🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#55)

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

June 06, 2023

Good morning, Europe 🌳

Here’s your quick overview of last week’s:💰 closed rounds,💼 new jobs,📰 climate news, and🗓 events.

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💰 Closed Rounds

🇬🇧 Weev - £50M Venture

📍 Belfast, United Kingdom🚗 Electric vehicle charge point operator.

Investors:Octopus Investments

🇪🇸 Wallbox Chargers - $49M Post-IPO Equity

📍 Barcelona, Spain🚗 Smart charging and energy solutions.

🇩🇪 Nexwafe - €30M Venture

📍 Freiburg, Germany⚡️ High quality wafers for solar cell producers.

Investors:Aramco Ventures, ATHOS Service, Keshik Capital, Malcolm Turnbull, Reliance New Energy Solar

🇫🇷 Beem Energy - €13M Series A

📍 Nantes, France⚡️ Home energy efficiency and energy management systems.

Investors:C ENTREPRENEURS

🇩🇪 E-FARM - €11M Series B

📍 Hamburg, Germany🧑‍🌾 Marketplace for pre-owned farm machinery.

Investors:Amathaon Capital, byWiT, CLAAS

🇫🇮 Fixably - $10M Series A

📍 Helsinki, Finland🏭 Saas repair workflow management solution.

Investors:468 Capital, Business Finland, Cusp Capital, Icebreaker.vc

🇬🇧 QFlow - £7M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom🏗 Construction materials and waste data.

Investors:Ascension Ventures, Bridge Investment Group, Gravel Road Ventures, Greensoil PropTech Ventures, Grosvenor Group, Jonathan Emery, MMC Ventures, Suffolk Technologies, SYSTEMIQ

🇩🇪 Proxima Fusion - €7M Pre-Seed

📍 Munich, Germany⚡️ Fusion power plants.

Investors:High-Tech Grunderfonds, Plural Platform, UVC Partners, Wilbe

🇫🇷 Bene Bono - €7M Venture

📍 Paris, France🍴 Anti-waste e-grocery.

🇪🇸 Jolt Electrodes - €6M Series A

📍 Tarragona, Spain⚡️ Electrodes & coating solutions for hydrogen & water treatment.

Investors:Axon Partners Group, Climentum Capital, Ship2B Ventures

🇬🇧 CUR8 - £5M Pre-Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom💸 Market for carbon reductions.

Investors:ANIM, CapitalT, Climate VC, Force Over Mass Capital, Google Ventures, Systema nova

🇫🇷 Riverse - €2M Seed

📍 Lyon, France💸 Carbon credits.

Investors:Andreas Wiele, Eric Bergé, Evolem Start, Speedinvest, Stephan Rohr, Techstars, Tobias Lechtenfeld

🇮🇹 i-TES srl - €1M Venture

📍 Turin, Italy⚡️ Thermal storage solutions.

Investors:Eureka Venture, Tech4Planet

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📰 Climate News

🧑‍🌾 Take on regenerative agriculture (article)🧑‍🌾 HackCapital launches investment platform (article)💸 TotalEnergies closes its VC arm (article)💸 Talis Capital closes $100M fund (article)💸 Big Idea Ventures announces first close of New Protein Fund II (article)💡 Earth is past almost all of its safe limits (article)💡 100 innovative solutions for the ecological shift (article)

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