Cofounder of a climatech startup - Entrepreneurs & Business experts

Become a co-founder of a scalable climatetech startup through Carbon13’s 8-months Venture Builder Programme for the Climate Emergency - starting on 25th September. We support founders at all stages of start-up development, from the very beginning of ideas and co-founder teaming, through to pre-seed investment and scale.

It is possible to start this programme alongside other commitments. Please get in touch if you have questions about expectations.

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We're looking for experienced entrepreneurs and venture catalysts with strong insights into emitting industries and a skillset that enables to scale quickly to become co-founders of startups that will adjust economies for a net zero future. With us you will find the right technical cofounder and the best possible basis for building a successful climatetech start-up.

Our mission: Save the climate and aim big - before it's too late

Carbon13 is the Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency. We are laser-focused on supporting founders solving for the climate, and the climate only. To do that, we ask every new founder on our Venture Builder to aim big, to build a solution with the potential to reduce carbon dioxide (or equivalent greenhouse gases) by 10 million tonnes per year - and all our support is designed to help you reach that figure.

"I’ve always loved the hustle of entrepreneurship. Climate tech entrepreneurship is the icing on the cake. It’s doing what I love to make the world a better place for everyone else. For climate tech to have maximum impact, it needs a diversity of founders who represent all set to benefit from it."

Sioned Owen – Founder and Chief Product Officer at Unbound Energy from cohort 3.

Why participating?

• We provide a shortcut to meet a lot of great science professionals to be tech co-founders with whom you can create extraordinary climatetech solutions.
• Climate doesnt have time for false starts, begin your entrepreneurship journey the right way with us, avoid the dead ends or incremental impacts.
• We train you deep carbon knowledge that will enable you to build your startup in a way that climate tech VCs will need to invest.

“One of the unique things that we are doing at Carbon13 is we are not expecting our founders to outsource this knowledge, we are very much training all of our founders, so they have access to the latest tools and techniques, so that they can assess their carbon mitigation potential, understand how to communicate it and of course be transparent in how they are measuring it.”

Carbon13 Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer Dr. Nicky Dee

Carbon13's mission: Save the climate and aim big - before it's too late

Carbon13 is the Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency. We grew out of the Cambridge university ecosystem of innovation and have expanded to Berlin in Germany, the heart of climatetech in the EU.

We are laser-focused on supporting founders solving for the climate, and the climate only. To do that, we ask every new founder on our Venture Builder to aim big, to build a solution with the potential to reduce carbon dioxide (or equivalent greenhouse gases) by 10 million tonnes per year when at scale - and all our support is designed to help you reach that figure.

Why? The climate doesn't have time for us to waste on false starts, tinkering at the edges, or greenwashing.

Learn More

We are running a series of webinars available to everyone who would like to learn more about Carbon13 and how to build startups with breakthrough solutions for the climate. Our next one can be found here.

Carbon13 in numbers:

- £9+ million investment across 65 ventures since 2021

- 50% of the ventures are software, 50% science or hardware based

- 70 potential cofounders on every cohort

- 35 technical, 35 commercial cofounders

- 90% of each cohort forms a cofounding team within Phase 1

- 350 domain experts, carbon experts, entrepreneurs in residence

- 10 million tonnes of emissions every year. We only launch startups that have the potential to reduce emissions by 10 million tonnes.

We caused climate change. Let's fix it.