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The culture of a startup can be its secret weapon - Canopy (CISL) is running a free workshop on "Inclusivity Leadership for Startups" on March 25th. You can register here: https://lnkd.in/e78SKXJY Workshop details: ✅ Understand the impact of diversity in leadership and team success  ✅ Gain insights from experienced founders, mentors, and investors ✅ Learn practical strategies to implement inclusivity from day one 📅 Event Details:  📍 In-person event The Cambridge institute for Sustainability Leadership, The Entopia Building, 1 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1GG  🕒 March 25th, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM  🎟 Free registration Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) #InclusiveLeadership #Startups #DiversityInTech #Founders #LeadershipDevelopment 

This month, we're opening our seed round 🌱 to raise the investment we need to expand our production 🏭 , grow our research team 👩🔬 , and begin to make a nationally-significant dent on the recycling rates for post-consumer plastics 📈 To kick things off, I spent a few days in Zurich, Switzerland, to speak at a conference organised VIVA Investment Partners AG. It was really fun to be on stage alongside such high-calibre founders like Scarabtech and TUBR, and join a pan-European ecosystem of people who are absolutely sending it in their mission to eliminate waste and reduce emissions. Thanks to Julie Meyer for having me, and if you're a fund that believes that radical resource efficiency can enable the next generation of industrial giants - or is open to being persuaded - then please get in touch 🚀

A great event in Cambridge for climate innovators: The Climate Challenge's Final Event is Friday 21st March, here's the details: "Do you want to see some excellent climate innovation pitches while enjoying free drinks and canapés?🥂   Join us for the Final Event of the Climate Challenge, where our finalist teams will pitch their climate innovation ideas to our panel of expert judges, announcing the winning and two runner-up teams, awarding them £1500 and £750 respectively! Enjoy free drinks and canapés afterwards in the College Bar for all who attend. A great opportunity to meet people working in innovation in Cambridge.   📆 Friday 21st March ⏰ 13:00 to 17:00 📍 King's College, Keynes Hall and Chetwynd Room, College Bar 🔗 Sign Up Here! ▶️ https://lnkd.in/eJVygTkD     Our fantastic panel of judges include:   - Kamiar Mohaddes | Co-Founder, Director at King's Entrepreneurship Lab - Nicky Dee | Founder, CEO at Carbon13 - Tara Love | CTO and Co-Founder at NANOPLUME - James Cole | Chief Innovation Officer at Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership (CISL)

We are getting closer to crunch time. Just over two weeks to go until the end of our application deadline for the next Venture Builder programmes in Berlin and Cambridge/London (both starting at the end of April). 💥 We would like to recommend two things to all those interested: A) Don't wait too long. We are deciding on a rolling basis and by the end of March there will only be a few places left. We will then have (even) more specific criteria. ⏰ B) We are offering a final webinar in which Carbon13's Co-founder and CEO Nicky Dee talks about what the focus is in the first two phases of the programme, what you should bring and how you can get the most out of the programme. ✨ (The link to register in in the comments) (In the picture you see Marina Fontoura, who together with Mai Silk is responsible for the first phase of the programme.)

How has it really been raising a round in climatetech the last twelve months? Well at midday today we've got two founders sharing their experiences, one in manufacturing AI and the other in hardtech in construction - with lots of Q and A. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eQpimfJ5 With Chloe Donovan, Shruti Grover and Sara Jones

Who are the partners powering #Change100? ⭐️ You may have seen the news this week that we’ve launched Change 100 to accelerate the top sustainability startups to watch in 2025 – and we’ve already received a flood of applications! But who is getting behind this ambitious mission? Let’s turn the spotlight to our great impact partners… 💻 Microsoft's Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact support mission-driven companies in expanding their businesses and amplifying their influence through their carefully crafted programmes, as well as access to technology, expertise, visibility, and networking opportunities. 🌎 Techstars Sustainability Paris has invested in early-stage purpose-driven companies from around the globe tackling this century's biggest challenges. Fun fact: we are alumni of their fantastic accelerator! 🇫🇷 ChangeNOW is the world's largest event for the planet. ChangeNOW 2025 will gather the most promising innovations, visionary leaders and ChangeMakers in a spectacular World Expo of solutions for the planet (24-26 April in Paris)! 💡 Bright Tide is a leading sustainability consultancy company that works with global organisations to address urgent climate and biodiversity challenges around the world. Through their accelerator programmes they support some of the world's most innovative biodiversity and climate solutions. ☁️ Carbon13 is a venture builder focusing on startups that address the Earth’s critical life support systems. Since 2021, Carbon13 has invested over £8 million into ventures with the potential to significantly reduce carbon emissions, with their portfolio currently valued at over £190 million collectively. 🔥 Unrest champion diverse entrepreneurs who are driving positive change, offering them mentorship, funding opportunities, and a collaborative community that challenges the status quo. 🚀 Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge provides free-to-access start-up support, a global founder community and grant funding opportunities of up to €15,000 for young sustainability innovators and social entrepreneurs around the world. To all sustainability startups! This is your chance to get connected with the talent, resources and programmes you need from industry-leading organisations like these. 👉 Apply for free today: https://lnkd.in/enyfacAv Supercharge your startup today! 🙌 #Change100 #sustainability #startups #sdgs #csr #esg #founders #impact

Interested in the climate technology of tomorrow? Book your ticket to join the final pitch event for the Cambridge Zero #ClimateChallenge.   This entrepreneurship programme and competition provides young academics from the University of Cambridge with the skills to scale-up their own climate solutions into successful and impactful businesses.   The pitch will see finalist teams pitch their climate innovation ideas to a panel of expert judges, including our very own Chief Innovation Officer James Cole, in the hopes of getting their hands on a cash prize. This is a great opportunity to meet people working in innovation in Cambridge, and get first sight of future climate tech spinouts from this world-leading hub for innovation.    📆 Friday 21st March  ⏰ 13:00 to 17:00  📍 King's College, Keynes Hall and Chetwynd Room, College Bar 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eJVygTkD  The full panel of judges include:  - Kamiar Mohaddes | Co-Founder, Director at King's Entrepreneurship Lab  - Nicky Dee | Founder, CEO at Carbon13  - Tara Love | CTO and Co-Founder at NANOPLUME  - James Cole | Chief Innovation Officer at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

Which skill is most important to build a highly scalable climate tech startup? 🐣 At Carbon13, we differentiate between four different founder types: Commercial, Venture Catalyst, AI/Software, Science/Hardware. And in preparation for each new cohort, we adapt our ideal vision of the individual types. For example, in recent weeks we have emphasised the importance of skills in the area of simulation software. Of course, there is no one answer and no one founder who guarantees success and impact, but you can approximate. ✨ Here is a great example of a #commercial #founder who will be part of Cambridge cohort 8 and in whose application we found many essential skills, experiences and values: "I'm in a place in life where I possess the financial runway, resilience, and readiness to take calculated risks, informed by over 12 years of experience building technology companies. I have the endurance to weather through unavoidable struggles, the business-savviness to scale climate solutions into success, and the drive to establish something that has a true impact on climate." What do you think makes a great tech/commercial founder? And even more important: When can we expect your application? We and the planet are counting on you! 🌍 --- In the comments you will find a short brochure about Carbon13, the link to our application portal and our next webinar with Carbon13 Co-founder and CEO Nicky Dee.

Hello Munich - Carbon13 is coming town. 🖖 🌍 Climate tech is dead - long live climate tech. ⭐️ Over the past few months, voices have become louder proclaiming the death of “climate tech”. The backlash was not long in coming. But there is undeniable momentum in the sector. It looks as if climate tech is diversifying further. 📣 We would like to dedicate this event to the question of what the next evolution of climate tech will look like and what lessons can be learned from the ups and downs of the sector. 💡 In two panels, we will take the perspectives of climate tech founders (at different stages) as well as the perspectives of climate focused angels and VCs. With us are: - Christian Spier, CEO at Differential Bio - Andrea Schneller, Founder and CEO at koorvi - Christian Deilmann, Co-Founder and Managing Director at tado° - Toba Spiegel, Investment Director at Trill Impact - Michael Langguth, Co-founder & CSO at Carbon13 - Moritz Vohler, Investment Manager at better ventures - Beatrice Böhm, Principal at GET Fund 🍹There will also be a lot of room for networking over drinks and snacks. We would be very happy if you were there too! What do you think? You find the link to register in the comments. The event is aimed at business angels, founders, and VCs in the climate tech sector and hosted by Trill Impact, GET Fund, better ventures and Carbon13.

Massive news 🎉 🤯 Nium have been nominated for The Earthshot Prize 2025 💚 Launched by Prince William and Sir David Attenborough, the Earthshot Prize is the world’s most prestigious environmental award, dedicated to accelerating groundbreaking solutions that can repair and regenerate our planet. Each year, five winners - one per Earthshot- are awarded £1 million to scale their innovations and drive real climate impact. The Prize Council, led by Prince William, searches the world for the most promising environmental solutions with the potential to create transformative change on a global scale. Developed in collaboration with leading environmental experts, the Earthshots are: Protect and Restore Nature; Clean our Air; Revive our Oceans; Build a Waste-Free World; and Fix our Climate. Read more about the Earthshot Prize: https://lnkd.in/eXqJDgUm Massive thank you to Carbon13, AgFunder DCVC Octopus Ventures, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt , H2UB, Undaunted: Tackling climate change with innovation Imperial College London, Cambridge Judge Business School,QBE Insurance AcceliCITY with Leading Cities, Innovate UK Global Incubator Programme Agri-Tech, and RootCamp - A SpinLab Company 💚 But this nomination wouldn’t have been possible without the incredibly special team we have built at Nium So, last but definitely not least, a massive thank you to our incredible team: The Founders 🧠 Yubiao Niu Phil Hunter Lewis Jenkins The (dream) Team 💚 ✨ Alex Dale Aman Verma Claudia Luiza Manfredi Gasparovic Hannah van Niekerk Henry Hoddinott Joe Were Keith Ajagun-Brauns Kerry McLaughlin Leo Leung Luchao Liu Marie Foster Matthew Ryans Rim Abid Rosalind Eyles FCA Ross Griffin Theo Pavloudis #earthshot #earthshotprize #earthshot2025 #climate #environment #greensolutions #climatecompany #startup #climatetech #greentech #ammonia #hydrogen #cleanenergy