Olympian Brothers back London startup with £150,000 to plant 67 million trees in the UK
Summary
The latest funding round will enable Treepoints to continue to scale its carbon offsetting services for businesses and individuals alike whilst maintaining an altruistic approach, with Treepoints’ recent social-enterprise and B-Corp pending status. The platform created by Oxford University graduates Anthony Collias and Jacob Wedderburn-Day aims to provide everyday individuals and businesses with a simple way to take meaningful climate action. We figured people are happy to subscribe to music and streaming services. Once this is estimated, users or businesses will be able to select a comprehensive Treepoints planet positive subscription comprising of a varied portfolio of tree planting, offsetting and recycling ocean-bound plastic vetted by some of the world’s leading UN-certified sustainable projects. But that’s not all, it offers an API for business partners which enables a customisable and easy way to automate the purchase of trees, carbon offers, or plastic recycling directly from their application or service, giving real-time insights, data and statistics on total impact.