🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#77) by ClimateU
12 closed rounds, upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events.
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Today, we'll cover last week's:
💰 closed rounds (12),
💸 upcoming rounds,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)
🇨🇭 SkyCell - $57M Venture - Series Unknown
📍 Zürich, Switzerland
🚗 Temperature-controlled logistics containers.
Investors: Catalyst, M&G Investments
🇪🇸 Twinco Capital - €50M Debt Financing
📍 Alcobendas, Spain
💸 Supply chain finance solution.
Investors: BBVA Spark
🇳🇱 In Ovo - €40M Debt Financing
📍 Leiden, Netherlands
🧑🌾 Biotech, efficiency, and animal welfare.
Investors: European Investment Bank
🇩🇪 Cambrium - €8M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🏭 Materials that matter.
Investors: Essential Capital, HOF Capital, SNR.vc, Valor Equity Partners
🇩🇪 Tvarit - €7M Series A
📍 Frankfurt, Germany
🏭 Sustainable and zero-waste manufacturing.
Investors: 4impact, Futury Capital, Matterwave Ventures, Momenta
🇩🇰 Bioomix - €6M Venture
📍 Odense, Denmark
🧑🌾 All-natural microbial products for farmers.
Investors: David Hollidge, HBL Investment Partners, Planetary Impact Ventures, PreSeed Ventures, West Hill Capital
🇩🇪 tupu - €3M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🍴 Leapfrogging the mushroom farming industry.
Investors: Clear Current Capital, Coast Capital Savings, FoodHack, FoodLabs, Gil Horsky, IT-Farm, Roger Hassan, Zubi Capital
🇬🇧 Sustainable Ventures - £3M Pre-Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Supporting climate businesses.
Investors: Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital
🇫🇮 Kausal - €880k Seed
📍 Helsinki, Finland
💡 Assists cities with their climate goals via data.
Investors: Innovestor, Zubi Capital
🇬🇧 Trojan Energy - £500k Grant
📍 Stonehaven, United Kingdom
🚗 Charge point operator.
Investors: Scottish Enterprise, Low Carbon Manufacturing Challenge Fund
🇩🇪 Smalt - Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
💡 Labour supply & productivity in the climate trades.
Investors: La Famiglia, Owl Ventures, APX
🇸🇪 Ljusgårda - Funding Round
📍 Tibro, Sweden
🧑🌾 Vertical farming.
💸 Upcoming Rounds
Currently, 135 companies are fundraising via ClimateU. Investors, corporates, and service providers can access all these companies, founders, and pitch decks on the platform.
2 upcoming rounds have been added last week:
🇺🇸 Grant - 2024 Q1 (💡 Climate Education/Solar)
🇩🇰 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (💡 Climate Education)
💼 New Jobs
Last week, 1,418 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board and were sent to our 5k+ signed-up talents.
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📰 Climate News
Energy
⚡️ How solid-state batteries could transform transport
⚡️ The struggles of the offshore wind industry
⚡️ Windeed's solution promises to revolutionize floating wind power
Nature
🌳 EU to crack down further on microplastics after glitter ban
🌳 European Parliament approves new fisheries control rules
🌳 MIT researchers have created a solar-powered desalination device
🌳 Storm Ciarán: five dead in Italy; Spain evacuates 800 as wildfire spreads
🌳 The state of the European biodiversity startup ecosystem
Climate Finance
💸 30 Women Angel Investors In Climate to Know
💸 Norrsken22’s debut fund closes at $205M to back growth-stage startups in Africa
💸 Transition Finance Landscape Report Launch
Policy & Advocacy:
📢 EU must cut carbon emissions three times faster to meet targets, report says
📢 Some EU policies ‘hinder’ climate action, WWF says
📢 What is COP28 in Dubai and why is it important?
Transport
🚎 Cruise ships polluting UK coast as they ignore greener power options
🚎 Shipping industry could lose $10 billion a year battling climate change by 2050
🚎 What could more European football mean for planet?
Climate Adaptation
🌍 A dying sport: Are Italy's low-lying ski resorts a lost cause?
🌍 Funding for climate adaptation is ‘stalling’ as need rises, UN warns
Other
🏠 Climate change forcing commercial real-estate developers to add weather-proofing
🏭 Future of fossil fuels leaves nations at odds ahead of UN climate summit
💡 Northern Spain’s cooler beaches lure tourists away from scorched south
🧑🌾 Emissions of food production, transport & storage
🗓 Upcoming Events
This week
🇬🇧 Climate Techies London Quarterly Breakfast
🇦🇹 Discover Vienna: Climate Tech
🌎 ClimateTech Founders Summit 2023
🇬🇧 Scaling ClimateTech Innovation in the Corporate World
After this week
🇵🇹 Urban Impact Pitch Competition
🇫🇷 Climate Techies Paris with Plug and Play
🇨🇭 Climate Techies Zurich Drinks
That’s it for this week!
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