🌍 Last Week in Climate #152 - Community Space 3.0 is Live and FREE
Hey there, happy Wednesday!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in Climate in the last two weeks.
👨💻 I skipped last week’s digest because of two major updates that have been taking me lots of late nights:
Launching the freemium version of our community space here ✅ (You should have received an email from me yesterday. If not, how dare you not be an inClimate user yet?)
Rebuilding inClimate’s backend on “Supabase” which will improve our jobs matchmaking and lay the foundation for inClimate 3.0 ( ⚙ Still work in progress, hopefully live by August)
💡 Please make sure you join the new freemium community space here, post your intro, and let me know if you have any feedback. 4 years of work, lots of love, and many late nights have gone into building this, so help me make it even better and consider signing up for the full membership.
Today, I cover last week’s:
🌍 Community updates,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🇪🇺 22 Closed funding rounds,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 Climate news, and
💼 Climate jobs.
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Community Updates + v3.0
Just dropping another image from our Barcelona meetup here because it was so much fun.
💚 inClimate Community 3.0:
I relaunched our community space as a freemium version yesterday. Anyone can now introduce themselves, ask questions, and celebrate wins. If you were part of the old Slack channel - you will be happy! Make sure to join here, create an extra account, and post your intro.
Some notes on the space:
You do need to create another profile for the community space, I’m working on soon automatically creating the profile for everyone on inClimate, but that will still take a while.
Make sure you adjust your notifications so that you stay updated on relevant posts, but don’t get spammed with every update. I’m also enabling an automatic weekly summary for you every Thursday.
The sub-communities and specialized chats will stay paywalled with a €99 one-time fee so that interactions there stay high quality over quantity.
🚀 New Backend: I don’t want to bore you with details and why this is gonna be such a game changer for inClimate, but if anyone here is a Supabase nerd and wants to help me set up some Edge Functions and LLM integrations, then I welcome all the help I can get. If that’s you, please leave a comment here. Big thanks to our tech advisor Lukas Fingerle who needs to listen to my monologues about it already.
📅 I’ll take a little event break in the community space while everyone is on holidays so that I can get all the crucial platform and community updates done and host events again from September onwards. 1-to-1 matchmaking will of course continue running! If you want to host intro circles or local meetups over the summer, leave a comment here please and I’ll reach out.
In case you missed the last newsletter:
🇪🇸 Here are the participants of our largest meetup yet, with 200 people coming together at the rooftop of Norrsken House Barcelona (the most incredible partner). Thank you for a great evening everyone!
🕺 We’re now 18,773 signed up inClimate members out of 30k readers. Make sure to create a profile if you haven’t signed up yet!
Deal of the Week
Bhavishya (Vishy) Ramchander at Have it SUST. is raising a pre-seed round 🚀
Bhavishya is an absolute rockstar and launched the company in January after working at the likes of J.P. Morgan and Nestlé. You can also find Bhavishya in the Founders & Investors space of the community and reach out to her directly there. 💬
Here are the details 👇
"Have it SUST. is raising a €650K pre-seed round to enhance its AI-powered sustainability scoring engine, onboard mission-aligned fashion brands, and expand its consumer-facing marketplace across key European markets (launch in DACH, Nordics, parts of Western Europe)
We are currently seeking a lead investor and are looking to raise the full amount. This round will support with perfecting the product, evaluating the product market fit, launching the offer, completing the team, enrolling brands to the platform and launching the app.
We’re looking to partner with investors who are passionate about the intersection of technology, sustainability, and consumer experience, particularly those with expertise in marketplaces, fashion tech, or regulatory-driven innovation (e.g., CSRD, DPP).
Our goal is to build a values-led platform that empowers conscious consumption and enables brands to navigate and benefit from the evolving sustainability landscape."
Closed Rounds (22)
🇩🇪 NeXtWind - €1.4B Debt
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ A green independent power producer.
🇨🇭 Climeworks - $162M Private Equity
📍 Zurich, Switzerland
💨 Direct air capture.
Investors: BigPoint Holding, Partners Group
🇬🇧 HIVED - £31M Series B
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Emission-free parcel delivery.
Investors: Elemental Impact, Global Brain Corporation, Marunouchi Innovation Partners, NordicNinja VC, Planet A, rocketship, Wex Venture Capital, Yamato Holdings
🇸🇪 Minesto - SEK 25M Grant
📍 Västra Götaland, Sweden
⚡️ Renewable energy from the ocean.
Investors: Swedish Energy Agency
🇳🇱 Dexter Energy - €23M Series C
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
⚡️ AI-enabled forecast optimisations & trade strategies for renewable power traders.
Investors: Alantra, ETF Partners, Mirova, Newion, PDENH
🇸🇪 PulPac - €20M Debt
📍 Västra Frölunda, Sweden
🏭 Fiber packaging that replaces single-use plastics.
Investors: European Investment Bank
🇫🇷 Ever Dye - €15M Series A
📍 Paris, France
🏭 Ecological dyeing processes for the textile industry.
Investors: Asterion Ventures, Daphni, European Innovation Council, Maki.vc, Ring Capital
🇬🇧 AssetCool - £10M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Photonic coatings and materials that enhance the functionality of electrical networks.
Investors: Energy Impact Partners, Extantia Capital, Kero Development Partners, Northern Gritstone, NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, Taronga Ventures
🇩🇪 Climatiq - €10M Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany
💡 The API for Carbon Intelligence
Investors: ALSTIN Capital, Cherry Ventures, Singular
🇳🇱 Tibo energy - €6M Seed
📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands
⚡️ Smart grid management for businesses.
Investors: Hitachi Ventures, KOMPAS VC, SET Ventures, Speedinvest, WEPA Ventures
🇪🇪 Vok Bikes - €5M Series A
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🚗 Heavy-duty cargo-bikes for on-demand delivery companies.
Investors: Metaplanet, SmartCap, Specialist VC, SQM Lithium Ventures, Sunly
🇩🇪 Cariqa - €4M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 Cariqa: The all-in-one EV solution for seamless management, Europe-wide charging, trip planning, and real-time vehicle data
Investors: Anthemis, Contrarian Ventures, Earth, Golden Egg Check Capital, Techstars
🇨🇭 Crosstown H2R - CHF 3M Seed
📍 Baden, Switzerland
🚗 Decarbonisation of gas turbines.
Investors: 2100 Ventures, Climate Insiders, Swiss Federal office of Energy, Unruly Capital, VOYAGERS
🇩🇪 Circonomit GmbH - €2.8M Seed
📍 Aachen, Germany
🚗 Decision intelligence for sustainability management
Investors: Fund F, PUSH VC, Vorwerk Ventures
🇩🇰 Agrobiomics - €2.5M Grant
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
👨🏼🌾 Agrobiomics is a biotechnology research platform providing farmers with effective and sustainable solutions for better crop production.
Investors: EIC Accelerator
🇪🇸 Next-Gen Leather - €948k Grant
📍 Madrid, Spain
🏭 Leather made of biological and recyclable materials, non-toxic and with reduced costs in water and energy consumption.
Investors: BeAble Capital, CDTI Innovación's INNVIERTE program
🇸🇪 Clean Motion - SEK 376k Grant
📍 Västra Götaland, Sweden
🚗 Electric vehicle manufacturer.
Investors: Swedish Energy Agency
🇳🇱 Carbyon - Series A
📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands
💨 Carbyon aims to restore the atmospheric carbon balance using breakthrough technology and unique machine design that scales economically and durably.
Investors: Isai
🇪🇸 H2SITE - Grant
📍 Derio, Spain
⚡️ On-site high-quality hydrogen production.
Investors: European Innovation Council
🇩🇪 Rabot Energy - Venture
📍 Hamburg, Germany
🚗 Dynamic electricity prices for households and EV charging.
Investors: Bosch Ventures
🇩🇰 Ento Labs - Venture
📍 Aarhus, Denmark
🏠 Optimizing energy consumption in public and commercial buildings.
Investors: AURA Ventures
🇳🇱 Seenons - Private Equity
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🏭 Waste management platform.
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Climate News
🇪🇺 EU Climate Law: new way to reach 2040 targets
🇩🇪 Germany's sharp hydrogen and clean industry budget cuts send “totally wrong signal”
🇬🇧 Britain shuns $34 billion Morocco-UK subsea power project
🇬🇧 UK ETS Reports 11.5% Emissions Drop for 2024
🇪🇺 EU to subsidise high volume of SAF to boost airline demand
💡 Climate change is making olive oil the new gold
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