🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate-tech (#42)
9 closed rounds, 8 upcoming rounds, lots of climate news, and even more jobs.
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This week we cover:
💰 9 closed rounds,
💸 8 upcoming rounds,
💵 Lots of climate news, and
💼 10k+ jobs in Europe.
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💰 Closed Funding Rounds
🇫🇷 SESAMm - €35M Series B
📍 Paris, France
💡 ESG text monitoring platform.
Investors:
AFG Partners, CEGEE Capital, Elaia, Elevator Ventures, NewAlpha Asset Management, Opera Tech Ventures, The Carlyle Group, Unigestion
🇩🇪🇮🇹 Enapter - €25M Post-IPO Debt
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ AEM Electrolysers for low-cost green hydrogen.
Investors:
Patrimonium Asset Management
🇬🇧 Hectare Agritech - £17M Series A
📍 Cosham, United Kingdom
🚗 Powering agricultural supply chains.
🇫🇷 PILI - $16M Series A
📍 Paris, France
🏭 Sustainable alternative to create renewable inks.
Investors:
Bpifrance, Elaia, Famille C Participations, SOSV, Startup Angels
🇬🇧 WNWN Food Labs - €5M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Fermentation food tech.
Investors:
Geschwister Oetker, HackCapital, Investbridge AgriTech, MSM, PeakBridge, PINC
🇫🇷 Inarix - €3M Seed
📍 Paris, France
🧑🌾 Inarix has developed a technology based on the latest advances in artificial intelligence and image analysis.
Investors:
AFI Ventures, Ankaa Ventures, Francis Nappez, Label Investment, Newfund, ResiliAnce.io
🇬🇧 Preoptima Ltd - £1M Pre-Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 The carbon hub for the built environment.
Investors:
Climate VC, Carbon13, Nomea
🇨🇭 Qaptis - CHF 1M Pre-Seed
📍 Lausanne, Switzerland
💨 Tech-based Carbon Capture.
Investors:
BlackWood Ventures, Cargill, Plug and Play
🇩🇪 Planqc - Venture
📍 Munich, Germany
💡 Quantum computing.
Investors:
Amadeus APEX
💸 8 upcoming funding rounds
Eight upcoming funding rounds have been announced via ClimatEU last week, including:
🌱 3x Pre-Seed Round
🌲 5x Seed Round
Investors can view all new rounds here.
📰 Climate News
Food & Agriculture
🧑🌾 Food companies look to measure how soil captures carbon (article)
🧑🌾 Kangaroo poo to stop cows’ methane releases? (article)
🧑🌾 Leather from banana crop waste (article)
🧑🌾 Is the vertical farming bubble popping? (article)
Nature:
🌳 UN high seas treaty to protect oceans finally agreed (article)
🌳 Machine learning for reef monitoring (article)
Industry:
🏭 A new sustainable plastic upcycling process (article)
🏭 The sustainability of the surfing industry (article)
Energy:
⚡️ Solar set to overtake other energy sources by 2027 (article)
⚡️ UK renewables produce more electricity than gas this winter (article)
Climate Finance:
💸 Overview of climate-tech exits by CTVC (article)
Climate Intelligence:
💡 Europe’s climate-tech hotbeds (article)
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