🌳 Last Week in Climate #110

Your weekly digest of everything you need to know about climate.

Author

Tim Steppich
July 02, 2024

Hey friend, happy Tuesday!

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

We'll cover last week’s

💚 Community updates,
🌳 Website updates,
🇪🇺 21 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
💼 2,041 jobs by 621 employers,
📰 News, and
🗓 Events.

💡 Got any ideas or feedback on how to improve this weekly digest? Just email me at [email protected] or hit reply.

👋 Community Updates

Last week, 135 new members joined ClimateU, including the founders, recruiters, and teams of:

🇫🇷 Carbometrix
🇩🇪 chargeIQ
🇩🇪 Circunomics
🇳🇱 coastruction
🇸🇪 CorPower Ocean
🇲🇰 EarthCare.ai
🇫🇷 EDF
🇫🇷 ERS
🇮🇱 EVA Greentech
🇺🇸 Everest Carbon Inc.
🇮🇸 GreenBytes
🇩🇪 Hytra
🇬🇧 Kelpi
🇦🇹 Necture
🇳🇱 Ore Energy
🇩🇪 Planet A Ventures
🇳🇱 Proba
🇩🇪 reev GmbH
🇩🇪 SEMIL GREEN WEB UG
🇫🇷 Tilt Energy

We’re also finally hosting our first Climate Drinks at Norrsken House Barcelona on July 24th. You can sign up here.

You can view and contact all new members via the community directory.

🌳 ClimateU Updates

What’s new?

🔎 We documented our thoughts on community building and would like to share them with you to get your input as we’re rethinking the best ways to connect you all with one another. You can read it all here and add comments if you have a moment to help us out.

What are we working on this week?

✏️ We’re documenting everything we’ve been doing these past two years - why we do what we do, who this is for, what we’ve built, how you can use it all and where we’re still struggling. We’ll share it all with you next week.

💚 We’re putting together a way to collect feedback and testimonials from you guys. We’ve been doing a pretty bad job at tracking our impact and success cases these past two years. If ClimateU has helped you in any way, I’d love it if you could hit reply and tell me a bit about it.

🇪🇺 Closed Rounds

🇬🇧 char.gy - £100M Series C

📍 London, United Kingdom

🚗 Public charging networks.

Investors: Zouk Capital

🇨🇭 neustark - $69M Venture

📍 Berne, Switzerland

💨 Mineralizes CO₂ in demolished concrete aggregate.

Investors: ACE Ventures, Blume Equity, Decarbonization Partners, Holcim, Siemens Financial Services, Verve Ventures

🇦🇹 Prewave - €63M Series B

📍 Vienna, Austria

🚗 Supplier monitoring for sustainability managers.

Investors: Creandum, Hedosophia, KOMPAS VC, Speedinvest, Ventech, Working Capital

🇨🇭 SkyCell - $59M Series D

📍 Zürich, Switzerland

🚗 Sustainable temperature controlled logistics containers for pharma.

Investors: CC Industries, Tybourne Capital Management

🇬🇧 Be.EV - £55M Debt Financing

📍 Manchester, United Kingdom

🚗 EV charging network.

Investors: KfW IPEX Bank, NatWest, Octopus Energy generation

🇳🇱 Fastned - €32.9M Post-IPO Debt

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

🚗 Fast-charging network for electric vehicles.

🇩🇪 LiveEO - €25M Series B

📍 Berlin, Germany

💡 Real-time earth observation application.

Investors: DeepTech & Climate Fonds, DvH Ventures, Hannover Digital Investments, Helen Ventures, Matterwave Ventures, MMC Ventures, Motu Ventures, NordicNinja VC, Segenia Capital

🇬🇧 Solus Power - £22M Venture

📍 London, United Kingdom

🚗 Off-grid DC-to-DC charging and storage solutions.

Investors: Petra Capital Partners

🇨🇭 Libattion - €14M Venture

📍 Glattbrugg, Switzerland

⚡️ Upcycled energy storage systems for industry and utility.

Investors: A&G Energy Transition Tech Fund, EBL, HCapital Partners, Teknia Group

🇬🇧 Climate X - £14M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom

☔️ Climate data and analytics.

Investors: A/O, Blue Wire Capital, CommerzVentures, Google Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, PT1, Unconventional Ventures, Western Technology Investment

🇦🇹 Vertus Energy - €8.8M Seed

📍 Vienna, Austria

🚗 Transforming waste into energy.

Investors: Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, Aussie Angels, Blackbird Ventures, Energy Capital Ventures

🇩🇪 Vytal - €6.2M Venture - Series Unknown

📍 Cologne, Germany

🏭 Reusable Packaging-as-a-Service.

Investors: Chi Impact Capital, Emerald Technology Ventures, Grazia Equity, Kiko Ventures, Rubio Impact Ventures, VENTIS CAPITAL

🇧🇪 Sirona Technologies - €6M Seed

📍 Brussels, Belgium

💨 Direct air capture.

Investors: Bernard Hazard, LocalGlobe, Look Up Ventures, Renaud Visage, Satgana, Syndicate One, VOYAGERS, XAnge

🇸🇪 Net Zero Company - €5.1M Seed

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

💸 Tokenised carbon removal.

Investors: Oilinvest Group, SilviCarbon, Varo Energy

🇬🇧 Zeti - £5M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom

🚗 Converting fleets to EV.

Investors: HYCAP

🇫🇷 VoltR - €4M Seed

📍 Nantes, France

⚡️ Restoring lithium batteries.

Investors: Anjou Amorcage, C4 Ventures, Exergon, Pays de la Loire Participations

🇪🇸 MOA Foodtech - €3M Series A

📍 Pamplona, Spain

🍴 Transforms by-products into protein.

Investors: Banco Sabadell, Clave Mayor, ICOS Capital Management, SODENA, Viscofan

🇱🇺 IBISA NETWORK - $3M Seed

📍 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

☔️ Weather protection insurance solutions for agriculture.

Investors: Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund, ADB Ventures, Ankur Capital, Equator

🇫🇷 Estuaire - €2.2M Seed

📍 Paris, France

🚗 Helping aviation reduce emissions.

Investors: AFI Ventures, Safran Corporate Ventures, Satgana, XAnge

🇭🇺 Scoutlabs - $2M Seed

📍 Budapest, Hungary

🧑‍🌾 Helping farmers prevent pest populations.

Investors: DEPO Ventures, Impact Ventures Hungary, Interactive Venture Partners, SVG Ventures

🇬🇧 Heatio - £2M Seed

📍 Liverpool, United Kingdom

⚡️ Affordable renewable energy to homeowners.

Investors: Ascension, Baltic Ventures, LYVA Labs, Neil Norman, SyndicateRoom, The Conduit Connect

🚀 Deal of the Week

EarthCare.ai is raising their pre-seed round.

“We're live with our MVP, with successful pilots in Insurance. Now looking for pre-seed B2B investors with experience in climate, cleantech, earth observation, insurance or finance industries. $300,000 is already committed in the round. We're registered in Delaware and HQ in N. Macedonia.”

Investors can access more information about EarthCare.ai, their pitch deck on Docsend, and all other climate companies, funding rounds, pitch decks, and founders, via the platform.

💼 New Climate Jobs

Last week we had 2,041 jobs posted on the job board by 621 employers. Below, you’ll find all jobs with salary ranges and all featured jobs. You can head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.

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🌍 GIS Specialist and Software Engineer (Berlin, €60k-90k)
🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Ismaning, €60k+)
🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 Electrician (Munich, €50k+)
🇩🇪 Electrochemical Stack Development & Test Engineer (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 HR Associate & Office Manager (Internship) (Ismaning, €45k+)
🇩🇪 Internship | Break into HR (Ismaning, €45k+)
🇩🇪 Junior Engineer to the CTO (Ismaning, €60k+)
🇬🇧 Sales & Partnerships Lead (London, £40k-80k)
🇪🇺 CTO / Head of Software Engineering (Berlin, €80k-100k)
🇪🇸 Community Lead (Barcelona, 28k+)
🇪🇺 Graduate Product Engineer (Hardware) (Paris, $50k-60k)
🇫🇷 Product Engineer (Intern) (Paris, €1k-1k)
🇬🇧 Head of Engineering (London, £85k+)

Aeco

Aeco restores peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors, and the planet.

🌍 Senior Data Scientist and Software Engineer (Berlin, Remote, €60-90K)
🇩🇪 Senior Peatland Restoration Project Developer (Germany, Remote)

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.

🇩🇪 HR Associate & Office Manager (Internship) (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Master thesis on DAC through electrochemistr (Munich, On-site)

Global Changer

Global Changer accelerates complex organizations' decarbonization with intuitive software.

Noriware

Noriware created a seaweed-based packaging film that is entirely composed of natural materials.

🇨🇭 Polymer Scientist (Lupfig, On-site)
🇨🇭 Process Development Engineer (Lupfig, On-site)
🇨🇭 Research and Development Intern (Lupfig, On-site)

Norrsken Barcelona

Norrsken Barcelona is building Europe’s largest hub for impact startups.

🇪🇸 Community Lead (Barcelona, On-site, €28k)

Reev

Reev is an expert in intelligent EV charging solutions.

🇩🇪 (Junior) Inside Sales Manager eMobility (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 (Senior) Product Manager E-Mobility - Customer Domain (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 (Senior) QA Engineer (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Controlling and FP&A Manager (Munich, Hybrid)
🇫🇷 Country Manager France (Greater Paris Metropolitan Region, Remote)
🇳🇱 Countrymanager Benelux (Netherlands, Remote)
🇭🇷 Platform Engineering Manager (Zagreb, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Senior Fullstack Engineer (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Team Lead Customer Support (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Visual Communication Designer (Munich, Hybrid)

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)

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

📰 Climate News

🗓 Upcoming Events

⭐️ = favorites
🆕 = added last week
🎟️ = community discount

🇵🇹 Sustainable Seas - Integrating Ocean & Food Tech (Jul 4)
🇳🇱 Bees, Pollinators, and Biodiversity (Jul 10) 🆕
💡 Climate Emergency Day (Jul 22)
 🇪🇸 Climate Drinks - Barcelona Edition (Jul 24) ⭐️🆕
💡 Lunch and Learn: How to Get Started on Your Net Zero Journey (Aug 7)
🇬🇧 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)
💡 SOSV 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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