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🌳 Last Week in Climate #133 - New Year, New Community
Your weekly climate(-tech) digest + our new community space.
Tim Steppich
January 14, 2025
Hey there, happy Tuesday!
I know it must have been tough to not see "Tim from inClimate" in your inbox for 3 weeks, soo ...
📩 Here is your first 2025 digest of everything that happened in Climate last week/month.
We cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🇪🇺 16 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 Climate jobs.
Community Updates
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🚀 Our new community space is finally coming together. If you’re looking for a job in Climate, you can already join the space. Everyone else can join the waitlist until we launch for all. Here’s the link to join.
🥾 Barcelona’s inClimate community organized the first inClimate hike of 2025 on Saturday (pics above). Thank you Pepijn, Albert and Gabriel!!
👋 We reached 15k signed up members over the holidays, wow! You can filter and connect with all 15,364 members via the members directory and soon via the new community space.
☕️ Tomorrow at 13:30 is the 18th edition of Climate Coffee Break. If you want to casually connect with climate professionals from across the globe - feel free to join.
Closed Rounds
🇩🇪 1KOMMA5° - €150M Venture
📍 Hamburg, Germany
⚡️ Home electrification.
Investors: 2150, b2venture, CalSTRS, eCapital, Eurazeo, G2 Venture Partners, Hamilton Lane, Norrsken VC
🇳🇴 Morrow Batteries - $134M Debt
📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ Sustainable battery cells.
Investors: Innovation Norway
🇮🇪 XOCEAN - €115M Venture
📍 Carlingford, Ireland
💡 Captures ocean data with uncrewed surface vessels.
Investors: CC Industries, Climate Investment, Morgan Stanley, S2G Ventures
🇸🇪 Qvantum - €93M Series C + €15M Debt
📍 Limhamn, Sweden
🏠 Heat pumps.
Investors: Climentum Capital, DIG Investment, IMAS Foundation, Mats Rahmström, Munters, NEA Partners, SEB Greentech Venture Capital, Thomas von Koch
🇫🇮 ICEYE - $65M Series E
📍 Espoo, Finland
💡 Earth observation.
Investors: BlackRock, Christo Georgiev, Plio, Seraphim Space, Solidium
🇸🇪 Chromafora - €22.5M Debt
📍 Solna, Sweden
💧 Water purification.
Investors: European Investment Bank
🇪🇸 Submer - €20M Debt
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🏠 More sustainable datacentres.
Investors: Santander
🇩🇪 Altilium Clean Technology - $5M Series B
📍 England, Germany
🏗 Critical metals for electric vehicle batteries.
Investors: Marubeni
🇵🇹🇬🇧 Arborea - €5M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Industrializing photosynthesis to expand the world's food supply.
Investors: Banco Portugues de Fomento, Indico Capital Partners
🇨🇭 Hive Power - €3.5M Seed
📍 Lugano, Switzerland
⚡️ Smart grid solutions.
Investors: Axpo, Creadd Ventures, Technology Fund
🇵🇹 Meight - €3.4M Venture
📍 Évora, Portugal
🚗 Freight management trucking platform.
Investors: Cusp Capital, EIT Urban Mobility, Faber, Grupo Lusiaves service
🇳🇱 Odd.Bot - €2M Seed
📍 Almere, Netherlands
💨 The successor of manual & chemical weeding.
Investors: Horizon Flevoland, Iconic Ventures, PolKa Capital Management
🇩🇰 Agrobiomics - €1.6M Grant
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
👩🌾 Biotech research platform for better crop production.
Investors: Green Development and Demonstration programme
🇬🇧 Mocean Energy - £426k Equity Crowdfunding
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
⚡️ Harnesses the power of waves.
🇳🇴 Desert Control - Grant
📍 Sandnes, Norway
💨 Soil and water conservation technology.
Investors: WFP Innovation Accelerator
🇨🇭 Planted - Venture
📍 Zurich, Switzerland
🍴 Meat from alternative proteins.
Investors: SevenVentures
Deal of the Week
“planetary is the bioeconomy’s industrial production backbone: the Geneva, Switzerland-based firm aims to license its BioBlocks™ fermentation technology globally, enabling the production of sustainable bio-based products such as foods and materials at commercial scale. Today, the company is partnering with the agricultural industry to turn main and lower value side-streams into high-value bio-based products starting with its first industrial mycoprotein production site in Aarberg, Switzerland.”
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Upcoming Events
🇦🇪 World Future Energy Summit (Jan 14)
🇨🇭 World Economic Forum + CSO Awards (Jan 20)
🇺🇸 International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability (Jan 23)
🇺🇸 Cleantech Forum North America (Jan 27)
🇸🇦 World ESG Summit (Feb 10)
🇺🇸 Greenbiz25 (Feb 10)
🇨🇦 Globe x Change (Feb 11)
🇮🇹 Resumed UN Biodiversity Conference (Feb 25)
🇬🇧 Net Zero & Scope 3 (Mar 5)
🇨🇭 Verbier Summit (Mar 7)
🇬🇧 The Economist Sustainability Week (Mar 10)
🇯🇵 World Ocean Summit & Expo (Mar 12)
🇺🇸 Wall Street Green Summit (Mar 18)
🇨🇭 Villars Institute Summit (Mar 19)
🇫🇷 Climate Reality Leadership Training (Mar 28)
🇫🇷 Climate Chance Europe Africa (Mar 31)
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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.
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)
🇩🇪 Sales Manager:in (€70k-100k)
🇩🇪 Senior Fullstack Engineer (React, Supabase)
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 Finance (CFO) (Remote)
🇧🇷 Farmer Community Manager (São Paulo, Hybrid)
🇧🇷 ERW Operations Manager (São Paulo, On-site)
Final Note
If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the platform and the community space 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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