Deadline: 30 September 2023
The Carbon13 Venture Launchpad identifies, supports, and invests in early stage climate tech startups with huge decarbonisation potential.
The Carbon13 Venture Launchpad accelerates founders working on the solutions to the climate emergency, as part of the global effort to reach Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.
This 20-week programme supports startups to align their product, commercial, and carbon mitigation strategy, connect to a community of support, and develop strong team habits. Those that are successful at the end of the first phase will receive £120,000 pre-seed investment from Carbon13.
The Venture Launchpad is sector agnostic; however in this cohort, startups that are UK-based, and working on on scalable innovations that tackle food, land and nature will get extra support from their partners at Barclays Eagle Labs.
The Venture Launchpad is a highly personalised programme to your venture’s specific milestones. Carbon13 can achieve this because their ecosystem is one of the strongest and richest support systems in climate tech entrepreneurship today.
- Over 350 Domain Experts with sector specific, entrepreneurial, and technical expertise, mission driven for the climate
- Corporate partners such as EY, Arm, and Barclays Eagle Labs, eager to work with startups
- Entrepreneurs in Residence who embed into your startup. All are successful founders themselves
- Carbon experts who guide and push you to maximise your impact
- Investor partners to support on your investment readiness. Investors in our alumni include Octopus Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, and Ada Ventures.
The key benefits
- Carbon Pitch and carbon case for 10 million tonnes of CO2e emissions reduction per year weekly deep dives with Entrepreneurs-In-Residence (all successful founders)
- Milestones on product/market fit, go-to-market, and team and culture
- Investment Pitch and strategy for raising the next round
- Opportunity for pre-seed investment from Carbon13 of £120,000
- Investor networking
- Presentation at a Climate Innovation Showcase to partners and investors.
The Venture Launchpad structure
- The next cohort starts 13th November
- 20 week programme split across two Phases
- 4-5 hours of mandatory, and 4-5 hours opt-in programming a week, all remote
- Opportunity to pitch for investment of £120,000 at the end of Phase 1 in January 2024
- In-person demo day at the end of Phase 2.
Who can apply?
- The Venture Launchpad supports founding teams of early stage software or deeptech/science-based startups.
- To be eligible for the Launchpad, your startup should:
- Have two or more founders.
- Be registered in the UK or be able to.
- Have not raised equity funding, or been diluted less than 10%.
- Be committed to building a venture with the ambition of reducing emissions by millions of tonnes a year – even if you don’t yet know how your idea will reach that target.
For more information, visit Carbon13.
