Clean Growth Fund held its seventh portfolio day on 27 November 2025 hosted by KPMG in their Canary Wharf offices. 

The day provided a valuable opportunity for founders and senior management from across Clean Growth Fund’s portfolio of 19 cleantech companies to come together. We’re glad so many could make it and stay to network despite the horrendous weather conditions and subsequent transport issues.  

The event started with a session from KPMG who discussed expanding into new markets and jurisdictions and the tax and legal considerations that come with it including Substantial Shareholding Exemption, Transfer Pricing and Effective Global Tax rate – a common pitfall of paying excess tax overseas with substantial losses in the UK.  

We then heard from Jeremiah Lim at Barclays who discussed six key challenges around Climate Tech financing, a very insightful session with a lot of follow up engagement from the audience.

The day continued with a session on ‘Scaling Sustainably’, an open discussion on the framework and considerations for applying for and becoming B Corp certified, with first-hand insights from tepeo and Clean Growth Fund, both B Corp certified organisations. There was a lot of interest from attendees in finding more accessible and company mission aligned volunteering projects.  

Finally, the team at WellFounded took over the afternoon session to discuss everything about health and wellbeing, how they drive better business performance and how to avoid burnout. 

We look forward to bringing everyone together again for our next Portfolio Day, if not sooner.