🌳 Last Week in Climate #115
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,
🌳 ClimateU updates,
🇪🇺 12 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🗓 Events & Meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 1,967 jobs by 576 employers.
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💚 Community Updates
A little snap from our last Climate Drinks event.
☕️ Today, at 13:30, I’ll host our first virtual Climate Coffee Break. Anyone can join to connect with other climate professionals in an informal setting.
💬 We’ve made it easier to sign up for our Country Hubs. If you’re not in our regional WhatsApp groups yet - now is the time to join.
New Members
126 new members joined ClimateU last week, including:
Companies:
🇬🇧 better2earth
🇳🇱 Cawa
🇩🇪 Climate & Company
🇭🇰 Diginex
🇬🇧 Ecologi
🇦🇹 Lignovations
🇪🇸 Lobelia Earth
🇬🇧 nui
🇵🇹 Quizzability
🇷🇴 SOL renewables
🇪🇸 Solfy
🇩🇪 SQUAKE
🇸🇪 UrbanVind
Investors:
🇪🇸 Seaya
🇪🇸 EIT Urban Mobility
🇫🇮 Helen Ventures
🇩🇪 Atlantic Labs
🇩🇪 Croton Capital
🌳 ClimateU Updates
🔗 We added recruiter LinkedIn URLs to all company profiles so that jobseekers can reach out to companies more easily. If you have a company profile, please take a moment to update your contact information.
🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇩🇪 osapiens - €110.7M Series B
📍 Mannheim, Germany
💡 ESG platform.
Investors: Armira, Goldman Sachs Alternatives
🇪🇸 Wallbox Chargers - $45M Post-IPO Equity
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🚗 Smart charging and energy solutions.
Investors: Generac Power Systems
🇵🇹 Oceano Fresco - €17M Venture
📍 Mira, Portugal
🍴 Open-sea clams farm.
Investors: Aqua Spark, Banco Portugues de Fomento, BlueCrow Capital, Indico Capital Partners
🇸🇪 Millow - €15M Venture
📍 Västra Frölunda, Sweden
🍴 Mycelium alt-meat company.
Investors: EIC Accelerator
🇦🇹 Tset - €12.7M Series A
📍 Osterreicher, Austria
🏭 CO2 emission estimation software.
Investors: Brose Ventures, Carbon Removal Partners, Ingenics
🇬🇧 Axle Energy - £7M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Software that supports the grid by adjusting energy usage.
Investors: Accel, Amit Gudka, Eka Ventures, Hanno Renner, Nico Rosberg, Picus Capital, Sierra Peterson
🇨🇭 Metafuels - CHF 4.4M Grant
📍 Zürich, Switzerland
🚗 Sustainable aviation fuel.
Investors: Swiss Federal office of Energy
🇩🇪 MARCLEY - $4.3M Venture
📍 Hannover, Germany
⚡️ Solar for multi-family houses.
Investors: Viridia Capital, Venture Stars, Emma Tracey, Florian Bennhold, Enjoy Ventures, Climate Founders GmbH
🇩🇪 amperecloud - €3.3M Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Platform for renewable energy plant management.
Investors: Encevo, Point Nine, Vireo Ventures
🇸🇪 Melt & Marble - €2.8M Grant
📍 Västra Götaland, Sweden
🍴 Produces fat from feedstocks.
Investors: EIC Accelerator, Horizon Europe
🇬🇧 Sustainability Group - £2.7M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
💡 Sustainability advisory.
🇳🇱 OpusFlow - €1.7M Seed
📍 Deventer, Netherlands
⚡️ ERP system for the installation industry.
Investors: Peak
🚀 Deal of the Week
🇦🇺 Boris at RobinSun is looking for a lead for their seed round.
“RobinSun's plug-in PV kits are the Ikea of PV installations for residential use. Customers self-install their kit (1-2 panels, microinverter, mount and cables), plug it into their home network and start generating solar energy immediately. From the moment the kit is plugged in, power consumption goes down in sunshine hours, decarbonizing the energy used.”
discover all deals and founders
🗓 Upcoming Events
⭐️ = favorites
🆕 = added last week
🎟️ = community discount
💡 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
⚡️ How green is Octopus Energy?
🌾 Infarm rises from the ashes — with an old court case hanging over it
🚗 BMW to set up five new assembly sites for high-voltage batteries
🚗 Blue-sky thinking: How startups can decarbonise airports
💸 ‘Breastfeeding in an LP meeting is a great test’: Pale Blue Dot’s Heidi Lindvall
💸 Why Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and other investors are scouring universities for founders
💸 Quinbrook confirms $3bn raised for Net Zero Power Fund
💸 Breakthrough Energy Ventures nears $1B for Fund III
💸 Moxxie Ventures, led by ex-Twitter media head, raises $95M third fund
💸 What does GB Energy mean for climate tech?
💼 New Climate Jobs
Last week we had 1,967 new jobs posted on the job board by 576 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.
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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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