Carbon13 comes to Berlin

The venture builder specializing in climate issues is expanding into the EU and plans to set up new companies in Germany from February next year.

After Cambridge, the British venture builder Carbon13 is now moving to mainland Europe. As part of an eight-month program, the company builder and investor specializing in climate issues wants to support around 70 talented people from the fields of technology, science and business with its network of experts in order to create teams, ideas and ultimately start-ups.

A decisive criterion for an investment by Carbon13 is a start-up's potential to save at least ten million tons of CO2 and equivalents per year. "We are taking this step because, despite the broad-based investor landscape in climate technologies, founders:in face considerable obstacles in the early stages," says Michael Langguth, co-founder of Carbon13 on the venture builder's expansion to the EU.

Since 2021, Carbon13 says it has invested £3.5 million in 32 projects. All participants in the program receive €1,000 month up to the initial investment. After an initial validation phase, Carbon13 will invest 120,000 euros in at least 14 of the most promising teams. The application phase has now started.