Circular economy
Circular economy
Our current linear ‘take-make-waste’ system use 60% more resources than the earth can generate every year. We invest in solutions that enable reuse, upcycling and recycling of waste streams to enable a circular economy.
We invest in solutions that enable reuse, upcycling and recycling of waste streams
Our linear “take-make-waste” economy is exhausting the planet’s resources. Circularity is essential to decoupling growth from extraction.
Our investment thesis
We invest in technologies that close material loops in the most resource-intensive value chains, focusing on advanced recycling, recovery of high-value materials, and circular resource inputs.
What we are looking for
- Advanced recycling of hard-to-handle waste streams
- Circular materials that replace virgin resources
- Scalable technologies with strong unit economics and feedstock security
Our investment within circular economy
We have backed founders building solutions within reusable products, upcycling and converting non-recyclable plastic fractions to a liquid chemical.
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SemperCycle
Enabling a circular, low-carbon economy for unrecyclable plastics
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“Circularity only works if it scales – we invest where circular solutions can truly replace linear ones.”
Explore all our investment verticals
- Circular economy
- Built environment
- Biosolutions
- Climate tech
- Energy
- Food & agriculture
Explore all our investment verticals
Our current linear ‘take-make-waste’ system use 60% more resources than the earth can generate every year. We invest in solutions that enable reuse, upcycling and recycling of waste streams to enable a circular economy.
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Have a venture where impact and growth scale together? We invest early and work side-by-side powered by the whole Footprint Firm team.
Phil specialises in strategy consulting with a focus on sustainability, especially climate mitigation and the circular economy. Phil’s experience spans sustainability strategy, ESG due diligence, GHG inventory calculation, sustainability reporting and SFDR/EU Taxonomy alignment assessment. He brings broad sector experience, working with investors and companies in manufacturing, retail and consumer products, technology, healthcare, energy as well as non-profit organizations.
Phil has co-authored perspectives on climate change reporting in private markets, as well as potential opportunities for companies inspired by the circular economy. He has direct experience with circular economy technologies, having been strategy & business development lead for a circular technology for end-of-life textiles, and now a board member for SemperCycle, a circular technology for end-of-life mixed plastic waste.
Phil’s consulting experience also spans strategy and transformation advisory, where he has worked with global companies in consumer products and manufacturing, as well as energy, healthcare and financial services. Before joining The Footprint Firm, Phil was associate partner at Bain & Company in the carbon transition and circular economy practice. Prior to Bain & Company, Phil was a Senior Associate for Pacific Strategy Partners for 3 years, before which he was a Senior Consultant at PwC for 6 years, both based in Australia.
Phil holds a Bachelor or Commerce from the University of Melbourne, majoring in Finance and Accounting. He was admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia in 2011. He completed the GRI Standards Certificate in 2019.