🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate-tech (#37)

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Today we’ll cover:💰 16 closed funding rounds,💸 6 upcoming rounds,💵 Climate news, and💼 11,000+ jobs on our job board.

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💰 Closed Funding Rounds

🇧🇬 AMPECO - $13M Series A

📍 Sofia, Bulgaria🚗 EV charging management platform.

Investors:BMW i Ventures, Cavalry Ventures, LAUNCHub Ventures

Article, Startup, Employer

🇬🇧 Entocycle - €5M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom🦗 Insect protein.

Investors:ACE & Company, Antoine Brizard, Antoine Dupont, Climentum Capital, James Haskell, Lowercarbon Capital, Nikola Karabatic, Teampact ventures

Article, Startup, Employer

🇸🇰 FUERGY - €16M Venture

📍 Bratislava, Slovakia⚡️ Energy storage mgmt. & optimization.

Investors:ProPartners

Article, Startup, Employer

🇦🇹 Gropyus - €100M Series B

📍 Vienna, Austria🏠 Sustainable living for everyone.

Investors:FAM AB, Vonovia

Article, Startup, Employer

🇩🇪 INERATEC - Venture

📍 Karlsruhe, Germany⛽️ E-fuels.

Investors:ENGIE New Ventures, FO Holding, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Honda Motor, MPC Capital, Planet A Ventures, Safran Corporate Ventures

Article, Startup, Employer

🇩🇰 Kanpla - €2M Seed

📍 Aarhus, Denmark🍴 Food waste.

Investors:henQ

Article, Startup, Employer

🇬🇧 Kuva Systems - $11M Series A

📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom💡 Methane & VOC monitoring and quantification.

Investors:Clean Energy Venture Group, Climate Innovation Capital, Dräger, LaunchPad Ventures

Article, Startup, Employer

🇦🇹 neoom - €23M Series B

📍 Freistadt, Austria🔋 Energy storage.

Investors:Allinvest Unternehmensbeteiligungs GmbH, ALTERDYNE ENERGY, APEX Invest, Chi Impact Capital, HR Holding, ING Sustainable Investments, KREISEL Ventures, Summiteer + Angels

Startup, Employer

🇬🇧 Neverwaste - £2M Seed

📍 London, United Kingdom🪵 Alternative to wood-based panels.

Investors:Elbow Beach Capital, The Future Fund

Article, Startup, Employer

🇬🇧 Onto - £100M Debt

📍 Warwick, United Kingdom🚗 Electric car subscription.

Investors:Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Pollen Street Capital

Article, Startup, Employer

🇳🇴 Otovo - $130M Post-IPO Equity + Debt

📍 Oslo, Norway☀️ Solar panels for your roof.

Investors:DNB, SpareBank 1 SR-Bank

Article, Startup, Employer

🇫🇷 Renaissance Fusion - €15M Seed

📍 Fontaine, France☢️ Fusion technology.

Investors:HCVC, Lowercarbon Capital, Norrsken VC, Positron Ventures

Article, Startup, Employer

🇿🇦🇩🇪 Senken - $8M Seed

📍 Berlin & Cape Town💸 Climate finance trading platform.

Investors:Climate Capital, Inflection, Kraken Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Offline Ventures

Article, Startup, Employer

🇩🇪 tado° - €43M Venture

📍 Munich, Germany🏠 Intelligent home climate management.

Investors:Bayern Kapital, Kiko Ventures, Noventic, Swisscanto Private Equity, Target Partners, Trill Impact, Zürcher Kantonal Bank

Article, Startup, Employer

🇩🇪 Aedifion - €12M Series A

📍 Cologne, Germany🏠 Reduce commercial buildings’ energy use.

Investors:Bauwens Digital, BeyondBuild, BitStone Capital, Drees & Sommer AG, MOMENI Ventures, Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures, World Fund

Article, Startup, Employer

🇩🇪 Refuel Green - €1M Pre-Seed

📍 Dresden, Germany⛽️ Reducing the production cost of e-fuels.

Investors:High-Tech Grunderfonds, TGFS

Article, Startup, Employer

💸 6 Upcoming funding rounds

🌱 Pre-Seed

🇩🇪 Nadar - Q1 2023 (details)🇮🇱 Vert - Q1 2023 (details)

🌲 Seed

🇩🇪 encentive - Q2 2023 (details)🇬🇧 Preoptima Ltd - Q1 2024 (details)🇧🇬 uIMPACT - Q1 2023 (details)🇩🇪 Callirius AG - Q1 2023 (details)

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📰 Climate News

💨 Carbon removal should receive more funding (article)🔋 Energy storage company Britishvolt went bankrupt (article)🏭 A steelmaking breakthrough for decarbonization (article)🚗 First ammonia-powered, zero-emission semi-truck (article)🇪🇺 Does Europe need a climate tech plan? (article)🇵🇹 PepsiCo invests in biodigester (article)💨 Minus CO2 factories (article)💸 New £242m Smart Protein Fund (article)

💼 Climate Jobs in Europe

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