🌳 Last Week in Climate #136 - Join your Country Hub
Hey {{firstname|there}}, happy Wednesday!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in Climate last week.
📍 Before we dive in:
In addition to our main community space, we also run free WhatsApp groups for each country, where you can join and host local meetups, ask questions, and stay updated on the latest. If you haven’t joined yet, make sure to sign up via this link.
That being said…
Today, we cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🚀 19 new active funding rounds,
🇪🇺 20 closed funding rounds,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 Climate jobs.
Community Updates
🥾 Barcelona’s community is still going strong and hosted yet another inClimate hike as beautifully captured above. Jan Keenan from Rondo Energy took the lead for the weekly selfie this time. Thanks Jan!
👋 We onboarded our first community manager Adriana last week. If you’re already part of our new community space, make sure to connect with her.
🏆 We launched a monthly accountability challenge for professionals looking to break into the climate sector. We’ll be checking in and supporting everyone’s goals every Monday from now on. Make sure to join in via the community space.
💡 A quick reminder that you can host your own inClimate events and meetups by following these simple steps.
☕️ Today at 13:30 I’ll host the 21th edition of our Climate Coffee Break / Intro Circles. Feel free to sign up for a future coffee break here.
🖖 200 professionals joined the inClimate community last week. You can filter and connect with all 15,829 members via the members directory and via the new community space.
Active Funding Rounds
Last week, 19 climate-tech founders announced their upcoming funding round on inClimate. If you’re an investor and want to access all rounds, contacts, and pitch decks - you can now get lifetime access to all funding rounds and more here.
Added last week from all across Europe and the US:
5 x Series A
7 x Seed Rounds
7 x Pre Seed
🇫🇷 Deal of the week:
After a €4M seed round, Stephan at TechnoCarbon is looking for its Series A lead investor to close a EUR 10 million round by November 2025. Possibility to invest now as Series A leader through a SAFE note. Follower funds are ready to invest after DD and thus complete the round.
You can find more info and the pitch deck on inClimate (investors only).
access all active funding rounds
Closed Rounds
🇩🇪 INERATEC - €70M Debt + Grant
📍 Karlsruhe, Germany
🚗 CO2-neutral and affordable e-fuels.
Investors: European Investment Bank, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
🇨🇭 Meteomatics - $22M Series C
📍 Saint Gallen, Switzerland
☔️ Helps businesses navigate extreme weather impacts.
Investors: Armira, FortyOne Group, Klimatet Invest
🇪🇸 iPronics - €20M Series A
📍 Valencia, Spain
🏠 Making data centers more energy efficient.
Investors: Amadeus Capital Partners, Bosch Ventures, Criteria Venture Tech, Fine Structure Venture, Triatomic Capital
🇫🇷 Keey Aerogel - €18M Series A
📍 Habsheim, France
🏗 Manufacturing silica aerogel from construction waste.
Investors: Bpifrance, Capital Grand Est, City Advertising, NCI, Wind Capital
🇨🇭 Oxyle - $16M Seed
📍 Zürich, Switzerland
💧 Tech to degrade hazardous micropollutants from wastewater.
Investors: 360 Capital, Axeleo Capital, Founderful, SOSV
🇩🇪 OCELL - €10M Series A
📍 Munich, Germany
🌳 Preserve our forests, protect our climate.
Investors: AENU, Bayern Kapital, Capnamic Ventures, Maximilian Viessmann, Summiteer
🇫🇮 Cactos - €7M Venture
📍 Helsinki, Finland
⚡️ Smart energy storage systems for local and efficient energy supply.
Investors: Superhero Capital, Union Square Ventures
🇫🇷 Le Fourgon - $8.2M Series A + Crowdfunding
📍 Marquette Lez Lille, France
🏭 Returnable glasses & drinks delivery.
Investors: BRED Banque, Future Positive Capital, Id4 ventures, La Poste Ventures, Meusinvest (Noshaq), Teampact ventures
🇬🇧 Sightline Climate - $5.5M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💡 Climate market intelligence platform.
Investors: Molten Ventures, The Westly Group
🇬🇧 LAIIER - $4M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💧 Prevents water leaks in buildings and industrial equipment.
Investors: Alma Mundi Ventures, Bonaventure Capital, Burnt Island Ventures, Closed Loop Partners, One Small Planet, Virta Ventures
🇩🇪 Nala Earth - €3.8M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🌳 Enables businesses to better understand and connect with the natural world.
Investors: Founderful, IRIS, KOMPAS VC, Pale blue dot
🇳🇱 OneThird - €3.5M Series A
📍 Enschede, Netherlands
🍴 Preventing food loss and food waste.
Investors: Invest International, OostNL, Pymwymic, SHIFT Invest
🇳🇴 Avisomo - $3.4M Funding Round
📍 Jessheim, Norway
👩🌾 Vertical farming plant factory solutions.
🇪🇪 Gridio - €2.4M Seed
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
🚗 Smart EV charging platform.
Investors: Encevo, Neo investments, SmartCap
🇩🇰 Hybird Energy - €2.4M Seed
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
⚡️ Developing intelligent electrical panels powered by an AI energy cloud.
Investors: 2degrees, Anders Bo Pedersen, BackingMinds, Christian Legene, Eikon Management, Ekaterina Gianelli, Jeppe Rindom, Lasse Stokholm, Mickey Switzer Schubert-Suell, Notion Capital, Oliver Rye, Sune Alstrup, Thomas Buus Madsen, Tony Kula, Transition
🇳🇱 Agurotech - €2.3M Venture
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
👩🌾 On a mission to create a more data-driven and efficient global farming industry.
Investors: Navus Ventures, Rabo Investments, ROM InWest
🇬🇧 GRYD Energy - £1M Pre-Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Creating a fair and shared smart energy network.
Investors: Black Seed, Richard Thwaites, SFC Capital
🇧🇪 Pleevi - €1M Pre-Seed
📍 Brussel, Belgium
🚗 Workplace EV charging.
Investors: Angelwise, Loic Bar, Noshaq, Qbic Fund, Seeder Fund
🇪🇸 RobinSun - €600k Seed
📍 Madrid, Spain
⚡️ Helps unserved residential users to generate solar energy for self consumption.
Investors: Akka, Albert Armengol, AQUISGRÁN, EIT Climate-KIC, ENISA
🇬🇧 Hydrogen Vehicle Systems - Venture
📍 Glasgow, United Kingdom
⚡️ Commercial hydrogen-electric vehicles.
Investors: Excelledia Ventures
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… all 2025 events on inClimate.com/events
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Climate News
🇪🇺 EU releases a new Compass to regain competitiveness and secure sustainable prosperity
🇸🇪 Stockholm Exergi wins auction for government support for BECCS
✈️ Airbus Pauses Plans to Bring NextGen eVTOL Aircraft to Market
🔋 Researchers in Switzerland develop biodegradable fungi battery
🔋 Volvo acquires battery joint venture Novo Energy
👩🌾 Insect ag pioneer Ÿnsect ‘exploring all possible options, including a 3rd-party takeover
New Climate Jobs
The weekly job recommendations went out on Monday via email.
Below, you’ll find all featured jobs (from companies on our premium access). You can head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.
aeco
Aeco develops and finances peatland restoration projects across Europe. Combining restoration expertise and access to capital, we aim at substantially contributing towards climate change mitigation and ecosystem restoration.
🇪🇺 Biodiversity Project Developer for Peatland Restoration (Germany, Hybrid)
🌍 Junior Peatland Specialist (Germany, Hybrid)
autarc
autarc is building the operating system for heat pump installers. They are part of Y Combinator and are hiring for their office in Berlin-Mitte.
🇩🇪 Energieberater:in
🇩🇪 Technical Founder's Associate
🇩🇪 Sales Manager:in
🇩🇪 Senior Fullstack Engineer
Daato
Daato is a holistic ESG management platform for enterprises of all sizes.
🇩🇪 Marketing Manager (Berlin, Remote)
🇩🇪 Sustainability Working Student (Berlin, Remote)
inPlanet
InPlanet removes CO2 from the atmosphere through Enhanced Rock Weathering in the tropics. This CDR method applies rock powder on agricultural land, thereby fertilizing soils and permanently locking carbon in a way that is scalable, affordable and safe.
Agricultural Marketer (Freelancer)
🌎 Head of Finance (CFO) (Remote)
🇧🇷 Full-Stack Software Engineer (Curitiba, Remote)
🇧🇷 Farmer Community Manager (São Paulo, Hybrid)
🇧🇷 ERW Operations Manager (São Paulo, On-site)
🇧🇷 Legal Intern (Rio de Janeiro, Remote)
Final Note
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Big hug,
PS: Feel free to send feedback, ideas, funding news… directly to me: tim@inclimate.com