🌳 Last Week in Climate Vol. 99

Good morning and happy Tuesday,

Buenos días from Barcelona where we watched the sunrise over Barceloneta this morning while finishing up this newsletter.

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

Today, we'll cover last week’s:

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

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

👋 Community Asks

❓ Lindsay is looking for Angels for a seaweed startup.

❓ Francesco seeks feedback on data needs in energy.

❓ Claudia wants to interview people in climate.

❓ Aditi researches forest fires and looks for exchanges.

❓ Koen would like investor intros.

To feature your ask in the newsletter, just add it to your member profile.

🇪🇺 Closed Rounds

🇫🇷 HysetCo - €200M Series A

📍 Saint-denis, France

⚡️ Hydrogen mobility.

Investors: Air Liquide, Eiffel Investment Group, Hy24, Kouros, RAISE Impact, TotalEnergies, Toyota Finance

Article, Company

🇮🇪 GridBeyond - €52M Series C

📍 Dublin, Ireland

⚡️ Bridging the gap between distributed energy resources and electricity markets.

Investors: ABB, Act Venture Capital, Constellation Energy, Energy Impact Partners, Klima, Mirova, Yokogawa Electric Corp.

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Proxima Fusion - €20M Seed

📍 Munich, Germany

⚡️ New types of power plants.

Investors: Bayern Kapital, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Max Planck Foundation, Plural Platform, Redalpine, TOMORROW.VC, UVC Partners, Wilbe | Home for Scientist Leaders

Article, Company

🇫🇷 Weenat - €8.5M Series C

📍 Nantes, France

🧑‍🌾 Smart data to empower agriculture.

Investors: European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, IDIA Capital Investissement, Liberset, Pymwymic

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Unwritten - $3.5M Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom

💸 Making financial sense of the climate transition.

Investors: Connect Ventures, Planet A Ventures

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Saveggy - €1.8M Seed

📍 Lund, Sweden

🏭 Bio-based edible vegan coating for fruit and vegetables.

Investors: Almi Invest GreenTech, LRF Ventures, Unconventional Ventures

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Vertical Future - £1.5M Grant

📍 London, United Kingdom

🧑‍🌾 Building a more sustainable urban food production and supply system.

Investors: UK Space Agency

Article, Company

🇩🇪 FINN - €1M Venture

📍 Munich, Germany

🚗 Car subscription.

Investors: Toloka.vc

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Hometree - Debt Financing

📍 London, United Kingdom

🏠 Sustainable home energy solutions.

Investors: BlackRock

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)

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, 96 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.
Most recently, RiDERgy 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

📢 Strasbourg court’s Swiss climate ruling could have global impact

📢 Leaked EU document reveals plan to weaken Europe’s climate agenda

📢 Is the IRA luring European cleantech companies?

📢 European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction

📢 Al Gore Thinks Trump Will Lose and Climate Activists Will Triumph

💸 Zurich Insurance to Halt Coverage of New Fossil-Fuel Exposures

💨 Over 2,300 billion tonnes of carbon estimated in top soil

💡 Corporate climate plans are improving, but still ‘critically insufficient’

💡 Climate tech has an IPO problem

🏭 AI could add 1 million tons to copper demand by 2030

🏠 What Are Heat Pumps, and How Do They Work?

🌳 World sees 'severe' coral bleaching event: US agency

🌳 Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes

⚡️ 20 Energy Startups to Watch

☔️ Greece Invests Over €2 Billion in Climate Adaptation

🗓 Upcoming Events

⭐️ = favorites

🆕 = added last week

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

🇸🇬 Green IO Conference (Apr 18)
🇬🇧 Climate Informatics 2024 (Apr 22)
🇪🇸 MadBlue Impact Summit (Apr 24)
🇩🇪 Adapt your World (Apr 25) 🆕
🇩🇪 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)

If you’ve come across climate events or are organizing an event/meetup/webinar, please just add it via the button below.

A Final Note

If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the Slack community as well, so that you can connect with people across the climate space and share your updates, questions, jobs, and funding news in the newsletter. Everyone is welcome!

Big hug,

Tim

Can’t get enough of these climate news? Then you can follow along on LinkedIn.

P.S. If you’re new here, welcome! ClimateU is a platform and community for all professionals, organizations, and investors who want to be active in the climate sector. It’s free to join and everyone is more than welcome! 👋

P.P.S. If you want to add data to this newsletter, simply sign up on ClimateU and add any funding rounds, jobs, news, events, or questions you may have for free. If you want to promote your work, you can apply for a newsletter promotion here. 🔥

📩 Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, or other inquiries to: [email protected]