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🌳 Last Week in Climate #132 - Slack is dead, long live Circle.
Your weekly climate(-tech) digest + new community platform + inClimate turns 3.
Tim Steppich
December 17, 2024
Hey there, happy Tuesday!
📩 Here is your last 2024 digest of everything that happened in Climate last week.
Before you read this weekly digest one last time…
🥳 You can now join the waitlist for our new community on Circle.
You probably know we hosted a Slack channel with almost 10,000 climate professionals these last two years.
It was great to read so many introductions every week and lots of people got hired and raised money through that channel. Still, there was no moderation from our end, there was a lot of spam and self-promotion, and Slack just wasn’t a good space to create the community we wanted to build.
In 2025, we want to go all-in on community building, so, we will focus on:
1) Levelling up the Country Hubs on WhatsApp so anyone can organize and join local meetups, with ambassadors running hubs on the ground.
2) Launching a new community via Circle tailored to professionals, HR, founders, and investors. We’re currently co-creating the space with the first 100 members.
All that to say, please take a moment to join the waitlist so that I can let you know first when we let more people in. 🙋
Today we cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🇪🇺 11 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 Climate jobs.
Community Updates
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🎂 inClimate turned 3 years old yesterday and the lovely Ana Yovtcheva from Climate-KIC pulled out a chocolate birthday candle at lunch - thank you!!
👋 Last week, 1,327(!) professionals joined inClimate after this LinkedIn post went a bit viral. Welcome everyone! You can filter and connect with all 14,700 members via the members directory.
☕️ Tomorrow at 13:30 is the 16th edition of Climate Coffee Break. If you want to casually connect with climate professionals - please feel free to join.
🇪🇸 Climate Drinks Barcelona #4 in partnership with Norrsken was just lovely - why is everyone in Climate so nice?
🇧🇷 inClimate’s Brazilian community is hosting their first online meetup this Thursday.
Closed Rounds
🚀 11 rounds were closed in Europe last week, of which 6 (AISTI, BeePlanet, Goodcarbon, Orbisk, PLENO, Seabound) are members on inClimate.
🇫🇮 AISTI - €29M Series A
📍 Jyväskylä, Finland
🏗 Sustainable acoustics.
Investors: Maki.vc, Valve Ventures, Voima Ventures
🇩🇪 PLENO - $25M Series B
📍 Berlin, Germany
💸 Carbon credit creation process.
Investors: Deerfield Management, Foresite Capital, Medical Excellence Capital
🇱🇹 HeavyFinance - €14M Debt
📍 Vilnius, Lithuania
💸 Fintech marketplace that helps farmers store CO2.
Investors: European Investment Fund, Multitude Bank
🇳🇱 Orbisk - €8M Series A
📍 Utrecht, Netherlands
🍴 AI-based food waste monitor in professional kitchens.
Investors: Brabant Development, DOEN Participaties, EIT Food, Kost Capital, PeakBridge, Regeneration.VC
🇪🇸 Dcycle - €6M Series A
📍 Madrid, Spain
💡 ESG management.
Investors: Angels Capital, Decelera, Draper B1, Sabadell Venture Capital, Samaipata, Ship2B Ventures
🇳🇱 Excess Materials Exchange - $5M Series A
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🏭 B2B platform that tracks, traces, and matches materials to unlock their full value.
Investors: Wa’ed Ventures
🇪🇸 BeePlanet Factory - €5M Venture
📍 Noáin, Spain
⚡️ Energy storage from electric vehicle batteries.
Investors: EASO Ventures, Itzarri EPSV, Santander Climate Tech Fund
🇧🇪 Powernaut - €2.4M Pre-Seed
📍 Ghent, Belgium
🏠 Virtual power plants, powered by consumers.
Investors: Revent, Seedcamp, Pitchdrive, Syndicate One
🇬🇧 Carbogenics - £500k Venture
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
🏭 Converts difficult-to-recycle paper waste into high-value products.
Investors: Green Angel Ventures, Kaplak Ventures
🇩🇪 Goodcarbon GmbH - Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
💸 Investment and trading platform for nature-based solutions.
Investors: HIVOS
🇬🇧 Seabound - Convertible Note
📍 London, United Kingdom
💨 Captures CO2 emissions from cargo ships.
Investors: Elemental Impact
Deal of the Week
🇺🇸 Joe Marhamati at Sunvoy is raising an Angel round:
“Sunvoy is the first and only solar customer portal and fleet management system built by solar installers for solar installers. We spent nearly a decade building and selling a solar business, and that's where we saw the need for everything from project tracking to consolidated energy monitoring to increase uptake of rooftop solar energy. We're nearing $1M in ARR bootstrapped, and we have so much untapped potential that we want to bring in partners and investors to help us fight climate change with code!”
👋 Important: If you read this on Gmail you might not see the full email. I’d recommend reading it online.
Upcoming Events
🌍 Climate Coffee Break #16 (Dec 18)
🌍 People in Climate - Community Kick-off on Circle (Dec 18)
🇧🇷 inClimate Brazil Online Meetup (Dec 19)
Got any events or conferences planned for 2025 or attending an event that we should all know about?
Just add them via the button below for our first 2025 newsletter 👇️
Climate News
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 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 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)
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 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)
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.
🇩🇪 Full Sales Cycle Account Executive (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.
🇦🇹 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,
PS: Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, etc. directly to me: [email protected]
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