The climate crisis needs determined founders committed to this challenge, including scientists, engineers, and serial entrepreneurs. The average age of our cohorts is 37, and a third hold PhDs.
Every startup we build has the potential to reduce or remove CO₂e emissions by net 10 million tonnes per year when at scale.
Our community is rooted in our mission to fight the climate emergency, and driven by our scalability ethos. This is where climate tech startups will succeed on a global scale.
Our Cambridge origins have taught us the importance of commercial, carbon and scientific understanding. Our growth to Berlin fuels our ecosystem of domain expertise, investors, and partners.
We will select and support thousands of entrepreneurs to build ventures with the potential to mitigate over 400 million tonnes of CO2e per annum by 2040. We have set this target because humanity has just a few years to reduce our emissions and slow the pace of global warming, and the innovation delivered by entrepreneurs can play a significant role within this fight.
We simply don’t have time for founders to waste on dead ends or incremental solutions, or to build companies which don’t make a true impact on emissions. The future is Net Zero. Our startups are already building it.
Welcome to Carbon13’s podcast “Climate Takes” where we ask special guests for their “takes” on their industry and climate challenge, as well as setting a call to action, asking what will it take to solve the climate emergency?
Whether you’re already a founder or ready to become one, explore our programmes to see how we’ll work with you to innovate on solutions for the climate emergency.
Venture Builder Cambridge
An eight-month programme for a cohort of 80 determined individuals from the UK and beyond, who don’t have a startup yet but want to find a co-founder and build a climate-tech startup.
Venture Builder Berlin
For founders resident in the EU, our Berlin Venture Builder combines the entrepreneurial and academic spirit of Cambridge with the DACH climate tech scene.
VENTURE ACCELERATOR
The Venture Accelerator is for pre-seed startups looking to raise their first round and want a superadvisor accelerator to work on product/market fit, go-to-market and investment readiness.
Learn more about Carbon13’s progress and community. Here we share fundraising news from our ventures, collaborations with our partners, and our own news, opinion, and milestones.
A special deepdive into the global energy system for angels, VCs, and startup investors looking for insights into the levers of change in the energy transition. By Carbon13 CEO Nicky Dee.Energy has a power problem. Energy is the structural backbone not just of climate...
Astracite is developing sustainable, high-performance anode materials for lithium-ion batteries using CO₂, silicon, and recycled graphite from end-of-life batteries. Their technology is designed to increase battery capacity, reduce reliance on fossil fuel graphite, and build a more resilient and sustainable battery supply chain in Europe.
Circular11 has raised £2.4 million to scale a technology that turns non-recyclable plastic waste into durable composite lumber. By tackling both plastic incineration and timber scarcity, the team is proving that waste can become a valuable industrial resource. We’re excited to support their next stage of growth.
Carbon13 is delighted to invest in six new climate tech ventures through the Carbon13 SEIS Fund VIII in partnership with Syndicate Room. The startups range from physical AI, to clean fuels, to visible chemistry, and even ceramics. Our conviction in each venture has...
Portfolio company Temperate has announced a new SAFE funding round led by Adapt Capital. This marks a significant step forward in its mission to reinvent cooling for a warming world. For Temperate, the investment will support the expansion of its breakthrough low...
Since 2023, Siemens Energy Ventures and Carbon13 have partnered through the Female Equity Scholarship to support female climate founders at the earliest stages of company building.
Whether investor, partner or participant. We show you how Carbon13 is organised and look forward to your questions and ideas. Our regular webinars and in-person events offer a great opportunity to get to know us better.
Natalia Dorfman, CEO
Thomas Merriman, CPO
Paul Young, CTO
Kita is the carbon insurance specialist; developing bespoke carbon insurance products that safeguard the quality and performance of carbon transactions. By reducing risk, carbon insurance channels investment towards high quality carbon projects, enabling them to scale at the pace needed to address the climate crisis.
Dr Jonathan Bean, CEO
Robert Forrest, CTO
Dr Jon Pillow, CSO
Nic Stirk MBE, CCO
Materials Nexus is a deep-tech company originated at Cambridge University and Carbon13, who combine the insights of quantum mechanics with the power of AI to predict the properties of materials. Materials such as concrete, steel and glass contribute towards 50% of all CO₂ emissions. New, better materials are needed for a new, low carbon world – but it typically takes 20 years to develop a new material to be commercialised.
Their ground-breaking AI-enabled Materials Discovery Platform transforms the way new materials are designed using a rapid automated process and advanced quantum calculations that give high accuracy at larger scales.
Phil Hunter, COO
Lewis Jenkins, CEO
Yubiao Niu, CTO
Nium eliminates emissions by delivering hydrogen as a more efficient energy vector. Their novel nanotechnology revolutionises the Haber-Bosch process and enables the synthesis of truly green ammonia. With two patents filed, Nium helps build the infrastructure and network for a cleaner future of food and fuel.
Louise Parlons Bentata, CEO
Néstor Rueda-Vallejo, CTO
3 billion tonnes of CO2e are emitted from methane in water each year. There is no way to remove this methane at scale. Until now. Bluemethane measures and removes methane from water. The methane is then used as a new source of clean energy. Their technology is scalable and can be deployed in a variety of settings, including wastewater treatment plants, reservoirs and rice cultivation. With methane’s global warming power 34x that of carbon, Bluemethane is tackling a core problem for global warming.
Sarah Montgomery, CEO
Tony To, Co-Founder, CTO
Infyos are building a future where every electric vehicle battery is sustainable. Using the team’s expertise in the battery industry and supply chain technology for large organisations around the world, Infyos are helping car makers, battery manufacturers and mining companies map and measure the impact of their supply chain, identify hotspots, and enable collaborative action to improve impact and reduce supply chain risk.