🌳 Last Week in Climate Vol. 96
Everything you need to know about last week in climate.
Good morning and happy Tuesday! 👋
📩 Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in European climate-tech last week.
💡 Last week, €1.7 billion have been invested across Europe, out of which €1.4 billion went to climate-tech. Enpal led the way, raising €1.1B in debt. Seven of the companies that raised a round last week are ClimateU members - it's great to see the community raise more and more funding. 🚀
Today, we'll cover last week’s:
👋 community asks,
🇪🇺 17 closed rounds,
💼 1,500 climate jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.
If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.
👋 Community Asks
❓ Matteo is seeking investors for his SaaS textile startup.
❓ David also seeks investors for their sodium-salt battery.
❓ Lennart wants intros to secondhand clothing merchants.
❓ Vincent looks for investors for their external battery for EVs.
❓ Ebba is looking for applicants for the Norrsken Accelerator.
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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇩🇪 Enpal - €1.1B Debt Financing
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Rent or buy solar panels.
Investors: Bank of America, Barclays, CPP Investments, Credit Agricole CIB
🇫🇷 Lhyfe - €149M Grant
📍 Nantes, France
⚡️ Green hydrogen for mobility and industry.
Investors: Government of France
🇫🇷 Greenly - €48M Series B
📍 Paris, France
💡 Carbon accounting.
Investors: Benhamou Global Ventures, Brian Halligan, Energy Impact Partners, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HSBC, Move Capital, XAnge
🇩🇪 Novocarbo - €25M Private Equity
📍 Hamburg, Germany
💨 Biochar carbon removal.
Investors: Swen Capital Partners
🇸🇪 Candela - €24.5M Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🚗 Long-range electric boat.
Investors: EQT Ventures, Groupe Beneteau, Ocean Zero
🇧🇪 e-peas - €17.5M Venture
📍 Mont-saint-guibert, Belgium
⚡️ Increasing battery lifetimes.
Investors: European Innovation Council, Faktory Ventures, KBC Focus Fund, LeanSquare, Nomainvest, Otium Capital, Start Invest, WE International
🇬🇧 DRONAMICS - €10M Grant
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Cargo drone airline.
Investors: European Innovation Council
🇸🇪 CemVision - €10M Seed
📍 Kalmar, Sweden
🏗 Decarbonising cement.
Investors: BackingMinds, Polar Structure, Zacua Ventures
🇬🇧 Renovare Fuels - £6M Corporate Round
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Fuel from bigas.
Investors: Amberside Advisors
🇩🇪 Dryad Networks - €5.6M Convertible Note
📍 Berlin, Germany
🌳 Wildfire detection.
Investors: Brandenburg Kapital, eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners, STIHL Ventures, TELUS Pollinator Fund for Good
🇸🇪 BL!XT - €5M Seed
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Miniature, solid state circuit breaker & modular multilevel converters.
Investors: Energy Revolution Ventures, Union Square Ventures
🇫🇷 Pelikan Mobility - €4M Seed
📍 Paris, France
🚗 Electrifying fleets.
Investors: Frst, Pale Blue Dot, Seedcamp
🇬🇧 Automated Architecture - £2.6M Seed
📍 Bristol, United Kingdom
🏗 Distributed robotic micro-factory network producing homes sustainably.
Investors: ABB, Bacchus Venture Capital, Dobromir Todorov, Miles Ahead, Morgan Stanley, Nicolas Bearelle, Rival, Stefano Bernardi
🇨🇭 Crosstown H2R - €2M Grant
📍 Baden, Switzerland
🚗 Decarbonisation of gas turbines.
Investors: Swiss Federal office of Energy
🇬🇧 Nukoko - €1.3M Seed
📍 Guildford, United Kingdom
🏭 Cocoa free chocolate from beans.
Investors: Oyster Bay, SOSV, The Mills Fabrica
🇪🇸 POSEIDONA - €1.1M Pre-Seed
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🍴 Proteins from algal waste and invasive biomass.
Investors: Dozen Investments, Faber, ProVeg International, Sprout & About Ventures, WA4STEAM
🇩🇪 NOVUS GmbH - Venture
📍 Braunschweig, Germany
🚗 Urban electric lightbikes.
Investors: 468 Capital
💼 New Climate Jobs
1,500 climate jobs have been posted on ClimateU last week. You can check out the latest featured jobs below. You can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities if you don't see anything that speaks to you below.
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)
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)
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🚀 Climate Dealflow
Currently, 92 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.
Most recently, Musthad announced their pre-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
☔️ Europe unprepared for rapidly growing climate risks, report finds
⚡️ AI Datacenter Energy Dilemma
⚡️ AI is (probably) greener than you typing on a laptop
💡 UK emissions in 2023 fell to lowest level since 1879
💸 India calls for $1 trillion per year climate finance
📢 The Presidential election in the U.S. is one of the biggest climate stories of the year globally.
🧑🌾 Burger Kings's "Plant-Based For Everyone" campaign
🚗 KLM’s greenwashing has been found illegal
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