🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#52)

Good morning, Europe 🌳

This week we cover:🎂 A small celebration,💰 closed rounds,💸 upcoming rounds,💼 new employers/jobs,📰 climate news, and🗓 climate events.

As always:💚 Add any events, news, closed rounds, or upcoming rounds for next week.🌳 Resources for climate companies here.💸 Resources for investors here.💼 Resources for talents here.📩 Write us.

🎂 It’s our birthday

Today, exactly one year ago, I was sitting in Rio de Janeiro, in my swimmers, and sent out this newsletter for the first time - it had 115 recipients. 52 weeks, lots of long nights, and many coffees later, we’re at almost 10,000 people checking in on weekly European climate news. I wanted to take a moment to say thank you for tuning in, for spreading the word, and for being part of an incredible journey this past year.

💰 Closed Funding Rounds

🇨🇭 Ecorobotix - CHF 46M Series B

📍 Yverdon-les-bains, Switzerland🧑‍🌾 Smart spraying for localized crop treatments.

Investors:4FO Ventures, Aqton SE, BASF Venture Capital, Cibus Fund, Flexstone Partners, Swisscanto Private Equity, Swisscom Ventures, Verve Ventures, Yara Growth Ventures

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇦🇹 Prewave - €18M Series A

📍 Vienna, Austria🚗 Supplier monitoring for sustainability managers.

Investors:Creandum, Kompas, seed + speed Ventures, Segnalita, Speedinvest, Ventech, Working Capital, xista science ventures

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇩🇪 Voltfang - €5M Seed

📍 Aachen, Germany🏭 Marketplace for sustainable shopping.

Investors:AENU, Aurum Ventures, Eviny Ventures, Helen Ventures, PT1

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇦🇹 Fermify - $5M Seed

📍 Gerasdorf Bei Wien, Austria🍴 Alternative cheese.

Investors:Auxxo, Climentum Capital

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇸🇪 Improvin' - €4M Seed

📍 Stockholm, Sweden🧑‍🌾 Sustainability performance platform for the agri-food industry.

Investors:Atomico's Angel Programme, Axel Johnson, Dynamo, LRF Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, PINC

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇳🇱 Soolutions - €2M Seed

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands🚗 Online platform for EV charging equipment.

Investors:SeedBlink

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇳🇱 Farmless - €1M Pre-Seed

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands🍴 Planet-friendly proteins made from renewable energy through fermentation.

Investors:Nucleus Capital, Possible Ventures, Revent, Sustainable Food Ventures, Tet Ventures, VOYAGERS & various angels.

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇬🇧 £170k Grant: Anaphite, Fuuse & Hypermotive

Investor:Advanced Propulsion Centre UK

💸 Upcoming rounds

🇸🇪 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (💨 Carbon Capture and Utilization)🇮🇪 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (💨 Nature-Based CC)🇳🇱 Seed - 2023 Q3 (💡 ESG Intelligence)🇺🇦 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💨 Technology-Based CC)

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

💼 New Employers / Jobs

Maya ClimateTheir platform removes the bottleneck for early-stage project finance and enables project developers to launch & scale their natural capital projects faster.🇬🇧 Structured Carbon Deals Lead (details)

Talents can filter through 10k+ monthly jobs on the job board, or set up their preferences to receive our free weekly job recommendations.

Employers can join here.

📰 Climate News

⚡️ Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time (article)⚡️ The future of energy in Spain (article)⚡️ Microsoft to buy electricity produced by fusion (article)⚡️ Long Duration Energy Storage: Where is the Money? (article)⚡️ Iceland sold the same green electricity twice (article)💸 Pale Blue Dot closes 2nd fund (article)💸 Uninvestable cap tables (article)💸 The climate fintechs gaining VC attention (article)💸 Have VCs found purpose? (article)🏠 Opportunities in green buildings (article)🧑‍🌾 Approaches to sustainable food production (article)🧑‍🌾 Climate food-tech startups had a record 2022 (article)

🗓 Climate Events

🇬🇧 Impact Hustlers London Connector (details)🇬🇧 A place for startups in energy infrastructure? (details)🇬🇧 Blue Food Innovation Summit (details)🇩🇪 Coffee Break for the Planet (details)🇩🇪 Navigating your climate job search (details)🇫🇷 Change Now (details)🗓 Climate-Conscious Investments (details)🗓 Digital Event Series - Food Tech (details)🗓 Is now a good time to invest in climate-tech? (details)

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