Future Planet Capital

Douglas Hansen-Luke serves as Executive Chairman. He set the firm's investment framework after a career spanning Rothschild and BP's alternative energy group. The Investment Committee composition beyond Hansen-Luke is not publicly detailed, though the firm draws on academic advisors linked to its partner universities.

It sources predominantly through formal partnerships with global research universities including Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. These agreements give the firm early access to spin-out companies and IP emerging from institutional labs — a pathway that sidesteps the competitive auctions typical of standard venture capital.

It operates as a private equity and venture capital manager with an explicit impact mandate rather than a concessionary-return impact fund. Its strategy targets market-rate returns by commercializing university research in climate, health, and food security, deploying capital across direct venture, growth, and co-investment vehicles.

Both. The firm makes direct equity investments in companies such as Polestar and Vaccitech, and it also manages a climate fund-of-funds program. This dual structure allows large institutional LPs to access both specific venture-stage exposure and diversified manager portfolios through a single mandate.

Its public mandate restricts it from investing in fossil fuel extraction, armaments, tobacco, and sectors deemed inconsistent with its global-challenges framework. The firm's materials frame exclusions around climate resilience, health security, and sustainable food systems, effectively barring high-carbon and predatory industries.

The firm operates at arm's length but maintains signed sourcing and collaboration agreements with technology transfer offices at Oxford, Cambridge, Yale and others. These are commercial partnerships, not ownership ties. The universities retain their IP and equity in spin-outs; Future Planet Capital provides a dedicated capital channel for the most scalable ventures.

Yes. Its limited partner base includes the US Endowment for Forestry & Communities and the National Grid UK Pension Scheme, among others the firm has disclosed in prior communications. The investor mix reflects Hansen-Luke's thesis that large, long-duration allocators seek exposure to innovation that mirrors their own long-horizon liabilities.