🌳 Last Week in Climate #122

Hi there, happy Tuesday!

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

👋 Important: The newsletter is much easier to read here.

We cover last week’s:

💚 Community updates,

🇪🇺 15 closed rounds,

🚀 Deal of the week,

🗓 Events & Meetups,

📰 News, and

💼 1,281 jobs by 486 employers.

💚 Community Updates

🇪🇸 We’re hosting our next Climate Drinks event at Norrsken House on October 23rd. You can apply to join here. We’ll keep it more intimate this time.

☕️ We’re hosting our next Climate Coffee Break tomorrow afternoon and added more on the inClimate calendar. Feel free to join if you want to connect with other people in climate.

all inClimate events

New Members

Last week, 425 climate professionals joined inClimate. You can see all new members and their company/investor profiles on the directory 👇️

see all new members

🇪🇺 Closed Rounds

🇬🇧 newcleo - €135M Venture

📍 London, United Kingdom

⚡️ Energy production from Nuclei.

Investors: Inarcassa

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🇸🇪 Stegra (formerly H2 Green Steel) - €100M Venture

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

🏗 Fossil-free steel producer.

Investors: Industrial Leap Fund

Company, Article

🇩🇪 Marvel Fusion - €62.8M Series B

📍 Munich, Germany

⚡️ Laser-driven fusion power plant.

Investors: b2venture, Bayern Kapital, Deutsche Telekom, HV Capital, SPRIN-D, Tengelmann Ventures

Company, Article

🇫🇷 VELA - €40M Series A

📍 Fontaine-française, France

🚗 Wind-powered maritime transport.

Investors: 11th Hour Racing, Bpifrance, Crédit Mutuel Impact

Company, Article

🇬🇧 Notpla - £20M Series A

📍 London, United Kingdom

🏭 Seaweed-based packaging.

Investors: Astanor Ventures, EIT Food, Horizons Ventures, Kibo Invest, Ocean Born Foundation, Radicle Impact, Temasek Trust Capital, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Trousdale Ventures, UB FIGG

Company, Article

🇫🇷 Micropep Technologies - $11M Series B

📍 Ramonville-saint-agne, France

🏭 Biological alternatives to agrochemicals.

Investors: Corteva Agriscience, Sparkfood

Company, Article

🇬🇧 Anaphite - £10.4M Series A

📍 Bristol, United Kingdom

⚡️ Enhancing Li-ion batteries with graphene.

Investors: Elbow Beach Capital, Maniv Mobility, Nesta, Wealth Club, World Fund

Company, Article

🇬🇧 PACT Biomaterials - £9M Venture

📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom

🏭 Biomaterials.

Company, Article

🇬🇧 FluoRok - £7.7M Seed

📍 Oxford, United Kingdom

🏭 Alternative fluorochemicals.

Investors: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Business Growth Fund, Excellis, Green Generation Fund, Oxford Science Enterprises, Volta Energy Technologies

Company, Article

🇳🇱 Meatable - €7.6M Grant

📍 Delft, Netherlands

🍴 Alternative meat.

Investors: Netherlands Enterprise Agency

Company, Article

🇫🇷 La Solive - €4M Series A

📍 Paris-l'hopital, France

💡 Training to teach a concrete profession of ecological transition.

Investors: Brighteye Ventures, Clément Delpirou, Partech, Thibaud Hug de Larauze, Vincent Bryant

Company, Article

🇩🇪 Briink - €3.9M Venture

📍 Berlin, Germany

📢 Helps ESG teams verify & benchmark their sustainability data.

Investors: EquityPitcher Ventures, 13books Capital, Merantix, seed + speed Ventures

Company, Article

🇩🇪 BIOVOX - €2.2M Seed

📍 Darmstadt, Germany

🏭 Bioplastic compounds made from renewable resources.

Investors: Auxxo, BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen, HTGF | High-Tech Gruenderfonds, Katharina Klohe, Otto Braun, Petra Wörwag

Company, Article

🇩🇪 Cariqa - €1M Pre-Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany

🚗 EV solution for management, charging, trip planning, and vehicle data.

Investors: Anthemis Group, Vento, HATCHER+, Techstars, Golden Egg Check Capital, Plug and Play

Company, Article

🇨🇭 Swisspod Technologies - Funding Round

📍 Monthey, Switzerland

🚗 Energy-efficient Hyperloop systems.

Investors: Felix Porsche

Company, Article

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🚀 Deal of the Week

🇮🇱 After being bootstrapped for 2.5 years, Gilad from Platypus is raising a seed round. They seek investors with added value in their field, including material science, agriculture, supply chain, and ecology.

“Platypus actively enables the pest control industry to reduce harmful chemicals in pest control solutions by shifting to sustainable alternatives and new approaches.”

Pitch deck is available on the platform here.

Any recommendations who Gilad should talk to?

all rounds and founders

🗓 Upcoming Events

⭐️ = favorites 🆕 = added last week

🇬🇧 How the Circular Economy can Revolutionise your Business (Oct 2)

🇵🇹 Climate Innovation and Social Justice Summit (Oct 2)

🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)

💡 SOSV Climate Tech Summit (Oct 14)

🇧🇷 Brazilian Climate and Carbon Conference (Oct 15) 🆕

🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)

🇳🇱 Climate Tech Summit Benelux (Oct 22)

🇪🇸 Climate Drinks Barcelona #3 (Oct 23)

🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️

🇪🇸 Impact Week (Nov 6) ⭐️

🇦🇿 COP29 Azerbaijan (Nov 11)

🇵🇹 Climate-tech Pitch Competition (Nov 13) 🆕

🇨🇭 Tech for Impact Awards (Nov 21)

🇬🇧 London Climate Technology Show (Nov 27)

🇺🇸 New York Climate DeepTech Summit (Dec 12) ⭐️

🇨🇭 HackSummit 2025 (May 15, 2025) ⭐️

view full events database

📰 Climate News

💡 The Drop 2024 participants list.

⚡️ Actually, we can deploy energy infrastructure very quickly.

⚡️ Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid.

⚡️ International banks express support for nuclear expansion.

⚡️ Shell shelves Norway hydrogen project due to lack of demand.

💧 How much energy does desalinization use? Is it “absurdly cheap”?

🏭 Forrest strikes $4 billion deal for electric trucks and dozers to eliminate fossil fuels at giant mines.

see all news / add news

💼 New Climate Jobs

The weekly tailored job recommendations went out via email yesterday, with 1,281 jobs from 486 employers posted last week. Below, you’ll find all featured jobs (from companies on our new premium/team access). You can head to the job board to explore all posted opportunities.

To learn more about how hiring via inClimate.com works and how to feature your jobs here - check out this page.

autarc

autarc is building the operating system for heat pump installers. They are part of Y Combinator and are hiring for their office in Berlin-Mitte.

🇩🇪 Business Development Manager:in (€70k-100k)

🇩🇪 Energieberater:in (zertifizierter EEE) (€80k-100k)

🇩🇪 ML Engineer (Computer Vision) (€80k-150k)

🇩🇪 Sales Manager:in (€70k-100k)

🇩🇪 Senior Frontend Engineer (React)(€80k-100k)

Tree.ly

Tree.ly is a diverse team founding a new technology venture that unlocks the carbon capture potential of our forests by bringing together forest owners, carbon offsetters, and public authorities.

🇩🇪 Forest Expert (Berlin, On-site)

🇩🇪 Junior Designer (Germany, Remote)

🇦🇹 Junior Forest Sales Representative (Dornbirn, On-site)

🇦🇹 Sales Manager:in (Austria, Remote)

🇦🇹 Senior Forest Sales Manager (Dornbirn, On-site)

🇩🇪 Spontaneous application (Germany, Remote)

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Final Note

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Big hug,

Tim

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