🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#63)
All new deals, upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events from last week.
Good morning, Europe 🌳
Today we’ll look at last week’s:
💰 closed rounds,
💸 upcoming rounds,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
As always:
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💰 Closed Rounds
🇬🇧 GRIDSERVE - £526M Debt
📍 Iver, United Kingdom
🚗 EV charging network.
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Low Carbon - £400M Debt
📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Renewable energy investor and asset manager.
Investors:
MassMutual
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Field - £200M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Battery energy storage systems developer.
Investors:
DIF Capital Partners
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 VoltStorage - €30M Debt
📍 Munich, Germany
⚡️ Storing energy ecologically.
Investors:
European Investment Bank
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 ev.energy - £26M Series B
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 EV charging platform.
Investors:
ArcTern Ventures, Aviva Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, Future Energy Ventures, InMotion Ventures, National Grid Partners (NGP), Wex Venture Capital
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 Dioxycle - $17M Series A
📍 Bordeaux, France
💨 Electrolyzer that turns CO2 into ethylene.
Investors:
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Gigascale Capital, Lowercarbon Capital
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Nuada - £3M Series A
📍 Belfast, United Kingdom
💨 “Vacuuming” CO2.
Investors:
Business Growth Fund
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Holiferm - £2M Funding Round
📍 Manchester, United Kingdom
🏭 Environmentally-friendly biosurfactants.
Investors:
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 IMPACT+ €2M
📍 Paris, France
💡 Carbon footprint optimization services.
Investors:
Elevation Capital Partners
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Materials Nexus - £2M Seed
📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom
🏭 Accelerating change to net-zero materials.
Investors:
Ada Ventures, Andrew MacKay, Carbon13, ETCapital, G-Force, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Hugh Smith, Jamin Thompson, Jasmin Thomas, Katapult, MD ONE Ventures, Michael Eisenberg, University of Cambridge
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Greenpixie - £50k Grant
📍 London, United Kingdom
💡 Report, reduce, and control your cloud emissions.
Investors:
Innovate UK
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 Dryad Networks - Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany
🌳 Wildfire detection.
Investors:
TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇪🇸 VEGA Chargers - Corporate Round
📍 Santa Perpetua De Moguda, Spain
🚗 DC quick chargers for electric vehicles.
Investors:
Orbis
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 MiAlgae - Venture
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
🍴 Recycles co-products to grow omega-3 rich microalgae.
Investors:
Investbridge AgriTech
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) - Corporate Round
📍 Wilton, United Kingdom
🏭 Plant residues to biocarbons, biopolymers, biochemicals & biofuels.
Investors:
International Airlines Group (IAG)
Article, For Investors, For Talent
💸 Upcoming Rounds
Last week, 15 new upcoming funding rounds were posted on ClimatEU.
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🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (🏗 Cement & Concrete)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (🏭 Textile & Fashion)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (💸 Climate Investing)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (🏗 Construction Software)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (💸 Green Banking)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (🌳 Ocean Cleanup)
🇮🇱 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (🚗 Alternative Fuels)
🇰🇪 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (💨 Nature-Based CC)
🇳🇱 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q3 (⚡️ Energy Storage)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2023 Q3 (🏭 Consumer Goods)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2023 Q3 (💡 Earth Observation)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2023 Q3 (🍴 Alternative Protein)
🇪🇪 Seed - 2023 Q3 (🍴 Insects)
🇬🇧 Seed - 2023 Q3 (⚡️ Wind Energy)
🇺🇸 Series A - 2023 Q3 (💨 Nature-Based CC)
💼 New Jobs
Last week, 1,600+ jobs were added to our job board and were sent out to matching talents.
Talents: Check out all new jobs here.
Employers: Set up your employer profile or add your roles here.
📰 Climate News
🌳 Atlantic close to a tipping point (article)
🌳 Fire in Rhodes, Greece (article)
🏭 Breakthrough in the recycling industry? (article)
💡 July - hottest month in 1,000s of years? (article)
💸 5 key questions climate tech founders should ask impact investors (article)
💸 All the Article 8 and Article 9 VC funds in Europe (article)
💸 Survey for hardware climate-tech startups (article)
🗓 Upcoming Events
🇮🇹 Stati Generali dell'azione per il Clima (details)
🇬🇧 Should you be buying carbon offsets? (details)
🇸🇪 The Drop (details)
🇸🇪 Impact Week (details)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (details)
🇬🇧 SDGs and responsible business strategies (details)
🇬🇧 London Climate Tech Show (details)
🌎 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (details)
🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe (details)
🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action (details)
🇬🇧 Investing better - why where you bank matters (details)
That’s it for this week 💚
A big hug from Lisbon,
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