January newsletter - meet Cohort 6!

80 more founders have started their Carbon13 journey!

We applaud each member of this cohort for choosing to dedicate their time and energy to doing the incredibly difficult task of building a startup that can reduce emissions by millions of tonnes. This cohort is incredibly talented: a quarter have PhDs, 36% are women (our highest % ever), 30 nationalities, and no fewer than two Olympian hammer throwers.

And with just a handful of years left until 2030 Net Zero deadlines, they're going to have to aim high and fast.

Other updates this month:

• Berlin Climate Innovation Showcase
• News and job opps from our startups, including a million pound grant for Nium
• Webinar today for angel investors and SEIS investors - 30th Jan
• ICYMI - Carbon13 closes first round of target €30mill fund

And p.s. some news on our own carbon footprint, Carbon13's website is now independently verified as green hosted ?

Berlin Climate Innovation Showcase

The grand finale of our first cohort based in Germany took place last Thursday, with a full room at Google and hundreds of people watching on the livestream.?

Thank you to Lubomila Jordanova for a thought-provoking keynote, stressing the need to not waste time on ideas which can't scale.

Thank you also to Google for hosting the event, in particular Fabiano Abreu Ott, Felix Hentzen and Erika Root.

We'll keep you updated with all six B1 startups here - and B2 starts in just three weeks!

Webinar 30th Jan - "Investing in early stage climatetech ventures"

Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all the money you invest. This is a high?risk investment and you are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong. Take 2 mins to learn more .

Join our webinar introducing the Carbon13 SEIS Fund V (2024/25 tax year) – an exclusive chance to invest in early-stage climate tech ventures emerging from the Carbon13 programmes.

Since 2021, we’ve invested ￡7m in 64 climatetech ventures, with a total market value surpassing ￡140 million. Join our webinar to learn more

This webinar constitutes a financial promotion and is directed only at Professional Clients, High Net-Worth Investors and Self-Certified Sophisticated Investors. By registering, you are indicating that you fall within one of these categories.

Register for webinar

Alumni news

Raises and accelerators ???

• Future Greens and Preoptima both joined Tech Nation's Climate Programme 2024 , a fantastic achievement, well done.
• Nium has been awarded a ￡1million grant from the UK government's Resource Efficiency for Materials and Manufacturing (REforMM) initiative, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) - this is the largest grant in the category.
• Optimise AI has won a ￡200k grant from the Welsh government, addressing the critical need for efficient energy and carbon management in data-scarce non-domestic buildings.

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Events ??

No alumni events this month, more to come in Feb.

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Recognition ??

• Preoptima are officially the "Best Early-Stage Decarbonisation Software Company in 2023", according to BUILD Magazine's Sustainable Building Awards 2023
• Cbamboo have launched Cbamboo Declare, which generates CBAM reports in just one click .
• Samudra Oceans has now acquired Jamaica-based Kee Fisheries which makes them possibly the only seaweed farming robotics operator focussed on both hot and cold waters .
• Mormair (part of Venture Launchpad Cohort 3) has been featured in Carbon Unbound , founder Valerie Findlay shares her strong views on the complexities of the voluntary carbon market.
• Kita have expanded to Singapore , bringing their bespoke carbon insurance products to scale impactful carbon projects in Asia.
• Mortar IO and Barnet Council have teamed up with funding from Innovate UK, to tackle the borough's place-based retrofit challenge by developing a platform which generates virtual models of every building in Barnet .
• Bluemethane are featured in SG Voice, in a great explainer video on the importance of methane in climate change, and scaling solutions to remove it from the atmosphere.

Jobs ??

• Materials Nexus have three job opps , two Founder's Associates roles, and a Scientific Software Developer role.
• Adia have two open roles, a Senior Full Stack Engineer, and an Electronics Engineer. Both roles found here.
• Kestrix are looking for a UI Engineer, details here .
• Agreed Earth are seeking a Product Manager for their agritech startup.