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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.
55% female employees
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.
Company values
- We think that work is better when it’s purposeful
- In a fast-paced startup, lots will change, but the mission remains our guide
- Social impact is in our DNA - and we want to keep it that way
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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Greenworkx
Richard NG (Co-founder and CTO)
- We have industry-leading diversity within tech and startups. In our team of 20, we are 55% female and 55% minority ethnic background, against tech industry statistics of 29% female and 18% minority ethnic background. This is true even in our Product and Engineering team of 11, where we are 55% female and 64% minority ethnic background.
- We have three goals for our employee experience: Community, Career and Connection-to-mission.
- Our Community goal is about promoting strong relationships between individuals, so that every employee can have a strong sense of belonging and being cared for as a person.
- Our Career goal is about promoting the learning and development of every person’s career, so that every employee can grow their skills and access new opportunities.
- Our Connection-to-mission goal is about relating every person’s work and role to our company’s climate and social impact mission, so that every employee knows that their work matters and is impactful.
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