🌳 Last Week in Climate (#94) by ClimateU
Everything 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.
As always, 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
🇩🇪 Sunfire GmbH - €215M Series E
📍 Dresden, Germany
⚡️ Turning renewable electricity & CO2 into renewable gases & liquids.
Investors: Ahren Innovation Capital, Blue Earth Capital, Carbon Direct Capital, Carbon Equity, Climate Pledge Fund, GIC, LGT group, Lightrock, Planet First Partners
🇩🇪 Greenlyte Carbon Technologies - €10.5M Series A
📍 Essen, Germany
💨 Low temperature DAC process.
Investors: Carbon Removal Partners, Earlybird Venture Capital, Green Generation Fund, Partech, Udo Jung
🇫🇷 Bene Bono - €10M Series A
📍 Paris, France
🍴 Anti-waste e-grocery.
Investors: 2050, AXA Venture Partners, Project A Ventures, Stride.VC
🇩🇰 NitroVolt - SEK 8.5M Pre-Seed
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🧑🌾 Electrifying and decentralizing ammonia production.
Investors: BackingMinds
🇨🇭 Food Brewer - $5.6M Seed
📍 Horgen, Switzerland
🍴 Cultivated plant cells - cocoa and coffee.
Investors: Zürcher Kantonalbankand, Max Felchlin AG
🇨🇭 Cultivated Biosciences - $5M Seed
📍 Wädenswil, Switzerland
🍴 Non-dairy cream.
Investors: Founderful, HackCapital, Joyful VC, Lukas Böni, Mandi Ventures, Navus Ventures, Zürcher Kantonal Bank
🇩🇪 Cyclize - €4.8M Seed
📍 Stuttgart, Germany
🏭 Plasma technology to recycle plastic waste.
Investors: Aurum Impact, High-Tech Grunderfonds, Klaus Schafer, UnternehmerTUM, UVC Partners
🇩🇪 phelas - €4.1M Seed
📍 Munich, Germany
⚡️ Electricity storage system to use solar and wind power anytime.
Investors: Axon Partners Group, BNV Partners, E44 Ventures, Hubraum
🇬🇧 THIS - £1.2M Equity Crowdfunding
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Alternative meat products.
🇩🇰 Dynelectro - Seed
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🚗 Transforming fossil fuels into green fuels.
Investors: Yara Growth Ventures
🇩🇪 AMPEERS ENERGY - Corporate Round
📍 Munich, Germany
🏠 CO2 reduction for real estate industry.
Investors: SolarEdge Technologies
🇬🇧 Winnow - Private Equity
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Helps chefs run more profitable and sustainable kitchens.
Investors: ABC Impact
💼 New Climate Jobs
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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)
🇩🇪 Workplace Working Student (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)
🇪🇸 Key Account Manager (Barcelona, Hybrid)
🇪🇸 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 a Tech Lead. He is based out of Mallorca, but is open to a remote candidate.
🇪🇸 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
❓ Lindsey from Pale Blue Dot is looking for her next mid-senior climate strategy role.
❓ Oli from Venturebeam is looking to connect with climate companies that are fundraising.
❓ Charlie from Rubio VC wants to connect with energy, agrifood, and circular founders.
❓ Mansi is looking to transition to a disaster risk reduction role.
❓ Paul from Gasmonkey could use some help with fundraising.
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We pick five asks every week.
🚀 Climate Dealflow
Currently, 90 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.
The latest announcements were:
🇫🇮 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)
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📰 Climate News
Here are some articles we read last week. If you have any company news that you would like to share, simply add them via your company profile.
⚡️ Inside Europe’s only nuclear unicorn — and its €1bn fundraising hopes
⚡️ UK: 150MW Cleve Hill BESS project rejected by local authority
🌳 Art project illustrating ocean plastics and their consequences
🏠 AWS acquires Talen’s nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania
💡 America's 250 top climate-tech companies
💡 German Tesla plant suffers close to $1 billion in damages after attack
💡 World's biggest pollution monitor launches into orbit
💸 Biodiversity credits to play a critical role in boosting private investments in nature
💸 Council & Parliament agree on EU carbon removals certification framework
📢 S.E.C. Approves New Climate Rules Far Weaker Than Originally Proposed
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It’s quite disheartening to see the corporate answer to the immense problem. Exacerbate it. The last thing we need is another industrial complex. Micro grid, community or self generated power. no gigantic nationwide nonsense.
We are completely foregoing power from tide which could power half of me population giving their proximity to it. No storage necessary ….
The entire issue boils down to two things. Both prerequisite absolutes.
End the extraction of fossil fuels. FULL STOP
Sequester at least 2,000,000,000,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere.
WITHOUT THESE MEASURES, all else is ancillary.
Giving monetary value of carbon constituent structures, incentive is built in. The switch to renewable is not some ridiculous economy crashing dynamic, but the greatest economic opportunity in the history of legal tender. Instead, we have people following that paradigm without doing the prerequisites. Jesus, we suck …..