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🌳 Last Week in Climate #135 - Solar overtakes coal in EU
Your weekly climate(-tech) digest.
Tim Steppich
January 29, 2025
Hey there, happy Wednesday!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in Climate last week.
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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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Closed Rounds
🇩🇪 Bees & Bears - €500M Debt
📍 Berlin, Germany
💸 The financier of green hardware
🇬🇧 Aegis Energy - £100M Venture
📍 Wakefield, United Kingdom
🚗 UK-based energy infrastructure startup
Investors: Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners
🇬🇧 Domna - £70M Private Equity
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Domna provides retrofit assessment software that predicts works programme, maximising energy efficiency services to housing properties.
Investors: Leon Capital
🇬🇧 Forest - €15.3M Series B
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 eBikes.
Investors: Fintex Capital
🇩🇪 PROJECT EADEN - €15M Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany
🍴 Technologies for the production of sustainable food and meat alternatives.
Investors: BayWa Venture, Creandum, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, FoodLabs, Happiness Capital, Planet A Ventures, Rewe Group
🇩🇪 Green Fusion - €12M Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Optimisation of energy systems in residential real estate.
Investors: BitStone Capital, Brandenburg Kapital, HV Capital, kopa ventures, Vireo Ventures, XAnge, Übermorgen Ventures
🇬🇧 StormHarvester - £8.4M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
☔️ Links civil infrastructure to a weather forecasting platform.
Investors: Emerald Technology Ventures, YFM Equity Partners
🇩🇪 ENAPI - €7.5M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 Connectivity in EV charging.
Investors: Hello World, Project A Ventures, Seedcamp, Voyager Ventures
🇨🇭 Voltiris - CHF 4.8M Seed
📍 Lausanne, Switzerland
⚡️ Leverages greenhouses for energy and crop production.
Investors: 3M New Ventures, EquityPitcher Ventures
🇩🇪 ScrapBees GmbH - €4M Seed
📍 Neuss, Germany
🏭 Covering the first mile in reverse logistics.
Investors: BonVenture, EIT RawMaterials, Faraday Venture Partners, NRW.BANK
🇳🇱 Chapter - €3M Venture - Series Unknown
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
⚡️ AI solutions that streamline workflows for renewable energy enterprises.
Investors: CapitalT, Rubio Impact Ventures
🇪🇪 Fusebox - €2.6M Venture
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
⚡️ Platform for managing and trading of electrical flexibility.
Investors: Eneco Ventures, PKO BP, SmartCap, Soulmates Ventures
🇫🇷 Alteva - €1.7M Pre-Seed
📍 Coulogne, France
⚡️ Ultralight batteries for decarbonization of transportation.
Investors: Daniel Gurdan, HTGF, Jan Stumpf, Michael Achtelik, Nick Pearce, NRW BANK, Pjotr van Schothorst, UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators
🇸🇪 Adsorbi - €1M Seed
📍 Gothenburg, Sweden
🌳 Capturing pollutants with cellulose.
Investors: Chalmers Ventures, Jovitech Invest, Metsa Spring
🇸🇪 Innoscentia - €500k Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏭 Biochemicals.
Deal of the Week
🇪🇸 Victor and Wouter at SolarMente are raising their Series A:
“We provide solar, storage, heat pumps, and energy management with $0 upfront, saving homeowners in southern europe $1,000+ annually. This year, we’ve grown from $200k to $1M$ in monthly revenue at 45% margins and acquired Spain’s top-rated solar company to scale full home electrification. Backed by YC, Soma Capital, Climate Capital, and Leonardo DiCaprio, we’re starting with clean energy as the entry point to unlocking the full potential of the home wallet. With our current traction, we're considering a $10M series A in Q1/Q2 25. We're EBITDA positive so timing might change, we're in no rush but want to start looking for a great partner/lead.”
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Upcoming Events
🇸🇦 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)
🇦🇹 AustrianStartups Summit (Apr 1)
🇪🇸 Energy Tech Summit 2025 (Apr 9)
🇺🇸 ClimateTech Connect (Apr 15)
🇺🇸 SF Climate Week (Apr 19)
… all 2025 events on inClimate.com/events
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Climate News
💸 Algebris Investments Holds First Close of Inaugural Climatech Venture Capital Fund, at Approx. €60M
💸 Startup studio 4elements raises €27.4 million to create the next flagships of the climate transition
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.
Aeco develops and finances peatland restoration projects across Europe. Combining restoration expertise and access to capital, we aim at substantially contributing towards climate change mitigation and ecosystem restoration.
🇪🇺 Biodiversity Project Developer for Peatland Restoration (Germany, Hybrid)
🌍 Junior Peatland Specialist (Germany, Hybrid)
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)
🇩🇪 Technical Founder's Associate
🇩🇪 Sales Manager:in
🇩🇪 Senior Fullstack Engineer (React, Supabase)
Daato is a holistic ESG management platform for enterprises of all sizes.
🇩🇪 Marketing Manager (Berlin, 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 Finance (CFO) (Remote)
🇧🇷 Farmer Community Manager (São Paulo, Hybrid)
🇧🇷 ERW Operations Manager (São Paulo, On-site)
🇧🇷 Recruitment Partner (Piracicaba, Hybrid)
🇧🇷 Legal Intern (Rio de Janeiro, Remote)
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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