🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate-tech (#36)
$225M raised in 9 deals, 8 upcoming rounds, the weekly opportunity, climate news, and 9.7k+ jobs.
Good morning, Europe 🌲
👋 Welcome to the 200+ people who joined our Slack community last week.
$225M has been invested in 9 European climate-tech startups last week. This newsletter now also includes a link to the employer page of each company that has raised a round.
Deals this week:
💨 Carbon Removal x 2
⚡️ Energy x 2
💸 Climate Finance x 2
💡 Climate Intelligence x 1
🚎 Transport x 1
🏭 Industry x 1
🏠 Building(s) x 1
Today we’ll cover:
🎁 The weekly opportunity,
💰 9 closed funding rounds,
💸 8 upcoming rounds,
💵 Climate news, and
💼 9,700+ jobs on our job board.
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🎁 Weekly Opportunity
We’ll bring back the weekly opportunity for anyone who wants to promote relevant information to the climate-tech community - one opportunity per week to keep things simple.
We’ve put together a little landing page here for all those who want to promote something and support our work at ClimatEU in the process.
💰 Closed Funding Rounds
🇫🇷 Fairbrics - €22M Grant
📍 Clichy, France
👕 Carbon negative fibers.
Investors:
Horizon 2020
🇦🇹 Glacier - Seed
📍 Vienna, Austria
💡 Carbon reduction education for companies.
Investors:
Alfred Luger, Anja Blacha, Bernhard Niesner, Calm/Storm Ventures, Christian Bezdeka, First Climate, Frank Dopheide, Johann Hansmann, Marcus Ihlenfeld
🇵🇹 Goparity - €2M Venture
📍 Lisbon, Portugal
💸 Personal sustainable finance and investment app.
Investors:
MSM, Schneider Electric Energy Access Asia
🇪🇪 Grünfin - €2M Seed
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
💸 Sustainable investing platform.
Investors:
Alvar Lumberg, Honey Badger Capital OÜ, Karin Nemec, Lemonade Stand, Norrsken VC, Sie Ventures, Specialist VC, Triin Hertmann
🇩🇪 Inplanet - €1M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
💨 Nature-based carbon capture.
Investors:
Carbon Drawdown Initiative, Carbon Removal Partners, Katapult, Trellis Road, Übermorgen Ventures
🇬🇧 One Moto - £123M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚲 Electric vehicles for delivery and commuters.
🇸🇪 SunRoof - €14M Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
☀️ Solar Rooftops.
Investors:
Legal & General Capital, Nordic Alpha Partners, World Fund
🇩🇰 Algiecel - €1M Seed
📍 Odense, Denmark
💨 Carbon capture.
Investors:
Denmark's Export and Investment Fund
🇱🇻 Aerones - $30M Series A
📍 Riga, Latvia
⚡️ Wind turbine blade inspection & maintenance robotics.
Investors:
Lightrock, Haniel, Blume Equity, Change Ventures, Mantas Mikuckas, Metaplanet Holdings, Pace Ventures Enigma, Future Positive Capital
💸 8 Upcoming funding rounds
😇 Angel
🇩🇪 Fainin GmbH - Q2 2022 (details)
🇬🇧 Rubisco Ltd - Q2 2023 (details)
🌱 Pre-Seed
🇫🇷 Rosa.io - Q1 2023 (details)
🇨🇭 Sun-Ways / SOLAFIX SA - Q3 2023 (details)
🇸🇰 PATRIOT-NRG - Q1 2023 (details)
🇬🇧 Ecomatter - Q3 2023 (details)
🌲 Seed
🇨🇭 UniSieve - Q1 2023 (details)
🇳🇱 uPledge - Q3 2023 (details)
📰 Climate News
📖 Europe's 50+ Top Climate VCs (article)
💸 CHF 1.75M for the freshwater crisis (article)
🇨🇭 ClimateHack meetup in Zürich (event)
☀️ Cost of solar PV module prices (tweet)
💼 On ‘Green’ offices in London (article)
⚡️ Amazon, Meta & Google buying most clean energy (article)
📖 On consumer climate-tech (article)
🌳 90% of rainforest carbon offsets worthless? (article)
💼 Climate Jobs in Europe
9,700+ jobs are currently live on the job board. Will we finally crack the 10,000?
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