🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#48)
All new deals, upcoming rounds, climate news, and jobs from last week.
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This week we cover:
💰 9 closed rounds,
💵 climate news,
💸 upcoming rounds, and
💼 many jobs.
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💰 Closed Funding Rounds
🇫🇷 Ÿnsect - €160M Debt Financing
📍 Paris, France
🍴 Insect ingredients production.
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🇬🇧 Infogrid - £72M Series B + 30M Debt
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Sustainability-focused smart building technology.
Investors:
Committed Capital, JLL Spark, Northzone, Original Capital, Pictet Private Equity Investors S.A., SoftBank Vision Fund, The Venture Collective
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🇪🇸 SolarMente - €50M Venture + Debt
📍 Barcelona, Spain
⚡️ Solar kit installation and finance.
Investors:
GNE Finance
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🇬🇧 Abatable - $14M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Carbon offsetting.
Investors:
Azora
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🇬🇧 Cheesecake Energy Ltd - £9M Grant
📍 Nottingham, United Kingdom
⚡️ Thermal & compressed air energy systems to store energy.
Investors:
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
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🇬🇧 BX - £2M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💨 Helps retailers & brands meet their carbon reduction goals.
Investors:
Counteract
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🇬🇧 Solasta Bio - Grant
📍 Glasgow, United Kingdom
🧑🌾 Sustainable crop protection.
Investors:
Scottish Enterprise, UK Research and Innovation
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🇫🇮 Wärtsilä - Grant
📍 Helsinki, Finland
⚡️ Ammonia as a hydrogen carrier.
Investors:
Government of Norway
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🇬🇧 Allotrope Energy - £5M Series A
📍 Woking, United Kingdom
⚡️ Lithium-ion energy density.
Investors:
Suzano Ventures
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📰 Climate News
🏭 Germany breaks up with nuclear (article)
🏭 Cost of lithium is down 30% YoY (article)
🏭 How to make lithium extraction cleaner, faster and cheaper (article)
💸 “remove” accelerator launches for carbon removal (article)
💸 Apple invests $200 million in carbon removal fund (article)
💡 $6M fundraise to build digital climate library (article)
💡 ChatGPT chatIPCC: Conversational AI in Climate Science (article)
🚗 Ford to spend $1.3B for EV manufacturing (article)
🚗 Hyundai Motor to invest $18B in South Korea’s EVs by 2030 (article)
📢 Review of UK’s climate commitments (article)
🧑🌾 How Regenerative Farming Heals the Soil (article)
⚡️ Heat Pumps Need Better Branding (article)
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💸 Upcoming funding rounds
Investors can view and filter all rounds here.
Investors can view all pitch decks here.
Companies can add their next round here.
New Rounds:
🇸🇪 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q2 (💸 Financing)
🇪🇸 Seed - 2023 Q2 (⚡️ Solar Energy)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (💸 Carbon Markets)
🇨🇦 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (🏭 New Materials)
🇮🇪 Seed - 2023 Q3 (🚗 Transport Data & Analytics)
🇩🇰 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q2 (🍴 Alternative Protein)
🇮🇱 Series A - 2023 Q4 (🏭 New Materials)
A total of 38 rounds will be closing in Q2, 2023.
💼 Climate Jobs in Europe
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Featured Jobs:
🇩🇪 Working Student - Sustainability Consulting (details)
🇪🇸 Startup Internship (details)
🇩🇪 Senior Manager Nature based Solutions (f/m/d) (details)
🇩🇪 Senior Product Manager (f/m/d) (details)
🇩🇪 Head of Climate Team (f/m/d) (details)
🇩🇪 Full-Stack Software Developer (details)
🇩🇪 Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer (details)
🇪🇸 Intern, CEO Office (details)
🇮🇪 Head of IT engineering (details)
🇳🇴 Product Owner (details)
🇬🇧 Senior Software Engineer (details)
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