🌳 Last Week in Climate Vol. 97
Everything you need to know about last week in climate.
Happy Easter! 🥚
📩 Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in European climate-tech last week.
Today, we'll cover last week’s:
👋 community asks,
🇪🇺 12 closed rounds,
💼 1,200 jobs,
🚀 dealflow,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.
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👋 Community Asks
❓ Vanessa from Sustonica is both hiring and raising.
❓ Rory from Climate Savers is looking to close his pre-seed round.
❓ Anastasia seeks product design & user research roles.
❓ Leonardo is scouting co-founder opportunities.
❓ Barry wants some help to improve a circular tech map.
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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇫🇷 900.care - €21M Series A
📍 Paris, France
🏭 Enabling a zero-waste bathroom.
Investors: Blue Oceans Partners, Founders Future, Lombard Odier, White Star Capital
🇫🇷 NetZero - €18M Venture
📍 Paris, France
💨 Biochar at scale in the tropics.
Investors: STOA
🇵🇱 SP Tech - PLN 12M Venture
📍 Torun, Poland
🚗 Optimize railways through algorithms.
Investors: Vinci
🇩🇪 watttron - €12M Series B
📍 Freital, Germany
🏠 Heating system that can heat surfaces heterogenously.
Investors: Circular Innovation Fund, CNB Capital, Cycle Capital, Demeter Partners, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, SKion, TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
🇬🇧 Ember - £11M Series A
📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom
🚗 Platform for electric buses.
Investors: 2150, AENU, Contrarian Ventures, Gareth Williams, Inven Capital, Pale Blue Dot
🇬🇧 Oriole Networks - £10M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Reducing the energy usage of AI.
Investors: Clean Growth Fund, Dorilton Capital, UCL Technology Fund, XTX Markets
🇸🇪 Arevo - €6.6M Venture
📍 Umeå, Sweden
🧑🌾 Precision nutrition for plants.
Investors: Fort Knox, Industrifonden, Navigare Ventures, Stora Enso, The Kempes Foundations
🇬🇧 WASE - £6.1M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🌳 Extracting methane from waste water.
Investors: Elbow Beach Capital, Empirical Ventures, ENGIE New Ventures, Extantia Capital, Hitachi Ventures, WEPA Ventures
🇩🇪 ecoligo - $5M Debt
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Solar energy solutions for emerging markets.
🇬🇧 SHICKEN Foods - £4M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Plant based "Shicken" meals and kebabs.
Investors: Veg Capital
🇬🇧 Clean Food Group - £2.5M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🍴 Produces sustainable food ingredients.
Investors: Clean Growth Fund
🇸🇪 Agteria - €1.4M Pre-Seed
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
💨 Reducing methane from cows.
Investors: Norrsken Launcher
💼 New Climate Jobs
1,264 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)
🇩🇪 Internship in Business Development (Munich, On-site)
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, 93 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round.
Most recently, Aila 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 - more info here!
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📰 Climate News
☔️ NVIDIA Announces Earth Climate Digital Twin
⚡️ Octopus Energy spreads its tentacles in acquisitions spree
⚡️ The frantic rush to find buried hydrogen
🌳 Mapping where tree-planting has the greatest climate benefit
🏭 Fear-mongering in the Cobalt-sphere?
🏭 French parliament votes in favour of crackdown on ultra fast fashion
🏭 Germany Launches Clean Industry Push Worth Up to €4 Billion
🏭 Secondhand clothing on track to take 10% of global fashion sales
🏭 UK data center power demand to jump six-fold
🏭 US to spend $6bn to reduce carbon footprint of industry
💡 15 Spanish startups to watch from outside Barcelona and Madrid
💨 Microsoft Signs 95,000 Ton Biochar Carbon Removal Deal
🚗 France to turn rivers into highways?
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