🌳 Last week in climate (#90) by ClimateU
All you need to know about last week in climate.
Good morning and happy Tuesday!
💌 Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in climate last week.
This newsletter is now going out to over 17,000 people, wow!
Last week was particularly exciting with many friends announcing new funding. An old high school classmate at Jua.ai and two of our friends in Barcelona - Mitiga and Heura Foods - all received new funding.
This week we also put together a more extensive news section and we continued with the community asks - which seem to be the most-clicked part of the newsletter now.
Lastly, we’re finally looking to build out the climate co-founder matching on ClimateU, so please get in touch if you’re currently on the lookout for that climate partner in crime.
Let’s get to it - short and sweet as always:
Today, we'll cover last week’s:
💰 closed rounds,
💼 climate jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
👋 community asks,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.
If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.
💡 A quick reminder that much of this weekly summary is open-sourced - you can add news, jobs, events, etc. via ClimateU.
💰 Closed Rounds
🇪🇸 Heura Foods - €40M Series B
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🍴 Plant-based meat from the Mediterranean.
Investors: European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, Newtree Impact, Unovis Asset Management, Upfield
🇩🇪 Jua - $16M Seed
📍 London, Germany
☔️ AI for weather-dependent energy trading.
Investors: 468 Capital, Green Generation Fund, InnoSuisse, Kadmos Capital, Notion Capital, Promus Ventures, Session.vc, Virtus Resources Partners
🇮🇪 CitySwift - €7M Venture
📍 Galway, Ireland
🚗 Intelligent transport data platform for buses.
Investors: Act Venture Capital, Gresham House Ventures, Irelandia Investments, Western Development Commission
🇬🇧 Synaptec - $6.5M Venture
📍 Glasgow, United Kingdom
⚡️ Monitoring & protection for power network operators.
Investors: Equity Gap, Megger, Proserv
🇸🇪 Myrspoven - €5.4M Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏠 Energy optimization in buildings using AI.
Investors: 4impact, AMAVI Capital, Vantaan Energia
🇮🇹 Voidless - €2.2M Seed
📍 Milan, Italy
🏭 Box-on-demand packaging solutions for e-commerce.
Investors: 360 Capital, CDP Venture Capital
🇪🇸 Gravity Wave - €500k Angel
📍 Calpe, Spain
🏭 Recycles ocean plastics into products.
Investors: Marc Gasol, Pau Gasol
🇸🇪 Minesto - $260k Grant
📍 Västra Götaland, Sweden
⚡️ Renewable energy from the ocean.
Investors: The Clean Energy Transition Partnership
🇪🇸 Mitiga Solutions - Venture
📍 Barcelona, Spain
☔️ Science-based climate risk intelligence.
Investors: Telefónica Innovation Ventures, Íope Ventures
🇩🇪 cirplus - Venture
📍 Hamburg, Germany
🏭 Marketplace for circular plastics.
Investors: Igus, WEPA Ventures
🇬🇧 Greyparrot - Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 AI-powered recycling.
Investors: Bollegraaf Group
💼 New Climate Jobs
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aeco
aeco restores 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)
Briink
Briink is your AI-powered EU Taxonomy assistant.
🇩🇪 Frontend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Senior Frontend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Build Your Own Engineering Role (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 AI Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Business Development Manager (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Senior Backend Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
Cambrium
Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks.
🇩🇪 Business Development Intern (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Head of Sales - Cosmetic Ingredients (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations (Berlin, On-site)
Carbon Atlantis
Carbon Atlantis develops a first-of-a-kind, low-cost Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology to remove CO2 from the air. With partners, we permanently store the CO2 in rock carbonates.
🇩🇪 Electrician / Elektriker:in (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Electrochemical Test Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Technical Founder’s Associate (f/m/d) (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
Dryad Networks
Dryad provides ultra-early detection of wildfires as well as health and growth-monitoring of forests using solar-powered gas sensors in a large-scale IoT sensor network.
🇩🇪 Certification Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
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)
That’s all featured jobs for this week! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth, and you can feature your jobs here by signing up for our new monthly membership.
👋 Community Asks
❓ Bruce is looking for investors for his pre-seed round.
❓ Ohad is looking for a full-stack developer (equity-based).
❓ Rafael seeks partners, funding, and employees.
❓ Ahsan is raising $3.3M.
❓ William is looking for a product role.
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🚀 Climate Dealflow
Currently, 80 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round. 6 announced their round last week:
🇨🇭 Angel - 2024 Q1 (Technology-Based CC)
🇮🇳 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q2 (Farming Software & Analytics)
🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q2 (Consumer Goods)
🇪🇸 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Forests)
🌍 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Packaging)
🇭🇷 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Technology-Based CC)
🇨🇭 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Heating)
Investors and corporates on our membership can access all companies, 80 funding rounds, pitch decks, and 740+ founders on the platform.
📰 Climate News
Adaptation
☔️ Someone is going to dim the sun, and it will be soon.
☔️ World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
Climate Intelligence
💡 A proposed Technology Carbon Standard
💡 Driven By Impact: What to Expect in the 2024 Climate Job Market
💡 Strategies for making the climate career switch
💡 Tangible Tactics for Your 2024 Climate Job Search
💡 Will 2024 be the year emissions start falling?
Energy
⚡️ Renewables giant Orsted exits several offshore wind markets
⚡️ The Rise of Batteries in Six Charts and Not Too Many Numbers
⚡️ Why solar + storage will win
⚡️ Why Solar Panels are Griddy
Finance
💸 Areas of Climate Ripe for Investment in LATAM
💸 Brookfield Announces $10 Billion Transition Fund
💸 HSBC partners with Google Cloud to grow climate ecosystem
💸 Innovate UK Funding Opportunity, Closing Date 20/02/24
💸 Mirova Raises $280M for Emerging Markets Climate Fund
💸 Voyager Ventures Raises $100 Million for Climate VC Fund
💸 Your Money Is Funding Fossil Fuels Without You Knowing It
Industry
🏭 U.S. Coal Exports Surge to Five-Year High
🏭 Why Biden's LNG call is a case study in climate complexity
Nature
🌳 Ancient sea sponges at centre of controversial global warming claim
Policy & Advocacy
📢 Ads from BMW, MG and Transport for London banned (FT)
📢 Biden admin plans major carbon-free electricity buy
📢 Biden is pushing 2 big climate rules as first term ends
📢 EU agrees new law granting consumers a ‘right to repair’ products
📢 EU backs down on agricultural emissions after farmers’ protests
📢 EU lays out plan to cut greenhouse emissions by 90% by 2040
📢 Seoul launches “Climate Card” offering unlimited access to transport
Transport
🚗 Bike-friendly Paris votes to triple parking fees for SUVs
🚗 EVs At 93.9% Share In Norway
🚗 EVs Take 25.0% Share In France
🚗 Ford’s EV division remains a loss-making business
🚗 Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars
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