🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#52)
All new deals, rounds, news, jobs and events from last week.
Good morning, Europe 🌳
This week we cover:
🎂 A small celebration,
💰 closed rounds,
💸 upcoming rounds,
💼 new employers/jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 climate events.
As always:
💚 Add any events, news, closed rounds, or upcoming rounds for next week.
🌳 Resources for climate companies here.
💸 Resources for investors here.
💼 Resources for talents here.
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🎂 It’s our birthday
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💰 Closed Funding Rounds
🇨🇭 Ecorobotix - CHF 46M Series B
📍 Yverdon-les-bains, Switzerland
🧑🌾 Smart spraying for localized crop treatments.
Investors:
4FO Ventures, Aqton SE, BASF Venture Capital, Cibus Fund, Flexstone Partners, Swisscanto Private Equity, Swisscom Ventures, Verve Ventures, Yara Growth Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇦🇹 Prewave - €18M Series A
📍 Vienna, Austria
🚗 Supplier monitoring for sustainability managers.
Investors:
Creandum, Kompas, seed + speed Ventures, Segnalita, Speedinvest, Ventech, Working Capital, xista science ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 Voltfang - €5M Seed
📍 Aachen, Germany
🏭 Marketplace for sustainable shopping.
Investors:
AENU, Aurum Ventures, Eviny Ventures, Helen Ventures, PT1
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇦🇹 Fermify - $5M Seed
📍 Gerasdorf Bei Wien, Austria
🍴 Alternative cheese.
Investors:
Auxxo, Climentum Capital
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇸🇪 Improvin' - €4M Seed
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🧑🌾 Sustainability performance platform for the agri-food industry.
Investors:
Atomico's Angel Programme, Axel Johnson, Dynamo, LRF Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, PINC
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇳🇱 Soolutions - €2M Seed
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🚗 Online platform for EV charging equipment.
Investors:
SeedBlink
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇳🇱 Farmless - €1M Pre-Seed
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🍴 Planet-friendly proteins made from renewable energy through fermentation.
Investors:
Nucleus Capital, Possible Ventures, Revent, Sustainable Food Ventures, Tet Ventures, VOYAGERS & various angels.
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 £170k Grant: Anaphite, Fuuse & Hypermotive
Investor:
Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
💸 Upcoming rounds
🇸🇪 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (💨 Carbon Capture and Utilization)
🇮🇪 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (💨 Nature-Based CC)
🇳🇱 Seed - 2023 Q3 (💡 ESG Intelligence)
🇺🇦 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💨 Technology-Based CC)
Investors can view and filter all rounds and pitch decks here.
Companies can add their next round here.
💼 New Employers / Jobs
Maya Climate
Their platform removes the bottleneck for early-stage project finance and enables project developers to launch & scale their natural capital projects faster.
🇬🇧 Structured Carbon Deals Lead (details)
Talents can filter through 10k+ monthly jobs on the job board, or set up their preferences to receive our free weekly job recommendations.
Employers can join here.
📰 Climate News
⚡️ Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time (article)
⚡️ The future of energy in Spain (article)
⚡️ Microsoft to buy electricity produced by fusion (article)
⚡️ Long Duration Energy Storage: Where is the Money? (article)
⚡️ Iceland sold the same green electricity twice (article)
💸 Pale Blue Dot closes 2nd fund (article)
💸 Uninvestable cap tables (article)
💸 The climate fintechs gaining VC attention (article)
💸 Have VCs found purpose? (article)
🏠 Opportunities in green buildings (article)
🧑🌾 Approaches to sustainable food production (article)
🧑🌾 Climate food-tech startups had a record 2022 (article)
🗓 Climate Events
🇬🇧 Impact Hustlers London Connector (details)
🇬🇧 A place for startups in energy infrastructure? (details)
🇬🇧 Blue Food Innovation Summit (details)
🇩🇪 Coffee Break for the Planet (details)
🇩🇪 Navigating your climate job search (details)
🇫🇷 Change Now (details)
🗓 Climate-Conscious Investments (details)
🗓 Digital Event Series - Food Tech (details)
🗓 Is now a good time to invest in climate-tech? (details)
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