Good morning, Europe 🌲
$524M has been invested in 16 European climate-tech startups last week.
👋 Welcome to our 2,000th Slack community member.
💼 We now have over 11,000 jobs live on the job board.
Deals last week:
⚡️ Energy x6
🚎 Transport x4
🏠 Building(s) x3
🧑🌾 Food & Agriculture x2
💡 Climate Intelligence x1
💨 Carbon Removal x1
💸 Climate Finance x1
🌳 Nature x1
Today we’ll cover:
💰 16 closed funding rounds,
💸 6 upcoming rounds,
💵 Climate news, and
💼 11,000+ jobs on our job board.
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💰 Closed Funding Rounds
🇧🇬 AMPECO - $13M Series A
📍 Sofia, Bulgaria
🚗 EV charging management platform.
Investors:
BMW i Ventures, Cavalry Ventures, LAUNCHub Ventures
🇬🇧 Entocycle - €5M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
🦗 Insect protein.
Investors:
ACE & Company, Antoine Brizard, Antoine Dupont, Climentum Capital, James Haskell, Lowercarbon Capital, Nikola Karabatic, Teampact ventures
🇸🇰 FUERGY - €16M Venture
📍 Bratislava, Slovakia
⚡️ Energy storage mgmt. & optimization.
Investors:
ProPartners
🇦🇹 Gropyus - €100M Series B
📍 Vienna, Austria
🏠 Sustainable living for everyone.
Investors:
FAM AB, Vonovia
🇩🇪 INERATEC - Venture
📍 Karlsruhe, Germany
⛽️ E-fuels.
Investors:
ENGIE New Ventures, FO Holding, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Honda Motor, MPC Capital, Planet A Ventures, Safran Corporate Ventures
🇩🇰 Kanpla - €2M Seed
📍 Aarhus, Denmark
🍴 Food waste.
Investors:
henQ
🇬🇧 Kuva Systems - $11M Series A
📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom
💡 Methane & VOC monitoring and quantification.
Investors:
Clean Energy Venture Group, Climate Innovation Capital, Dräger, LaunchPad Ventures
🇦🇹 neoom - €23M Series B
📍 Freistadt, Austria
🔋 Energy storage.
Investors:
Allinvest Unternehmensbeteiligungs GmbH, ALTERDYNE ENERGY, APEX Invest, Chi Impact Capital, HR Holding, ING Sustainable Investments, KREISEL Ventures, Summiteer + Angels
🇬🇧 Neverwaste - £2M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🪵 Alternative to wood-based panels.
Investors:
Elbow Beach Capital, The Future Fund
🇬🇧 Onto - £100M Debt
📍 Warwick, United Kingdom
🚗 Electric car subscription.
Investors:
Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Pollen Street Capital
🇳🇴 Otovo - $130M Post-IPO Equity + Debt
📍 Oslo, Norway
☀️ Solar panels for your roof.
Investors:
DNB, SpareBank 1 SR-Bank
🇫🇷 Renaissance Fusion - €15M Seed
📍 Fontaine, France
☢️ Fusion technology.
Investors:
HCVC, Lowercarbon Capital, Norrsken VC, Positron Ventures
🇿🇦🇩🇪 Senken - $8M Seed
📍 Berlin & Cape Town
💸 Climate finance trading platform.
Investors:
Climate Capital, Inflection, Kraken Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Offline Ventures
🇩🇪 tado° - €43M Venture
📍 Munich, Germany
🏠 Intelligent home climate management.
Investors:
Bayern Kapital, Kiko Ventures, Noventic, Swisscanto Private Equity, Target Partners, Trill Impact, Zürcher Kantonal Bank
🇩🇪 Aedifion - €12M Series A
📍 Cologne, Germany
🏠 Reduce commercial buildings’ energy use.
Investors:
Bauwens Digital, BeyondBuild, BitStone Capital, Drees & Sommer AG, MOMENI Ventures, Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures, World Fund
🇩🇪 Refuel Green - €1M Pre-Seed
📍 Dresden, Germany
⛽️ Reducing the production cost of e-fuels.
Investors:
High-Tech Grunderfonds, TGFS
💸 6 Upcoming funding rounds
🌱 Pre-Seed
🇩🇪 Nadar - Q1 2023 (details)
🇮🇱 Vert - Q1 2023 (details)
🌲 Seed
🇩🇪 encentive - Q2 2023 (details)
🇬🇧 Preoptima Ltd - Q1 2024 (details)
🇧🇬 uIMPACT - Q1 2023 (details)
🇩🇪 Callirius AG - Q1 2023 (details)
📰 Climate News
💨 Carbon removal should receive more funding (article)
🔋 Energy storage company Britishvolt went bankrupt (article)
🏭 A steelmaking breakthrough for decarbonization (article)
🚗 First ammonia-powered, zero-emission semi-truck (article)
🇪🇺 Does Europe need a climate tech plan? (article)
🇵🇹 PepsiCo invests in biodigester (article)
💨 Minus CO2 factories (article)
💸 New £242m Smart Protein Fund (article)
💼 Climate Jobs in Europe
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