🌳 Last Week in Climate #114
Your weekly climate digest.
Hey friend,
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in European climate(-tech) last week.
We cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🇪🇺 6 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🗓 Events & Meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 1,973 jobs by 592 employers.
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💚 Community Updates
🥳 Last week, we hosted our first “Climate Drinks” at Norrsken House Barcelona. Over 80 climate professionals came together to connect and exchange ideas. You can view and connect with all participants here.
With 200 people wanting to come and great feedback, we’ve decided to host two more of these events this year - but more on that soon.
New Members
85 new members joined ClimateU last week, including:
Companies:
🇬🇧 Climate Catalyst
🇩🇪 klerra
🇩🇪 manaomea
🇺🇸 Mittilabs
🇪🇸 Nido
🌳 Pack Energy
🇺🇸 PWRJoule
🇩🇪 retraced
🇺🇸 Rondo Energy
🇪🇸 Solfy
🇨🇭 South Pole
🇬🇧 Storegga
🇩🇪 Toucan Protocol
Investors:
🇪🇸 Bcombinator
🇸🇬 Earth Venture Capital
🇩🇪 PropTech1 Ventures
🇺🇸 Voyager Ventures
🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇨🇭 H55 - CHF 65M Series C
📍 Sion, Switzerland
🚗 Electric propulsion systems for aviation.
Investors: Government Of Quebec
🇫🇷 Micropep Technologies - €27M Series B
📍 Ramonville-saint-agne, France
🏭 Biological alternatives to agrochemicals.
Investors: Bpifrance, Fall Line Capital, FMC Ventures, IRDI, Sofinnova Partners, Supernova Invest, Zebra Impact Ventures
🇸🇪 Greenely - €8M Series A
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Household energy platform.
Investors: Korys, Luminar Ventures
🇦🇹 ecop Technologies GmbH - €8.5M Equity + Grant
📍 Neuhofen An Der Krems, Austria
🏠 High-temperature heat pump for industrial use.
Investors: EIC Accelerator
🇬🇧 Transcend Packaging - Venture
📍 Ystrad Mynach, United Kingdom
🏭 Sustainable packaging solutions.
Investors: Innovation Investment Capital, ITOCHU Corporation
🇬🇧 Renewabl - Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Energy procurement platform.
Investors: Encevo, Helen Ventures, Nesta Impact Investments, PortfoLion Capital Partners, QVentures, South Pole, Toyota Ventures
🚀 Deal of the Week
🇦🇺 Allan at CarbonHQ is raising a $3M seed round.
“We are an Australian company building software for carbon project developers.
We raised a $400k USD pre-seed round from Australian VCs end of 2023, and are now close to PMF in our initial niche.
We are looking to raise money from European investors who understand the carbon industry."
Allan Fan
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🗓 Upcoming Events
⭐️ = favorites
🆕 = added last week
🎟️ = community discount
🇵🇰 Road to COP29 - Dubai to Baku (Aug 1)
💡 How to Get Started on Your Net Zero Journey (Aug 7)
🇧🇷 ClimateHack Sao Paulo (Aug 15)
🇨🇦 Climate Change AI Summer School (Aug 12)
🇬🇧 Cambridge Tech Week 2024 (Sep 1)
🇳🇱 Sustainable Road Transport Europe 2024 (Sep 3) 🆕
🇩🇪 Innovate4Climate (Sep 10) 🆕
🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe (Sep 11) 🆕
🇮🇹 International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)
🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17) ⭐️
🇬🇧 THE HEAT by Voyagers (Sep 20) - “FRIENDOFCLIMATEU” ⭐️🎟️
🇺🇸 Climate Week NYC (Sep 22) ⭐️
🇬🇧 How the Circular Economy can Revolutionise your Business (Oct 2)
🇵🇹 Climate Innovation and Social Justice Summit (Oct 2) 🆕
🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)
💡 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Oct 14)
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️
🇪🇸 Impact Week (Nov 6) ⭐️
🇦🇿 COP29 Azerbaijan (Nov 11)
🇨🇭 Tech for Impact Awards (Nov 21)
🇬🇧 London Climate Technology Show (Nov 27)
🇺🇸 New York Climate DeepTech Summit (Dec 12) ⭐️🆕
📰 Climate News
💸 State of the Voluntary Carbon Market 2024
💸 What Are Carbon Advanced Market Commitments (AMCs)?
⚡️ German government signs off on hydrogen import strategy
⚡️ Addionics aims to make lithium-ion batteries cheaper with wavy foil
🏭 Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
🌳 Terradepth wants to map the rest of the ocean floor
💼 New Climate Jobs
Last week we had 1,973 new jobs posted on the job board by 592 employers. Below, you’ll find jobs with salary ranges and all featured jobs. You can head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.
To feature your jobs in this section, join here.
Climate Connection
Climate Connection’s mission is to bring the climate and innovation ecosystem together, to accelerate the speed at which this ecosystem connects, collaborates, and creates impact on our common challenge: climate change.
🇬🇧 Partnerships Manager (London Area, Hybrid)
Noriware
Noriware created a seaweed-based packaging film that is entirely composed of natural materials.
🇨🇭 Polymer Scientist (Lupfig, On-site)
🇨🇭 Process Development Engineer (Lupfig, On-site)
🇨🇭 Research and Development Intern (Lupfig, On-site)
Phlair
Phlair is an early-stage startup developing a first-of-a-kind, low-cost Direct Air Capture technology to remove CO2 from the air. They permanently store the CO2 in rock carbonates and are currently building up the team around Munich.
🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 Electrician (Munich, €50k+)
🇩🇪 Electrochemical Stack Development & Test Engineer (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 HR Associate & Office Manager (Internship) (Munich, €45k+)
🇩🇪 Junior Engineer to the CTO (Munich, €60k+)
🇩🇪 Internship | Break into HR (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Internship in electrochemical Direct Air Capture (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Master Thesis in Mechanical Engineering for Direct Air Capture (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Master thesis on direct air carbon capture through electrochemistry (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Working Student in electrochemical Direct Air Capture (Ismaning, On-site)
Sparkmate
Sparkmate is the first venture studio 100% Climate, 100% Hardware.
🇫🇷 Founder (Paris, On-site)
🇭🇰 Graduate Product Engineer (Hong Kong SAR, On-site)
Tree.ly
Tree.ly is a diverse team founding a new technology venture that unlocks the carbon capture potential of our forests by bringing together forest owners, carbon offsetters and public authorities.
🇩🇪 Internship in Forest Management Sales (Munich, On-site)
🇦🇹 Junior Forest Sales Representative (Dornbirn, On-site)
🇩🇪 Marketing Manager (Berlin, On-site)
🇦🇹 Sales Manager:in (Austria, Remote)
🇦🇹 Senior Forest Sales Manager (Dornbirn, On-site)
🇩🇪 Spontaneous application (Germany, Remote)
Final Note
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Big hug,
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