🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#69) by ClimateU
🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#69) 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:
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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)
🇸🇪 H2 Green Steel - €1.5B Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏗 Fossil-free steel production.
Investors:
Altor, AMF, Andra AP-fonden, Cristina Stenbeck, FAM AB, GIC, Hitachi Energy, Hy24, IMAS Foundation, Just Climate, Kinnevik, Schaeffler Group, Temasek Holdings, Vargas Holdings
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇸🇪 Polarium - SEK 562M Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Lithium battery solutions for telecom.
Investors:
Alecta, AMF, Vargas Holdings
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 nuventura - €25M Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ GIS that uses air instead of SF6.
Investors:
ADB Ventures, Cycle Group, DOEN Participaties, EIC Accelerator, FORWARD.one, Future Energy Ventures, IBB Ventures, Mirova
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇮 Paptic Ltd - €23M Series A
📍 Espoo, Finland
🏭 Plastic alternative.
Investors:
Ecolab, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, ITOCHU International
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 E-Mobilio - €10M Series A
📍 Munich, Germany
🚗 Platform to help drivers switch to electric mobility.
Investors:
Gateway Ventures, kopa ventures, seed + speed Ventures, SET Ventures, ZAKA VC, Zwei.7, Übermorgen Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇳🇱 Phycom - €9M Venture
📍 Veenendaal, Netherlands
🍴 Algae.
Investors:
Corbion, Invest International, Invest-NL, Phase2.Earth
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 Ostrom - €8M Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Energy management platform.
Investors:
Adjacent, J12 Ventures, SE Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Übermorgen Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇮 Solar Foods - €6M
📍 Helsinki, Finland
🍴 Natural protein for food industry.
Investors:
EIC - European Innovation Council
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 volytica diagnostics - €6M Venture
📍 Dresden, Germany
⚡️ Battery management solutions for EVs.
Investors:
Atlantic Labs, EnBW New Ventures, FTTF, SHIFT Invest, TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Opna - £5M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Financing platform for climate projects.
Investors:
Allison Pickens, Angel Invest, Atomico, Cristina Stenbeck, Luke Griffiths, MCJ Collective, Pale Blue Dot, Stijn Christiaens, Tiny VC
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Mocean Energy - £3M Grant
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
⚡️ Machines that harness wave energy.
Investors:
European Union
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇪🇪 VOOL - €3M Venture
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🚗 EV charging solution.
Investors:
Amalfi Capital, Kaamos, Kuldar Väärsi, Specialist VC, Taavi Veskimägi
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇳🇱 zepp.solutions - €2M Grant
📍 Paardenmarkt, Netherlands
⚡️ Hydrogen fuel cell systems.
Investors:
Europe’s Just Transition Fund
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 SolarisKit Ltd - £150k Seed
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
⚡️ Easy-to-install, flat-packable solar collectors.
Investors:
British Design Fund
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Echion Technologies - Venture
📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom
⚡️ High-power Li-ion anode materials for fast-charging batteries.
Investors:
Volta Energy Technologies
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Perceptual Robotics - Venture
📍 Bristol, United Kingdom
⚡️ Intelligent automation for wind turbine inspections.
Investors:
Susten
Article, For Investors, For Talent
💸 Upcoming Rounds
Three rounds were announced last week:
🇬🇧 Seed - 2024 Q1 (🚗 Supply Chain)
🇬🇧 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🏭 Packaging)
🇨🇭 Series B - 2023 Q4 (🏭 Recycling /Plastics)
Investors, corporates, and service providers can access these companies via the platform.
💼 New Jobs
We sent out our weekly job recommendations to 4,700+ talents yesterday. Last week we saw a total of 1,340 jobs posted on the ClimateU job board.
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We just welcomed a few new employers who signed up for premium and are now hiring via ClimateU:
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international non-profit, that promotes responsible management of the world's forests via timber certification.
🇪🇺 Senior Advisor - Ecosystem Services (EU - Remote)
🇩🇪 Communications Student Assistant (Bonn - Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Products Manager - Carbon and Biodiversity (Bonn - Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Legal Counsel/ Legal Officer (Bonn - Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Trademark Officer (Bonn - Hybrid)
We Do Solar
We Do Solar is a smart balcony solar system that saves up to 25% on electricity bills and reduces CO2.
🇩🇪 Founder Associate (Berlin - Hybrid)
Axle Energy
Axle is an energy flexibility startup. Their platform connects EVs and home energy devices to electricity markets to help kick fossil fuels out of the grid.
🇬🇧 Software Engineer (London - Hybrid)
HellGruen Energie
HellGruen accelerates green energy investments with a digital one-stop-shop for energy installers & investors.
🇩🇪 (Senior) Business Development Manager (Cologne - Hybrid)
leonardo.impact
leonardo’s science-based solution streamlines impact data collection and verification, so that you can confidently report your impact to stakeholders.
🇩🇪 Software/MLOps engineer (Frankfurt - Hybrid)
🇪🇺 Senior Software Engineer (Frankfurt/Munich - Remote)
📰 Climate News
⚡️ The big guide to batteries by Ben James
⚡️ Orsted may write-off over $2 billion
⚡️ Batteries from crashed Teslas could power UK homes
🧑🌾 Steakholder Foods’ customizable 3D modeling software
🧑🌾 Mosa Meat becomes B Corp
🧑🌾 Food waste software deep dive
🌳 Maya Climate’s pre-Issuance risk assessment platform
🌳 Lords to debate mandating swift bricks in new homes in England
🏭 UK researchers develop self-healing leather
🏭 Manufacturing tech projects awarded over £50m
💸 World Fund adds €50M to fund
💸 Unconventional Ventures nears €30M fund close
💸 The European startups in Y Combinator’s S23 cohort
💸 KKR's inaugural climate strategy
💸 Heirloom & Microsoft sign CO2 removal deals
💸 Frontier facilitates 3rd round of carbon removal purchases
💸 Founders Future reaches $80 million first close
💸 EIT InnoEnergy secures €140M for its portfolio companies
💸 15 climate software startups to watch
💸 €40M first close by Greencode Ventures
💨 World’s first seaweed baling and sinking Test
🏠 Green infrastructure key to net-zero cities
🌍 Ellos Group selects Worldfavor for managing sustainability data
🗓 Upcoming Events
This week
🇸🇪 Impact Week
🇩🇪 Impact Festival
🌍 Q&A: Find Your Climate Career
🇩🇪 Mushlabs - Food Innovation Day
After this week
🌍 Virtual Climate Café
🇬🇧 SDGs and responsible business strategies
🇬🇧 London Climate Tech Show
🌎 SOSV Climate Tech Summit
🇮🇹 Nature Based Solution
🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe
🇺🇸 How to Win Climate Tech Grants
🇪🇪 Impact Day
🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action
🇬🇧 Investing better - why where you bank matters
🇦🇹 Discover Vienna: Climate Tech
🌎 ClimateTech Founders Summit 2023
That’s it for this week 💚
Big hug from Cape Town,
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