. Link in comments below. 👇 Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all the money you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong. Take 2 mins to learn more: https://lnkd.in/e54J8qpi #embarrassingdad #circulareconomy #recycledmaterials #ukmanufacturing #crowdcube

Yesterday, our Managing Partner, Eva-Maria Dimitriadis represented the Conduit EIS Impact Fund at The Green Economy Forum: Financing the Green Transition at The Conduit. On a panel moderated by our very own Venture Partner Guy Ranawake, Eva was joined by Shevaun Haviland, Ajaita S. and Hannah Cool to discuss and debate the barriers that make it difficult for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to embrace sustainability. SMEs account for 90% of global businesses and 40% of business-sector emissions, but lag in the net-zero transition. Rising costs, complicated reporting requirements, and transparency issues all work together to hinder their sustainability efforts, and both green financing and actionable support remain underdeveloped.   Whilst at Conduit Connect we recognise the challenges faced by SMEs in measuring and improving their carbon footprint, there is great optimising in the fact that many of the technologies and innovations disrupting this space (i.e. making it easier to measure or improving the carbon footprint of hard to abate industries) are SMEs themselves! And these are the lifeblood of the Conduit EIS Impact Fund. We invest in those businesses that accelerate the transition to net zero and very intentionally measure and monitor the positive impact that they have on people and planet. Eva pointed out ‘You can’t manage what you don’t measure…perfect is the enemy of good’. Paul van Zyl, Founder of The Conduit, summarised in his closing remarks: ‘There are burdens placed on SMEs such as the reporting and compliance work they have to do, versus what we can do for them to both incentivise and reward the net zero behaviour’ If you missed out on the action, see the full livestream here: https://lnkd.in/ews5dFun Gabrielle Morgan Alexander Shapiro Natalie Otwoma