What We’ve Learned from Building 300+ Climate Tech Ventures by Carbon13 & Investors4Climate
Over the last few years, Carbon13 has helped build more than 300 climate tech startups from day zero. We’ve worked with over a 1500 founders, scientists, engineers, and operators tackling decarbonisation across energy, materials, industry, and infrastructure.
This session is a candid look at what actually works, and what repeatedly doesn’t, when building climate tech companies in the current market.
We’ll share practical lessons from venture building at scale:
– Where teams underestimate risk and timelines
– What separates projects that attract serious capital from those that stall
– Why execution and unit economics now matter more than novelty
Alongside Carbon13 and Investors4Climate, a climate tech startup will share their firsthand experience of building a deeptech decarbonisation business: from early technical validation through to fundraising and early commercial traction.
This is not a pitch event. It’s a working session for people who want an unfiltered view of how climate tech companies are actually built.
Agenda (indicative)
08:45 Doors open, arrival and drinks
09:00 Breakfast
09:15 Welcome from Investors4Climate and Ingka Climate & Nature team
09:30 What we’ve learned from building 300+ climate tech ventures
10:00 Portfolio founder story: building a deeptech decarbonisation company
10:30 Open discussion and Q&A
11:00 Close
Location
Ingka/IKEA Digital Hub
Danzigerkade 14–15
1013 AP Amsterdam
Netherlands
The venue is centrally located, easy to reach, and overlooks the harbour.
Hosts
Carbon13 is a climate tech venture builder and early-stage investor. We work with experienced founders from day zero to build companies tackling system-level climate and environmental challenges.
Investors4Climate: Investors for Climate is a global community of more than 400 dedicated climate investors, headquartered in Singapore and New York City, and spanning 40 cities worldwide. Our mission is simple: to move capital into climate solutions at speed and scale.
Partners
Hosted at the Ingka / IKEA Digital Hub, Amsterdam.
Practical notes
– Limited capacity
– Breakfast food and drinks provided
– The event will be held in English