🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate-tech (#39)
13 deals, 7 upcoming rounds, lots of climate news, and over 10k jobs.
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For Valentine's Day, we got you:
💰 13 closed rounds,
💸 7 upcoming rounds,
💵 Lots of climate news, and
💼 10k+ jobs on our job board.
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💰 Closed Funding Rounds
🇦🇹 EET - €870k Grant
📍 Graz, Austria
⚡️ Small power plant with PV and storage for self-installation.
Investors:
Eurostars
🇸🇪 Enerpoly - €870k Grant
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Sustainable zinc-ion batteries.
Investors:
Eurostars
🇪🇪 ÄIO - €1M Seed
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🍴 Sustainable alternatives to animal fats, palm and coconut oil.
Investors:
Enterprise Estonia, Nordic FoodTech VC
🇸🇪 Modvion - SEK 125M Convertible Note
📍 Göteborg, Sweden
⚡️ Sustainable wind tower technology.
Investors:
Almi Invest GreenTech, Course Corrected, EIC Fund, Symbia VC, Vestas Ventures
🇫🇷 Lizee - €7M Series A
📍 Paris, France
🏭 Rental & resale solutions.
Investors:
Alante Capital, Demeter, Lyra Ventures, MAIF Impact, Speedinvest
🇩🇪 enmacc - Series B
📍 Munich, Germany
⚡️ Digital, OTC energy trading platform.
Investors:
10x Group, Alantra, Wachstumsfonds Bayern
🇬🇧 NatCap - £3M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💡 Nature-intelligence platform.
Investors:
Oxford Science Enterprises, Schroders Capital
🇫🇮 Infrakit - €6M Convertible
📍 Espoo, Finland
🏠 Automation for more sustainable construction.
Investors:
Finnish Climate Fund
🇫🇷 MagREEsource - $5M Seed
📍 Grenoble, France
♻️ Recycling rare-earth magnets.
Investors:
Finindus, Tangent Line, EIT RawMaterials, Ciech Ventures, SATT Linksium, Grenoble Angels
🇸🇪 ZeroPoint Technologies - €3.2M Seed
📍 Göteborg, Sweden
⚡️ Energy efficiency of data centres and smart devices.
Investors:
Chalmers Ventures AB, Climentum Capital, Industrifonden
🇫🇷 From Sand to Green - $1M Seed
📍 Paris, France
💨 Cultivating deserts.
Investors:
Catalyst Fund, Katapult
🇬🇧 Carbonplace - $45M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Carbon credit trading platform.
Investors:
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, BNP Paribas, CIBC, Itau Unibanco, National Australia Bank (NAB), NatWest Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, UBS
🇬🇧 Minviro - £2M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 More sustainable mining.
💸 Some upcoming funding rounds
To see all newly announced rounds and get introudctions, head to our database of upcoming funding rounds.
🌱 Pre-Seed
🇩🇪 GreenTrade Impact GmbH - 2023 Q1 (startup, jobs)
🌲 Seed
🇮🇩 Revalue Nature - 2023 Q2 (startup, jobs)
🇫🇮 SoilWatch - 2022 Q2 (startup, jobs)
🇿🇦 Orbio Earth - 2024 Q1 (startup, jobs)
🌳 Series A
🇩🇪 Novocarbo GmbH - 2023 Q3 (startup, jobs)
🇩🇪 denovoMATRIX - 2023 Q2 (startup, jobs)
🌳 Series B
🇨🇦 Novisto - 2023 Q2 (startup, jobs)
📰 Climate News
🇬🇧 Britain climate activist jailed for eight weeks (article)
🇬🇧 UK government launches £77M investment in clean maritime (article)
🇬🇧 £5.4M program for carbon utilization (article)
🇬🇧 The UK’s new Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (article)
🇩🇪 Planet A announces their €160M climate fund (article)
🇩🇪 €80M for green hydrogen production (article)
🇩🇪 Lidl will expand plant-based products (article)
🇨🇴 Colombia receives $70M to roll out renewable energy (article)
🇨🇿 Inven Capital will invest another €50M in climate-tech (article)
🇦🇺 Australia blocks coal mine to protect Great Barrier Reef (article)
🚗 Tesla cuts EV prices (article)
🚗 Bill Gates criticized for his use of private jets (article)
🌳 Deforestation of Amazon goes down under Lula (article)
🌳 The Ocean Cleanup receives €23.2M donation (article)
⚡️ We’re taking Shell's Board of Directors to court (article)
⚡️ Renewables will be world’s top electricity source in three years (article)
💨 $900k initiative for scientists to study effects of aerosols (article)
💼 The IRA created 100k+ jobs in the US (article)
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