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🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#68) by ClimateU
All new employers, deals, upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events from last week.
Good morning, Europe 🌳
Today we’ll look at last week’s:🌳 new employers,💰 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.🔗 All our resources (this page got an update)📩 Write us.
🌳 New Employers
We just welcomed a few new employers who signed up for premium and are now hiring via ClimateU:
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international non-profit, that promotes responsible management of the world's forests via timber certification.
🇪🇺 Senior Advisor - Ecosystem Services (EU - Remote)🇩🇪 Products Manager - Carbon and Biodiversity (Bonn - Hybrid)🇩🇪 Legal Counsel/ Legal Officer (Bonn - Hybrid)🇩🇪 Trademark Officer (Bonn - Hybrid)
We Do Solar
We Do Solar is a smart balcony solar system that saves up to 25% on electricity bills and reduces CO2.
🇩🇪 Founder Associate (Berlin - Hybrid)
Axle Energy
Axle is an energy flexibility startup. Their platform connects EVs and home energy devices to electricity markets to help kick fossil fuels out of the grid.
🇬🇧 Software Engineer (London - Hybrid)
HellGruen Energie
HellGruen accelerates green energy investments with a digital one-stop-shop for energy installers & investors.
🇩🇪 (Senior) Business Development Manager (Cologne - Hybrid)
leonardo.impact
leonardo’s science-based solution streamlines impact data collection and verification, so that you can confidently report your impact to stakeholders.
🇪🇺 Senior Software Engineer (Frankfurt/Munich/Remote)
💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)
🇩🇪 Sunfire GmbH - €169M Grant
📍 Dresden, Germany⚡️ Electrolyser technologies for green hydrogen.
Investors:European Commission
🇮🇪 Urban Volt - €26M Private Equity
📍 Dublin, Ireland⚡️ Energy-efficient lighting.
Investors:Verdane
🇮🇪 Gocar - €10M Seed
📍 Dublin, Ireland🚗 Pay-as-you-go driving.
🇸🇪 Novatron - €5M Seed
📍 Stockholm, Sweden⚡️ Fusion power concept.
Investors:Climentum Capital, Industrifonden, InnoEnergy, KTH Holding, Santander Climate Tech Fund
🇮🇸 Laki Power - $3M Venture
📍 Kópavogur, Iceland⚡️ Grid intelligence
Investors:Brunnur Ventures, Eyrir Vöxtur
🇳🇱 Valyuu - €2M Seed
📍 Rotterdam, Netherlands🏭 Marketplace for pre-owned consumer electronics.
Investors:Geert Jan Smits, Golden Egg Check Capital, Kees Verpalen, Rubio Impact Ventures, Slingshot Ventures, Techstars
🇮🇸 SNERPA Power - €2M Seed
📍 Reykjavík, Iceland⚡️ Intelligent energy services.
Investors:BackingMinds, Crowberry Capital
🇸🇪 Adsorbi - €360k Seed
📍 Gothenburg, Sweden🌳 Capturing pollutants with cellulose.
Investors:Chalmers Ventures AB, Jovitech Invest, Metsa Spring
🇬🇧 OX Delivers - Seed
📍 Leamington Spa, United Kingdom🚗 Affordable on-demand transport.
🇸🇪 Polarium - Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden⚡️ Lithium battery solutions for telecom.
Investors:Stefan Jansson Global Invest, Vargas Holdings, AMF, Alecta
💸 Upcoming Rounds
Two rounds were announced last week:🇦🇺 Series A - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Biomass Energy)🇺🇸 Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Energy Storage)
Anyone can now get a preview of all current rounds on the platform and investors, corporates, and service providers can access these companies via premium access on the platform.
💼 New Jobs
We sent out our weekly job recommendations to our 4,700+ talents yesterday. Last week we saw a total of 1,550 jobs posted on the ClimateU job board.
Talents: To get tailored job recommendations via email, set up your climate job focus here.Employers: Set up your employer profile or add your roles here.
📰 Climate News
💸 UK Decarbonization Receives Boost with 13 New Projects💸 First close by Greencode Ventures⚡️ Google begins selling maps data to solar companies⚡️ Jaguar Land Rover Recycles EV Batteries for New Storage System🧑 Strong Roots Launches Carbon Footprint Labels🏭 LEGO to Invest Over $1.4 Billion to Reduce Emissions🧑 The vertical farming boom is over💨 Transitioning Company Offsets to Carbon Removal
🗓 Upcoming Events
🇩🇪 The Future of the Voluntary Carbon Market🇬🇧 Should you be buying carbon offsets?🇸🇪 The Drop🇸🇪 Impact Week🇩🇪 Impact Festival🇬🇧 SDGs and responsible business strategies🇬🇧 London Climate Tech Show🌎 SOSV Climate Tech Summit🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe🇺🇸 How to Win Climate Tech Grants🇪🇪 Impact Day🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action🇬🇧 Investing better - why where you bank matters🌎 ClimateTech Founders Summit 2023
That’s it for this week 💚
Big hug from Copenhagen,
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