Join Carbon13’s Venture Builder and build a high-growth Net Zero startup.
Carbon13 is the venture builder for the climate emergency. Applications are open now to become a cofounder on our programme.
Carbon13 are seeking commercial leaders from the startup and corporate worlds to become founders of high growth startups which will have the potential to reduce emissions by millions of tonnes per year.
On the seven month programme, you will:
We ask you to dedicate yourself to the biggest challenge of our time: the climate emergency. You will create a game-changing, scalable, carbon-emissions-reducing venture with the potential to reduce CO2e emissions by a minimum of 10m tonnes per annum.
You now want to work with cofounders who can match your standards, challenge you, and credibly deliver on the high-potential big-impact ideas in Net Zero.
You will become the CEO, responsible for building the critical relationships the venture needs, and for leading the building of the execution team.
The next cohort will begin in Cambridge, UK on 26 April 2022. Although much of the venture builder will be delivered virtually, some of Phase 1 will be delivered face to face without streaming, and attendance in Cambridge UK for this part of the programme is mandatory. Other than that, it is for you and your team to decide how and where you will work. The mandatory in person component of Phase 1 is planned to be on the below dates:
26-28 April
9-11 May
23-25 May
What you'll achieve
If selected for the venture builder, you will begin the programme April 2022. The venture builder is split into three phases and supports you to:
During Phase 1 (six weeks) you will receive a stipend of £1,000, and during Phase 2 (2 months) we pay a stipend of £2,000 per team member. After this, ventures judged to have high potential will receive a pre-seed investment of a net £80,000. In Phase 3 we will support you to prepare a funding strategy for post-Carbon13 life and help you bring in the next round of finance.
Who should apply?
While no two founders on the programme are the same, we expect commercial founders to match one of our broad technical “Founder Types”: Commercial and Venture Catalyst.
Commercial: You will likely have built a startup (or more than one) previously, or are new to entrepreneurship but have an impressive track record in one of our CO₂e emitting sectors. You are likely to have eight or more years post-Bachelors experience.
Venture Catalyst: There is no such thing as a typical founder. This Founder Type is for those of you who don’t fit in a neat box but who do have valuable insights and skills, whether earned in the startup world or elsewhere, which would help any startup team. Skills can include enterprise sales, design, product management, or others.
Whichever Founder Type you are, you are highly motivated to work on the biggest problems of Net Zero, and see entrepreneurship as your chance to build something significant.
The Cambridge Factor
The Carbon13 venture builder is based in Cambridge and benefits from strong connections within the deeply creative and radical Cambridge entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem, and benefits from many academic and corporate partnerships.
Learn More
We are running a series of webinars available to everyone who would like to learn more about Carbon13 and the Net Zero economy. Our next one can be found here - https://carbonthirteen.com/webinars/
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