From frustration to innovation.
From frustration to innovation.
The story behind Zellar
The story behind Zellar
Zellar was founded in 2019 out of frustration.
Despite the UK’s 5 million SMEs being responsible for nearly a third of the nation’s emissions, there were no practical, affordable tools to help them take meaningful sustainability action. Everything we found either stopped at carbon measurement, planted a tree, or sold a certificate — none of which drove real change.
Zellar was founded in 2019 out of frustration.
Despite the UK’s 5 million SMEs being responsible for nearly a third of the nation’s emissions, there were no practical, affordable tools to help them take meaningful sustainability action. Everything we found either stopped at carbon measurement, planted a tree, or sold a certificate — none of which drove real change.
So we decided to build something better...
So we decided to build something better...




Our Journey
From our founding year until now, these critical markers have seen us grow from strength to strength in the pursuit of something better
Our Journey
From our founding year until now, these critical markers have seen us grow from strength to strength in the pursuit of something better
Our Journey
From our founding year until now, these critical markers have seen us grow from strength to strength in the pursuit of something better
Our Journey
From our founding year until now, these critical markers have seen us grow from strength to strength in the pursuit of something better
OUT
CENTRE
IN
2019
2019
2019
2019


The spark
Founded with one clear goal: to help smaller organisations move beyond token gestures and make sustainability simple, affordable, and actionable.
The spark
Founded with one clear goal: to help smaller organisations move beyond token gestures and make sustainability simple, affordable, and actionable.
The spark
Founded with one clear goal: to help smaller organisations move beyond token gestures and make sustainability simple, affordable, and actionable.
The spark
Founded with one clear goal: to help smaller organisations move beyond token gestures and make sustainability simple, affordable, and actionable.
Building the platform
We combined our experience in software and entrepreneurship with a growing team of experts in design, UX, and sustainability to create Zellar — the first digital sustainability coach for SMEs.
Building the platform
We combined our experience in software and entrepreneurship with a growing team of experts in design, UX, and sustainability to create Zellar — the first digital sustainability coach for SMEs.
Building the platform
We combined our experience in software and entrepreneurship with a growing team of experts in design, UX, and sustainability to create Zellar — the first digital sustainability coach for SMEs.
Building the platform
We combined our experience in software and entrepreneurship with a growing team of experts in design, UX, and sustainability to create Zellar — the first digital sustainability coach for SMEs.
Backed by believers
Secured £600k investment from The Co-operative Bank and raised a further £771k through a successful crowdfund to accelerate growth and reach more organisations.
Backed by believers
Secured £600k investment from The Co-operative Bank and raised a further £771k through a successful crowdfund to accelerate growth and reach more organisations.
Backed by believers
Secured £600k investment from The Co-operative Bank and raised a further £771k through a successful crowdfund to accelerate growth and reach more organisations.
Backed by believers
Secured £600k investment from The Co-operative Bank and raised a further £771k through a successful crowdfund to accelerate growth and reach more organisations.
Zellar 2.0 launches
Released a major new version of the platform, making it even easier for smaller organisations to cut emissions and save money.
Zellar 2.0 launches
Released a major new version of the platform, making it even easier for smaller organisations to cut emissions and save money.
Zellar 2.0 launches
Released a major new version of the platform, making it even easier for smaller organisations to cut emissions and save money.
Zellar 2.0 launches
Released a major new version of the platform, making it even easier for smaller organisations to cut emissions and save money.
Powering bigger change
As demand grows from councils, funders, and supply chain owners to measure emissions across their networks, Zellar has evolved into a complete data and action platform — connecting both sides of the sustainability challenge.
Powering bigger change
As demand grows from councils, funders, and supply chain owners to measure emissions across their networks, Zellar has evolved into a complete data and action platform — connecting both sides of the sustainability challenge.
Powering bigger change
As demand grows from councils, funders, and supply chain owners to measure emissions across their networks, Zellar has evolved into a complete data and action platform — connecting both sides of the sustainability challenge.
Powering bigger change
As demand grows from councils, funders, and supply chain owners to measure emissions across their networks, Zellar has evolved into a complete data and action platform — connecting both sides of the sustainability challenge.
Trusted. Proven.
Growing.
Trusted. Proven.
Growing.
A growing network of businesses, councils, funding bodies and national organisations use Zellar to measure emissions, improve performance and share progress consistently.
They trust Zellar to move beyond box-ticking and guesswork — gaining accurate data, clear insight and the confidence to drive and demonstrate real impact at scale.
A growing network of businesses, councils, funding bodies and national organisations use Zellar to measure emissions, improve performance and share progress consistently.
They trust Zellar to move beyond box-ticking and guesswork - gaining accurate data, clear insight and the confidence to drive and demonstrate real impact at scale.




Meet the Zellar team
Meet the Zellar team

Leadership Team
Head of Data
Kiefer-Joe Copp
Kiefer is our data guru creating the dashboards and insights that help move your business forward.

Leadership Team
Head of Data
Kiefer-Joe Copp
Kiefer is our data guru creating the dashboards and insights that help move your business forward.

Leadership Team
Head of Data
Kiefer-Joe Copp
Kiefer is our data guru creating the dashboards and insights that help move your business forward.

'A Team'
If you’re a bright spark we’d love to hear from you.
Contact us with product ideas, sponsorship or investment proposals

'A Team'
If you’re a bright spark we’d love to hear from you.
Contact us with product ideas, sponsorship or investment proposals

'A Team'
If you’re a bright spark we’d love to hear from you.
Contact us with product ideas, sponsorship or investment proposals

Kiefer-Joe Copp
Head of Data
Kiefer is our data guru creating the dashboards and insights that help move your business forward.
Leadership Team

If you’re a bright spark we’d love to hear from you.
Contact us with product ideas, sponsorship or investment proposals
'A Team'
Our vision
Zellar’s mission is to help 250,000 organisations take measurable sustainability action by 2028 — from SMEs and franchises to sports clubs, schools, healthcare, and councils.
Our route to that goal is through partnership: working with the large organisations that already reach these smaller ones — supply chain owners, funders, membership bodies, and councils.
By helping them capture emissions data from the hard-to-reach tail through automation and APIs, Zellar makes it simple to measure collective impact — while leaving behind a platform every SME can use to keep improving.
What started as a frustration has become a movement — one platform helping every organisation, large or small, take real, measurable climate action.






Ready to stop chasing
your tail?
Book a short call to see how Zellar helps you capture the emissions data you can’t reach — and turn it into real results.

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Ready to stop chasing
your tail?
Book a short call to see how Zellar helps you capture the emissions data you can’t reach — and turn it into real results.

Site by Houghton.Works


Ready to stop chasing
your tail?
Book a short call to see how Zellar helps you capture the emissions data you can’t reach — and turn it into real results.
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