JLL Foundation $4.75m in Loans to 18 Green Startups  

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04 March 2025 | Updated 06 March 2025

Through its not-for-profit foundation, JLL has provided $4.75 million of zero-interest loans to 18 companies in the decarbonisation sector.

JLL Foundation, which was established in 2022, detailed the companies in its annual report. Each company is reducing greenhouse gas emissions, 89 per cent are directly decarbonising the built environment, 50 per cent are reducing waste, 28 per cent are driving social impact and 22 per cent are reducing water consumption.

Let’s take a look at some of the companies: 

 

Aquarry

 

Aquarry is a carbon dioxide removal company which improves water quality in open-pit mine lakes by applying ocean carbon removal techniques. Aquarry estimates that it will directly remove 500 metric tons of CO2 a year by 2040.

 

Blip Energy

 

Blip Energy is a smart battery platform focused on transforming the grid into a resource. Co-Founders, Sophia Wennstedt (CEO) and Chance Cobb (COO) told JLL Foundation: “If we connected every window air conditioner in New York to a smart battery we would have more flexible capacity than all the city’s fuel-burning power plants combined.”

 

Cadence OneFive

 

Cadence OneFive provides software that streamlines workflows and improves project transparency for housing providers. The team expects its software to reduce cumulative emissions by 41 to 88 million metric tons of CO2 emissions (CO2e) between 2023 and 2050.

 

Courageous Land 

 

Brazil-based Courageous Land is an agroforester, reforesting degraded landscapes in a way that maximises carbon removal and organic crop production.

 

Cosmic Robotics

 

Cosmic Robotics automates aspects of solar farm construction, increasing the speed of deployment.

 

DaisyChain Energy

 

DaisyChain Energy finances, installs and manages clean energy upgrades to ensure that buildings operate efficiently, allowing property owners to achieve sustainability goals without upfront costs or operational burdens.

 

Eco Brixs

 

Eco Brixs recycles plastic waste in Uganda creating job opportunities for vulnerable groups. To date, the company’s environmental and social impact includes 1,546 tons of plastic recycled, 65 million 500ml plastic bottles recycled, and income opportunities for 4,615 people.

 

Cyanoskin

 

Cyanoskin is a woman-led interdisciplinary team collaboration between the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, transforming buildings into CO2-absorbing structures using an algae-based coating.

 

InventWood

 

InventWood produces SuperWood, a high performance material that “empowers builders to create extraordinary buildings with reduced costs and construction times, replacing steel and storing carbon in the process.”

 

Novoloop

 

Novoloop is an upcycler, transforming hard-to-recycle plastics into useful materials with a small carbon footprint.

 

Ouros Materials

 

Ouros Materials’ mission is to decarbonise the built environment by manufacturing low-cost, carbon-negative building materials.  The company is targeting a final carbon footprint of less than 0.1kg of CO2e per kg of material produced, which is more than 90 per cent less CO2e compared to incumbent wood-like composite materials.

 

Mycocycle

 

Mycocycle is a biotechnology startup using fungi to transform construction waste into low-carbon raw materials for the built environment.

 

PHYTOSTONE

 

PHYTOSTONE is a woman-owned studio that develops novel and advanced natural building materials. The company’s flagship product, Cast Carbon, is a biochar-enriched interior wall tile which sequesters 10kg of C02e per m2 of surfacing through plant-based carbon content.

 

Plantaer

 

Plantaer is creating low-cost, zero-maintenance green roofs and walls that have the potential to reduce over 80 per cent of the lifetime costs of traditional green living infrastructure. 

 

Solarbox

 

Solarbox is an electric mobility and energy company, providing a sustainable transportation and energy solution for the African market with locally assembled utility electric vehicles.

 

Still Bright

 

Still Bright is revolutionising copper production with a patented electrochemical process that replaces smelting with a more efficient and sustainable alternative.

 

Urban Machine

 

Urban Machine is set to transform the construction industry by salvaging millions of tons of wood waste for reuse. Its robotic solution removes metal fasteners from construction and demolition lumber waste, reclaiming it for premium wood products.

Picture: a photograph of a person holding dollar bills. Image Credit: Unsplash

Article written by Ella Tansley | Published 04 March 2025

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