🌳 Last week in climate (#93) by ClimateU
All you need to know about last week in climate.
Good morning and happy Tuesday! 👋
Hi from rainy Cape Town, where I’m one more week until I head back to Europe, ready to visit some first climate events and conferences in Paris and then fully moving to Norrsken House Barcelona in April to build the team. 🕺
☕️ Let me know what your plans are this year and if we should grab a coffee somewhere.
That being said…
💌 Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in climate last week.
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.
💰 Closed Rounds
🇩🇪 ENVIRIA - €185M Series B
📍 Frankfurt, Germany
⚡️ Solar for the B2B sector.
Investors: BlackRock
🇵🇹 Power Dot - €100M Venture
📍 Lisbon, Portugal
🚗 EV charging infrastructure operator.
Investors: Antin Infrastructure Partners, Grupo Arie
🇫🇷 Unseenlabs - €85M Series C
📍 Rennes, France
🚗 Maritime surveillance for environmental organizations.
Investors: 360 Capital, Bpifrance, Breizh Up, ISALT, Omnes Capital, S2G Ventures, Supernova Invest, Unexo
🇩🇪 ecoligo - €11M Venture
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Solar energy solutions for emerging markets.
Investors: GAIA Impact Fund, Triple Jump
🇪🇸 Plexigrid - €6.5M Seed
📍 Stockholm, Spain
⚡️ Energy grid optimization software.
Investors: EIC Accelerator
🇬🇧 Logan Energy - £5M Venture
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
⚡️ Design, install, commission, and maintain energy centres.
Investors: Lanxing New Energy
🇩🇪 Sunhat - €5M Seed
📍 Cologne, Germany
💡 Optimizing sustainability questionnaires and ESG ratings in the supplier industry.
Investors: Capnamic Ventures, EnBW New Ventures, WEPA Ventures, xdeck
🇬🇧 Heat Geek - £3.7M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Designer and installer of heat pumps.
Investors: Akta Raja, Ed Broussard, Jeff Twentyman, Rob Harris, Stewart Seigel, Transition, Triple Point Ventures
🇬🇧 Mondra - £3.6M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💡 Helping food systems measure and improve environmental performance.
Investors: 7 Generation Ventures, AlbionVC, Green Circle Foodtech Ventures, PeakBridge, Ponderosa Ventures, Vala Capital
🇦🇺 Gridcognition - £3.3M Seed
📍 Perth, Australia / United Kingdom
⚡️ Optimising the planning and operations of distributed energy systems.
Investors: AlbionVC
🇫🇮 SpinDrive - €2.5M Grant
📍 Lappeenranta, Finland
🚗 Levitation technology for energy efficiency and oil-free solutions.
Investors: EIC Accelerator
🇩🇰 Hyme - €2.5M Seed
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
⚡️ Large-scale long-duration energy storage.
Investors: EIC Accelerator
🇩🇪 atmio - $1.4M Pre-Seed
📍 Hamburg, Germany
💨 The operating system to reduce methane emissions.
Investors: 11k Ventures, HCVC, Nucleus Capital, Rivus Capital, Robin Capital
🇬🇧 Sonichem - £1.2M Seed
📍 Melton Mowbray, United Kingdom
🏭 Creating sustainable chemicals from non-food woody biomass.
Investors: ACF Investors
🇬🇧 Omni - $200k Grant
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Plant-based pet food.
Investors: Leap Venture Studio
🇪🇪 Hepta Airborne - Venture
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
⚡️ Automating power line analysis.
Investors: Axon Partners Group
💼 New Climate Jobs
Check out 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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Carbon Atlantis
Carbon Atlantis is an early-stage startup developing a first-of-a-kind, low-cost Direct Air Capture technology to remove CO2 from the air. They permanently store the CO2 in rock carbonates and are currently building up the team around Munich.
🇩🇪 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)
Choco
Choco just joined ClimateU on their mission to enable a sustainable food system, one that runs transparently and without waste. They are hiring for on-site roles across Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, London, and the US.
🇩🇪 Head of Product (Sr. Director / VP / CPO) (Berlin, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Head of Revenue Operations (Berlin, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Senior Backend Engineer, Platform (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Product Manager (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Solutions Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Senior CRM Manager (Berlin, On-site)
🇫🇷 Solutions Engineer (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 Account Executive (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 Account Manager (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 Account Manager (Paris, On-site)
🇪🇸 Senior Account Executive (Barcelona, On-site)
🇪🇸 Senior Automation Specialist (Barcelona, On-site)
🇬🇧 Head of Buyer Sales (London, On-site)
🇺🇸 Business Development Manager (New York, On-site)
🇺🇸 Buyer Sales (Chicago, On-site)
🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (Chicago, On-site)
🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (Boston, On-site)
🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (New York, On-site)
🇺🇸 Buyer Sales (Spanish speaking) (Chicago, Hybrid)
Net Zero Academy
The NetZero Academy is an educational platform specializing in energy efficiency, sustainability, and decarbonization. Their goal is to train professionals who support climate protection measures and enable the achievement of net-zero goals.
🇩🇪 Impact Werkstudent Business and Sales (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Chief of Staff (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Education Manager (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Head of Sales (Munich, On-site)
Simbiotec App
Ohad is currently building Simbiotec App - your one-stop app for a sustainable lifestyle - and is looking for his Tech Lead. He is based out of Mallorca but the role can be remote.
🇪🇸 Tech Lead (Remote)
Tree.ly
Tree.ly connects forest owners with companies, helping forest owners earn extra income by managing forests for climate resilience. Companies can purchase high-quality CO₂ credits, backing forest owners and showing their commitment to measurable climate protection.
🇦🇹 Carbon Sales Manager Austria (Austria, Remote)
That’s all the 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
❓ Ruth is looking for intros to city administrations
❓ Monika is looking for angel investments in climate
❓ Matt is seeking senior Commercial leadership roles in the UK
❓ Emily wants advice on shifting from data science to sustainability
❓ Roos seeks opportunities in food x sustainability x data
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🚀 Climate Dealflow
Currently, 90 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.
Last week, five rounds were announced:
🇫🇮 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Energy Software & Analytics)
🇪🇸 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q2 (Solar Energy)
🇪🇸 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q2 (Forests)
🇩🇰 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Water Usage)
🇩🇪 Seed - 2024 Q1 (Carbon Capture and Utilization)
Investors and corporates on our membership can access all companies, funding rounds, pitch decks, and 750+ founders on ClimateU. You can now sign up monthly as well.
📰 Climate News
⚡️ Cars powered by woodchips: biographite makes EV batteries sustainable
⚡️ Women biomass producers: energy’s largest and largely invisible workforce
🌳 UN Conference on migratory species concludes with landmark agreements
💡 UK’s net zero economy grew 9% in 2023
💸 Climate Impact and Investment Opportunity in the Built Environment
💸 The Hard & Soft Skills You Need to Break Into Climate VC
📢 EU criminalises the most serious cases of ecosystem
🚗 European airports rank amongst the world’s most polluting
🗓 Upcoming Events
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🇮🇹 UnPlug (Mar 6)
🇩🇪 Berlin ClimateTech x DiamondList Get-Together (Mar 7)
🇩🇪 TWAICE Vision Summit (Mar 14)
🇨🇭 Verbier Summit (Mar 15)
🇮🇳 Net Zero Summit (Mar 15)
🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow (Mar 21-22)
🇫🇷 ChangeNow (Mar 25)
🇬🇷 Ocean Youth Leadership Summit (Apr 15)
🇬🇧 Climate Informatics 2024 (Apr 22)
🇪🇸 MadBlue Impact Summit (Apr 24)
🇬🇧 Innovation Zero 2024 (Apr 30)
🇫🇷 Sustainable Investment Forum Europe (May 2)
🇦🇹 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (May 11)
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)
🇺🇸 Carbon Unbound USA (May 21)
🇩🇪 Super Climate Berlin (Jun 4)
🇬🇧 ClimateTech Summit 2024 (Jun 12)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13)
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30)
🇬🇧 Cambridge Tech Week 2024 (Sep 1)
🇮🇹 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)
🇫🇮 Slush 2024 (Nov 20)
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I have added a few events whe it comes to water sustainability 🙂