Innovator stories
The Undaunted team works with many innovators and startups across different sectors and contexts – search our full list of alumni and current companies. Once they progress through our programmes these founders join a thriving network of alumni at different stages of the entrepreneurial journey.
Meet some of our current and alumni founders below!
Scaling up climate innovation
The route to commercialisation is often long and complex. As our community of current and alumni startups grows we are increasing our scale-up support service to help companies flourish during the next, crucial stages of their development.
We work closely with colleagues across Imperial’s White City campus. This includes work with the Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship to translate their groundbreaking research in this area into practical support for climate startups. Some of our alumni are in fact based within the thriving White City Innovation District as they scale up.
We engage thoughtfully with our startups and wider community to understand the barriers they face and amplify these in wider political and industrial arenas. We are founding members of Cleantech for UK, a initiative that seeks to supercharge UK innovation, and we also work with the Startup Coalition.
Climate Solutions Up-Close
Antoinette Nothomb & Emma Money, Cyanoskin
Antoinette Nothomb and Emma Money are Co-Founders of Cyanoskin, a new carbon capture technology utilising an algae based-coating designed to transform buildings into carbon dioxide-absorbing structures, reducing emissions and addressing urban pollution. Once applied, the photosynthetic coating grows and thickens, allowing it to capture carbon dioxide in urban environments. Motivated to build a startup in the climate field, the co-founders met at Imperial College London and were drawn at how closely they mirrored each other’s values.
Alain Alban, Isometric Outcomes
Alain Alban is the Founder of Isometric Outcomes, which has come through both The Greenhouse and Better Futures Retrofit Accelerator at Undaunted. Specialising in bathroom dehumidification and heat recovery, its flagship product is the Xsteamator – a system that combines the functions of a shower and ventilation system in one compact and energy efficient device. Alain tells us about his motivations for working in the cleantech space and why he’s focused on tackling inefficient building ventilation systems.
James Dearsley, Verv Energy
James Dearsley is CEO of the award-winning Verv Energy, revolutionising energy efficiency with its patented technology designed to eliminate the 4% of energy wasted by heating and cooling systems. From contributing to the sustainability vision of the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics to staying ahead of emerging trends, James’ journey with Verv provides invaluable insights into the challenges and opportunities within the built environment.
Josephine Bromley, MapMortar
Josephine Bromley is COO of MapMortar, a platform for portfolio decarbonisation at speed and scale. From making profitable yet empowering decarbonisation decisions, the team offers a one-of-a-kind software based on principles inspired by Digital Twins. Josephine discusses the team’s journey in representing all kinds of use-cases, especially ones which are underserved.
Baz Iyer, Vulcan
Max Bloomfield, VundaHaus
Max Bloomfield is Co-founder and COO of VundaHaus, which is creating prefabricated insulation kits to retrofit existing homes. The team’s mission is to build a pathway for more jobs in the design and pre-fabrication stage as opposed to reworking a building on a scaffold. Hear Max talk about the inspiration behind starting a career in cleantech.
Emily Taylor, Co-Founder and Director at SAGES
Osas Omoigiade, CEO and Co-Founder of Deep.Meta
Deep.Meta’s software optimises steel production by harnessing data to create digital versions of potential defects. This enables real-time insights to warn operators of casting cracks, or where target-properties won’t be achieved in a rolling schedule. Co-Founder, Osas Omoigiade, reflects on his journey to, through, and beyond Imperial’s climate accelerator programme, and how the team have grown their cleantech idea.
Hanson Cheng, Co-Founder of The Tyre Collective
Christophe Williams, CEO and Founder of Naked Energy
Thomas Robinson, Founder of Adaptavate
Reka Tron, COO and Co-Founder of Multus
Meet Reka Tron, Co-Founder of Multus, a team of scientists and engineers who believe that tackling the short-comings of conventional livestock farming is critical to securing a sustainable future. They are developing the key ingredient, the growth media, to make cultivated meat affordable and profitable, to provide a truly sustainable alternative to today’s global dependence on traditional animal farming.
Taking a hands-on approach to insect farming
Working with the foundations of net zero cement
A whole new category of sparkle
Getting under the skin of EV charging
Urban Electric’s retractable EV charging technology is enabling more people to be part of the electrification journey. Undaunted’s reporter, Franca Davenport, found out more about the technology.
Getting to the roots of healthy soil
Innovating across business and regulation for net zero energy
Keeping in touch with our food’s freshness
Keeping an eye on safer, more sustainable cycling
Software services to unlock sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
OAK Network: Gaetan Cuvillier and Sasha Ginsburg
Dr Enass Abo-Hamed, Founder and CEO of H2GO Power
Simple energy savings from smart hot water tanks
Arthur Kay, CEO and Co-Founder of Skyroom
Paul Baranowski, CEO and Co-Founder of Climate Edge
Climate Edge connects smallholder farmers to services they need to succeed, to create a fairer and sustainable future for global agriculture. Its Farmer CRM utilises SMS to ensure that remote smallholders, no matter their location, can receive affordable and accessible agronomical guidance from global experts in their field. Co-Founder, Paul Baranowski, reflects on his journey.
