🌳 Last Week in Climate Vol. 98

Happy Tuesday,

📩 Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in European climate-tech last week.

Today, we'll cover last week’s:

👋 community asks,
🇪🇺 13 closed rounds,
💼 jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.

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

👋 Community Asks

❓ Claudio is seeking €2M investment for RiDERgy.
❓ Alexandre searches for a mechanical engineering co-founder.
❓ Carlos is raising to eliminate car trips.
❓ Sira is seeking angel investors.
❓ Freya is looking for a climate scientist.

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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds

🇪🇪 Elcogen - €140M Corporate Round

📍 Tallinn, Estonia

⚡️ Manufactures fuel cells.

Investors: Baker Hughes

Article, Company

🇫🇷 BlaBlaCar - €100M Debt Financing

📍 Paris, France

🚗 Community-based travel network.

Investors: BNP Paribas, Citi, HSBC, JP Morgan, Societe Generale

Article, Company

🇩🇪 zolar - €100M Debt Financing

📍 Berlin, Germany

⚡️ Access to solar energy.

Investors: BNP Paribas

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Exoès - €35M Venture Round

📍 Gradignan, France

🚗 Exhaust waste heat recovery.

Investors: Bpifrance, Meridiam

Article, Company

🇫🇮 Onego Bio - €27M Series A

📍 Espoo, Finland

🍴 Egg protein from fermentation.

Investors: Agronomics, EIT Food, Holdix Oy Ab, Maki.vc, NordicNinja VC, Tesi, Turret Oy

Article, Company

🇫🇷 ICEBERG DATA LAB - €9.2M Series A

📍 Paris, France

💡 Environmental data & analytics solutions.

Investors: AXA Investment Managers, Beringea, MAIF Avenir

Article, Company

🇫🇮 Polar Night Energy Oy - €7.6M Seed

📍 Pilkanmaa, Finland

🏠 Seasonal heat storage.

Investors: Holdix Oy Ab, Josh Oppenheimer, PC Rettig & CO Impact, Stephen Industries

Article, Company

🇩🇰 REDUCED - €6M Seed

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

🍴 Natural flavor enhancers from upcycled produce.

Investors: Einar Willumsen, Export and Investment Fund, Novo Holdings, Rockstart

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Sparxell - $3.2M Seed

📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom

🏭 Natural and biodegradable colours.

Investors: Circular Innovation Fund, Future Communities Capital, Granatus Ventures, Joyance Partners, Katapult, L'Oreal, PDS Ventures, Snøcap

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Loop of Life - €2M Equity Crowdfunding

📍 Delft, Netherlands

🍴 Coffins made from mushroom fibres.

Article, Company

🇨🇭 LEDCity AG - CHF 2M Debt Financing

📍 Zurich, Switzerland

🏠 Sensor-controlled lighting system for business buildings.

Investors: Credit Suisse, Technology Fund

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Alrik - €1M Seed

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

🏗 Reducing the carbon emissions of transport in construction.

Investors: Pi Labs

Article, Company

🇨🇭 Swisspod Technologies - Corporate Round

📍 Monthey, Switzerland

🚗 Energy-efficient Hyperloop systems.

Investors: ICM

Article, Company

💼 New Climate Jobs

You can check out the latest featured jobs below. You can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities if you don't see anything that speaks to you below.

Sparkmate

Sparkmate is the first venture studio 100% Climate, 100% Hardware.

🇫🇷 Product Engineer (Intern) (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 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.

🇩🇪 Electrician / Elektriker:in (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Electrochemical Test Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Technical Founder’s Associate (f/m/d) (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

Simbiotec App

Ohad is building Simbiotec App - your one-stop app for a sustainable lifestyle - and is looking for his Tech Lead. He is based out of Mallorca but the role can be remote.

🇪🇸 Tech Lead (Remote)

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)

That’s all the featured jobs for this week! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU, and you can feature your jobs here by signing up for our new monthly membership.

🚀 Climate Dealflow

Currently, 94 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.
Most recently, Bintel announced their seed round.

Investors and corporates on ClimateU can directly access all companies, funding rounds, pitch decks, founders and more data via our membership, or we can send you deals directly - more info here!

📰 Climate News

🌳 Biodiversity net gain now applies to small developments (UK)

🌳 Logging decline after political change in Brazil, Colombia

🏭 Ethical shopping on the rise in UK despite cost of living crisis

🏭 Sustainable packaging startup Bpacks unveils bioplastics from bark

🏭 Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas for the first time

💨 Warming Is Getting Worse. So They Just Tested a Way to Deflect the Sun.

💸 80% of Global Investors Now Have Sustainable Investment Policies in Place

💸 Empirical Ventures raises £8.25M for deep science

🧑‍🌾 Open Fung Initiative Launches to Fuel Fungi Innovation with Collaborative Knowledge

🚗 French Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists In Paris

🗓 Upcoming Events

We’ve added a ⭐️ to our favorite events that we’re also attending this year, a 🆕 to events that were added last week, and a discount code for Hack Summit on June 13th.

If you are involved with one of the events below and want us to include a discount code, please get in touch.

🇪🇸 Energy Tech Summit (Apr 10)
🇬🇷 Ocean Youth Leadership Summit (Apr 15)
🇸🇬 Green IO Conference (Apr 18)
🇬🇧 Climate Informatics 2024 (Apr 22)
🇪🇸 MadBlue Impact Summit (Apr 24)
🇩🇪 Watervent (Apr 25)
🇩🇪 EcoCompute Conference (Apr 25)
🇬🇧 Innovation Zero 2024 (Apr 30)
🇫🇷 Sustainable Investment Forum (May 2)
🇬🇧 Green Populism in the UK: How Could it Work? (May 4)
🇬🇧 ClimateImpact Summit (May 7) 🆕
🇦🇹 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (May 11)
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)
🇩🇪 Disasters Expo Europe (May 15) 🆕
🇺🇸 Climate Solutions Intensive (May 17)
🇺🇸 Carbon Unbound USA (May 21)
🇩🇪 Super Climate Berlin (Jun 4)
🇬🇧 ClimateTech Summit 2024 (Jun 12)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13) - “CLIMATEU20” ⭐️
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30)
🇬🇧 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) ⭐️ 🆕
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️
🇫🇮 Slush 2024 (Nov 20)
🇨🇭 Tech for Impact Awards (Nov 21)

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A Final Note

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Big hug,

Tim

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