December Updates from Carbon13

It's the final newsletter from Carbon13 in 2024! 

Our big news this month is:

Venture Builder applications are open again!

Apply to Cohort 8 in the UK or Cohort 4 in the EU to join a cohort of 80 talented, driven and committed founders, all using entrepreneurship to fight the climate emergency on a global scale.

In the new year, will it be a new venture for you?

You could:

• Use AI to accelerate lab innovation like Deep Blue Biotech and MatNex, or reduce textile waste like MannyAI, or design low carbon buildings like Preoptima or manage energy systems like Optimise AI
• You could scale inventions in chemicals and materials, like concrete alternatives such as Biozeroc and Cocoon, or green ammonia like Nium, or green hydrogen like Ki Hydrogen.
• Leverage big data to track supply chain emissions like CBamboo or verify offsets like Kita.

Who knows what you could do for the planet!

But the Venture Builder is waiting to give you the chance.

Explore the Venture Builder programmes

And for now, thank you for following our ventures' progress this year, supporting our events, and fighting the climate emergency.

We've a lot planned for 2025 and can't wait to share it with you here first.

But for now, we wish you a restful time off, a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, Happy Holidays, and lots of hope for the future of our beloved Planet Earth.

From everyone at Carbon13.

Coming up:

• Latest raises from our ventures
• New Climate Takes episodes

Climate Innovation Showcase Livestreams

The first chance to see our latest invested ventures from Cohorts UK 6 and Germany 2, on the 24th and 28th January. 

Register London

Register Berlin

Climate Takes - the Carbon13 Podcast

Two more episodes have dropped, giving you nearly 3 hours of Christmas climate listening to enjoy by the fire, with a mince pie.

We've also got a short Christmas bonus episode from our CEO Nicky Dee and CSO Michael Langguth, looking back on 2024, and what 2025 might mean for climate tech world wide. Watch Climate Takes 2024 right here.

Founder Spotlight

Florencia of Siemens Energy Ventures and Florina, cofounder of EcothermiQ, share their experiences as mentor and mentee. They were brought together by the Female Equity Scholarship in partnership with Siemens Energy Ventures and you can read their full story right here.

Read more

Carbon13 announces new partnerships

Carbon13 is delighted to bring more partners into the ecosystem: Geovation and Third Derivative.

Alumni news

Raises and accelerators 📈 

• Deep Blue Biotech raise £800k for their biomanufacturing solution, led by Sustainable Ventures, and others including SFC Capital and One Planet Capital. They also won Blue Bio Acceleration.
• Eslando welcome a new investor, and brilliantly, it's a recycling company.

Events and insights 📆

• 25th December - Christmas Day 🍗
• 31st January - New Year's Eve 🍾

Recognition and updates 🏅

• Optimise AI has launched their Predict, a digital twin demo for optimising non-domestic energy management of builds, with info appropriate energy tariffs.
• Manny AI recently raised their Seed, Shruti shares some of her journey as a female founder in AI and climatetech
• Kestrix announces partnership with EDF to give customers access to 3D heat loss maps of their home, with funding from the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
• Biozeroc played a part at ELLE Magazine Awards, as they provided the BioConcrete Award Trophies - made entirely without cement!
• AED Energy feature on Energy Futures, a podcast from Imperial.

Jobs 💻

• Not a job but a competition from MatNex (previously Materials Nexus) has launched a competition for solutions to materials, up to $25k up for grabs
• But they are also hiring for a VP Product and Founder's Assistant
• Open Hydro are seeking a Founder's Associate
• Danya Hannah 🍉 from Cohort 7 is seeking a technical cofounder for her startup working in marine co2 removal and green fuel. Email hannahdanya@gmail.com