🌍 Last Week in Climate #146 - Ask Me Anything
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📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in Climate last week.
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Today, we cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🇪🇺 Closed funding rounds,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 Climate news, and
💼 Climate jobs.
Community Updates
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Deal of the week
🇨🇭 Alfred at Carbon X Tons is raising their pre-seed round.
“Carbon X Tons is a Climate Fintech solution for the first multi-functional, global carbon credit and commodity for offsetting, investment, and trading. We want to democratise and enable universal, direct access to environmentally credible carbon credits for everyone, anywhere, anytime.”
Members can learn more about Alfred, Carbon X Tons, and the round via inclimate.com/rounds and validated investors can checkout the pitch deck here as well.
Closed Rounds
🇮🇪 Urban Volt - €40M Debt
📍 Dublin, Ireland
⚡️ Energy-efficient lighting solutions for commercial and industrial clients.
Investors: HSBC Asset Management, HSBC Innovation Banking
🇬🇧 Breathe Battery Technologies - $21M Series B
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Advanced battery management software.
Investors: Kinnevik, Lowercarbon Capital, Volvo Cars Tech Fund
🇪🇸 Heura Foods - €20M Debt Financing
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🍴 Plant based meat.
Investors: European Investment Bank
🇫🇷 Ensol - €14M Seed
📍 Paris, France
⚡️ Solar systems to homeowners in France.
Investors: Breega, Endgame Capital, Water Lemon Ventures
🇬🇧 Ace Aquatec - £10M Venture + Debt
📍 Dundee, United Kingdom
🌳 Technology that accelerates the adoption of responsible marine practices.
Investors: Aqua Spark, Scottish Enterprise, Stolt Ventures
🇬🇧 Gardin Agritech - €3.9M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🧑🌾 The operating system for food production.
Investors: Alchimia Investments, LDV Capital, MMC Ventures, Navus Ventures, Oxford Innovation Finance, Seedcamp
🇵🇹 Goparity - €2.9M Venture
📍 Lisbon, Portugal
💸 Personal finance and investment app for sustainability projects.
Investors: 3xP Global, Energy Access, Investeco Capital, MSM, Regenerative, Schneider Electric Energy Access Asia
🇸🇪 PulPac - Venture
📍 Västra Frölunda, Sweden
🏭 Low-cost, high-performance fiber packaging that replaces single-use plastics.
Investors: OPTIMA, SIG InnoVentures
🇪🇪 eAgronom - Series A
📍 Tartu, Estonia
💨 Making carbon-neutral farming profitable.
Investors: Mondelez International
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Upcoming Events
🇨🇭 HackSummit 2025 (May 15)
🇪🇸 Norrsken inClimate Coffee Meetup (May 15)
🇺🇸 Carbon Unbound East Coast (May 20)
🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 20)
🌍 inClimate Intro Circles #36 (May 21)
🇫🇷 ChangeNow (May 24)
🇬🇧 International Carbon Markets Summit (May 29)
🇸🇪 Mashup (May 27)
🇩🇪 Ecosummit Berlin (Jun 3)
🇵🇹 Lisbon Energy Summit (Jun 3)
🇫🇷 2025 UN Ocean Conference (Jun 9) (I’ll be here 👋)
🇫🇷 Impactful Innovations Day (Jun 11) (And here 👋)
🇮🇹 Terra Tuscany (Jun 16)
🇺🇸 Innovation Zero America Congress (Jun 17)
🇸🇬 Asia Climate Forum (Jun 19)
🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 21)
🇬🇧 Reset Connect London (Jun 24)
🇬🇧 Arctic Repair 2025 (Jun 26)
🇩🇪 2025 Energy & Mobility Award (Jul 3)
🇮🇹 Waste Management Europe Conference (Jul 10)
🇦🇺 Australian Clean Energy Summit (Jul 29)
… all 2025 events on inClimate.com/events
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Climate News
💸 Bosch Ventures’ $270M bet on US deeptech: Catalyst or challenge for German innovation?
💸 Active Impact Investments closes new fund
📢 Trump proposes slashing DOE budget by $19.3B
📢 CO2 emissions: EP adopts flexibility measures for carmakers
🌊 Ocean with David Attenborough review – a passionate case against the ruination of the seas
☔️ Sizing the Inevitable Investment Opportunity: Climate Adaptation
New Climate Jobs
You have already received your weekly job recommendations via email on Monday if you have set up a job alert via your account.
Tether
Tether is building AI that learns the behavior of millions of private Electric Vehicles to coordinate their charging patterns, turning these cars into the world's largest - and cleanest - distributed battery that helps to reinforce the power grid.
🇪🇺 Software Engineer (API/Network Devices)
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Final Note
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