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Hi As our CSO Michael Langguth says - "These ventures are the frontline of the direction of travel for climate tech in 2026. Now we are excited to have them enter the new 12-month Growth Phase of Carbon13 which will enable them to progress even faster." Meet: 🦩 Climingo founded by Dr Avi Baruch and Alper Dincer: A platform that helps organisations choose the most accurate weather and climate forecasts. 💎 HexSeed Technology founded by Mark Tandy, Dr Leonardo Santoni and Michael Glerum, PhD: developing lab-grown industrial diamond coatings, conducting heat 5x better to solve AI data centre cooling. 🍄 mushroom+ founded by Corinne Pinder, PhD and Ressa Lebedinec, PhD: using molecular engineering to boost mushroom protein 10X to match meat. 🌱 Viridys Bio founded by Rotem Berman and Stuart Dixon: produces low-cost biosensors that detect early plant stress signals to cut pesticide use. 🦠 Algaenic founded by Peter Bebbington, Blessing Allen-Adebayo, PhD, (plus an additional serial entrepreneur and co-founder in stealth): develops autonomous marine robotics to harvest harmful algal blooms from the world's lake and ocean dead zones. The experience, expertise and credibility of the Founders is hard to beat: 🎓 100% of teams include a founder with a PhD   🧠 80% of teams have one or more Founders with 20+ years of specific domain experience  💰 100% of teams secured additional grants or pre-seed funding beyond Carbon13   🚀 1 has already converted grant traction into equity. Viridys Bio raised £370k pre-seed from Carbon13 and SFC Capital on top of a Innovate UK grant Deep dive into each venture and why we invested on our blog, link in the comments below 👇 Nicky Dee Michael Langguth 👩‍🔬 Stephanie Alys Sara Jones Perminder Dhillon Paul H. Simon Dierks David Gill James Griffiths