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🌳 Last week in climate (#83) by ClimateU
20 closed rounds, 1.6k jobs, dealflow, news, and events.
Good morning and happy Tuesday,
For the last time in 2023…
Today, we'll cover last week's:💰 closed rounds (20),💼 new jobs (1.6k),🚀 new dealflow,📰 climate news, and🗓 events.
You know the drill:💚 Add any jobs, events, news, or funding rounds.📰 Apply to sponsor a newsletter here.📞 Apply for a consultation here.📩 Write us.
💰 Closed Rounds
🇩🇪 Tacto - €50M Series A
📍 Munich, Germany🚗 Sustainable procurement for mid-sized industrial firms.
Investors: Cherry Ventures, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, UVC Partners, Visionaries Club
🇩🇪 ecoworks - €40M Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany🏗 CO2-neutral building modernization.
Investors: Haniel, ISAI Cap Venture, KOMPAS VC, World Fund
🇫🇷 Lhyfe - €28M Post-IPO Debt
📍 Nantes, France⚡️ Developer, investor, & supplier of green hydrogen for mobility and industry.
Investors: Bpifrance, Credit Mutuel, Groupe BPCE, HSBC
🇨🇭 Plan-B Net Zero - €9.2M Series A
📍 Zug, Switzerland⚡️ Serves the entire value chain in the renewable energy sector.
Investors: Yamato Capital
🇦🇹 HYDROGRID - €7.7M Series A
📍 Vienna, Austria⚡️ Software solutions for hydro power plants.
Investors: CNB Capital, Inven Capital, Karma Ventures, SET Ventures
🇨🇭 Metafuels - €7.4M Seed
📍 Zürich, Switzerland🚗 Sustainable aviation fuel.
Investors: Contrarian Ventures, Energy Impact Partners
🇪🇪 Arbonics - €5.5M Seed
📍 Tallinn, Estonia🌳 Carbon & ecosystem platform for forest and landowners.
Investors: NordicNinja VC, Plural Platform, Tilia Impact Ventures
🇩🇪 METYCLE - €4.7M Seed
📍 Cologne, Germany🏗 B2B trading platform for secondary metals.
Investors: Anne-Marie Großmann, Christoph Cordes, Dutch Founders Fund, Gisbert Ruehl, Market One Capital, Partech, Philipp Andernach, Project A Ventures
🇩🇪 NeoCarbon - €3.2M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany💨 Direct Air Capture via existing infrastructure.
Investors: Antler, Christian Vollmann, Matthias Gotta, PT1 - PropTech1 Ventures, Raise Ventures, Speedinvest
🇩🇪 ANNEA - €2.8M Seed
📍 Hamburg, Germany⚡️ Performance optimization of renewable energy infrastructure.
Investors: Faber, Innoport, Voyager Ventures
🇪🇪 Woola - €2.5M Seed
📍 Tallinn, Estonia🏭 Uses leftover sheep wool to replace bubble wrap.
Investors: Future Ventures, Lemonade Stand, Metaplanet
🇪🇪 Ecobase - €2.5M Seed
📍 Tallinn, Estonia🌳 Develops afforestation and other forestry carbon projects.
Investors: Combiwood Grupp
🇳🇱 RTI Blockchain - €2.5M Seed
📍 Delft, Netherlands🏭 Sustainability in logistics.
Investors: Borski Fund
🇩🇪 montamo - €2.1M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany💡 Upskilling workers to construction workers in the energy sector.
Investors: Project A Ventures
🇨🇭 4QT - CHF 1.9M Pre-Seed
📍 Zurich, Switzerland🚗 Electrifying heavy-duty machines.
Investors: Unruly Capital
🇩🇰 Seasony - €1.5M Seed
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark👩🌾 Feeding the world on full auto.
Investors: Barbara Taudorf Andersen, Export and Investment Fund, Klaus Holse, Nicolaj Reffstrup, North Ventures, Torben Wind, Vagn Sørensen
🇹🇷 Myth AI - $1.3M Seed
📍 Istanbul, Turkey🏭 Reducing waste in the fashion design process.
Investors: Birkan Kül, Emre Kozlu, Faik Ulutaş
🇸🇪 FineCell - €1M Seed
📍 Linköping, Sweden🏭 Sustainable cellulose microfibers.
Investors: Metsa Spring
🇳🇴 Over Easy Solar - €800k Venture
📍 Oslo, Norway⚡️ Flat roof solar.
Investors: Hafslund Venture, Eidsiva, Stratel, Aura
🇸🇪 Nexam Chemical - £100k Grant
📍 Skåne, Sweden🏭 Enhances properties and performance of plastics.
Investors: Innovate UK
💼 New Jobs
Last week, 1,623 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.
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🚀 New Dealflow
We’re finalizing our updated insights, dealflow, and data access on ClimateU - more on that in January.
Last week, one round was announced:🇬🇧 Bridge - 2024 Q2 (💸 Climate Investing)
📰 Climate News
As the year is coming to an end, we’ll keep it simple this week with just a few articles:
📢 COP28: Countries reach ‘historic’ deal to transition from fossil fuels🏠 011h is building a startup within a startup to clean up construction👩🌾 12 Food System Insiders Share Their Takeaways From COP28👩🌾 EU to Invest €50M in Startups to Scale Up Precision Fermentation in 2024💨 BCG Inks Major Deal to Remove Carbon From the Air💸 Norrsken Launcher raises €100m impact fund
PS: We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section next year. If that is you, please contact us ([email protected]).
🗓 Upcoming Events
2024 Events:🇬🇧 Can we leverage technology to achieve education equity?💡 Your business' carbon footprint: what it is and how to measure it?🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters and how to take action.🇩🇪 Greentech Festival🇨🇭 HackSummit🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development🇸🇪 The Drop 2024🇪🇪 impact day🇩🇪 IMPACT FESTIVAL 2024
That’s it for 2023…
After two years of running ClimateU, and 83 newsletters, I will finally take a week off to wind down, rest, and reflect, without Wi-Fi, in a little hut in South Africa.
Big hug from Cape Town, Merry Christmas, and a happy new year!
See you in 2024!
📩 Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, or other inquiries to: [email protected]
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