🌳 Last Week in Climate #139 - No catchy title ideas
Hey {{firstname|there}}, happy Tuesday!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in Climate last week.
💭 I had no catchy title ideas for this episode - I’ll try my best again next week. 🤞
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Today, we cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🚀 3 active funding rounds,
🇪🇺 6 closed funding rounds,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 Climate news, and
💼 Climate jobs.
Community Updates
🖖 We’re now 16,409 members. You can check out who’s new via the members directory.
💿 For all those working at the intersection of data and climate, Rasheq and Natalia are hosting an informal inClimate Data Kickoff this Thusday - anyone can join!
🇩🇪 The Hamburg inClimate Coffee Meetup was a success and is now every first Saturday of the month. Next event: here.
🇪🇸 I’m hosting the second Barcelona inClimate Coffee Meetup this Thursday morning at Honest Greens below Norrsken House. Come and say hi!
☕️ For those who are not part of the community yet, but want get involved a little more - you can join one of our weekly intro circles every Wednesday.
📞 The Weekly Check-Ins for everyone in our community space, are Monday 16:00, Wednesday 20:00 and Friday 11:00 CET. They are our weekly calls to get peer support from the community, myself, and the team. We’re still working hard behind the scenes to open the doors to everyone asap 🤞
Active Funding Rounds
Last week, 3 founders announced their upcoming funding rounds on inClimate, taking us to currently 197 open rounds.
Deal of the week:
🇬🇧 David at CarbonBright AI is exploring a Seed round.
“CarbonBright's AI-native B2B platform enables CPG brands to measure and reduce Scope 3 emissions at the product level, ensuring regulatory compliance and building more sustainable, resilient supply chains. Backed by Techstars, FortyTwo VC, and Cascade Seed Fund, we’ve surpassed our 2024 ARR this quarter, with rapid pipeline growth.”
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 access all rounds, founders, and companies here.
Closed Rounds
🇸🇪 Echandia - SEK 220M Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ Maritime battery systems.
Investors: Alantra, Energy & Environment Investment, Industrifonden, SEB Greentech Venture Capital
🇩🇰 ZeroNorth - $20M Debt Financing
📍 Copenhagen, Denmark
🚗 Data platform to support shipping’s decarbonisation.
Investors: CIBC Innovation Banking
🇦🇹 Easelink - €11.5M Grant
📍 Graz, Austria
🚗 EV charging.
Investors: EIC Accelerator
🇫🇮 Solar Foods - €10M Grant
📍 Helsinki, Finland
🍴 Natural protein for the global food industry.
Investors: European Commission
🇮🇹 Arsenale Bioyards - $10M Seed
📍 Milan, Italy
🏭 End-to-end bio-manufacturing platform.
Investors: Acequia Capital (AceCap), byFounders, CDP Venture Capital, Grey Silo Ventures, Planet A Ventures, Plug and Play
🇳🇱 CarbonX - $2.5M Grant
📍 Delft, Netherlands
🏭 New materials.
Investors: European Innovation Council
view all closed funding rounds
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Upcoming Events
🆕 = Added last week
🌳 = inClimate event
🎟️ = Discount for inClimate members
🇵🇱 Repower World Summit (Mar 4) 🆕
🇬🇧 Net Zero & Scope 3 (Mar 5)
🇬🇧 Sustainability Net Zero (Mar 5)
🇦🇹 World Sustainable Energy Days (Mar 5)
🌍 inClimate Intro Circles (Mar 5) 🌳
🌍 inClimate: Data Kickoff (Mar 6) 🆕
🇪🇸 inClimate Coffee Meetup - Barcelona (Mar 6) 🌳
🇨🇭 Verbier Summit (Mar 7)
🇬🇧 The Economist Sustainability Week (Mar 10)
🌍 inClimate Intro Circles (Mar 12) 🌳
🇩🇪 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)
🇩🇪 SET Tech Festival 2025 - Berlin (Mar 18) 🎟️
🇺🇸 Wall Street Green Summit (Mar 18)
🌍 inClimate Intro Circles (Mar 19) 🌳
🇨🇭 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)
🇨🇭 Basel Convention COP-17 (Apr 28) 🆕
🇬🇧 Innovation Zero World Congress (Apr 29) 🆕
🇵🇹 Green Hydrogen Summit Europe (Apr 29) 🆕
🇸🇬 Ecosperity Week (May 5) 🆕
🇮🇸 Ok, bye (May 12) 🆕
… 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 👇️
Climate News
🚗 Tesla Sales Fall 45% in Europe Amid Musk’s Political Meddling (Bloomberg)
🚗 Mercedes-Benz’s solid-state EV battery: 620 miles on a charge?
💡 EU unlikely to grant concessions to India on CBAM: Report
💡 Climate tech founders are struggling with their mental health
🔋 Northvolt sells industrial battery business to Scania
New Climate Jobs
You should have already received your weekly job recommendations via email if you have set up a job alert via your account.
Below, you’ll find a few featured jobs. You can head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.
Daato
Daato is a holistic ESG management platform for enterprises of all sizes
🇩🇪 Sustainability Insights & Content Manager (Berlin, Remote)
If you want your jobs featured here, just hit reply on this newsletter.
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