🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#43)
16 closed rounds, 3 upcoming rounds, climate news, and jobs.
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💰 16 closed rounds,
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💰 Closed Funding Rounds
🇫🇮 Neste - €1000M Post-IPO Debt
📍 Espoo, Finland
🚗 Sustainable aviation fuel.
🇩🇰 Everfuel - €25M Post-IPO Equity
📍 Herning, Denmark
⚡️ Hydrogen fuel.
🇬🇧 Indra - £20M Series B
📍 Great Malvern, United Kingdom
🚗 Electric vehicle components and services.
Investors:
Gulf Oil
🇬🇧 Geothermal Engineering - £15M PE
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Deep geothermal heat and power projects.
Investors:
Kerogen Capital, Thrive Renewables
🇧🇪 Cowboy - €10M Venture
📍 Brussels, Belgium
🚗 Electric bikes.
🇨🇭 H55 - $10M Debt Financing
📍 Sion, Switzerland
🚗 Air transportation of tomorrow.
Investors:
Government of Canada
🇨🇭 Selfrag - CHF 9M Venture
📍 Kerzers, Switzerland
♻️ High voltage pulse power products.
🇩🇰 Chromologics - €7M Seed
📍 Søborg, Denmark
🍴 Natural food colorants.
Investors:
Blue Horizon Corporation, Döhler Ventures, Giampaolo Cagnin, Nordic FoodTech VC, Novo Holdings, Thia Ventures, Vaekstfonden
🇪🇪 Roofit.solar - €6M Venture
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
⚡️ Integrated solar roofs.
Investors:
BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures, EdgeCap Partners
🇪🇸 ZEN Yachts - €6M Series A
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🚗 Zero-emission high performance yachting services.
Investors:
Ocean Zero
🇫🇷 ERS - Ecosystem Restoration Standard - €5M Seed
📍 Paris, France
💸 Carbon markets standard to verify impact on climate, biodiversity, and livelihoods.
Investors:
LocalGlobe, RAISE
🇩🇪 trawa - €2M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Renewable Energy-as-a-Service.
Investors:
Alexandre Berriche, Anna Alex, Julian Teicke, Kai Klapdor, Magnetic, Matthias Ernst, Maximilian Both, Moritz Poewe, Speedinvest, The Delta, Tiny VC, Tobias Schuett
🇩🇪 ScrapBees GmbH - €2M Seed
📍 Neuss, Germany
♻️ Covering the first mile in reverse logistics for recycling.
Investors:
BonVenture, Cohors Fortuna Capital, Faraday Venture Partners
🇳🇱 Agurotech - €2M Series A
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
🧑🌾 Data-driven farming.
Investors:
Navus Ventures, ROM InWest
🇨🇭 ExerGo - €1M Seed
📍 Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
🏠 Thermal network solution for heating & cooling.
Investors:
Baker Hughes, EREN Groupe
🇩🇪 wisefood GmbH - Seed
📍 Garching, Germany
🏭 Edible Tableware.
Investors:
Delivery Hero, Feliks Eyser, Markus Hölzl
💸 3 upcoming funding rounds
Three upcoming funding rounds have been announced via ClimatEU last week, including:
🇩🇪 Angel - 2023 Q2 (⚡️ Solar Energy)
🇳🇴 Seed - 2023 Q3 (⚡️ Solar Energy)
🇬🇧 Seed - 2023 Q2 (🚗 Supply Chain Transparency)
Investors can view all new rounds here.
Companies can announce their next round here.
📰 Climate News
Climate Finance
💸 Silicon Valley Bank shut down by regulators (article)
💸 $212M joint venture fund for deployment of electrolyzers (article)
💸 $79M industrial deep-tech fund (article)
💸 Enerqos Energy Solutions acquired by Ameresco (article)
Food & Agriculture
🧑🌾 Food & Agtech declined 44% in 2022 (article)
🧑🌾 You shouldn’t be Afraid of Fungi (article)
🧑🌾 “World’s First” Brassica Protein Facility (article)
🧑🌾 Decarbonizing rice cultivation (article)
Energy
⚡️ Iran discovered second-largest lithium deposit? (article)
⚡️ Lithium battery causes house fire (article)
⚡️ Enzyme that can make electricity out of tiny amounts of hydrogen (article)
Transport
🚗 Launch of Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (article)
🚗 Upway launches in the US (article)
Nature
🌳 CTVC breakdown of the High Seas Treaty (article)
Industry
🏭 US invests $6B to slash manufacturing emissions (article)
Policy & Advocacy
📢 EU presents measures to boost clean-tech industry (article)
Climate Adaptation
☔️ Climate Change Risks Costing Germany Up to €900 Billion (article)
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Hey there,
I like keeping up with who’s doing what about the climate crises, so I thought, “What can I do, personally?”
So I decided to write a song, a “call to action” to address the crisis.
I’m old, but after reading something in Bill McKibben’s “The Crucial Years” newsletter on SubStack, about how our kids are pissed off by promises and inaction, I took a couple of my old friends into the studio and recorded “We Were Thieves.” I entered it into NPR’s “Tiny Desk Contest,” and included subtitles.
It’s rock and roll from a 3-piece who’s ages total 212 years, but we wanted to do our bit. I’m hoping you will share the following link with your subscribers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JPNKdwLR2s
Thanks, and keep up the fight!
Charles Williams