April showers of news, events and job opps

It's spring! The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, the beer gardens are full, and just like trees bursting into leaf, so our cohorts in Germany and the UK are bursting into teams, each determined to find a way to reduce emissions by ten million tonnes per year once at scale.

If you read that and wish you too could be building a highly impactful startup, then scroll down for our job opps with our startups - there's a super rare chance to join as a CXO for equity with Samudra Ocean: AI and robotics for seaweed farming. This team's mission isn't just carbon capture, it's about creating great green jobs for sea farmers.

And, we can confirm the dates for the next Venture Builders will be 26th September. You can pre-apply now to be the first to receive the full application form when they open in a handful of weeks.

Other updates this month:

• All the news and job opps from our startups
• AED raises
• Climatetech and 🍕 in Berlin, 21st May, with Honda 🏍️

Alumni news

Raises and accelerators 📈 

• AED Energy have closed their pre-seed to build MWh scale thermal batteries, with investors such as Zero Carbon Capital, Dhyan Ventures, Amar Shah, Duncan Grierson, & Stephen Murdoch more details on Linkedin.

Events 📆

• Bluemethane and Open Hydro are in SF for ImagineH20's Startup Summit 28-30th April
• Unbound Energy have begun a fireside chat series on clean home tech
• Barclays Eagle Labs "Telling your climatetech business story" with Paul Bourne, Carbon13's Storyteller in Chief, 30th May. Can't recommend this enough for founders, Paul is brilliant.
• Carbon13 and Honda Xcelerator Ventures "Climatech and pizza - what investors expect at early stage" - in-person in Berlin, with lots of pizza. 21st May.
• Carbon13 "Climate entrepreneurship - lessons from founders with scientific backgrounds", with Katharine Shapcott, CTO of VoltVogel, from our Berlin cohort. 16th May.

Recognition 🏅

• Preoptima have been recognised as a top 25 cleantech startup by Cemex Ventures. Preoptima also have a youtube channel with fantastic content on the built environment, so subscribe now before they're famous.
• Future Greens are Tech Nation's Rising Stars regional winner for the north, excellent achievement, well done.
• Mortar IO has become MapMortar: their mission to decarbonise buildings remains the same, and indeed they were discussing AI at Earthfest's Future of Greentech on Earth Day.
• Natural Building Systems and Kestrix can now boast founders selected as Forbes 30U30, congratulations to Chloe Donovan and Lucy Lyons.
• SeedCulture's Katelyn Prendiville spoke on corporate sustainability transformation on the Empathy Unbound podcast

Jobs 💻

• Samudra Oceans are hiring a CXO, a truly exciting opportunity in climate deeptech with equity on offer, as well as a lot of hard work, sweat and tears.
• Materials Nexus are looking for a People Associate
• Kestrix want a Building Physics Engineer
• Biozeroc are after an early-career lab tech in Cambridge