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Future Planet Capital Buys VC Firm Midven Posted on 04/08/2021 Future Planet Capital Holdings Limited (FPC) purchased Midven Ltd., a U.K. venture capital firm. The deal will enable Future Planet to grow its extensive global innovation network, which includes Berkeley, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, and Oxford, by combining them with Midven’s access to U.K. Government funded scientific research. Midven, which is supported by investors including the British Business Bank and European Investment Bank,...

NEXTDC launches first of its kind carbon neutrality program 18 Mar 2021 Australian data centre provider NEXTDC has launched a carbon neutrality program, the likes of which have been called the first of its kind in the local market. The NEXTNeutral data centre program encourages organisations to advance their own sustainability priorities, and to work with NEXTDC with the aim of using carbon offsets to ‘decarbonise the digital economy’. NEXTDC currently operates as a 100% carbon neutral...

Future Planet Capital: Future Planet Invests in Vaccitechs Series B Financing Future Planet Capital has invested in a $168m Series B financing announced today by Vaccitech Ltd. Future Planet joins other leading investors including M&G Investment Management, Tencent, Gilead Sciences, Monaco Constitutional Reserve Fund and fellow existing investor, Oxford Sciences Innovation. As part of the Series B financing, $43 million in convertible loan notes previously issued by Vaccitech will convert into ...

Posted on 7556 Future Planet Capital has invested in a $168m Series B financing announced today by Vaccitech Ltd. Future Planet joins other leading investors including M&G Investment Management, Tencent, Gilead Sciences, Monaco Constitutional Reserve Fund and fellow existing investor, Oxford Sciences Innovation. As part of the Series B financing, $43 million in convertible loan notes previously issued by Vaccitech will convert into S...

Provided by Dow Jones By Jenny Strasburg LONDON -- The Oxford startup behind AstraZeneca PLCs Covid-19 vaccine has raised $168 million in new funding, which it plans to use to adopt its vaccine technology for the treatment of other diseases. The move is a step in Vaccitech Ltd.s preparations for going public as soon as this year, according to people familiar with the plans. The moves were first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The biotechnology company i...

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Share News Facts: Fujitsu Australia offers its data centre customers the opportunity to offset emissions from their electricity consumption. Fujitsu Australia uses offsets sourced from Qantas Future Planet that meet Australian and international standards, including the Verified Carbon Standard and the Gold Standard. Fujitsu will also offset direct emissions from fuel consumed by its Australian and New Zealand corporate fleet of nearly 200 cars. The action is part of Fujitsu’s climate and ener...

Carbon conscious media: the publishers ushering in a new era of sustainability for brands With our planet in the midst of a climate crisis, publishers are starting to realise that the way they source stories about our planet is just as crucial as the content itself. Enter a new generation of media that is bringing the carbon footprint of its journalism to the fore and attracting green advertisers in the process. Have you ever considered the carbon footprint of the jo...

Share Previous investors are understood to have included Google Ventures and the firm is thought to be considering raising further funds to build on their success with the Covid vaccine.  Bill Enright, chief executive at Vaccitech, said: Future Planet and its practical and ethical policy of impact investment was a welcome investor at an important time. Future Planet was founded by Douglas Hansen-Luke to invest in promising intellectual property coming out of leading universities. Advertisement...