🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#56)
All new deals, upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events from last week.
Good morning, Europe 🌳
Today we cover last week’s:
💰 closed rounds,
💸 upcoming rounds,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
As always:
💚 Add any events, news, closed rounds, or upcoming rounds for next week’s newsletter.
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💸 Resources for investors here.
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💰 Closed Rounds
🇩🇪 Enpal - €430M Debt
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Solar unicorn.
Investors:
BlackRock, DWS, ING Group, Phoenix Life
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇱🇺 SustainCERT - €35M Series B
📍 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
💡 Carbon emissions accounting and verification platform.
Investors:
Citizen Capital, Hartree Partners, Innovacom, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Partech
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Uncommon - €28M Series A
📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom
🍴 Cell technologies to revolutionize food production.
Investors:
Balderton Capital, East Alpha, Lowercarbon Capital, Max Altman, Miray Zaki, Redalpine, Sam Altman, Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 OXCCU - $23M Series A
📍 Oxford, United Kingdom
🚗 Converting CO₂ into fuels, chemicals and plastics.
Investors:
Aramco Ventures, Braavos Capital, Clean Energy Ventures, Doral Energy-Tech Ventures, Eni Next, Kiko Ventures, TechEnergy Ventures, Trafigura, United Airlines Ventures, University of Oxford
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇨🇿 Woltair - €21M Series A
📍 Prague, Czech Republic
🏠 Integrator of buildings decarbonization.
Investors:
ArcTern Ventures, Fifth Wall, Inven Capital, KAYA, The Westly Group
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 BeFC Bioenzymatic Fuel Cells - €16M Series A
📍 Grenoble, France
🚗 Eco-friendly paper-based bio-enzymatic fuel cells.
Investors:
BNP Paribas Développement, Demeter, Otium Capital, Supernova Invest
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇸🇪 evroc - €13M Seed
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏠 Sustainable European data centres.
Investors:
EQT Ventures, Norrsken VC
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇸🇰 Sensoneo - €6M Series A
📍 Bratislava, Slovakia
🏭 IoT waste-monitoring sensors and software.
Investors:
Crowdberry, European Innovation Council, Taiwania Capital Management Corporation, Venture to Future Fund
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇹🇷 Fazla Gıda - $6M Series B
📍 Istanbul, Turkey
🍴 Preventing food waste.
Investors:
212, Esor Investments, Founder One, Turkey Development Fund, Turkiye Teknoloji Gelistirme Vakfi
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇳🇱 Source.ag - $4M Series A
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🧑🌾 A.I. powered greenhouses.
Investors:
HICO, The E14 Fund
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 About:Energy - £2M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Unlocking the potential of battery technology.
Investors:
HighSage Ventures, Vireo Ventures, Rishi Khosla, Plug and Play Ventures, Electric Revolution Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Nium - Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 Green Ammonia.
Investors:
DCVC, AgFunder
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇪🇸 Trucksters - Venture
📍 Madrid, Spain
🚗 AI to manage long-haul relay transportation.
Investors:
Volvo Group
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Ace Aquatec - Venture
📍 Dundee, United Kingdom
🌳 Adoption of responsible marine practices.
Investors:
Earth Capital Limited
Article, For Investors, For Talent
💸 Upcoming Rounds
🇫🇷 Seed - 2023 Q2 (⚡️ Waste Heat Energy)
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📰 Some Climate News
🚗 Can e-fuel make flying green? (article)
🚗 UK transport startups get £2m (article)
🚗 First UK sustainable aviation fuel handling terminal (article)
⚡️ Pure hydrogen with nearly zero emissions (article)
⚡️ Twitter thread on fusion (thread)
⚡️ Chinese Unicorn Claims Breakthrough (article)
⚡️ Germany's PV demand set for double-digit growth? (article)
🧑🌾 Lab-grown beef factory in Spain (article)
💡 Second-Hottest May in 30 Years (article)
💡 Crackdown on the ESG ratings industry (article)
💸 Just climate raises $1.5B late stage climate fund (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)
🌎 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (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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