🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#78) by ClimateU
🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#78) by ClimateU
16 closed rounds, new dealflow, news, jobs, and events.
Good morning!
Today, we'll cover last week's:
💰 closed rounds (16),
💸 new dealflow,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)
🇦🇹 refurbed - €54M Series C
📍 Vienna, Austria
🏭 Refurbished tech platform.
Investors: All Iron Ventures, C4 Ventures, Evli Growth Partners, Speedinvest
🇳🇴 Otovo - €40M Post-IPO Equity
📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ Marketplace for solar and battery storage.
Investors: AxSol, Nysnø, OBOS Group, Å Energi
🇬🇧 Letoon Holding - £20M Private Equity
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Recover lycopene from tomato waste.
Investors: Nimbus
🇫🇷 Hello Watt - €12M Venture
📍 Paris, France
⚡️ Energy consumption monitoring application.
Investors: BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture fund, Starquest Capital
🇫🇷 Goodvest - €7M Venture
📍 Paris, France
💸 Investment products with a focus on the environment.
Investors: AG2R La Mondiale, Polytechnique Ventures, Ring Capital
🇮🇹 Dreamfarm - €5M Pre-Seed
📍 Sala Baganza, Italy
🍴 Plant-based cheese.
Investors: Francesco MuttiMutti, Giampaolo Cagnin
🇫🇮 SpinDrive - €4M Series A
📍 Lappeenranta, Finland
🚗 Levitation technology.
Investors: Born2Grow, Innovestor, Rhapsody Venture Partners
🇪🇪 RAIKU Packaging - €3M Seed
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🏭 100% natural packaging material.
Investors: EIC - European Innovation Council
🇫🇷 Ensol - €3M Seed
📍 Paris, France
⚡️ Solar systems for homeowners in France.
Investors: Otium Capital
🇪🇸 Adaion - €3M Seed
📍 Churriana De La Vega, Spain
⚡️ Aids grid operators in the energy transition.
Investors: Fondo Bolsa Social, Investing Profit Wisely
🇳🇱 Skytree - €3M Grant
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
💨 Carbon capture.
Investors: European Innovation Council
🇮🇪 Positive Carbon - €2M Seed
📍 Dublin, Ireland
🍴 Food waste monitoring for hotels, restaurants & cities.
Investors: Business Venture Partners, Enterprise Ireland, Gateway Ventures, HEARTFELT
🇩🇪 Insempra - €2M Grant
📍 Pullach, Germany
🏭 Reinventing manufacturing.
Investors: SPRIN-D
🇬🇧 BOLDR - £980k Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Effective heating and cooling.
Investors: Ada Ventures, Focal, FP Solutions, Norrsken VC, Techstars
🇬🇧 Ventive Limited - £916k Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Intelligent ventilation.
Investors: EMV Capital
🇩🇪 InPlanet - Seed
📍 Munich, Germany
💨 Enhanced rock weathering.
Investors: FoodLabs, Salvia GmbH, Mudcake (prev. Trellis Road), Carbon Removal Partners, Übermorgen Ventures
💸 New Dealflow
Currently, 140 rounds are live on ClimateU.
New in last week:
🇬🇧 Angel - 2023 Q4 (Climate Investing)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (Solar)
🇪🇸 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (Carbon Markets / Nature-based CC)
🇮🇳 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Energy Software & Analytics)
🇳🇱 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Vertical Farming)
🇸🇬🇳🇱 Seed - 2023 Q4 (Alternative Protein)
💼 New Jobs
Last week, 1,864 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
⚡️ 3 important things happening in hydrogen right now
⚡️ Batteries of the future: How cotton & seawater might power our devices
⚡️ Can a viable industry emerge from the hydrogen shakeout?
⚡️ China’s Coal Boom Includes 775 GW Of Shelved, Canceled, Or Closed Plants
⚡️ Has a solution to climate change been buried deep in Earth all along?
⚡️ Portugal sets new renewable energy record as production outstrips demand
⚡️ The Hydrogen Ladder Version 5.0
⚡️ Startup hopes its nanomaterial fuel tanks will jumpstart hydrogen revolution
⚡️ World’s largest wind turbine
Industry:
🏭 With no worldwide standards, are 'plastic credits' reducing waste or greenwashing?
🏭 Decarbonizing a concrete problem: a blueprint to net zero cement
🏭 First-of-a-kind plants (FOAK)
🏭 Podcast: Decarbonizing Chemical Design
🏭 Swedish fashion brand introduces new kind of receipt to help curb emissions
🏭 Podcast: The World is On Fire But We're Still Buying Shoes
Food & Agricultre
🧑🌾 Cigarette-style climate warnings on food could cut meat consumption
🧑🌾 Halving food waste could cut 8% CO2 emissions in Europe
🧑🌾 Student Demand for Low-Impact Meals Increases
🧑🌾 The State of Food & Agriculture report
🧑🌾 Unilever unearths regenerative agriculture for Knorr and Hellmann's
Nature
🌳 Rewilding the site of a massive former coal mine
🌳 10,000 oysters released on to reef to help clean sea
🌳 Ocean-based startups ride a wave of funds
Built Environment
🏠 Engineers make stronger concrete with old coffee grounds
🏠 Octopus launches clean energy scheme with no bills for householders (FT)
🏠 Unilever to share patents to tackle freezer emissions
Climate Finance
💸 Emmanuel Macron pledges €1bn to fund research into melting ice caps
💸 The 2023 winners of the Eartshot Prize
Other
💨 Reassessing the EU’s approach to methane emissions
📢 Western nations are on the cusp of usurping loss and damage fund.
🗓 Upcoming Events
This week
🇬🇧 Climate at Work: Make sustainability part of everybody’s job
After this week
🇫🇷 Climate Techies Paris with Plug and Play
🇨🇭 Climate Techies Zurich Drinks
That’s it for this week!
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