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- 🌳 Last Week in Climate #122
Hey there, happy Tuesday!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in European climate(-tech) last week.
We cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🌳 inClimate.com updates
🇪🇺 15 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🗓 Events & Meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 1,281 jobs by 486 employers.
👋 Important: If you read this on Gmail, you might not see the full email. I’d recommend reading it online instead.
💚 Community Updates
🇪🇸 We’re hosting our next Climate Drinks event at Norrsken House on October 23rd. You can apply to join here. We’ll keep it more intimate this time.
☕️ We’re hosting our next Climate Coffee Break tomorrow afternoon and added more on the inClimate calendar. Feel free to join if you want to connect with other people in climate.
New Members
Last week, 425 climate professionals joined inClimate. You can see all new members and their company/investor profiles on the directory. 👇️
🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇬🇧 newcleo - €135M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Energy production from Nuclei.
Investors: Inarcassa
🇸🇪 Stegra (formerly H2 Green Steel)- €100M Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏗 Fossil-free steel producer.
Investors: Industrial Leap Fund
🇩🇪 Marvel Fusion - €62.8M Series B
📍 Munich, Germany
⚡️ Laser-driven fusion power plant.
Investors: b2venture, Bayern Kapital, Deutsche Telekom, HV Capital, SPRIN-D, Tengelmann Ventures
🇫🇷 VELA - €40M Series A
📍 Fontaine-française, France
🚗 Wind-powered maritime transport.
Investors: 11th Hour Racing, Bpifrance, Crédit Mutuel Impact
🇬🇧 Notpla - £20M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 Seaweed-based packaging.
Investors: Astanor Ventures, EIT Food, Horizons Ventures, Kibo Invest, Ocean Born Foundation, Radicle Impact, Temasek Trust Capital, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Trousdale Ventures, UB FIGG
🇫🇷 Micropep Technologies - $11M Series B
📍 Ramonville-saint-agne, France
🏭 Biological alternatives to agrochemicals.
Investors: Corteva Agriscience, Sparkfood
🇬🇧 Anaphite - £10.4M Series A
📍 Bristol, United Kingdom
⚡️ Enhancing Li-ion batteries with graphene.
Investors: Elbow Beach Capital, Maniv Mobility, Nesta, Wealth Club, World Fund
🇬🇧 PACT Biomaterials - £9M Venture
📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom
🏭 Biomaterials.
🇬🇧 FluoRok - £7.7M Seed
📍 Oxford, United Kingdom
🏭 Alternative fluorochemicals.
Investors: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Business Growth Fund, Excellis, Green Generation Fund, Oxford Science Enterprises, Volta Energy Technologies
🇳🇱 Meatable - €7.6M Grant
📍 Delft, Netherlands
🍴 Alternative meat.
Investors: Netherlands Enterprise Agency
🇫🇷 La Solive - €4M Series A
📍 Paris-l'hopital, France
💡 Training to teach a concrete profession of ecological transition.
Investors: Brighteye Ventures, Clément Delpirou, Partech, Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Vincent Bryant
🇩🇪 Briink - €3.9M Venture
📍 Berlin, Germany
📢 Helps ESG teams verify & benchmark their sustainability data.
Investors: EquityPitcher Ventures, 13books Capital, Merantix, seed + speed Ventures
🇩🇪 BIOVOX - €2.2M Seed
📍 Darmstadt, Germany
🏭 Bioplastic compounds made from renewable resources.
Investors: Auxxo, BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen, HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Katharina Klohe, Otto Braun, Petra Wörwag
🇩🇪 Cariqa - €1M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 EV solution for management, charging, trip planning, and vehicle data.
Investors: Anthemis Group, Vento, HATCHER+, Techstars, Golden Egg Check Capital, Plug and Play
🇨🇭 Swisspod Technologies - Funding Round
📍 Monthey, Switzerland
🚗 Energy-efficient Hyperloop systems.
Investors: Felix Porsche
🚀 Deal of the Week
🇮🇱 After being bootstrapped for 2.5 years, Gilad from Platypus is raising a seed round. They seek investors with added value in their field, including material science, agriculture, supply chain, and ecology.
“Platypus actively enables the pest control industry to reduce harmful chemicals in pest control solutions by shifting to sustainable alternatives and new approaches.”
Pitch deck is available on the platform here.
Any recommendations who Gilad should talk to?
🗓 Upcoming Events
⭐️ = favorites
🆕 = added last week
🎟️ = community discount
🇬🇧 How the Circular Economy can Revolutionise your Business (Oct 2)
🇵🇹 Climate Innovation and Social Justice Summit (Oct 2)
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
💡 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Oct 14)
🇧🇷 Brazilian Climate and Carbon Conference (Oct 15) 🆕
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
🇳🇱 Climate Tech Summit Benelux (Oct 22)
🇪🇸 Climate Drinks Barcelona #3 (Oct 23)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️
🇪🇸 Impact Week (Nov 6) ⭐️
🇦🇿 COP29 Azerbaijan (Nov 11)
🇵🇹 Climate-tech Pitch Competition (Nov 13) 🆕
🇨🇭 Tech for Impact Awards (Nov 21)
🇬🇧 London Climate Technology Show (Nov 27)
🇺🇸 New York Climate DeepTech Summit (Dec 12) ⭐️
🇨🇭 HackSummit 2025 (May 15, 2025) ⭐️
📰 Climate News
💼 New Climate Jobs
The weekly tailored job recommendations went out yesterday, with 1,281 jobs from 486 employers last week. Below, you’ll find all featured jobs (from companies on our new premium/team access). You can head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.
To learn more about how hiring via inClimate.com works and how to feature your jobs here - check out this page.
autarc is building the operating system for heat pump installers. They are part of Y Combinator and are hiring for their office in Berlin-Mitte.
🇩🇪 Business Development Manager:in (€70k-100k)
🇩🇪 Energieberater:in (zertifizierter EEE) (€80k-100k)
🇩🇪 ML Engineer (Computer Vision) (€80k-150k)
🇩🇪 Sales Manager:in (€70k-100k)
🇩🇪 Senior Frontend Engineer (React)(€80k-100k)
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.
🇩🇪 Forest Expert (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Junior Designer (Germany, Remote)
🇦🇹 Junior Forest Sales Representative (Dornbirn, On-site)
🇦🇹 Sales Manager:in (Austria, Remote)
🇦🇹 Senior Forest Sales Manager (Dornbirn, On-site)
🇩🇪 Spontaneous application (Germany, Remote)
Final Note
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Big hug,
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