Good morning, Europe 🌲
Welcome to the second edition of our newsletter on European climate-tech. We hope you enjoy the updates, and we’re still curious to get more of your feedback on this format - we made quite some changes already.
We will cover:
💰 Last week’s funding rounds and new funds
🏢 New companies to check out on ClimateU
💸 Upcoming funding rounds
👨💻 New features on ClimateU
💡 Upcoming features
💼 Jobs in Europe (113)
Not a subscriber yet?
💰 Last week’s funding rounds (05/16 - 05/22)
🇧🇪 Solithor - €10M Seed Round
📍 Genk, Belgium
🔋 Solid-state battery technology.
Lead Investor: imec.xpand
Other Investors: FPIM, LRM, Nuhma
Details
🇳🇱 Willicroft - €2M Pre-Seed Round
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🧀 Plant-based cheese for dairy cheese lovers.
Lead Investors: PINC, Rockstart
Other Investors: Döhler Ventures, Feast Creative Foods
Details
🇩🇪🇵🇹 ANNEA.ai - €1M Seed Round
📍 Hamburg, Germany
⚡️ Help renewable energy companies reduce operations & maintenance costs
Lead Investors: Faber, Innopart
Details
🇩🇪 Zolar - €100M Series C
📍 Berlin, Germany & Lisbon, Portugal
🧀 Democratizing access to solar energy
Lead Investors: Energy Impact Partners, GIC
Other Investors: Inven Capital, Heartcore Capital, Statkraft Ventures and Pirate Impact Capital
Details
🇬🇧 Better Nature - £350K Grant
📍 London, UK
🐠 Plant-based fish
Lead Investor: Innovate UK
Details
🇫🇮 Sensible 4 - €8M Debt Financing
📍 Espoo, Finland
🚘 Autonomous driving in harsh weather conditions
🇬🇧 Seabound (YC) - $4.4M Seed Round
📍 London, UK
🚢 Capturing CO2 emissions from cargo ships
Lead Investors: Lowercarbon Capital
Other Investors: Eastern Pacific Shipping, Emles Venture Partners, Hawktail, Rebel Fund, Soma Capital
Details
New Funds
🇬🇧 Generation Investment Management ($36B AUM)
📍 London, UK
💰 $1.7B growth fund - “Sustainable Solutions Fund IV”
LPs: “Based in North America and Europe, and include pension funds, investment banks and rich people” (TechCrunch)
Details
Did we forget someone?
🏢 Some new companies to check out on ClimateU
🇩🇪 Clime (2021)
📍 Berlin, Germany
Helps companies to measure, reduce and offset the personal CO2-footprint of their employees (details).
🇩🇪 Palmo (2021)
📍 Berlin, Germany
Sustainable urban logistics at a fraction of today's cost (details).
🇨🇭 Frigg.eco (2022)
📍 Zug, Switzerland
Software for those who care about real impact investing (details).
…
💸 Upcoming funding rounds
A week after launching the upcoming funding rounds section, we now have 15 funding rounds on the list.
Newly added rounds:
🌱 Pre-Seed
🌲 Seed
🇩🇪 Atem
🇸🇪 Rison.com
🇹🇷 Airqoon
🇬🇧 Sitigrid
🇫🇷 Kanop
🇨🇭 frigg.eco
🌳 Late Seed
🇩🇪 Airfarm
👨💻 New features on ClimateU
For Investors
🥇 Tier 1 Investors on the Cap Table?
A filter for startups that have a “Tier 1” investor on board.
🤖 Deep Tech Filter
Filter for deep tech startups only.
🆕 Continuous Deal Sourcing
Startups now appear in chronological order - by when they were added to the database. Now, you can come back once a week, set your filters, and stay up to date.
For Job Seekers
💼 >100 Jobs
We’ve reached the first 100 jobs on the job board. A big thank you to everyone who was adding job openings last week.
👨💻 Jobs by Employer Type
Only want to work for an investor, a startup, or a consultancy that focuses on climate? No problem, we have that filter now.
For Companies
🥇 Top Investors Ranking
We added a filter for “Tier 1” investors. Filters for the most prominent climate and impact startups are still WIP.
For All
🆙 Sign Up and Admin Rights
You can now sign up on the website and get admin rights to your company page. You also gain full access to all resources on ClimateU and become part of the community directory.
💡 Upcoming features
A few of the things we are working on this week
🤝 ClimateU Community Directory
We’re now signing the first users up for the ClimateU Community Directory. We will publicly launch it soon. You can sign up already and will get access to the community page as soon as everything is set up.
✍️ Blog
As we’re writing some pieces about the data we’re collecting, we’re also releasing a blog page to follow along.
👼 Angel Investors Database
Yes, still working on that.
💼 Jobs
A small selection of jobs you might want to check out depending on your background.
Job count this week: 113
Software
⌨️ Tech Lead - Sustainable Finance AI Venture @Briink
⌨️ CTO/Cofounder of a climatech startup @Carbon13
⌨️ Full Stack Software Engineer @SunSave
⌨️ Web Development Internship (React/NodeJS) - Sustainability AI Venture @Briink
⌨️ Data Scientist @Beyond Meat
⌨️ Back-End Developer @planblue
⌨️ Software Engineer @Running Tide
⌨️ IT Support Engineer @Planet
Science & Research
🧑🔬 Cofounder of a climate-tech startup - Scientist/Engineer @Carbon13
🧑🔬 Ecosystem Carbon Expert @Kanop
🧑🔬 Algal Research Scientist (Iceland) @Running Tide
Hardware
🤖 Chemical Engineer @Seabound
🤖 Founding Marine Engineer @Seabound
🤖 Control Engineer @Seabound
🤖 Technicien Cycle Paris Centre (H/F) @Zoomo
🤖 Senior Mechanical Engineer @Seabound
🤖 Hatchery Technician (Iceland) @Running Tide
Product
🧑💻 (Senior) Product Manager - Sustainable Finance AI Venture @Briink
🧑💻 Product manager, Building LCA & Low-Carbon Design Software @One Click LCA
🧑💻 Product manager, Product LCA & Sustainability Software @One Click LCA
🧑💻 Product Designer (Mid-Senior) @Apolitical
Creative
🎨 Senior UX/UI Designer @planblue
🎨 Marketing Specialist Turkey (60 – 80%, 12-month contract) @Indigo 🦄
🎨 Product Marketing Manager @Planet
🎨 Brand Communications Strategist - 6 months FTC @OVO Energy 🦄
🎨 Head of Brand @Allplants
🎨 Senior Designer @OVO Energy 🦄
Capital
💸 Visiting Analyst (m/f/d) Impact VC @WI Venture
💸 Associate in Climate @Deep Science Ventures
Business
👔 Business Development Manager @Serious
👔 Co-founder/COO @Angry Monk
👔 Finance Specialist/ Accounting (x/f/m) @Legendairy Foods
👔 Strategy and Planning Manager @Zoomo
👔 Sales Manager @planblue
👔 Sustainability Markets Analyst @Wildlife Works
👔 Project Finance Manager (f/m/d, 80-100%) @Climeworks
Talent
🙋 Office & Culture Manager (m/f/x) @Legendairy Foods
🙋 HR Coordinator @Lime
🙋 Head of People Experience @Connecting Good Limited
🙋 Senior HR Business Partner (w/m/d, 80-100%) @Climeworks
🙋 Working Student, Recruiting @Planet
🙋 Recruiting Coordinator, Operations and Customer Experience @Lime
📢 Final Shoutout
A big thank you this week goes to everyone who is helping out with adding job postings, making investor introductions, and beta testing the community page for us.
Enjoyed this newsletter?
We’re still at the beginning of our journey with ClimateU and your feedback is priceless. So, if you enjoy these public resources and know someone else who could benefit from them (or provide feedback), then please share this newsletter with them.
📩 Feel free to send us feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, or other inquiries to: tim@climateu.earth.