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🌳 Last Week in Climate #107
Your weekly digest of everything you need to know about climate.
Tim Steppich
June 11, 2024
Good morning and happy Tuesday,
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in European climate(-tech) last week:
Today, we'll cover last week’s:
👋 community asks,
🇪🇺 15 closed rounds,
🚀 deal of the week,
💼 1930 jobs,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.
💡 Got any ideas or feedback on how to improve this weekly digest? Just hit reply or email me directly at [email protected].
If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.
👋 Community Asks
❓ Stefan is looking for a climate job in marketing & comms.
❓ Chloe is trying to find her space as a PM in climate.
❓ Shawn is seeking investors and a co-founder.
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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇸🇪 Aira - €200M Debt
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏠 Switching houses from gas boilers to air-source heat pumps.
Investors: BNP Paribas
🇬🇧 Nium - $50M Series E
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 Green ammonia.
Investors: Bond, NewView Capital, sovereign wealth funds Temasek, Tribe Capital
🇨🇭 candi solar - $38M Series C
📍 Zurich, Switzerland
⚡️ Solar for businesses.
Investors: Kyuden International Corp., Norfund, STOA
🇫🇷 GIREVE - €20M Venture
📍 Léchère, France
🚗 Open market for electric mobility services.
Investors: Banque des Territoires, Demeter, Enedis, Partech, Électricité de France
🇪🇸 Samara - €9M Series A
📍 Madrid, Spain
⚡️ Solar for households.
Investors: Green Generation Fund, Move Energy, Ring Capital, Athletico Ventures, Seaya, Pelion Green Future
🇬🇧 Fuuse - £8.7M Private Equity
📍 Lancaster, United Kingdom
🚗 Flexible back office for EV chargers.
Investors: Par Equity, YFM Equity Partners
🇪🇸 Mitiga Solutions - €8M Series A
📍 Barcelona, Spain
☔️ Science-based climate risk intelligence
Investors: Creas, Elaia, Faber, Kibo Ventures, Telefónica Innovation Ventures
🇫🇷 Decade Energy - €3.6M Seed
📍 Paris, France
🚗 Electrification partner for logistics operators.
Investors: Ananda Impact Ventures, Contrarian Ventures
🇫🇷 Sopht - €3.3M Seed
📍 Villeurbanne, France
💡 GreenOps platform to decarbonize corporate IT.
Investors: Axeleo Capital, Climate Club, Evolem Start, Plug and Play, Ring Capital, Ternel, Wind Capital
🇫🇷 Entroview - $1.6M Seed
📍 Saint-martin-d'heres, France
⚡️ Battery software diagnostics.
Investors: AFI Ventures, Etienne Hermite, Exergon, Florian Douetteau, Holnest, Kima Ventures, Linksium, Nicolas Steegmann, Rethink Ventures, Thibaud Elziere, Wind Capital
🇫🇷 Nova Carbon - €1.4M Seed
📍 Bordeaux, France
🏭 Carbon fiber recycling.
Investors: AFI Ventures, Bleu Capital, Epopée Gestion, Kima Ventures, UI Investissement
🇳🇱 Prêts - €1M Pre-Seed
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🏠 Fintech solutions for the home energy transition.
Investors: Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland, Rockstart, Rubio Impact Ventures
🇬🇧 Aeropowder - £150k Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 Packaging from feathers.
Investors: British Design Fund
🇬🇧 Octopus Energy - Private Equity
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Large-scale renewable energy platform.
Investors: Galvanize Climate Solutions, Lightrock
🇩🇪 Volocopter GmbH - Funding Round
📍 Bruchsal, Germany
🚗 Urban air mobility.
Investors: Undisclosed
🚀 Deal of the Week
Luxera Energy is raising their Angel round.
“The One-Stop-Shop for battery storage investments.
Luxera Energy aims to be the leading full-service BESS investment platform for institutional investors. Luxera will start with developing and selling utility-scale BESS projects at ready-to-build to generate construction equity and aims to establish a portfolio of operating assets for long-term recurring profits (covering the entire value chain from development to operations).”
Investors can access more information about Luxera Energy and all companies, funding rounds, pitch decks, and founders, via the platform.
💼 New Climate Jobs
Last week we had 1,930 jobs posted on the job board by 643 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 we can send you matching roles.
To feature your jobs in this section, just head here.
Aeco
Aeco restores peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors, and the planet.
🌍 Senior Data Scientist and Software Engineer (Berlin, Remote)
🇩🇪 Senior Peatland Restoration Project Developer (Germany, Remote)
Climate Connection
Climate Connection brings together individuals passionate about climate and innovation to spark ideas, discussions, and new connections.
🇬🇧 Sales & Partnerships Lead (London, Hybrid)
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 Stack Development & Test Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 HR Associate & Office Manager (Internship) (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 HR Intern (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Junior Engineer to the CTO (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
Global Changer
Global Changer accelerates complex organizations' decarbonization with intuitive software.
🇪🇺 CTO / Head of Software Engineering (Berlin, Remote)
🇩🇪 Software Engineering Lead / Head of Engineering (CS) - Ruby-on-Rails / TypeScript (Germany, Remote)
🇩🇪 Werkstudent:in im Bereich Nachhaltigkeitsreporting (Germany, 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)
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)
📰 Climate News
🗓 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.
🇺🇸 Hydrogen Americas Summit & Exhibition (Jun 11) 🆕
🇬🇧 2024 TTI Summit: Nature & Biodiversity Investing (Jun 11) 🆕
🇬🇧 ClimateTech Summit 2024 (Jun 12)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13) - “CLIMATEU20” ⭐️🎟️
🇩🇪 The Battery Show Europe 2024 (Jun 18)
💰 Sustainable Investing: Myth or Reality? (Jun 18)
🇬🇧 MOVE London (Jun 19) 🆕
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30) ⭐️
🇬🇧 Reset Connect (Jun 25) 🆕
🇳🇱 World Bio Markets (June 26)
💡 Climate Emergency Day (Jul 22) 🆕
🇬🇧 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)
💡 SOSC Climate Tech Summit (Oct 14)
🇵🇹 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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