🇪🇺🌲 Last Week in European Climate-Tech (#9)
A great week for sustainable forestry, 13 upcoming rounds, 500+ jobs, and an opportunity for non-dilutive funding from Google.
Good morning, Europe 🌲
Today we cover:
💰 Last week’s 7 funding rounds,
💸 13 upcoming rounds,
🏢 New startups on ClimatEU,
✍️ The weekly opportunity, and
💼 New climate jobs in Europe (+500)
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💰 Last week’s funding rounds (July 4th - 10th)
🇫🇷 Traace - €2.5M Seed
📍 Paris, France
💡 Platform to calculate and offset the carbon footprint.
Investors:
Arché Gruppe, Orange Ventures
🇸🇪 Northvolt - €1B Convertible Note
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🔋 Sustainable batteries.
Investors:
AMF, ATP, Baillie Gifford, Compagnia di San Paolo, Folksam, Goldman Sachs, IMAS Foundation, Olympia Group
🇩🇪 Pina - $2.5M Seed
📍 Munich, Germany
🌲 Quantifying and rewarding sustainable forestry.
Investors:
XAnge, Nordstar, Anselm Bauer, Climate Capital, Gustaf Alstromer, Lea-Sophie Cramer, Sundeep Ahuja
🇩🇰🇫🇷 EcoTree - €500K Grant
📍 Copenhagen & Paris
🌲 Reward individuals & businesses supporting sustainable forestry in Europe.
Investors:
The Founders Games
🇪🇸 FlexiDAO - $6.5M Series A
📍 Barcelona, Spain
💡 Electricity and carbon tracking capabilities.
Investors:
Google, InnoEnergy, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, SET Ventures
🇬🇧 Tropic Biosciences - $35M Convertible Note
📍 Norwich, UK
🌾 Novel high-performing crop varieties and traits.
Investors:
ADQ, Blue Horizon Corporation, Rage Capital, Skyviews Life Science, Sucden Ventures, Tekfen Ventures
🇳🇱 Woon Duurzaam - €2.2M Seed
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🏠 Cloud platform to make your home sustainable.
Investors:
DOEN Participaties, InnoEnergy, One planetcrowd, ROM InWest
💸 Upcoming funding rounds
Last week, 13 companies announced their upcoming funding rounds.
🌱 Pre-Seed Rounds
🇬🇧 ACUA Ocean - €1.25M - Q3 2022 (details)
🇬🇧 ZeroBees - £500K - Q4 2022 (details)
🌲 Seed Rounds
🇹🇷 Sensgreen - $2M - Q3 2022 (details)
🇩🇪 Callirius AG - Undisclosed - Q4 2022 (details)
🌳 Late Seed Rounds
🇸🇪 Cirkulär AB - €4M - Q3 2022 (details)
🇩🇪 Spacenus - €1.5M - Q3 2022 (details)
🇩🇪 sustamize - Undisclosed - Q4 2023 (details)
🌳🌳 Series A
🇬🇧 Optimal Agriculture - Undisclosed - Q2 2022 (details)
🇷🇴 Ogre AI - Undisclosed - Q4 2022 (details)
🇩🇪 Seqana GmbH - €18M - Q2 2023 (details)
🌳🌳🌳 Series B
🇮🇹 Energy Dome - Undisclosed - Q4 2022 (details)
🇬🇧 Brilliant Planet Limited - Undisclosed - Q2 2023 (details)
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🏢 New startups on ClimatEU
🇩🇪 sustamize (2022)
“Data-driven Product Footprint Management.” (details)
🇩🇪 Callirius AG (2022)
“Access to climate responsibility.” (details)
🇩🇪 Seqana GmbH (2021)
“Seqana harnesses insights from satellite imagery to quantify global carbon sequestration in soils.” (details)
🇬🇧 ACUA Ocean (2020)
“Ocean monitoring and protection.” (details)
🇷🇴 Ogre AI (2020)
“The ultimate energy management platform.” (details)
🇸🇪 Cirkulär AB (2019)
“Learn from Nature, Engineer by Design.” (details)
🇬🇧 Optimal Agriculture (2017)
“Deploying autonomous greenhouses outside every city on earth.” (details)
🇩🇪 Spacenus (2016)
“Spacenus enables Sustainable Agriculture by providing actionable insights on soil and crop health.” (details)
🇬🇧 Brilliant Planet Limited (2013)
“Nature-based carbon capture.” (details)
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✍️ Weekly Opportunity
Google.org Impact Challenge
Applications for the Google.org Impact Challenge on Climate Innovation are now open. “Selected organizations will receive $5M USD in funding, along with access to Google’s technical expertise and products, to accelerate progress toward a more sustainable and resilient future.”
Application deadline: July 29th, 2022. (details)
💼 Climate Jobs in Europe
ClimatEU job count: 1,945 (+503)
Last week, 503 jobs, at 57 companies, across 24 countries were added to our job board. We added many jobs at startups that raised a round this year - might be worth a look.
To see and filter all new jobs, just head to the job board.
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