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- 🌳 Last Week in Climate #126
Hey there, happy Tuesday!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in climate last week.
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We cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🌳 inClimate updates,
🇪🇺 16 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 1,125 jobs at 548 companies.
Community Updates
👋 Last week, 273 climate professionals joined inClimate. You can see all 12,421 members and their company/investor profiles on the members directory.
🗓️ I will be at Impact Festival in Frankfurt tomorrow. Join this WhatsApp group to connect and grab a coffee with other members.
🇪🇸 Here are the participants from last week’s Climate Drinks in Barcelona. Check out who joined and reach out to relevant participants.
🇪🇸 We’re excited to already announce the 4th edition of Climate Drinks on December 4th - in partnership with Norrsken House Barcelona, of course. You can already request to join here.
☕️ Join our weekly Climate Coffee Break tomorrow at 13:30 to connect with other climate founders, investors, recruiters, and professionals.
☀️🇪🇸 I will host a sunrise coffee and cold dip on both Nov 6th and Nov 8th for the early risers at Impact/Week in Barcelona. Make sure to sign up.
🔗 WhatsApp groups for Impact Week next week and COP29 the week after that.
💼 On November 4-8th, we are hosting the first-ever Europe Climate Week with some awesome partners. There will be 35+ free virtual events designed to supercharge people’s climate careers.
inClimate.com Updates
🗓️ The events calendar now looks pretty.
🔒️ We’re closing the Slack channel to focus our community efforts on the inClimate platform, our country hubs on WhatsApp, and events. Slack has served us for a long time, but we want to embrace much better formats than Slack to connect you all.
Closed Rounds
🇳🇴 NEL Hydrogen - €135M Grant
📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ Solutions to generate, store, and distribute hydrogen from renewable energy.
Investors: European Commission
🇩🇰 FarmDroid - DKK 80M Venture
📍 Vejen, Denmark
🧑🌾 Solar-powered agricultural robot.
Investors: Convent Capital, Export and Investment Fund, Navus Ventures
🇳🇴 Hystar - €26M Grant
📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ Electrolysers for large-scale green hydrogen production.
Investors: European Union
🇬🇧 Vortexa - €23M Debt
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Real-time data on global energy markets.
Investors: CIBC Innovation Banking
🇬🇧 Oriole Networks - $22M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Speeds up data centers while lowering energy usage.
Investors: Clean Growth Fund, Dorilton Ventures, Plural Platform, UCL Technology Fund, XTX Ventures
🇫🇷 Beyond Aero - $20M Funding Round
📍 Toulouse, France
🚗 Electric planes.
🇩🇪 Rebike Mobility - €13M Venture
📍 Munich, Germany
🚗 Digital marketplace for E-Bike subscription and used E-Bikes.
Investors: Circularity Capital, Decathlon Pulse, Parkshore Holding, Tengelmann Ventures, Vorwerk Ventures
🇫🇮 SPINNOVA® - €12.7M Post-IPO Debt
📍 Jyväskylä, Finland
🏭 Textile fibre out of wood or waste.
Investors: Business Finland
🇩🇪 Recyda - €6.3M Series A
📍 Freiburg, Germany
🏭 Help companies with packaging recyclability through software and data.
Investors: Auxxo, Benedikt Franke, Cusp Capital, Futury Capital, Martin Weber, Speedinvest, Stephan Rohr
🇩🇪 Tomorrow - €5M Venture
📍 Hamburg, Germany
💸 Green banking.
Investors: Abacon Capital, ETF Partners, IFB Innovationsstarter, kopa ventures
🇬🇧 measurable.energy - £4M Venture
📍 Reading, United Kingdom
🏠 ML & hardware platform to eliminate wasted energy in buildings.
Investors: Bonheur ASA, Clean Growth Fund, Fred. Olsen & Co., RO Capital Partners, Roger Ferguson, Vectr7 Investment Partners, vertexholdings
🇩🇪 Dryad Networks - €2.5M Venture
📍 Berlin, Germany
🌳 Ultra-early wildfire detection.
Investors: First Imagine! Ventures
🇬🇧 HIVED - £2M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Emission-free parcel delivery.
Investors: Kuroneko Innovation Fund
🇬🇧 Concert Bio - £1.3M Funding Round
📍 London, United Kingdom
🧑🌾 Microbial communities.
Investors: Ascension, Clear Current Capital, EQt Foundation, HBG Invest, The Conduit Connect, The Venture Collective
🇩🇪 Esencia Foods - €50k Grant
📍 Berlin, Germany
🍴 Fish and seafood alternatives via mushroom mycelium.
Investors: EIT Food
🇳🇴 FREYR Battery - Grant
📍 Mo I Rana, Norway
⚡️ Lithium ion battery facility and onshore wind-park.
Investors: European Commission
Deal of the Week
“GL1 is an early-stage green fintech startup based in London, co-founded by two ex-consultants (McKinsey; BCG) and an exited tech founder. We are building a platform to help banks and financial institutions move from climate insights to action by powering green finance operations, starting with the built environment.”
PS: We gave the open funding rounds page an update 👇️
Upcoming Events
⭐️ = favorites
🆕 = added last week
🎟️ = community discount code
🌍 Climate Coffee Break Vol. 11 (Oct 30) 🆕
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️ 🎟️ “inClimate30”
🇬🇧 Climate Tech Time (Oct 30)
🌍 Climate Founders Week (Nov 4)
🇪🇺 Europe Climate Week (Nov 4)
🌍 Climate Coffee Break Vol. 11 (Nov 6) 🆕
🇩🇪 Climate Tech Hardware Drinks (Nov 6)
🇩🇪 Falling Walls Science Summit 2024 (Nov 7)
🇪🇸 Impact/KickOff (Nov 6) 🆕
🇪🇸 Impact Week (Nov 6) ⭐️
🇪🇸 Impact/Reset (Nov 8) 🆕
🇦🇿 COP29 Azerbaijan (Nov 11)
🇵🇹 Climate-tech Pitch Competition (Nov 13)
🇦🇿 Climate Action Innovation Zone (Nov 13)
🇪🇸 Carbon Literacy training for SMEs in Spain (Nov 13)
🇦🇿 World Climate Summit (Nov 17)
🇫🇮 Super Climate Helsinki (Nov 20)
🇬🇧 Planet-friendly Hardware (Nov 20) 🆕
🇨🇭 Tech for Impact Awards (Nov 21)
🇪🇸 Sustainability, AI and Innovation Summit (Nov 22)
🇬🇧 London Climate Technology Show (Nov 27)
🌍 The European Sustainability Conference (Dec 4)
🇺🇸 New York Climate DeepTech Summit (Dec 12) ⭐️
🇪🇸 Energy Tech Summit 2025 (Apr 9, 2025)
🇨🇭 HackSummit 2025 (May 15, 2025) ⭐️
Climate News
New Climate Jobs
The weekly job recommendations went out yesterday: 1,125 jobs, 548 employers, 65 countries last week.
Below, you’ll find all featured jobs (from companies on our new premium access). You can also head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.
Climatize makes it incredibly simple to invest in renewable energy projects while potentially earning up to 10% annually.
🌍 Lifecycle Marketing Lead (Barcelona, On-site)
🌍 Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer (Mexico City, Remote)
InPlanet removes CO2 from the atmosphere through Enhanced Rock Weathering in the tropics. This CDR method applies rock powder on agricultural land, thereby fertilizing soils and permanently locking carbon in a way that is scalable, affordable and safe.
🇧🇷 Head of ERW Operations (Brazil)
🌍 Head of Marketing (Germany / Remote)
🌍 InPlanet Foundation Manager (Germany, Remote)
The platform for climate risk and adaptation is a location-specific, automated SaaS solution that would allow the company to forecast the future physical climate risks, comprehend the particulars vulnerabilities of the assets, as well as the necessary measures of adaptation to mitigate the identified dangers.
🇪🇺 Remote (Principle) Climate Impact Engineer (Europe, Remote)
🇪🇺 Remote Vulnerability & Adaptation Modeller (Europe, Remote)
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.
🇩🇪 Energieberater:in (zertifizierter EEE) (€80k-100k)
🇩🇪 Fullstack Engineer (React, Supabase) (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Product Designer (Figma) (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Produkt Manager SHK/Solar/Elektro (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Sales Manager:in (€70k-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.
🇩🇪 Head of Marketing (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Internship in Forest Management Sales (Munich, On-site)
🇦🇹 Junior Forest Sales Representative (Dornbirn, On-site)
🇩🇪 Praktikum im Bereich Business Development bei Tree.ly (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Sales Manager:in (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Spontaneous application (Germany, On-site)
Final Note
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Big hug,
PS: Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, etc. directly to me: [email protected]
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