🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#70) 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)
🇫🇷 Verkor - €2B Series C
📍 Grenoble, France
⚡️ Amplifying battery cell production.
Investors:
Bpifrance, CMA CGM Ventures, Credit Agricole Assurances, EIT InnoEnergy, EQT Ventures, Government of France, Macquarie Group, Meridiam, Renault Group
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🇬🇧 Open Cosmos - £40M Series B
📍 Harwell, United Kingdom
💡 Low-earth orbit satellites providing data and images.
Investors:
A&G Energy Transition Tech Fund, Accenture Ventures, Claret Capital Partners, ETF Partners, Kheng Nam Lee, Santander Climate Tech Fund, Taavet Hinrikus, Trill Impact
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 TOOPI ORGANICS - €11M Series A
📍 Loupiac-de-la-réole, France
🧑🌾 Turns urine into crop biostimulants.
Investors:
BNP Paribas, Edaphon, IRDI SORIDEC Gestion, Johes, MAIF Impact, MakeSense, Meusinvest, VisVires New Protein
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Raylo - £5M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 Leases for consumer electronics.
Investors:
Channel 4 Ventures, Macquarie Capital
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Q-Bot Ltd - £4M Venture
📍 Wandsworth, United Kingdom
🏠 Robotic underfloor insulation solutions for energy-efficient homes.
Investors:
Adjuvo, EMV Capital, Wealth Club
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Treefera - $2M Pre-Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Restoring trust in the carbon market.
Investors:
Concept Ventures, Greg Lavender, January Ventures, Twin Path Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 ClimateAligned - £2M Pre-Seed
📍 Liverpool Street, United Kingdom
💸 AI-driven platform for a climate view on financial products.
Investors:
Pale Blue Dot, Frontline Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇨🇭 Viboo - CHF 2M Seed
📍 Dubendorf, Switzerland
🏠 Reduces heating costs & carbon footprint.
Investors:
HTGF, Rainmaking Impact, Swisscom Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇸🇪 Uniti Electric Car - $2M Corporate
📍 Lund, Sweden
🚗 Swedish electric car company.
Investors:
ARC Group
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Better Nature - $1M Crowdfunding
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Protein without compromise.
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 SKOOT - £1M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
💡 Identify, offset, & avoid CO2. B2B & B2C.
Investors:
Low Carbon Innovation Fund
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇳🇱 Tap Electric - €1M Seed
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🚗 Connects EV drivers to charger owners.
Investors:
Fair Capital Partners Impact Investing, LUMO labs, Shamrock Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Zak Mobility - £520k Venture
📍 Kettering, United Kingdom
🚗 Wheel technology that integrates a hub motor & suspension within the wheel.
Investors:
British Design Fund, Kero Development Partners
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🌍 Anthesis Group - Private Equity
📍 London, United Kingdom
💡 Sustainability advisory.
Investors:
The Carlyle Group, Tikehau Capital
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇸🇪 Grönska - Debt
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🧑🌾 Systems for indoor vertical farming.
Investors:
Nefco
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 CarbonBright - Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Decarbonizing supply chains in the CPG industry.
Investors:
FortyTwo.VC
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 Accenta - Venture
📍 Palaiseau, France
🏠 Helps property owners reduce heating & AC.
Investors:
EREN Groupe, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 theion - Corporate
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Quasi-solid state lithium/sulfur & silicon/sulfur batteries.
Investors:
Enpal
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 VIDA - Venture
📍 Munich, Germany
💡 Helping companies identify & monitor climate risks & impact opportunities.
Investors:
Cusp Capital
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇩🇪 Dance - Venture
📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 Ebikes & mopeds with a flexible subscription.
Investors:
4P Capital, Alexander Asseily, Carl Pei, GDTRE, Mads Fosselius, Simon Hähnel
Article, For Investors, For Talent
💸 Upcoming Rounds
One new round was announced last week:
🇺🇸 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💨 Techn-Based CC)
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💼 New Jobs
We sent out our weekly job recommendations to 4,800+ talents yesterday. Last week we saw a total of 1,453 new 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)
📰 Climate News
⚡️ Octopus Energy unveils next stage in smart heat
⚡️ EU fossil fuel burning for electricity fell to lowest on record
⚡️ Apple’s smart home app tells you when you’re using clean energy
⚡️ A guide to Virtual Power Plants (VPP)
💨 Guide to the Carbon Removal Hype
💨 Scaling Up for the Carbon Challenge
💨 Carbon Offsets Explained
🚎 The future of public charging stations?
🚎 California passes bill mandating pollution disclosures
🧑🌾 Tesco unveils rapid expansion of low-carbon fertilizer trial
🧑🌾 “Lab-grown Meat is not a Climate Change Solution”
💡 Introducing HackTrends
💡 Greta’s strikes led third of Swiss citizens to change habits
🌳 US launches $1bn tree-planting scheme
🌳 OCEANIUM nets $2.6 million to supercharge seaweed processing
🌍 Rising Seas & Extreme Weather are Uprooting Millions
💸 Introducing the Climate Scout Fund
🏭 Port Talbot steelworks gets £500m
🏠 A Cooler Future Means a World With Less Pavement
🗓 Upcoming Events
🇬🇧 London Climate Tech Show
🌎 SOSV Climate Tech Summit
🇮🇹 Nature Based Solution
🇵🇹 Work on Climate - September Edition Lisbon
🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe
🇺🇸 How to Win Climate Tech Grants
🇪🇪 Impact Day
🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action
🇬🇧 Investing better - why where you bank matters
🇬🇧 The International Carbon Markets Summit 2023
🇦🇹 Discover Vienna: Climate Tech
🌎 ClimateTech Founders Summit 2023
That’s it for this week 💚
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