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Carbon13 (The Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency)

Carbon13

Status

Status not published

Cohort-based with periodic application deadlines, typically two to three cohorts per year across its UK and German programmes.

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Amount
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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%.

Funder

Carbon13

private · national

Deadline: Fixed cut-off dates — Cohort-based with periodic application deadlines, typically two to three cohorts per year across its UK and German programmes.

Your odds
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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.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

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.

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://carbonthirteen.com/

"The Venture Accelerator is for pre-seed startups looking to raise their first round and want a superadvisor accelerator to work on product/market fit, go-to-market and investment readiness."

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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