🇪🇺🌲 Last week in climate (#61)
All new deals, upcoming rounds, news, jobs and events from last week.
Good morning, Europe 🌳
This week we cover:
🔎 The better way to find investors,
🎟 10 tickets to The Drop,
💰 closed rounds,
💸 upcoming rounds,
💼 new jobs,
📰 climate news, and
🗓 events.
As always:
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🔎 The Better Way to Find Investors
We’ve made it our mission to make it easier for climate-tech companies not just to hire talent, but also to find investors. We pulled some all-nighters this weekend and launched v1.0 of our new investor database.
You can now filter through all investors and angels and save them to your shortlist. Investors will be able to see who shortlisted them and can get in touch with Founders directly via LinkedIn or our Slack channel.
Try it out and give us some feedback on what we should improve! This feature is entirely free right now.
If you’re an investor, then make sure to head to your profile to set up your investment focus correctly. The revamped startup/deal flow databases will also go live soon.
🎟 We got you 10 tickets to The Drop
If we were to only attend one climate-tech conference this year, it would be The Drop in Malmö, Sweden on September 7th, 2023. Last year saw over 500 climate founders, investors, and experts coming together to drive climate solutions forward.
We had a chat with the team and got 10x10% discounted tickets exclusively for the ClimatEU community so that your ticket is guaranteed, and you do not need to hope for the waitlist to work in your favor.
For any questions, you can reach them at hello@thedropconf.com.
See you in Sweden!
💰 Closed Rounds
🇳🇴 FREYR Battery - €100M Grant
📍 Mo I Rana, Norway
⚡️ Lithium-ion battery facility.
Investors:
European Union
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇱🇹 PVcase - $100M Venture
📍 Kaunas, Lithuania
⚡️ Solar projects design.
Investors:
Elephant, Energize Ventures, Highland Europe
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇧🇪 Aphea.Bio - €70M Series C
📍 Zwijnaarde, Belgium
💨 Microbial product development.
Investors:
Agri Investment Fund, Astanor Ventures, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BNP Paribas Fortis, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, Innovation Industries, Korys, SFPIM
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Sylvera - €51M Series B
📍 London, United Kingdom
💸 Transparency for carbon markets.
Investors:
9Yards Capital, Bain & Company, Balderton Capital, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, LocalGlobe, Salesforce Ventures, Seedcamp, Speedinvest
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 One Moto - $40M Debt
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Electric vehicle ecosystem.
Investors:
Pyse
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 b:bot - €20M Venture
📍 Puteaux, France
🏭 Plastic recycling.
Investors:
Eiffel Investment Group, Crédit Agricole
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 finres - €4M Seed
📍 Paris, France
🧑🌾 Assessing climate risks for adaptation.
Investors:
AFI Ventures, Anna Alex, Better Angle, Illuminate Financial, Kima Ventures, Michaël Diguet, Plug and Play, Raise Sherpas, Renaud Visage, Speedinvest, Tiny VC, Valentine Baudouin Barbelivien
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇫🇷 Stokelp - $3M Seed
📍 Fontaine, France
🧑🌾 Platform for recovery of raw materials.
Investors:
AFI Ventures, Better Angle, OneRagtime, Rothschild & Co.
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 RideTandem - £2M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🚗 Mobility for towns and small cities.
Investors:
1818 Venture Capital, Ascension, Blackfinch Ventures, FirstMonday VC, Low Carbon Innovation Fund, Rainmaking Impact
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 NetZeroNitrogen - $2M Pre-Seed
📍 Nottingham, United Kingdom
🧑🌾 Fertilizers.
Investors:
Revent, Zero Carbon, Tony de Fougerolles
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Allye - £900k Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Software-enabled energy storage.
Investors:
Alpha Future Funds, Elbow Beach Capital
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇳🇱 Meteory - €550k Pre-Seed
📍 Noordwijk, Netherlands
💡 Satellite data to monitor environmental changes.
Investors:
Campus Fund, Heartfelt Capital, Le Stud, Shamrock Ventures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇨🇭 Hive Power - $600k Venture
📍 Manno, Switzerland
⚡️ Smart grids.
Investors:
Magility Ventures, Péter Ilyés, Techstars, TiVentures
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇬🇧 Greyparrot - $500k Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏭 Transparency & automation in recycling.
Investors:
Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇪🇪 Skeleton Technologies - Corporate
📍 Tallinn, Estonia
⚡️ Energy storage.
Investors:
Marubeni
Article, For Investors, For Talent
🇦🇹 Fermify - Seed
📍 Gerasdorf Bei Wien, Austria
🍴 Alternative cheese.
Investors:
CREMER, Interfood
Article, For Investors, For Talent
💸 Upcoming Rounds
💼 New Jobs
Talents can filter through and save 10k+ monthly job posts on our job board, and set up their preferences to get tailored job recommendations.
Employers can join here.
📰 Climate News
⚡️ China to become renewables leader? (article)
⚡️ Oklo (nuclear) is going public via SPAC (article)
⚡️ Wind turbines and bird deaths (article)
🌍 Germany braces for heatwave (article)
🌳 Nature Restoration Law passes vote (article)
🏠 Termite-Inspired Metamaterials for Buildings (article)
🏠 The world’s largest wooden city (article)
🏠 Zinc Venture Builder open for applications (article)
🏭 Soaring demand for critical minerals (article)
💡 Climate tribalism (article)
💡 FTSE100 firms unlikely to meet net-zero targets (article)
💸 Azolla Ventures announces $239M fund (article)
💸 Coca-Cola announces sustainability VC (article)
🚎 VanMoof is struggling (article)
🗓 Upcoming Events
🇬🇧 Amazon Sustainability Accelerator Demo Day (details)
🇬🇧 Should you be buying carbon offsets? (details)
🇸🇪 The Drop (details)
🇸🇪 Impact Week (details)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (details)
🇬🇧 SDGs and responsible business strategies (details)
🇬🇧 London Climate Tech Show (details)
🌎 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (details)
🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe (details)
🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action (details)
🇬🇧 Investing better - why where you bank matters (details)
That’s it for this week 💚
A big hug from Portugal,
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