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🌍 Last Week in Climate #150
Your weekly climate digest by Tim Steppich from inClimate.com
Tim Steppich
June 17, 2025
Hey there, happy Tuesday!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in Climate the last two weeks.
🌊 I was at the UN Ocean Conference last week and decided to skip the newsletter to fully focus on mingling and learning for our upcoming deep dive on Oceans.
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Today we cover last week’s:
🌍 Community updates,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🇪🇺 Closed funding rounds,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 Climate news, and
💼 Climate jobs.
Community Updates
👋 These awesome climate founders, investors and professionals from around the globe joined the inClimate community space last week:
🇩🇪 Hannes - Investment Associate @Ananda Impact Ventures
🇩🇪 Matt - Head of Impact Strategy @Klimate
🇳🇱 Vincent - Recruiter @Sustainability Recruiter
🇩🇪 Sruti - Doctoral Researcher @Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
🇪🇸 Adela - Founder @Huertos in the Sky
🇩🇪 Monika - Startup Scout @Startup Angels Alb-Bodensee
🇳🇱 Ekta - PR & Comms Professional
🇪🇸 Tasha - MBA Candidate @ESADE
🇨🇴 Flor - Marketer
🇨🇭 Julia - ML Engineer
🇬🇧 Edward - Manager of Global Sustainability @Swagelok
🇳🇱 Jane - Co-Founder @Paebbl
🇺🇸 Dale - Sr Software Engineer @SAIC
🇬🇧 Sandra - Adviser & Exec Coach @Emitwise
🇮🇳 Christina - South Asia Sustainability Lead @Cargill
🇳🇱 Maiwenn - Sustainable Procurement Leader @Danone
🇩🇪 Marius - MD @Kopa Ventures Climate Fund
🇮🇹 Céline - Policy and Advocacy Manager @Athletes of the World
🇪🇸 Jay - Principal SRE @Eventbrite
🇩🇪 Kai - Founding Partner @Partners in Clime
🇵🇹 Anastasiia - LCA Analyst @Politecnico di Milano
🇩🇪 Martin - Interim Manager
Make sure to read through their intros, give them a warm welcome, and leave a comment if their work is relevant to yours. If you’re not a member yet, you can join here (no subscriptions, don’t worry!).
🇪🇸 This Thursday we’ll be hosting our biggest inClimate meetup yet, with 200 members signed up for the 5th edition of Climate Meetup Barcelona in partnership with Norrsken House. It’s sold out, but you can still join the waitlist.
🌊 I was at the 3rd UN Oceans Conference in France last week and had a blast learning more about ocean innovation and running into members and readers. The highlight was a side event by Katapult Ocean, run on a massive sailing boat with hundreds of Ocean innovators and investors. I’ll be sharing much more about Ocean innovation and the conference soon. If you work on oceans, please make sure to add it as your focus area on your inClimate profile so that I can reach out.
📧 I brought back the ability to e-mail members so that you can get in touch with all relevant folks directly, and not just via LinkedIn. If you want other members to email you, make sure to update your profile. To avoid any spammy behavior, only paying members can access this feature.
🙋♂️ We FINALLY have a smooth onboarding process on inClimate.com (thank god!). If you haven’t created your profile yet, now is the best time to do so here (it’s free). The new onboarding also comes with updates to member profiles, so make sure, you update yours here and just click around a bit. Let me know if you have any feedback.
🥳 Reminder that we ended membership subscriptions for inClimate (check your email). We switched to a small one-time membership fee for lifetime access to make inClimate accessible to all while still allowing us to reinvest into the platform and community. More info here.
✅ We’re at 18,360 members signed up on inClimate now. Make sure to create a profile if you haven’t signed up yet!
Coming next:
Two weeks to go in Q2, uff… Three main priorities until then:
💡 Finish the new email onboarding with walkthroughs of all features
🌊 Publish the deep dive on Oceans
📍 Launch “inClimate meetups” to let members host meetups around the globe
All features I’m working on are listed here and you can suggest, upvote, and comment on features.
Deal of the week
🇸🇪 Aqua Cultured Foods is raising their Series A.
“AQUA Cultured Foods is a food technology startup developing the world’s first fish-free seafood through fermentation. Its novel technology produces sustainable fish-free tuna, scallops and more using only a fraction of the resources required by traditional aquaculture. With a focus on product commercialization, AQUA Cultured Foods occupies a unique position in the burgeoning alt-protein market as well as within the fermentation industry. The company’s mission is to mitigate global challenges such as overfishing and climate change, and feed the world’s expanding population with delicious, nutrient-rich foods.”
Members can learn more about the round via inclimate.com/rounds and validated investors can check out the pitch deck and contact their Founder about details.
Closed Rounds
🇸🇪 Polestar - $200M Post-IPO Equity
📍 Göteborg, Sweden
🚗 Electric cars.
🇩🇪 Proxima Fusion - €130M Series A
📍 Munich, Germany
⚡️ New types of power plants.
Investors: 2100 Ventures, Balderton, Bayern Kapital, Cherry Ventures, Club degli Investitori, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, Elaia, Leitmotif, Lightspeed, Omnes Capital, Plural Platform, Redalpine, UVC
🇬🇧 DRONAMICS - €30M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Cargo drone airline.
Investors: European Innovation Council
🇬🇧 Treefera - $30M Series B
📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Helps analyze, evaluate, and report on nature-based solutions.
Investors: AlbionVC, Notion Capital, Triple Point Ventures, Twin Path Ventures
🇩🇪 Voltfang - €15M Series B
📍 Aachen, Germany
🏭 Battery storage solutions for industrial, commercial, and grid-scale applications.
Investors: Aurum Impact, Daphni, FORWARD one, Helen Ventures, Interzero, PT1
🇨🇭 Jua.ai - €10M Series A
📍 Freienbach, Switzerland
⚡️ World's first end-to-end, deep-learning weather model optimised for energy trading.
Investors: 468 Capital, Ananda Impact Ventures, Future Energy Ventures, Green Generation Fund, Kadmos Capital, Promus Ventures
🇨🇭 Swisspod Technologies - CHF 7M Seed
📍 Monthey, Switzerland
🚗 Energy-efficient Hyperloop systems.
Investors: Silicon Roundabout Ventures
🇬🇧 AUAR - £5.1M Venture
📍 Bristol, United Kingdom
🏗 Distributed robotic micro-factory network producing homes sustainably.
Investors: Concrete Venture Capital, Miles Ahead, Nicolas Bearelle, Planet A Ventures, Shadow Ventures
🇱🇹 InSoil - €3.7M Venture
📍 Vilnius, Lithuania
💸 Fintech marketplace that helps farmers store CO2.
🇬🇧 Impact Recycling - £3.3M Venture
📍 Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
🏭 Plastic recycling technology which separates the components of mixed plastic waste.
Investors: IW Capital
🇸🇪 Ecohelix - €2.2M Grant
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏭 Biopolymer that can replace oil based products on the marketplace.
Investors: European Union
🇩🇪 NuuEnergy - Pre-Seed
📍 Munich, Germany
🏠 All-in-one shop for green heating & cooling infrastructure
Investors: Better Ventures, Enjoyventure Management, Vireo Ventures
🇳🇱 Solarge - Funding Round
📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands
⚡️ Manufacturer of fully recyclable lightweight solar panels.
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Upcoming Events
🇪🇸 Climate Meetup - Barcelona (Jun 19)
🇸🇬 Asia Climate Forum (Jun 19)
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 21)
🇦🇹 Living Planet Symposium (Jun 23)
🇬🇧 Reset Connect London (Jun 24)
🇬🇧 Arctic Repair 2025 (Jun 26)
🇩🇪 2025 Energy & Mobility Award (Jul 3)
🇮🇹 Waste Management Europe Conference (Jul 10)
🇦🇺 Australian Clean Energy Summit (Jul 29)
… all 2025 events on inClimate.com/events
Climate News
💡 The U.S. is giving up on climate – others are cashing in, with Planet A’s Jess Burley
I’m still not quite happy with my process of identifying the most relevant news and opportunities across (Europe’s) climate sector. I put some thoughts down here. Please leave a comment if you have any ideas.
Climate Jobs
📧 You received your weekly job alert on Monday via email if you have set it up.
💼 You can post jobs for free via our free trial here.
Final Checklist
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Un abrazo from Barcelona,
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