🧘🏻 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?

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📩 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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Upcoming Events

🇮🇹 Waste Management Europe Conference (Jul 10)
🇦🇺 Australian Clean Energy Summit (Jul 29)

… all 2025 events are listed on inClimate.com/events

View / Add Events

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

Climate Jobs

📧 You received your weekly job alert on Monday via email if you have set it up.

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

Post Jobs

Final Checklist

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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

See All Rounds

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Upcoming Events

🇬🇧 Arctic Repair 2025 (Jun 26)
🇩🇪 2025 Energy & Mobility Award (Jul 3)
🇮🇹 Waste Management Europe Conference (Jul 10)
🇦🇺 Australian Clean Energy Summit (Jul 29)

… all 2025 events on inClimate.com/events

View / Add Events

Climate News

🌳 ERS Acquires Equitable Earth To Advance High‑Quality Community‑Led Forest Conservation Projects

💸 Australian institutions backing $50m climate-tech VC fund

💸 US borrowers opt for ‘greenhushing’ of bond sales under Trump

☔️ UK commits £8bn in flood defences over the next decade

⚡️ Spain says April blackout was caused by grid failures and poor planning, not renewables

⚡️ EIB backs Spain-France power link with 1.6 billion euros

⚡️ De-Risking the Clean Energy Transition: Opportunities and Principles for Subnational Actors

💡 How big is the generational divide on climate change?

💡 Pangaea Ventures’ “The Hard Tech Report”

💡 Can You Choose an A.I. Model That Harms the Planet Less?

I’m not happy with my process of identifying the most relevant news and opportunities across the climate sector. I put some thoughts down here. Leave a comment if you have any ideas.

Add News for Next Week

Climate Jobs

📧 You received your weekly job alert on Monday via email if you have set it up.

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

Post Jobs

Final Checklist

✅ Create your profile on inClimate

✅ Join the community space

✅ Leave feedback or ideas here

✅ Post your open roles

✅ Share this newsletter with a friend 👇

Un abrazo from Barcelona,

Tim