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🌍 Last Week in Climate #149: 1-to-1 Matchmaking is Live
Your weekly climate digest + 1-to-1 matchmaking + a more accessible membership.
Tim Steppich
June 04, 2025
Hey there, happy Wednesday!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in Climate last week.
💡 Lots of community updates last week. E.g. we launched 1-to-1 matchmaking and stopped charging subscriptions for our membership.
🌍 If you want to join our events, mingle in our community space, access our resources, or just support what we’re building — consider becoming a member. It’s just a small one-time fee and it allows us to build and improve inClimate and this newsletter for you.
Today we cover last week’s:
🌍 Community updates,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🇪🇺 Closed funding rounds,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 Climate news, and
💼 Climate jobs.
Community Updates
👋 These awesome professionals joined the community space last week:
🇩🇪 Aiko - Founder & CEO @Alteva Technologies
🇨🇭 Alain - CEO @Hand on Water
🇨🇭 Jonathan - CEO @FrostForge
🇩🇪 Luisa - Programme Manager @Planet
🇬🇧 Sunny - Partner @EY
🇺🇸 Crystal - Faculty Director @North Carolina A&T
🇩🇪 Rainer - Managing Director @ESG Innovations
🇺🇸 Joni - Content & Experience Designer
🇬🇧 Kaye - Director, People & Culture @Climate Arc
🇨🇭 Alfred - Co-Founder @Carbon X Tons
🇱🇻 Toby - Investor @Baltic Impact Fund
🇳🇿 Thomas - Program Manager @Ministry for the Environment
🇩🇪 Oliver - Senior Advisor @Circularity
🇪🇪 Chris - Founder @HappyHire
🇪🇸 Carolina - MBA Intern @Agteria Biotech
🇩🇪 Valeria - Sustainability Project Lead @Corning
🇪🇸 Amanda - Account Executive @Mitiga Solutions
🇺🇸🇫🇷 Franck - Co-Founder @Airthium
🇩🇪 Guenter - Senior Fundraiser
🇪🇸 Drew - Associate Director @IE University
Make sure to read through their intros, give them a warm welcome, and leave a comment if their work is relevant to yours. If you’re not a member yet, you can join here.
🎯 1-to-1 matchmaking is live! No, not a dating platform (maybe one day), professional 1-to-1 matchmaking so that you can connect with relevant folks across the climate sector. You can see how it works here.
📢 We sent out a big announcement yesterday that we’re ending membership subscriptions for inClimate (check your email). We’re switching to a small one-time membership fee for lifetime access. It felt like the fairest and most accessible way to continue building the platform, the community, and the newsletter. More info here.
📞 Community calls this week: Climate AMA, Intro Circle, and 1-to-1 matchmaking. You can join and learn more here and see how matchmaking works here.
🇪🇸 Our Climate Drinks event at Norrsken is back on June 19th! We renamed it to Climate Meetup and anyone can register for the 5th edition for free here until we’re sold out.
🇩🇪 I’m currently in Wiesbaden, Germany, having lots of “Kaffee und Kuchen” while trying to get through our product roadmap for Q2. I wanted to put together a little community meetup, but you’ll probably have to catch me in France instead 👇
🇫🇷 I’ll be in France next week for the 3rd UN Oceans Conference. I’m so excited to mingle and learn a lot because we’re launching our first deep dive on ocean-tech soon. Let me know if you’re coming or if I should cover anything specific about the conference in the newsletter.
✅ We’re at 18,124 members on inClimate now. Make sure to create a profile if you haven’t signed up yet!
Coming next:
⚙️ The main goal for Q2 is to grow and improve the community. I’m working on global inClimate meetups, a referral program, walkthroughs for all resources, and better onboarding this week.
💡 All features I’m working on are listed here - you can suggest and upvote features or leave comments on our plans.
Deal of the week
🇸🇪 Jord is fundraising.
“Jord is raising €10-50M to scale carbon-negative biofuel production in the Dominican Republic. We cultivate high-yield C4 grasses on degraded land, sequestering CO₂ while producing clean, high-density fuel pellets that displace coal and unsustainable biomass in industrial use.
We’re seeking climate-aligned equity or blended investors to co-lead or participate in a scalable infrastructure play with strong unit economics, measurable climate impact, and co-benefits like land restoration and rural livelihoods.”
Members can learn more about Jord and the round via inclimate.com/rounds and validated investors can check out the pitch deck.
Closed Rounds
🇳🇱 SkyNRG - €300M Private Equity
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🚗 Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) solutions.
Investors: APG, Macquarie
🇱🇻 Aerones - $62M Venture
📍 Riga, Latvia 🇱🇻, United States
⚡️ Wind turbine blade inspection and maintenance robotics.
Investors: Activate Capital Partners, Blume Equity, Carbon Equity, Change Ventures, Extantia Capital, Lightrock, Metaplanet, Overlap Holdings, S2G Investments
🇸🇪 Plagazi - €29.5M Grant
📍 Västra Götaland, Sweden
🏭 Solution for waste management and energy security.
Investors: EU Innovation Fund
🇫🇮 Volare - €26M Venture
📍 Uusimaa, Finland
🍴 Upcycles industrial food waste into high quality protein, oil and fertilizer ingredients.
Investors: Business Finland, Finnish Climate Fund, Finnvera Venture Capital, Firstminute Capital, Maki.vc, Norion Bank, Springvest
🇪🇸 HESStec - €12M Venture
📍 La Rinconada, Spain
⚡️ Hybrid energy storage solution.
Investors: ABB, Suma Capital, Verbund X Ventures
🇬🇧 Volteras - $11M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Collects, standardizes, and optimizes data from energy devices into a single data model.
Investors: Union Square Ventures, Edenred, Exor Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Wex Venture Capital
🇮🇪 VIOTAS - €10M Debt
📍 Limerick, Ireland
⚡️ Smart grid technology for commercial or industrial facilities.
Investors: Claret Capital Partners
🇩🇪 Lumoview - €3M Seed
📍 Cologne, Germany
🏠 Building digitization to reduce the CO2 footprint.
Investors: Greencode Ventures, IBB Ventures
🇮🇪 Gazelle Wind Power - €2M Venture
📍 Dublin, Ireland
⚡️ Floating wind platform.
Investors: Banco Portugues de Fomento, Indico Capital Partners
🇪🇸 Floatech - €1M Seed
📍 Madrid, Spain
⚡️ Silicon anode battery tech.
Investors: Big Sur Ventures, BStartup, CDTI, Grow Venture Partners, Suma Capital
🇸🇪 Alrik - Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏗 Reducing the carbon emissions of transport in construction.
Investors: Pi Labs, People Ventures
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Upcoming Events
🇫🇷 2025 UN Ocean Conference (Jun 9) (I’ll be here 👋)
🇫🇷 Impactful Innovations Day (Jun 11) (and here 👋)
🇮🇹 Terra Tuscany (Jun 16)
🇺🇸 Innovation Zero America Congress (Jun 17)
🇪🇸 Climate Meetup - Barcelona (Jun 19)
🇸🇬 Asia Climate Forum (Jun 19)
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 21)
🇬🇧 Reset Connect London (Jun 24)
🇬🇧 Arctic Repair 2025 (Jun 26)
🇩🇪 2025 Energy & Mobility Award (Jul 3)
🇮🇹 Waste Management Europe Conference (Jul 10)
🇦🇺 Australian Clean Energy Summit (Jul 29)
… all 2025 events on inClimate.com/events
Climate News
I’m still not quite happy with my process of identifying the most relevant news and opportunities across Europe’s climate sector. I put some thoughts down here. Leave a comment if you have ideas how to best do it!
Climate Jobs
📧 You received your weekly job alert on Monday via email if you have set it up.
💼 You can post jobs for free via our free trial here.
Tether
Tether is building AI that learns the behavior of millions of private EVs to coordinate their charging patterns, turning these cars into the world's largest - and cleanest - distributed battery that helps to reinforce the power grid.
🇪🇺 Data Scientist → Successfully hired an inClimate member 🥳
🇪🇺🇸🇪 Software Engineer (API/Network Devices) (ideally based in Stockholm)
Final Checklist
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Liebe Grüße from Germany,
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