🌳 Last Week in Climate #106
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 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,
🇪🇺 12 closed rounds,
🚀 deal of the week,
💼 2218 jobs,
📰 news, and
🗓 events.
💡 Got any ideas or feedback on how to improve this weekly digest? Just email me at tim@inclimate.com.
If you missed the last newsletters, you can look them up here.
👋 Community Asks
❓ Mike seeks intros to early-stage startups and investors.
❓ Ed is keen to speak to sustainability leaders.
❓ Nathan wants some “play testers” for an energy education game.
❓ Kai Tsi is looking for a policy role in climate.
❓ Martta is open to marketing leadership roles in Europe.
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🇪🇺 Closed Rounds
🇬🇧 Zenobe Energy - £410M Debt
📍 London, United Kingdom
⚡️ Battery storage assets for electric buses.
Investors: ABN AMRO Fund, Aviva Investors, CIBC, Lloyds Banking Group, MUFG Bank, National Australia Bank (NAB), NatWest, Rabobank, Santander UK, Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, Siemens, SMBC Venture Capital, Societe Generale
🇩🇪 Cloover - €105M Seed + Debt
📍 Berlin, Germany
💸 Connecting people to renewable energy.
Investors: 9900 Capital, Lowercarbon Capital, QED Investors
🇸🇪 Doconomy - €34M Series B
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
💡 Tracks the footprint of your spending.
Investors: CommerzVentures, Motive Ventures, PostFinance, S&P Global, Tenity, UBS Next
🇫🇮 Swappie - €17M Debt Financing
📍 Ruoholahti, Finland
🏭 Making refurbished smartphones mainstream.
Investors: European Investment Bank
🇫🇷 Vizcab - €4.5M Series A
📍 Lyon, France
🏠 Measure and reduce construction the footprint.
Investors: Brick & Mortar Ventures, Global Brain Corporation, KOMPAS VC
🇩🇪 ecoLocked - €3.9M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🏗 Carbon-negative building materials.
Investors: Climentum Capital, Matterwave Ventures, Counteract, SFO, Sabanci Building Solutions, VOYAGERS
🇩🇪 Faircado - €2.3M Pre-Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
🏭 AI-powered sustainable shopping assistant.
Investors: Accel, General Catalyst, Impact Shakers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Northzone, World Fund
🇨🇿 Delta Green - €2.2M Venture
📍 Plzen, Czech Republic
⚡️ Smart energy management for housholds.
Investors: Credo Ventures, Purple Ventures, Tilia Impact Ventures
🇩🇪 Seqana - €2.1M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
💡 Satellite imagery to quantify global carbon sequestration.
Investors: Axel Stepken, Ben Brandt, Counteract, HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Klaus Kunz, ReGen Ventures, Stefan Gross-Selbeck
🇹🇷 Evreka - Venture
📍 Ankara, Turkey
🏭 Recycling and waste management platform.
Investors: Driventure
🇸🇪 Eneryield - Seed
📍 Gothenburg, Sweden
⚡️ Intelligent energy analytics for power systems.
Investors: ABB, Chalmers Ventures AB
🇪🇸 Nextmol - Venture
📍 Barcelona, Spain
🏭 Accelerating chemicals discovery.
Investors: Abac Nest, ACT Venture Partners, Axon Partners Group, Grow Venture Partners
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🚀 Deal of the Week
Origin 21 is raising their first funding round.
“We are looking for investors who are interested in internal combustion engine technologies. We are also looking for advisors and mentors to help us on our Journey as we are new to Europe. We are keen to collaborate with other companies as we believe that achieving net zero has to be a joint effort if we are going to get anywhere near the impact we want to achieve.”
Investors can access more information about Origin 21 and all companies, funding rounds, decks, and founders, via the platform.
💼 New Climate Jobs
Last week we had 2,218 jobs posted on the job board by 676 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.
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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)
📰 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.
🇩🇪 Super Climate Berlin (Jun 4)
🇬🇧 ClimateTech Summit 2024 (Jun 12)
🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13) - “CLIMATEU20” ⭐️🎟️
🇩🇪 The Battery Show Europe 2024 (Jun 18) 🆕
💰 Sustainable Investing: Myth or Reality? (Jun 18)
🇬🇧 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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