June's newsletter

Hello,?

June's been a busy month at Carbon13 - most importantly we've opened applications for the next cohorts of our Venture Builder - please share with any connections you know who want to get building climate solutions.

And there's a chance to see the Venture Builder in action on the 14th and 25th July as our current Cohort 5 ventures pitch their solutions in public for the very first time. You can register for the livestream right here.

Here's what else is new at Carbon13:

• Applications update for the next Venture Builder cohort ??
• News from our Munich event ??
• First chance to see what Cohort 5 are building ??
• Opportunities for climate tech startups in the built environment ???
• Upcoming webinars ??
• Job opportunities and alumni news ??

Applications are open

?? Applications for our next cohort starting on the?7th November 2023?in Cambridge are open now.?If you are based in Europe, you can also apply to Cohort 2 starting in Berlin in?early 2024.?If you apply by the?12th of July,?you'll be assessed and interviewed by early August, ahead of applicants who apply after the 12th July.

??Know someone who wants to work on climate? Share the Venture Builder with them.

Apply here for EU

Apply here for UK

About the Venture Builder:?

?? 50% of our invested ventures are software, 50% science or hardware based

?? 80+ potential cofounders on every cohort

?? 27 of the 46 ventures have female cofounders

?? ?? 37 is the average age of the cohort

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Cohort 5 - Community Input Days

What?

Cohort 5 teams brought together by Carbon13’s Venture Builder will be showcasing their climate focused ventures to the public for the very first time at our Community Input Days, pitching solutions such as:

• Nanomaterials for batteries
• Cyanobacteria for fuels
• Direct Air Capture for atmospheric carbon removal
• Digital twins for manufacturing
• Data driven design for reducing embodied carbon
• Machine learning for supply chain decarbonisation

When??

24 July from 12:15 to 15:30 BST

25 July from 9:30 to 12:30 BST

Sign up

Opportunity for start-ups in the built environment????

On Wednesday 19 July, at 12, there is a free event hosted by Barclays Eagle Labs to share more information about their upcoming sustainability bridge programme. The programme is designed to bring together larger businesses with startups through a series of modules to share core strategic thinking and best practices to help transform various aspects of the retrofitting challenge for the built environment – including financing, energy, efficiency, development, deployment and data.

?Sign up

Munich event - 27th of June

??Thank you to everyone who joined at Plug and Play Munich. Founders got a chance to explore how to assess their climate impact and leverage it for fundraising as well as opportunities to network with other industry leaders and build connections.

Nium announced their latest raise

Nium,?a Cohort 3 venture,?announced they?raised $3 million?last month?for their work in developing low-carbon alternatives to the Haber-Bosch process.

Find out more

Upcoming Webinars

As we open applications for Cohort 6, we've updated our regular webinar schedule. Most of our successful applicants to the Venture Builder have watched a webinar.

This July:

• Climate Entrepreneurship for Scientists, Developers and Engineers
• Lessons from female founders - hosted by Entrepreneur in Residence Stephanie Alys

Join a webinar

Job opportunities

?? SeedCulture are hiring a Sustainability L&D role

?? Kestrix are hiring for 4 roles: Machine Learning Engineer, a Junior Machine Learning Engineer, a Full Stack Developer, and a Founder's Associate. Apply?here.?

?? Fidata are looking for an ESG expert to join their team. Get in touch at: [email protected]

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Alumni news

Raises and accelerators ??

• Tierra Foods?have been accepted into the?remove accelerator, the first European accelerator program focused solely on accelerating carbon dioxide removal (CDR) companies.
• Sun Bear Biofuture?(formerly Sun Bear Bioworks), completed the Startlife accelerator, were selected for the?MassChallenge AgriFood accelerator?and received a SMART award from Innovate UK. They also received a?bio-based materials and manufacture grant.?
• Bravely Cultured?have secured the Transformative Technologies grant from UKRI
• Agreed Earth?were accepted to the Google's Sustainability Accelerator - 10-week equity-free accelerator program for Seed to Series A startups focused on climate change.?

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Events ??

• FoodSquared?will be pitching at the ProVeg Demo Day in Berlin.
• Kita?will participate in The Reinsurance Podcast and talked?all things MRV with Tim Hare of DNV.
• Bluemethane?are excited to announce the start of 4 summer interns and?Vundahaus?of 3 summer interns
• Kita?publishes an in-depth?report on buffers in the VCM.
• Kestrix?will be speaking at VivaTech, Europe's largest tech conference, on the challenges of scaling climate gigacorns at the PwC booth.?
• Kelly Price spoke on?Agreed Earth's?nitrogen approach during a Future of Farming Net Zero event facilited by Countryfile's Adam Henson at the Royal Three Counties farm show.
• The Battery Recycling Company?were at the Business and Trade Committee meeting examining the UK’s strategy around batteries for electric vehicle manufacturing, at Frontier Deep Tech's panel to discuss "Solving Climate Change with Deep Tech" and Attended and held a booth at Plug and Play's Mobility Expo.23, sponsored by JLR and Bentley.

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Recognition ??

• Bluemethane?recognised as?top 30 circular economy technologies?in the water sector at the global water summit in Berlin.?
• Kita?featured in Sifted round-up of?Climate Fintechs?and was listed as one of the?19 most exciting European Insurtechs to watch in 2023.
• Shanti?won the Best Urbantech Solution 2023 award at the Proptech Latam Summit.
• Nium's Lewis Jenkins is a?finalist as EIS entrepreneur of the year?and for the?RSC emerging technologies competition.
• Lucy, CEO of?Kestrix, was as selected to represent Kestrix as 1/6 finalists at the Brilliant Innovators pitch competition in Stockholm – out of over 100 applicants.?
• xtonnes?recently won the Startup of the Year Award for Mobile and emerging Technologies.
• Agreed Earth?were invited to brief MP for Cambridge Daniel Zeichner, Shadow Secretary of the Environment, on their work using satellite data to quantify nitrogen use/loss to help farmers get financially rewarded for using less/losing Nitrogen fertiliser.?
• Pattern Project?has been featured as a?British Fashion Council innovation winner in 2023?and were selected for the?first cohort for the 'Inclusive Innovation' Award 2022/23.

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Product ??

• Tierra Foods?have announced they will be launching their first food product in August.
• Bluemethane?are building their demonstration unit and will leave their lab in July. It will remove their first tonne of methane and power over 100 homes locally in Rwanda.
• The Battery Recycling Company?conducted a collaborative study with ThermoFisher demonstrating that they are able to recycle anode material for re-use in batteries at a recovery rate of >99%