Carbon13 (The Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency)
Carbon13
Status not published
Cohort-based with periodic application deadlines, typically two to three cohorts per year across its UK and German programmes.
GIVEN: a paid founder position during the venture-building programme (a living allowance while you form a team and validate an idea) plus an investment into the companies formed at the end. TAKEN: an equity stake in the new company. Carbon13 runs cohorts in Cambridge/London and Berlin; confirm the current allowance and investment terms in the live cohort documentation.
You must co-fund 0%.
Carbon13
private · national
Deadline: cutoff — Cohort-based with periodic application deadlines, typically two to three cohorts per year across its UK and German programmes.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: climate, energy, agri
- Stage: idea, pre_seed
Applications are from individuals (founders, scientists, commercial operators), not from formed companies. The target is ventures capable of abating 10 million tonnes of CO2e per year.
Source. https://carbonthirteen.com/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked