🌳 Last week in climate (#88) by ClimateU

All you need to know about last week in climate.

January 30, 2024

Good morning and happy Tuesday! 🌳

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Let’s get to it - short and sweet as always:

Today, we'll cover last week’s:💰 closed rounds,💼 climate jobs,👋 community asks,🚀 dealflow,📰 news, and🗓 upcoming events.

If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.

💰 Closed Rounds

🇸🇪 H2 Green Steel - €4.75B Debt + Equity

📍 Stockholm, Sweden🏗 Large-scale steel producer based on a fossil-free manufacturing.

Article, Company → New page layout + more data

🇩🇪 Kyon Energy - €90M Acquired by TotalEnergies

📍 Munich, Germany⚡️ Develops and sells renewable energy infrastructure.

🇩🇪 instagrid - €87.4M Series C

📍 Stuttgart, Germany⚡️ Portable power supplies.

🇩🇰 Monta - €80M Series B

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark🚗 Platform for EV charging.

🇩🇪 Infinite Roots - €53M Series B (formerly Mushlabs)

📍 Hamburg, Germany🍴 Using fermentation & fungi to create sustainable foods.

🇱🇹 HeavyFinance - €50M Debt

📍 Vilnius, Lithuania💸 Fintech marketplace that helps farmers store CO2.

🇫🇷 Getaround - $20M Post-IPO Debt

📍 Paris, France🚗 Carsharing platform.

🇩🇪 CEEZER - €10.3M Series A

📍 Berlin, Germany💸 Rethinking the voluntary carbon market as a digital-first carbon bank.

🇩🇰 Reel Energy - €5M Seed

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark⚡️ Empowers companies to procure renewable electricity.

🇬🇧 Concrete4Change - €2.5M Seed

📍 Nottingham, United Kingdom💨 Carbon sequestration into concrete.

🇬🇧 Metris Energy - £2M Pre-Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom⚡️ AI-powered solar energy platform for commercial property owners.

🇳🇱 Eddy Grid - €1.5M Seed

📍 Utrecht, Netherlands⚡️ Energy storage via batteries and smart energy management.

🇳🇱 Sirius Technologies - €1.2M Pre-Seed

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands🏗 Automates sharing sustainability data with all stakeholders in metal supply chain.

🇩🇪 Elucid Social - Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany🚗 A data-driven solution for risk management in global supply chains.

🇩🇪 NOVUS GmbH - Angel

📍 Braunschweig, Germany🚗 Urban electric lightbikes.

Investors: Michael Wax, Sophia Flörsch, Rupert Stadler, Fabrizio Ugo Scelsi, Nikolai Schröder, Bernd Rosenbichler, Raymund Bareuther, Cees de Witte, Michael Köhler, CREW10

💼 New Climate Jobs

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aeco restores peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors and the planet.

🌍 Head of Operations (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)🌍 Senior Carbon Project Developer (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)🌍 Projektentwickler*in (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)

Briink is your AI-powered EU Taxonomy assistant.

🇩🇪 Senior Backend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)🇩🇪 Build Your Own Engineering Role (Berlin, On-site)🇩🇪 Senior Frontend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)🇩🇪 AI Engineer (Berlin, On-site)🇩🇪 Frontend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)

Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks.

🇩🇪 Business Development Intern (Berlin, On-site)🇩🇪 Head of Sales - Cosmetic Ingredients (Berlin, On-site)🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations (Berlin, On-site)

Carbon Atlantis develops a first-of-a-kind, low-cost Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to remove CO2 from the air. With partners, we permanently store the CO2 in rock carbonates.

🇩🇪 Electrician / Elektriker:in (Munich, On-site)🇩🇪 Electrochemical Test Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)🇩🇪 Technical Founder’s Associate (f/m/d) (Ismaning, On-site)🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

Dryad provides ultra-early detection of wildfires as well as health and growth-monitoring of forests using solar-powered gas sensors in a large-scale IoT sensor network.

🇩🇪 Certification Engineer (Berlin, On-site)

NuuEnergy's vision is to enable every homeowner in Europe to have the most sustainable and efficient heating and cooling system - purchased and installed in one seamless process.

🇩🇪 Intermediate Growth Marketer (Munich, Hybrid)🇩🇪 Founder Associate - Working Student or Intern (Munich, Hybrid)🇩🇪 (Junior) Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Specialist (Munich, Hybrid)🇩🇪 Business Development Associate/ Junior Account Executive (Munich, Hybrid)🇩🇪 Energieberater *in (Munich, Hybrid)

That’s all featured jobs for this week! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth and you can feature your jobs here by signing up for our new monthly membership.

👋 Community Asks

❓ Jules is looking for a co-founder.❓ Dino is looking for investors & partners from aviation, energy, or eVTOL.❓ Philip is looking for companies developing biobased materials.❓ Marine is looking for speaker for her podcast.❓ Oyana is looking to connect with anyone in carbon markets.

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🚀 Climate Dealflow

Currently, 72 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.👇 Below is a summary of rounds that were announced last week:

🇩🇪 Angel - 2024 Q4 (Climate Data)🇮🇪 Angel - 2024 Q1 (Charging Infrastructure)

🇩🇪 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q2 (Forests)

🇳🇱 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Carbon Accounting)🇬🇧 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Construction Software)🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q3 (Chemicals)🇱🇺 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Climate Communities)

🇩🇪 Series A - 2024 Q3 (Energy-Efficient Buildings)🇩🇪 Series A - 2024 Q2 (Manufacturing)

Investors on our membership can access all funding rounds, founders, and pitch decks on the platform.

📰 Climate News

PS: We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section this year. If that is you, please contact us ([email protected]).

🗓 Upcoming Events

💡 Your business' carbon footprint (Jan 31)🇦🇹 Thinkubator Finale (Feb 1)💡 State of Climate Tech 2023 (Feb 1)🇵🇹 Portugal's Voluntary Carbon Market (Feb 7)🇩🇪 ClimateHack Berlin Meetup (Feb 8)🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters & how to take action. (Feb 22)🇮🇹 UnPlug (Mar 6)🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow (Mar 21-22)🇫🇷 ChangeNow (Mar 25)🇺🇸 SF Climate Week (Apr 21-27)🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)🇺🇸 Carbon Unbound USA (May 21)🇩🇪 Super Climate Berlin (Jun 4)🇬🇧 ClimateTech Summit 2024 (Jun 12)🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13)🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30)🇬🇧 Cambridge Tech Week 2024 (Sep 1)🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17)🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30)🇫🇮 Slush 2024 (Nov 20)

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A Final Note

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