🌳 Last Week in Climate #124
Tim Steppich
Founder of inClimate.com | Europe’s free climate community and hiring platform | 25,000+ members | Forbes 30u30 | Public Speaker
Happy Tuesday!
📩 Here is your weekly digest of everything that happened in climate last week.
💡 You can add news, events, funding rounds, and more to this newsletter via inClimate.com.
👋 Important: It's much easier to read it online.
We cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🌳 inClimate updates,
🇪🇺 14 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 2,012 jobs at 684 companies.
Community Updates
👋 Last week, 123 climate professionals joined inClimate. You can see all 12,064 members and their company/investor profiles on the members directory.
🇪🇸 We’re hosting our next Climate Drinks event at Norrsken House Barcelona on October 23rd. You can apply to join here.
💼 We will host five events for climate job seekers in the first week of November. We’ll share more about the events and the bigger event behind it next week.
🗓️ I will be at Impact Festival in Frankfurt and at Impact/Week in Baercelona. We’re hosting side events at both conferences, so ping me if you’re coming.
inClimate.com Updates
Just a quick nudge to take a minute today to introduce yourself to the inClimate community by posting an introduction on our new feed (you need to be logged in).
Closed Rounds
🇫🇷 KNAVE SAS - €225M Debt
📍 Paris, France
🏭 White-label and digitalized rental programs.
Investors: Pollen Street Capital
🇸🇪 ALTRIS - SEK 150M Series B
📍 Gävle, Sweden
⚡️ New sodium-ion battery cathode material.
Investors: Clarios, EIT InnoEnergy, Maersk Growth, Molindo
🇦🇹 GROPYUS - €100M Venture
📍 Vienna, Austria
🏠 Sustainable buildings.
Investors: Practical Venture Capital, Semapa
🇸🇪 Voi Technology - €50M Debt
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🚗 Micromobility.
🇨🇭 xFarm Technologies - €36M Series C
📍 Manno, Switzerland
🧑🌾 Digital transformation of agriculture.
Investors: Mouro Capital, Neva SGR, Partech, Swisscom Ventures, United Ventures
🇳🇱 Paebbl - $25M Series A
📍 Rotterdam, Netherlands
💨 Re-stores captured carbon into industrial raw materials.
Investors: 2050, Aurum Impact, Capnamic Ventures, Climate Pledge Fund, Goldbeck, Grantham Foundation, Holcim MAQER Ventures, Pale blue dot
🇫🇷 LA VIE (77 Foods) - €23M Venture
📍 Paris, France
🍴 Vegetable edible fat.
Investors: Sparkfood, Zintinus
🇸🇪 AirForestry - €10.3M Seed
📍 Uppsala, Sweden
🌳 Electric drones fro forestry.
Investors: CapitalT, Cloudbreak Ventures, Kiko Ventures, Northzone, SEB Greentech Venture Capital, Sveaskog, Walerud Ventures
🇩🇪 forward earth - €4.5M Seed
📍 Berlin, Germany
💡 AI-powered carbon management.
Investors: Mosaic Ventures, Revent, Speedinvest
🇫🇮 Synergi - €2M Seed
📍 Helsinki, Finland
⚡️ Smart electricity management services.
Investors: APX, Greencode Ventures, Lifeline Ventures, Vaens, Wave Ventures
🇬🇧 Circuland - €750k Pre-Seed
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏗 Empowering construction materials' documentation and reuse.
Investors: Apeiron Ventures, Astylab Ventures
🇩🇪 The Raging Pig Company - Seed
📍 Malmö, Germany 🇩🇪, Sweden
🍴 Pigless bacon.
Investors: Solvable Syndicate, Sprout & About Ventures
🇩🇪 Phantasma Labs - Venture
📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 More efficient manufacturing through AI.
Investors: Momenta, RunwayFBU
🇸🇬 Xnergy - Venture
📍 Jurong West, Singapore
🚗 Fast-charging platform.
Investors: Accuron New Ventures, CRADLE
Deal of the Week
“BloomX is dedicated to helping growers optimize their yields through bio-mimicking pollination technology.”
For more info, just reach out to Thai directly or read more on the platform.
PS: We gave the open funding rounds page an update 👇️
Upcoming Events
⭐️ = favorites 🆕 = added last week 🎟️ = community discount code
🇧🇷 Brazilian Climate and Carbon Conference (Oct 15)
🇬🇧 Blue Earth Summit (Oct 16)
🇩🇪 Free Electrons Open Day (Oct 17)
🇬🇧 Concave Summit (Oct 17) 🆕
🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)
🇳🇱 Climate Tech Summit Benelux (Oct 22)
🇮🇹 Green Future Panorama (Oct 23) 🆕
🇪🇸 Climate Drinks Barcelona #3 (Oct 23)
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️🎟️ “inClimate30”
🇪🇸 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) ⭐️
Climate News
New Climate Jobs
The weekly job recommendations went out yesterday, with 2,012 jobs from 684 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 works and how to feature your jobs here - check out this summary.
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.
🇩🇪 Energieberater:in (zertifizierter EEE) (€80k-100k)
🇩🇪 Sales Manager:in (€70k-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.
🇩🇪 Head of Marketing (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Internship in Forest Management Sales (Munich, On-site)
🇦🇹 Junior Forest Sales Representative (Dornbirn, On-site)
🇩🇪 Praktikum im Bereich Business Development bei Tree.ly (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Sales Manager:in (Munich, On-site)
🇩🇪 Spontaneous application (Germany, On-site)
Final Note
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Big hug,
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Building content ecosystems for food & climate tech brands on social & email | Generated $200k+ in LinkedIn-attributed revenue for clients | Always highly caffeinated ☕️
1moThe Raging Pig Co. has been making headlines for weeks, I love it, Tim.
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Thanks for the mention!