As 2023 starts winding to a close, we wanted to pause and celebrate two key additions to the 2150 leadership team: Derek Brooks and Jil Lindau.

By Christian Hernandez, Alexandra Perez New York City buildings have a problem… over 3.5 million apartments are heated by central boiler-powered steam radiators. Most of them date to the WWII period or before. And their owners are now facing the highest operational carbon tax in…

By: Christian Hernandez, Jacob Bro, Christian Jølck, Rahul Parekh When we started plotting 2150, we talked about the need to think about the urban environment holistically beyond just buildings. We called it the “Urban Stack.” Since then we have invested across all layers from materials, to construction methods, to solutions…

By Christian Hernandez, Rahul Parekh, Shahnaz Khan The rise of energy prices, attitudes towards personal climate impact and government incentive schemes, have led many homeowners to seek to improve the energy efficiency and decarbonise their homes. But the voyage is not a simple one: Each home is different, each one…

The 2150 leadership team expands with the promotion of Rahul Parekh to Partner and Margarita Skarkou to Principal “Great things…are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs Over the past few years, 2150 has scaled from the spark of an idea, to a group of four founders aligned on a mission, to now a team of 17 full-time team…

2150 hosts its first Urban Impact Summit, bringing together founders, investors, and thought leaders tackling sustainability challenges in the built environment. Yesterday (1st March, 2023), on a crisp, sunny morning at Banegaarden, Copenhagen, we hosted our first Urban Impact Summit. We heard fantastic presentations from 2150, NREP, Home.Earth, Normative, and…

Sharing our insights into the biggest sustainability challenges facing our built environment. Our previous issues of the UNSUSTAINABLE series have explored cooling, windows, concrete & cement, and steel. In this post, we explore our UNSUSTAINABLE water use and the solutions emerging to bring water systems back into balance. Running out…

By Rahul Parekh and Jacob Bro As a tech investor focussed on sustainability, it’s incredibly rare to come across a company that’s already facilitating billions of dollars of transactions, whilst having the potential for enormous impact on the environment. That’s exactly what we found in OpenSolar, a leading software…

2150 is leading LuxWall’s $33m Series A to launch production of their ‘Net Zero Glass’. LuxWall has designed a next-generation vacuum insulated glass that reduces heating and cooling costs by up to 45% and makes window retrofits simpler. By Christian Jølck and Shahnaz Khan When we started looking into windows…