Greenworkx

Company Overview

Greenworkx develops a climate ed-tech platform to tackle the green skills emergency by creating green job discovery, training, and role-matching for a net-zero workforce. The application helps to provide talent for training providers who are looking for training opportunities and creates an employer brand for employers to assist in fulfilling the resourcing, hiring, and CSR goals in the green transition.

How does Greenworkx impact the society & the planet?

Declining ‘brown’ industries in the green transition make 33 million jobs at risk in oil, gas and coal production. On top of this, certain underserved groups experience systematic barriers to the job market, such as refugees, military veterans, and ex-offenders.

Insecure employment is terrible for self-esteem and mental health. At greenworkx we find well-paid, skilled, and purposeful roles for all of these people.

That’s the silver lining of the green skills emergency: the mass creation of good, green jobs. Around 90% of green jobs created by the net-zero transition require no degree-level education - and over 1 in 3 of them don’t require any qualifications at all.

With the right training, starting salaries can be anywhere from £28k to £34k in these green jobs. These jobs are good for people, and good for the planet.

What is Greenworkx's mission?

With unstable global energy supplies, spiralling household bills and rapid global heating, it’s clearer than ever that delivering green infrastructure is critical.

• We need to improve energy security by generating more energy ourselves, through solar and wind power.

• We need to cut household bills by making energy efficiency savings, by installing heat pumps and home insulation.

• We need to protect our climate by reducing our pollution, with cleaner transportation through electric vehicles (EVs).

Real world examples

In the UK every single day for most of this decade, we need to install:

• 700 EV charge points • 1,600 heat pumps • 12,300 kilowatts of solar panels (~3x household power equivalents)

The problem is: we don’t have enough skilled workers to meet this need.

Picking one example: to deliver the heat pumps, it’s estimated that we need to train 4,000 - 6,000 heat pump installers, every single year between now and 2030.

For context: that 4,000 is more than the total number of heat pump installers right now. So, we need to more than double the current number, and keep training at that pace for several years.

Add this up across all industries and countries - because climate breakdown is a global problem and every industry needs to go green - and the numbers become even more staggering.

Who are the current investors?

Investors include, Ada Ventures, Bertie Hubbard, Euan Blair, Fiona Howarth, Mangrove Capital Partners and many others.

How are Greenworkx using funds raised?

This funding will play a pivotal role in driving the growth and development of our business. Specifically, we will be using the capital to invest in our proprietary learning and matching technology, enhancing our platform's features and capabilities for the benefit of learners and businesses.

The funding will enable us to accelerate our product development and improve the user experience, ensuring that our platform offers a comprehensive and engaging learning environment for our users. Additionally, it will help us scale our marketing efforts, reach a wider audience, and attract more learners to our platform.

Overall, the funding will serve as a catalyst for our growth, helping us establish Greenworkx as a leading player in the climate-focused edtech space. We continue to grow in our size and capability, bringing on new colleagues in product engineering, learning, customer success and partnerships.