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Calling climate startups - applications are now open for our accelerator the Venture Launchpad ⚡ Impact. Investability. Traction. If your startup wants to make serious progress on those three pillars, then explore the Venture Launchpad right here>> https://lnkd.in/e8-5cjmd What sets the Venture Launchpad apart is the bespoke support: it adapts to provide one to one deepdive support to your venture. You get to have the whole Carbon13 ecosystem as your personal brains trust. 🧠 As alumna Chloe Donovan of Natural Building Systems says “It’s the bespoke nature of the support, you’re tapping into specialist advice every week… the quality of content is just better.” And who’s it for? Software or hardtech/science-based ventures with decarbonisation and climate impact potential. Any sector. Any stage of development from a team with an idea all the way to revenue generation or raising your first round. #climatetech #cleantech #decarbonisation #startups #netzero

Thinking about applying to the Venture Launchpad but got questions? Join Puja Balachander and Sara Jones for an Ask Us Anything session on Thursday 18th July - just ahead of the early bird deadline of Friday 19th July. Whether you're wondering: - if you and your startup are eligible - how we help with your specific fundraising strategy - how we work with deeptech ventures and software ventures - whether your startup counts as "climate" - cofounder questions - application issues Join and Ask Us Anything.

Working on investment strategies for your climate startup? This session with Jonathan C. jumps into common fundraising pitfalls, carbon credibility analysis, admin prep, scalability, defensibility & finance strategy. Join us at 12:00 on Thursday 25 July Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ekF44XdU Formerly CFO from inception to preparation of a telecomms company which exited for $10 billion, Jonathan continues to support Carbon13 Venture Builder and Venture Launchpad startups to prepare for investment. This series has been created in partnership with Barclays Eagle Labs to support early stage ClimateTech businesses who are getting ready to move from ideation to action. Hosted by Maya Welford

𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 until the next deadline for applications for the next cohorts in Cambridge & Berlin. We have decided on about half of the participants and can reveal this much: All of them are oustanding cofounders. Among them are serial founders 🔁, new material scientists ⚗, biotech engineers 🍄, full-stack developers 🕹, data scientists 🎰 and many other exciting backgrounds. Apply now and benefit from a broad network of supporters that branches out in all relevant directions. Among them are Entrepreneurs in Residence like Sarah Dees, Michael Reid, Amrit Chandan, Eda Leka, Livia Zimermann de Araujo Durigan as well as Domain Experts like Jason Teng, Caroline Aumeran, Daniel Newton, Andy Last, Guy Champniss, PhD and many many more. In addition, and perhaps most importantly, you will work closely with our programme team. Marina (can be seen in the picture below), Mai and Jack are your first points of contact. They organise the sessions, support you with your pitches and know either the answer to all of your questions or someone who knows the answer. We are counting on you 👇 (apply link in the comments)

The Venture Launchpad is a brains trust for early stage climatetech ventures 🧠 o Got questions on investment strategy? You'll deep dive with your dedicated Entrepreneur in Residence who's an exited and VC-backed founder. o Got questions on the science of your labs-cale technology? We'll link you to one of our hundreds of specialist Domain Experts, with deep expertise in your niche. o Need to do customer discovery in your beachhead industry? Again, we'll have Domain Experts and community members who can open their networks. o Unsure how to measure or communicate your maximum carbon impact? One of our Carbon Experts in Residence is a call away. o Struggling with IP strategy or founders' agreements? Our IP and legal partners want to help. FYI early bird applications close 19th July ⏰ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/e8-5cjmd

One week to go until Cohort 6 pitch for the very first time! We've got pitches on 👇 ☘ The prevention of CO2 emissions from crop residue burning ⛓ Turning abundant proteins into fibres to improve soil health 🌫 Industrial Heat Pumps / steam as a service 🤸♀️ Energy flexibility 🔎 Sustainability data collection, sharing & verification across the construction value chain 💫 AI software to model/optimise decarbonisation Register right here for the full agenda: https://lnkd.in/e_zexq_z

The Venture Launchpad is a brains trust for early stage climatetech ventures: o Got questions on investment strategy? You'll deep dive with your dedicated Entrepreneur in Residence who's an exited founder. o Got questions on the science of your labscale technology? We'll link you to one of our hundreds of specialist Domain Experts, with deep expertise in your niche. o Need to do customer discovery in your beachhead industry? Again, we'll have Domain Experts and community members who can open their networks. o Unsure how to measure or communicate your maximum carbon impact? One of our Carbon Experts in Residence is a call away. o Struggling with IP strategy or founders' agreements? Our IP and legal partners want to help. FYI early bird applications close 19th July. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/e8-5cjmd

Carbon13 is looking for climate startups for its accelerator the Venture Launchpad - so what counts as "climate"? It's certainly more than just carbon removal. There's the obvious: emissions reduction startups - this includes startups working on products or services which displace emitting solutions or mitigate them. E.g. zero carbon concrete, regenerative finance or supply chain optimisation There's also less obvious - startups which promote biodiversity, or the better use of natural resources e.g. water, or those which provide circularity and waste reduction. Still not sure? A good rule of thumb is... you. Why are you doing your startup? What problem is driving you to build a solution? If the answer is anything like "I want to limit global warming" or "prevent a mass extinction" or "create a healthier land", then your startup probably has potential.  And our accelerator can take that potential and help you understand how you maximise it. We help you understand how to reach millions of tonnes of emissions impact. So that when you look back after ten years of blood, sweat and tears building your startup, you'll know you made the real, measurable, difference you set out to do in the first place. Explore the Venture Launchpad:  https://lnkd.in/e8-5cjmd

How much #deeptech vs #software should we aim for? My cofounder asked me this question before the start of our first cohort four years ago. We agreed it would be about 70% software and 30% hardware / biotech - or deep tech…well our founders showed us what is needed! 9 cohorts, over 750 founders and 71 investments into #climatetech startups later, we’ve made Carbon13 one of the most active deep tech climate investors in Europe with a vast majority of our portfolio in deep tech. We’ve invested and helped scale teams in #greenhydrogen #greenammonia #materialsdiscovery #batteries #greensteel #greencement from #synbio to chemical engineering to advanced Ai to actual hardware engineering and many more areas. It’s working! Great to see the numbers we see represented in this McKinsey & Company report. Go #deeptech climate!

Thanks to the First Momentum Ventures team for putting this out. The Point Nine #SaaS napkin was super helpful when we were building our last startup Poq. The SaaS ecosystem has a lot of blueprint and playbooks for founders, this is still missing in #hardware, #deeptech, #climatetech. Thanks for pushing this forward to help early stage founders to benchmark themselves easily regarding their next funding round.