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Calling climate startups - applications are now open for our accelerator the Venture Launchpad ⚡ Impact. Investability. Traction. If your startup wants to make serious progress on those three pillars, then explore the Venture Launchpad right here>> https://lnkd.in/e8-5cjmd What sets the Venture Launchpad apart is the bespoke support: it adapts to provide one to one deepdive support to your venture. You get to have the whole Carbon13 ecosystem as your personal brains trust. 🧠 As alumna Chloe Donovan of Natural Building Systems says “It’s the bespoke nature of the support, you’re tapping into specialist advice every week… the quality of content is just better.” And who’s it for? Software or hardtech/science-based ventures with decarbonisation and climate impact potential. Any sector. Any stage of development from a team with an idea all the way to revenue generation or raising your first round. #climatetech #cleantech #decarbonisation #startups #netzero

The Venture Launchpad is a brains trust for early stage climatetech ventures 🧠 o Got questions on investment strategy? You'll deep dive with your dedicated Entrepreneur in Residence who's an exited and VC-backed founder. o Got questions on the science of your labs-cale technology? We'll link you to one of our hundreds of specialist Domain Experts, with deep expertise in your niche. o Need to do customer discovery in your beachhead industry? Again, we'll have Domain Experts and community members who can open their networks. o Unsure how to measure or communicate your maximum carbon impact? One of our Carbon Experts in Residence is a call away. o Struggling with IP strategy or founders' agreements? Our IP and legal partners want to help. FYI early bird applications close 19th July ⏰ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/e8-5cjmd

One week to go until Cohort 6 pitch for the very first time! We've got pitches on 👇 ☘ The prevention of CO2 emissions from crop residue burning ⛓ Turning abundant proteins into fibres to improve soil health 🌫 Industrial Heat Pumps / steam as a service 🤸♀️ Energy flexibility 🔎 Sustainability data collection, sharing & verification across the construction value chain 💫 AI software to model/optimise decarbonisation Register right here for the full agenda: https://lnkd.in/e_zexq_z

The Venture Launchpad is a brains trust for early stage climatetech ventures: o Got questions on investment strategy? You'll deep dive with your dedicated Entrepreneur in Residence who's an exited founder. o Got questions on the science of your labscale technology? We'll link you to one of our hundreds of specialist Domain Experts, with deep expertise in your niche. o Need to do customer discovery in your beachhead industry? Again, we'll have Domain Experts and community members who can open their networks. o Unsure how to measure or communicate your maximum carbon impact? One of our Carbon Experts in Residence is a call away. o Struggling with IP strategy or founders' agreements? Our IP and legal partners want to help. FYI early bird applications close 19th July. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/e8-5cjmd

Carbon13 is looking for climate startups for its accelerator the Venture Launchpad - so what counts as "climate"? It's certainly more than just carbon removal. There's the obvious: emissions reduction startups - this includes startups working on products or services which displace emitting solutions or mitigate them. E.g. zero carbon concrete, regenerative finance or supply chain optimisation There's also less obvious - startups which promote biodiversity, or the better use of natural resources e.g. water, or those which provide circularity and waste reduction. Still not sure? A good rule of thumb is... you. Why are you doing your startup? What problem is driving you to build a solution? If the answer is anything like "I want to limit global warming" or "prevent a mass extinction" or "create a healthier land", then your startup probably has potential.  And our accelerator can take that potential and help you understand how you maximise it. We help you understand how to reach millions of tonnes of emissions impact. So that when you look back after ten years of blood, sweat and tears building your startup, you'll know you made the real, measurable, difference you set out to do in the first place. Explore the Venture Launchpad:  https://lnkd.in/e8-5cjmd

How much #deeptech vs #software should we aim for? My cofounder asked me this question before the start of our first cohort four years ago. We agreed it would be about 70% software and 30% hardware / biotech - or deep tech…well our founders showed us what is needed! 9 cohorts, over 750 founders and 71 investments into #climatetech startups later, we’ve made Carbon13 one of the most active deep tech climate investors in Europe with a vast majority of our portfolio in deep tech. We’ve invested and helped scale teams in #greenhydrogen #greenammonia #materialsdiscovery #batteries #greensteel #greencement from #synbio to chemical engineering to advanced Ai to actual hardware engineering and many more areas. It’s working! Great to see the numbers we see represented in this McKinsey & Company report. Go #deeptech climate!

Thanks to the First Momentum Ventures team for putting this out. The Point Nine #SaaS napkin was super helpful when we were building our last startup Poq. The SaaS ecosystem has a lot of blueprint and playbooks for founders, this is still missing in #hardware, #deeptech, #climatetech. Thanks for pushing this forward to help early stage founders to benchmark themselves easily regarding their next funding round.

🌟What a great way to spend Thursday afternoon at the Climate Tech Terrace Party at Impact Hub Berlin! 🌟 I had an amazing time participating in the panel with Jakob Muus🌱 and Karolina Attspodina 🇺🇦, discussing how to find diverse talent in the climate tech space. A special thanks to Alessandra Caggiano for facilitating the discussion. The event brought together corporate innovators, founders, VCs, and accelerator programs all focused on diversifying their teams and partnerships. After all, diverse teams have so much more to bring to the table... A huge thank you to Sarah Needham, Ellie May Leopold, Carla Erber, and Benjamin Nguyen for putting together this great event. And thank you to Siemens Energy & Kendra Rauschenberger for the sponsorship! If you’re a woman who believes you have what it takes to be a climate tech co-founder, Carbon13's applications are open until September 1st! Join a programme where diversity is not just encouraged but proven: 60% of Carbon13’s invested companies have women in the founding team, and 65% of these teams have female CEOs. Come help us make those stats even higher—applications for Cambridge Cohort 7 and Berlin Cohort 3 are open! https://lnkd.in/dPVdQ5-f Curious to see what our Cambridge Cohort 6 is doing? Register for our Community Input Day: https://lnkd.in/dy7cMj3w Don't let imposter syndrome win—apply now and let’s create a more diverse and innovative future together! 🌍💼 If you want to hear more about the programme, reach out to me and let's chat.

We would like to cordially invite you to our (virtual) #Community #Input #Days and hope that you will participate and provide valuable feedback to the teams. 📢 These are the first public pitches at a very early stage - so your feedback is all the more important. Take the opportunity to get to know the founders and their climate tech solutions. 🗞 The Community Input Days will take place over two days (23 and 24 July) and - first things first - here is a brief overview of the agenda on day 1. 🅳🅰🆈 🅾🅽🅴: 23 July 09:30 - 12:30 (BST) Register here --> https://lnkd.in/exwqfMag   𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲: 9:30 - 10:50 #Grouse Fibre: Leverages nature's abundant proteins to enable a peat-free and regenerative future for agriculture #Nanoplume: Maximising energy efficiency across industries by scaling the manufacturing of the next generation super insulating materials. #Algemy Labs: Decarbonising and decentralising industrial chemicals and fertiliser production with biotechnology #Forge Minerals: Pioneering rapid, efficient CO2 mineralisation technology to generate highest-quality carbon credits and transform minerals into valuable, carbon-storing commodities   𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲: 11:00 - 12:30 #PLuQ: Resetting the bar for cool by supercharging consumer choice in household appliances #Tenax ai: Enhancing property resilience through actionable insights and financial solutions that mitigate physical and financial losses from climate-related weather damage   #DecarbWorks: A software startup that merges AI technology with energy transition expertise to help organisations decarbonise more cost-effectively   #Terracusto: Stop the CO2 emissions from crop residue burning by collecting the crop residue (thus ensuring that it is not burnt) and then using that residue to help restore soil balance which gets degraded due to intensive agricultural farming.   #Ecolens: Building an AI-powered climate risk modelling and decision making platform software for real estate industry.   We and the teams are very excited and look forward to your participation.

Share request: the #Venture #Launchpad is looking for early stage startups in climate. Here's who should apply: Early stage startups - this means pre-raise, includes startups who are just a team with a dream, all the way up to revenue and a product. UK registered only for this cohort. Doesn't have to be SEIS eligible. Any sector or solution. Software or hardtech.  Climate mission. And why should startups apply? Strongest ecosystem in the UK for early stage climatetech startups. It's already generated 71 invested ventures worth £190million with a 500 million tonne potential on carbon reduction. Intensive one-on-one deepdives to work on your startup's objectives, not one size fits all sessions. Investment opportunity for £200,000 in Jan 2025. Peer support, the peloton effect from working in a cohort all aligned on fighting the climate emergency. The early bird deadline is 19th July to start October 2024. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/e5-yANWc