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Motion Capital is a hands-on venture capital fund investing in founders doing good business by helping the world decarbonise.

We move fast and with conviction, supporting our companies to achieve significant climate impact while making serious money doing it.

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KiwiSaver backs Motion Capital: Fund I extended to $27.2M
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KiwiSaver backs Motion Capital: Fund I extended to $27.2M
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Companies we support

Linca lithium-ion battery recycling technology recovering critical metals

Linca

Critical metals from batteries

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Jessica Venning-Bryan (right), Simon Pohlen (left)

Factor

Optimising retail energy economics

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CullBeck

Making iron without coal

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Zethos

Decarbonising zinc dust recycling

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Ternary Kinetics

Liquid electricity

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Dot Ingredients

Cellulose particle surfactants

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Aplenty

Green CO2 for horticulture

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Aspiring Materials

Aspiring Materials

Local and clean critical minerals

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Miruku

Miruku

Animal free dairy proteins at scale

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Maestro

Real-time energy orchestration platform

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Technology enabled smart micro-grids

Supa Energy

Technology enabled smart micro-grids

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Enagain

Enagain - Investment Notes

We've led Enagain's NZ$2.5m seed round. Enagain is a University of Canterbury spinout that turns waste gas from landfills into Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), a drop-in replacement to fossil natural gas that can be sold straight into the same infrastructure and the same customers.

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Linca - Investment Notes

Linca - Investment Notes

At Motion Capital, we're thrilled to be leading Linca's NZ$5m seed raise. Linca is a New Zealand-founded company commercialising a modular, low-cost technology that recovers battery-grade lithium, cobalt and nickel from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries.

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KiwiSaver backs Motion Capital: Fund I extended to $27.2M

Ethical KiwiSaver provider Pathfinder Asset Management has become Motion Capital's first institutional investor, leading a $7.2M extension to our debut climate-tech fund.

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