Energy Reach Partners
Clean thinking, clear space

Why

We believe industrialised society is perhaps 30 years into a new 100 year S-curve of electrification. Adam Smith’s invisible hand is actually quite visible, the economics of electrons are better than those of hydrocarbon molecules in many applications today, and we expect this to move further in electrons’ favour in the future.

Trillions of dollars of capital will move over the next 70 years, some businesses will thrive, others will become obsolete. Energy Reach Partners is focused on this S-curve, from minerals to cells to motors and back again.

What We Do

We provide capital, strategic advice and commercial support. We serve founders, senior management teams and shareholders across the electrification value chain. We work with companies from early stage spin-outs at leading universities, through to some of the largest companies in the world.

Our experience covers critical minerals, electrochemistry and novel energy storage, generation, transmission, motors and finally the recycling of these elements. We have global reach in a global sector.

Who We Are
Founders

James Clark

James has over 25 years experience in the technology sector, as a top rated equity analyst, investor and M&A adviser.

In 2008 James founded Capital SCF which has advised a wide range of private and public technology companies, and Private Equity sponsors on strategy and M&A.

He serves as a board adviser to Comparis.ch in Switzerland and was previously a board adviser to Receipt-Bank (now Dext).

James read French at King's College London for his Bachelor's degree.

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Paul Smith

Paul is a highly experienced resource sector investor and adviser. He is focused on helping companies to grow and restructure.

In the past 15 years Paul has led in excess of $100bn of capital raisings and M&A. These have ranged from seed capital to main board listings on the NYSE and FTSE.

He is currently a non-executive director of Seadrill Ltd, Bunker Hill Mining, and Echion Technologies. In 2020, Paul founded Collingwood Capital Partners AG which holds investments in a wide range of private and public resources companies.

Paul was previously the Head of Strategy at Glencore Plc and a buy-side analyst at Marshall Wace Asset Management. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a graduate of Oxford University.

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Our investments

Echion

XNO® niobium-based anode material enables lithium-ion batteries to fast charge safely in less than 10 minutes, with high energy density and a cycle life of more than 10,000 cycles.
2021 Equity Investment Series A
2023 Equity Investment Series B
Seloxium

Selective flocculation technology to recover high-purity metals from industrial waste
2024 Equity Investment
DEScycle

Innovative metal recovery & recycling methods using eco-friendly Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES). These non-toxic, non-water-based salts allow for low-temperature, low-energy operations; resulting in low-carbon, low-impact metals.
2024 Equity Investment
Semeris

Delivering a combination of software, natural language processing, AI, and HITL (human-in-the-loop) to address all the pain points associated with reviewing legal documents for finance
2025 Equity Investment
REEcycle

Recovery of rare earth elements that are essential for NdFeB magnets. The low temperature, solvent based process extracts rare earths in the form of metal organic frameworks
2024 Equity Investment
Intellisense.io

Real time decision support optimisation software for Mining, focused on enabling continuous process optimization in an autonomous mode by predicting process performance, simulating a range of optimization scenarios and finally delivering recommendations directly to the underlying control system or operators through a user friendly software

2024 Investment (Convertible)