Hello from Murcia, Spain!
Summer break is (unfortunately) over, the climate ecosystem is buzzing, and so, it is time to send you these weekly digests again - finally! 🎉
I took summer as the perfect excuse to pretty much upgrade everything about inClimate - onboarding, branding, datasets, interfaces, pricing (again)…
So I did not have much of a break, but I hope you did! ☀️
Today I cover last week’s:
👋 Community Updates
💸 Closed Funding Rounds
💼 Jobs
📆 Events & Opportunities
📰 News
Before we dig in and get anxious about the latest UNEP report - here is a little snapshot from my summer to lighten the mood:
Thank you to an awesome group of friends from Barcelona who came down to Murcia
Community Updates
👋 Feed: Anyone can now post on the community feed (for free) and you don’t have to start with an intro - just share insights, ask for help, post your jobs… Don’t be shy!
💬 Groups: Sector groups are live - you can now join based on your climate focus and chat with likeminded folks.
💼 Job posts: Are now totally free for employers - post as many as you want - we just require a salary range (EU Pay Transparency Act). 2,000+ jobs with salaries are live already.
🌍 Africa Data: I’ve added a first dataset of 750 African climate companies and their funding data to the database. LATAM and Middle East are next.
P.S. Onboarding:
If you haven’t logged in in a while - you will have to go through the new onboarding - it takes 1 minute - promise!
Funding Rounds
Selection of 15 European equity deals listed here. For all global + debt: link at the bottom.
🇬🇧🔋 Nexeon - £100M Venture Round
Silicon anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. National Wealth Fund led with £52.6M, alongside Korea Development Bank and Honda Xcelerator Ventures.
🇪🇸💡 iPronics - $125M Series B
Programmable photonics for data centre networking. Co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital, with NVIDIA and the EIC Fund joining.
🇬🇧✈️ Vertical Aerospace - $100M in three instruments
Pioneering electric aviation. $40M Mudrick convertible notes, $35M equity units, $25M Yorkville preferred equity, toward certifying the Valo.
🇳🇱🔋 Ore Energy - $43M Series A
Multi-day energy storage from a TU Delft spin-out. Led by HV Capital, Plural and RIKX Capital.
🇬🇧🐄 Breedr - $27M Series B
Data platform for the beef supply chain. Latitude, Outsiders Fund and Partech.
🇬🇧⚙️ Advanced Electric Machines - £16M Venture Round
Rare-earth-free motors and drivetrains for EVs. Barclays Climate Ventures, Low Carbon Innovation Fund, Northstar and PXN.
🇳🇱🌾 VitalFluid - €17.2M Series A
Plasma activated water for more sustainable crop protection. Led by Alder Tree Investments and Invest-NL, with VDL Groep and Innovation Industries.
🇸🇪💡 SweGaN - $14M Series B
GaN-on-SiC epiwafers for RF components. Thisbe led, with North Ventures.
🇬🇧🔋 Certain Energy - £10M Series A
Manganese flow batteries for grid-scale storage. British Business Bank led with £3.5M, joined by Centrica, Ceres Power and Temasek Trust’s C3H. Rebranded from RFC Power with the raise.
🇸🇪❄️ SHT Smart High-Tech - SEK 102.4M Directed Issue
Graphene materials for electronics cooling. Henkel Ventures came in as strategic investor.
🇩🇪🐟 Oceanloop - €6.5M Seed
Land-based aquaculture technology. Hatch Blue’s Blue Revolution Fund and Stolt Ventures, alongside a separate €32M EIB venture debt facility. First to farm Giant Grouper in Europe.
🇩🇪🌱 Computomics - €6.3M Series B
AI genomics for crop breeding. Convent Capital led with €5M of it.
🇧🇪🍄 MAASH - €5.85M Equity
Mycoprotein for the food industry. Ambra Capital, InvestPro, Bpifrance, Nordzucker and Tereos, part of a €12.15M package with grant and loan.
🇬🇧🌊 Oshen - £3.65M Seed
Autonomous robots for ocean monitoring. Lunar Ventures led, with AlbionVC, Concept Ventures and Twin Track. Three of its C-Stars sailed into the eyewall of Category 5 Hurricane Humberto.
🇪🇸🍄 MOA Foodtech - €3.3M Venture Round
Transforms by-products into protein. EIC Fund, CDTI and Swanlaab Venture Factory.
Jobs
📈 16,930 open roles
🇪🇺 6,180 in Europe
💰 2,195 with salary ranges
🔎 Filters are now much easier to use on the job board
📋 Added a cleaner way to track all your applications here
🎯 Email alert and matching jobs are gonna improve a lot these next weeks - more roles and better matching + salary data
❌ / 💚 You can one-click dismiss/save jobs now to get your matches to 0
Events & Opportunities
I’ll list all upcoming events here again next week - I’m currently working through a huge database of climate events and am still making sure everything is correctly tagged with their sector and location.
You can see a small subset already via the events page.
Feel free to add events too. 🤞
Climate News
I usually put together 10 positive climate news in this section.
Today, I think we should all take some time to read the latest UNEP report:
“Limiting Overshoot - Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return”
No matter what you do (or want to do) in climate, you should read this report!
That’s it for this / last week.
Big hug,
Tim ← inClimate profiles look sexy now.
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