🌳 Last Week in Climate #103

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,

🇪🇺 8 closed rounds,

🚀 deal of the week,

💼 1,643 jobs,

📰 news, and

🗓 events.

If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.

👋 Community Asks

❓ Patric from traceless is looking for support with their scaling plan.

❓ Francesca seeks machine learning roles in climate.

❓ Gert is exploring roles in sustainability and innovation.

❓ Tim seeks partners to track emissions via AI.

❓ Rokas is looking for business partners and investors.

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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds

🇦🇹 enspired - €25.5M Series B

📍 Vienna, Austria

⚡️ Energy trading.

Investors: Zouk Capital, PUSH Ventures, Banpu NEXT, Vopak Ventures, Presidio Ventures, Emerald Technology Ventures, Helen Ventures, 360 Capital, EnBW New Ventures

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Insempra - $20M Series A

📍 Pullach, Germany

🏭 Bio-based ingredients.

Investors: Acequia Capital (AceCap), Alante Capital, Bayern Kapital, BlueYard Capital, EQT Ventures, Henkel dx Ventures, Possible Ventures, Taavet+Sten

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Dendra Systems - $15.7M Series B

📍 Oxford, United Kingdom

🌳 Tools for ecosystem restoration.

Investors: Airbus Ventures, Aramco Ventures, Helium-3 Ventures, Understorey Ventures, Zouk Capital

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Electricity Maps - €5M Seed

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

💡 Mapping the climate impact of electricity.

Investors: Revent, Transition

Article, Company

🇫🇷 ADEMEURE - €5M Funding Round

📍 Langon, France

🏗 Modular tiny houses.

Investors: Stellar Impact, Telos Impact, Enthéos

Article, Company

🇳🇱 zepp.solutions - €3M Venture - Series Unknown

📍 Paardenmarkt, Netherlands

⚡️ Hydrogen fuel cell systems and components.

Investors: Energie transitie fonds Rotterdam

Article, Company

🇮🇪 Mavarick AI - €1.3M Pre-Seed

📍 Limerick, Ireland

🏭 Enables manufacturers to become more sustainable.

Investors: Act Venture Capital

Article, Company

🇩🇪 everyone energy - €1M Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany

⚡️ Automated energy advisory platform.

Investors: HTGF, neoteq ventures

Article, Company

🇪🇸 Ecogranular - €174k Pre-Seed

📍 Madrid, Spain

🌳 Biological wastewater treatment.

Investors: BeAble Capital

Article, Company

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🚀 Deal of the Week

RhizoSource just launched their angel round.

Investors can access more information about RhizoSource and all companies, funding rounds, decks, and founders, via the platform.

💼 New Climate Jobs

Last week we had 1,643 jobs posted on the job board by 628 employers. You can check out all featured jobs below and head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.

🔔 Don’t forget to set up a weekly job alert on ClimateU so that we can send you matching roles.

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)

🇩🇪 HR Intern (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

⚡️ The Big Guide to Hydrogen

🏭 US pension giant weighs vote against Exxon CEO over climate lawsuit

💨 20 Xprize finalists announced

💨 Climeworks opens world's largest plant to extract CO2 in Iceland

💨 Stockholm Exergi announces world’s largest permanent carbon removal agreement with Microsoft

💸 Bill Gates' investments: A look at his European startups portfolio

📢 Bill Gates flies to Berlin to discuss Germany's climate tech future

📢 European climate tech flocks to the oil-rich Gulf

📢 Biden Set to Hit China EVs, Strategic Sectors With Tariffs

🧑🌾 World Bank Bats for Alternative Proteins, Calls for Shift Away from Meat and Dairy Subsidies

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🗓 Upcoming Events

⭐️ = favorites

🆕 = added last week

🎟️ We have community discounts for THE HEAT and HackSummit - you’ll find the discount codes below.

If you are involved with a climate event and want us to include a discount code, please get in touch.

🇳🇱 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)

🇩🇪 Berlin Climate Tech Drinks (May 30) 🆕

🇩🇪 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) - “FRIENDOFCLIMATEU” ⭐️

🇪🇪 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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