noa vc (formerly A/O), are building Europe’s largest tech fund dedicated to transforming the built world.
They believe the built world is more than just physical infrastructure: it is a manifestation of human ingenuity and a reflection of societal values. They call it humanity’s OS.
noa invests in pioneering founders and breakthrough technologies that decarbonise the built world.
Noa VC (formerly A/O Proptech) is a London-based venture capital firm building Europe’s largest tech fund dedicated to transforming the built world - the physical infrastructure, spaces, and systems that support human life and economic activity. Noa invests in early-stage founders and breakthrough technologies that drive digitisation, decarbonisation, climate resiliency, energy transition, and efficiency across the built environment, including real estate, construction, energy, mobility and related systems.
Noa partners with a network of strategic limited partners and asset owners to give portfolio companies access to incumbents and industry-scale opportunities across real estate and construction.
Mission
Noa VC aims to enable a world that harmonises with nature, leverages clean energy, and promotes sustained wellbeing for its inhabitants by supporting technologies that reshape the built world and reduce its environmental impact.
Goals
Values
Noa emphasises long-term capital, ecosystem collaboration, and sector-specialist expertise to help founders build technologies with lasting real-world impact.
Noa was founded in 2019 (originally known as A/O Proptech) to address the investment gap in technology for the built world. The firm was launched to bring deep technology and venture capital to real estate and adjacent infrastructure sectors, with a vision to decarbonise and modernise the global built environment.
Gregory Dewerpe is the Founder and Managing Partner of Noa VC, where he leads the firm’s investment strategy and works directly with founders and ecosystem partners to scale transformative technology for the built world. Gregory has a background in technology, venture capital and strategy, and previously co-founded and operated a digital real estate startup before transitioning into venture investing. At Noa, he combines deep industry insight with hands-on support to help early-stage companies across climate, energy and built environment sectors reach scale.
Other team members supporting sourcing, diligence and portfolio growth include Principals Arjun Jairaj and Jess Clemans, Investment Associate Catriona Hyland, Investment Analyst Harry Black, Head of Data Jayasmita Chakraborty, and Head of Finance & Sustainability Emily Nixon, among others. The leadership also includes CFO/COO Bhrigu Bali and Executive Assistant Sarah Altana.
Geographic Scope
Noa is based in London, United Kingdom and invests globally, with a portfolio that spans companies based across Europe and North America.
Sectors of Interest
Noa specialises in built world technology, spanning:
Investment Criteria
Noa focuses on early-stage venture investments where technology can fundamentally reshape industry practices, improve sustainability, and unlock new efficiencies across the built environment. Typical investments are made at pre-Seed or Seed stages, with ticket sizes varying from roughly €100k - €1.5M.
Equitable Earth: A Paris-based climate tech company providing a global certification standard for nature-based carbon projects, using advanced technology to assess and monitor high-integrity projects that support climate, ecological and community outcomes.
UrbanFootprint: A San Francisco-based urban intelligence platform that unifies climate, environmental, socio-economic and urban data to help governments, utilities and planners optimise investments, resilience and resource deployment.
Smalt: A UK-based proptech startup developing a platform to help landlords and tenants access accurate, compliant, and up-to-date building standards and sustainability data, enabling better decisions and smoother compliance with ESG and regulatory frameworks.
Noa manages venture capital funds supported by a network of strategic limited partners, asset owners and financial sponsors. Its Fund II has attracted commitments from large real estate investors, including Grosvenor UK, signalling confidence in the firm’s built-world investment thesis.
Noa invests in early-stage and growth companies with technologies that transform the built world, including climate-focused and digitisation solutions.
Noa deploys capital globally, with portfolio companies in Europe and North America.
Noa’s focus includes real estate tech, construction technology, climate, energy transition and infrastructure digitisation.
Noa collaborates with strategic LPs, real estate incumbents and ecosystem partners to support portfolio growth.
Investments at Noa VC typically fall in the range of €100k - €1.5M.
Noa VC typically supports companies at pre-Seed to Seed stages.
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