🌳 Last week in climate (#89) by ClimateU

All you need to know about last week in climate.

February 06, 2024

Good morning and happy Tuesday! 🌳

Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in climate last week.

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

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

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

💰 Closed Rounds

🇮🇹 3Sun - €560M Debt

📍 Catania, Italy⚡️ Photovoltaic solutions for industries & roof applications.

Investors: Banco BPM, BPER Banca, European Investment Bank, UniCredit

🇸🇪 Heart Aerospace - $107M Series B

📍 Göteborg, Sweden🚗 Electrical regional aeroplanes.

Investors: Air Canada, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, EQT Ventures, European Innovation Council, Lowercarbon Capital, Norrsken VC, Sagitta Ventures, United Airlines, Y Combinator

🇩🇪 Rabot Charge - €17.5M Series A

📍 Hamburg, Germany🚗 Charging management solutions for electric cars.

Investors: High-Tech Grunderfonds, HV Capital, vent.io, Yabeo

🇩🇪 Planet A Foods - $15.4M Series A

📍 Munich, Germany🍴 Cocoa free chocolate.

Investors: Cherry Ventures, Feast Ventrues, Mudcake (prev. Trellis Road), Nucleus Capital, Omnes Capital, TriplePoint Capital, World Fund

🇳🇴 SAGA ROBOTICS - $11.5M Venture

📍 Ås, Norway🧑‍🌾 Robots for more efficient agriculture.

Investors: Melesio Capital, MP Pensjon, Nysnø, Rabo Ventures

🇮🇹 Tau Group - €11M Series B

📍 Torino, Italy🚗 Protective coatings for wires.

Investors: CDP Venture Capital, Santander Asset Management

🇨🇭 CarbonPool - CHF 10.5M Seed

📍 Zürich, Switzerland💸 Insurance against unforeseen reductions in carbon credits.

Investors: Axel Theis, Christof Mascher, HCS Capital, Heartcore Capital, Revent, Vorwerk Ventures

🇬🇧 HDM Solar - £10.2M Venture + Debt

📍 Hull, UK⚡️ Solar PV equipment supplier.

Investors: Angel Invest, DF Capital

🇩🇪 SEMRON - €7.3M Seed

📍 Dresden, Germany🏭 Energy-efficient semi-conductor chips.

Investors: Andreas Werner, Chon Tang, Hans Rohrer, Hermann Hauser Investment, Join Capital, OTB Ventures, SquareOne Venture Capital, Stuart Parkin, Sven Sieber, Volker Aue, Wolfram Drescher

🇩🇪 BlueLayer - $5.6M Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany / Greece / UK💸 Software that empowers developers of carbon credits.

Investors: Point Nine

🇬🇧 Xampla - £5.5M Venture

📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom🏭 Plant protein material for commercial use.

Investors: Amadeus Capital Partners, Cambridge Angels group, Ciech Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Martlet Capital, University of Cambridge Enterprise

🇪🇸 Clevergy - €1.5M Seed

📍 Madrid, Spain⚡️ Energy consumption optimization for households.

Investors: Earth, Finaves, Fredrik Wikstrom, Zubi Capital

🇪🇸 Agrow Analytics - €650k Seed

📍 Málaga, Spain🏠 Improve water efficiency in agriculture and smart cities.

Investors: Demium, First Drop, GoHub Ventures

🇬🇧 MGISS - £600k Pre-Seed

📍 Liverpool, United Kingdom💡 Advises on the smarter use of Geospatial data.

Investors: NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance

🇪🇸 Feltwood - Non-equity Assistance

📍 Zaragoza, Spain🏭 Biodegradable industrial materials from vegetal waste.

Investors: StartBEC

🇨🇭 Meteomatics - Venture

📍 Saint Gallen, Switzerland☔️ Weather intelligence.

Investors: Lockheed Martin Ventures

🇦🇹 Aerocompact - Private Equity

📍 Satteins, Austria⚡️ Photovoltaic racking solutions.

Investors: Trilantic Europe

💰 New Investment Funds

🇬🇧 Giant Ventures - $250M

📍 London, United Kingdom💸 Impact VC.

Investors: BMW, Henkel, RIT Capital Partners, Cambridge Associates, Stepstone, The Nature Conservancy, Richard Branson, Denmark's sovereign investment fund

🇫🇷 VIVES IUF - €70M

📍 Louvain-la-Neuve, France💸 Early-stage VC with a focus on science and eco-innovation.

Investors: European Investment Fund

💼 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.

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

❓ Catherine is looking for two co-founders.❓ Pascal is looking for help in digitization/verification of carbon credits.❓ Sarabeth is looking to meet other carbon purchasers.❓ Victoria is searching for a job as a Visual/UI/UX Designer.❓ Olga is looking for a Product Manager role in ag/food/nature.

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🚀 Climate Dealflow

Currently, 74 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.

🇨🇭 The latest round was added by Callirius AG, who are looking to raise a CHF 4M seed round in Q2.

Investors on our membership can access all 74 funding rounds, pitch decks, and 740+ founders on the platform.

📰 Climate News

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🗓 Upcoming Events

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