🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#75) by ClimateU
14 closed rounds, 7 upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events.
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This week, we’ll cover:
🎙 A new climate podcast,
💰 closed rounds (14),
💸 upcoming rounds (7),
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)
🇩🇪 Numbat - €70M Convertible Note
📍 Kempten, Germany
🚗 High-power charging station and storage.
Investors: Patrizia
🇳🇱 Fastned - €34M Post-IPO Debt
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🚗 Fast-charging network for EVs.
🇳🇱 Overstory - $14M Series A
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
💡 Real-time vegetation intelligence.
Investors: B Capital, Bentley iTwin Ventures, CapitalT, Convective Capital, Moxxie Ventures, Overwater Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Semapa Next, The Nature Conservancy
🇧🇪 Ampacimon - €10M Series C
📍 Angleur, Belgium
⚡️ Dynamic line rating systems.
Investors: Creos Luxembourg, Gesval, Junction Growth Investors, Korys, Meusinvest (Noshaq)
🇩🇪 FarmInsect - €8M Series A
📍 Bergkirchen, Germany
🍴 FarmInsect offers an automated solution for the local insect breeding at the farmer as animal feed.
Investors: Bayern Kapital, European Innovation Council, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Minderoo Foundation, Sandwater
🇩🇪 Cloover - €7M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
💸 Embedded finance solution for vendors of renewables hardware.
Investors: 9900, Broadhaven Ventures, Centrotec Sustainable, Index Ventures, QED Investors
🇳🇱 Skoon Energy - €5M Series A
📍 Rotterdam, Netherlands
⚡️ Online Marketplace for clean energy.
Investors: Blue Bear Capital, Graduate Entrepreneur Fund, Kees Koolen
🇪🇪 Bisly - €4M Venture
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🏠 Intelligent building solutions.
Investors: Aconterra, Pinorena Capital, Reach UK, Second Century Ventures, SmartCap
🇩🇰 Klimate.co - €4M Seed
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
💸 Portfolios of carbon removal projects.
Investors: Eneco Ventures, Export and Investment Fund, Helen Ventures, Rockstart
🇬🇧 Volteras - $3M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Data from hundreds of energy devices in a single data model.
Investors: Exor, Long Journey Ventures, Outside VC, Rivus Capital, Scott Banister, Unruly Capital
🇬🇧 Beta Bugs Limited - £2M Venture
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
🍴 Insects.
Investors: Beeches Group, Climate VC, Innovate UK, Scottish Enterprise, SIS Ventures, TRICAPITAL
🇩🇪 Circadian Technologies GmbH - €2M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Decentralized energy for businesses in frontier markets.
Investors: BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures, Great Stuff Ventures, Neil MacDougall, Persistent, RaliCap, Rockstart
🇩🇪 Zeedz - €950k Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
💡 Climate gaming.
Investors: Carsten Maschmeyer, Dagmar Wöhrl, Nils Glagau, Ralf Dummel, Tillman Schulz
🇳🇱 Protix - Corporate Round
📍 Dongen, Netherlands
🍴 Insect protein.
Investors: Tyson Foods
💸 Upcoming Rounds
Currently, 131 rounds are live. Investors, corporates, and service providers can access all rounds and companies via the platform.
7 new rounds have been announced in October:
🇬🇧 Angel - 2024 Q1 (💡 Climate Education)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Energy Efficiency)
🇩🇰 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🏗 Construction Software)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (💸 Climate Investing)
🇩🇪🇹🇷 Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)
🇳🇴 Seed - 2024 Q1 (🚗 Aviation)
🇦🇹 Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Wind Energy)
💼 New Jobs
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📰 Climate News
⚡️ The world has to add or replace 50 million miles of transmission by 2040
⚡️ Solar thermochemical hydrogen
⚡️ Half of the world is past a peak in fossil power
💸 RevRoad Capital raises $61 million for early-stage startups
💸 Par Equity secures £67m in first close of northern startup fund
💸 LatAm's 40+ Top Climate VCs to know
💸 Can you call yourself a climate investor if you only invest in software?
🚎 Volta Trucks files for bankruptcy
🚎 Environmentally Friendly Way to Recycle Electric Car Batteries
🧑🌾 Brainforest is launching its second program for Food, Forests & Agroforestry.
💨 Could Rocks Be the Climate Change Solution We've Been Searching For?
💡 State of Climate-Tech 2023 by PWC
🏭 10 Startups in waste management
🌳 Discussions around Zermatt glacier
🌍 Smart sensors help reduce the impact of floods in Lisbon
🗓 Upcoming Events
This week
🇩🇪 Berlin Climate Tech Drinks
🇺🇸 NYC Brunch & Climate Chat
After this week
🇬🇧 The International Carbon Markets Summit 2023
🇦🇹 Discover Vienna: Climate Tech
🌎 ClimateTech Founders Summit 2023
🇬🇧 Scaling ClimateTech Innovation in the Corporate World
🇵🇹 Urban Impact Pitch Competition
That’s it for this week!
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