🌳 Last week in climate (#86) by ClimateU
All you need to know about last week in climate.
Good morning and happy Tuesday! 🥳
After Europe’s tech scene was still in its holiday beauty sleep two weeks ago, it seems like the new year's resolutions are now kicking in with a bunch of funding announcements, loads of jobs and quite a few updates to cover. 🚀
So, let’s get to it - short and sweet as always:
Today, we'll cover last week’s:
💰 closed rounds,
💼 climate jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
👋 community asks (new).
📰 news, and
🗓 upcoming events.
If you missed the first two newsletters of this year, you can look them up here.
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💰 Closed Rounds
🇩🇪 FINN - €100M Series C
📍 Munich, Germany
🚗 Sustainable car rentals.
Investors: HV Capital, Korelya Capital, Picus Capital, Planet First Partners, UVC Partners, White Star Capital
🇫🇮 Cactos - €26M Series A
📍 Helsinki, Finland
⚡️ Smart energy storage systems for local and efficient energy supply.
Investors: Finnish Climate Fund, OP Financial Group
🇩🇪 Sunvigo - €15M Debt Financing
📍 Cologne, Germany
⚡️ Solar rental.
Investors: Triodos Bank
🇮🇹 MOGU - €11M Series A
📍 Varese, Italy
🍄 Mycelium-based biotech.
Investors: CDP Venture Capital, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, Kering Ventures, Progress Tech Transfer Fund
🇮🇹 SQIM - €11M Venture - Series Unknown
📍 Varese, Italy
🍄 Uses mycelium as key bio-fabrication agent and technology.
Investors: CDP Venture Capital, ECBF VC, Kering Ventures, Progress Tech Transfer Fund
🇬🇧 FA Bio - £5.3M Venture
📍 Harpenden, United Kingdom
🧑🌾 Disease management device to offer detection of plant pathogens.
Investors: Clean Growth Fund, Pymwymic, Ship2B Ventures
🇬🇧 Parallel Carbon - $3.6M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💨 Direct Air Capture.
Investors: Andrew MacKay, Aramco Ventures, Axon Partners Group, Counteract, DNX Ventures, Rumbo Ventures, VOYAGERS
🇳🇱 Tibo energy - €3M Seed
📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands
⚡️ Challenging energy consumption, generation, and distribution.
Investors: SET Ventures, Speedinvest
🇬🇧 Veo (Veo.world) - £1.4M Seed
📍 Manchester, United Kingdom
🏭 Platform for sustainable consumer goods.
Investors: Pavan Manocha, R42 Group, Earthshot Ventures, Arka Venture labs
🇨🇭 Enerdrape - CHF 1.3M Seed
📍 Ecublens, Switzerland
⚡️ Turns underground environments into a renewable source of energy.
Investors: Après-demain, Romande Energie
🇫🇷 Standing Ovation - €1M Debt
📍 Paris, France
🍴 Animal-free dairy cheese.
Investors: Bpifrance
🇩🇰 FLEXeCHARGE - Seed
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🚗 Smart charging solutions.
Investors: Greencode Ventures, Link Capital, Vireo Ventures
💼 New Climate Jobs
Check out some of the latest featured jobs below. If you don't see anything that speaks to you, you can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities.
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NuuEnergy
“NuuEnergy's vision is to enable every homeowner in Europe to have the most sustainable and efficient heating and cooling system - purchased and installed in one seamless process.“
🇩🇪 Intermediate Growth Marketer (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Founder Associate - Working Student or Intern (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 (Junior) Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Specialist (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Business Development Associate/ Junior Account Executive (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Energieberater *in (Munich, Hybrid)
aeco
“Restoring peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors and the planet.“
🌍 Head of Operations (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Senior Carbon Project Developer (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
🌍 Projektentwickler*in (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)
Cambrium
“Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks.“
🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Business Development Intern (Berlin, On-site)
CHOOOSE
“CHOOOSE delivers a software platform that enables individuals and organizations to understand their carbon footprint and support trusted climate solutions.“
🇳🇴 Senior Business Controller (Norway, Remote)
leonardo.
“leonardo is a B2B SaaS solution to measure, verify, and report sustainability impact credibly.“
🇩🇪 Lead Software Engineer (Frankfurt, Hybrid)
That’s all featured jobs for this early first week of 2024! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth.
🚀 New Climate Dealflow
This year, 45+ companies on ClimateU are already looking to close a funding round.
Here is a summary of all rounds being raised in Q1 2024 alone:
🇺🇸 Grant (💡 Climate Education)
🇳🇱 Crowdfunding (🍴 Alternative Protein)
🇬🇧 Angel (🏭 Consumer Goods / Food Waste)
🇬🇧 Angel (💡 Climate Education)
🇩🇰 Pre-Seed (💡 Climate Education)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (🌳 Biodiversity)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (💡 Climate Data)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (🚗 Logistics & Supply Chain)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed (🌳 Biodiversity)
🇺🇸 Pre-Seed (⚡️ Energy Distribution / Biomass)
🇨🇦 Seed - 2024 Q1 (⚡️ Energy Distribution)
🇦🇹 Seed (⚡️ Wind Energy)
🇩🇪 Seed (⚡️ Biomass / Chemicals)
🇩🇪 Seed (🏠 Distributed Energy Resources)
🇩🇪 Seed (💸 Climate Investing)
🇩🇪🇹🇷 Seed (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)
🇫🇷 Seed (💡 Earth Observation)
🇫🇷 Seed (💨 Technology-Based CC)
🇬🇧 Seed (🏗 Construction Software)
🇬🇧 Seed (🚗 Logistics & Supply Chain Efficiency)
🇮🇳 Seed (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)
🇮🇹 Seed (💡 Carbon Accounting / Carbon Offsetting)
🇳🇱 Seed (🧑🌾 Vertical / Indoor / Urban Farming)
🇳🇴 Seed (🚗 Aviation)
🇩🇰 Series A (🏭 Recycling)
🇬🇧 Series A (🏭 New Materials / Packaging / Plastics)
🇳🇱 Series A (⚡️ Hydrogen)
Investors on our membership can access all funding rounds, founders, and pitch decks on the platform.
👋 Community Asks
We’re now starting to add “community asks” to this weekly newsletter. We put together a first draft where all users can upload where they currently want help or have a question, so that other members can reach out and offer support.
We’ll kick it off by simply leaving you the link below, as we’re still fine-tuning the process and format of featuring asks here. 👇
📰 Climate News
Here are a few articles from last week:
⚡️ Can ‘water batteries’ solve the energy storage conundrum?
⚡️ Renewable energy surge of 50% driven by China, IEA says
⚡️ 2024: the year of grid tech
💡 A Silicon Valley for Climate Tech? It Could Well Be the UAE
💡 30+ ClimateTech Changemakers to Know in Istanbul
💡 20 European Climate VCs: What they’ll fund next in 2024
💸 Does Your Bank Support Fossil Fuels?
💸 Incentive-tracking apps find firm footing
PS: We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section this year. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).
🗓 Upcoming Events
We want to revive this section this month. If you’ve come across great sources for climate events, or you’re organizing an event/meetup/webinar, please ping us.
🇬🇧 Can we leverage technology to achieve education equity? (Jan 16)
🇳🇱 Amsterdam ClimateHack Meetup (Jan 25)
💡 Your business' carbon footprint: what it is and how to measure it? (Jan 31)
💡 State of Climate Tech 2023 (Feb 1)
🇵🇹 Portugal's Voluntary Carbon Market (Feb 7)
🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters and how to take action. (Feb 22)
🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow (Mar 21-22)
🇺🇸 SF Climate Week (Apr 21-27)
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)
🇺🇸 Carbon Unbound USA (May 21)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13)
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30)
🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17)
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30)
A Final Note
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