🌳 Last Week in Climate #104
Tim Steppich
Founder of inClimate.com | Europe’s free climate community and hiring platform | 25,000+ members | Forbes 30u30 | Public Speaker
Good morning and happy Wednesday,
Newsletter number 104 💭
Exactly two years ago, I was sitting in Brazil, in my swimmers, sending the first episode of this newsletter to 120 subscribers. Today, we are 19,000 climate enthusiasts and counting.
It’s just great to see so many of you tune in weekly, excited about working, investing, or building something in climate. Thanks everyone for doing what you’re doing!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in European climate(-tech) last week:
Today, we'll cover last week’s:
👋 community asks,
🇪🇺 15 closed rounds,
🚀 deal of the week,
💼 1757 jobs,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.
If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.
👋 Community Asks
❓ Sabin from Origin 21 is looking for investors, advisors, & mentors.
❓ Maxim from Swen seeks feedback on their product and warm intros.
❓ Genrry seeks machine learning and data science roles in climate.
❓ Connor is looking for a sales job in climate.
❓ Marleen seeks guidance from data people on how to move to climate.
To feature an ask in the newsletter, just add it to your member profile. Please make sure it is concrete so that other people know how to help you out.
🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇬🇧 newcleo - €87M Venture
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Energy production from Nuclei.
🇩🇪 Cylib - €55M Series A
📍 Aachen, Germany
⚡️ Battery recycling.
Investors: 10x Founders, Bosch Ventures, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, NRW.BANK, Porsche Ventures, Speedinvest, Vsquared Ventures, World Fund + Angels
🇳🇴 Spoor - NOK 43M Seed
📍 Oslo, Norway
🌳 Monitoring bird activity in wind farms.
Investors: Birger Magnus, Erlend Prestgard, Futurum Ventures, Harald Norvik, Nysnø, Patrik Berglund, Superorganism, Ørsted Ventures
🇸🇪 Volta Greentech - SEK 32M Venture
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
💨 Reducing methane emissions from cows.
Investors: Axel Johnson, KFS
🇬🇧 Reactive Technologies Limited - £25M Series D
📍 Oxford, United Kingdom
🏠 Grid measurement tools.
Investors: Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Business Growth Fund, M&G Investments
🇩🇪 Caeli Wind - €11M Series A
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Helps landowners spot locations for wind energy.
Investors: HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Notion Capital, Santander Climate Tech Fund
🇩🇪 trawa - €10M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
⚡️ Renewable Energy-as-a-Service.
Investors: AENU, Balderton Capital, Magnetic Capital, Speedinvest, The Delta, Tiny VC
🇬🇧 Ulemco - $5M Venture
📍 Liverpool, United Kingdom
⚡️ Hydrogen technologies for commercial vehicles.
Investors: Equity Gap, Mercia Ventures, Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, Scottish Enterprise, The North West Fund
🇳🇴 7Analytics - €4M Seed
📍 Bergen, Norway
☔️ Proptech solutions for climate adaptation and nature risk analytics.
Investors: Scale Capital
🇨🇭 8inks - €3M Pre-Seed
📍 Schlieren, Switzerland
⚡️ Coating technique for lithium-ion battery manufacture.
Investors: Angel Invest, another.vc, ETH Zurich Foundation, Founderful, Venture Kick, Übermorgen Ventures
🇬🇧 ekko - $2.5M Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
💡 Sustainability for banks and payments.
Investors: Fuel Ventures, Mishcon de Reya, Sorven Capital
🇨🇭 Correntics - €1.5M Grant
📍 Zurich, Switzerland
🚗 Sustainable supply chains.
Investors: Eurostars
🇩🇪 hexafarms - €1.3M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🧑🌾 Greenhouse analytics and insights.
Investors: Mudcake, Speedinvest, Techstars
🇩🇪 Wildplastic - €825k Seed
📍 Hamburg, Germany
🏭 Sustainable packaging.
Investors: Cantella, Focused Business Events, Golzern Holding, Innovation for Impact, Janina Weingarth, Karma Capital, Matthias Fricke, Nadia Boegli, Planet A Ventures, Purpose Ventures, Wilfried Gillrath
Recommended by LinkedIn
🇩🇪 Altilium Clean Technology - £640k Grant
📍 England, Germany
🏗 Critical Metals Supplier to Electric Vehicle Batteries
Investors: Faraday Battery Challenge
🚀 Deal of the Week
ecomyko is raising an angel round.
"At ecomyko, we are dedicated to revolutionizing the way we handle plastic waste by turning it into an opportunity for innovation and value creation. Leveraging the power of fungi, we transform plastic waste into a valuable resource while also contributing to a sustainable food source and promoting health benefits."
Investors can access more information about ecomyko and all companies, funding rounds, decks, and founders, via the platform.
discover all deals and founders
💼 New Climate Jobs
Last week we had 1,757 jobs posted on the job board by 598 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.
Global Changer
Global Changer accelerates complex organizations' decarbonization with intuitive software.
🇪🇺 Head of Software Engineering (Berlin, Remote)
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)
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)
📰 Climate News
🗓 Upcoming Events
⭐️ = favorites
🆕 = added last week
🎟️ = community discounts
If you are involved with a climate event and want us to include a discount code, please get in touch.
🇩🇪 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)
If you’ve come across climate events or are organizing an event/meetup/webinar, you can add them via the button below.
A Final Note
If you enjoy these weekly updates, please take a second to join the platform as well, so that you can connect with people across the climate space and share your updates, questions, jobs, and funding news in the newsletter. We’re trying to build a place for everyone in climate.
Big hug,
Can’t get enough of these climate news? Then you can follow along on LinkedIn.
📩 Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, or other inquiries to: info@climateu.earth
Many thanks for featuring us. Your support means a lot Tim Steppich! 🚀
Trusted by Electronic Brands for Showing Product Brilliance | Amplify Sales With 3D Explainer Videos 📽️
6moGood morning. That's amazing growth in just two years. Keep up the great work in climate innovation. Tim Steppich
Good morning. Wow, what a journey in just two years. It's inspiring how the community has grown so much. Keep up the great work, everyone. 🚀🙌 #climateenthusiasts Tim Steppich
Thanks for the great work at ClimateU, Tim Steppich!
Founder & CEO at Viable | Scaling Startups into Global Ventures | Venture Builder & Investor | Forbes 30 Under 30
6moInspiring growth. Passion fuels purpose, data drives action. Tim Steppich