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🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#79) by ClimateU
18 closed rounds, new dealflow, news, jobs, and events.
Good morning!
Today, we'll cover last week's:💰 closed rounds (18),🚀 new dealflow,💼 new jobs,📰 climate news, and🗓 events.
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Quick Updates:
💼 We finally have free trials for companies hiring via ClimateU, and we’ve ditched company size-based pricing for the rest of November, so if you’re looking for mission-aligned candidates - now is the best time to post your roles!
🇦🇪 If you’re heading to COP28, please tick the box in your account so that we can add you to the database of people going (published soon).
💰 Closed Rounds
🇫🇮 Neste - €600M Post-IPO Debt
📍 Espoo, Finland🏭 Refines waste, residues & materials into renewable fuels & feedstock.
🇫🇷 Technique Solaire - $200M PE
📍 Migné-auxances, France⚡️ Distribution of photovoltaic energy.
Investors: Bpifrance, Crédit Agricole
🇸🇪 Northvolt - $150M Convertible Note
📍 Stockholm, Sweden⚡️ Sustainable batteries.
Investors: Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec
🇫🇷 Upway - €28M Series B
📍 Paris, France🚗 Marketplace for reconditioned e-bikes.
Investors: Exor Ventures, Korelya Capital, Sequoia Capital, Transition
🇳🇱 NAIF - $23M Venture
📍 Den Haag, Netherlands🏭 Circular baby and skincare products.
Investors: Future Business Partnership
🇫🇷 Le Fourgon - €10M Series A
📍 Marquette Lez Lille, France
🏭 Returnable glasses & drinks delivery.
Investors: Id4 ventures, La Poste Ventures, Teampact ventures
🇫🇮 Solar Foods - €8M Series B
📍 Helsinki, Finland🍴 Natural protein for the global food industry.
Investors: Happiness Capital, Springvest
🇪🇸 ScrapAd - €5M Seed
📍 Eibar, Spain🏭 Marketplace for recyclable materials.
Investors: Berge y Cia, Indipartners
🇪🇪 Efenco - €4.5M Grant & Angel
📍 Tallinn, Estonia🏗 Slashes carbon emissions in critical industrial heat applications.
Investors: European Innovation Council, Ivo Remmelg
🇫🇷 Ida - €3M Seed
📍 Paris, France🍴 Removes food waste from distribution.
Investors: Daphni, Frst, Kima Ventures, Motier Ventures
🇫🇷 TOOPI ORGANICS - €2M Grant
📍 Loupiac-de-la-réole, France👩🌾 Turns urine into crop biostimulants.
Investors: EIC Accelerator
🇬🇧 Mocean Energy - £2.7M Venture + Grant
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom⚡️ Wave energy pioneer.
Investors: Equity Gap, Katapult Ocean, MOL PLUS, Old College Capital, Scottish Enterprise
🇮🇹 CarpeCarbon - €2M Pre-Seed
📍 Turin, Italy💨 Direct Air Capture.
Investors: 360 Capital, CDP Venture Capital
🇩🇪 Proxima Fusion - €7.5M Pre-Seed
📍 Munich, Germany⚡️ Fusion power plants.
Investors: Visionaries Tomorrow fund
🇬🇧 Mission Zero Technologies - Grant
📍 London, United Kingdom💨 Low-energy direct air capture.
Investors: UK Department for Transport
🇬🇧 Carbon Capture Scotland - Venture
📍 Crocketford, United Kingdom💨 Captures CO2 tfrom organic waste.
Investors: Iona Capital
🇩🇪 Meloon GmbH - Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany💨 Captures carbon out of waste streams.
Investors: IBB Ventures, Tobias Wittich
🇩🇰 Frugal Technologies - Corporate Round
📍 Aalborg, Denmark🚗 Improved propulsion efficiency via machine learning.
Investors: Emerson
🚀 New Dealflow
Currently, we have:142 upcoming funding rounds,614 Founders, and5,500+ Companies on the platform.
New in last week:🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (💡 Climate Data)🇺🇸 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Energy Distribution)
💼 New Jobs
Last week, 1,504 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.
🔎 Some highlights:Cloover just raised their €7M round and is looking for:🇩🇪 Founders Associate (Operations & Customer Success) (Berlin)🇩🇪 Business Development Manager (Berlin)
leonardo. is looking for:🇩🇪 Lead Software Engineer (Frankfurt)🇩🇪 Sustainability Researcher & Data Analyst (Frankfurt)
FSC is looking for:🇩🇪 Programme Manager Integrity Development (Bonn)
Talents: To get tailored job recommendations via email, set up your climate job focus here.Employers: Set up your employer profile and add your roles here.
📰 Climate News
Energy⚡️ Exxon wants to drill enough lithium out of Arkansas to power 1M EVs per year⚡️ Octopus Energy Dives into Germany’s Offshore Wind Market with First Investment⚡️ Toyota is turning to startup Redwood Materials for critical battery materials
Transport🚎 Floating factories of artificial leaves could make green fuel for jets and ships🚎 Hitachi and FirstGroup accelerate the UK’s push to electric mobility🚎 Sustainable Fuels: ADM & Marathon open Green Bison Soy Processing
Policy & Advocacy📢 COP28 faces a giant communication challenge📢 US and China progress in climate talks.
Industry🏭 Envato founders back AUS plastics reduction startup Refilled🏭 EU agrees to ban exports of waste plastic to poor countries
Food & Agricultre🧑🌾 Equity crowdfunding for Europe's first precise fermented plant-based butter🧑🌾 Kernza, a climate-friendly grain, gets the attention of brewers, distillers
Climate Intelligence💡 Space-based carbon dioxide monitoring reaches milestone💡 Why polar bears are no longer the poster image of climate change
Climate Finance💸 NEOM launches investment arm NIF
🗓 Upcoming Events
🇦🇪 We’ll be at COP28, and we’re putting together a public directory of the people attending. If you’re going, please head here and check the box for COP28.
👋 Many of you have reached out asking for recommendations for Slush side events - maybe take a moment to post in our Slack community so that you can meet other climate enthusiasts while you’re there.
That’s it for this week!
Big hug from Barcelona and happy Tuesday,
📩 Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, or other inquiries to: [email protected]
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