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🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#75) by ClimateU

🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#75) by ClimateU

14 closed rounds, 7 upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events.

October 24, 2023

Good morning 🌳

This week, we’ll cover:🎙 A new climate podcast,💰 closed rounds (14),💸 upcoming rounds (7),💼 new jobs,📰 climate news, and🗓 events.

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🎙 A new climate podcast

This week’s newsletter is sponsored by Another ClimateTech Podcast - weekly interviews with the industry’s movers and shakers, from entrepreneurs to activists - hosted by climate-tech founder and investor Ryan Grant Little.

I’ve been following Ryan’s podcast and work myself and so, I couldn’t be happier to have him as this week’s sponsor.

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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)

🇩🇪 Numbat - €70M Convertible Note

📍 Kempten, Germany🚗 High-power charging station and storage.

Investors: Patrizia

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Fastned - €34M Post-IPO Debt

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands🚗 Fast-charging network for EVs.

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Overstory - $14M Series A

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands💡 Real-time vegetation intelligence.

Investors: B Capital, Bentley iTwin Ventures, CapitalT, Convective Capital, Moxxie Ventures, Overwater Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Semapa Next, The Nature Conservancy

Article, Company

🇧🇪 Ampacimon - €10M Series C

📍 Angleur, Belgium

⚡️ Dynamic line rating systems.

Investors: Creos Luxembourg, Gesval, Junction Growth Investors, Korys, Meusinvest (Noshaq)

Article, Company

🇩🇪 FarmInsect - €8M Series A

📍 Bergkirchen, Germany🍴 FarmInsect offers an automated solution for the local insect breeding at the farmer as animal feed.

Investors: Bayern Kapital, European Innovation Council, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Minderoo Foundation, Sandwater

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Cloover - €7M Pre-Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany💸 Embedded finance solution for vendors of renewables hardware.

Investors: 9900, Broadhaven Ventures, Centrotec Sustainable, Index Ventures, QED Investors

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Skoon Energy - €5M Series A

📍 Rotterdam, Netherlands⚡️ Online Marketplace for clean energy.

Investors: Blue Bear Capital, Graduate Entrepreneur Fund, Kees Koolen

Article, Company

🇪🇪 Bisly - €4M Venture

📍 Tallinn, Estonia🏠 Intelligent building solutions.

Investors: Aconterra, Pinorena Capital, Reach UK, Second Century Ventures, SmartCap

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Klimate.co - €4M Seed

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark💸 Portfolios of carbon removal projects.

Investors: Eneco Ventures, Export and Investment Fund, Helen Ventures, Rockstart

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Volteras - $3M Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom⚡️ Data from hundreds of energy devices in a single data model.

Investors: Exor, Long Journey Ventures, Outside VC, Rivus Capital, Scott Banister, Unruly Capital

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Beta Bugs Limited - £2M Venture

📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom🍴 Insects.

Investors: Beeches Group, Climate VC, Innovate UK, Scottish Enterprise, SIS Ventures, TRICAPITAL

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Circadian Technologies GmbH - €2M Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany⚡️ Decentralized energy for businesses in frontier markets.

Investors: BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures, Great Stuff Ventures, Neil MacDougall, Persistent, RaliCap, Rockstart

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Zeedz - €950k Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany💡 Climate gaming.

Investors: Carsten Maschmeyer, Dagmar Wöhrl, Nils Glagau, Ralf Dummel, Tillman Schulz

Article, Company

🇳🇱 Protix - Corporate Round

📍 Dongen, Netherlands🍴 Insect protein.

Investors: Tyson Foods

Article, Company

💸 Upcoming Rounds

Currently, 131 rounds are live. Investors, corporates, and service providers can access all rounds and companies via the platform.

7 new rounds have been announced in October:🇬🇧 Angel - 2024 Q1 (💡 Climate Education)🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Energy Efficiency)🇩🇰 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🏗 Construction Software)🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (💸 Climate Investing)🇩🇪🇹🇷 Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)🇳🇴 Seed - 2024 Q1 (🚗 Aviation)🇦🇹 Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Wind Energy)

💼 New Jobs

Last week, 1,682 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board and were sent to our 5k+ signed-up talents.

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