🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate-tech (#35)
Over $380M raised in 17 deals, 5 upcoming rounds, news for talent and recruiters, climate news, and 9.3k+ jobs.
Good morning, Europe 🌲
Over $380M has been invested into European climate-tech last week. If you’re looking for a job, then these are the companies to keep an eye on as they will be hiring. If you’re looking to invest, then these are some markets to keep an eye on.
Deals by sector:
🏠 Building(s): 6 deals - $60M (16%)
⚡️ Energy: 4 deals - $280M (72%)
🧑🌾 Food & Agriculture: 3 deals - $12M (3%)
💸 Climate Finance: 3 deals - $20M (5%)
🌳 Nature: 1 deal - $2.9M (1%)
💡 Climate Intelligence: 2 deals - undisclosed
🚎 Transport: 1 deal - undisclosed
Today we’ll cover:
💼 A recruiting & community update,
💰 17 closed funding rounds,
💸 5 upcoming rounds,
💵 Climate news, and
💼 9,300+ jobs.
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💼 Recruiting Update
1️⃣ Finding a Job in Climate
Jobseekers can now set their job preferences and receive a weekly e-mail with jobs that fit their backgrounds. You can simply do so by heading to your Personal Profile. Roughly 2,700 jobs are added every week, and this makes it much easier to send them your way.
2️⃣ Hiring Talent in Climate
Climate companies can now add unlimited jobs to ClimatEU, have their jobs sent out to matching talent and get access to the talent database. Just set up your Recruiter Access.
3️⃣ The Slack Community
The Slack community is booming, with 300 people joining last week alone. Welcome to all new members 👋
💰 Closed Funding Rounds
🇬🇧 Eagle Genomics - Venture
📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom
🧪 Networking microbiome science.
Investors:
Omron Ventures
🇫🇷 Shippeo - Venture
📍 Paris, France
🚗 Real-time transportation visibility.
Investors:
ORLEN VC
🇬🇧 Multus - $8M - Series A + $2.6M Grant
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Feeding food.
Investors:
Asahi Kasei, Big Idea Ventures, Mandi Ventures, SOSV, SynBioVen + Grant by Innovate UK
Article, Company Details
🇳🇴 CHOOOSE - $15M - Series A
📍 Oslo, Norway
💸 Tools for individual and business climate action.
Investors:
Amadeus Ventures, Contrarian Ventures, GenZero, Shell Ventures, Sound Ventures, Vinyl Capital
Hystar - €24M - Series B
📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ PEM electrolysers for green hydrogen production.
Investors:
AP Ventures, Finindus, Firda, Hillhouse Capital Group, Mitsubishi Corporation, Nippon Steel Trading, SINTEF Venture AS, Trustbridge Partners
🇪🇸 Tribaldata - €800k - Seed
📍 Madrid, Spain
💡 Moving the digital ad economy towards net-zero.
Investors:
Chamberí Ventures, Garbi Capital
🇳🇱 Nurtio - Seed
📍 Delft, Netherlands
🏠 Reconnecting humans and plants.
Investors:
Shamrock Ventures
🇬🇧 InfraFleet - £10M - Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏗 Rental and leasing of clean heavy equipment.
Investors:
Octopus Group
🇧🇬 Hydrogenera - €2M - Venture
📍 Sofia, Bulgaria
⚡️ Hydrogen technologies.
Investors:
Impetus Capital, Karoll, MFG Invest
🇨🇭 Open Forest Protocol - €4M - Pre-Seed
📍 Lausanne, Switzerland
💸 Open platform to measure, verify and fund forestation projects.
Investors:
Aera VC, Big Brain Holdings, Byzantine maritime, Mercy Corps Ventures, Not Boring Capital, Shima Capital, Valor Capital Group, Übermorgen Ventures
🇳🇱 VonWood - €3M - Seed
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🌲 Digital marketplace for timber construction & building materials.
Investors:
Dutch Founders Fund, Keen Venture Partners, Peak
🇫🇷 Qarnot - €13M Venture + €23M Debt
📍 Montrouge, France
🏠 Computing power infrastructure distributed in buildings.
Investors:
ADEME Investissement, Banque des Territoires, Colam Impact, Demeter, Societe Generale
🇩🇪 Enpal - €215M - Series D
📍 Berlin, Germany
☀️ Solar energy.
Investors:
Activate Capital Partners, HV Capital, Princeville Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund, The Westly Group, TPG
🇬🇧 measurable.energy - £5M - Series A
📍 Reading, United Kingdom
🏠 Eliminate wasted energy and GHG emissions in buildings.
Investors:
Bonheur ASA, Clean Growth Fund, MMC Ventures, RO Capital Partners, Vectr7 Investment Partners
🇩🇪 HPS - €22M - Venture
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Green energy.
🇫🇷 EQUIUM - €5M - Seed
📍 Nantes, France
🏠 Acoustic heat pumps.
Investors:
Bpifrance
🇩🇪 PROJECT EADEN - €2M - Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🍴 Sustainable food and meat alternatives.
Investors:
Creandum, Magnetic Ventures, FoodLabs
💸 5 Upcoming funding rounds
🌲 Seed
🇩🇪 SQUAKE - Q1 2023 (details)
🌳 Series A
🇬🇧 SparkChange - Q4 2023 (details)
🇸🇪 Tribaldata - Q4 2023 (details)
🌳 Series B
🇨🇭 Droople SA - Q2 2023 (details)
Other
🇩🇪 The Landbanking Group - Q1 2023 (details)
We currently list 251 rounds on ClimatEU.
📰 Climate News
📖 Google sheet with climate jobs resources (article)
💸 Climate-tech now makes up 30% of VC funding (article)
📖 Climate-tech trends to watch in 2023 (article)
💼 “Climate quitting” (article)
🇨🇭 Climeworks successfully storing carbon (article)
💡 Fundraising tips for climate startups (article)
💸 Climate-tech VC funding 89% up on 2021 (article)
☢️ The Forever Promise of Nuclear Fusion (podcast)
🇩🇰 European Comission approves €1.1B for CCS (article)
💼 Climate Jobs in Europe
9,300+ jobs are currently live on the job board.
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