Connect Earth
Entrepreneur First '21UK, GB · Founded 2021 · 1 employees on LinkedIn · 18 known investors
Connect Earth provides a Sustainable Finance operating system that helps financial institutions assess portfolio sustainability, automate ESG reporting, and align investments with sustainability standards like the EU Taxonomy and SFDR requirements. The platform serves retail banks, asset managers, asset owners, and other financial services firms seeking to integrate sustainability reporting and compliance into their operations.
Also known as CONNECT EARTH LTD
Founders & leadership
Connect Earth was founded in 2021 by Alex Lempka and Nick Carmont.
Investors · 18
Also in the syndicate · 7
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountseed roundMar 2023
Gresham House Ventures (lead), Global Brain Corporation, Love Ventures, Market One Capital, MSM Fund, Portfolio Ventures, Super Capital, Venista Ventures
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Connect Earth is a London-headquartered environmental data company that supplies emissions and ESG data to financial institutions through APIs, SDKs and a standalone SaaS reporting platform. Its original product estimated the carbon impact of consumers and companies from their spending data in line with carbon accounting standards, sold to banks and fintechs; the company also offered a climate data engine enriching company, supplier and product data with carbon insights for climatetech businesses.
The current positioning is a "Sustainable Finance OS" combining transaction-level carbon insights for end customers with compliance-grade reporting. Reporting modules cover SFDR, principal adverse impact (PAI) indicators, the European ESG Template (EET), MiFID II and EU Taxonomy alignment, plus portfolio screening and data collection on unlisted businesses. The platform is packaged in modules addressed to retail banking, business banking (SME emissions measurement, decarbonisation planning and green lending), asset management, asset owners, management companies, wealth advisors and third-party tech platforms that embed its data.
The company describes an API-first data layer with embeddable customer journeys, a component library and standardised ESG data, and cites metrics of more than 3 million API requests per day, 99.99% uptime, data coverage of 65+ countries and 2.5 million active users across client instances.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 3
by search overlap
Companies competing with Connect Earth for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 8
launches, deals, and filingsConnect Earth placed 31st in the UK Startups 100 index for 2026, a ranking of promising new UK businesses.
The company website's 'What's New' section features Emirates NBD Green Pulse, a sustainable banking customer offering.
Connect Earth participated in the FIS Fintech accelerator in the US as part of its US expansion, and said it already worked with US financial institutions and partners.
Seed round led by Gresham House Ventures with Love Ventures, Global Brain and its CVC partner The Norinchukin Bank, Portfolio Ventures, Super Capital and angels; existing investors Market One Capital, Mustard Seed MAZE and Venista Ventures also participated. Funds allocated to scaling in Europe and expanding into the US.
$5.6M source ↗
The company stated partnerships with SAP, Thought Machine and Q2 that make its data available to those firms' customers through their respective marketplaces.
As part of the seed investment, Gresham House Ventures brought in Stewart Holness as Chair; company registry data lists Stewart George Holness as a director since 2023.
The company announced its first funding round, reported by EU-Startups as €1.6 million (£1.3m per UKTN; $1.7m per Seedtable, dated 1 March 2022), with investors including Mustard Seed MAZE, Market One Capital, D2, Plug and Play, Entrepreneur First and Venista Ventures plus strategic angels. Proceeds were earmarked for traction and expanding the data offering across Europe and the US.
Connect Earth ran a PoC through the Elevator Lab Partnership Program powered by Raiffeisen Bank International and worked with US challenger bank Cogni on carbon insights for its Gen Z users.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structureCompanies House · registry record
View on Companies House ↗- Registered name
- CONNECT EARTH LTD
- Company number
- 13444853
- Status
- Active
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 8 Jun 2021
- Registered office
- 60 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6NP
- Nature of business (SIC)
- 62090 — Other information technology service activities
- Accounts
- last made up to 30 Jun 2025 · next due 31 Mar 2027
- Confirmation statement
- last made up to 7 Jun 2025 · next due 21 Jun 2026
Current officers · 4
- Stewart George Holness — director, appointed 7 Mar 2023
- Alexander Wilhelm Lempka — director, appointed 8 Jun 2021
- Conor Scanlan — director, appointed 18 Sept 2025
- Edward Aston Wass — director, appointed 6 Mar 2026
Source: Companies House public register · retrieved 24 Jul 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Connect Earthconnect.earth · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Connect Earth do?
- London-based provider of API-delivered carbon and ESG data and compliance reporting tools for financial institutions.
- Who founded Connect Earth?
- Connect Earth was founded by Alex Lempka, Nick Carmont in 2021.
- Who are Connect Earth's investors?
- Connect Earth's investors include Beyond Capital, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Double Down, Entrepreneur First, Global Brain, Gresham House Ventures, Love Ventures, Market One Capital and 3 more.
- Where is Connect Earth headquartered?
- Connect Earth is headquartered in UK, GB.