🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#73) by ClimateU

9 closed rounds, 2 upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events.

October 10, 2023

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This week, we’ll cover:💰 closed rounds (9),💸 upcoming rounds (2),💼 new jobs,📰 climate news, and🗓 events.

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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)

🇫🇷 Umiami - €33M Series A

📍 Paris, France🍴 Plant-based food.

Investors: Astanor Ventures, Bpifrance, Newfund, Redalpine, VERSO Capital

🇫🇷🇬🇧 Granular Energy - €8M Seed

📍 Paris, France & London, UK⚡️ Platform for electricity consumers, producers & suppliers.

Investors: All Iron Ventures, BoxGroup, Norrsken VC, Powerhouse Ventures, Revent, Seedcamp, Valo Ventures

🇬🇧 FlexSea - $4M Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom🏭 Seaweed single-use packaging.

Investors: Btomorrow Ventures, Food Foundry, Icon Capital, Indico Capital Partners, Pente Capital, Redrice Ventures, Vala Capital

🇮🇹 Test1 Solutions - €2M Venture

📍 Brescia, Italy🌳 Cleaning up oil spills.

Investors: LIFTT

🇬🇧 Concretene - £1M Grant

📍 Amesbury, United Kingdom🏗 Concrete alternative.

Investors: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Henry Royce Institute, Innovate UK

🇬🇧 BioZeroc - £815k Grant

📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom🏗 Cement-free bacteria-based binder.

Investors: Innovate UK

🇪🇸 Recycap Technologies - €155k Seed

📍 Valencia, Spain🏭 End-to-end coffee capsule recycling.

Investors: ENISA, Veos Ventures

🇨🇭 Voltiris - CHF 90k Grant

📍 Lausanne, Switzerland⚡️ Recycles "wasted" sunlight into green electricity.

Investors: Biopôle

🇦🇹 inoqo - Seed

📍 Vienna, Austria🍴 SaaS for food supply chain assessments.

Investors: Christian Kaar, Triple Impact Capital

💸 Upcoming Rounds

Currently, 124 rounds are live. Investors, corporates, and service providers can access all rounds and companies via the platform.

2 new rounds have been announced in October:🇬🇧 Angel - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Energy Efficiency)🇫🇷 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💡 Earth Observation)

💼 New Jobs

We sent out our weekly job recommendations to 4,920 talents yesterday. Last week, 1,371 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.

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📰 Climate News

🚎 France unveils €100/month electric car scheme🧑‍🌾 Swedish government advised to feed cows methane-reducing additives🧑‍🌾 Plant-based seafood startup Current Foods faces eviction🧑‍🌾 Pit cover innovator wins €10,000 prize and place on entrepreneur programme🧑‍🌾 ORF Genetics and Seawith Enter into Partnership for Cultivated Meat💸 Scottish government support to stimulate finance into marine natural capital💸 Nations pledge €8.8bn to Green Climate Fund🏭 England bans single-use plastic: What is and isn’t included?🌳 Countries pledge to raise $12 billion for coral reef protection⚡️ Morocco-UK power link gets government boost⚡️ Ireland Makes Decision to Deny LNG Port for Climate Reasons⚡️ Belize to launch project to make biofuel from seaweed

🗓 Upcoming Events

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