This newsletter started here on Substack around 4 years ago with 100 initial readers and finally, it’s back here again.
🧘🏻 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.
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
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
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
AI quality control for solar park construction
Satellite-based methane and CO2 emissions monitoring
🇩🇪🧪 level nine. - €4M Seed
Next-gen catalysts for sustainable chemical production
Gene editing technology for crop improvement
🇪🇸💨 Delfos Energy - €3M Seed
AI-powered predictive maintenance for wind turbines
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.
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
That’s it for this week.
Big hug,
Tim ← how cool do these new inClimate profiles look?
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