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💰 Closed Rounds
🇬🇧 Material Evolution - £15M Series A
📍 Teesside County Borough, United Kingdom
🏗 Decarbonize the cement industry.
Investors:
At One Ventures, CircleRock Capital, HG Ventures, Kompas, Norrsken VC, Playfair Capital, SigmaRoc, SkyRiver Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Ripple Energy - £14M Corporate Round
📍 Taunton, United Kingdom
⚡️ Clean energy ownership for everyone.
Investors:
Virgin Money
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 Bluu Seafood - €16M Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany
🍴 Cultivated seafood.
Investors:
Delivery Hero Ventures, Dr.Oetker, Hannes Ametsreiter, LBBW VC, Manta Ray Ventures, Norrsken VC, SeaX Ventures, Sparkfood
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇨🇭 DePoly - CHF 12M Seed
📍 Sion, Switzerland
🏭 Converts unsorted, dirty PET into virgin-grade raw materials.
Investors:
ACE & Company, Angel Invest, BASF Venture Capital, Beiersdorf, Ciech Ventures, Infinity Recycling, Wingman Ventures, Zürcher Kantonal Bank
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 Airmo - €5M Pre-Seed
📍 Weßling, Germany
💡 Satellite constellation for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions.
Investors:
Ananda Impact Ventures, Anna Alex, Antler, E2MC Ventures, Findus Venture, Marcus Erken, Pi Labs
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇪🇪 eAgronom - €5M Venture
📍 Tartu, Estonia
💸 Making carbon-neutral farming profitable.
Investors:
ICOS Capital Management, SmartCap, Soulmates Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Compact Syngas Solutions - £4M Grant
📍 Wales, United Kingdom
🚗 Biomass and waste-to-hydrogen plants inc. carbon capture.
Investors:
UK government
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 Greenlyte Carbon Technologies - €5M Pre-Seed
📍 Essen, Germany
💨 Low-temperature DAC process that captures CO2 from the air.
Investors:
Earlybird, Green Generation Fund, Carbon Removal Partners
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 Turn2x - €4M Seed
📍 Munich, Germany
🏭 Renewable natural gas (RNG).
Investors:
First Momentum Ventures, LEA Partners, Verve Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇪🇪 Vok Bikes - €4M Seed
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🚗 Heavy-duty cargo bikes for on-demand delivery companies.
Investors:
Metaplanet Holdings, SmartCap, Specialist VC, Sunly
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Glowb - £1M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Solar energy and battery solutions.
Investors:
Active Partners, Ada Ventures, Volta Circle, VOYAGERS
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇸🇪 Hooked Foods - €644k Equity Crowdfunding
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🍴 Plant-based seafood.
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇰 Molecular Quantum Solutions - €600k Pre-Seed
📍 Søborg, Denmark
🏭 Quantum chemistry simulation platform.
Investors:
Rockstart, Scale Capital, Stokbro Invest
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇨🇭 Biosimo - CHF 150k Grant
📍 Zürich, Switzerland
🏭 Sustainable chemicals
Investors:
>>venture>>
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇨🇭 Hive Power - $10k Grant
📍 Manno, Switzerland
⚡️ Charging and export solutions for power grids.
Investors:
Swiss Nano Convention
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 traceless materials - PE
📍 Hamburg, Germany
🏭 Makes agricultural side-streams biodegradable.
Investors:
United Bankers
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇨🇭 Open Forest Protocol - Non-equity Assistance
📍 Zug, Switzerland
💸 Monitoring tools for digital credits for nature-based solutions.
Investors:
The Biodiversity Digital Academy
Article, For Investors, For Talent
💸 Upcoming Rounds
🇳🇱 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🏭 Consumer Goods)
🇳🇱 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (💨 Regenerative Agriculture)
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📰 Climate News
💡 CDL is recruiting cohorts of climate ventures at HEC & Oxford (article)
💡 New climate-tech interview podcast (article)
💡 10 takeaways for founders building hardware climate-tech (article)
💡 Lowercarbon Capital expands partnership with Watershed (article)
💡 The Future of Climate Tech 2023 (article)
💡 The first cohort of ClimateHack Ambassadors (article)
🌳 The alarming decline of Earth’s forests (article)
🏠 The ‘electric vehicle of cement making’ (article)
🏭 Breakthrough in Textile Recycling (article)
💨 Bayer Buys First Carbon Removal Credits (article)
💸 Sustainability Funding Sees Modest Decline (article)
🧑🌾 World’s First Cultivated Pork-Microalgae Burger (article)
🗓 Upcoming Events
🇬🇧 Building a long-term business for tomorrow's world (details)
🇬🇧 SMEs and their role in Net Zero (details)
🇬🇧 Amazon Sustainability Accelerator Demo Day (details)
🇬🇧 Should you be buying carbon offsets? (details)
🇸🇪 The Drop (details)
🇸🇪 Impact Week (details)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (details)
🇬🇧 SDGs and responsible business strategies (details)
🇬🇧 London Climate Tech Show (details)
🌎 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (details)
🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe (details)
🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action (details)
🇬🇧 Investing better - why where you bank matters (details)
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