June news - raises, awards and events for July

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Carbon13 are fresh from two days together in Cambridge for strategy sessions, a very fancy team dinner at Kings College, and some cheeky late-night prosecco on Jesus Green.

And in our strategy sessions, if there was one theme running through everything, from our programme to our tech to our founders to our investors, it was community.

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That means you.

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It's thanks to your support for the Carbon13 mission of fighting the climate emergency through entrepreneurship that our ventures can get off the ground and get growing.

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Let's get some more off the ground this summer.

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For founders

Applications are open now to all our programmes:

Venture Launchpad - UK registered startups, decarbonisation potential, any industry or climate segment. ï¿¡200k investment opportunity ??

Venture Builder Germany - EU-based individuals who want to find a cofounder and fight the climate emergency ??

Venture Builder UK - UK and RoW individuals who also want to find a cofounder and fight the climate emergency, but with tea breaks ?

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Watch our current cohort pitch at our online Community Input Days. Your chance to see what a Carbon13 venture looks like just before we decide who gets our investment.

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For investors

And, the Carbon13 SEIS Fund VI is also open. Mission driven investors should read more here, or register for our upcoming webinar.

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For partners

Last week saw Exploring Climatetech, the grand finale of the Venture Launchpad Cohort 3. It was our best "demo day" yet and that was down to the fantastic support from Barclays Eagle Labs who are the partners of the Venture Launchpad.

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We were hosted at Barclays in Canary Wharf, introduced by Nick Stace OBE, Head of Barclays UK Sustainable Finance & Social Purpose, followed by special roundtables for Barclays team members to deepdive with the ventures, then onto the lightning pitches and keynote from Earthshot winning Notpla's founder Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez.

Other updates this month:

• All the raises, news and job opps from our startups
• Materials Nexus announce discovery of a rare-earth-free permanent magnet

Alumni news

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Raises and accelerators ???

• Hubl has raised ï¿¡2.5 million, accelerating the deployment of their zero-emission, temperature-controlled solutions for food distribution. They're a Venture Launchpad alumnus.
• Bluemethane are one of 12 selected for Shell's accelerator, interesting from a strategic perspective due to Shell's recent biomethane acquisition. Bluemethane also have a new partnership with AgFunder.
• Limetrack have won an Innovate UK grant to improve their SMART bins for industry food waste.
• Deep Blue Biotech have joined Science Creates Engineering Biology accelerator, which is partnered with UKRI, and they have also joined The Greenhouse at Undaunted. Deep Blue Biotech are also Earthshot nominated this year.
• MapMortar has been accepted onto London & Partners’ Grow London Global programme, supported by the Mayor of London and the UKSPF. They've also partnered with McBains.

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Events and insights ??

• Community Input Days 23rd and 24th July. Watch our newest founders pitch online.
• Natural Building Systems speak on the future of construction
• Optimise AI were digital twinning Luton Airport.
• Carbon13's Entrepreneur In residence Livia Zimmerman shares her experiences as a three time founder and VC.
• AED Energy's CTO Oliver Weber is the guest of honour on Carbon13's webinar for people considering applying to one of our programmes "Lessons for founders with scientific backgrounds"
• Climatetech and pizza - 2nd July, in-person in Berlin ??
• And the Climate Tech Club in Cambridge was a huge success, thank you to our friends Cambridge Cleantech and host Allia. Next one coming soon.

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Recognition ??

• Mozaic Earth won the NatureTech Challenge at HackSummit in Lausanne! They're recognised as one of the top nature startups in Europe.
• Materials Nexus announced their incredible discovery of a new permanent magnet free of rare earths - using AI to shorten the discovery process to three months from, erm, about 50 years. Their CTO Robert Forrest was interviewed here.
• Remy are one of four finalists for the GROW award from Edinburgh Innovations
• Samudra are finalists for the UK Business Angels award for Deep Tech Investment of the Year - and they have just harvested 22 tonnes of food grade seaweed from Cornwall
• Nium are also finalists for the same awards but for Best Investment in Sustainability.
• Fermtech shortlisted by Seedrs
• Infyos has been shortlisted for the Fastmarkets Voltas Awards 2024, recognising excellence in the battery raw materials supply chain.
• MapMortar have been highly commended by The Geospatial Innovation awards as a part of Cities for the Future stream

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Jobs ??

• Nium are looking for a Graduate Engineer