Carbon13 is delighted to announce investments into seven more high-potential cleantech startups. Three are alumni of our EU Venture Builder, testament to our mission to be Europe’s leading climatetech Venture Builder and the bridge for the EU-UK climatetech ecosystem.
Building the future of Europe
Europe’s competitiveness has long been in the strength of its research institutions, its leadership in science, and the talent of its entrepreneurs.
The continent is now reaching for a future with resilience, reindustrialisation and decarbonisation at its core, a future that our founders are already building.
Here’s just a taste of how our ventures are contributing to Europe’s resilience:
Shifted – energy storage through unique combination of compressed hydro and air that’s more efficient, can be deployed anywhere in Europe, and is free of critical materials and rare earths.
S2S Dynamics – AI-powered platform for E-waste circularity that connects European brands and recyclers, to reduce imports, reduce waste exports, and maximise value for European manufacturers.
Astracite – green graphite for high performance lithium batteries, made in Europe from recycled materials, again freeing battery makers from importing critical materials or destructive mining practices.
All seven ventures demonstrate the breadth of the climate tech horizontal, spanning sectors such as e-waste, batteries, energy storage, medtech, and skincare. They are developing fundamental breakthroughs, from the science fiction (growing collagen in plants) to the everyday: plastic-free medical home testing kits.
Safeguarding the planet
Each venture has proven an impact case of potential decarbonisation by at least 10 million tonnes per year when at scale, including cases such as scaling local green energy, replacing fossil fuel products with Europe-made alternatives, reducing Europe’s plastic waste by millions of tonnes, or replacing imported animal products with the locally bioengineered.
Carbon13’s CEO Nicky Dee comments:
“I’m excited by what these ventures represent — proof that when top founders find the right team, the impact is catalytic. At Carbon13, we exist to help world-class founders build world-changing companies through a world-leading teaming process. Because we’re independent, we can work with anyone, anywhere — united only by talent, mission, and the drive to execute with quality and speed.”
Now meet all seven ventures in depth
The key numbers
- 5/7 – teams with at least one female founder
- 33% – founders with a PhD
- 47% – serial founders
- 70 million tonnes – potential annual decrease in Co2e emissions
- 93 – number of Carbon13 invested ventures
Michael Langguth, Founding Partner of Carbon13 and crucial to our EU-UK bridge, has this to say:
“I’m delighted to bring more EU-based startups into the Carbon13 fold. We see our role as a bridge for Cambridge scientific rigour and UK entrepreneurial ambition with European talent and appetite for investment in clean technologies. Our European ventures are not only high potential in decarbonisation, their approaches to circularity, local alternatives to critical materials, and energy security are exactly what Europe’s future holds. Our ventures are contributing to the resilience of Europe’s future.”
Your chance to fund the future of Europe’s resilience and sustainability
Carbon13’s ventures are fuelled by our investors. For UK based investors, our eighth SEIS Fund is open now for this tax year, you can explore the Fund and download the IM on Syndicate Room.
This is a high risk investment. Please read our risk summary here.
Join our investor community
This October we’re running various invite-only events for investors interested in our fund and startups. To find out more about these events, to follow our ventures’ progress, and get notified when Carbon13 startups are raising, then you’re welcome to introduce yourself to our Principal, Min Dhillon: