Greenworkx
Building the net-zero workforce
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Recruitment
- Social
- SaaS
- Environmental
- Greenwich Peninsula, London, UK
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Company mission
To tackle the green skills emergency by powering 10 million people into green jobs in 10 years.
Our take
Greenworkx has noticed a green skills emergency; in order to reach net-zero and prevent climate breakdown, 30 million more green workers are needed globally.
The start-up is building an app that serves as the talent portal for green jobs, where jobseekers can learn practical green skills and get matched to green opportunities. The company is in its infancy, founded in 2022, and is still developing its product that plans to serve jobseekers, training providers and employers.
Greenworkx is positioned for exciting possibilities as it hopes to address a glaring social issue with an impressive founding team. This includes CEO, Matt Ilic, who has served as Special Advisor for the Prime Minister and has seen previous success in social impact work as Chief Development Officer for Catch22.
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Benefits
- 36 days paid holiday during each holiday year, which includes public holidays in England and Wales
- Pension plan, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme
- Subsidised small-group lunches - every fortnight, we allocate people into small pairs/trios for subsidised lunches.
- Fortnightly socials - we host informal team socials every fortnight - for example, we’ve invested in a board game library.
- Training budget - we set aside £1,000 on average per person each year to invest in training and courses.
- Manager development - we invest in managers as coaches to support their mangees through specific coaching training for all managers.
- Quarterly offsites - we bring the whole team together on an offsite to reconnect to our company mission.
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2023
$1.2m
Early VC
Mar 2023
$0.8m
Early VC
Total funding: $2m
Leadership
Richard Ng
(CTO)Previously acted as Head of Education for Academy and as a Mentor and Instructor for Black Codher Bootcamp. Experience as a Software Engineering Coach for Multiverse, COO and Software Developer for One Maths.
Mat Ilic
(CEO)Previously served as Chief Development Officer for Catch22, acted as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, Executive Director for Only Connect UK, Programme Manager for GLA and Associate for PWC.