🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#48)

All new deals, upcoming rounds, climate news, and jobs from last week.

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This week we cover:💰 9 closed rounds,💵 climate news,💸 upcoming rounds, and💼 many jobs.

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💰 Closed Funding Rounds

🇫🇷 Ÿnsect - €160M Debt Financing

📍 Paris, France🍴 Insect ingredients production.

🇬🇧 Infogrid - £72M Series B + 30M Debt

📍 London, United Kingdom🏠 Sustainability-focused smart building technology.

Investors:Committed Capital, JLL Spark, Northzone, Original Capital, Pictet Private Equity Investors S.A., SoftBank Vision Fund, The Venture Collective

🇪🇸 SolarMente - €50M Venture + Debt

📍 Barcelona, Spain⚡️ Solar kit installation and finance.

Investors:GNE Finance

🇬🇧 Abatable - $14M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom💸 Carbon offsetting.

Investors:Azora

🇬🇧 Cheesecake Energy Ltd - £9M Grant

📍 Nottingham, United Kingdom⚡️ Thermal & compressed air energy systems to store energy.

Investors:Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

🇬🇧 BX - £2M Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom💨 Helps retailers & brands meet their carbon reduction goals.

Investors:Counteract

🇬🇧 Solasta Bio - Grant

📍 Glasgow, United Kingdom🧑‍🌾 Sustainable crop protection.

Investors:Scottish Enterprise, UK Research and Innovation

🇫🇮 Wärtsilä - Grant

📍 Helsinki, Finland⚡️ Ammonia as a hydrogen carrier.

Investors:Government of Norway

🇬🇧 Allotrope Energy - £5M Series A

📍 Woking, United Kingdom⚡️ Lithium-ion energy density.

Investors:Suzano Ventures

📰 Climate News

🏭 Germany breaks up with nuclear (article)🏭 Cost of lithium is down 30% YoY (article)🏭 How to make lithium extraction cleaner, faster and cheaper (article)💸 “remove” accelerator launches for carbon removal (article)💸 Apple invests $200 million in carbon removal fund (article)💡 $6M fundraise to build digital climate library (article)💡 ChatGPT chatIPCC: Conversational AI in Climate Science (article)🚗 Ford to spend $1.3B for EV manufacturing (article)🚗 Hyundai Motor to invest $18B in South Korea’s EVs by 2030 (article)📢 Review of UK’s climate commitments (article)🧑‍🌾 How Regenerative Farming Heals the Soil (article)⚡️ Heat Pumps Need Better Branding (article)

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💸 Upcoming funding rounds

Investors can view and filter all rounds here.Investors can view all pitch decks here.Companies can add their next round here.

New Rounds:🇸🇪 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q2 (💸 Financing)🇪🇸 Seed - 2023 Q2 (⚡️ Solar Energy)🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (💸 Carbon Markets)🇨🇦 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (🏭 New Materials)🇮🇪 Seed - 2023 Q3 (🚗 Transport Data & Analytics)🇩🇰 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q2 (🍴 Alternative Protein)🇮🇱 Series A - 2023 Q4 (🏭 New Materials)

A total of 38 rounds will be closing in Q2, 2023.

💼 Climate Jobs in Europe

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Featured Jobs:🇩🇪 Working Student - Sustainability Consulting (details)🇪🇸 Startup Internship (details)🇩🇪 Senior Manager Nature based Solutions (f/m/d) (details)🇩🇪 Senior Product Manager (f/m/d) (details)🇩🇪 Head of Climate Team (f/m/d) (details)🇩🇪 Full-Stack Software Developer (details)🇩🇪 Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer (details)🇪🇸 Intern, CEO Office (details)🇮🇪 Head of IT engineering (details)🇳🇴 Product Owner (details)🇬🇧 Senior Software Engineer (details)

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