🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#65) by ClimateU
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:
💚 Add any events, news, closed rounds, or upcoming rounds for next week’s newsletter.
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📢 Platform Updates
1️⃣ ClimatEU = ClimateU
We’ve spent months discussing with branding agencies, the community, and friends, what a better name for ClimatEU would be. Why? We’ve had many non-European companies and investors join the platform, the company is constantly misspelled, and the name did not sound inclusive to those based outside of Europe.
After long discussions, we realized that the original name: “ClimateU” is still the name that best fits our vision - to create a place for YOU - a platform that helps U fight climate change, no matter what your background or career path is.
You’ll now find us under the same domain, just without the capitalized “E”.
2️⃣ Your talent profile / job preferences
Setting up your job preferences and talent profile on ClimateU hasn’t had the greatest user interface until now, so we gave it a simplified makeover. You can now just fill out and update your preferences here.
3️⃣ ClimateU Internship
We’re looking for an entrepreneurial all-rounder and climate enthusiast who wants to join us for 6 months and who wants to work with us directly in Barcelona’s Norrsken House from October onwards. We need someone to help with all things operations, marketing, data entry… - someone who can solve problems, is passionate about climate-tech, and who can do repetitive work/figure out how to better automate it.
Please reply to this newsletter if that is you, or if someone comes to mind 📩
💰 Closed Rounds
🇳🇱 Meatable - €31M Series B
📍 Delft, Netherlands
🍴 Alternative meat.
Investors:
Agronomics, BlueYard Capital, Bridford Group, DSM Venturing, Invest-NL, Milky Way Ventures, Taavet Hinrikus
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 KRAFTBLOCK - €20M Series B
📍 Saarbrücken, Germany
⚡️ Kraftblock - rethinking energy-storage.
Investors:
A&G Energy Transition Tech Fund, Finindus, Future Industry Ventures, Moore Strategic Ventures, Shell Ventures, TechEnergy Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 STABL Energy - €15M Venture
📍 Munich, Germany
⚡️ Join us in setting a new standard for battery storage systems.
Investors:
Energie360°, European Innovation Council, Nordic Alpha Partners, UVC Partners
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇸🇪 Meva Energy - €9M Series A
📍 Hisingsbacka, Sweden
⚡️ Renewable power and gas from biomass.
Investors:
AXA Investment Managers
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Matter. - £8M Series A
📍 Bristol, United Kingdom
🌳 Pioneering plastic capture.
Investors:
Katapult Ocean, Regeneration.VC, S2G Ventures, Sound Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Clean Food Group - £2M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Clean Food Group produces sustainable food ingredients for environment and health without compromising on teste or performance.
Investors:
Agronomics, Alianza Team, DohlerGroup
Article, For Investors, For Talent
💸 Upcoming Rounds
We currently feature 202 upcoming rounds and 113 pitch decks on ClimateU.
Sign up for investor access to have a look at the upcoming rounds and decks from last week. New in:
🇮🇱 Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Waste Heat Energy)
🇨🇭 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Solar Energy)
💼 New Jobs
We just sent out our weekly job recommendations to 4,000+ talents signed up on ClimateU. Last week we saw a total of 1,663 jobs posted on the ClimateU job board.
Talents: To get tailored job recommendations via email, set up your climate job focus here.
Employers: Set up your employer profile or add your roles here.
📰 Climate News
🌳 How Drugs Are Destroying the Amazon (article)
🌳 Heat Is Shaking the Foundation of the Ocean Food Web (article)
🌳 Missing ice and bleached coral: the sudden warming of the oceans (article)
🌳 Expert panel calls for urgent rethink on Great Barrier Reef management (article)
🚎 Tata’s UK Battery Factory (article)
🚎 London mayor widens car scrappage (article)
💡 Economic uncertainty puts pressure on sustainable behavior change (article)
💡 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions (article)
🏭 The end of the road for fast fashion? The EU hopes so (article)
⚡️ Former Oil Guy Is Using Fracking Tech to Boost Geothermal (article)
💸 Green companies still hard to find with new emissions reporting rules (article)
🗓 Upcoming Events
🇩🇪 The Startup Tank Climate Investor Pitch Show (details)
🇬🇧 ESG & Sustainability Reporting 101 (details)
🌎 The hard thing about climate tech hardware (details)
🇮🇹 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)
🇺🇸 How to Win Climate Tech Grants (details)
🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action (details)
🇬🇧 Investing better - why where you bank matters (details)
🌎 ClimateTech Founders Summit 2023 (details)
That’s it for this week 💚
Big hug from Lisbon,
PS: Please tell a few fellow climate enthusiasts, talents, founders, or investors about our newsletter and the ClimateU platform 🌳
📩 Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, or other inquiries to: team@climateu.earth