🌳 Last Week in Climate #127

Your weekly climate(-tech) digest.

Author

Tim Steppich
November 05, 2024

Hey there, happy Tuesday!

📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in climate last week.

💡 You can add news, events, funding rounds, and more to this newsletter via inClimate.com. It’s free to use for all.

👋 Important: You might not see the full email if you read this on Gmail. I’d recommend reading it online instead.

We cover last week’s:

💚 Community updates,
🌳 inClimate updates,
🇪🇺 11 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 1,292 jobs at 560 companies.

Community Updates

👋 Last week, 233 climate professionals joined inClimate. You can see all 12,630 members and their company/investor profiles on the members directory.

🔗 Here are WhatsApp groups for members to meet at Impact Week this week and COP29 next week.

☕️ 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.

💼 Europe Climate Week is in full swing, so feel free to join interesting events about finding a job in climate. I’m hosting some informal sessions about relationship building and LinkedIn brand building, as well as a brainstorming session on what other features we should be working on.

inClimate.com Updates

No big updates - see you here next week!

Closed Rounds

🇸🇪 Mine Storage International - €22M Grant

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

⚡️ Grid-scale energy storages in underground mines.

Investors: EU Innovation Fund

🇳🇱 Fastned - €21.5M Post-IPO Debt

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

🚗 Fast-charging network for electric vehicles.

🇸🇪 Flower - €20M Series A

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

⚡️ Allows grid operators to share data to optimise clean energy supply and demand.

Investors: 82an Invest, Giant Ventures, Northzone, Sebastian Knutsson, Sony Innovation Fund, Thomas von Koch

🇫🇷 Hubcycle - €15M Series A

📍 Avignon, France

🍴 Converts fruit and vegetable waste into raw materials for the hygiene and food industries.

Investors: Bleu Capital, Citizen Capital, Daphni, ETF Partners, Raise Ventures, Techmind

🇩🇰 Kanpla - €8M Series A

📍 Aarhus, Denmark

🍴 Digitalization and footprint awareness for canteens and kitchens.

Investors: henQ

🇮🇪 GridBeyond - $7.8M Grant

📍 Dublin, Ireland

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

Investors: US Department of Energy

🇫🇷 NetZero - €7M Corporate Round

📍 Paris, France

💨 Biochar at scale in the tropics.

Investors: Innovx

🇩🇪 Vamo - €7M Seed

📍 Cologne, Germany

🏠 Green and smart heating.

Investors: Caesar Ventures, Extantia Capital, Green European Tech Fund, Neosfer, Realyze Ventures

🇩🇪 Emidat - €4M Seed

📍 Waldkappel, Germany

🏗 Climate intelligence for the construction industry.

Investors: General Catalyst

🇧🇪 Paleo - Grant

📍 Leuven, Belgium

🍴 Ingredients for plant-based foods.

Investors: European Union

🇸🇪 Sproud - Venture

📍 Malmö, Sweden

🍴 Plant-based milk through from peas.

Investors: Maya Jama

Deal of the Week

🇪🇸🇸🇪 Simon at SUSTEIN is looking for a lead investor to join their strategic investor in their pre-seed round.

“In everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo and assumptions of residues, specifically healthcare waste. By changing the way is managed nowadays, we produce beautifully designed and healthy to use carbon-neutral materials for architecture & construction, interior design, and furniture.

With patent-pending technology, we offer hospitals the possibility to extend from their social health to environmental health, while including a circular material to decarbonize the construction industry.”

Know someone who Simon should talk to? Just hit reply on this email or connect with him directly here.

PS: We gave the open funding rounds page an update 👇️ 

Upcoming Events

⭐️ = favorites
🆕 = added last week
🎟️ = community discount code
💛 = inClimate community event

🌍 How to navigate a relationship-driven job market (Nov 5) 💛
🌍 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)💛
🌍 Recruiters x Talent - An Informal Coffee Break (Nov 8) 💛
🇪🇸 Free Climate Yoga - Barcelona (Nov 10) 💛 🆕
🇩🇪 Climate Action hour + coffee (Nov 10) 💛 🆕
🇦🇿 COP29 Azerbaijan (Nov 11)
🇵🇹 Climate-tech Pitch Competition (Nov 13)
🇦🇿 Climate Action Innovation Zone (Nov 13)
🇦🇿 Sustainable Innovation Forum 2024 (Nov 13) 🆕
🇪🇸 Carbon Literacy training for SMEs in Spain (Nov 13)
🇬🇧 Catalyst Dinner: Preparing the Built Environment for Climate Change (Nov 14) 🆕
🇦🇿 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: 1,292 jobs, 560 employers, 59 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.

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)
🇩🇪 Ingenieur Versorgungstechnik TGA - Heizung / Energie (Berlin, On-site)

CBR Sustainability Partners is a consultancy that combines expertise in regulation, technology, and industry experience to drive circularity, innovation, and sustainable practices for businesses.

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)

Daato is a holistic ESG management platform for enterprises of all sizes. We believe in strong privacy focused technology applications to contribute to businesses becoming ESG aware, sustainable and move towards a better society as humankind.

🇩🇪 Account Executive (Berlin, Remote)
🇩🇪 Business Development Representative (Berlin, Remote)
🇩🇪 Sustainability Manager (Berlin, On-site)

eco.mio is the first employee-inclusive software to reach climate targets while decreasing travel costs.

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.

🇩🇪 QA Engineer Student (Germany, Remote)
🇪🇺 Remote (Principle) Climate Impact Engineer (Europe, Remote)
🇪🇺 Remote Vulnerability & Adaptation Modeller (Europe, Remote)

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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