🌍 Last Week in Climate #151 - Community upgrade incoming
Hey there, happy Wednesday!
📩 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,
🇪🇺 Closed funding rounds,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 Climate news, and
💼 Climate jobs.
Community Updates / Upgrades
Snapshot from last week’s incredible meetup.
🇪🇸 Here are the participants of our largest meetup yet, with 200 people coming together at the rooftop of Norrsken House Barcelona (the most incredible partner). Thank you for a great evening! (more meetups in other cities coming soon! 🤞)
💬 As you’ll see below, or in the community space here, I’ve made big upgrades to the community structure. It’s still missing some final touches before I send out an email about it, but here is a preview:
Jobs & Careers
Jobs & Careers comes with a general chat for all-things careers, a place to spread your CV, and a third space to share open roles.
Founders & Investors
Founders & Investors is only accessible to those two profiles. If you fall into those categories and you have signed up, you’ll be allocated to the groups by me directly.
Resources
Share news & insights, promote events, and offer services in the Resources Section.
✅ We’re now 18,542 members out of 30k readers signed up on inClimate. Make sure to create a profile if you haven’t signed up yet!
Coming next:
💔 June is coming to an end and the roadmap for Q2 is still long, so some of these features will have to be launched in Q3.
💡 All features I’m working on are listed here - you can suggest, upvote, and comment on features. It helps me a lot to get members’ and readers’ input. 🙌🏼 Check it out!
Closed Rounds
🇫🇮 ICEYE - €250M Grant
📍 Espoo, Finland
💡 Monitoring earth observation for any location on earth.
Investors: Business Finland
🇬🇧 Zeelo - $23M Series B
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Smart bus transportation for organizations.
Investors: Blue Earth Capital
🇩🇪 Ostrom - €20M Series B
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Making green electricity simple and affordable.
Investors: 468 Capital, Adjacent, Eneco Ventures, SE Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Übermorgen Ventures
🇩🇪 Aedifion - €17M Series B
📍 Cologne, Germany
🏠 More sustainable building operations.
Investors: Bauwens Digital, BitStone Capital, Drees & Sommer AG, Eurazeo, MOMENI Ventures, Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures, World Fund
🇬🇧 Intelligent Energy - £17M Grant
📍 Loughborough, United Kingdom
⚡️ Development and manufacture of zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell products.
🇳🇱 Rival Foods - €10M Series B
📍 Wageningen, Netherlands
🍴 Plant-based meat alternatives.
Investors: APG Asset Management, PeakBridge, Pymwymic, ROM Utrecht Region
🇩🇰 Cellugy - €8.1M Grant
📍 Århus, Denmark
🏭 Biofabricated cellulose.
Investors: European Commission
🇫🇷 Fungu'it - €4M Seed
📍 Dijon, France
🍴 Flavor ingredients for sustainable food.
Investors: Asterion Ventures, Evolem Start, UI Investissement
🇩🇰 HYMETH - €3.7M Venture
📍 Søborg, Denmark
⚡️ Cost-effective electrolyzer for hydrogen production.
Investors: Thisbe AB, Antler
🇳🇱 umob - €3.5M Seed
📍 Rotterdam, Netherlands
🚗 Plan and book sustainable travel options through one app.
🇫🇮 Fiberwood - €3.1M Grant
📍 Järvenpää, Finland
🏗 Eco-friendly wood fiber insulation.
Investors: European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
🇸🇪 BlueRedGold - €2.7M Seed
📍 Mariefred, Sweden
🧑🌾 Saffron production through an automated indoor farming system.
Investors: PINC, The Food Tech Lab
🇸🇪 Engrate - €2.5M Seed
📍 Djursholm, Sweden
⚡️ Integration platform for connecting to energy actors, systems, and data sources.
Investors: Course Corrected, Eviny Ventures, Maniv Mobility
🇸🇪 Minesto - €2.5M Post-IPO Debt
📍 Västra Götaland, Sweden
⚡️ Renewable energy from the ocean.
🇸🇪 Tether - $1.5M Pre-Seed
📍 Barcelona, Sweden 🇸🇪, Spain
⚡️ Predicts and optimizes EV charging patterns using AI technology.
Investors: Draper B1, INCLIMO Climate Tech Fund, K Fund
🇪🇸 Captoplastic - €994k Seed
📍 Madrid, Spain
🌊 Treats water bodies to keep the earth free of microplastics.
Investors: CDTI Innovación's INNVIERTE program, BeAble Capital
🇬🇧 Material Evolution - Debt
📍 Teesside County Borough, UK
🏗 High performance, ultra-low carbon cement.
Investors: HSBC Innovation Banking
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Upcoming Events
🇬🇧 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
Climate News
🌳 ERS Acquires Equitable Earth To Advance High‑Quality Community‑Led Forest Conservation Projects
💸 Australian institutions backing $50m climate-tech VC fund
💸 US borrowers opt for ‘greenhushing’ of bond sales under Trump
☔️ UK commits £8bn in flood defences over the next decade
⚡️ Spain says April blackout was caused by grid failures and poor planning, not renewables
⚡️ EIB backs Spain-France power link with 1.6 billion euros
⚡️ De-Risking the Clean Energy Transition: Opportunities and Principles for Subnational Actors
💡 How big is the generational divide on climate change?
💡 Pangaea Ventures’ “The Hard Tech Report”
💡 Can You Choose an A.I. Model That Harms the Planet Less?
I’m not happy with my process of identifying the most relevant news and opportunities across the climate sector. I put some thoughts down here. Leave a comment if you have any ideas.
Climate Jobs
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Un abrazo from Barcelona,