Above & Beyond - Climate Tech Recruitment

We’ve gained quite a few new followers recently so we thought we would do an updated introduction to Above and Beyond Recruitment🚀 So, who are we?💭 We started almost two years ago, with the goal to partner with ClimateTech companies, to enable them to attract the talent they need to build a better future. How do we do this?🤔 ✨ Retained recruitment: Whether you’re looking to make one key hire into your leadership team, or build out a whole team of Product or Engineering specialists, we can support you. ✨ Contract recruitment: As your business grows, it can be important to bring in part-time, fractional or short-term specialists to help you on your journey. We can help you source and onboard industry specialists quickly and efficiently. ✨ Advisory services: Whether you want us to form part of your Board of Advisors or whether you want us to offer consultancy services on an ad-hoc basis, we are here to help you build, define and execute your talent and employer brand strategy as you grow. Want to find out more? Check out our brand new website here 👉 https://bit.ly/3lYLj4n #carbonconsciouswebsite #carbonconscious #recruitment #retainedrecruitment #hiring #brandstrategy #talent #softwareengineers #product

💕 The little things matter too - flexible working benefits aren't just about bigger things like doing the school run, caregiving responsibilities or keeping costs down. We see that most jobs now are at least hybrid, and others are fully remote. Here at Above & Beyond we're remote-first with occasional in-office time. 🐶 Across our team, some of the things remote working allows us to do include walk the dog during the day, put dinner in the oven so it's ready when we log off, have lunch by the river (riverside photo below), run the hoover around on a lunch break, eat healthier food and do a workout before starting the day. These things might seem small but they can make a BIG difference to someone's wellbeing. ⭐ What are you favourite little things about flexible or remote work? #ClimateTech #RemoteWork #FlexibleWork #WorkonClimate

💚 GOOD GREEN NEWS (no.8) 💚 - Google is stepping away from carbon offsets to focus on CDR, lower investment thresholds lead to a €60million climate tech fund, and football is doing its bit for net zero. Read on for more... 🚂 Byway closed an oversubscribed Series A round of £5million, led by Heartcore Capital with other investments coming from HERMESA and Eka Ventures. The investment allows them to continue to grow their flight-free travel offering. 🚛 Zedify have secured a further £4m investment, with input from investors Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital, Mercia Ventures and Green Angel Ventures. 🍽 Aldi UK announced paper packaging for their Everyday Essentials Porridge Oats across all of its UK stores. It forms part of the supermarket’s target to reduce plastic packaging by 50% by 2025. 👨🍳 Mindful Chef | B Corp partnered with Smurfit Kappa, announcing their sustainable alternative to their insulation pouches and gel ice packs. It's a 100% recyclable solution with corrugated cardboard insulation packs, for a 30% lower carbon footprint. 💨 neustark secured $69 million for its IP-protected carbon capture solution. 🔬 US-based Molten Industries secured $25 million to scale its specialised technique to break methane into graphite and hydrogen. 🍔 MOA foodtech closed its Series A funding round, led by Icos Capital. 🌱 Foray Bioscience raised $3 million in a seed funding round led by ReGen Ventures. 💰 Carbon Equity, an Amsterdam-based climate tech investment platform, closed its third fund at €60 million within four months. By lowering the minimum investment threshold to €100,000, Carbon Equity aims to democratise climate tech investments, allowing more family offices and smaller professional investors to participate. 🔋 Group14 Technologies, led by Rick (Eric) Luebbe, has secured a $300 million deal with German battery cell company CustomCells to supply its silicon anode product, SCC55, which will be used to enhance the performance of CustomCells’ battery cells for electric vehicles, aviation, and e-mobility. ⛅ Google is overhauling its approach to climate neutrality. Instead of heavily relying on cheap carbon offset credits, the company is setting a new target: net-zero emissions by 2030. This will be achieved by slashing their own emissions and investing in projects that actively remove carbon dioxide from the air. ⚽ Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club have announced the launch of My Albion My Planet, a comprehensive environmental sustainability strategy. By committing to the United Nations' Sports for Climate Action Framework, they aim to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and reach Net Zero by 2040. 🚘 Ireland-based ZeroMission, an electric vehicle fleet management platform for commercial EVs, raised $3m in funding. Delta Partners Ltd. and Greencode Ventures led the round and were joined by investors including Vireo Ventures. #GoodGreenNews #ClimateNews #ClimateTech #WorkonClimate

3️⃣ big impacts unconscious bias and a lack of diversity have on teams and hiring: 📌 You miss out on top talent 📌 Lowers team success (diverse teams make more money, are more creative and innovative, and better at retaining staff) 📌 Perpetuates an unfair hiring process These were just some of the points we discussed yesterday at our team lunch and learn session about unconscious bias in recruitment, with Rachel Crowther from Squash. We shared personal stories, looked at our own hiring practices and found some quick, actionable ways to make things even better for our clients and candidates. ✅ Making sure we and our clients are not only hiring diverse teams but also providing accessible interview processes and making appropriate adjustments, is vital to ensure everyone feels welcome and supported. #ClimateTech #WorkonClimate #UnconsciousBias #Diversity

👀 Looking for your next move in climate tech? Take a look at these open roles we have. If you're interested, drop us a message. 📩 #WorkonClimate #ClimateTech #ClimateJobs #OpenRoles #GreenJobs

😃 We had a great time at Reset Connect last week! It was lovely to meet some people in-person for the first time after chatting online, and to catch up with others. Which other events should we make sure we and our new merch are at? 👋 Great to see you Louise Thomas, Johanna Andersson, Loan Blewett, Sam Weller, Raghav Malik, Andy Rees, Tristan Shaw and Ed Perryman. #ClimateTech #GreenTech #ResetConnect #ClimateEvents

Things to do this Thursday (4th July) - ✅ vote and ✅ learn how to save the planet's ecosystems. 🦋 The threat to our planet’s biodiversity is far-reaching and involves more than just the habitat destruction that people often first think of. It is impacted by climate change, pollution, over-exploitation and invasive species. 🌸 Come along to the Working in Sustainable Technology session this Thursday at 12:30pm (BST) to hear from Tim Coles from rePLANET and Chris Burnett from Map Impact, about their work to support and preserve our precious ecosystems for the 8.7million species that live here. You can register via the link in the comments. 📩 #ClimateTech #Biodiversity #WorkonClimate

💚 GOOD GREEN NEWS (no.7) 💚 - We're off to the races and the Olympics in this roundup, plus good progress for ocean-based carbon removal and cows being taxed. Read on for more... 🏇 Royal Ascot have appointed carbon removals firm CUR8 to rein in emissions and help them reach their target of being net zero by 2040. 🇨🇭 Carbonfuture has signed a groundbreaking 7-year contract with Swiss Re to supply a minimum of 70,000 tonnes of biochar carbon removal credits, with key supplier, Exomad Green. 🍔 Plant-based meat alternatives company THIS™ has raised a £20m Series C round from Planet First Partners. 🚲 Brompton Bicycle have created the first 100% fully post-consumer recycled aluminium wheel-rims in partnership with Norsk Hydro. This innovation forms part of their goal to make a net-zero bike by 2050. 📈 Sylvera's VP of Ratings, Jess Roberts, has been featured on GreenBiz Group's 30 Under 30. Congrats Jess! 🥂 🌊 Equatic.tech, in partnership with Deep Sky and Arup, unveiled plans to build North America’s first commercial-scale ocean-based carbon removal facility in Quebec. It will be the largest ocean-based carbon removal plant in the world, with the capacity to remove 109,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produce 3,600 tonnes of green hydrogen per year. 🌲 INERATEC has partnered with fellow climate pioneers SOLER Group to construct an innovative Power-to-Liquid plant in Southern France. The plant will produce renewable biocarbon and e-Fuels, maximising resource efficiency by using wood and renewable hydrogen as feedstocks. In total, it will avoid an equivalent of 100,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually. 🇩🇰 Denmark has introduced a €100/t CO2 tax for livestock in agriculture and will use the proceeds to create the Green Area Fund to support farmers and the industry with the transition. The country has also invested €1.35b into biochar carbon removal. 🇫🇷 Paris-based Climate Tech startup Estuaire has secured €2.2 million in Seed funding, led by Satgana, to advance its data analytics platform. 🇬🇧 GV (Google Ventures) led a £14m ($18m) investment in Climate X, a London-based startup specialising in climate risk tools for financial institutions, to support its expansion into the US market. 🏅 Abatable have partnered with the Paris 2024 - Comité d'organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024 to enable the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 to invest in a lasting climate legacy and a positive future for climate, nature and people. #ClimateTech #ClimateChange #WorkonClimate #ClimateNews

❤️ Thanks for the shoutout Kana Earth - the internship scheme is always a highlight of the year for us. Good luck Tanay Sonawane!

💡 Series five of the Climate Pioneers Show gave SO many insights, lessons and tips for founders and investors!! We’ve chosen a handful of our favourites here and we can’t wait to see what series six will bring later in the summer. 📈 Our next series will focus on scaling deep tech solutions in climate. We’re starting to speak to potential guests now, so if there’s someone you think we should speak to, or even if you want to put yourself forward, let us know in the comments. 📩 You can catch up with all previous episodes from series one to five on our YouTube channel and as a podcast on Apple, Spotify and Acast. https://lnkd.in/ewp9btxT 👀 “You can’t be what you can’t see.” - Marla Shapiro (HERMESA) Straight to the point and an overarching theme across most episodes this time, was the fact that we need FAR more diversity in investment. ❤️ “Social mobility is the key thing that I’m really, really passionate about and climate is my close second… Something that is making the world a better place was crucial for me to be investing my money back in.” - Neda Sahebelm (keshty) Whether it’s the focus of your business or your investment thesis, choosing something you have a deep-rooted passion for can make a world of difference. People know when you genuinely care and believe in what you’re doing. It’s infectious too! 🗣 “Talk about your startup, talk about your mission, long before you plan to raise, so more people know about you.” - Ben Keene (Raaise) It’s never too early to start laying the foundations for fundraising. Make sure you get your name out there, so you can have warm conversations when the time comes. 💰 “Never say no, because one of our investors that came in with £5k, that opened up for £100k.” - Anna Sandgren (Unibloom) The fundraising landscape is far narrower than you might think, and a warm intro can go a long way! A small cheque today could lead to something huge in the future. 🤝 “We had a lot of help from our previous investors and we’d been through a few incubator hubs that were really helpful in introducing us.” - Molly Allington Leverage your network as much as possible, build relationships along the way and don’t be afraid to ask for introductions. Most people are more than happy to help. 👩🎓 “There’s a vast education gap, how you package up the story and how you present to VCs… They didn’t have a network of entrepreneurs, so they couldn’t turn to anyone for mentorship or for guidance… They didn’t have access to capital or networks of capital.” - Andy Ayim MBE (Angel Investing School) Many startups struggle to close funding rounds and Andy has pinpointed the three main challenges that founders face and is working to resolve them. ⚡ “Two or three years ago, John Kerry said, ’50% of the technologies that we need to fight climate change haven’t been invented yet.’” - 🔋 Cam Ross If you ever need a reminder that the work you do is vital and desperately needed, remember this!