Vala Capital
valacap.com Direct investor
Vala Capital is a UK venture builder and EIS fund manager that backs early-stage, sustainability-focused start-ups. It invests through its Sustainable Growth EIS, Better Ventures EIS and Self-Select EIS portfolios.
Vala Capital is a venture studio headquartered in United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in sustainability, climate, renewable energy and subsea robotics. 26 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We construct portfolios of companies capable of achieving outstanding returns for investors who care about sustainability.”
— Vala Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture studio
- Stage
- Seed
- Headquarters
- United Kingdom
- Invests in
- UK
- Sectors
- sustainability, climate, renewable energy, subsea robotics, consumer
- Portfolio
- 26 companies
Team, as Vala Capital publishes it
- Jasper Smith Founder & Director
- James Faulkner Co-Founder & Managing Director
- Jane Holland Co-founder & Advisor
- Asker Fawmy Co-founder & Finance Director
- Carolina Manhusen Advisor
- Jake Wombwell-Povey Venture Partner
- Naseer Randhawa IT and Systems Manager
- Paddy Willis Investment Committee
- Mike Penrose Advisor and Investment Committee
- John Swingewood Investment Committee
- Boyd Carson Investment Committee
Names and roles exactly as listed on valacap.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Vala Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://valacap.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, sectors, thesis_quote, description, status
- https://valacap.com/about/hq_country, invests_in_geographies, people
- https://valacap.com/portfolio/portfolio_count
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Record 14053 · added 2026-10-20 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence medium
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