🌳 Last Week in Climate #102

Good morning and happy Tuesday,

📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in European climate-tech last week.

Today, we'll cover last week’s:

👋 community asks,

🇪🇺 5 closed rounds,

🚀 deal of the week,

💼 2,107 jobs,

📰 news, and

🗓 events.

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👋 Community Asks

❓ Ruhiye is looking for a Director / “Head of” role.

❓ Andreas is looking for a COO.

❓ Olivia wants help with equity-free funding + hiring.

❓ Constant is raising a $2M Seed round.

❓ Chris is looking to pivot to climate & seeks coffee chats.

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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds

🇪🇪 Stargate Hydrogen Solutions - €42M Seed

📍 Tallinn, Estonia

⚡️ Production of green hydrogen.

Investors: UG Investments

Article, Company

🇸🇪 X Shore - SEK 100M Venture - Series Unknown

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

🚗 Electric boats.

Investors: Konrad Bergström

Article, Company

🇸🇪 STILRIDE - SEK 5M Grant

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

🚗 Electrical motorcycles and steel folding technique.

Investors: EIT Manufacturing

Article, Company

🇬🇧 CroBio - €1.5M Seed

📍 Alderley Park, United Kingdom

🧑🌾 Boosting the soil's water retention capabilities.

Investors: Catapult Ventures, Grantham Foundation, Ponderosa Ventures, SOSV

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Nusku - £727k Grant

📍 Bristol, United Kingdom

🏠 Home heating systems.

Investors: Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Article, Company

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🚀 Deal of the Week

ContainerGrid just launched their pre-seed round:

"Today, recycled material is highly underrated. Access at industrial scale is blocked by inefficiencies in waste management and recycling. Specifically, i) suboptimal resource flows, ii) manual logistics and trade fulfillment and iii) lack of trust in recycled material qualities.

At ContainerGrid, we are building the first impact-driven recycling operations and fulfillment platform for cost-effective and efficient take back of end-of-life resources between the raw materials processing industries and their dedicated recycling and logistics partners. We close the loop on raw materials for a greener planet."

Investors can access ContainerGrid’s pitch deck and more information on all companies, funding rounds, decks, and founders, via the platform.

💼 New Climate Jobs

Last week we had 2,107 jobs posted on the job board by 632 climate employers. You can check out all featured jobs below and head to the job board to explore all opportunities.

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Sparkmate

Sparkmate is the first venture studio 100% Climate, 100% Hardware.

🇫🇷 Product Engineer (Intern) (Paris, On-site)

🇫🇷 CEO / Co-founder (Paris or Hong Kong, Hybrid)

🇫🇷 Graduate Product Engineer (Hardware) (Paris, On-site)

Carbon Atlantis

Carbon Atlantis is an early-stage startup developing a first-of-a-kind, low-cost Direct Air Capture technology to remove CO2 from the air. They permanently store the CO2 in rock carbonates and are currently building up the team around Munich.

🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Electrician / Elektriker:in (Munich, On-site)

🇩🇪 Electrochemical Test Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Head of Plant Operations (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 HR Associate & Office Manager (Internship) (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Junior Engineer to the CTO (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Mechanical Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Technical Founder’s Associate (Ismaning, On-site)

Dryad Networks

Dryad provides ultra-early detection of wildfires as well as health and growth-monitoring of forests using solar-powered gas sensors in a large-scale IoT sensor network.

🇺🇸 Customer Success Executive (United States, Remote)

Tree.ly

Tree.ly connects forest owners with companies, helping forest owners earn extra income by managing forests for climate resilience. Companies can purchase high-quality CO₂ credits, backing forest owners and showing their commitment to measurable climate protection.

🇦🇹 Carbon Sales Manager Austria (Austria, Remote)

🇩🇪 Internship in Business Development (Munich, On-site)

Transition Finance Network

TFN bridges the Climate Finance Gap via Venture Building and Innovative Finance

🇬🇧 Associate (London, On-site)

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📰 Climate News

🚗 ‘Europe is falling behind’ says unicorn Einride

🚗 One in five new cars sold this year will be battery-powered

🚗 VW’s electric car orders double in Europe

🚗 Aviation Emissions Nearly 300M Metric Tons Higher Than Reported

🚗 A Bacteria Can Cut Emissions While Creating Sustainable Aviation Fuel

📢 Mexico election 2024: What the manifestos say on energy and climate change

📢 The Oil Money Funding Trump’s Legal Defense

📢 New EU nature law will fail without farmers

📢 Germany, Spain & France propose billionaire tax to tackle climate crisis

📢 Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance

💸 36 ClimateTech Growth Funds to Know

💸 Why young climate startups should start thinking about debt

💸 How to choose a deep tech startup program

💸 Climate tech investment roars back with an $8.1B start to 2024

💨 91% of Europe’s cities are looking to nature-based solutions

💡 Most Companies Lack Tech Needed to Meet Sustainability Reporting Requirements

🏭 Sustainability certifications can’t fix fashion’s broken system

📢 The world’s most advanced economies just agreed to end coal use by 2035

🏠 Startups are working overtime to reduce the climate impact of AI

⚡️ Productive solar technologies draw investors

⚡️ AI Opportunities in Energy

☔️ Climate risks to nine key commodities

💡 60 Climate Thought Leaders to Know this Earth Day

💡 The ‘valley of death’ for climate lies between early-stage funding and scaling up

💡 Do We Have the Technologies Necessary to Reduce Global Emissions?

💡 The American Climate Corps is now hiring

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🗓 Upcoming Events

⭐️ = favorites

🆕 = added last week

If you are involved with one of the events below and want us to include a discount code, please get in touch.

🇬🇧 ClimateImpact Summit (May 7)

🇺🇸 State of ClimateTech 2024 by Insight Partners (May 9)

🇦🇹 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (May 11)

🇳🇱 World Hydrogen Summit (May 13) 🆕

🇦🇺 Climate Action Week Sydney (May 13) 🆕

🇫🇷 Advanced Automotive Battery Conference (May 13) 🆕

🇳🇱 Argus Green Marine Fuels Conference (May 14)

🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)

🇩🇪 Disasters Expo Europe (May 15)

🌎 How to: Build a climate action habit into a busy life (May 16)

🇨🇭 Zurich Hackathon (May 17)

🇺🇸 Stanford: Scaling Sustainability Innovation (May 17) 🆕

🇺🇸 Climate Solutions Intensive (May 17)

🇺🇸 Carbon Unbound USA (May 21)

🇧🇷 Brazil Climate Investment Week (May 21)

🇩🇪 Super Climate Berlin (Jun 4)

🇬🇧 ClimateTech Summit 2024 (Jun 12)

🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13) - “CLIMATEU20” ⭐️

🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30) ⭐️

🇳🇱 World Bio Markets (June 26)

🇬🇧 Cambridge Tech Week 2024 (Sep 1)

🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)

🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17) ⭐️

🇬🇧 THE HEAT by Voyagers (Sep 20) ⭐️

🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)

🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)

🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️

🇦🇺 Australian Climate Tech Festival & Awards (Nov 12) 🆕

🇫🇮 Slush 2024 (Nov 20)

🇨🇭 Tech for Impact Awards (Nov 21)

🇬🇧 London Climate Technology Show (Nov 27)

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A Final Note

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