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🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#71) by ClimateU
18 closed rounds, 20 upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events from last week.
Good morning, Europe 🌳
This week, we’ll cover:🌳 New ClimateU Features💰 closed rounds (18),💸 upcoming rounds (20),💼 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📩 Write us.
🌳 New ClimateU Features
1️⃣ New company page
We finally combined employer and funding data into one crisp company page - jobs, closed rounds, upcoming rounds, news, and team members. You can now easily add your company news and teammates, we can spread your updates for free via the newsletter, and interested parties can reach out to your team directly via Slack or LinkedIn. You’ll see examples in the closed rounds below.
I’ve had to turn away quite a few people these last 1.5 years who wanted to jump on a call - founders who want to better understand the VC and hiring landscape, investors who want to get a feeling for the European market, jobseekers who want individual advice, service providers who want to work with climate-focused organizations, and others who wanted to get advice on no-code, community building, or LinkedIn hacks. After many requests, I’ve decided to offer anyone a 45-minutes consultation. You can book it here via ClimateU - all revenue from consultations goes to the platform 🌳
3️⃣ Service provider access
If you’re a service provider looking to work with more climate-focused organizations (legal/HR/branding…) - we’ve finally built out the interface for you on ClimateU. You can now create a company profile so that startups can reach out for support - more on the HOW and WHY soon.
💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)
🇨🇭 H55 - CHF 45M Series C
📍 Sion, Switzerland
🚗 Electric propulsion for aviation.
Investors: +ND Capital, RTX Ventures, Tippet Venture Partners
🇩🇪 traceless materials - €37M Series A
📍 Hamburg, Germany
🏭 Materials designed for nature.
Investors: Blue Oceans Partners, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Planet A Ventures, United Bankers
🇩🇪 Plan A - $27M Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany
💡 Helping companies measure, reduce & report on footprint.
Investors: Demeter, Deutsche Bank, HV Capital, Illusian Family Office, Keen Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Opera Tech Ventures, Visa
🇦🇹 Metaloop / Schrott24 - €16M Series A
📍 Graz, Austria
🏭 Scrap trading company.
Investors: FirstMark, FJ Labs, Silence VC, Statkraft Ventures
🇩🇰 HPNow - €14M Series A
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🌳 Clean water sanitation.
Investors: AP Ventures, Evonik Venture Capital, Export and Investment Fund, MatiTech Solutions, Novo Holdings
🇸🇪 Ecohelix - SEK 13M Grant
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏭 Biopolymer that can replace oil based products.
Investors: Vinnova
🇦🇹 Kern Tec - $13M Series A
📍 Herzogenburg, Austria
🍴 Upcycling pits of apricots, cherries and plums.
Investors: European Innovation Council Fund, PeakBridge, Telos Impact
🇸🇪 EKOLUTION - SEK 62M Series A
📍 Malmö, Sweden
🏗 Ekolution is a Sustainability & Cycling company.
Investors: Hagman Green Business, Heddinvest, Longrun Capital, Ludvig Friberger, Neptunia Invest, Southbay Evergreen, Terasea AB
🇬🇧 Electron - £4M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Marketplace for distributed energy markets.
Investors: East Innovate, Nesta, One Planet Capital, Riverstone Holdings
🇸🇪 Skyqraft - €4M Seed
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Smart, safe and sustainable inspections of critical infrastructure.
Investors: Antler, Neptunia Invest, Subvenio Invest
🇫🇮 Betolar - €3M Grant
📍 Kannonkoski, Finland
🏗 Geopolymer-based carbon-neutral construction materials.
Investors: Business Finland
🇬🇧 Renew Risk - £2M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Software for management of renewable energy assets.
Investors: Chris Adelsbach, Insurtech Gateway, One Planet Capital, Rahul Munjal
🇮🇪 Openvolt - €2M Pre-Seed
📍 Dublin, Ireland
⚡️ API for smart meter data.
Investors: Cavalry Ventures, Übermorgen Ventures
🇪🇸 Solfy - €1M Seed
📍 Madrid, Spain
⚡️ Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy.
Investors: Ona Capital Privat SCR SA
🇩🇪 Cardino - €1M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 Platform for buying and selling second-hand EVs.
Investors: Asymmetric Capital Partners, DEPO Ventures, FJ Labs, Gaingels, INCLIMO Climate Tech Fund, Silence VC, VOYAGERS
🇩🇪 XCharge - Series C
📍 Hamburg, Germany
🚗 EV charging solution provider.
Investors: Shell Ventures
🇨🇭 Swisspod Technologies - Grant
📍 Monthey, Switzerland
🚗 Hyperloop systems.
Investors: European Innovation Council
🇬🇧 Immaterial - Series A
📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom
🏗 Technology platform for porous materials.
Investors: AP Ventures, Cepsa, Chevron Technology Ventures, Energy Revolution Ventures, JERA, Jogchum Brinksma, SLB, TRIREC, Ultratech Capital Partners
💸 Upcoming Rounds
20 new rounds were announced last week:🇨🇭 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (💨 Nature-Based CC)🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - (💡 Climate Jobs)🇳🇱 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (🍴 Alternative Protein)🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (💡 Carbon Accounting)🇦🇺 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (🏭 Textile & Fashion)🇩🇪 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (🚗 Cars)
🇬🇧 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💸 Climate Investing)🇨🇭 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🚗 Motors / Engines / Generators)🇪🇪 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🌳 Forests)🇪🇪 Seed - (💸 Carbon Markets)🇬🇧 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💨 Technology-Based CC)🇩🇪 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🚗 Generators)🇩🇪 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🌳 Air & Noise Pollution)🇩🇪 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🏗 Cement & Concrete)🇬🇧 Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Hydrogen / Fuels)
🇬🇧 Venture - 2023 Q4 (💸 Green Banking)🇬🇧 Venture - 2023 Q4 (🏭 Packaging/Recycling/Waste)
🇬🇧 LP Fundraise - 2023 Q4 (VC)🌍 LP Fundraise - 2023 Q4 (VC)🌍 LP Fundraise - 2023 Q4 (VC)
Investors, corporates, and service providers can access these companies via the platform.
💼 New Jobs
We sent out our weekly job recommendations to 4,860+ talents yesterday. Last week, 1,166 new jobs were 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
💸 Tom Steyer Launches New $1B Climate Fund💸 Lowercarbon announces two new funds💸 EIF injects £35m into London’s Blume Equity💸 Carbon Offsets: A Nice Climate Fairytale💸 Astanor Ventures closes €360m venture fund💸 40+ investors reveal where they'll invest next
⚡️ U.N. chief calls for an end to $7 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies⚡️ Flint wants to disrupt the battery industry with paper⚡️ A Blueprint for the Energy Transition
🧑🌾 The Cultivated B. Enters Pre-Submission Phase for Cultivated Meat🧑🌾 Oat Giant Launches Vegan Muesli with ChoViva’s Cocoa-Free Chocolate🧑🌾 Hoxton Farms opens cultivated fat pilot facility🧑🌾 Aging and Expensive Fridges Give Food Suppliers Another Headache
🚎 Stoke Space completes reusable rocket test💨 Can nature-based solutions be VC-backable?🏭 From Plastic Waste to Clean Hydrogen🌳 Planetary boundaries deep dive
🗓 Upcoming Events
This Week🇬🇧 London Climate Tech Show🌎 SOSV Climate Tech Summit🇮🇹 Nature Based Solution🇵🇹 Work on Climate - September Edition Lisbon🇬🇧 Food, Land and Nature - finding product/market fit
After this week🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe🇺🇸 How to Win Climate Tech Grants🇪🇪 Impact Day🇮🇪 Dublin Meetup: Friendly Dinner & Get Together🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action🇬🇧 Investing better - why where you bank matters🇬🇧 The International Carbon Markets Summit 2023🇦🇹 Discover Vienna: Climate Tech🌎 ClimateTech Founders Summit 2023
That’s it for this week 🌳
Big hug from (still cold) Cape Town,
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