🌳 Last week in climate (#92) by ClimateU

All you need to know about last week, free tickets, and new monthly memberships.

February 27, 2024

Good morning and happy Tuesday!

💌 Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in climate last week.💸 One quick investor update: You can now sign up monthly on ClimateU to get access to all our data and dealflow, and to get a feeling for our platform before you finally cancel that pitchbook access.

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

🇸🇪 Metacon - €90M Post-IPO Equity

📍 Örebro, Sweden⚡️ Energy systems for the production of hydrogen, heat, and electricity.

🇬🇧 GeoPura - £56M Venture

📍 Wysall, United Kingdom⚡️ Zero-emissions fuels.

Investors: General Motors Ventures, Siemens Energy, Sustainable Impact Capital, Swen Capital Partners, UK Infrastructure Bank

🇬🇧 ev.energy - $41M Grant

📍 London, United Kingdom🚗 Platform that manages electric vehicle charging.

Investors: California Energy Commission

🇳🇱 Fastned - €27.5M Post-IPO Debt

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands🚗 Fast-charging network for electric vehicles.

🇩🇪 Altilium Clean Technology - $9.4M Series A

📍 England, Germany🏗 Critical metals supplier to electric vehicle batteries.

Investors: SQM Lithium Ventures

🇬🇧 Vertical Aerospace - £8M Grant

📍 Bristol, United Kingdom🚗 Pioneering electric aviation.

Investors: Aerospace Technology Institute

🇬🇧 Climate Policy Radar - $6.8M Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom📢 Building the evidence base for evidence-based policymaking.

Investors: Environmental Defense Fund, Google.org, Open Society Foundations, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Quadrature Climate Foundation, Schmidt Futures, Sequoia Climate Foundation

🇳🇱 EST-Floattech - €4M Venture

📍 Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands🚗 Modular energy storage systems for zero-emission shipping.

Investors: Energie transitie fonds Rotterdam, PDENH, Ponooc, Rotterdam Port Fund, Yard Energy Group

🇬🇧 Evios - £4M Series A

📍 Bedford, United Kingdom🚗 Manufacturer of home electric vehicle charging stations.

Investors: Beringea

🇩🇪 Pacifico Biolabs - $3.3M Pre-Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany🍴 Alternative protein through fermentation.

Investors: Simon Capital, FoodLabs, Exceptional Ventures

🇳🇱 Phycom - €1.8M Series A

📍 Veenendaal, Netherlands🍴 Web store for all things algae and micro-algae.

Investors: ROM Utrecht Region

🇺🇦 Carbominer - €1.5M Grant

📍 Kyiv, Ukraine💨 Capturing and selling CO₂ from the open air.

Investors: EIC Accelerator

🇪🇸 Pack2Earth S.L. - €1M Pre-Seed

📍 Barcelona, Spain🏭 Compostable materials to replace plastic packaging.

Investors: Brigantia Capital, ESADE BAN, JRV Holding, Mondelez International, The Food Tech Lab

🇩🇰 BeCause - $600k Seed

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark🚗 AI-powered sustainability management hub for travel.

Investors: Curiosity VC

💼 New Climate Jobs

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Carbon Atlantis is an early-stage startup developing a first-of-a-kind, low-cost Direct Air Capture technology to remove CO2 from the air. They permanently store the CO2 in rock carbonates and are currently building up the team around Munich.

🇩🇪 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)

Choco just joined ClimateU on their mission to enable a sustainable food system, one that runs transparently and without waste. They are hiring for on-site roles across Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, London, and the US.

🇩🇪 Head of Product (Sr. Director / VP / CPO) (Berlin, Hybrid)🇩🇪 Head of Revenue Operations (Berlin, Hybrid)🇩🇪 Senior Backend Engineer, Platform (Berlin, On-site)🇩🇪 Product Manager (Berlin, On-site)🇩🇪 Solutions Engineer (Berlin, On-site)🇩🇪 Senior CRM Manager (Berlin, On-site)🇫🇷 Solutions Engineer (Paris, On-site)🇫🇷 Account Executive (Paris, On-site)🇫🇷 Account Manager (Paris, On-site)🇫🇷 Account Manager (Paris, On-site)🇪🇸 Senior Account Executive (Barcelona, On-site)🇪🇸 Senior Automation Specialist (Barcelona, On-site)🇬🇧 Head of Buyer Sales (London, On-site)🇺🇸 Buyer Sales (Chicago, On-site)🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (Chicago, On-site)🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (Boston, On-site)🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (New York, On-site)🇺🇸 Buyer Sales (Spanish speaking) (Chicago, Hybrid)

The NetZero Academy is an educational platform specializing in energy efficiency, sustainability, and decarbonization. Their goal is to train professionals who support climate protection measures and enable the achievement of net-zero goals.

🇩🇪 Impact Werkstudent Business and Sales (Munich, Hybrid)🇩🇪 Chief of Staff (Munich, On-site)🇩🇪 Education Manager (Munich, Hybrid)🇩🇪 Head of Sales (Munich, On-site)

Ohad is currently building Simbiotec App - your one-stop app for a sustainable lifestyle - and is looking for his Tech Lead. He is based out of Mallorca but the role can be remote.

🇪🇸 Tech Lead (Remote)

Tree.ly connects forest owners with companies, helping forest owners earn extra income by managing forests for climate resilience. Companies can purchase high-quality CO₂ credits, backing forest owners and showing their commitment to measurable climate protection.

🇦🇹 Carbon Sales Manager Austria (Austria, Remote)

That’s all the 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

❓ Emily is looking for angel investors.❓ Sylvain is looking for AI and nature-tech investors.❓ Mathieu is fundraising for their early-stage fund.❓ Sowmy is looking to connect with Chief Sustainability Officers.❓ Gregor is looking for operations roles in Berlin.

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🚀 Climate Dealflow

Currently, 86 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.New last week:

Our friends at Tree.ly and GLOBHE are both raising their €3M seed rounds.

You can reach their founders and learn more about them via the links above.

Investors and corporates on our membership can access all companies, funding rounds, pitch decks, and 750+ founders on ClimateU. You can now sign up monthly as well.

📰 Climate News

Climate Intelligence

Energy

Food & Agriculture

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Policy & Advocacy

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🗓 Upcoming Events

🎟 Our friends from Verbier Summit - The Global Sustainability & Finance Forum - gave us 25 free tickets for the ClimateU community. If you’re interested in joining on March 15th in Verbier, Switzerland, please send us an email at [email protected].

🇮🇹 UnPlug (Mar 6)🇨🇭 Verbier Summit (Mar 15)🇮🇳 Net Zero Summit (Mar 15)🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow (Mar 21-22)🇫🇷 ChangeNow (Mar 25)🇬🇷 Ocean Youth Leadership Summit (Apr 15)🇬🇧 Climate Informatics 2024 (Apr 22)🇬🇧 Innovation Zero 2024 (Apr 30)🇫🇷 Sustainable Investment Forum Europe (May 2)🇦🇹 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (May 11)🇩🇪 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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