🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#55)
All new deals, upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events from last week.
Good morning, Europe 🌳
Here’s your quick overview of last week’s:
💰 closed rounds,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
As always:
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💰 Closed Rounds
🇬🇧 Weev - £50M Venture
📍 Belfast, United Kingdom
🚗 Electric vehicle charge point operator.
Investors:
Octopus Investments
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🇪🇸 Wallbox Chargers - $49M Post-IPO Equity
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🚗 Smart charging and energy solutions.
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🇩🇪 Nexwafe - €30M Venture
📍 Freiburg, Germany
⚡️ High quality wafers for solar cell producers.
Investors:
Aramco Ventures, ATHOS Service, Keshik Capital, Malcolm Turnbull, Reliance New Energy Solar
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🇫🇷 Beem Energy - €13M Series A
📍 Nantes, France
⚡️ Home energy efficiency and energy management systems.
Investors:
C ENTREPRENEURS
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🇩🇪 E-FARM - €11M Series B
📍 Hamburg, Germany
🧑🌾 Marketplace for pre-owned farm machinery.
Investors:
Amathaon Capital, byWiT, CLAAS
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇮 Fixably - $10M Series A
📍 Helsinki, Finland
🏭 Saas repair workflow management solution.
Investors:
468 Capital, Business Finland, Cusp Capital, Icebreaker.vc
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 QFlow - £7M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏗 Construction materials and waste data.
Investors:
Ascension Ventures, Bridge Investment Group, Gravel Road Ventures, Greensoil PropTech Ventures, Grosvenor Group, Jonathan Emery, MMC Ventures, Suffolk Technologies, SYSTEMIQ
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🇩🇪 Proxima Fusion - €7M Pre-Seed
📍 Munich, Germany
⚡️ Fusion power plants.
Investors:
High-Tech Grunderfonds, Plural Platform, UVC Partners, Wilbe
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 Bene Bono - €7M Venture
📍 Paris, France
🍴 Anti-waste e-grocery.
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇪🇸 Jolt Electrodes - €6M Series A
📍 Tarragona, Spain
⚡️ Electrodes & coating solutions for hydrogen & water treatment.
Investors:
Axon Partners Group, Climentum Capital, Ship2B Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 CUR8 - £5M Pre-Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Market for carbon reductions.
Investors:
ANIM, CapitalT, Climate VC, Force Over Mass Capital, Google Ventures, Systema nova
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 Riverse - €2M Seed
📍 Lyon, France
💸 Carbon credits.
Investors:
Andreas Wiele, Eric Bergé, Evolem Start, Speedinvest, Stephan Rohr, Techstars, Tobias Lechtenfeld
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇮🇹 i-TES srl - €1M Venture
📍 Turin, Italy
⚡️ Thermal storage solutions.
Investors:
Eureka Venture, Tech4Planet
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📰 Climate News
🧑🌾 Take on regenerative agriculture (article)
🧑🌾 HackCapital launches investment platform (article)
💸 TotalEnergies closes its VC arm (article)
💸 Talis Capital closes $100M fund (article)
💸 Big Idea Ventures announces first close of New Protein Fund II (article)
💡 Earth is past almost all of its safe limits (article)
💡 100 innovative solutions for the ecological shift (article)
🗓 Upcoming Events
🇬🇧 Networking for Japanese Startups (details)
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (details)
🇩🇪 Ecosummit (details)
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (details)
🇬🇧 Reset Connect (details)
🇬🇧 Climate Innovation Forum 2023 (details)
🇸🇪 The Drop (details)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (details)
🇬🇧 London Climate Tech. Show (details)
🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe (details)
🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action (details)
🇬🇧 Lunch and Learn: Collecting & Measuring Carbon Data (details)
That’s it for this week 💚
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