Good morning, Europe 🌳
This week we cover:
💚 The community directory,
💰 closed rounds,
💸 upcoming rounds,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
As always:
💚 Add any events, news, closed rounds, or upcoming rounds for next week’s newsletter.
🌳 Resources for climate companies here.
💸 Resources for investors here.
💼 Resources for talents here.
📩 Write us.
💚 The community directory is live
We’ve finally launched v1.0 of our community directory where you can find and contact the 6,000-member-strong ClimatEU community - investors, founders, talents, corporates, recruiters…
Take a moment to set up your account so that the community can find you and reach out.
You can contact members via Slack or LinkedIn and based on your feedback we might add contacting via e-mail or add a native contacting option.
Shoot us a mail about whether this is helpful on your climate journey and what we should improve.
💰 Closed Rounds
🦄🇩🇪 1KOMMA5° - €430M Series B
📍 Hamburg, Germany
⚡️ Solar panel system
Investors:
b2venture, Blue Elephant Capital, eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners, Eurazeo, G2 Venture Partners, Haniel, Jan Klatten, Norrsken, Porsche Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇸🇪 Northvolt - $400M Private Equity
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Batteries.
Investors:
Investment Management Corporation of Ontario
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Octopus Energy - £150M Private Equity
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Renewable energy platform.
Investors:
Pollen Street Capital
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 SGL Carbon - €120M Post-IPO Debt
📍 Wiesbaden, Germany
🏭 Carbon-based solutions.
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇮🇸 Carbon Recycling International - $30M Venture
📍 Kópavogur, Iceland
💨 CO2-to-methanol production technology.
Investors:
Equinor Ventures, Jöklar-Securities, Sjova, Value - Pension fund
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Supercritical - $13M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ High pressure electrolyser - green hydrogen.
Investors:
Greencode Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MMC Ventures, RTP Global
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇺🇸🇩🇪 Focused Energy - $11M Series A
📍 Darmstadt, Germany
⚡️ Fusion.
Investors:
Prime Movers Lab, Tony Florence, VCP
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 CleanHub - $7M Venture
📍 Berlin, Germany
🌳 Protecting and preserving the oceans.
Investors:
468 Capital, Daniel Bartus, Integra Partners, Lakestar, Silence VC, Stefan Gross-Selbeck, Übermorgen Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Rhizocore Technologies - £4M Seed
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
🍴 Symbiotic fungi for more resilient forests.
Investors:
Collaborative Fund, Grok Ventures, ReGen Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 SQUAKE - €4M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 Industry solution for sustainable travel & transport.
Investors:
BackBone Ventures, Lufthansa, Neosfer, Rivus Capital, Schenker Ventures, Simon Capital
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇨🇭 Synhelion - $3M Grant
📍 Chur, Switzerland
⚡️ Solar fuels.
Investors:
U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 Greenbids - €2M Seed
📍 Paris, France
💡 Reducing digital advertising carbon emissions with machine learning.
Investors:
Elaia, Famille C Participations
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇨🇭 Noriware - CHF 1M Pre-Seed
📍 Aargau, Switzerland
🏭 Seaweed-based packaging film.
Investors:
Ertan Wittwer, Marcel Kubli, Philip Magoulas
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇪🇪 One mtn - €1M Funding Round
📍 Tallin, Estonia
💨 Restoring degraded lands.
Investors:
Margus Kohava, Warmeston
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇪🇸 Crowmie - €300k Pre-Seed
📍 Valencia, Spain
💸 Democratizing access to investment in renewable energy.
Investors:
Demium Capital, Lantania
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Space Forge - £230k Grant
📍 Bristol, United Kingdom
🏭 Using space to save our home planet.
Investors:
UK Space Agency
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 COOKO - €800k Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🍴 Cacao supply chain.
Article, For Investors, For Talent
💸 Upcoming Rounds
🇳🇱 Seed - 2023 Q3 (🚗 Supply Chain Efficiency)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (💸 Carbon Markets)
💼 New Jobs
Talents can filter through 10k+ monthly jobs on the job board, or set up their preferences to receive our free weekly job recommendations.
Employers can join here.
📰 Some Climate News
💡 Quantifying ESG in a Startup (article)
💡 New insight on climate disclosure (article)
💡 All you need to know about FOAKs (article)
🧑🌾 First USDA approval for Upside Foods & Eat Just (article)
🧑🌾 Hooked Foods’ crowdfunding success (article)
🇨🇭 Swiss approve net-zero climate law (article)
🌳 Marine heatwaves off UK and Ireland (article)
⚡️ The stellarator and what it means for fusion energy (article)
🗓 Upcoming Events
🇬🇧 Reset Connect (details)
🇬🇧 Climate Innovation Forum 2023 (details)
🇫🇷 Climate x Deep Tech Meetup (details)
🇸🇪 The Drop (details)
🇸🇪 Impact Week (details)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (details)
🇬🇧 London Climate Tech Show (details)
🌎 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (details)
🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe (details)
🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action (details)
That’s it for this week 💚
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📩 Feel free to send us feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, or other inquiries to: team@climateu.earth