🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#56)

Good morning, Europe 🌳

Today we cover last week’s:💰 closed rounds,💸 upcoming rounds,💼 new jobs,📰 climate news, and🗓 events.

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

🇵🇹 Hi from Lisbon

We’ll spend the next two months deep diving into the Portuguese climate-tech ecosystem, so if you’re based in Portugal or know climate enthusiasts here, please let us know 👋

💰 Closed Rounds

🇩🇪 Enpal - €430M Debt

📍 Berlin, Germany⚡️ Solar unicorn.

Investors:BlackRock, DWS, ING Group, Phoenix Life

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇱🇺 SustainCERT - €35M Series B

📍 Luxembourg, Luxembourg💡 Carbon emissions accounting and verification platform.

Investors:Citizen Capital, Hartree Partners, Innovacom, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Partech

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇬🇧 Uncommon - €28M Series A

📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom🍴 Cell technologies to revolutionize food production.

Investors:Balderton Capital, East Alpha, Lowercarbon Capital, Max Altman, Miray Zaki, Redalpine, Sam Altman, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇬🇧 OXCCU - $23M Series A

📍 Oxford, United Kingdom🚗 Converting CO₂ into fuels, chemicals and plastics.

Investors:Aramco Ventures, Braavos Capital, Clean Energy Ventures, Doral Energy-Tech Ventures, Eni Next, Kiko Ventures, TechEnergy Ventures, Trafigura, United Airlines Ventures, University of Oxford

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇨🇿 Woltair - €21M Series A

📍 Prague, Czech Republic🏠 Integrator of buildings decarbonization.

Investors:ArcTern Ventures, Fifth Wall, Inven Capital, KAYA, The Westly Group

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇫🇷 BeFC Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells - €16M Series A

📍 Grenoble, France🚗 Eco-friendly paper-based bio-enzymatic fuel cells.

Investors:BNP Paribas Développement, Demeter, Otium Capital, Supernova Invest

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇸🇪 evroc - €13M Seed

📍 Stockholm, Sweden🏠 Sustainable European data centres.

Investors:EQT Ventures, Norrsken VC

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇸🇰 Sensoneo - €6M Series A

📍 Bratislava, Slovakia🏭 IoT waste-monitoring sensors and software.

Investors:Crowdberry, European Innovation Council, Taiwania Capital Management Corporation, Venture to Future Fund

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇹🇷 Fazla Gıda - $6M Series B

📍 Istanbul, Turkey🍴 Preventing food waste.

Investors:212, Esor Investments, Founder One, Turkey Development Fund, Turkiye Teknoloji Gelistirme Vakfi

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇳🇱 Source.ag - $4M Series A

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands🧑‍🌾 A.I. powered greenhouses.

Investors:HICO, The E14 Fund

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇬🇧 About:Energy - £2M Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom⚡️ Unlocking the potential of battery technology.

Investors:HighSage Ventures, Vireo Ventures, Rishi Khosla, Plug and Play Ventures, Electric Revolution Ventures

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇬🇧 Nium - Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom🏭 Green Ammonia.

Investors:DCVC, AgFunder

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇪🇸 Trucksters - Venture

📍 Madrid, Spain🚗 AI to manage long-haul relay transportation.

Investors:Volvo Group

Article, For Investors, For Talent

🇬🇧 Ace Aquatec - Venture

📍 Dundee, United Kingdom🌳 Adoption of responsible marine practices.

Investors:Earth Capital Limited

Article, For Investors, For Talent

💸 Upcoming Rounds

🇫🇷 Seed - 2023 Q2 (⚡️ Waste Heat Energy)

💼 New Jobs

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📰 Some Climate News

🚗 Can e-fuel make flying green? (article)🚗 UK transport startups get £2m (article)🚗 First UK sustainable aviation fuel handling terminal (article)⚡️ Pure hydrogen with nearly zero emissions (article)⚡️ Twitter thread on fusion (thread)⚡️ Chinese Unicorn Claims Breakthrough (article)⚡️ Germany's PV demand set for double-digit growth? (article)🧑‍🌾 Lab-grown beef factory in Spain (article)💡 Second-Hottest May in 30 Years (article)💡 Crackdown on the ESG ratings industry (article)💸 Just climate raises $1.5B late stage climate fund (article)

🗓 Upcoming Events

🇬🇧 Networking for Japanese Startups (details)🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (details)🇩🇪 Ecosummit (details)🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (details)🇬🇧 Reset Connect (details)🇬🇧 Climate Innovation Forum 2023 (details)🇸🇪 The Drop (details)🇩🇪 Impact Festival (details)🇬🇧 London Climate Tech Show (details)🌎 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (details)🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe (details)🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action (details)🇬🇧 Lunch and Learn: Collecting & Measuring Carbon Data (details)

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