🌳 Last week in climate (#82) by ClimateU
22 closed rounds, new dealflow, COP28 news, jobs, and events.
Good morning evening and happy Tuesday from COP28 in Dubai,
Today, we'll cover last week's:
💰 closed rounds (22),
🚀 new dealflow,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
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💰 Closed Rounds
🇨🇭🇬🇭 Koa - €15M Series B
📍 Switzerland & Ghana
🏭 Cocoa fruit products.
Investors: Mirova, Regenerative Growth Fund 1, Haltra
🇩🇰 Blue World Technologies - €11M Series C
📍 Aalborg, Denmark
🚗 Methanol fuel cell manufacturer as alternative fuel.
Investors: Cycle Group, Export and Investment Fund, Maersk Growth
🇸🇪 Enerpoly - $8.4M Grant
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Sustainable zinc-ion batteries for energy storage solutions.
Investors: Swedish Energy Agency
🇬🇧 HURR - £7.9M Venture - Series Unknown
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 On-demand wardrobe rental.
Investors: Ascension, D4 Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Praetura Ventures
🇬🇧 SunSave - £5.4M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Solar and storage for households.
Investors: Bill Nussey, IPGL, Michael Spencer, Norrsken VC, Plug and Play Tech Center, Roland Rudd, Sir Stuart Rose
🇳🇱 Farmless - €4.8M Seed
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🍴 Planet-friendly proteins.
Investors: Revent, Vorwerk Ventures, World Fund
🇩🇪 Strong by Form - €4.8M Seed
📍 Stuttgart, Germany
🏗 Timber-based biocomposites.
Investors: Citi Ventures, Climate Insiders, CMPC Ventures, COREangels, Finsa, GSBackers, MAIF Avenir, Savia Ventures, Saviu Ventures, Symbia VC, Teampact ventures, VX Ventures
🇪🇪 UP Catalyst - €4M Seed
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
⚡️ Carbon nanomaterials and graphite.
Investors: Extantia Capital, Little Green Fund, Scottish Baltic Invest, SmartCap, Sunly, UniTartu Ventures
🇪🇸 Velca - €3.5M Series A
📍 Madrid, Spain
🚗 Electric motorcycles.
Investors: BeHappy Investments, Noso Capital, sherry ventures
🇫🇷 Carbon Maps - €3M Seed
📍 Lille, France
🍴 Climate management platform for the food industry.
Investors: Breega, Daphni, Samaipata
🇫🇷 BioFluff - $2.5M Seed
📍 Paris, France
🏭 Plant-based fur.
Investors: Astanor Ventures
🇦🇹 Lignovations - €2.2M Seed
📍 Vienna, Austria
⚡️ Sustainable biomaterials.
Investors: Borregaard ASA, Valnon Holding
🇹🇷 Innovasion Labs PINC - $2M Seed
📍 Turkey
⚡️ Lithium-ion battery technology.
Investors: APY Ventures, Cihan Elbirlik, Kerim Kotan, Keshif Ventures
🇨🇭 Noriware - CHF 1.4M Grant
📍 Aargau, Switzerland
🏭 Seaweed-based packaging film.
Investors: InnoSuisse
🇬🇧 Ki Hydrogen - €1.1M Pre-Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Unlocking the green hydrogen revolution.
Investors: Desai Ventures, SFC Capital, HICO, G-Force, Carbon13
🇩🇪 level nine. - €1M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🏭 Biomanufacturing.
Investors: Zero Carbon, Entrepreneur First, Rockstart, Maarten Alblas, Jonas Ruyter, Ferdinando Randisi
🇬🇧 Clean Food Group - £1M Grant
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Sustainable food ingredients.
Investors: Innovate UK
🇬🇧 LIND - £900k Seed
📍 Kinross, United Kingdom
⚡️ Battery storage.
Investors: Green Angel Ventures, Scottish Enterprise, University of Strathclyde
🇬🇧🇷🇴 Ogre AI - €625k Seed
📍 Romania / UK
⚡️ The ultimate energy management platform.
Investors: Soulmates Ventures
🇬🇧 About:Energy & Eatron Technologies - Grant
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Unlocking the potential of battery technology.
Investors: UK Research and Innovation
Article, About Energy, Eatron Technologies
🇪🇪 R8 TECHNOLOGIES - Corporate Round
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🏠 AI for more sustainable commercial buildings.
Investors: Encevo, Møller Eiendom, Panasonic
🚀 New Dealflow
We’re finalizing our updated insights, dealflow, and data access on ClimateU - more on that soon.
Last week, another round was announced:
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Solar Energy / Distributed Energy Resources)
💼 New Jobs
Last week, 1,750 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.
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📰 Climate News
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Some COP28 News:
💔 COP28: Draft agreement drops phaseout of fossil fuels.
📢 CarbonBrief's COP28 Negotiation Tracker.
💸 COP 28: Brazil proposes $250 billion “Tropical Forests Forever” fund
💸 COP28: mobilizes over $57 billion in first four days
💨 COP28: Global food companies tackle dairy methane emissions
🌳 COP28: Over 30 countries back global initiative to protect, restore freshwater
👩🌾 COP28: The Money Food Badly Needs for Climate Fight Is Rolling In
Some News News (by Sector):
💸 Wavemaker Impact closes debut fund at $60m.
💸 Vanagon Ventures launches new climate software fund.
💸 UK launches £1m AI prize for energy and climate tech.
💸 UK built world climate tech attracts $1.1bn from VCs in 2023.
💸 Resolve Ventures launches new Climate Impact Fund for Irland.
💸 Partech's new Impact Growth Fund.
💸 Forget IPOs, climate tech investors are chasing a different exit.
💸 Dutch renewable energy investor Return secures €100M investment.
💸 Climate tech dominates built world VC investment.
💸 Breakthrough Energy Catalyst announces €240 for Europe.
💸 Amsterdam’s Rockstart launches its second AgriFood fund.
🚎 UK bans airline adverts for airline greenwashing
🚎 McLaren's new carbon removal partnership with UNDO
🚎 Former SpaceX engineers build ‘vegetarian rocket engine’
🚎 Paris to triple parking prices for SUVs.
🏭 Joint Project to Develop Largest Green Methanol Plant in Europe.
🏭 Circular packaging comes to the spirits industry.
🏭 Collateral Good launches a HUGO BOSS-backed sustainable fashion fund.
💨 US set to slash methane levels by 80%.
💨 Frontier buyers sign world’s first enhanced weathering offtake agreements with Lithos Carbon.
💨 Dairy giants pledge to disclose methane emissions for first time.
⚡️ How fish oil could help boost solar panel efficiency.
⚡️ Chinese shipyard unveils design for world's largest nuclear-powered container ship.
👩🌾 Innovation turns waste wood into seafood.
📢 US joins 56 nations in kicking out coal.
🏠 10 built environment startups to watch.
💡 Tips for Building a Successful Hardware Company.
🗓 Upcoming Events
Events this Week:
💡 Let's Talk About Climate Anxiety in Impact Work
🇨🇦 Climate Techies Vancouver Meetup
2024 Events:
🇬🇧 Can we leverage technology to achieve education equity?
💡 Your business' carbon footprint: what it is and how to measure it?
🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters and how to take action.
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival
🇨🇭 HackSummit
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024
🇪🇪 impact day
🇩🇪 IMPACT FESTIVAL 2024
That’s it for this week!
Big hug from Dubai,
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