ekko

ekko is an award-winning London-based climate fintech company founded in 2019 with a mission to embed sustainability into the fabric of everyday financial life. The company's core insight is that payments infrastructure — already touching billions of transactions daily — is the most scalable lever available for driving positive environmental behaviour at a population level. Rather than asking consumers to change their habits, ekko makes every transaction an act of environmental impact by default.

The platform offers a suite of embedded sustainability tools for banks, fintechs, card issuers, payment providers, and employers. Its technology integrates real-time carbon footprint tracking, tree planting, and ocean-bound plastic collection into financial products and employee benefit schemes, using partnerships with leading conservation organisations including Gold Standard, Conservation International, Tusk, and Prevented Ocean Plastic. B2B partners including Mastercard, Worldpay, Volt, and Market Harborough Building Society have deployed ekko's infrastructure through its Planet Saver product family. The company also offers an employer-facing sustainability benefits platform, broadening its model beyond consumer banking into workplace sustainability.

ekko raised £2m in a seed round led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from Sorven Partners and Mishcon de Reya, following an initial £450,000 pre-seed in 2021. The company has won multiple industry awards including Best Achievement in Sustainability 2023, and has set an ambition to deliver $1 billion in funding to environmental projects globally. Co-founded by Manish Vara, Oli Cook, Simon Toller, and Tom Greenwood, ekko has been recognised as one of the UK's leading voices on the role of financial services in addressing the climate crisis.