Sustainable Times

If you spend any time around founders, you quickly learn that the same question sits behind most conversations: What actually makes a high net worth (HNW) investor decide to back a company? We're not talking about the polite answers you hear at conferences. We mean the real, unfiltered judgment that happens in the room when an investor is deciding whether they can truly trust you with their capital, their time, and their reputation. For the inaugural episode of the Sustainable Times Investor...

The 2025 inaugural Sustainable Times RISE Awards took place beneath the glittering chandeliers at the Grand De Vere Connaught Rooms in London, awarding innovators worldwide. The winner of the ‘Founder of the Year’  award, sponsored by NatWest , went to Instollar Technologies  Founder Chinwe Udo-Davis . She has created a tech-enabled workforce platform which is rapidly closing the gender gap in Africa’s solar industry through its ambitious 'InstallHER Initiative.' Addressing the Green...

UK based AI materials startup Mater-AI  has raised £1.5M in a pre-seed round led by Twin Path Ventures  with participation from Mishcon de Reya , One Planet Capital , XTX Ventures , the Conception X Angel Syndicate , Koro Capital  and Tailored Solutions. Over 70% of global energy, worth over $152 billion  annually, is lost as waste heat, from data centres to heavy industry. Yet the last major breakthrough in thermoelectric materials happened in the 1950s with bismuth telluride, the...