🌳 Last Week in Climate Vol. 95
Everything you need to know about last week in climate.
Good morning afternoon and happy Tuesday! 👋
📩 Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in European climate-tech last week.
We’re a little bit late today, as we’re finally shifting our newsletter to Beehiiv. If you encounter any formatting or readability issues, please ping us and we’ll adjust it for next week.
Today, we'll cover last week’s:
👋 community asks,
🇪🇺 closed rounds,
💼 climate jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.
If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.
👋 Community Asks
❓ Neil is looking for potential investors for his stealth startup.
❓ Paul from 4P Capital wants to chat about carbon markets.
❓ Peter from EverBlue Ventures is looking for companies focused on water.
❓ Stephanie from MycoFutures is raising a pre-seed round.
❓ Catherine wants to get involved in marine conservation.
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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇳🇴 NEL Hydrogen - $75M Grant
📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ Hydrogen generations, storage, and distribution.
Investors: State of Michigan, US Department of Energy
🇳🇴 Vianode - €30M Grant
📍 Oslo, Norway
⚡️ Producer of sustainably engineered battery materials.
Investors: Innovation Norway
🇸🇪 Voi - $25M Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🚗 Leading micromobility player.
Investors: Balderton Capital, Black Ice Capital, Creandum, Nineyards Equity, Project A Ventures, Stena Sessan, The Raine Group, VNV Global
🇬🇧 Mission Zero Technologies - £21.8M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
💨 Low-energy direct air capture.
Investors: 2150, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Fortescue Future Industries, Siemens Financial Services, World Fund
🇩🇪 ProteinDistillery - €15M Seed
📍 Ostfildern, Germany
🍴 Clean and sustainable proteins for food manufacturers.
Investors: Green Generation Fund, SFO, Wendelin Wiedeking
🇫🇷 Sublime Energie - €11.5M Series A
📍 Paris, France
⚡️ Provides transportation of biogas services.
Investors: Crédit Mutuel Impact
🇬🇧 Packfleet - £8M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Zero carbon deliveries.
Investors: Creandum, Entrée Capital, Founder Collective, General Catalyst, Voyager Ventures
🇦🇹 Necture - €7M Series A
📍 Vienna, Austria
🚗 Electric fleet optimization.
Investors: SmartEnergy Innovation Fund, Smartworks Innovation, Speedinvest, Verbund X Ventures
🇩🇪 Orbio Earth - $4M Seed
📍 Cologne, Germany
💡 Actionable methane intelligence.
Investors: European Space Agency, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator
🇬🇧 Suiso - £3M Seed
📍 Sheffield, United Kingdom
⚡️ Microwave-driven Hydrogen generators.
Investors: Mercia’s EIS funds, NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance
🇪🇪 GScan - €3M Seed
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🏗 Scanning technology allowing for sustainable reparations of structures.
Investors: Markus Villig
🇩🇪 ENAPI - €2.5M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 Affordable and seamless connectivity in EV charging.
Investors: Seedcamp, Project A Ventures, Rodrigo Martinez
🇬🇧 Solasta Bio - $1M Grant
📍 Glasgow, United Kingdom
🧑🌾 Products for effective crop protection.
Investors: UPL
🇨🇭 Cotierra - $1M Pre-Seed
📍 Zurich, Switzerland
💨 Decentralized biochar production.
Investors: Carbon Drawdown Initiative, Carbon Removal Partners, Climate Founders GmbH, Partners in Clime, S2S Ventures
🇬🇧 Anaphite - £880k Venture
📍 Bristol, United Kingdom
⚡️ Enhancing Li-ion batteries with graphene.
Investors: Bristol Private Equity Club, Elbow Beach Capital, Wealth Club
🇬🇧 Breathe Battery Technologies - Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Advanced battery management software.
Investors: Volvo Cars Tech Fund
🇪🇸 SolarMente - Angel
📍 Barcelona, Spain
⚡️ Installs and finances solar kits in Spain.
Investors: Leonardo DiCaprio
💼 New Climate Jobs
Check out the latest featured jobs below. If you don't see anything that speaks to you, you can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities.
Carbon Atlantis
Carbon Atlantis 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.
🇩🇪 Electrician / Elektriker:in (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Electrochemical Test Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Technical Founder’s Associate (f/m/d) (Ismaning, On-site)
🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)
Choco
Choco joined ClimateU on their mission to enable a sustainable food system, one that runs transparently and without waste. They are hiring for on-site roles across Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, London, and the US.
🇩🇪 Head of Product (Sr. Director / VP / CPO) (Berlin, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Head of Revenue Operations (Berlin, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Senior Backend Engineer, Platform (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Product Manager (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Solutions Engineer (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Senior CRM Manager (Berlin, On-site)
🇫🇷 Solutions Engineer (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 Account Executive (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 Account Manager (Paris, On-site)
🇫🇷 Account Manager (Paris, On-site)
🇪🇸 Senior Account Executive (Barcelona, On-site)
🇪🇸 Senior Automation Specialist (Barcelona, On-site)
🇬🇧 Head of Buyer Sales (London, On-site)
🇺🇸 Business Development Manager (New York, On-site)
🇺🇸 Buyer Sales (Chicago, On-site)
🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (Chicago, On-site)
🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (Boston, On-site)
🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (New York, On-site)
🇺🇸 Buyer Sales (Spanish speaking) (Chicago, Hybrid)
Net Zero Academy
The NetZero Academy is an educational platform specializing in energy efficiency, sustainability, and decarbonization. Their goal is to train professionals who support climate protection measures and enable the achievement of net-zero goals.
🇩🇪 Impact Werkstudent Business and Sales (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Chief of Staff (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Education Manager (Munich, Hybrid)
🇩🇪 Head of Sales (Munich, On-site)
Simbiotec App
Ohad is building Simbiotec App - your one-stop app for a sustainable lifestyle - and is looking for his Tech Lead. He is based out of Mallorca but the role can be remote.
🇪🇸 Tech Lead (Remote)
Tree.ly
Tree.ly connects forest owners with companies, helping forest owners earn extra income by managing forests for climate resilience. Companies can purchase high-quality CO₂ credits, backing forest owners and showing their commitment to measurable climate protection.
🇦🇹 Carbon Sales Manager Austria (Austria, Remote)
That’s all the featured jobs for this week! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU, and you can feature your jobs here by signing up for our new monthly membership.
🚀 Climate Dealflow
Currently, 90 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.
Most recently, Charge Fairy announced their Seed round.
Investors and corporates on ClimateU can directly access all 6,000 companies, funding rounds, pitch decks, and 800+ founders via our membership, or we can send you deals directly in a venture scouting model - get in touch!
discover all deals and founders
📰 Climate News
We’ll keep the news short this week as we’re making some structural changes to how we find relevant articles. More again next week.
💡 Building and scaling climate hardware: A Playbook
💡 Companies take step back from making climate target promises
💡 New story about Carbo Culture from The Climate Race!
💸 Cambridge university halts donations from fossil fuel groups
💸 Climate finance must be COP29 summit priority, UN leaders say
💸 Sustainable Investment: asset owner transition on course
🧑🌾 Bezos Earth Fund Announces $60 Million for Sustainable Protein
🧑🌾 The FoodTech 500
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