Hey there, happy Tuesday!

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

Before we start:

I’m reflecting on 2024 today and want to better understand where/if we have helped you out this year and what we should do better in 2025.

If you have benefitted from this newsletter, the community, or the platform, or you have a suggestion on what could be improved, please take a moment to hit reply and send over a short note - it would mean the world!

It can be anything from finding a job, connecting with some interesting people in climate, or just learning about something.

Done? Then now grab a ☕️ or 🍵 and check out what happened last week in Climate 👇️ 

Community Updates

🇪🇸 Barcelona’s inClimate community has been busy with the third community hike this past weekend. A big thank you to the incredible team of organizers. If you want to join the next one, make sure to join the Spanish country hub via inClimate.com

🇪🇸 Tomorrow, we will host Climate Drinks Barcelona #4 with 120 climate professionals in partnership with Norrsken House Barcelona. My highlight of the month!

☕️ Tomorrow at 13:30 is also the 15th edition of Climate Coffee Break. If you want to casually connect with other climate professionals - this is the place.

🔎 I’m looking for volunteers to help with different projects on inClimate, from design, to data engineering, to sales and marketing, to leading different city meetups. If you want to get involved in a 1-3 months project, please hit reply and let me know what your background is, so that I can send over a project description.

👋 Last week, 234 climate professionals joined inClimate. You can filter and connect with all 13,400 members via the members directory.

Closed Rounds

🇩🇪 Planet A Foods - $30M Series B

📍 Munich, Germany

🍴 Deliciously crafted, sustainable food for everyone - starting with our 100% cocoa-free chocolate ChoViva

Company, Article

🇬🇧 Oxford Flow - $25M Series C

📍 Oxford, United Kingdom

⚡️ Reimagining valve technology for hydrogen.

Investors: BP Ventures, Energy Impact Partners

Company, Article

🇩🇪 carbmee - €20M Series A

📍 Berlin, Germany

💸 Enterprise Carbon Management leveraging value chain data to improve carbon transparency and reduce corporate emissions.

Investors: CommerzVentures, Fly Ventures

Company, Article

🇫🇷 ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard - €5M Seed

📍 Paris, France

💸 Built upon next-generation dMRV, our standard is designed to verify impact on climate, biodiversity, and livelihoods.

Investors: AENU, LocalGlobe, noa

Company, Article

🇺🇸 Everest Carbon Inc. - $3M Venture

📍 San Francisco, United States

💨 Everest Carbon develops breakthrough MRV technology to unlock gigaton-scale carbon removals via Enhanced Weathering

Investors: Carbon Drawdown Initiative, Carbon Removal Partners, Ponderosa Ventures

Company, Article

🇬🇧 Solarfix - £1.5M Venture

📍 Carrickfergus, United Kingdom

⚡️ Solarfix is a solar panel design and installation company.

Investors: Whiterock Finance

Company, Article

🇳🇱 Farmless - €1M Grant

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

🍴 Planet friendly proteins made from renewable energy through fermentation.

Investors: European Commission

Company, Article

🇬🇧 AUAR - £341k Grant

📍 Bristol, United Kingdom

🏗 Automated Architecture provides the technological infrastructure for a distributed robotic micro-factory network producing sustainable.

Investors: Innovate UK

Company, Article

🇨🇭 AgroSustain SA - Debt Financing

📍 Nyon, Switzerland

💨 AgroSustain – a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection.

Investors: Technology Fund

Company, Article

Deal of the Week

🇪🇸🇸🇪 Peter Schubert at Green Fortress Energy is raising a Seed round:

Know someone who Peter should talk to? You can connect with him directly here.

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

Upcoming Events

⭐️ = favorites
🆕 = added last week
💛 = inClimate event

🌍 The European Sustainability Conference (Dec 4)
🌍 Perfect Your Pitch: Live Reviews with Climate & Impact Investors (Dec 9)
🇪🇸 inClimate’s Climate Drinks - Barcelona Vol. 4 (Dec 11) 💛
🌍 Q&A on climate entrepreneurship and fundraising (Dec 11) 🆕
🇺🇸 New York Climate DeepTech Summit (Dec 12) ⭐️

Climate News

🏭️ Amazon teams up with Orbital to remove CO2 from the air at one of its data centers.

💸 Fly Ventures sets its eyes on technical founders with a fresh €80M fund.

💸 Family office Fund, FIGR Ventures aims to support mission driven consumer product innovation.

🚗 The pope gets his first electric popemobile from Mercedes-Benz.

💡 Europe’s 10 fastest-growing climate techs by revenue.

💡 5 mistakes not to make as a climate tech founder.

New Climate Jobs

The weekly job recommendations went out yesterday via email.

Below, you’ll find all featured jobs (from companies on our premium access). You can head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.

Sightline Climate

Sightline Climate accelerates the deployment of climate tech solutions through industry leading data, analytics, and research.

🇬🇧 Data Manager (London, Hybrid)
🇬🇧 Enterprise Customer Success Manager (London, Hybrid)
🌍 Product Manager (London, Hybrid)
🌍 Research Analyst (London, On-site)
🌍 Senior Software Engineer (London, On-site)

autarc

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)
🇩🇪 Ingenieur Versorgungstechnik TGA (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Junior Fullstack Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Sales Manager:in (€70k-100k)

Climate Connection

Bringing together individuals passionate about climate and innovation to spark ideas, discussions, and new connections.

🇬🇧 Chief of Staff (London, Hybrid)

Daato

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)
🇩🇪 Product Marketing Manager Teilzeit (Germany, Remote)
🇩🇪 Project Manager (Product) (Berlin, Remote)
🇩🇪 Sustainability Manager (Berlin, On-site)

inPlanet

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.

🌍 InPlanet Foundation Manager (Germany, Remote)
🇧🇷 Farmer Community Manager (Piracicaba, On-site)

repath

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)

Tree.ly

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.

🇦🇹 Accounting Allrounder / Finance-Manager Junior (Dornbirn, On-site)
🇩🇪 Head of Marketing (Berlin, On-site)
🇦🇹 Junior Forest Sales Representative (Dornbirn, On-site)
🇦🇹 Senior Forest Sales Manager (Dornbirn, On-site)
🇩🇪 Spontaneous application (Germany, On-site)

Final Note

If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the platform as well, so that you can connect with people across the climate ecosystem and share your updates, questions, jobs, or funding news with the community.

Big hug,

Tim

PS: Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, etc. directly to me: [email protected]