🌳 Last week in climate (#81) by ClimateU
17 closed rounds, new dealflow, COP28 news, jobs, and events.
Good morning and happy Tuesday from COP28,
It has been a wild week of non-stop meetings, side events, networking, and 30,000+ steps a day in the heat of Dubai, but of course, you get your weekly summary.
Today, we'll cover last week's:
🔎 100 COP28 participants,
💰 closed rounds (17),
🚀 new dealflow,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
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🔎 100 COP28 Participants
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💰 Closed Rounds
🇫🇷 mylight150 - €100M PE
📍 Jonage, France
⚡️ Smart energy management systems & solar self-consumption solutions.
Investors: Andera Partners, Azora, Eiffel Investment Group, Elevation Capital
🇫🇷 Braincube - €83M Series B
📍 Issoire, France
🏭 Manufacturing sustainability analytics company.
Investors: Bpifrance, Scottish Equity Partners
🇮🇪 TechMet - $50M Debt Financing
📍 Dublin, Ireland
🏗 Critical metals.
Investors: U.S. International Development Finance Corp
🇫🇮 One Click LCA - €40M Venture
📍 Helsinki, Finland
🏠 Building life cycle metrics software.
Investors: InfraVia Capital Partners, PSG Equity
🇮🇹 Energy Dome - €35M Grant
📍 Lonate Pozzolo, Italy
⚡️ Long-duration electricity storage using liquid CO2.
Investors: Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, European Investment Bank
🇫🇷 Adionics - €25M Series B
📍 Thiais, France
🏭 Salt separations, lithium, and iodide extractions.
Investors: Bpifrance, Celeste Management, Ovive, Sociedad Quimica Y Minera (SQM), Supernova Invest
🇬🇧 Xlinks - £20M Corporate
📍 Billericay, United Kingdom
⚡️ 3,800km cable from the Sahara to the UK.
Investors: TotalEnergies
🇫🇮 Carbo Culture - $18M Series A
📍 Helsinki, Finland
💨 Biochar carbon removal.
Investors: GenZero, Tesi, True Ventures
🇫🇷 Karos - €17M Series C
📍 Paris, France
🚗 Carpooling.
Investors: Citizen Capital, Ring Capital
🇬🇧 Modo Energy - £11.8M Series A
📍 Birmingham, United Kingdom
⚡️ Optimises battery energy storage systems.
Investors: Catalyst Capital, Fred. Olsen & Co., MMC Ventures, Triple Point Ventures
🇩🇰 Again - $10M Seed
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🏭 Carbon-negative chemicals for a cleaner future.
Investors: ACME Capital, Atlantic Labs, Google Ventures
🇩🇰 Hyme - €8M Venture
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
⚡️ Large-scale long-duration energy storage.
Investors: Heartland A/S, Nordic Makers, North-East Venture
🇩🇪 Impossible Materials - CHF 2M Grant
📍 Hamburg, Germany
🏭 Cellulose white pigment solutions.
Investors: InnoSuisse
🇩🇰 BeCause - $1.9M Seed
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🚗 AI-powered sustainability management for travel.
Investors: Sean Brown, Sean Evans, Superangel, Ugly Duckling Ventures
🇵🇱 Envirly - €1.4M Seed
📍 Lublin, Poland
💡 Help businesses analyse their environmental impact.
Investors: Aligo Venture Capital, Angels 4 Impact, Bank Bgż Bnp Paribas, Tangent Line Ventures
🇪🇸 Floatech - €1.2M Seed
📍 Madrid, Spain
⚡️ High-performance silicon anodes.
Investors: Big Sur Ventures, CDTI Innovación's INNVIERTE program, Grow Venture Partners
🇨🇭 GRZ Technologies - Venture
📍 Sion, Switzerland
⚡️Modular waste management solution.
Investors: Sabancı Ventures
🚀 New Dealflow
We’re finalizing our updated insights, dealflow, and data access on ClimateU - more on that soon.
Last week, three new rounds were announced:
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Biomass Energy / 🏭 Chemicals, 💨 CCU)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (🌳 Biodiversity / 🏠 ESG Software / 📢 Regulation)
🇮🇪 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💸 Carbon Markets / 💸 Climate Investing)
💼 New Jobs
Last week, 1,857 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.
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📰 Climate News
👋 We’re looking for a volunteer to sit down weekly and compile the most relevant climate news. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).
This week we’ll focus on COP28 news:
📢 COP 28: Over 120 countries back Climate & Health Declaration
📢 COP 28: Oil Firms Commit to Major Fossil Fuel Cut by 2050
💸 COP28 kicks off with climate disaster fund victory
💸 COP 28: Bezos Earth Fund Commits $57M for Future Food
💸 COP 28: 11 Winners Recognised with Zayed Sustainability Prize
⚡️ COP 28: 117 countries agree to triple renewable energy
⚡️ COP 28: 22 countries call for tripling of nuclear by 2050
And some great deep dives:
💡 40+ African ClimateTech Investors to Know
🚎 Sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) and aviation deep dive
🗓 Upcoming Events
Events this week:
🇫🇷 Climate Techies Paris with Plug and Play
🇮🇪 Dublin Climate Dinner in Cornucopia
🇨🇭 Climate Techies Zurich Drinks
Future events:
💡 Let's Talk About Climate Anxiety in Impact Work
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival
🇨🇭 HackSummit
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development
That’s it for this week!
Big hug from Dubai,
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