🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate-tech (#40)
13 closed rounds, 5 upcoming rounds, 140 new companies, lots of climate news, and new jobs.
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This week we cover:
👋 140+ New Companies,
💰 13 closed rounds,
💸 5 upcoming rounds,
💵 Lots of climate news, and
💼 10k+ jobs on our job board.
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👋 140+ New Companies
Over 140 climate-tech companies were added to ClimatEU last week.
Investors can check out all of them here.
💰 Closed Funding Rounds
🇬🇧 ACUA Ocean - £100k Pre-Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🌳 Ocean monitoring and protection.
Investors:
Net Zero Technology Centre
🇩🇪 Smart Steel Technologies - Venture
📍 Berlin, Germany
♻️ AI for steel production
Investors:
Heraeus
🇸🇪 CarbonCloud - €8M Venture
📍 Göteborg, Sweden
💡 Climate smart eating habits.
Investors:
Cusp Capital
🇬🇧 Greyparrot - $2M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 AI for improved recycling.
Investors:
Closed Loop Partners, Regeneration.VC
🇩🇪 SPRK.global - €6M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🍴 Food waste.
Investors:
Brigitte Mohn, Thorsten Schiefer
🇩🇪 Dance - €12M Venture
📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 Ebikes and mopeds with a flexible subscription.
Investors:
BlueYard Capital, Eurazeo, HV Capital, The Delta, Winthrop Square Capital, and angels
🇳🇱 eDRV - Seed
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🚗 An electric vehicle charging API platform for the enterprise.
Investors:
Automotive Ventures, Connect Ventures, NP-Hard Ventures
🇩🇪 Cylib - €8M Seed
📍 Aachen, Germany
⚡️ Battery recycling.
Investors:
10x Founders, Kai Hansen, Karim Tabet Jalbout, Speedinvest, Vsquared Ventures, World Fund
🇬🇧 Sun Bear Bioworks - £500k Pre-Seed
📍 Oxford, United Kingdom
🍴 Precision fermentation - currently palm oil.
Investors:
Unruly Ventures
🇬🇧 QiO Technologies - $10M Series B
📍 Farnborough, United Kingdom
⚡️ AI sustainability suite.
Investors:
WAVE Equity Partners
🇬🇧 Equiwatt - £630k Grant
📍 Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
⚡️ Platform for households to get paid for saving energy.
Investors:
US Department of Energy
🇩🇪 APK - €130M Private Equity
📍 Merseburg, Germany
♻️ Low density polyethylene recycling.
Investors:
KIRKBI, LyondellBasell Industries, MIG Capital
🇫🇷 Qotto - $8M Series A
📍 Neuilly-sur-seine, France
⚡️ Solar energy solutions for West Africa.
Investors:
Cordaid Investment Management, IBL, The Off-Grid Energy Access Fund
💸 5 upcoming funding rounds
Five upcoming funding rounds have been announced via ClimatEU last week, including:
😇 1x Angel Round
🌱 1x Pre-Seed Round
🌲 1x Seed Round
🌳 2x Series A
You can view all new rounds here.
📰 Climate News
⚡️ Hydrogen from seawater? (article)
⚡️ €2.08B French measure for offshore wind (article)
⚡️ Otovo goes public (article)
⚡️ Long-duration energy storage deep-dive (article)
⚡️ US wants 500k EV chargers by 2030 (article)
⚡️ Hydrogen breakdown (article)
⚡️ Q&A: EU Delegated Acts on Renewable Hydrogen (article)
💸 Carbon in Europe trades at €100+ for 1st time (article)
💸 Counteract closes £35m carbon removal fund (article)
💸 Ocean 14 Capital adds £26.6m to blue economy fund (article)
🧑🌾 €3M for anaerobic digestion & green biorefining (article)
🧑🌾 2023 challenging for Food & Ag? (article)
🧑🌾 The rise of green ammonia (article)
🍴 World’s First Cultivated Tenderloin Steak (article)
💨 Industry call for CDR Standards Initiative (article)
🏭 UK gives £12M for Energy-intensive industries (article)
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💼 Climate Jobs in Europe
Over 10,000 jobs are currently live on the job board.
🔥 Hot New Jobs:
🇳🇱 Senior Frontend Developer (details)
🇳🇱 Python/Kotlin Developer (details)
🇳🇱 Mid/Senior Product Designer (details)
🇳🇱 Devops/Infosec (details)
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