🌳 Last Week in Climate #105

Good morning and happy Tuesday,

📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in European climate(-tech) last week:

If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.

👋 Community Asks

❓ Giada is looking for roles as a sustainability consultant.

❓ Hugo seeks partnership roles in scaleups or platform roles in VC.

❓ Jari from Ecohelix wants to discuss go-to-market strategies with others.

❓ Roshan is looking for roles in climate risk and adaptation.

❓ Alexandros seeks LPs and investment targets for their growth equity fund.

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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds

🇫🇷 Verkor - €1.3B Venture

📍 Grenoble, France

⚡️ Battery cell production.

Investors: ABN AMRO Bank, ANZ, Banco Santander, Banque des Territoires, Bpifrance, Caisse d'Epargne Hauts de France, Caisse d'Epargne Rhone Alpes, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, ING Bank, KfW IPEX Bank, Kommunalkredit Austria, La Banque Postale, Mizuho Bank, MUFG Bank, Natixis, Rabobank, SMBC Trust Bank, Societe Generale, Standard Chartered Bank

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Lilium - $114M Post-IPO Equity

📍 Weßling, Germany

🚗 All-electric 7-seater jet.

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Syre - $100M Series A

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

🏭 Textile-to-textile recycling.

Investors: Giant Ventures, H&M Group Ventures (Prev. H&M CO:LAB), IMAS Foundation, Norrsken VC, TPG Rise Climate Fund, Volvo Cars

Article, Company

🇬🇧 CIRCTEC - €75M Venture

📍 London, United Kingdom

🚗 Recycle waste into renewable fuels and chemicals.

Investors: A.P. Moller Holding, Novo Holdings

Article, Company

🇫🇮 Enifer - €15M Series B

📍 Espoo, Finland

🍴 Fungal fermentation product to upcycle agrifood byproducts.

Investors: Nordic FoodTech VC, Taaleri Bioindustry, Valio, Voima Ventures

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Ore Energy - €10M Seed

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

⚡️ Energy storage system.

Investors: Positron Ventures

Article, Company

🇫🇮 Fiberwood - €7.7M Series A

📍 Järvenpää, Finland

🏗 Eco-friendly wood fiber insulation.

Investors: Metsa Spring, Stephen Industries

Article, Company

🇬🇷 WeatherXM - $7.7M Series A

📍 Athens, Greece

☔️ Community powered weather network.

Investors: Alumni Ventures, Arca, Borderless Capital, ConsenSys Mesh, dlab, Eleftherios Diakomichalis, GS Futures, Juan Benet, Lightspeed Faction, Metaplanet, Placeholder, Protocol Labs, Redbeard Ventures, Westerly Ventures

Article, Company

🇸🇪 ZeroPoint Technologies - €5M Series A

📍 Göteborg, Sweden

🏠 Reduces energy consumption of data centers.

Investors: Chalmers Ventures AB, Climentum Capital, Industrifonden, Matterwave Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Cellugy - €4.9M Seed

📍 Århus, Denmark

🏭 Biofabricated cellulose.

Investors: Export and Investment Fund, ICIG Ventures, Joyance Partners, PreSeed Ventures, The Footprint Firm, Unconventional Ventures

Article, Company

🇧🇪 Companion.energy - €2.1M Pre-Seed

📍 Brussels Belgium, Belgium

⚡️ Software to manage industrial energy flexibility.

Investors: Cavalry Ventures, Entourage, imec.istart Future Fund, Übermorgen Ventures

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Phytoform - £1M Grant

📍 Salisbury, United Kingdom 🇬🇧, United States

🧑‍🌾 Resilient and sustainable crops.

Investors: UK government

Article, Company

🚀 Deal of the Week

OXO Earth Technologies is raising their seed round.

Investors can access more information about OXO Earth Technologies and all companies, funding rounds, decks, and founders, via the platform.

💼 New Climate Jobs

Last week we had 1,764 jobs posted on the job board by 623 employers. You can check out all featured jobs below and head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.

🔔 Don’t forget to set up a weekly job alert on ClimateU so that we can send you matching roles.

Global Changer

Global Changer accelerates complex organizations' decarbonization with intuitive software.

🇪🇺 Head of Software Engineering (Berlin, Remote)

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 (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 HR Associate & Office Manager (Internship) (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 HR Intern (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Junior Engineer to the CTO (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Mechanical Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Technical Founder’s Associate (Ismaning, On-site)

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 News

💡 Zopeful launches "How to Decarbonize the World" online climate course

💸 Zero Carbon Capital closes €23.4M fund

💸 Norrsken closes €320mn impact investing fund to hunt for unicorns

📢 Summary of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)

🧑‍🌾 Planted launches plant-based steak in Germany

🧑‍🌾 The usage of all land on earth broken down with legos

🗓 Upcoming Events

⭐️ = favorites

🆕 = added last week

🎟️ = community discounts

If you are involved with a climate event and want us to include a discount code, please get in touch.

🇩🇪 Berlin Climate Tech Drinks (May 30)
🇩🇪 Energy and Mobility Awards 2024 (May 30) 🆕
💰 How to invest in Climate Tech (Jun 3)
🇩🇪 Super Climate Berlin (Jun 4)
🇬🇧 ClimateTech Summit 2024 (Jun 12)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13) - “CLIMATEU20” ⭐️🎟️
💰 Sustainable Investing: Myth or Reality? (Jun 18) 🆕
🇬🇧 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) - “FRIENDOFCLIMATEU” ⭐️🎟️
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️
🇦🇺 Australian Climate Tech Festival & Awards (Nov 12)
🇫🇮 Slush 2024 (Nov 20)
🇨🇭 Tech for Impact Awards (Nov 21)
🇬🇧 London Climate Technology Show (Nov 27)

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A Final Note

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Big hug,

Tim

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