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- 🌳 Last Week in Climate #113
Hey friend,
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in European climate(-tech) last week.
We cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🌳 ClimateU updates,
🇪🇺 14 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🗓 Events & Meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 1,751 jobs by 677 employers.
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💚 Community Updates
Last week, 108 new members joined ClimateU, including:
Climate Companies:
🇮🇱 ClimateSort
🇺🇸 CommonShare
🇧🇷 ECCON Soluções Ambientais
🇺🇸 Emergent
🇪🇸 Nido
🇳🇱 Orbisk
🇫🇮 Scope Impact
🇫🇷 Shadow
🇪🇸 Solfy
🇳🇱 Sumthing
🇩🇪 trawa
🇫🇷 Yama
Investors:
🇨🇦 Carbon Zero Capital
🇺🇸 Cerulean Ventures
🇩🇪 Earlybird Venture Capital
🇦🇺 Fortescue Metals Group
🇳🇴 Ravnco Ventures
🇩🇪 Vorwerk Ventures
🇬🇧 With Earth
🌳 ClimateU Updates
💼 Corporate sustainability jobs can now be posted for free on ClimateU - more here.
🔥 Investor profiles on ClimateU got a much-needed facelift - check out the profile of our friends at Planet A for instance. We’ll still add some final touches this week.
🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇩🇪 Grover - €50M Bridge
📍 Berlin, Germany
🏭 Refurbished tech.
Investors: Augmentum Fintech, Circularity Capital, Cool Japan Fund, Energy Impact Partners, Korelya Capital
🇩🇰 Again - €39.4M Series A
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🏭 Carbon negative chemicals.
Investors: ACME Capital, Atlantic Labs, CSC Leasing, Export and Investment Fund, Google Ventures, HV Capital, KOMPAS VC
🇳🇱 Quatt.io - €25M Private Equity
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🏠 Hybrid heat pumps.
Investors: Blue Earth Capital, Impact Equity Fund, Seaya Andromeda
🇳🇴 Heimdall Power - €22.9M Series B
📍 Steinkjer, Norway
⚡️ Optimizing power grids.
Investors: Eviny Ventures, Hafslund Venture, Investinor, Lyse Group, NRP Zero AS, ORLEN VC, Sarsia Seed Management, Steinsvik Family Office
🇫🇮 Onego Bio - €14M Grant
📍 Espoo, Finland
🍴 Egg protein from fermentation.
Investors: European Innovation Council
🇮🇹 Cubbit - $12.5M Seed
📍 Bologna, Italy
🏠 Distributed cloud provider.
Investors: 2100 Ventures, Azimut Digitech Fund, CDP Venture Capital, ETF Partners, Eurenergia, Fabio Fregi, Growth Engine, Hydra, Joe Zadeh, LocalGlobe, Moonstone, Primo Ventures, Verve Ventures
🇫🇷 Entalpic - €8.5M Seed
📍 Paris, France
🏭 AI driven chemistry to optimize carbon intensive industries.
Investors: Breega, Cathay Innovation, Felicis Ventures
🇩🇪 VARM - €5.7M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🏠 Household decarbonization through mass insulation.
Investors: A/O, Emerge Education, Foundamental, Pale Blue Dot
🇫🇷 Syntetica - €4.2M Seed
📍 France, France
🏭 Nylon recycling.
Investors: Athletico Ventures, Bear Flag Capital, Better Angle, Edward Lando, EQT Ventures, Etam Group, Jean-Eric Vergne, Pareto Holdings, Patrice Lafargue, Paul-Henri Mathieu, Peugeot SA, Volta Circle
🇩🇪 tozero - €2.5M Grant
📍 Munich, Germany
🏭 Lithium-ion battery recycling.
Investors: European Innovation Council
🇩🇪 Enzo - €2.3M Seed
📍 Heidelberg, Germany
💧 Digitizes and monitors water consumption in buildings.
Investors: 2bX, Alexander Grimm, Gerhard Frieg, Peter Schneider, Styx Urban Investments
🇨🇭 BTRY - CHF 150k Grant
📍 Zürich, Switzerland
⚡️ Energy-dense solid-state battery.
Investors: Venture Kick
🇬🇧 Permia Sensing - £150k Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🧑🌾 Protecting palm trees from larvae.
Investors: British Design Fund
🇫🇷 TETMET - Venture
📍 Paris, France
🏭 Adaptive Spatial Lattice Manufacturing (ASLM).
Investors: rpv
🚀 Deal of the Week
🇫🇷 Qaptur is raising their pre-seed round to accelerate the restoration of natural ecosystems.
Context:
“Qaptur develops SaaS and technology for impact finance to source and de-risk projects to restore natural ecosystems, then help them match with the stakeholders who can bring these projects to scale.”
👀 The pitch deck is available to investors via Climateu.
🗓 Upcoming Events
⭐️ = favorites
🆕 = added last week
🎟️ = community discount
💡 Climate Emergency Day (Jul 22)
🇬🇧 Climate Tech Time (Jul 24)
🇪🇸 ClimateU - Barcelona Climate Drinks (Jul 24) ⭐️
🇵🇰 Road to COP29 - Dubai to Baku (Aug 1) 🆕
💡 How to Get Started on Your Net Zero Journey (Aug 7)
🇧🇷 ClimateHack Sao Paulo (Aug 15)
🇨🇦 Climate Change AI Summer School (Aug 12)
🇬🇧 Cambridge Tech Week 2024 (Sep 1)
🇮🇹 International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17) ⭐️
🇬🇧 THE HEAT by Voyagers (Sep 20) - “FRIENDOFCLIMATEU” ⭐️🎟️
🇺🇸 Climate Week NYC (Sep 22) ⭐️
🇬🇧 How the Circular Economy can Revolutionise your Business (Oct 2) 🆕
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
💡 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Oct 14)
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️
🇪🇸 Impact Week (Nov 6) ⭐️
🇦🇿 COP29 Azerbaijan (Nov 11)
🇨🇭 Tech for Impact Awards (Nov 21)
🇬🇧 London Climate Technology Show (Nov 27)
🇺🇸 New York Climate DeepTech Summit (Dec 12) ⭐️🆕
📰 Climate News
💼 New Climate Jobs
Last week we had 1,751 new jobs posted on the job board by 677 employers. Below, you’ll find jobs with salary ranges and all featured jobs. You can head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.
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Climate Connection’s mission is to bring the climate and innovation ecosystem together, to accelerate the speed at which this ecosystem connects, collaborates, and creates impact on our common challenge: climate change.
🇬🇧 Partnerships Manager (London Area, Hybrid)
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)
Phlair 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 (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 Electrician (Munich, €50k+)
🇩🇪 Electrochemical Stack Development & Test Engineer (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 HR Associate & Office Manager (Internship) (Munich, €45k+)
🇩🇪 Junior Engineer to the CTO (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 Internship | Break into HR (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Internship in electrochemical Direct Air Capture (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Master Thesis in Mechanical Engineering for Direct Air Capture (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Master thesis on direct air carbon capture through electrochemistry (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Working Student in electrochemical Direct Air Capture (Ismaning, On-site)
Reev is an expert in intelligent EV charging solutions.
🇩🇪 (Junior) Content Marketing Manager (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Intern / Working Stundent CEO Office (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 (Senior) Product Marketing Manager (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 (Senior) Product Manager E-Mobility - Partner Domain (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 (Senior) QA Engineer (Munich, Hybrid)
🇫🇷 Country Manager France (Paris, Remote)
🇳🇱 Countrymanager Benelux (Netherlands, Remote)
🇭🇷 Platform Engineering Manager (Zagreb, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Praktikant/Werkstudent Sales (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 WerkstudentIn Hardware Integration (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 WerkstudentIn UX/UI Design (Munich, Hybrid)
Sparkmate is the first venture studio 100% Climate, 100% Hardware.
🇫🇷 Founder (Paris, On-site)
🇭🇰 Graduate Product Engineer (Hong Kong SAR, On-site)
Tree.ly is a diverse team founding a new technology venture that unlocks the carbon capture potential of our forests by bringing together forest owners, carbon offsetters and public authorities.
🇩🇪 Internship in Forest Management Sales (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Spontaneous application (Germany, Remote)
Jobs with Salaries
🇫🇷 Associate, Energy Systems (Paris, €55k-75k)
🇫🇷 Principal (Paris, €100k-130k)
🇫🇷 Program Analyst (Paris, €35k-45k)
🇪🇸 Community Lead (Barcelona, 28k+)
🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 Electrician (Munich, €50k+)
🇩🇪 Electrochemical Stack Development & Test Engineer (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 HR Associate & Office Manager (Internship) (Munich, €45k+)
🇩🇪 Junior Engineer to the CTO (Munich, €60k+)
Final Note
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Big hug,
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