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?? Industrials and the built environment remain critically underfunded in the journey to net zero ?? Despite their massive potential for impact, these sectors continue to receive less investment when it comes to developing and delivering climate solutions (PwC State of Climate Tech 2023). At Carbon13, we’re seeing first hand how our ventures in these spaces are breaking barriers and making incredible progress. ?? Our first podcast is on one such venture, Cocoon Carbon, tackling both steel and concrete emissions, and is a vital contribution in these underfunded areas. If you’re interested in connecting with ventures that are currently fundraising, feel free to reach out to me or Min Dhillon. Cocoon Carbon is focused on revolutionizing the steel and cement industries by developing a process that transforms industrial waste, such as steel slag, into sustainable cement while capturing CO2. Carbon13 Thanks to Sara Jones and Simon Dierks and Eliot Brooks . https://lnkd.in/eM-ia8XS

A lunch time special ?Optimise-AI are introducing their new AI-powered platform for decarbonising buildings. Online today at 12:00 ????https://lnkd.in/eC4H7z65

Last minute reminder for a webinar happening at midday today "Raising investment from climate tech angel investors", you can sign up here: https://lnkd.in/eASWyRkm Featuring Min Dhillon, Carbon13's Head of Capital, sharing his insights from raising SEIS Funds for Carbon13's ventures. The webinar is the next one in our series in partnership with Barclays Eagle Labs

The podcast has dropped! Watch/listen to the full episode of Climate Takes Concrete on our platform via the link in the comments >>> Who's talking: Eliot Brooks, CEO and cofounder of Cocoon. He and his cofounders Freddie Scott and William Knapp launched Cocoon last year and raised $5million in just 18 months. Hosted by Carbon13's Sara Jones. What's it about: Concrete, steel, the challenges and the commercial opportunity in decarbonisation. Why does it matter: Concrete and steel account for 15% of global annual emissions. Here's what's coming up ?? #climate #climatetech #podcast #netzero #concrete #steel #builtenvironment

A valuable webinar for anyone working to decarbonise buildings, plus the launch of a new AI demo from Optimise ?

Carbon13 is doing a podcast ???? Tomorrow is the very first episode of "Climate Takes", where we ask our special guests for their takes on their industry and climate challenge, and also ask, what's it going to take to solve the climate emergency? Why now? We work every day with wonderful people, from founders to investors to partners to friends, we want to share their knowledge, their vision, their battle scars, with the wider community. But as we go into 2025, there are so many more people we want to reach. People who want use their working life to scale the solutions that will keep this planet alive. So tomorrow, please help us reach all those new people by sharing our podcast. It's made for the climate curious, as well as for you, our seasoned community. For our first episode, we'll be speaking to Eliot Brooks, CEO and co-founder of Cocoon, for "Climate Takes Concrete". Here's our Sara Jones to tell us why ??

? Wow, we are the winners of the ‘Investing in Women: Team of the Year’ award at the Growth Investor Awards in partnership with British Business Bank. We feel honoured and are all the more motivated to continue on our path. A big congratulations also to the fantastic other nominees Zero Carbon Capital, Black Opal Ventures, Eka Ventures, Parkwalk Advisors, Pembroke VCT and Westerly Winds. We dedicate this award to our team, to all the female founders who have gone through our programmes, to all the female experts who support our teams and to all the female investors who believe in our teams and in us.??? The percentage of female founders in our Venture Builder programme is increasing each time. The last cohort (Berlin Cohort 3) started with 40% women and for the first time we had more women with a scientific background than men. ???? This is no coincidence. This year, we launched a Female Equity Scholarship that we award together with Siemens Energy Ventures. Women who, for a variety of reasons that can often be traced back to being a woman, cannot fully focus on founding a climate tech startup without support are supported by Siemens Energy Ventures with mentorship and a bursary. This is an example of how we are targeting injustices based on need and on feedback from many female founders. ??? We hope to soon have increased the number of female participants from 40% (at least) to 50%. Firstly, because climate tech is a relatively new sector and we still have the chance to right the wrongs of the startup scene here. And secondly, because we cannot build a net-zero future if we exclude smart, determined, mission-driven women. ?? We will be opening applications for our next programme very soon. If you are thinking about setting up in climate tech but don't know exactly how or are unsure whether you are the right person for it, let's talk. ??

As Phase 1 comes to a close, we want to say a huge thank you to all the Domain Experts and Entrepreneurs In Residence who contributed their time to the Venture Builder cohort. Our Domain Expert Carousels are our founders' chance to speed test ideas with respected innovators drawn from diverse industries. We need our best people working on climate, and the rest of our best people supporting them and offering advice and support. Our Domain Experts have answered that call and we're very grateful. Please join me in thanking the following who took part last week at our Domain Carousel for the UK cohort ?????????? Eda Leka Neal Coady Natalie N. Troy Stewart Michael Cawley Fadl Saadi Fleurie Amorette-Davies Amrit Chandan Alistair Holzhauer-Barrie Marc Ottolini James Tabor Murray Chapman Martin Threakall Alex Vlassopulos Charlie Pool Mike Clark Graham Hobson Volker Ballueder Peter Spark David Milward Dr. Sabine Seymour Thomas Janvier Dorian H. Shankar Sethuramalingam Leah Lazer Jason Teng Sara Holland Pierre Alexandre Bou-Ach Tarun Kapoor Kamil Mroczek Jérome Joaug Kris Jones (He/Him) Curran Kalha, Ph.D. Raphael Benhamou Igor Felc Abigail Dombey Artyom Sitnikov Dhosjan Greenaway-Dalini, MBA Daniel Kenning Michael Reid Sarah Dees

This is a fantastic opportunity: Hear how to raise angel funding for climatetech ventures, from the man who's managed all of Carbon13's SEIS Funds: Min Dhillon Webinar "Raising investment from climate tech angel investors" is Thursday 28th November, you can book here: https://lnkd.in/eASWyRkm Min will take you through SEIS and raising funds, and how to communicate with angels. He'll share what he's learnt from speaking to hundreds of angels and raising millions of pounds for Carbon13 ventures. This webinar is part of our work with Barclays Eagle Labs, our partners for the Venture Launchpad. #climatetech #venturecapital #angelinvesting

One week from today ?? grab your chance to hear from two Carbon13 alumnae speaking at Climate Connection's Climate Tech Time: o Karishma Gupta of Eslando o Joyeeta Das of SamudraOceans And, it's an extra special Climate Tech Time because it's the 3 year anniversary event for Climate Connection, a fantastic milestone for a wonderful community, ?? Juliette Devillard and team So it's going to be an extra special party for London's climatetech ecosystem, grab your spot right here: https://lnkd.in/e8d9CuHv