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Zulu Forest Sciences
Carbon economics to preserve native forest habitats
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Investing
- Financial Services
- Data Analysis
- Nature
- Environmental
- Automation
- Science
- London, UK
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Company mission
Zulu Forest Sciences is on a mission to regenerate natural carbon sinks and habitats. We believe that restoring and preserving our forests is the most sustainable way to capture excess atmospheric carbon while protecting against biodiversity loss. Through robust science and carbon economics, we accelerate the restoration and preservation of optimal forest ecosystems around the globe.
45% female employees
Our take
Zulu Forest Sciences is an early stage startup with far-reaching ambitions – namely, to save the biosphere through the restoration and preservation of forests. Reforestation is one of the most effective ways to capture excess atmospheric carbon while protecting against biodiversity loss. Hundreds of companies offer carbon offsetting, but these schemes are often marred with corruption and inefficiencies.
Zulu are seeking to drive a step change in how carbon credits are traded with their proprietary carbon assessment mechanism that can evaluate, monitor and optimise the performance of reforestation, afforestation and avoided deforestation projects, thereby increasing the viability, transparency and long-term financial performance of the forest asset class. This enables them to effectively assess risks that have been historically opaque to investors, helping to attribute fair value to forest-backed carbon credits.
Zulu Forest Sciences is an offshoot of the Zulu Group, a mission driven investment fund that has brought companies like Improbable, Okta, Lilium and Elvie to market. The founding team bring over 100 years of combined experience in conservation, silviculture, biometric modelling, project finance and entrepreneurship, including advisory roles for the World Bank, United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organisation, and some of the fastest growing technology companies in the world today.
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Benefits
- Fresh fruit and regular team lunches
- Knowledge sharing across teams with a strong focus on continuous learning through internal and external training and personal development
- Paid sick leave
- Employee Share Option Plan
- Automatic enrolment into our workplace pension scheme
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- A “green” Central London office just a stone’s throw away from Hyde Park
- Flexible-working and remote culture
- 20 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
Leadership
Alexander Asseily
(Executive Chairman)Entrepeneur and Investor. Co-founder of Jawbone, Elvie, Zulu Group and Zulu Forest Sciences. CSO at Lilium.
Daniel Mouen Makoua
(Chief Operating Officer)Formerly COO Axa Investment Managers. Co-founder Bwamanga Sustainable Investment Advisors, whose clients include World Bank, UN, National Oil Companies.
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Additional info
- ZFS is at the early stages of its product, market and team development. The ZFS mission blends the founders’ strong desire to preserve the world’s biospheres and to contribute significantly to achieve net-zero carbon, using scientific rigour and expertise in asset management to develop a mechanism whereby capital can reliably and effectively be channelled into projects that can positively impact the environment and communities. A strong multidisciplinary team is being formed and will continue to grow as the business develops: it counts in particular Dr. Denis Alder, a world leader in forest biometrics, who has joined us as Chief Scientist to lead development of a novel prototype of our proprietary carbon assessment mechanism
- The central aims of the business at this early phase focus on the development of a nature based offset offering that can be successfully positioned to leading corporate offsetters and financial institutions globally. This is a foundational step in an overall goal to protect a minimum of 10m hectares of forest before 2030 in order to contribute to the delivery of Article 2 of the Paris Agreement to limit the increase of global temperature this century below 2C
