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🌳 Last Week in Climate #101
Everything you need to know about last week in climate.
Tim Steppich
April 30, 2024
Good morning and happy Tuesday,
Last week has been busy with 18 European companies announcing fresh funding and roughly $100 million invested.
On our end, we’re in a full-swing rebranding, creating a new community concept, and onboarding new VCs as we’re doubling down on our climate intelligence platform for funds and angels.
Finally, you’ll now find this weekly update under a new domain:
That being said…
📩 Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in European climate-tech last week.
Today, we'll cover last week’s:
👋 community asks,
🇪🇺 18 closed rounds,
💼 jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.
If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.
👋 Community Asks
❓ Szymon is looking for angel investors.
❓ Blaine also seeks angels.
❓ Komal is looking for an engineering or co-founding role.
❓ Francis wants to meet people in satellite tech, insurance, and blockchain.
❓ Fred is looking for some advice on climate advisory and his career transition.
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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇫🇷 Carbonfact - $15M Series A
📍 Paris, France
💡 Decarbonize the footwear and apparel industry.
Investors: Alven, Headline, Y Combinator
🇬🇧 Treefera - $12M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Helps analyze, evaluate, and report on nature-based solutions.
Investors: AlbionVC, Concept Ventures
🇫🇮 Solar Foods - €8M Series B
📍 Helsinki, Finland
🍴 Natural protein for the global food industry
Investors: Springvest
🇩🇪 AIPERIA - €7.5M Series A
📍 Großrinderfeld, Germany
🍴 Software for the food value chain.
Investors: ETF Partners, LBBW VC, Earlybird Venture Capital
🇩🇪 Terra One - $7.5M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Large-scale battery storage systems.
Investors: 468 Capital, a16z Scout Fund, Maximilian Tayenthal, Neosfer, PT1
🇸🇪 Blykalla - €6.8M Funding Round
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Small modular lead-cooled reactors.
Investors: Norrsken Launcher, Nucleation Capital, Earth Venture Capital, Farvatn Capital
🇳🇱 AquaBattery - €6M Seed
📍 Leiderdorp, Netherlands
⚡️ Scalable energy storage via salt and water.
Investors: EIT InnoEnergy, Init Power, InnovationQuarter, Invest-NL
🇩🇪 Goodcarbon GmbH - €5.3M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
💸 Investment platform for nature-based solutions.
Investors: 468 Capital, Greenfield, Ocean 14 Capital, Planet A Ventures, Silverstrand Capital
🇳🇱 VitalFluid - €5M Seed
📍 Veldhoven, Netherlands
🧑 Plasma-activated water for more sustainable crop protection.
Investors: Future Food Fund, Graduate Entrepreneur Fund, Horticoop, Innovation Industries
🇳🇱 Solarge - €3M Venture - Series Unknown
📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands
⚡️ Fully recyclable lightweight solar panels
Investors: Daan van der Vorm, Orchard Participations, Phase2.Earth, Sytse Bouwer
🇩🇰 Rodinia Generation - €3M Seed
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🏭 eliminate overproduction in the fashion sector.
Investors: Climentum Capital, Export and Investment Fund
🇬🇧 Camion - €2.7M Pre-Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Helps implementing EV charging.
Investors: Chris Adelsbach, EQT Ventures, First Look Capital, RitMir Ventures
🇩🇪 Cultimate Foods - €2.3M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🍴 Cultivated fat for alternative meat
Investors: b.value AG, Big Idea Ventures, HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Kale United, Life Science Valley Wachstumsfond
🇫🇷 Edonia - €2M Pre-Seed
📍 Palaiseau, France
🍴 Low processed & micro-algae based protein.
Investors: Asterion Ventures, Bank of the Philippine Islands
🇬🇧 Sorted - £1.7M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 AI to sort recyclable materials.
Investors: Antler, Archipelago Eco Investors, Pi Labs, The Conduit Connect
🇬🇧 GT Green Technologies - £1.3M Funding Round
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Wind propulsion systems.
Investors: One Planet Capital, Carisbrooke Shipping
🇨🇭 Voltiris - CHF 500k Debt Financing
📍 Lausanne, Switzerland
⚡️ Leverages greenhouses for energy and crop production.
Investors: Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT)
🇨🇭 Oxara - Seed
📍 Zurich, Switzerland
🏭 Sustainable housing for all.
Investors: buildify.earth, Samih Sawiris
💼 New Climate Jobs
You can check out the latest featured jobs below and you can head to the job board to explore thousands of other opportunities if you don't see anything that speaks to you below.
Sparkmate
Sparkmate is the first venture studio 100% Climate, 100% Hardware.
🇫🇷 Product Engineer (Intern) (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 CEO / Co-founder (Paris or Hong Kong, Hybrid)
🇫🇷 Graduate Product Engineer (Hardware) (Paris, On-site)
Carbon Atlantis
Carbon Atlantis is an early-stage startup developing a first-of-a-kind, low-cost Direct Air Capture technology to remove CO2 from the air. They permanently store the CO2 in rock carbonates and are currently building up the team around Munich.
🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Electrician / Elektriker:in (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Electrochemical Test Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Head of Plant Operations (f/m/d) (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 HR Intern (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Mechanical Engineer (f/m/d) (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Technical Founder’s Associate (f/m/d) (Ismaning, On-site)
Dryad Networks
Dryad provides ultra-early detection of wildfires as well as health and growth-monitoring of forests using solar-powered gas sensors in a large-scale IoT sensor network.
🇺🇸 Customer Success Executive (United States, Remote)
Tree.ly
Tree.ly connects forest owners with companies, helping forest owners earn extra income by managing forests for climate resilience. Companies can purchase high-quality CO₂ credits, backing forest owners and showing their commitment to measurable climate protection.
🇦🇹 Carbon Sales Manager Austria (Austria, Remote)
🇩🇪 Internship in Business Development (Munich, On-site)
Transition Finance Network
TFN bridges the Climate Finance Gap via Venture Building and Innovative Finance
🇬🇧 Associate (London, On-site)
🚀 Climate Dealflow
Cer0 Energy just launched their pre-seed round. CEO Alex is a former Target Global investor looking to disrupt Spain’s energy sector.
Investors can access all companies, funding rounds, pitch decks, founders, and more via our platform.
📰 Climate News
🗓 Upcoming Events
⭐️ = favorites
🆕 = added last week
If you are involved with one of the events below and want us to include a discount code, please get in touch.
🇫🇷 Sustainable Investment Forum (May 2)
🌎 Is the finance industry ready for the great wealth transfer? (May 2) 🆕
🇬🇧 Green Populism in the UK: How Could it Work? (May 4)
🇬🇧 ClimateImpact Summit (May 7)
🇺🇸 State of ClimateTech 2024 by Insight Partners (May 9) 🆕
🇦🇹 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (May 11)
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)
🇩🇪 Disasters Expo Europe (May 15)
🌎 How to: Build a climate action habit into a busy life (May 16) 🆕
🇨🇭 Zurich Hackathon (May 17)
🇺🇸 Climate Solutions Intensive (May 17)
🇺🇸 Carbon Unbound USA (May 21)
🇧🇷 Brazil Climate Investment Week (May 21)
🇩🇪 Super Climate Berlin (Jun 4)
🇬🇧 ClimateTech Summit 2024 (Jun 12)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13) - “CLIMATEU20” ⭐️
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30) ⭐️
🇳🇱 World Bio Markets (June 26)
🇬🇧 Cambridge Tech Week 2024 (Sep 1)
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17) ⭐️
🇬🇧 THE HEAT by Voyagers (Sep 20) ⭐️
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️
🇫🇮 Slush 2024 (Nov 20)
🇨🇭 Tech for Impact Awards (Nov 21)
🇬🇧 London Climate Technology Show (Nov 27)
If you’ve come across climate events or are organizing an event/meetup/webinar, please just add it via the button below.
A Final Note
If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the community as well, so that you can connect with people across the climate space and share your updates, questions, jobs, and funding news in the newsletter. We’re trying to create a central hub for all people in climate.
Big hug,
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