🌳 Last Week in Climate #125
Tim Steppich
Founder of inClimate.com | Europe’s free climate community and hiring platform | 25,000+ members | Forbes 30u30 | Public Speaker
Hey there, 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. It’s free to use for all.
👋 It's much prettier reading it online instead.
We cover last week’s:
💚 Community updates,
🌳 inClimate updates,
🇪🇺 15 closed rounds,
🚀 Deal of the week,
🗓 Events & meetups,
📰 News, and
💼 2,027 jobs at 648 companies.
Community Updates
👋 Last week, 114 climate professionals joined inClimate. You can see all 12,178 members and their company/investor profiles on the members directory.
💼 On November 4-8th, we are hosting the first-ever Europe Climate Week together with Terra, MCJ, and five more climate companies. There will be 35+ free virtual events designed to supercharge people’s climate careers so that we can get more people working in Climate.
🇪🇸 We’re hosting our next Climate Drinks event at Norrsken House Barcelona tomorrow. You can still apply to join here.
🗓️ I will be at Impact Festival in Frankfurt next week and at Impact/Week in Barcelona the week after. I’ll moderate an investors <> founders mentoring session in Frankfurt and will host a sunrise coffee and cold dip (for the early risers) in Barcelona. Ping me if you’re coming.
inClimate.com Updates
🎨 The investors database, the job board, the events page, company pages, and more, got an update with sleek-looking tabs - finally!
🎨 Saw the new newsletter image? The website is starting to get a makeover, so you might already notice some slight design and UX changes. No more pictures of trees, I promise!
🗓️ The events calendar now shows past and upcoming events and got a duly needed design update.
Closed Rounds
🇸🇪 Aira - €63M Series B
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🏠 Electrification of residential heating.
Investors: Altor, Kinnevik, Statkraft Ventures, Temasek Holdings
🇩🇰 Algiecel - DKK 50M Venture
📍 Odense, Denmark
💨 Low-carbon natural ingredients for application in feed, food and cosmetics.
Investors: West Hill Capital
🇬🇧 Hometree - £50M Debt Financing
📍 London, United Kingdom
🏠 Residential energy services company.
Investors: CPP Investments
🇩🇪 Vay - €34M Debt Financing
📍 Berlin, Germany
🚗 Teledriven car-sharing services.
Investors: European Investment Bank
🇸🇪 CorPower Ocean - €32M Series B
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
⚡️ High efficiency Wave Energy Converters.
Investors: Cisco Investments, EIT InnoEnergy, Iberis Capital, NordicNinja VC, Santander Asset Management, SEB Greentech Venture Capital
🇩🇪 OroraTech - €25M Series B
📍 Munich, Germany
💡 Wildfire intelligence.
Investors: Ananda Impact Ventures, Bayern Kapital, ConActivity KG, Edaphon, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, Findus Venture, Korys
🇳🇱 RIFT - €11M Series A
📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands
🚗 Decarbonizing industrial heat.
Investors: BOM, Energie transitie fonds Rotterdam, Invest-NL, OostNL, PGGM Investments, Rubio Impact Ventures
🇬🇧 Power Roll Ltd - £4.3M Venture
📍 Seaham, United Kingdom
⚡️ Low-cost and lightweight flexible solar film that can be used for both generation and storage.
Investors: Finance Durham Fund, North East Development Capital Fund, NPIF Maven Equity Finance
🇬🇧 Concretene - £3M Seed
📍 Amesbury, United Kingdom
🏗 Concrete alternative.
Investors: LocalGlobe, Molten Ventures
🇩🇪 Infinite Roots - €2.6M Grant
📍 Hamburg, Germany
🍴 Using fermentation and fungi to create sustainable foods.
Investors: German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
🇪🇸 Zeleros Hyperloop - €2.5M Venture
📍 Valencia, Spain
🚗 Hyperloop - transport system with speeds up to 1000km/h.
Investors: Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), EIT InnoEnergy, Elewit
🇦🇹 Easelink - €1.5M Venture
📍 Graz, Austria
🚗 EV charging.
Investors: Verbund X Ventures
🇬🇧 Lineat Composites - £1.4M Seed
📍 Bristol, United Kingdom
Recommended by LinkedIn
🏭 High-performance sustainable composites.
Investors: Development Bank of Wales, East Innovate, Green Angel Ventures, SFC Capital, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
🇩🇪 PIONIERKRAFT - Series A
📍 Munich, Germany
⚡️ Solar energy sharing.
Investors: First Imagine! Ventures
🇬🇧 Econic Technologies Ltd - Private Equity
📍 London, United Kingdom
💨 Manufacture of polymers from CO2.
Investors: Capricorn Partners, CM Venture Capital, GC Ventures America, ING Sustainable Investments, Taranis Investment
Deal of the Week
🇫🇮 OnZero is raising a $5M Series A.
"OnZero is building and operating sustainable data centers, the digital heat plants, which commence a new era of green data centers. By recycling 99% of our excess heat, OnZero’s data centers achieve excellent efficiency values, while generating high temperature CO2-neutral heat. With proprietary software, OnZero prevents blackouts by offering its capacities to the grid.”
PS: We gave the open funding rounds page an update 👇️
Upcoming Events
⭐️ = favorites 🆕 = added last week 🎟️ = community discount code
🇳🇱 Climate Tech Summit Benelux (Oct 22)
🇮🇹 Green Future Panorama (Oct 23) 🆕
🇪🇸 Climate Drinks Barcelona #3 (Oct 23)
🇨🇴 World Biodiversity Summit - Cali (Oct 26) 🆕
🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30) ⭐️ 🎟️ “inClimate30”
🇬🇧 Climate Tech Time (Oct 30) 🆕
🌍 Climate Founders Week (Nov 4) 🆕
🇪🇺 Europe Climate Week (Nov 4) 🆕
🇩🇪 Climate Tech Hardware Drinks (Nov 6) 🆕
🇩🇪 Falling Walls Science Summit 2024 (Nov 7) 🆕
🇪🇸 Impact Week (Nov 6) ⭐️
🇦🇿 COP29 Azerbaijan (Nov 11)
🇵🇹 Climate-tech Pitch Competition (Nov 13)
🇦🇿 Climate Action Innovation Zone (Nov 13) 🆕
🇪🇸 Carbon Literacy training for SMEs in Spain (Nov 13) 🆕
🇦🇿 World Climate Summit (Nov 17) 🆕
🇫🇮 Super Climate Helsinki (Nov 20) 🆕
🇨🇭 Tech for Impact Awards (Nov 21)
🇪🇸 Sustainability, AI and Innovation Summit (Nov 22) 🆕
🇬🇧 London Climate Technology Show (Nov 27)
🌍 The European Sustainability Conference (Dec 4) 🆕
🇺🇸 New York Climate DeepTech Summit (Dec 12) ⭐️
🇪🇸 Energy Tech Summit 2025 (Apr 9, 2025) 🆕
🇨🇭 HackSummit 2025 (May 15, 2025) ⭐️
Climate News
New Climate Jobs
The weekly job recommendations went out yesterday: 2,027 jobs, 648 employers, 70 countries 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.
The platform for climate risk and adaptation is a location-specific, automated SaaS solution that would allow the company to forecast the future physical climate risks, comprehend the particulars vulnerabilities of the assets, as well as the necessary measures of adaptation to mitigate the identified dangers.
🇪🇺 Remote (Principle) Climate Impact Engineer (Europe, Remote)
🇪🇺 Remote Vulnerability & Adaptation Modeller (Europe, Remote)
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)
🇩🇪 Fullstack Engineer (React, Supabase) (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 Product Designer (Figma) (Berlin, On-site)
🇩🇪 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
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 ecosystem and share your updates, questions, jobs, or funding news with the community.
Big hug,
📩 Feel free to send feedback, ideas, companies, funding rounds, etc. to me directly: tim@inclimate.com
Building content ecosystems for food & climate tech brands on social & email | Generated $200k+ in LinkedIn-attributed revenue for clients | Always highly caffeinated ☕️
1moGenuinely loving the community portal, Tim.
Thanks for the mention Tim Steppich !
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1moAlways love the overview this reporting gives me! p.s. the link doesn't work (lastweek.inclimate.com)
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1moYou’ve been putting in the work and it shows Tim! Keep grinding, the platform is looking awesome and newsletter is packed with good stuff 💪