🌳 Last Week in Climate #137 - The inClimate Community is Taking Off
Hey {{firstname|there}}, happy Tuesday!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in Climate last week.
🚀 No no, I don’t work at Norrsken now, but you’ll find an exciting update below.
Today, we cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🚀 6 new active funding rounds,
🇪🇺 19 closed funding rounds,
🗓 Events & meetups,
💼 Climate jobs.
Community Updates
🖖 We’re now 16,000 members, can you believe it? You can filter and connect with all members via the members directory and via the new community space.
🚀 Our community roadmap is live - check out what we’re working on.
🇩🇪 Victor Lombardi is hosting a Hamburg inClimate Coffee Meetup on March 1st. In the Germany group, there is also talk of a potential inClimate running club coming together in FFM - ping me if you want to host something in your city too.
🇪🇸 I’m hosting a Barcelona inClimate Coffee Meetup this Thursday morning. Come and say hi!
💡 It’s now even easier to host an inClimate meetup or event - all you need to do is set up an event page via lu.ma/create and then request to add it to lu.ma/inclimate. Once approved, it will be featured in this newsletter and on inClimate. Here is more info.
📞 For everyone in our community space, the weekly check-ins are today at 15:00 CET and on Friday 11:00 CET. They are weekly spaces to get peer support from the community, myself, and the team.
🤝 This week, we’re finalising our sub-communities - meaning we will launch sub-communities based on location, climate sector, and professional backgrounds.
☕️ For all those who are not part of the community space yet, but want to get a taste of the magic we’re creating - you can join one of our weekly intro circles here to connect with some incredible climate professionals.
＜＞ Finally, I’m really excited that we’re taking the partnership with Norrsken to the next level. I’ll be championing their climate-tech community here in BCN and can’t wait to get more involved both with the local ecosystem and with Norrsken’s incredible team. More info here.
Active Funding Rounds
Last week, 6 climate-tech founders announced their upcoming funding rounds on inClimate, taking us to currently 191 open rounds.
🇩🇪 Deal of the week:
Sanchit at S2 Dynamics is raising their pre-seed round.
“We are looking for business angels & a lead investor for our pre-seed round, with 20% already committed from climate-tech VC & angels from the industry. We are seeking investors with expertise in B2B SaaS, circular economy, recycling or supply chain innovation, who can bring strategic value beyond capital. If you're passionate about driving the transition to a circular electronics economy, we'd love to connect!”
You can find more info and the pitch deck on inClimate (investors only).
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.
Closed Rounds
🇪🇸 Begas Motor - €18M Private Equity
📍 Loeches, Spain
🚗 Engine for industrial vehicles powered 100% by LPG.
Investors: CDTI, EASO Ventures, Ekarpen, Nexio, Pedro Silva, Repsol Energy Ventures, Seed Capital Bizkaia, Stellum Capital
🇬🇧 IONATE - $17M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Hardware-software backbone for the smart grid.
Investors: AlbionVC, Antares Ventures, Cycle Group, IQ Capital, IQT, JGC Mirai Innovation Fund, Santander CIB, Zero Carbon Capital
🇩🇪 ACCURE Battery Intelligence - $16M Series B
📍 Aachen, Germany
⚡️ Battery performance products.
Investors: 42CAP, Blue Bear Capital, Capnamic Ventures, HSBC Asset Management, Incharge Capital Partners, Riverstone Holdings
🇧🇪 Fyteko - €13M Series B
📍 Brussels, Belgium
👩🌾 Advanced plant biostimulants.
Investors: Crédit Mutuel Impact, EIT Food, Finance.Brussels, Innovation Fund, Invest Mons Borinage Centre, SFPIM, Supernova Invest
🇩🇰 Enduro Genetics - €12M Series A
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🏭 Enabling large-scale fermentations.
Investors: NOON Ventures, Sandwater, Supernova Invest
🇬🇧 Renew Risk - €5.9M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Software for the management of renewable energy assets.
Investors: Insurtech Gateway, Lloyd's, Molten Ventures
🇬🇧 Modern Synthesis - $5.5M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 Biomaterials.
Investors: Artesian VC, Collaborative Fund, Extantia Capital
🇬🇧 44.01 - $5M Series A
📍 London, United Kingdom
💨 Carbon mineralization technology.
Investors: Nysnø, otf Jasoor Ventures
🇬🇧 Astral Systems - £4.5M Seed
📍 Bristol, United Kingdom
⚡️ Pioneering fusion technology.
Investors: Oliver Buck, Pete Hutton, Playfair Capital, Speedinvest
🇫🇷 BiocSol - €4.4M Seed
📍 Louvain-la-Neuve, France
👩🌾 Empowering farmers to sustainably protect crops.
Investors: Pymwymic
🇳🇱 Villari - €4M Seed
📍 Delft, Netherlands
⚡️ Wireless structural health monitoring technology.
Investors: FORWARD.one, InnovationQuarter
🇫🇷 EPYR - €3M Pre-Seed
📍 Paris, France
⚡️ Thermal energy storage.
Investors: AENU, Daphni, OVNI Capital, WEPA
🇸🇪 GREEN14 - €2M Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏭 Cleaner manufacturing by using hydrogen plasma.
Investors: Ingka Investments
🇦🇹 sequestra - €1.1M Pre-Seed
📍 Vienna, Austria
💨 CO2 utilisation reduction in heavy industry.
Investors: Carbon Drawdown Initiative, Climate Founders, VSE Group
🇳🇱 Proba - €1M Seed
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
💸 Decarbonization in the agri-food sector through insetting.
Investors: Future Food Fund, The Yield Lab, Value Factory Ventures
🇬🇧 CroBio - €805k Grant
📍 Alderley Park, United Kingdom
👩🌾 Enhanced microbes for sustainable agriculture.
Investors: Biorenewables Development Centre, Defra, Innovate UK, University of York
🇪🇪 Hepta Airborne - Venture
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
⚡️ Automating power line analysis.
Investors: Nesprit
🇳🇴 7Analytics - Venture
📍 Bergen, Norway
☔️ Proptech solutions for climate adaptation and nature risk analytics.
Investors: IAG Firemark Ventures
🇪🇸 unusuals - Venture
📍 Madrid, Spain
⚡️ Automates infrastructure maintenance.
Investors: Elewit
view all closed funding rounds
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Upcoming Events
🇿🇦 Africa's Green Economy Summit (Feb 19)
🇪🇸 inClimate Coffee Meetup - BCN #1 (Feb 20)
🇮🇹 Resumed UN Biodiversity Conference (Feb 25)
🌍 Harnessing Nature Based Innovation for Resilient Cities (Feb 25)
🌍 Climate Coffee Break / Intro Circles #24 (Feb 26)
🇬🇧 Net Zero & Scope 3 (Mar 5)
🇬🇧 Sustainability Net Zero (Mar 5)
🇦🇹 World Sustainable Energy Days (Mar 5)
🇨🇭 Verbier Summit (Mar 7)
🇬🇧 The Economist Sustainability Week (Mar 10)
🇩🇪 Circular Valley Convention (Mar 12)
🇯🇵 World Ocean Summit & Expo (Mar 12)
🇺🇸 Climate Correction Conferences (Mar 12)
🇩🇪 SmartForest 2025 (Mar 13)
🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow (Mar 13)
🇺🇸 Future Food Tech (Mar 13)
🇺🇸 Wall Street Green Summit (Mar 18)
🇨🇭 Villars Institute Summit (Mar 19)
🇦🇺 Climate Investor Forum (Mar 19)
🇨🇭 Start Summit (Mar 20)
🇫🇷 World Impact Summit (Mar 25)
🇩🇪 CSRD Experience Day (Mar 27)
🇫🇷 Climate Reality Leadership Training (Mar 28)
🇫🇷 Climate Chance Europe Africa (Mar 31)
🇦🇹 AustrianStartups Summit (Apr 1)
🇪🇸 Energy Tech Summit 2025 (Apr 9)
🇺🇸 ClimateTech Connect (Apr 15)
🇺🇸 SF Climate Week (Apr 19)
🇺🇸 EarthX2025 (Apr 21)
🇪🇸 REBUILD (Apr 23)
… all 2025 events on inClimate.com/events
Got any events or conferences planned for 2025 or attending an event that we should all know about?
Just add them via inClimate.com/events 👇️
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)
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
🇩🇪 Senior Fullstack Engineer
Daato
Daato is a holistic ESG management platform for enterprises of all sizes.
🇩🇪 Marketing Manager (Berlin, Remote)
🇩🇪 Sustainability Insights & Content Manage (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)
🇧🇷 Recruitment Partner (Piracicaba, Hybrid)
Final Note
If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the platform and the community space as well, so that you can connect with people across the climate ecosystem and share your updates, questions, jobs, or funding news with the community.
Big hug,
PS: Feel free to send feedback, ideas, funding news… directly to me: tim@inclimate.com