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🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#72) by ClimateU
14 closed rounds, 6 upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events from last week.
Good morning, world 🌳
This week, we’ll cover:💰 closed rounds (14),💸 upcoming rounds (6),💼 new jobs,📰 climate news, and🗓 events.
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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)
🇳🇴 Desert Control - NOK 68M Post-IPO Equity
📍 Sandnes, Norway🧑🌾 Fighting desertification.
Investors: Woods End Interests
🇨🇭 Pexapark - €20M Series C
📍 Schlieren, Switzerland⚡️ System to buy, sell & manage renewable energy.
Investors: A&G Energy Transition Tech Fund, Arctic Fund Management, BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures, Encavis, Fluence, RP Global, S&P Global, Swisscom Ventures, Telstra Ventures, Walder Wyss
🇩🇪 FERNRIDE - $19M Series A
📍 Munich, Germany🚗 Platform for autonomous, electric trucking.
Investors: 10x Founders, Bayern Kapital, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, Fly Ventures, HHLA Next, Klaus Kleinfeld, KRONE, Munich Re Ventures, Promus Ventures, PUSH Ventures, Schenker Ventures, Speedinvest
🇩🇪 Resourcify - €14M Series A
📍 Hamburg, Germany🏭 Waste management platform.
Investors: Ananda Impact Ventures, BonVenture, High-Tech Grunderfonds, IFB Innovationsstarter, Revent, Speedinvest, Vorwerk Ventures, WEPA Ventures
🇬🇧 Continuum Industries - £8M Series A
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom⚡️ Energy infrastructure development platform.
Investors: Credo Ventures, Playfair Capital, Singular, Techstart Ventures
🇦🇹 Greenwood-Power - €5M Venture
📍 Brunn Am Gebirge, Austria⚡️ Sensors for medium voltage grids.
Investors: eQventure, tecnet equity
🇨🇭 Atinary - $5M Seed
📍 Lausanne, Switzerland🏭 Digitizing R&D for materials discovery.
Investors: AgFunder, Cherubic Ventures
🇮🇹 evja - €4M Seed
📍 Naples, Italy🧑🌾 Optimizing irrigation, protection & nutrition.
Investors: CDP Venture Capital, Sefea Impact, Startupbootcamp FoodTech Rome
🇬🇧 Eagle Genomics - £3M Venture - Series Unknown
📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom💡 Networking microbiome science
Investors: Abrdn, ETF Partners, Granpool Innovative Investments
🇩🇪 Metergrid - €3M Seed
📍 Stuttgart, Germany🏠 SaaS for problems of decentralized energy systems.
Investors: 468 Capital, Mario Götze, Mätch VC, Tiny VC
🇩🇪 Concular - €3M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany🏗 Digital ecosystem for circular construction.
Investors: Strabag, The Hagedorn Group, KLV Bauconsult, Landmarken
🇫🇷 LA VIE (77 Foods) - £1M Equity Crowdfunding
📍 Paris, France🍴 Vegetable edible fat for vegetable meats.
🇩🇪 NOVO - €1M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany🏠 Analysis, planning, & financing of energy renovation for real estate
Investors: 2bX, Citizen Capital, Franz De Waal, Kerstin Bock
🇪🇪 Elcogen - Grant
📍 Tallinn, Estonia⚡️ Fuel cells.
Investors: European Commission
💸 Upcoming Rounds
6 new rounds were announced last week:🇬🇧 Angel - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Energy Efficiency)🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (🌳 Biodiversity🇵🇱 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Energy Storage)🇩🇰 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🏭 Packaging)🇫🇷 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💡 Earth Observation)🇺🇸 Series A - 2023 Q4 (🌳 Forests)
Currently, 123 rounds are live. Investors, corporates, and service providers can access all rounds and companies via the platform.
💼 New Jobs
We sent out our weekly job recommendations to 4,900+ talents yesterday. Last week, 1,203 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
💸 Invest-NL invests in Extantia Capital💸 Paine Schwartz Partners closes $1.7B fund💸 UAE's Zero Carbon Ventures raises $5 million in seed funding💸 Majority of VC-backed UK startups do *nothing* on emissions💸 Impact startups a match made in heaven for angel investors🧑🌾 Dutch arm of vertical farming startup Infarm bankrupt🧑🌾 New single-cell proteins🧑🌾 Europe’s Largest Facility for Cultivated Meat & Seafood🌳 Drinking water cheaper than tap water soon?💡 Sustainable Shopping Guide, in Your Pocket🚎 Recyclable and climate neutral boats
🗓 Upcoming Events
This week🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe🇺🇸 How to Win Climate Tech Grants🇪🇪 Impact Day🇮🇪 Dublin Meetup: Friendly Dinner & Get Together
After this week🇦🇹 Sustainable Corporate Leadership🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action🇮🇱 ESG Connect🇦🇹 3 Reasons for Nature-Based Climate Strategies🇬🇧 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 🌳
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