For 4 years now I’ve sent a weekly digest about the latest in climate, but readers keep asking me to go deeper — not just what happened this week, but which solutions are actually working and where the money is going. What sectors and companies should you pay attention to, invest in, or apply to?

So I’m kicking off this new series. And I wanted to start with a problem we can all relate to on a personal level.

Roughly 80% of you reading this are based in Europe, where the average person buys 19 kg of clothing every year and throws away 12 kg. At 26,000 readers, that means we collectively toss out 312,000 kg of clothes a year. Dayum!

So I spent the last two weeks mapping every company that’s trying to fix this — 247 across 31 countries. I reached out to all of them, dug into the data, and put together the most comprehensive breakdown I could on what’s happening in sustainable textiles.

Three questions drove the research:

What are the real problems — not the headlines, but the data? Do the solutions actually make sense at scale? Is funding going to the right places?

The full deep dive - with sourced data, funding breakdowns, and all 247 companies - is live on inClimate. You can expand each section to go as deep as you want:

Read the deep dive →

This is my first deep dive, so I’d genuinely love your feedback.

What’s good? What’s missing? What sector should I cover next? Just hit reply.

I might also add a way for members to directly add comments and notes to the deep dive so that it can become more collaborative to improve these together. But that’s an April project.

Thanks for reading along,

Tim

🧘🏻 I realized I want to focus more on writing and curating valuable insights for you and all 26,133 (that can’t be right?) readers, and spend less time making sure the article looks pretty (I hope it still does though?)

🇪🇺 I’ll still put an emphasis on Europe but will mix in important global updates too. The buttons at the end of each section will take you to all the global updates.

💡 All of this data feeds into the new “Sectors” tab on inClimate where you can digest it all based on your sector focus and reach out to experts in their respective fields (not to brag, but it’s pretty sleek)

Last note: Sustainable textiles deep dive drops next Monday

This week:

👋 From the Community
💸 Closed Funding Rounds
📆 Events & Opportunities
📰 News (Europe + Global + Deep Dives)´

From the Community

(this could be you)

Andrea - Heading to SF Climate Week and looking to connect with the community there

Monisha - Building Merloop, a digital product passport platform for fashion brands to track sustainability

Josie - Exploring climate tech roles - background in sustainability consulting and carbon markets

Rita - Building a nature and food app, previously worked on EV charging infrastructure

If any of these resonate with your work, take a moment to reply to their posts - and maybe hop on a call! That’s what I’m building all this for - to make sure the right people talk to each other.

all community updates →

Funding Rounds

(All European equity deals listed here. For global + debt, just click the button at the bottom)

🇬🇧🌱 Tropic - $105M Series C

Gene editing for high-performing tropical crops

🇸🇪🚢 Candela - €30M Series C

Electric hydrofoil boats and ferries

🇩🇪⛏️ Hades - €15M Seed

Laser-based drilling for critical minerals and geothermal energy

🇬🇧🏗️ Cocoon - $15M Series A

Low-carbon building materials via carbon capture

🇮🇪⚡ GridBeyond - $14M Series D

AI-powered grid management and demand response

🇩🇪♻️ Seprify - €13.4M Series A

Sustainable cellulose-based alternative to titanium dioxide

🇧🇪🧀 Those Vegan Cowboys - €12.3M

Animal-free cheese through precision fermentation

🇩🇪♻️ WeSort.AI - €10M Seed

AI-powered recycling and critical raw materials recovery

🇬🇷🌾 Wikifarmer - $8M Series A

Digital operating system for agricultural trade

🇬🇧🌍 Earth Blox - €6.9M

Nature and climate risk data platform for business

🇪🇸☀️ Amelia - $6M Seed

AI quality control for solar park construction

🇩🇪🛰️ Airmo - €5M Seed

Satellite-based methane and CO2 emissions monitoring

🇩🇪🧪 level nine. - €4M Seed

Next-gen catalysts for sustainable chemical production

🇬🇧🌱 Cytotrait - £3M Seed

Gene editing technology for crop improvement

🇪🇸💨 Delfos Energy - €3M Seed

AI-powered predictive maintenance for wind turbines

all 71 global & debt rounds →

Events & Opportunities

(inClimate events coming again soon and you can host your own events too here)

🇬🇧 Carbon13 Venture Accelerator - Applications closing Mar 27
Cambridge, UK (€150K–€250K investment, climate tech focus)

🇺🇸 Clean Fight Energy Storage Accelerator - Applications closing Mar 30
New York, NY (18-month energy storage program)

🇺🇸 C10 Labs AI Nexus Accelerator - Applications open
New York, NY (AI-first accelerator for healthcare, energy, climate & robotics)

🇺🇸 ClimateTech Connect 2026 - Apr 8–9
National Harbor, MD

🇬🇧 EarthScale Cohort 2 - Applications closing Apr 13
UK (12-month climate tech manufacturing accelerator)

🇪🇸 Energy Tech Summit - 7th Edition - Apr 15–16
Bilbao, Spain

P.S. I’ll share more thoughts about community events soon, but if you want to host a meetup in your city, then click this 👇 button and add an event idea - I’ll ping you.

see all events →

News

Europe

🇪🇺 EU launches Clean Energy Investment Strategy to mobilize private capital

🏭 Stegra needs to raise $2.3B for hydrogen-based clean steel plant, double earlier estimate

🚗 Volkswagen to cut 50,000 German jobs by 2030 as profits plunge 44%

🏦 Maersk Growth winding down corporate VC operations

🌬️ Trump administration pays TotalEnergies $1B to abandon two offshore wind projects

Deep Dives

🌋 CTVC: Fervo Energy and the bankability of enhanced geothermal

🛢️ CTVC: What the dire straits in Hormuz mean for new energy flows

🌡️ Keep Cool: Infinite Jerk - climate change is accelerating

🛢️ Keep Cool: Oil markets in backwardation - what it means for climate

Global

⚖️ 24 states sue EPA over repeal of Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gases

🚗 Trump administration sues California over zero-emission vehicle mandates

☀️ Alabama senator proposes first-ever US statewide ban on utility-scale solar

☀️ Google completes $4.75B Intersect acquisition, launches IPX Power with 4.4 GW solar

🔋 Form Energy agrees to sell 12 GWh of iron-air batteries to data center firm Crusoe

🔋 Tesla signs $4.3B deal for LG Energy Solution LFP batteries for Megapack 3

🚗 Uber invests $1.2B in Rivian, will buy up to 50,000 autonomous R2 robotaxis

🔋 BYD, CATL, and Sungrow market cap soars $70B amid oil instability

🚗 Nio, Li Auto, and XPeng all now profitable as legacy automakers bleed money

🔋 Global long-duration energy storage deployment surged 49% in 2025

🔋 US achieves grid battery manufacturing self-sufficiency for first time

⚛️ NRDC backs nuclear power for first time, supporting Iowa plant restart

🌬️ Revolution Wind begins delivering 705 MW of offshore power to New England

🏭 Green cement startup Sublime Systems lays off two-thirds of staff after DOE cancels $87M grant

🪨 Terra Energy Center investing $1B in first new US coal plant since 2013

🔌 DOE makes $1.9B available for transmission reconductoring and grid upgrades

⚖️ New York Governor proposes rewriting state climate law with weaker emissions targets

all 34 news stories →

That’s it for this week.

Big hug,

Tim ← how cool do these new inClimate profiles look?

P.S. Want to sponsor one of these newsletters? Just hit reply and let’s jump on a call.

Quick one: Last Week in Climate is back on Substack - and yes, I know this newsletter has moved around a lot. Substack, Beehiiv, back to Substack, then directly via inClimate. This time it’s staying put here (I hope).

Substack is just better at delivering this newsletter to your inbox (you might have gotten the last emails in spam?)

The platform emails (event invites, notifications, job alerts, DMs) will still come from inClimate directly (if you have an account) - but the newsletter lives here now.

Some updates to this newsletter:

I’ve organized things into sections you can (un)subscribe to individually:

Last Week in Climate: The weekly digest you already know. (Thursdays)

Sector Deep Dives: Each week I break down one climate or nature solution - what it is, why it matters, if it works, and where the gaps are. (Fridays)

Building inClimate: My ideas, questions, and thoughts about building all this. (occasionally)

People in Climate Stories of people building climate and nature solutions. (occasionally) → Let me know if you have someone in mind whose work I should write about!

You’re subscribed to those four and can manage your preferences anytime in your Substack settings.

Regular weekly digest will be in your inbox this Thursday. :)

P.S. While you wait - our first Sector Deep Dive on Ocean Restoration is already live on the new sectors page: inclimate.com/sectors. Click through the new feature and let me know what you think. I’m really really excited about this piece of the puzzle.

Tim

(If you previously unsubscribed from the newsletter on inClimate and are getting this anyway - sorry about that. Your Substack subscription is separate and I can’t sync those preferences back. You can unsubscribe at the bottom of this email, no hard feelings.)

Happy new year! (Can you still say that on the 14th?)

Before I get back to sending the weekly “Last Week in Climate” newsletter, I wanted to start 2026 by sticking to my December promise of sharing more thoughts, reflections, and the ideas behind inClimate 2.0 and behind these newsletters.

Today, I want to try and answer a question that I’ve been wrestling with for four years and that you have probably asked yourself:

How the heck do we stop the climate crisis?

Back in 2021, I was trying to figure out what my role should be in helping to stop the climate crisis.

Should I become a climate investor? Join a startup? Start my own thing?

I was wondering:

What is the highest-leverage thing I can work on to help solve it?

I found a lot of clarity in John Doerr’s book Speed & Scale. The idea is simple: cut emissions fast by transforming key systems, while pulling the right levers to make it happen.

I figured that in very simplified terms, our job was “just”:

1. Innovation: come up with better solutions

2. Scale: deploy them at unprecedented speed

I then understood that for the 2030 goal, reducing emissions by 50%, we’re mostly talking about scale.

According to the IEA (2023), around 80% of the emissions reductions needed by 2030 can be achieved with technologies that already exist.

So why aren’t we moving faster?

Scaling is a coordination problem

If the tech is largely here, the bottleneck isn’t ideas. It’s coordination.

To make climate solutions the default, I’d say we need to figure out:

• Capital: the right money in the right places

• Talent: a mass migration of great operators

• Policy: making the clean choice the easy choice

• Connectivity: an ecosystem where the right people find each other

That last one - connectivity - is the one I’m obsessed with because it ties into everything we need to do.

What if this is mostly a people problem?

Over the past four years, I’ve spoken to countless founders, investors, operators, policy makers and jobseekers; and I keep coming back to the same thought:

Wouldn’t a shocking number of their hurdles, questions, and bottlenecks disappear if they just found the right people to talk to sooner?

Because in practice:

• funding happens through relationships

• jobs happen through relationships

• policy moves through relationships

That’s how the world works.

But that is a terrible way to solve a global crisis on a deadline - to hope the right people run into each other and figure it out.

If we rely on chance meetings at conferences or random LinkedIn connections to scale these solutions, we’ll be too slow. The problem isn’t a lack of talent or capital. It’s that too many people and sectors are still working in silos.

Maybe if we lower the friction of finding the right people, insights, and opportunities, the whole ecosystem moves and scales faster?

If that holds true, isn’t there a better way to connect the dots?

The messy work of connecting it all

I’m convinced we can still move fast enough if we build better ways for people in this very complex and broad ecosystem to connect, coordinate, and share information.

What if we had one go-to platform to do just that?

1. Community: a go-to community platform that brings the right stakeholders across the ecosystem together - not just another Slack channel, but a dedicated platform, combined with in-person events and personalized matchmaking at scale.

2. Talent: a go-to platform for great talent to move into the climate and sustainability sector and for companies to find them easily. Not just another job board, an expensive course, or another recruiting agency that can’t scale.

3. Insights: a go-to platform that enables investors, corporates, and policymakers to get a better overview of the ecosystem, not just some lists and databases that they’re charged thens of thousands of euros for.

As someone who was looking for a job in climate, as a former venture capitalist and venture scout, and as someone who was trying to find his community in this ecosystem, I just wished we had these three elements in one dedicated platform.

So that’s what I’ve been building for the past four years now with inClimate.

It’s bloody complicated and I’m far from done, but it’s finally coming together with the new version of inClimate that I’m hoping to officially launch this month.

What do you think?

I could ramble on now about how exactly this will work as a platform, why I think we need to build this as a for-profit, and what I’m still struggling with, but I’ll leave that for another day.

If you have thoughts on this idea, I’d truly love your input.
What am I missing? What feels naïve? Where do you see the real bottlenecks?

Big hug from Barcelona,
Tim

PS: If you missed the big December update, or you’re not sure why you received this email, you can read it here.

Hi there,

If you’ve been around inClimate or the “Last Week in Climate” newsletter for some time, you might have noticed that I got a bit quiet since July and stopped sending the weekly digest.

There was a reason for that.

I launched inClimate 4 years ago now, with no tech skills, no proper business plan, no branding, or clear vision. I was just building things that I would have liked to use myself as a European jobseeker, as an investor, and for the climate founders I talked to every day in Berlin.

I honestly had no idea what I was doing, just some intuition and a curiosity to build something meaningful for the climate ecosystem. First just for Europe, then for everyone.

Fast forward to this summer and inClimate suddenly has 20k users, companies paying to hire through the platform, investors paying for deal flow, professionals paying for the community membership…

But all of this happened on a platform that someone with no tech knowledge had built. With a Canva logo…

There was no way to grow inClimate to 100k users or to build the features that users suggested - with this very shaky foundation.

So I spent the past 5 months thinking, sketching, rebuilding, and questioning what inClimate should actually look like if it’s meant to be useful and intuitive for us all in the long run.

That meant no newsletters, ghosting my inboxes, and just putting my head down.

Now, as we’re getting close to the end of the year, things are finally coming together. And hopefully (fingers crossed), I’ll officially relaunch the platform and the Last Week in Climate newsletter in January.

One thing that became very clear during this phase is that supporting all of you and the climate ecosystem is, at its core, just about connecting the right people.

Tools, platforms and technology matter. But what really moves things forward are people who care, connect, support each other, and keep going even when things feel slow or messy (like the current political climate + job market).

For a long time, I’ve wanted to share more of that human side. Not polished updates or growth numbers of inClimate, but the real process of building something that in the first place is meant to help people in the ecosystem. The doubts, the small wins, the mistakes, the moments where things click.

I’ve also wanted to tell more stories of the amazing people working on those climate solutions.

So this newsletter is going to shift a little.

Going forward, I’ll use this space to share more of the behind-the-scenes journey of building inClimate, along with stories and thoughts about the people building climate solutions around us.

Sometimes it’ll be reflective. Sometimes practical. Sometimes unfinished thoughts that I’d love to get your input on.

The more structured weekly climate updates will of course continue through a different channel, so you won’t miss those if that’s why you signed up.

If this sounds like something you’d enjoy reading, I’d genuinely love to have you here.

If not, that’s completely okay too.

I want this to be a space for people who are curious about how we can grow and support each other as an ecosystem, up close and human.

The working title is “People in Climate” - I’m still no branding genius - please help!

I’ll share more soon. :)

Wishing you all a great time with your loved ones over the holidays!

Big hug from Wiesbaden, Germany,

Tim

📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in Climate in the last two weeks.

👨‍💻 I skipped last week’s digest because of two major updates that have been taking me lots of late nights:

1. Launching the freemium version of our community space here ✅ (You should have received an email from me yesterday. If not, how dare you not be an inClimate user yet?)

2. Rebuilding inClimate’s backend on “Supabase” which will improve our jobs matchmaking and lay the foundation for inClimate 3.0 ( ⚙ Still work in progress, hopefully live by August)

💡 Please make sure you join the new freemium community space here, post your intro, and let me know if you have any feedback. 4 years of work, lots of love, and many late nights have gone into building this, so help me make it even better and consider signing up for the full membership.

Today, I cover last week’s:
🌍 Community updates,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🇪🇺 22 Closed funding rounds,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 Climate news, and
💼 Climate jobs.

(Gmail cuts these emails off, so make sure you click to see the entire newsletter)

Community Updates + v3.0

Just dropping another image from our Barcelona meetup here because it was so much fun.

💚 inClimate Community 3.0:

I relaunched our community space as a freemium version yesterday. Anyone can now introduce themselves, ask questions, and celebrate wins. If you were part of the old Slack channel - you will be happy! Make sure to join here, create an extra account, and post your intro.

Some notes on the space:

• You do need to create another profile for the community space, I’m working on soon automatically creating the profile for everyone on inClimate, but that will still take a while.

• Make sure you adjust your notifications so that you stay updated on relevant posts, but don’t get spammed with every update. I’m also enabling an automatic weekly summary for you every Thursday.

• The sub-communities and specialized chats will stay paywalled with a €99 one-time fee so that interactions there stay high quality over quantity.

🚀 New Backend: I don’t want to bore you with details and why this is gonna be such a game changer for inClimate, but if anyone here is a Supabase nerd and wants to help me set up some Edge Functions and LLM integrations, then I welcome all the help I can get. If that’s you, please leave a comment here. Big thanks to our tech advisor Lukas Fingerle who needs to listen to my monologues about it already.

📅 I’ll take a little event break in the community space while everyone is on holidays so that I can get all the crucial platform and community updates done and host events again from September onwards. 1-to-1 matchmaking will of course continue running! If you want to host intro circles or local meetups over the summer, leave a comment here please and I’ll reach out.

In case you missed the last newsletter:

🇪🇸 Here are the participants of our largest meetup yet, with 200 people coming together at the rooftop of Norrsken House Barcelona (the most incredible partner). Thank you for a great evening everyone!

🕺 We’re now 18,773 signed up inClimate members out of 30k readers. Make sure to create a profile if you haven’t signed up yet!

Become a Member

Deal of the Week

Bhavishya (Vishy) Ramchander at Have it SUST. is raising a pre-seed round 🚀

Bhavishya is an absolute rockstar and launched the company in January after working at the likes of J.P. Morgan and Nestlé. You can also find Bhavishya in the Founders & Investors space of the community and reach out to her directly there. 💬

Here are the details 👇

"Have it SUST. is raising a €650K pre-seed round to enhance its AI-powered sustainability scoring engine, onboard mission-aligned fashion brands, and expand its consumer-facing marketplace across key European markets (launch in DACH, Nordics, parts of Western Europe)

We are currently seeking a lead investor and are looking to raise the full amount. This round will support with perfecting the product, evaluating the product market fit, launching the offer, completing the team, enrolling brands to the platform and launching the app.

We’re looking to partner with investors who are passionate about the intersection of technology, sustainability, and consumer experience, particularly those with expertise in marketplaces, fashion tech, or regulatory-driven innovation (e.g., CSRD, DPP).

Our goal is to build a values-led platform that empowers conscious consumption and enables brands to navigate and benefit from the evolving sustainability landscape."

Closed Rounds (22)

🇩🇪 NeXtWind - €1.4B Debt

📍 Berlin, Germany

⚡️ A green independent power producer.

Company, Article

🇨🇭 Climeworks - $162M Private Equity

📍 Zurich, Switzerland

💨 Direct air capture.

Investors: BigPoint Holding, Partners Group

Company, Article

🇬🇧 HIVED - £31M Series B

📍 London, United Kingdom

🚗 Emission-free parcel delivery.

Investors: Elemental Impact, Global Brain Corporation, Marunouchi Innovation Partners, NordicNinja VC, Planet A, rocketship, Wex Venture Capital, Yamato Holdings

Company, Article

🇸🇪 Minesto - SEK 25M Grant

📍 Västra Götaland, Sweden

⚡️ Renewable energy from the ocean.

Investors: Swedish Energy Agency

Company, Article

🇳🇱 Dexter Energy - €23M Series C

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

⚡️ AI-enabled forecast optimisations & trade strategies for renewable power traders.

Investors: Alantra, ETF Partners, Mirova, Newion, PDENH

Company, Article

🇸🇪 PulPac - €20M Debt

📍 Västra Frölunda, Sweden

🏭 Fiber packaging that replaces single-use plastics.

Investors: European Investment Bank

Company, Article

🇫🇷 Ever Dye - €15M Series A

📍 Paris, France

🏭 Ecological dyeing processes for the textile industry.

Investors: Asterion Ventures, Daphni, European Innovation Council, Maki.vc, Ring Capital

Company, Article

🇬🇧 AssetCool - £10M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom

⚡️ Photonic coatings and materials that enhance the functionality of electrical networks.

Investors: Energy Impact Partners, Extantia Capital, Kero Development Partners, Northern Gritstone, NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, Taronga Ventures

Company, Article

🇩🇪 Climatiq - €10M Series A

📍 Berlin, Germany

💡 The API for Carbon Intelligence

Investors: ALSTIN Capital, Cherry Ventures, Singular

Company, Article

🇳🇱 Tibo energy - €6M Seed

📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands

⚡️ Smart grid management for businesses.

Investors: Hitachi Ventures, KOMPAS VC, SET Ventures, Speedinvest, WEPA Ventures

Company, Article

🇪🇪 Vok Bikes - €5M Series A

📍 Tallinn, Estonia

🚗 Heavy-duty cargo-bikes for on-demand delivery companies.

Investors: Metaplanet, SmartCap, Specialist VC, SQM Lithium Ventures, Sunly

Company, Article

🇩🇪 Cariqa - €4M Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany

🚗 Cariqa: The all-in-one EV solution for seamless management, Europe-wide charging, trip planning, and real-time vehicle data

Investors: Anthemis, Contrarian Ventures, Earth, Golden Egg Check Capital, Techstars

Company, Article

🇨🇭 Crosstown H2R - CHF 3M Seed

📍 Baden, Switzerland

🚗 Decarbonisation of gas turbines.

Investors: 2100 Ventures, Climate Insiders, Swiss Federal office of Energy, Unruly Capital, VOYAGERS

Company, Article

🇩🇪 Circonomit GmbH - €2.8M Seed

📍 Aachen, Germany

🚗 Decision intelligence for sustainability management

Investors: Fund F, PUSH VC, Vorwerk Ventures

Company, Article

🇩🇰 Agrobiomics - €2.5M Grant

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

👨🏼‍🌾 Agrobiomics is a biotechnology research platform providing farmers with effective and sustainable solutions for better crop production.

Investors: EIC Accelerator

Company, Article

🇪🇸 Next-Gen Leather - €948k Grant

📍 Madrid, Spain

🏭 Leather made of biological and recyclable materials, non-toxic and with reduced costs in water and energy consumption.

Investors: BeAble Capital, CDTI Innovación's INNVIERTE program

Company, Article

🇸🇪 Clean Motion - SEK 376k Grant

📍 Västra Götaland, Sweden

🚗 Electric vehicle manufacturer.

Investors: Swedish Energy Agency

Company, Article

🇳🇱 Carbyon - Series A

📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands

💨 Carbyon aims to restore the atmospheric carbon balance using breakthrough technology and unique machine design that scales economically and durably.

Investors: Isai

Company, Article

🇪🇸 H2SITE - Grant

📍 Derio, Spain

⚡️ On-site high-quality hydrogen production.

Investors: European Innovation Council

Company, Article

🇩🇪 Rabot Energy - Venture

📍 Hamburg, Germany

🚗 Dynamic electricity prices for households and EV charging.

Investors: Bosch Ventures

Company, Article

🇩🇰 Ento Labs - Venture

📍 Aarhus, Denmark

🏠 Optimizing energy consumption in public and commercial buildings.

Investors: AURA Ventures

Company, Article

🇳🇱 Seenons - Private Equity

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

🏭 Waste management platform.

Company, Article

See All Rounds

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Climate News

🇪🇺 EU Climate Law: new way to reach 2040 targets

🇩🇪 Germany's sharp hydrogen and clean industry budget cuts send “totally wrong signal”

🇬🇧 Britain shuns $34 billion Morocco-UK subsea power project

🇬🇧 UK ETS Reports 11.5% Emissions Drop for 2024

🇪🇺 EU to subsidise high volume of SAF to boost airline demand

💡 Climate change is making olive oil the new gold

⚡️ How does geothermal energy work, and why don’t we use it more?

PS: I want to improve how I identify the most relevant climate news. Leave a comment here if you have any ideas or want to get involved.

Add News for Next Week

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💼 You can post jobs for free on inClimate.com via our free trial here.

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Big hug from Norrsken House Barcelona,

Tim

📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in Climate last week.

💡 If you want to join 1-1 matchmaking, our community space, and access all resources - consider becoming a member. It’s a small one-time fee that allows me to build inClimate and this newsletter without ads or investors.

Today we cover last week’s:
🌍 Community updates,
🇪🇺 Closed funding rounds,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 Climate news, and
💼 Climate jobs.

Community Updates / Upgrades

Snapshot from last week’s incredible meetup.

🇪🇸 Here are the participants of our largest meetup yet, with 200 people coming together at the rooftop of Norrsken House Barcelona (the most incredible partner). Thank you for a great evening! (more meetups in other cities coming soon! 🤞)

💬 As you’ll see below, or in the community space here, I’ve made big upgrades to the community structure. It’s still missing some final touches before I send out an email about it, but here is a preview:

Jobs & Careers

Jobs & Careers comes with a general chat for all-things careers, a place to spread your CV, and a third space to share open roles.

Founders & Investors

Founders & Investors is only accessible to those two profiles. If you fall into those categories and you have signed up, you’ll be allocated to the groups by me directly.

Resources

Share news & insights, promote events, and offer services in the Resources Section.

✅ We’re now 18,542 members out of 30k readers signed up on inClimate. Make sure to create a profile if you haven’t signed up yet!

Coming next:

💔 June is coming to an end and the roadmap for Q2 is still long, so some of these features will have to be launched in Q3.

💡 All features I’m working on are listed here - you can suggest, upvote, and comment on features. It helps me a lot to get members’ and readers’ input. 🙌🏼 Check it out!

Become a Member

Closed Rounds

🇫🇮 ICEYE - €250M Grant

📍 Espoo, Finland

💡 Monitoring earth observation for any location on earth.

Investors: Business Finland

Company, Article

🇬🇧 Zeelo - $23M Series B

📍 London, United Kingdom

🚗 Smart bus transportation for organizations.

Investors: Blue Earth Capital

Company, Article

🇩🇪 Ostrom - €20M Series B

📍 Berlin, Germany

⚡️ Making green electricity simple and affordable.

Investors: 468 Capital, Adjacent, Eneco Ventures, SE Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Übermorgen Ventures

Company, Article

🇩🇪 Aedifion - €17M Series B

📍 Cologne, Germany

🏠 More sustainable building operations.

Investors: Bauwens Digital, BitStone Capital, Drees & Sommer AG, Eurazeo, MOMENI Ventures, Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures, World Fund

Company, Article

🇬🇧 Intelligent Energy - £17M Grant

📍 Loughborough, United Kingdom

⚡️ Development and manufacture of zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell products.

Company, Article

🇳🇱 Rival Foods - €10M Series B

📍 Wageningen, Netherlands

🍴 Plant-based meat alternatives.

Investors: APG Asset Management, PeakBridge, Pymwymic, ROM Utrecht Region

Company, Article

🇩🇰 Cellugy - €8.1M Grant

📍 Århus, Denmark

🏭 Biofabricated cellulose.

Investors: European Commission

Company, Article

🇫🇷 Fungu'it - €4M Seed

📍 Dijon, France

🍴 Flavor ingredients for sustainable food.

Investors: Asterion Ventures, Evolem Start, UI Investissement

Company, Article

🇩🇰 HYMETH - €3.7M Venture

📍 Søborg, Denmark

⚡️ Cost-effective electrolyzer for hydrogen production.

Investors: Thisbe AB, Antler

Company, Article

🇳🇱 umob - €3.5M Seed

📍 Rotterdam, Netherlands

🚗 Plan and book sustainable travel options through one app.

Company, Article

🇫🇮 Fiberwood - €3.1M Grant

📍 Järvenpää, Finland

🏗 Eco-friendly wood fiber insulation.

Investors: European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency

Company, Article

🇸🇪 BlueRedGold - €2.7M Seed

📍 Mariefred, Sweden

🧑‍🌾 Saffron production through an automated indoor farming system.

Investors: PINC, The Food Tech Lab

Company, Article

🇸🇪 Engrate - €2.5M Seed

📍 Djursholm, Sweden

⚡️ Integration platform for connecting to energy actors, systems, and data sources.

Investors: Course Corrected, Eviny Ventures, Maniv Mobility

Company, Article

🇸🇪 Minesto - €2.5M Post-IPO Debt

📍 Västra Götaland, Sweden

⚡️ Renewable energy from the ocean.

Company, Article

🇸🇪 Tether - $1.5M Pre-Seed

📍 Barcelona, Sweden 🇸🇪, Spain

⚡️ Predicts and optimizes EV charging patterns using AI technology.

Investors: Draper B1, INCLIMO Climate Tech Fund, K Fund

Company, Article

🇪🇸 Captoplastic - €994k Seed

📍 Madrid, Spain

🌊 Treats water bodies to keep the earth free of microplastics.

Investors: CDTI Innovación's INNVIERTE program, BeAble Capital

Company, Article

🇬🇧 Material Evolution - Debt

📍 Teesside County Borough, UK

🏗 High performance, ultra-low carbon cement.

Investors: HSBC Innovation Banking

Company, Article

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📩 Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in European climate-tech last week.

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Today, we'll cover last week’s:

👋 community asks,
🇪🇺 closed rounds,
💼 climate jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.

If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.

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👋 Community Asks

❓ Neil is looking for potential investors for his stealth startup.
❓ Paul from 4P Capital wants to chat about carbon markets.
❓ Peter from EverBlue Ventures is looking for companies focused on water.
❓ Stephanie from MycoFutures is raising a pre-seed round.
❓ Catherine wants to get involved in marine conservation.

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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds

🇳🇴 NEL Hydrogen - $75M Grant

📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ Hydrogen generations, storage, and distribution.

Investors: State of Michigan, US Department of Energy

Article, Company

🇳🇴 Vianode - €30M Grant

📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ Producer of sustainably engineered battery materials.

Investors: Innovation Norway

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Voi - $25M Venture

📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🚗 Leading micromobility player.

Investors: Balderton Capital, Black Ice Capital, Creandum, Nineyards Equity, Project A Ventures, Stena Sessan, The Raine Group, VNV Global

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Mission Zero Technologies - £21.8M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom
💨 Low-energy direct air capture.

Investors: 2150, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Fortescue Future Industries, Siemens Financial Services, World Fund

Article, Company

🇩🇪 ProteinDistillery - €15M Seed

📍 Ostfildern, Germany
🍴 Clean and sustainable proteins for food manufacturers.

Investors: Green Generation Fund, SFO, Wendelin Wiedeking

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Sublime Energie - €11.5M Series A

📍 Paris, France
⚡️ Provides transportation of biogas services.

Investors: Crédit Mutuel Impact

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Packfleet - £8M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Zero carbon deliveries.

Investors: Creandum, Entrée Capital, Founder Collective, General Catalyst, Voyager Ventures

Article, Company

🇦🇹 Necture - €7M Series A

📍 Vienna, Austria
🚗 Electric fleet optimization.

Investors: SmartEnergy Innovation Fund, Smartworks Innovation, Speedinvest, Verbund X Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Orbio Earth - $4M Seed

📍 Cologne, Germany
💡 Actionable methane intelligence.

Investors: European Space Agency, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Suiso - £3M Seed

📍 Sheffield, United Kingdom
⚡️ Microwave-driven Hydrogen generators.

Investors: Mercia’s EIS funds, NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance

Article, Company

🇪🇪 GScan - €3M Seed

📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🏗 Scanning technology allowing for sustainable reparations of structures.

Investors: Markus Villig

Article, Company

🇩🇪 ENAPI - €2.5M Pre-Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 Affordable and seamless connectivity in EV charging.

Investors: Seedcamp, Project A Ventures, Rodrigo Martinez

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Solasta Bio - $1M Grant

📍 Glasgow, United Kingdom
🧑‍🌾 Products for effective crop protection.

Investors: UPL

Article, Company

🇨🇭 Cotierra - $1M Pre-Seed

📍 Zurich, Switzerland
💨 Decentralized biochar production.

Investors: Carbon Drawdown Initiative, Carbon Removal Partners, Climate Founders GmbH, Partners in Clime, S2S Ventures

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Anaphite - £880k Venture

📍 Bristol, United Kingdom
⚡️ Enhancing Li-ion batteries with graphene.

Investors: Bristol Private Equity Club, Elbow Beach Capital, Wealth Club

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Breathe Battery Technologies - Venture

📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Advanced battery management software.

Investors: Volvo Cars Tech Fund

Article, Company

🇪🇸 SolarMente - Angel

📍 Barcelona, Spain
⚡️ Installs and finances solar kits in Spain.

Investors: Leonardo DiCaprio

Article, Company

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💼 New Climate Jobs

Check out the latest featured jobs below. If you don't see anything that speaks to you, you can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities.

Carbon Atlantis

Carbon Atlantis is an early-stage startup developing a first-of-a-kind, low-cost Direct Air Capture technology to remove CO2 from the air. They permanently store the CO2 in rock carbonates and are currently building up the team around Munich.

🇩🇪 Electrician / Elektriker:in (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Electrochemical Test Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Technical Founder’s Associate (f/m/d) (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

Choco

Choco joined ClimateU on their mission to enable a sustainable food system, one that runs transparently and without waste. They are hiring for on-site roles across Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, London, and the US.

🇩🇪 Head of Product (Sr. Director / VP / CPO) (Berlin, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Head of Revenue Operations (Berlin, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Senior Backend Engineer, Platform (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Product Manager (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Solutions Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Senior CRM Manager (Berlin, On-site)
🇫🇷 Solutions Engineer (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 Account Executive (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 Account Manager (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 Account Manager (Paris, On-site)
🇪🇸 Senior Account Executive (Barcelona, On-site)
🇪🇸 Senior Automation Specialist (Barcelona, On-site)
🇬🇧 Head of Buyer Sales (London, On-site)
🇺🇸 Business Development Manager (New York, On-site)
🇺🇸 Buyer Sales (Chicago, On-site)
🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (Chicago, On-site)
🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (Boston, On-site)
🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (New York, On-site)
🇺🇸 Buyer Sales (Spanish speaking) (Chicago, Hybrid)

Net Zero Academy

The NetZero Academy is an educational platform specializing in energy efficiency, sustainability, and decarbonization. Their goal is to train professionals who support climate protection measures and enable the achievement of net-zero goals.

🇩🇪 Impact Werkstudent Business and Sales (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Chief of Staff (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Education Manager (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Head of Sales (Munich, On-site)

Simbiotec App

Ohad is building Simbiotec App - your one-stop app for a sustainable lifestyle - and is looking for his Tech Lead. He is based out of Mallorca but the role can be remote.

🇪🇸 Tech Lead (Remote)

Tree.ly

Tree.ly connects forest owners with companies, helping forest owners earn extra income by managing forests for climate resilience. Companies can purchase high-quality CO₂ credits, backing forest owners and showing their commitment to measurable climate protection.

🇦🇹 Carbon Sales Manager Austria (Austria, Remote)

That’s all the featured jobs for this week! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU, and you can feature your jobs here by signing up for our new monthly membership.

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🚀 Climate Dealflow

Currently, 90 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.
Most recently, Charge Fairy announced their Seed round.

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📰 Climate News

We’ll keep the news short this week as we’re making some structural changes to how we find relevant articles. More again next week.

💡 Building and scaling climate hardware: A Playbook

💡 Companies take step back from making climate target promises

💡 New story about Carbo Culture from The Climate Race!

💸 Cambridge university halts donations from fossil fuel groups

💸 Climate finance must be COP29 summit priority, UN leaders say

💸 Sustainable Investment: asset owner transition on course

🧑‍🌾 Bezos Earth Fund Announces $60 Million for Sustainable Protein

🧑‍🌾 The FoodTech 500

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Today, we'll cover last week’s:
💰 closed rounds,
💼 climate jobs,
👋 community asks,
🚀 dealflow,
📰 news, and
🗓 upcoming events.

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💰 Closed Rounds

🇸🇪 H2 Green Steel - €4.75B Debt + Equity

📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏗 Large-scale steel producer based on a fossil-free manufacturing.

Investors: BNP Paribas, European Investment Bank, ING Ventures, KfW IPEX Bank, SEK, Societe Generale, Altor, Andra AP-fonden, GIC, Hy24, Just Climate, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Mubea, Siemens Financial Services, Temasek Holdings, European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency.

Article, Company → New page layout + more data

🇩🇪 Kyon Energy - €90M Acquired by TotalEnergies

📍 Munich, Germany
⚡️ Develops and sells renewable energy infrastructure.

Investors: TotalEnergies Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇪 instagrid - €87.4M Series C

📍 Stuttgart, Germany
⚡️ Portable power supplies.

Investors: blueworld.group, Energy Impact Partners, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Pierre-Pascal Urbon, SET Ventures, Teachers’ Venture Growth

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Monta - €80M Series B

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🚗 Platform for EV charging.

Investors: AENU, byFounders, Creandum, Energize Capital, Export and Investment Fund, GreenPoint Partners, Headline, Quantum Light

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Infinite Roots - €53M Series B (formerly Mushlabs)

📍 Hamburg, Germany
🍴 Using fermentation & fungi to create sustainable foods.

Investors: Betagro, Clay Capital, Dr. Hans-Riegel Stiffing, European Innovation Council, FoodLabs, Happiness Capital, Redalpine, Rewe Group, Simon Capital

Article, Company

🇱🇹 HeavyFinance - €50M Debt

📍 Vilnius, Lithuania
💸 Fintech marketplace that helps farmers store CO2.

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Getaround - $20M Post-IPO Debt

📍 Paris, France
🚗 Carsharing platform.

Investors: Mudrick Capital Management

Article, Company

🇩🇪 CEEZER - €10.3M Series A

📍 Berlin, Germany
💸 Rethinking the voluntary carbon market as a digital-first carbon bank.

Investors: Carbon Removal Partners, HV Capital, Norrsken VC, Picus Capital

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Reel Energy - €5M Seed

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
⚡️ Empowers companies to procure renewable electricity.

Investors: Christian Bach, Daniel Nathan, The Footprint Firm, Transition, UVC Partners

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Concrete4Change - €2.5M Seed

📍 Nottingham, United Kingdom
💨 Carbon sequestration into concrete.

Investors: Zacua Ventures, Counteract

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Metris Energy - £2M Pre-Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ AI-powered solar energy platform for commercial property owners.

Investors: AENU, Octopus Ventures

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Eddy Grid - €1.5M Seed

📍 Utrecht, Netherlands
⚡️ Energy storage via batteries and smart energy management.

Investors: Bastiaan van de Rakt, Graduate Entrepreneur Fund, Herberth Samsom, Jan Saan, Rockstart, Sjuul Berden, Thijs Verheul, Volve Capital

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Sirius Technologies - €1.2M Pre-Seed

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🏗 Automates sharing sustainability data with all stakeholders in metal supply chain.

Investors: BlackWood Ventures, Fund F, Techstars, WEPA Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Elucid Social - Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 A data-driven solution for risk management in global supply chains.

Investors: UBS Optimus Foundation

Article, Company

🇩🇪 NOVUS GmbH - Angel

📍 Braunschweig, Germany
🚗 Urban electric lightbikes.

Investors: Michael Wax, Sophia Flörsch, Rupert Stadler, Fabrizio Ugo Scelsi, Nikolai Schröder, Bernd Rosenbichler, Raymund Bareuther, Cees de Witte, Michael Köhler, CREW10

Article, Company

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💼 New Climate Jobs

Check out some of the latest featured jobs below. If you don't see anything that speaks to you, you can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities.

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aeco

aeco restores peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors and the planet.

🌍 Head of Operations (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Senior Carbon Project Developer (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Projektentwickler*in (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)

Briink

Briink is your AI-powered EU Taxonomy assistant.

🇩🇪 Senior Backend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Build Your Own Engineering Role (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Senior Frontend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 AI Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Frontend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)

Cambrium

Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks.

🇩🇪 Business Development Intern (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Head of Sales - Cosmetic Ingredients (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations (Berlin, On-site)

Carbon Atlantis

Carbon Atlantis develops a first-of-a-kind, low-cost Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to remove CO2 from the air. With partners, we permanently store the CO2 in rock carbonates.

🇩🇪 Electrician / Elektriker:in (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Electrochemical Test Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Technical Founder’s Associate (f/m/d) (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

Dryad Networks

Dryad provides ultra-early detection of wildfires as well as health and growth-monitoring of forests using solar-powered gas sensors in a large-scale IoT sensor network.

🇩🇪 Certification Engineer (Berlin, On-site)

NuuEnergy

NuuEnergy's vision is to enable every homeowner in Europe to have the most sustainable and efficient heating and cooling system - purchased and installed in one seamless process.

🇩🇪 Intermediate Growth Marketer (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Founder Associate - Working Student or Intern (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 (Junior) Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Specialist (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Business Development Associate/ Junior Account Executive (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Energieberater *in (Munich, Hybrid)

That’s all featured jobs for this week! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth and you can feature your jobs here by signing up for our new monthly membership.

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👋 Community Asks

❓ Jules is looking for a co-founder.
❓ Dino is looking for investors & partners from aviation, energy, or eVTOL.
❓ Philip is looking for companies developing biobased materials.
❓ Marine is looking for speaker for her podcast.
❓ Oyana is looking to connect with anyone in carbon markets.

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🚀 Climate Dealflow

Currently, 72 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.
👇 Below is a summary of rounds that were announced last week:

🇩🇪 Angel - 2024 Q4 (Climate Data)
🇮🇪 Angel - 2024 Q1 (Charging Infrastructure)

🇩🇪 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q2 (Forests)

🇳🇱 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Carbon Accounting)
🇬🇧 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Construction Software)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q3 (Chemicals)
🇱🇺 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Climate Communities)

🇩🇪 Series A - 2024 Q3 (Energy-Efficient Buildings)
🇩🇪 Series A - 2024 Q2 (Manufacturing)

Investors on our membership can access all funding rounds, founders, and pitch decks on the platform.

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📰 Climate News

💡 'Not the End of the World' book review
💡 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024
💡 20 ClimateTech Trends in Africa to Watch
💡 Clean top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023
💡 EU fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit 60-year low
💡 Key climate language poorly understood by majority in UK

💨 Deep Sky and Carbon Atlantis to DAC in Canada
💨 Frontier Climate purchase 275 tCO2 from Carbon Atlantis

🏭 Ikea decouples growth from emissions
🏭 Why the U.K. Is Banning Disposable Vapes

🧑‍🌾 2023 UK pig meat production plummets to 5-year low
🧑‍🌾 Why It's Time to Invest in Resilient Agriculture

🏠 Data Centers Deep Dive
💸 How to find and invest in gigacorns
🚗 Factcheck: 21 misleading myths about electric vehicles
⚡️ Surge in heat pumps and solar drives record for UK homes in 2023
🌳 High Seas Treaty: Palau and Chile first countries to ratify deal

PS: We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section this year. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).

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🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17)
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
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A Final Note

🔎 45% of you who read this newsletter haven’t joined ClimateU yet.

If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the community as well, so that you can connect with people across the climate space and share your updates, questions, jobs, and funding news in the newsletter as well.

Big hug,

Tim

Can’t get enough of these climate news? Then you can follow along on LinkedIn, Threads, and Twitter.

P.S. If you’re new here, welcome! ClimateU is a platform and community for professionals and organizations across the climate sector. Everyone is welcome, including corporates, SMEs, and service providers. 👋

P.P.S If you want to add data to this newsletter, simply sign up on ClimateU and add any funding rounds, jobs, news, events, or questions you may have. If you want to promote your work, you can apply for a newsletter promotion here. 🔥

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❓ This week I’m excited to start featuring first community asks in the newsletter. Asks can be added by anyone via their member profile on ClimateU - just tell us where you would like some help or feedback and we’ll share it with everyone in the community.

🎨 We also gave the company page a major design and data upgrade and are just finalizing a few more data tweaks that we will then take to the platform.

That being said, let’s get to it - short and sweet as always:

Today, we'll cover last week’s:
👋 community asks (new),
💰 closed rounds,
💼 climate jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
📰 news, and
🗓 upcoming events.

If you missed the first three newsletters of this year, you can look them up here.

Subscribe now

👋 Community Asks

❓ Clemens is looking for a co-founder.
❓ Judith wants exchanges about built environment & prop-tech.
❓ Alpesh is looking for pre-seed funding.
❓ Niclas is looking for a co-founder.
❓ Inderan is looking for help raising his pre-seed fund.

community asks

💰 Closed Rounds

We gave the company pages an update to give you all you need to know. More data coming soon.

🇸🇪 Northvolt - €4600M Debt

📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🔋 Batteries.

Investors: European Investment Bank, Nordic Investment Bank

Article, Company → New Layout

🇫🇷 Electra - €304M Series B

📍 Paris, France
🔌 EV fast-charging stations in urban areas.

Investors: 574 Invest, Bpifrance, Eurazeo, PGGM Investments, Rive Private Investment, Serena

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Aira - €145M Series B

📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏠 Switching houses from gas boilers to air source heat pumps.

Investors: Altor, Collaborative Fund, Creades AB, Kinnevik, Lingotto, Nesta Impact Investments, Statkraft Ventures, Temasek Holdings

Article, Company

🇩🇪 INERATEC - €118M Series B

📍 Karlsruhe, Germany
🛢 CO2-neutral and affordable e-fuels & e-products.

Investors: Emerald Technology Ventures, ENGIE New Ventures, FO Holding, HG Ventures, HTGF, Honda, MPC Capital, Piva Capital, Planet A Ventures, Rock Creek, Safran Corporate Ventures, Samsung Ventures, TDK Ventures, WIND Ventures

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Soly - €30M Series B

📍 Groningen, Netherlands
☀️ Energy equipment for the solar industry.

Investors: ABP, ArcTern Ventures, Fifth Wall, Shell Ventures

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Trojan Energy - £26M Venture

📍 Stonehaven, United Kingdom
🔌 On-street EV charging points.

Investors: Alba Equity, Business Growth Fund, Equity Gap, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish National Investment Bank, Social Investment Scotland

Article, Company

🇬🇧 IGS - £22.5M Series C

📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
🧑‍🌾 Vertical farming solutions.

Investors: Cleveland Avenue, COFRA Holding, DC Thomson, Ospraie Ag Sciences, S2G Ventures, Scottish Enterprise

Article, Company

🇸🇪 TrusTrace - €22M Series B

📍 Stockholm, Sweden
👕 SaaS that simplifies fashion product traceability and compliance.

Investors: Circularity Capital, Fairpoint Capital, Industrifonden

Article, Company

🇧🇬 Nasekomo - €8M Series A

📍 Sofia, Bulgaria
🦗 Animal feeds from organic waste using bio-converting insects.

Investors: Invenio partners

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Taylor - €8M Venture

📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands
☀️ Electronics and software for solar module producers and system installers.

Investors: ABP, BOM, Rubio Impact Ventures

Article, Company

🇪🇸 Delfos Energy - €6.3M Seed

📍 Barcelona, Spain
⚡️ AI for the energy industry to predict failures.

Investors: Contrarian Ventures, DOMO.VC, EDP Ventures, Headline

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Temo - €6M Series A

📍 Vannes, France
🚗 Portable, easy-to-install electric motors for small craft.

Investors: At One Ventures, Blueprint Partners, Bpifrance

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Membion - €5M Series A

📍 Roetgen, Germany
💧 Wastewater treatment with membrane bioreactor technology.

Investors: DeepTech & Climate Fonds, TechVision Fund

Article, Company

🇵🇹 ENLINE - €3.5M Seed

📍 Mirandela, Portugal
⚡️ Forecasting platform for optimizing maximum load.

Investors: Criteria Venture Tech, EIT InnoEnergy, Santander Asset Management

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Genevos - €2.5M Seed

📍 Lagord, France
🚢 Integrating hydrogen and fuel cell systems in the maritime industry.

Investors: GO CAPITAL

Article, Company

🇬🇧 HutanBio - £2.3M Seed

📍 Huntingdon, United Kingdom
🛢 Biotechnology firm that delivers an HBx bio-oil.

Investors: Clean Growth Fund

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Furbnow - £950k Pre-Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Retrofits UK homes for energy efficiency

Investors: Daniel Luhde-Thompson, Norrsken Accelerator, SFC Capital

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Tiamat Energy - Venture

📍 Amiens, France
🔋 Sodium-ion technology for more sustainable batteries.

Investors: Stellantis Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇪 VYLD - Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany
🍀 Produces biodegradable period products from seaweed.

Investors: European Union

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Qorium - Venture

📍 Maastricht, Netherlands
👕 Cell-cultured collagen-based leather.

Investors: Brightlands Venture Partners, Sofinnova Partners

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Eatron Technologies - Series A

📍 Warwick, United Kingdom
🔋 AI-powered battery management software.

Investors: 100 Yıl Venture Capital, LG Technology Ventures, MMC Ventures, Turkey Development Fund

Article, Company

see all rounds / add rounds

💼 New Climate Jobs

Check out some of the latest featured jobs below. If you don't see anything that speaks to you, you can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities.

If you’re an employer and want your jobs featured here, just join our new monthly membership via ClimateU.

aeco

“Restoring peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors and the planet.“

🌍 Head of Operations (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Senior Carbon Project Developer (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Projektentwickler*in (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)

Briink

“Your AI-powered EU Taxonomy assistant.“

🇩🇪 Senior Backend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Build Your Own Engineering Role (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Senior Frontend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 AI Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Frontend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)

Cambrium

“Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks.“

🇩🇪 Business Development Intern (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Head of Sales - Cosmetic Ingredients (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations (Berlin, On-site)

CHOOOSE

“CHOOOSE delivers a software platform that enables individuals and organizations to understand their carbon footprint and support trusted climate solutions.“

🇳🇴 Senior Business Controller (Norway, Remote)

NuuEnergy

“NuuEnergy's vision is to enable every homeowner in Europe to have the most sustainable and efficient heating and cooling system - purchased and installed in one seamless process.“

🇩🇪 Intermediate Growth Marketer (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Founder Associate - Working Student or Intern (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 (Junior) Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Specialist (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Business Development Associate/ Junior Account Executive (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Energieberater *in (Munich, Hybrid)

OpenEarth Foundation

“Open Earth Foundation is a California-based research and deployment non-profit developing open innovative technology to increase planetary resilience and avoid a catastrophic climate crisis..“

🇩🇪 AI Application Engineer (Germany, Remote)

That’s all featured jobs for this week! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth and you can feature your jobs here by signing up for our new monthly membership.

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🚀 Climate Dealflow

This year, 50+ companies on ClimateU are already looking to close a funding round.
👇 Below is a summary of rounds being raised in Q1 2024 by country.

Investors on our membership can access all funding rounds, founders, and pitch decks on the platform:

🇦🇹 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Wind Energy)
🇨🇦 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Energy Distribution)
🇩🇪 Bridge - 2024 Q1 (Alternative Protein)
🇩🇪 Bridge - 2024 Q1 (Recycling)
🇩🇪 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (Carbon Accounting)
🇩🇪 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (Cars)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Air & Noise Pollution)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Biomass)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Cement & Concrete)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Climate Investing)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Consumer Goods)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Solar Energy)
🇩🇪 Series A - 2024 Q1 (Packaging)
🇩🇪🇹🇷 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Energy Distribution)
🇩🇰 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (Climate Education)
🇩🇰 Series A - 2024 Q1 (Recycling)
🇪🇸 Series A - 2024 Q1 (Alternative Fuels)
🇫🇷 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Earth Observation)
🇫🇷 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Technology-Based CC)
🇬🇧 Angel - 2024 Q1 (Climate Education)
🇬🇧 Angel - 2024 Q1 (Consumer Goods)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (Biodiversity)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (Climate Data)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (Logistics & Supply Chain Efficiency)
🇬🇧 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Construction Software)
🇬🇧 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Farming Software & Analytics)
🇬🇧 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Logistics & Supply Chain Efficiency)
🇬🇧 Series A - 2024 Q1 (New Materials)
🇬🇧 Venture - 2024 Q1 (Commerce)
🇮🇳 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Energy Software & Analytics)
🇮🇹 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Carbon Accounting)
🇳🇱 Crowdfunding - 2024 Q1 (Alternative Protein)
🇳🇱 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Vertical / Indoor / Urban Farming)
🇳🇱 Series A - 2024 Q1 (Hydrogen)
🇳🇴 Bridge - 2024 Q1 (Solar Energy)
🇳🇴 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Aviation)
🇸🇬🇳🇱 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Low-Footprint Foods)
🇺🇸 Grant - 2024 Q1 (Climate Education)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (Biodiversity)
🇺🇸 Series A - 2024 Q1 (Nature-Based CC)
🌍 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Charging Infrastructure)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (Energy Distribution)

discover all deals and founders

📰 Climate News

Here are a few articles from last week:

💸 ArcTern Ventures Announces USD $335 Million Fund
💸 Vidia Equity Closes Vidia Climate Fund I, at €415M
💸 Why We Need to Invest in Climate Resilience

📢 EU reaches deal on near phase-out of diesel trucks
💨 Ørsted contract will capture and store 430,000t of CO2
⚡️ MAN Energy installs world’s largest seawater CO2 heat pump
🏭 Earthbound™ has become the first Croatian B Corp.

PS: We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section this year. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).

see all news / add news

🗓 Upcoming Events

We want to revive this section this month. If you’ve come across great sources for climate events, or you’re organizing an event/meetup/webinar, please ping us.

🇬🇧 Electrify Everything: Smart Homes (Jan 24)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam ClimateHack Meetup (Jan 25)
💡 Your business' carbon footprint: what it is and how to measure it? (Jan 31)
💡 State of Climate Tech 2023 (Feb 1)
🇵🇹 Portugal's Voluntary Carbon Market (Feb 7)
🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters and how to take action. (Feb 22)
🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow (Mar 21-22)
🇺🇸 SF Climate Week (Apr 21-27)
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)
🇺🇸 Carbon Unbound USA (May 21)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13)
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30)
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17)
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30)

see all events / add events

A Final Note

🔎 45% of you who read this newsletter haven’t joined ClimateU yet.

If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the community as well, so that you can connect with people across the climate space and share your updates, questions, jobs, and funding news in the newsletter as well.

Big hug,

Tim

Can’t get enough of these climate news? Then you can follow along on LinkedIn, Threads, and Twitter.

P.S. If you’re new here, welcome! ClimateU is a platform and community for professionals and organizations across the climate sector. Everyone is welcome, including corporates, SMEs, and service providers. 👋

P.P.S If you want to add data to this newsletter, simply sign up on ClimateU and add any funding rounds, jobs, news, events, or questions you may have. If you want to promote your work, you can apply for a newsletter promotion here. 🔥

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After Europe’s tech scene was still in its holiday beauty sleep two weeks ago, it seems like the new year's resolutions are now kicking in with a bunch of funding announcements, loads of jobs and quite a few updates to cover. 🚀

So, let’s get to it - short and sweet as always:

Today, we'll cover last week’s:
💰 closed rounds,
💼 climate jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
👋 community asks (new).
📰 news, and
🗓 upcoming events.

If you missed the first two newsletters of this year, you can look them up here.

Subscribe now

📞 Let’s chat!

We’re back to taking calls from you at any time. If you’re an investor, climate-tech company, corporate / SME, or service provider, and you want to learn more about how to work with us, you can just schedule a first chat.

💰 Closed Rounds

🇩🇪 FINN - €100M Series C

📍 Munich, Germany
🚗 Sustainable car rentals.

Investors: HV Capital, Korelya Capital, Picus Capital, Planet First Partners, UVC Partners, White Star Capital

Article, Company

🇫🇮 Cactos - €26M Series A

📍 Helsinki, Finland
⚡️ Smart energy storage systems for local and efficient energy supply.

Investors: Finnish Climate Fund, OP Financial Group

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Sunvigo - €15M Debt Financing

📍 Cologne, Germany
⚡️ Solar rental.

Investors: Triodos Bank

Article, Company

🇮🇹 MOGU - €11M Series A

📍 Varese, Italy
🍄 Mycelium-based biotech.

Investors: CDP Venture Capital, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, Kering Ventures, Progress Tech Transfer Fund

Article, Company

🇮🇹 SQIM - €11M Venture - Series Unknown

📍 Varese, Italy
🍄 Uses mycelium as key bio-fabrication agent and technology.

Investors: CDP Venture Capital, ECBF VC, Kering Ventures, Progress Tech Transfer Fund

Article, Company

🇬🇧 FA Bio - £5.3M Venture

📍 Harpenden, United Kingdom
🧑‍🌾 Disease management device to offer detection of plant pathogens.

Investors: Clean Growth Fund, Pymwymic, Ship2B Ventures

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Parallel Carbon - $3.6M Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom
💨 Direct Air Capture.

Investors: Andrew MacKay, Aramco Ventures, Axon Partners Group, Counteract, DNX Ventures, Rumbo Ventures, VOYAGERS

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Tibo energy - €3M Seed

📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands
⚡️ Challenging energy consumption, generation, and distribution.

Investors: SET Ventures, Speedinvest

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Veo (Veo.world) - £1.4M Seed

📍 Manchester, United Kingdom
🏭 Platform for sustainable consumer goods.

Investors: Pavan Manocha, R42 Group, Earthshot Ventures, Arka Venture labs

Article, Company

🇨🇭 Enerdrape - CHF 1.3M Seed

📍 Ecublens, Switzerland
⚡️ Turns underground environments into a renewable source of energy.

Investors: Après-demain, Romande Energie

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Standing Ovation - €1M Debt

📍 Paris, France
🍴 Animal-free dairy cheese.

Investors: Bpifrance

Article, Company

🇩🇰 FLEXeCHARGE - Seed

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🚗 Smart charging solutions.

Investors: Greencode Ventures, Link Capital, Vireo Ventures

Article, Company

see all rounds / add rounds

💼 New Climate Jobs

Check out some of the latest featured jobs below. If you don't see anything that speaks to you, you can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities.

If you’re an employer and want your jobs featured here, just join our monthly membership via ClimateU.

NuuEnergy

“NuuEnergy's vision is to enable every homeowner in Europe to have the most sustainable and efficient heating and cooling system - purchased and installed in one seamless process.“

🇩🇪 Intermediate Growth Marketer (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Founder Associate - Working Student or Intern (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 (Junior) Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Specialist (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Business Development Associate/ Junior Account Executive (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Energieberater *in (Munich, Hybrid)

aeco

“Restoring peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors and the planet.“

🌍 Head of Operations (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Senior Carbon Project Developer (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Projektentwickler*in (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)

Cambrium

“Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks.“

🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Business Development Intern (Berlin, On-site)

CHOOOSE

“CHOOOSE delivers a software platform that enables individuals and organizations to understand their carbon footprint and support trusted climate solutions.“

🇳🇴 Senior Business Controller (Norway, Remote)

leonardo.

“leonardo is a B2B SaaS solution to measure, verify, and report sustainability impact credibly.“

🇩🇪 Lead Software Engineer (Frankfurt, Hybrid)

That’s all featured jobs for this early first week of 2024! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth.

see all jobs / add jobs

🚀 New Climate Dealflow

This year, 45+ companies on ClimateU are already looking to close a funding round.
Here is a summary of all rounds being raised in Q1 2024 alone:

🇺🇸 Grant (💡 Climate Education)
🇳🇱 Crowdfunding (🍴 Alternative Protein)
🇬🇧 Angel (🏭 Consumer Goods / Food Waste)
🇬🇧 Angel (💡 Climate Education)

🇩🇰 Pre-Seed (💡 Climate Education)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (🌳 Biodiversity)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (💡 Climate Data)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (🚗 Logistics & Supply Chain)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed (🌳 Biodiversity)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed (⚡️ Energy Distribution / Biomass)

🇨🇦 Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Energy Distribution)
🇦🇹 Seed (⚡️ Wind Energy)
🇩🇪 Seed (⚡️ Biomass / Chemicals)
🇩🇪 Seed (🏠 Distributed Energy Resources)
🇩🇪 Seed (💸 Climate Investing)
🇩🇪🇹🇷 Seed (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)
🇫🇷 Seed (💡 Earth Observation)
🇫🇷 Seed (💨 Technology-Based CC)
🇬🇧 Seed (🏗 Construction Software)
🇬🇧 Seed (🚗 Logistics & Supply Chain Efficiency)
🇮🇳 Seed (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)
🇮🇹 Seed (💡 Carbon Accounting / Carbon Offsetting)
🇳🇱 Seed (🧑‍🌾 Vertical / Indoor / Urban Farming)
🇳🇴 Seed (🚗 Aviation)

🇩🇰 Series A (🏭 Recycling)
🇬🇧 Series A (🏭 New Materials / Packaging / Plastics)
🇳🇱 Series A (⚡️ Hydrogen)

Investors on our membership can access all funding rounds, founders, and pitch decks on the platform.

discover all deals and founders

👋 Community Asks

We’re now starting to add “community asks” to this weekly newsletter. We put together a first draft where all users can upload where they currently want help or have a question, so that other members can reach out and offer support.

We’ll kick it off by simply leaving you the link below, as we’re still fine-tuning the process and format of featuring asks here. 👇

community asks

📰 Climate News

Here are a few articles from last week:

⚡️ Can ‘water batteries’ solve the energy storage conundrum?
⚡️ Renewable energy surge of 50% driven by China, IEA says
⚡️ 2024: the year of grid tech

💡 A Silicon Valley for Climate Tech? It Could Well Be the UAE
💡 30+ ClimateTech Changemakers to Know in Istanbul
💡 20 European Climate VCs: What they’ll fund next in 2024

💸 Does Your Bank Support Fossil Fuels?
💸 Incentive-tracking apps find firm footing

PS: We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section this year. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).

see all news / add news

🗓 Upcoming Events

We want to revive this section this month. If you’ve come across great sources for climate events, or you’re organizing an event/meetup/webinar, please ping us.

🇬🇧 Can we leverage technology to achieve education equity? (Jan 16)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam ClimateHack Meetup (Jan 25)
💡 Your business' carbon footprint: what it is and how to measure it? (Jan 31)
💡 State of Climate Tech 2023 (Feb 1)
🇵🇹 Portugal's Voluntary Carbon Market (Feb 7)
🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters and how to take action. (Feb 22)
🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow (Mar 21-22)
🇺🇸 SF Climate Week (Apr 21-27)
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)
🇺🇸 Carbon Unbound USA (May 21)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13)
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30)
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17)
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30)

see all events / add events

A Final Note

🔎 45% of you who read this newsletter haven’t joined ClimateU yet.

If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the community as well, so that you can connect with people across the climate space and share your updates, questions, jobs, and funding news in the newsletter as well.

Big hug,

Tim

Can’t get enough of these climate news? Then you can follow along on LinkedIn, Threads, and Twitter.

P.S. If you’re new here, welcome! ClimateU is a platform and community for professionals and organizations across the climate sector. Everyone is welcome, including corporates, SMEs, and service providers. 👋

P.P.S If you want to add data to this newsletter, simply sign up on ClimateU and add any funding rounds, jobs, news, events, or questions you may have. If you want to promote your work, you can apply for a newsletter promotion here. 🔥

Share Last Week in Climate

📩 Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, or other inquiries to: team@climateu.earth

I hope you all eased into 2024, got in some quality time with friends and family, and are now ready to rock 2024.

💭 COP28 in December got me re-energized and excited about the role of a strong community and collaboration in reaching net-zero. This year, we want to move away from being the biggest climate community and focus on being the community that provides the most value to its members.

If you have any feedback on what we should be doing better - please get in touch! 👋

As always - short and sweet:

Today, we'll cover 2024’s first:
💰 closed rounds,
💼 climate jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
📰 news, and
🗓 upcoming events.

Subscribe now

📞 Let’s chat!

We’re back to taking calls from you at any time. If you’re an investor, climate-tech company, corporate / SME, or service provider, and you want to learn more about how to work with us, you can just schedule a first chat via ClimateU.

💰 Closed Rounds

🇬🇧 Vortexa - $34M Series C

📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Building the future of energy markets.

Investors: Communitas Capital Partners, FJ Labs, Metaplanet, monashees, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Notion Capital

Article, Company

🇱🇻 Aerones - €4.4M Grant

📍 Riga, Latvia
⚡️ Wind turbine blade inspection and maintenance robotics.

Investors: European Union

Article, Company

🇱🇻 Naco Technologies Ltd - €1.2M Series A

📍 Riga, Latvia
⚡️ Nano coating for green hydrogen.

Investors: Impact Ventures Hungary, The Untitled Ventures

Article, Company

🇹🇷🇺🇸 Lumian - Pre-Seed

📍 Turkey / United States
⚡️ AI-based low code platform for smart energy management.

Investors: DOMiNO Ventures, Ismail Ferhat Özlü

Article, Company

see all rounds / add rounds

💼 New Climate Jobs

Check out some of the latest featured jobs below. If you don't see anything that speaks to you, you can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities.

If you’re an employer and want your jobs featured here, just join our monthly membership via ClimateU.

CHOOOSE

“CHOOOSE delivers a software platform that enables individuals and organizations to understand their carbon footprint and support trusted climate solutions.“

🇳🇴 Senior Business Controller (Norway, Remote)

aeco

“Restoring peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors and the planet.“

🌍 Head of Operations (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Senior Carbon Project Developer (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Projektentwickler*in (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)

Cambrium

“Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks.“

🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Business Development Intern (Berlin, On-site)

leonardo.

“leonardo is a B2B SaaS solution to measure, verify, and report sustainability impact credibly.“

🇩🇪 Lead Software Engineer (Frankfurt, Hybrid)

That’s all featured jobs for this early first week of 2024! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth.

Planet A Ventures

“We support founders tackling the world's largest environmental problems.“

🇩🇪 Investment Analyst - Engineering Background (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 (Senior) Investment Associate (Berlin, Hybrid)

That’s all featured jobs for today! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth.

see all jobs / add jobs

🚀 New Climate Dealflow

Last week, Unibloom announced that they’re raising an Angel round in Q1.

This quarter, 25+ companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round:

🇺🇸 Grant (💡 Climate Education)
🇬🇧 Angel (🏭 Consumer Goods / Food Waste)
🇬🇧 Angel (💡 Climate Education)

🇩🇰 Pre-Seed (💡 Climate Education)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (🌳 Biodiversity)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (💡 Climate Data)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (🚗 Logistics & Supply Chain)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed (🌳 Biodiversity)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed (⚡️ Energy Distribution / Biomass)

🇦🇹 Seed (⚡️ Wind Energy)
🇩🇪 Seed (⚡️ Biomass / Chemicals)
🇩🇪 Seed (🏠 Distributed Energy Resources)
🇩🇪 Seed (💸 Climate Investing)
🇩🇪🇹🇷 Seed (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)
🇫🇷 Seed (💡 Earth Observation)
🇫🇷 Seed (💨 Technology-Based CC)
🇬🇧 Seed (🏗 Construction Software)
🇬🇧 Seed (🚗 Logistics & Supply Chain Efficiency)
🇮🇳 Seed (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)
🇮🇹 Seed (💡 Carbon Accounting / Carbon Offsetting)
🇳🇱 Seed (🧑‍🌾 Vertical / Indoor / Urban Farming)
🇳🇴 Seed (🚗 Aviation)

🇩🇰 Series A (🏭 Recycling)
🇬🇧 Series A (🏭 New Materials / Packaging / Plastics)
🇳🇱 Series A (⚡️ Hydrogen)

Investors on our membership can access all funding rounds, founders, and pitch decks on the platform.

discover all deals and founders

📰 Climate News

Here are a few articles from last week to kick off the year:

⚡️ France bets €1bn on startups building bus-sized nuclear reactors
⚡️ Britain turns to floating turbines to tap into ‘remarkable’ wind speeds
⚡️ Spain confirms nuclear power phase-out
💡 Navigating the future of climate tech: Predictions for 2024
💡 2024: Is this the year AI helps us fight climate change?

PS: We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section this year. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).

see all news / add news

🗓 Upcoming Events

We want to revive this section this month. If you’ve come across great sources for climate events, or you’re organizing an event/meetup/webinar, please ping me.

🇬🇧 Can we leverage technology to achieve education equity? (Jan 16)
💡 Your business' carbon footprint: what it is and how to measure it? (Jan 31)
🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters and how to take action. (Feb 22)
🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow (Mar 21-22)
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13)
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30)
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17)
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30)

see all events / add events

A Final Note to Start the Year in Style

🔎 Fifty percent of you who read this newsletter haven’t joined ClimateU yet.

If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the community as well, so that you can connect with people across the climate space and share your updates, questions, jobs, and funding news in the newsletter as well.

Big hug,

Tim

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P.S. If you’re new here, welcome! ClimateU is a platform and community for professionals and organizations across the climate sector. Everyone is welcome, including corporates, SMEs, and service providers. 👋

P.P.S If you want to add data to this newsletter, simply sign up on ClimateU and add any funding rounds, jobs, news, events, or questions you may have. If you want to promote your work, you can apply for a newsletter promotion here. 🔥

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Sending out a newsletter on January 2nd felt like too much too soon, so, happy Wednesday it is instead.

After a week off in the mountains, I can’t wait to dive back into work, starting by updating you on everything that happened these past two weeks in climate across Europe - short and sweet as always:

Today, we'll cover 2023’s last:
💰 closed rounds,
💼 climate jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.

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💚 Add any jobs, events, news, or funding rounds via the platform.
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💰 Closed Rounds

🇬🇧 Octopus Energy - £625M Private Equity

📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Large-scale renewable energy platform.

Investors: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Generation Investment Management, Origin Energy, Tokyo Gas

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Exeger - €35M Debt Financing

📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ New materials that enhance the efficiency of solar cells.

Investors: European Investment Bank

Article, Company

🇫🇷 SWEETCH Energy - €25M Series A

📍 Lorient, France
⚡️ Osmotic power.

Investors: Crédit Mutuel Impact, Demeter, Future Positive Capital, GO CAPITAL

Article, Company

🇳🇱 SolarDuck - €15M Venture

📍 Nijmegen, Netherlands
⚡️ Offshore floating solar.

Investors: Energie transitie fonds Rotterdam, Green Tower, Invest-NL, Katapult

Article, Company

🇪🇸 Green Eagle Solutions - €6M Series A

📍 Madrid, Spain
⚡️ RPA-based software for renewables.

Investors: A&G Energy Transition Tech Fund, Kibo Ventures, SET Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇪 suena - €3M Seed

📍 Hamburg, Germany
⚡️ AI-based trading for energy storage.

Investors: Business angels, EIT InnoEnergy, Raakwark Kaptaal, Santander Climate Tech Fund, SmartEnergy Innovation Fund

Article, Company

🇩🇪 The Mobility House - $2.9M Grant

📍 Munich, Germany
🚗 Smart charging solutions.

Investors: California Energy Commission

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Velco - €2M Venture

📍 Nantes, France
🚗 Connected e-bikes.

Investors: Existing investors

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Open Climate Fix - $600k Grant

📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Using computers to fix climate change.

Investors: Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Article, Company

🇨🇭 WBCSD – $500k Grant

📍 Geneva, Switzerland
💡 Coalition of businesses aiming for sustainable development.

Investors: Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Article, Company

🇪🇸 Libre Foods - €335k Grant

📍 Barcelona, Spain
🍴 Low-cost mycelium for meat alternatives.

Investors: NEOTEC

Article, Company

🇹🇷 Agrovisio Official - €260k Corporate Round

📍 Ankara, Turkey
👩‍🌾 Satellite-based decision-making services for farmers.

Investors: Turk Traktor

Article, Company

🇦🇹 World Data Lab - $100k Grant

📍 Vienna, Austria
💡 ESG forecasting.

Investors: Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Lightyear - Venture

📍 Helmond, Netherlands
🚗 Solar electric car company.

Investors: Lighthouse Combined Investment, Sunbo Angel Partners

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Circle-Hand - Grant

📍 Berlin, Germany
🏭 ERP for second-hand stores.

Investors: Inco

Article, Company

see all rounds / add rounds

💼 New Climate Jobs

Check out some of the latest featured jobs below. If you don't see anything that speaks to you, you can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities.

If you’re an employer and want your jobs featured here, simply join our monthly membership via ClimateU.

aeco

“Restoring peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors and the planet.“

🌍 Head of Operations (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Senior Carbon Project Developer (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Projektentwickler*in (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)

Cambrium

“Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks.“

🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Business Development Intern (Berlin, On-site)

Planet A Ventures

“We support founders tackling the world's largest environmental problems.“

🇩🇪 Investment Analyst - Engineering Background (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 (Senior) Investment Associate (Berlin, Hybrid)

That’s all featured jobs for this early first week of 2024! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth.

see all jobs / add jobs

🚀 New Climate Dealflow

We’re finalizing our updated insights, dealflow, and data access on ClimateU - you’ll hear more about that soon.

Last week, one round was announced:
🇳🇱 Series A - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Hydrogen)

see all new deals

📰 Climate News

Here are a few articles from the last two weeks that you might want to check out to stay on top of things:

💡 10 climate tech innovations that give us hope for 2024
💡 ESG funds suffer weaker demand
💡 Solar, batteries and heat pumps led the green charge in 2023
💡 The year in review: progress in sustainable business, but too little and too slow

💨 Europe is spending millions to trap carbon. Where will it go?
💨 European climate tech founders are heading to Kenya
💨 Intercropping: a beacon of hope for sustainable agriculture in Europe

⚡️ 2024 energy predictions
⚡️ Orsted to proceed with mega Hornsea 3 North Sea wind farm project

🌍 Impact of 2023’s costliest climate disasters ‘highly unequal’
🏠 Europe’s green cement is taking off
💸 New Year, New Outlook: Climate and VC Predictions for 2024
📢 UK to introduce carbon levy on imports by 2027
👩‍🌾 Europe Should Go ‘Demitarian’ To Halve Nitrogen Pollution From Agriculture

PS: We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section this year. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).

see all news / add news

🗓 Upcoming Events

🇬🇧 Can we leverage technology to achieve education equity? (Jan 16)
💡 Your business' carbon footprint: what it is and how to measure it? (Jan 31)
🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters and how to take action. (Feb 22)
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13)
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17)
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
🇩🇪 IMPACT FESTIVAL 2024 (Oct 30)

see all events / add events

A Final Note to Start the Year in Style

Fifty percent of you who read this newsletter haven’t joined ClimateU yet.

If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the community as well, so that you can connect with people across the climate space and share your updates, questions, jobs, and funding news in the newsletter as well.

Sending you all a big hug for this first week of 2024,

Tim

Can’t get enough of these climate news? Then you can follow along on LinkedIn, Threads, and Twitter.

P.S. If you’re new here, welcome! ClimateU is a platform and community for professionals and organizations across the climate sector. Everyone is welcome, including corporates, SMEs, and service providers. 👋

P.P.S If you want to add data to this newsletter, simply sign up on ClimateU and add any funding rounds, jobs, news, events, or questions you may have. If you want to promote your work, you can apply for a newsletter promotion here. 🔥

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For the last time in 2023…

Today, we'll cover last week's:
💰 closed rounds (20),
💼 new jobs (1.6k),
🚀 new dealflow,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.

Subscribe now

You know the drill:
💚 Add any jobs, events, news, or funding rounds.
📰 Apply to sponsor a newsletter here.
📞 Apply for a consultation here.
📩 Write us.

💰 Closed Rounds

🇩🇪 Tacto - €50M Series A

📍 Munich, Germany
🚗 Sustainable procurement for mid-sized industrial firms.

Investors: Cherry Ventures, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, UVC Partners, Visionaries Club

Article, Company

🇩🇪 ecoworks - €40M Series A

📍 Berlin, Germany
🏗 CO2-neutral building modernization.

Investors: Haniel, ISAI Cap Venture, KOMPAS VC, World Fund

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Lhyfe - €28M Post-IPO Debt

📍 Nantes, France
⚡️ Developer, investor, & supplier of green hydrogen for mobility and industry.

Investors: Bpifrance, Credit Mutuel, Groupe BPCE, HSBC

Article, Company

🇨🇭 Plan-B Net Zero - €9.2M Series A

📍 Zug, Switzerland
⚡️ Serves the entire value chain in the renewable energy sector.

Investors: Yamato Capital

Article, Company

🇦🇹 HYDROGRID - €7.7M Series A

📍 Vienna, Austria
⚡️ Software solutions for hydro power plants.

Investors: CNB Capital, Inven Capital, Karma Ventures, SET Ventures

Article, Company

🇨🇭 Metafuels - €7.4M Seed

📍 Zürich, Switzerland
🚗 Sustainable aviation fuel.

Investors: Contrarian Ventures, Energy Impact Partners

Article, Company

🇪🇪 Arbonics - €5.5M Seed

📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🌳 Carbon & ecosystem platform for forest and landowners.

Investors: NordicNinja VC, Plural Platform, Tilia Impact Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇪 METYCLE - €4.7M Seed

📍 Cologne, Germany
🏗 B2B trading platform for secondary metals.

Investors: Anne-Marie Großmann, Christoph Cordes, Dutch Founders Fund, Gisbert Ruehl, Market One Capital, Partech, Philipp Andernach, Project A Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇪 NeoCarbon - €3.2M Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany
💨 Direct Air Capture via existing infrastructure.

Investors: Antler, Christian Vollmann, Matthias Gotta, PT1 - PropTech1 Ventures, Raise Ventures, Speedinvest

Article, Company

🇩🇪 ANNEA - €2.8M Seed

📍 Hamburg, Germany
⚡️ Performance optimization of renewable energy infrastructure.

Investors: Faber, Innoport, Voyager Ventures

Article, Company

🇪🇪 Woola - €2.5M Seed

📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🏭 Uses leftover sheep wool to replace bubble wrap.

Investors: Future Ventures, Lemonade Stand, Metaplanet

Article, Company

🇪🇪 Ecobase - €2.5M Seed

📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🌳 Develops afforestation and other forestry carbon projects.

Investors: Combiwood Grupp

Article, Company

🇳🇱 RTI Blockchain - €2.5M Seed

📍 Delft, Netherlands
🏭 Sustainability in logistics.

Investors: Borski Fund

Article, Company

🇩🇪 montamo - €2.1M Pre-Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany
💡 Upskilling workers to construction workers in the energy sector.

Investors: Project A Ventures

Article, Company

🇨🇭 4QT - CHF 1.9M Pre-Seed

📍 Zurich, Switzerland
🚗 Electrifying heavy-duty machines.

Investors: Unruly Capital

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Seasony - €1.5M Seed

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
👩‍🌾 Feeding the world on full auto.

Investors: Barbara Taudorf Andersen, Export and Investment Fund, Klaus Holse, Nicolaj Reffstrup, North Ventures, Torben Wind, Vagn Sørensen

Article, Company

🇹🇷 Myth AI - $1.3M Seed

📍 Istanbul, Turkey
🏭 Reducing waste in the fashion design process.

Investors: Birkan Kül, Emre Kozlu, Faik Ulutaş

Article, Company

🇸🇪 FineCell - €1M Seed

📍 Linköping, Sweden
🏭 Sustainable cellulose microfibers.

Investors: Metsa Spring

Article, Company

🇳🇴 Over Easy Solar - €800k Venture

📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ Flat roof solar.

Investors: Hafslund Venture, Eidsiva, Stratel, Aura

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Nexam Chemical - £100k Grant

📍 Skåne, Sweden
🏭 Enhances properties and performance of plastics.

Investors: Innovate UK

Article, Company

see all rounds / add rounds

💼 New Jobs

Last week, 1,623 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.

Candidates: To get tailored job recommendations via email, set up your climate job focus here.
Employers: Set up your employer profile and add your roles here.

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🚀 New Dealflow

We’re finalizing our updated insights, dealflow, and data access on ClimateU - more on that in January.

Last week, one round was announced:
🇬🇧 Bridge - 2024 Q2 (💸 Climate Investing)

see all new deals

📰 Climate News

As the year is coming to an end, we’ll keep it simple this week with just a few articles:

📢 COP28: Countries reach ‘historic’ deal to transition from fossil fuels
🏠 011h is building a startup within a startup to clean up construction
👩‍🌾 12 Food System Insiders Share Their Takeaways From COP28
👩‍🌾 EU to Invest €50M in Startups to Scale Up Precision Fermentation in 2024
💨 BCG Inks Major Deal to Remove Carbon From the Air
💸 Norrsken Launcher raises €100m impact fund

PS: We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section next year. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).

see all news / add news

🗓 Upcoming Events

2024 Events:
🇬🇧 Can we leverage technology to achieve education equity?
💡 Your business' carbon footprint: what it is and how to measure it?
🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters and how to take action.
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival
🇨🇭 HackSummit
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024
🇪🇪 impact day
🇩🇪 IMPACT FESTIVAL 2024

see all events / add events

That’s it for 2023…

After two years of running ClimateU, and 83 newsletters, I will finally take a week off to wind down, rest, and reflect, without Wi-Fi, in a little hut in South Africa.

Big hug from Cape Town, Merry Christmas, and a happy new year!

See you in 2024!

Tim

Can’t get enough of these climate news? Then you can follow along on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Share Last Week in Climate

📩 Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, or other inquiries to: team@climateu.earth

Today, we'll cover last week's:
💰 closed rounds (22),
🚀 new dealflow,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.

Subscribe now

You know the drill:
💚 Add any jobs, events, news, or funding rounds.
📰 Apply to sponsor a newsletter here.
📞 Apply for a consultation here.
📩 Write us.

🔎 Volunteers Wanted

We’re looking for multiple volunteers at ClimateU:

• Venture Scouting

• Community Management

• Content Creation

• Talent Marketing

• Sales

We’ll be posting job descriptions soon, but if one of these profiles fits you, please get in touch already 📩

💰 Closed Rounds

🇨🇭🇬🇭 Koa - €15M Series B

📍 Switzerland & Ghana
🏭 Cocoa fruit products.

Investors: Mirova, Regenerative Growth Fund 1, Haltra

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Blue World Technologies - €11M Series C

📍 Aalborg, Denmark
🚗 Methanol fuel cell manufacturer as alternative fuel.

Investors: Cycle Group, Export and Investment Fund, Maersk Growth

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Enerpoly - $8.4M Grant

📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Sustainable zinc-ion batteries for energy storage solutions.

Investors: Swedish Energy Agency

Article, Company

🇬🇧 HURR - £7.9M Venture - Series Unknown

📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 On-demand wardrobe rental.

Investors: Ascension, D4 Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Praetura Ventures

Article, Company

🇬🇧 SunSave - £5.4M Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Solar and storage for households.

Investors: Bill Nussey, IPGL, Michael Spencer, Norrsken VC, Plug and Play Tech Center, Roland Rudd, Sir Stuart Rose

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Farmless - €4.8M Seed

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🍴 Planet-friendly proteins.

Investors: Revent, Vorwerk Ventures, World Fund

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Strong by Form - €4.8M Seed

📍 Stuttgart, Germany
🏗 Timber-based biocomposites.

Investors: Citi Ventures, Climate Insiders, CMPC Ventures, COREangels, Finsa, GSBackers, MAIF Avenir, Savia Ventures, Saviu Ventures, Symbia VC, Teampact ventures, VX Ventures

Article, Company

🇪🇪 UP Catalyst - €4M Seed

📍 Tallinn, Estonia
⚡️ Carbon nanomaterials and graphite.

Investors: Extantia Capital, Little Green Fund, Scottish Baltic Invest, SmartCap, Sunly, UniTartu Ventures

Article, Company

🇪🇸 Velca - €3.5M Series A

📍 Madrid, Spain
🚗 Electric motorcycles.

Investors: BeHappy Investments, Noso Capital, sherry ventures

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Carbon Maps - €3M Seed

📍 Lille, France
🍴 Climate management platform for the food industry.

Investors: Breega, Daphni, Samaipata

Article, Company

🇫🇷 BioFluff - $2.5M Seed

📍 Paris, France
🏭 Plant-based fur.

Investors: Astanor Ventures

Article, Company

🇦🇹 Lignovations - €2.2M Seed

📍 Vienna, Austria
⚡️ Sustainable biomaterials.

Investors: Borregaard ASA, Valnon Holding

Article, Company

🇹🇷 Innovasion Labs PINC - $2M Seed

📍 Turkey
⚡️ Lithium-ion battery technology.

Investors: APY Ventures, Cihan Elbirlik, Kerim Kotan, Keshif Ventures

Article, Company

🇨🇭 Noriware - CHF 1.4M Grant

📍 Aargau, Switzerland
🏭 Seaweed-based packaging film.

Investors: InnoSuisse

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Ki Hydrogen - €1.1M Pre-Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Unlocking the green hydrogen revolution.

Investors: Desai Ventures, SFC Capital, HICO, G-Force, Carbon13

Article, Company

🇩🇪 level nine. - €1M Pre-Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany
🏭 Biomanufacturing.

Investors: Zero Carbon, Entrepreneur First, Rockstart, Maarten Alblas, Jonas Ruyter, Ferdinando Randisi

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Clean Food Group - £1M Grant

📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Sustainable food ingredients.

Investors: Innovate UK

Article, Company

🇬🇧 LIND - £900k Seed

📍 Kinross, United Kingdom
⚡️ Battery storage.

Investors: Green Angel Ventures, Scottish Enterprise, University of Strathclyde

Article, Company

🇬🇧🇷🇴 Ogre AI - €625k Seed

📍 Romania / UK
⚡️ The ultimate energy management platform.

Investors: Soulmates Ventures

Article, Company

🇬🇧 About:Energy & Eatron Technologies - Grant

📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Unlocking the potential of battery technology.

Investors: UK Research and Innovation

Article, About Energy, Eatron Technologies

🇪🇪 R8 TECHNOLOGIES - Corporate Round

📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🏠 AI for more sustainable commercial buildings.

Investors: Encevo, Møller Eiendom, Panasonic

Article, Company

see all rounds / add rounds

🚀 New Dealflow

We’re finalizing our updated insights, dealflow, and data access on ClimateU - more on that soon.

Last week, another round was announced:
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Solar Energy / Distributed Energy Resources)

see all new deals

💼 New Jobs

Last week, 1,750 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.

Candidates: To get tailored job recommendations via email, set up your climate job focus here.
Employers: Set up your employer profile and add your roles here.

see all jobs / add jobs

📰 Climate News

🔎 We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).

Some COP28 News:
💔 COP28: Draft agreement drops phaseout of fossil fuels.
📢 CarbonBrief's COP28 Negotiation Tracker.
💸 COP 28: Brazil proposes $250 billion “Tropical Forests Forever” fund
💸 COP28: mobilizes over $57 billion in first four days
💨 COP28: Global food companies tackle dairy methane emissions
🌳 COP28: Over 30 countries back global initiative to protect, restore freshwater
👩‍🌾 COP28: The Money Food Badly Needs for Climate Fight Is Rolling In

Some News News (by Sector):
💸 Wavemaker Impact closes debut fund at $60m.
💸 Vanagon Ventures launches new climate software fund.
💸 UK launches £1m AI prize for energy and climate tech.
💸 UK built world climate tech attracts $1.1bn from VCs in 2023.
💸 Resolve Ventures launches new Climate Impact Fund for Irland.
💸 Partech's new Impact Growth Fund.
💸 Forget IPOs, climate tech investors are chasing a different exit.
💸 Dutch renewable energy investor Return secures €100M investment.
💸 Climate tech dominates built world VC investment.
💸 Breakthrough Energy Catalyst announces €240 for Europe.
💸 Amsterdam’s Rockstart launches its second AgriFood fund.

🚎 UK bans airline adverts for airline greenwashing
🚎 McLaren's new carbon removal partnership with UNDO
🚎 Former SpaceX engineers build ‘vegetarian rocket engine’
🚎 Paris to triple parking prices for SUVs.

🏭 Joint Project to Develop Largest Green Methanol Plant in Europe.
🏭 Circular packaging comes to the spirits industry.
🏭 Collateral Good launches a HUGO BOSS-backed sustainable fashion fund.

💨 US set to slash methane levels by 80%.
💨 Frontier buyers sign world’s first enhanced weathering offtake agreements with Lithos Carbon.
💨 Dairy giants pledge to disclose methane emissions for first time.

⚡️ How fish oil could help boost solar panel efficiency.
⚡️ Chinese shipyard unveils design for world's largest nuclear-powered container ship.

👩‍🌾 Innovation turns waste wood into seafood.
📢 US joins 56 nations in kicking out coal.
🏠 10 built environment startups to watch.
💡 Tips for Building a Successful Hardware Company.

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🗓 Upcoming Events

Events this Week:
💡 Let's Talk About Climate Anxiety in Impact Work
🇨🇦 Climate Techies Vancouver Meetup

2024 Events:
🇬🇧 Can we leverage technology to achieve education equity?
💡 Your business' carbon footprint: what it is and how to measure it?
🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters and how to take action.
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival
🇨🇭 HackSummit
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024
🇪🇪 impact day
🇩🇪 IMPACT FESTIVAL 2024

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That’s it for this week!

Big hug from Dubai,

Tim

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It has been a wild week of non-stop meetings, side events, networking, and 30,000+ steps a day in the heat of Dubai, but of course, you get your weekly summary.

Today, we'll cover last week's:
🔎 100 COP28 participants,
💰 closed rounds (17),
🚀 new dealflow,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.

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🔎 100 COP28 Participants

We’ve put together a COP28 Participants Showcase. If you’re at the conference, have a look at who else is joining and add yourself to the list so that others can reach out. All you need to do is tick a little checkbox in your account, and ideally, leave a quick intro 👋

If you’re organizing a side event at COP, please also get in touch!

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💰 Closed Rounds

🇫🇷 mylight150 - €100M PE

📍 Jonage, France
⚡️ Smart energy management systems & solar self-consumption solutions.

Investors: Andera Partners, Azora, Eiffel Investment Group, Elevation Capital

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Braincube - €83M Series B

📍 Issoire, France
🏭 Manufacturing sustainability analytics company.

Investors: Bpifrance, Scottish Equity Partners

Article, Company

🇮🇪 TechMet - $50M Debt Financing

📍 Dublin, Ireland
🏗 Critical metals.

Investors: U.S. International Development Finance Corp

Article, Company

🇫🇮 One Click LCA - €40M Venture

📍 Helsinki, Finland
🏠 Building life cycle metrics software.

Investors: InfraVia Capital Partners, PSG Equity

Article, Company

🇮🇹 Energy Dome - €35M Grant

📍 Lonate Pozzolo, Italy
⚡️ Long-duration electricity storage using liquid CO2.

Investors: Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, European Investment Bank

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Adionics - €25M Series B

📍 Thiais, France
🏭 Salt separations, lithium, and iodide extractions.

Investors: Bpifrance, Celeste Management, Ovive, Sociedad Quimica Y Minera (SQM), Supernova Invest

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Xlinks - £20M Corporate

📍 Billericay, United Kingdom
⚡️ 3,800km cable from the Sahara to the UK.

Investors: TotalEnergies

Article, Company

🇫🇮 Carbo Culture - $18M Series A

📍 Helsinki, Finland
💨 Biochar carbon removal.

Investors: GenZero, Tesi, True Ventures

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Karos - €17M Series C

📍 Paris, France
🚗 Carpooling.

Investors: Citizen Capital, Ring Capital

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Modo Energy - £11.8M Series A

📍 Birmingham, United Kingdom
⚡️ Optimises battery energy storage systems.

Investors: Catalyst Capital, Fred. Olsen & Co., MMC Ventures, Triple Point Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Again - $10M Seed

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🏭 Carbon-negative chemicals for a cleaner future.

Investors: ACME Capital, Atlantic Labs, Google Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Hyme - €8M Venture

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
⚡️ Large-scale long-duration energy storage.

Investors: Heartland A/S, Nordic Makers, North-East Venture

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Impossible Materials - CHF 2M Grant

📍 Hamburg, Germany
🏭 Cellulose white pigment solutions.

Investors: InnoSuisse

Article, Company

🇩🇰 BeCause - $1.9M Seed

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🚗 AI-powered sustainability management for travel.

Investors: Sean Brown, Sean Evans, Superangel, Ugly Duckling Ventures

Article, Company

🇵🇱 Envirly - €1.4M Seed

📍 Lublin, Poland
💡 Help businesses analyse their environmental impact.

Investors: Aligo Venture Capital, Angels 4 Impact, Bank Bgż Bnp Paribas, Tangent Line Ventures

Article, Company

🇪🇸 Floatech - €1.2M Seed

📍 Madrid, Spain
⚡️ High-performance silicon anodes.

Investors: Big Sur Ventures, CDTI Innovación's INNVIERTE program, Grow Venture Partners

Article, Company

🇨🇭 GRZ Technologies - Venture

📍 Sion, Switzerland
⚡️Modular waste management solution.

Investors: Sabancı Ventures

Article, Company

see all rounds / add rounds

🚀 New Dealflow

We’re finalizing our updated insights, dealflow, and data access on ClimateU - more on that soon.

Last week, three new rounds were announced:
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Biomass Energy / 🏭 Chemicals, 💨 CCU)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (🌳 Biodiversity / 🏠 ESG Software / 📢 Regulation)
🇮🇪 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💸 Carbon Markets / 💸 Climate Investing)

see all new deals

💼 New Jobs

Last week, 1,857 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.

Candidates: To get tailored job recommendations via email, set up your climate job focus here.
Employers: Set up your employer profile and add your roles here.

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📰 Climate News

👋 We’re looking for a volunteer to sit down weekly and compile the most relevant climate news. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).

This week we’ll focus on COP28 news:
📢 COP 28: Over 120 countries back Climate & Health Declaration
📢 COP 28: Oil Firms Commit to Major Fossil Fuel Cut by 2050
💸 COP28 kicks off with climate disaster fund victory
💸 COP 28: Bezos Earth Fund Commits $57M for Future Food
💸 COP 28: 11 Winners Recognised with Zayed Sustainability Prize
⚡️ COP 28: 117 countries agree to triple renewable energy
⚡️ COP 28: 22 countries call for tripling of nuclear by 2050

And some great deep dives:
💡 40+ African ClimateTech Investors to Know
🚎 Sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) and aviation deep dive

see all news / add news

🗓 Upcoming Events

Events this week:
🇫🇷 Climate Techies Paris with Plug and Play
🇮🇪 Dublin Climate Dinner in Cornucopia
🇨🇭 Climate Techies Zurich Drinks

Future events:
💡 Let's Talk About Climate Anxiety in Impact Work
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival
🇨🇭 HackSummit
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development

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That’s it for this week!

Big hug from Dubai,

Tim

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Good morning and happy Tuesday to all you climate enthusiasts. I can’t believe this is the 80th time you’re reading this. Anyway…

Today, we'll cover last week's:
🔎 COP28 participants showcase,
💰 closed rounds (15),
🚀 new dealflow,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
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🔎 COP28 Participants

We’ve put together a COP28 Participants Showcase. If you’re heading to the conference, have a look at who else is joining and add yourself to the list so that others can reach out. All you need to do is tick a little checkbox in your account, and ideally, leave a quick intro 👋

Also, if you have any tips for us on our first COP ever, we’d love to hear from you!

view the list

💰 Closed Rounds

🇸🇪 Matsmart - €40M Venture

📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🍴 Sells surplus foodto reduce food waste.

Investors: ProSiebenSat.1, Circularity Capital, SevenVentures

Article, Company

🇮🇹 Planet Farms - $40M Venture

📍 Milan, Italy
👩‍🌾 Vertical farming.

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Newheat - €30M Venture

📍 Bègles, France
🏠 Renewable heat supplier / solar heat.

Investors: Bpifrance, Holdheat, Noria Invest, Swen Capital Partners, the Etchart Group

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Advanced Electric Machines - £23M Series A

📍 Blaydon, United Kingdom
🚗 EV motor & drivetrain systems for low carbon vehicles.

Investors: Barclays, Legal & General Capital, Low Carbon Innovation Fund, Northstar Ventures, Par Equity, Turquoise International

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Safi (fka TrueCircle) - $20M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 Marketplace to support waste processing facilities in material.

Investors: Lowercarbon Capital, Nosara Capital, Transition

Article, Company

🇫🇷 RED Horticulture - €17M Series A

📍 Lyon, France
👩‍🌾 Greenhouse lighting.

Investors: Demeter, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, Unigrains

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Eliq - €10M Venture

📍 Göteborg, Sweden
⚡️ Supports utilities in the transformation into energy services providers.

Investors: Axpo, Inven Capital, Valkea Growth Club

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Arkeon Energy Systems - €6M Seed

📍 Saint-cyr-l'ecole, France
🏠 Develops hermodynamic cycles and thermal stages.

Investors: Crédit Agricole, France 2030, Team for the Planet

Article, Company

🇬🇧 HumanForest - £5M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 E-bikes.

Investors: Fen Ventures, güil Mobility Ventures

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Vizcab - €5M Series A

📍 Lyon, France
🏠 More data, less carbon.

Investors: A/O PropTech, Altur Investissement, Banque des Territoires, Cemex Ventures, KOMPAS VC, Rise PropTech

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Osium AI - $3M Seed

📍 Paris, France
🏭 Materials development via AI.

Investors: Atomico, Collaborative Fund, Isaac Oates, Julien Chaumond, Kima Ventures, Liz Wessel, Patrick Joubert, Raise Phiture philanthropical fund, Sequoia Scout, Singular, Thomas Clozel, Y Combinator

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Floreon - £2M Series A

📍 Hull, United Kingdom
🏭 Versatile bioplastic.

Investors: Northern Gritstone

Article, Company

🇬🇧 reboxed - £2M Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 Recommerce platform for consumer electronics.

Investors: ACF Investors, Ali Aziz, Martin McCourt, Nick Beighton

Article, Company

🇱🇺 Databourg Systems - $1M Seed

📍 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
💡 Rainfall intelligence for business and institutional users.

Investors: ADB Ventures

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Samudra Oceans - £800k Pre-Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Robotic monitoring solutions for seaweed farming.

Investors: British Design Fund

Article, Company

see all rounds / add rounds

🚀 New Dealflow

We’re finalizing our updated insights, dealflow, and data access on ClimateU - more on that soon.

Last week, 30+ climate Founders joined the platform, and a new round was announced:
🇸🇪 Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Wind Energy)

see all new deals

💼 New Jobs

Last week, 1,537 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.

🔎 If you’re looking to join an early-stage team:
Cloover just raised their €7M round and is looking for a:
🇩🇪 Business Development Manager (Berlin)

leonardo. is looking for:
🇩🇪 Lead Software Engineer (Frankfurt)
🇩🇪 Sustainability Researcher & Data Analyst (Frankfurt)

Candidates: To get tailored job recommendations via email, set up your climate job focus here.
Employers: Set up your employer profile and add your roles here.

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📰 Climate News

👋 We’re looking for a volunteer to sit down weekly and compile the most relevant climate news across Europe. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).

👩‍🌾 UK to reconsider mandatory food waste reporting.
👩‍🌾 Alt-Meat Companies Are Grappling With a Harsh Reality

📢 The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
📢 COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals

🏭 France warns people off Black Friday clothes deals
🏭 Lidl launches a returnable Christmas jumper.

⚡️ US, UK Lead Pledge to Triple Nuclear Power by 2050 at COP28
⚡️ Can China Achieve its Nuclear Energy Ambitions?

🌳 Blue whales: Ocean giants return to 'safe' tropical haven

💡 Former Tesla engineer leads Belgium's first DAC startup
💡 PwC Net Zero Future50 - Middle East
💡 Profile: NatureMetrics’ new CEO on overcoming adversity and scaling up
💡 Young Climate Innovators Shaping the Future

see all news / add news

🗓 Upcoming Events

🌳 We’re arriving in Dubai for COP28 tomorrow, so, all our event attention these next two weeks is going to the side events at the conference. If you’re looking to host something that is relevant to ClimateU members, please get in touch.

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That’s it for this week!

One last big hug from Barcelona before I’m heading to Dubai,

Tim

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Today, we'll cover last week's:
💰 closed rounds (18),
🚀 new dealflow,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.

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Quick Updates:

💼 We finally have free trials for companies hiring via ClimateU, and we’ve ditched company size-based pricing for the rest of November, so if you’re looking for mission-aligned candidates - now is the best time to post your roles!

🇦🇪 If you’re heading to COP28, please tick the box in your account so that we can add you to the database of people going (published soon).

💰 Closed Rounds

🇫🇮 Neste - €600M Post-IPO Debt

📍 Espoo, Finland
🏭 Refines waste, residues & materials into renewable fuels & feedstock.

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Technique Solaire - $200M PE

📍 Migné-auxances, France
⚡️ Distribution of photovoltaic energy.

Investors: Bpifrance, Crédit Agricole

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Northvolt - $150M Convertible Note

📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Sustainable batteries.

Investors: Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Upway - €28M Series B

📍 Paris, France
🚗 Marketplace for reconditioned e-bikes.

Investors: Exor Ventures, Korelya Capital, Sequoia Capital, Transition

Article, Company

🇳🇱 NAIF - $23M Venture

📍 Den Haag, Netherlands
🏭 Circular baby and skincare products.

Investors: Future Business Partnership

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Le Fourgon - €10M Series A

📍 Marquette Lez Lille, France

🏭 Returnable glasses & drinks delivery.

Investors: Id4 ventures, La Poste Ventures, Teampact ventures

Article, Company

🇫🇮 Solar Foods - €8M Series B

📍 Helsinki, Finland
🍴 Natural protein for the global food industry.

Investors: Happiness Capital, Springvest

Article, Company

🇪🇸 ScrapAd - €5M Seed

📍 Eibar, Spain
🏭 Marketplace for recyclable materials.

Investors: Berge y Cia, Indipartners

Article, Company

🇪🇪 Efenco - €4.5M Grant & Angel

📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🏗 Slashes carbon emissions in critical industrial heat applications.

Investors: European Innovation Council, Ivo Remmelg

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Ida - €3M Seed

📍 Paris, France
🍴 Removes food waste from distribution.

Investors: Daphni, Frst, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures

Article, Company

🇫🇷 TOOPI ORGANICS - €2M Grant

📍 Loupiac-de-la-réole, France
👩‍🌾 Turns urine into crop biostimulants.

Investors: EIC Accelerator

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Mocean Energy - £2.7M Venture + Grant

📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
⚡️ Wave energy pioneer.

Investors: Equity Gap, Katapult Ocean, MOL PLUS, Old College Capital, Scottish Enterprise

Article, Company

🇮🇹 CarpeCarbon - €2M Pre-Seed

📍 Turin, Italy
💨 Direct Air Capture.

Investors: 360 Capital, CDP Venture Capital

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Proxima Fusion - €7.5M Pre-Seed

📍 Munich, Germany
⚡️ Fusion power plants.

Investors: Visionaries Tomorrow fund

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Mission Zero Technologies - Grant

📍 London, United Kingdom
💨 Low-energy direct air capture.

Investors: UK Department for Transport

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Carbon Capture Scotland - Venture

📍 Crocketford, United Kingdom
💨 Captures CO2 tfrom organic waste.

Investors: Iona Capital

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Meloon GmbH - Pre-Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany
💨 Captures carbon out of waste streams.

Investors: IBB Ventures, Tobias Wittich

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Frugal Technologies - Corporate Round

📍 Aalborg, Denmark
🚗 Improved propulsion efficiency via machine learning.

Investors: Emerson

Article, Company

see all rounds / add rounds

🚀 New Dealflow

Currently, we have:
142 upcoming funding rounds,
614 Founders, and
5,500+ Companies on the platform.

New in last week:
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (💡 Climate Data)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Energy Distribution)

see all new deals

💼 New Jobs

Last week, 1,504 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.

🔎 Some highlights:
Cloover just raised their €7M round and is looking for:
🇩🇪 Founders Associate (Operations & Customer Success) (Berlin)
🇩🇪 Business Development Manager (Berlin)

leonardo. is looking for:
🇩🇪 Lead Software Engineer (Frankfurt)
🇩🇪 Sustainability Researcher & Data Analyst (Frankfurt)

FSC is looking for:
🇩🇪 Programme Manager Integrity Development (Bonn)

Talents: To get tailored job recommendations via email, set up your climate job focus here.
Employers: Set up your employer profile and add your roles here.

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📰 Climate News

Energy
⚡️ Exxon wants to drill enough lithium out of Arkansas to power 1M EVs per year
⚡️ Octopus Energy Dives into Germany’s Offshore Wind Market with First Investment
⚡️ Toyota is turning to startup Redwood Materials for critical battery materials

Transport
🚎 Floating factories of artificial leaves could make green fuel for jets and ships
🚎 Hitachi and FirstGroup accelerate the UK’s push to electric mobility
🚎 Sustainable Fuels: ADM & Marathon open Green Bison Soy Processing

Policy & Advocacy
📢 COP28 faces a giant communication challenge
📢 US and China progress in climate talks.

Industry
🏭 Envato founders back AUS plastics reduction startup Refilled
🏭 EU agrees to ban exports of waste plastic to poor countries

Food & Agricultre
🧑‍🌾 Equity crowdfunding for Europe's first precise fermented plant-based butter
🧑‍🌾 Kernza, a climate-friendly grain, gets the attention of brewers, distillers

Climate Intelligence
💡 Space-based carbon dioxide monitoring reaches milestone
💡 Why polar bears are no longer the poster image of climate change

Nature
🌳 Silvaconsult joins forces with Tree.ly

Climate Finance
💸 NEOM launches investment arm NIF

Carbon Removal
💨 EU agrees law to hit fossil fuel imports with methane emissions limit

see all news / add news

🗓 Upcoming Events

🇦🇪 We’ll be at COP28, and we’re putting together a public directory of the people attending. If you’re going, please head here and check the box for COP28.

👋 Many of you have reached out asking for recommendations for Slush side events - maybe take a moment to post in our Slack community so that you can meet other climate enthusiasts while you’re there.

🇫🇷 Climate Techies Paris with Plug and Play
🇨🇭 Climate Techies Zurich Drinks

see all events / add events

That’s it for this week!

Big hug from Barcelona and happy Tuesday,

Tim

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💸 new dealflow,
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📰 climate news, and
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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)

🇦🇹 refurbed - €54M Series C

📍 Vienna, Austria
🏭 Refurbished tech platform.

Investors: All Iron Ventures, C4 Ventures, Evli Growth Partners, Speedinvest

Article, Company

🇳🇴 Otovo - €40M Post-IPO Equity

📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ Marketplace for solar and battery storage.

Investors: AxSol, Nysnø, OBOS Group, Å Energi

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Letoon Holding - £20M Private Equity

📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Recover lycopene from tomato waste.

Investors: Nimbus

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Hello Watt - €12M Venture

📍 Paris, France
⚡️ Energy consumption monitoring application.

Investors: BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture fund, Starquest Capital

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Goodvest - €7M Venture

📍 Paris, France
💸 Investment products with a focus on the environment.

Investors: AG2R La Mondiale, Polytechnique Ventures, Ring Capital

Article, Company

🇮🇹 Dreamfarm - €5M Pre-Seed

📍 Sala Baganza, Italy
🍴 Plant-based cheese.

Investors: Francesco MuttiMutti, Giampaolo Cagnin

Article, Company

🇫🇮 SpinDrive - €4M Series A

📍 Lappeenranta, Finland
🚗 Levitation technology.

Investors: Born2Grow, Innovestor, Rhapsody Venture Partners

Article, Company

🇪🇪 RAIKU Packaging - €3M Seed

📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🏭 100% natural packaging material.

Investors: EIC - European Innovation Council

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Ensol - €3M Seed

📍 Paris, France
⚡️ Solar systems for homeowners in France.

Investors: Otium Capital

Article, Company

🇪🇸 Adaion - €3M Seed

📍 Churriana De La Vega, Spain
⚡️ Aids grid operators in the energy transition.

Investors: Fondo Bolsa Social, Investing Profit Wisely

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Skytree - €3M Grant

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
💨 Carbon capture.

Investors: European Innovation Council

Article, Company

🇮🇪 Positive Carbon - €2M Seed

📍 Dublin, Ireland
🍴 Food waste monitoring for hotels, restaurants & cities.

Investors: Business Venture Partners, Enterprise Ireland, Gateway Ventures, HEARTFELT

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Insempra - €2M Grant

📍 Pullach, Germany
🏭 Reinventing manufacturing.

Investors: SPRIN-D

Article, Company

🇬🇧 BOLDR - £980k Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Effective heating and cooling.

Investors: Ada Ventures, Focal, FP Solutions, Norrsken VC, Techstars

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Ventive Limited - £916k Venture

📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Intelligent ventilation.

Investors: EMV Capital

Article, Company

🇩🇪 InPlanet - Seed

📍 Munich, Germany
💨 Enhanced rock weathering.

Investors: FoodLabs, Salvia GmbH, Mudcake (prev. Trellis Road), Carbon Removal Partners, Übermorgen Ventures

Article, Company

see all rounds / add rounds

💸 New Dealflow

Currently, 140 rounds are live on ClimateU.

New in last week:
🇬🇧 Angel - 2023 Q4 (Climate Investing)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (Solar)
🇪🇸 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (Carbon Markets / Nature-based CC)
🇮🇳 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Energy Software & Analytics)
🇳🇱 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Vertical Farming)
🇸🇬🇳🇱 Seed - 2023 Q4 (Alternative Protein)

see all new deals

💼 New Jobs

Last week, 1,864 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board and were sent to our 5k+ signed-up talents.

Talents: To get tailored job recommendations via email, set up your climate job focus here.
Employers: Set up your employer profile or add your roles here.

see all jobs / add jobs

📰 Climate News

Energy

⚡️ 3 important things happening in hydrogen right now
⚡️ Batteries of the future: How cotton & seawater might power our devices
⚡️ Can a viable industry emerge from the hydrogen shakeout?
⚡️ China’s Coal Boom Includes 775 GW Of Shelved, Canceled, Or Closed Plants
⚡️ Has a solution to climate change been buried deep in Earth all along?
⚡️ Portugal sets new renewable energy record as production outstrips demand
⚡️ The Hydrogen Ladder Version 5.0
⚡️ Startup hopes its nanomaterial fuel tanks will jumpstart hydrogen revolution
⚡️ World’s largest wind turbine

Industry:

🏭 With no worldwide standards, are 'plastic credits' reducing waste or greenwashing?
🏭 Decarbonizing a concrete problem: a blueprint to net zero cement
🏭 First-of-a-kind plants (FOAK)
🏭 Podcast: Decarbonizing Chemical Design
🏭 Swedish fashion brand introduces new kind of receipt to help curb emissions
🏭 Podcast: The World is On Fire But We're Still Buying Shoes

Food & Agricultre

🧑‍🌾 Cigarette-style climate warnings on food could cut meat consumption
🧑‍🌾 Halving food waste could cut 8% CO2 emissions in Europe
🧑‍🌾 Student Demand for Low-Impact Meals Increases
🧑‍🌾 The State of Food & Agriculture report
🧑‍🌾 Unilever unearths regenerative agriculture for Knorr and Hellmann's

Nature

🌳 Rewilding the site of a massive former coal mine
🌳 10,000 oysters released on to reef to help clean sea
🌳 Ocean-based startups ride a wave of funds

Built Environment

🏠 Engineers make stronger concrete with old coffee grounds
🏠 Octopus launches clean energy scheme with no bills for householders (FT)
🏠 Unilever to share patents to tackle freezer emissions

Climate Finance

💸 Emmanuel Macron pledges €1bn to fund research into melting ice caps
💸 The 2023 winners of the Eartshot Prize

Other

💨 Reassessing the EU’s approach to methane emissions
📢 Western nations are on the cusp of usurping loss and damage fund.

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🇬🇧 Climate at Work: Make sustainability part of everybody’s job

After this week
🇫🇷 Climate Techies Paris with Plug and Play
🇨🇭 Climate Techies Zurich Drinks

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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)

🇨🇭 SkyCell - $57M Venture - Series Unknown

📍 Zürich, Switzerland
🚗 Temperature-controlled logistics containers.

Investors: Catalyst, M&G Investments

Article, Company

🇪🇸 Twinco Capital - €50M Debt Financing

📍 Alcobendas, Spain
💸 Supply chain finance solution.

Investors: BBVA Spark

Article, Company

🇳🇱 In Ovo - €40M Debt Financing

📍 Leiden, Netherlands
🧑‍🌾 Biotech, efficiency, and animal welfare.

Investors: European Investment Bank

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Cambrium - €8M Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany
🏭 Materials that matter.

Investors: Essential Capital, HOF Capital, SNR.vc, Valor Equity Partners

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Tvarit - €7M Series A

📍 Frankfurt, Germany
🏭 Sustainable and zero-waste manufacturing.

Investors: 4impact, Futury Capital, Matterwave Ventures, Momenta

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Bioomix - €6M Venture

📍 Odense, Denmark
🧑‍🌾 All-natural microbial products for farmers.

Investors: David Hollidge, HBL Investment Partners, Planetary Impact Ventures, PreSeed Ventures, West Hill Capital

Article, Company

🇩🇪 tupu - €3M Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany
🍴 Leapfrogging the mushroom farming industry.

Investors: Clear Current Capital, Coast Capital Savings, FoodHack, FoodLabs, Gil Horsky, IT-Farm, Roger Hassan, Zubi Capital

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Sustainable Ventures - £3M Pre-Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Supporting climate businesses.

Investors: Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital

Article, Company

🇫🇮 Kausal - €880k Seed

📍 Helsinki, Finland
💡 Assists cities with their climate goals via data.

Investors: Innovestor, Zubi Capital

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Trojan Energy - £500k Grant

📍 Stonehaven, United Kingdom
🚗 Charge point operator.

Investors: Scottish Enterprise, Low Carbon Manufacturing Challenge Fund

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Smalt - Pre-Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany
💡 Labour supply & productivity in the climate trades.

Investors: La Famiglia, Owl Ventures, APX

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Ljusgårda - Funding Round

📍 Tibro, Sweden

🧑‍🌾 Vertical farming.

Article, Company

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💸 Upcoming Rounds

Currently, 135 companies are fundraising via ClimateU. Investors, corporates, and service providers can access all these companies, founders, and pitch decks on the platform.

2 upcoming rounds have been added last week:
🇺🇸 Grant - 2024 Q1 (💡 Climate Education/Solar)
🇩🇰 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (💡 Climate Education)

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💼 New Jobs

Last week, 1,418 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board and were sent to our 5k+ signed-up talents.

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📰 Climate News

Energy

⚡️ How solid-state batteries could transform transport
⚡️ The struggles of the offshore wind industry
⚡️ Windeed's solution promises to revolutionize floating wind power

Nature

🌳 EU to crack down further on microplastics after glitter ban
🌳 European Parliament approves new fisheries control rules
🌳 MIT researchers have created a solar-powered desalination device
🌳 Storm Ciarán: five dead in Italy; Spain evacuates 800 as wildfire spreads
🌳 The state of the European biodiversity startup ecosystem

Climate Finance

💸 30 Women Angel Investors In Climate to Know
💸 Norrsken22’s debut fund closes at $205M to back growth-stage startups in Africa
💸 Transition Finance Landscape Report Launch

Policy & Advocacy:

📢 EU must cut carbon emissions three times faster to meet targets, report says
📢 Some EU policies ‘hinder’ climate action, WWF says
📢 What is COP28 in Dubai and why is it important?

Transport

🚎 Cruise ships polluting UK coast as they ignore greener power options
🚎 Shipping industry could lose $10 billion a year battling climate change by 2050
🚎 What could more European football mean for planet?

Climate Adaptation

🌍 A dying sport: Are Italy's low-lying ski resorts a lost cause?
🌍 Funding for climate adaptation is ‘stalling’ as need rises, UN warns

Other

🏠 Climate change forcing commercial real-estate developers to add weather-proofing
🏭 Future of fossil fuels leaves nations at odds ahead of UN climate summit
💡 Northern Spain’s cooler beaches lure tourists away from scorched south
🧑‍🌾 Emissions of food production, transport & storage

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🗓 Upcoming Events

This week
🇬🇧 Climate Techies London Quarterly Breakfast
🇦🇹 Discover Vienna: Climate Tech
🌎 ClimateTech Founders Summit 2023
🇬🇧 Scaling ClimateTech Innovation in the Corporate World

After this week
🇵🇹 Urban Impact Pitch Competition
🇫🇷 Climate Techies Paris with Plug and Play
🇨🇭 Climate Techies Zurich Drinks

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