🌳 Last week in climate (#85) by ClimateU

Good morning and Happy New Year again! 🥳

I hope you all eased into 2024, got in some quality time with friends and family, and are now ready to rock 2024.

💭 COP28 in December got me re-energized and excited about the role of a strong community and collaboration in reaching net-zero. This year, we want to move away from being the biggest climate community and focus on being the community that provides the most value to its members.

If you have any feedback on what we should be doing better - please get in touch! 👋

As always - short and sweet:

Today, we'll cover 2024’s first:

💰 closed rounds,

💼 climate jobs,

🚀 dealflow,

📰 news, and

🗓 upcoming events.

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💰 Closed Rounds

🇬🇧 Vortexa - $34M Series C

📍 London, United Kingdom ⚡️ Building the future of energy markets.

Investors: Communitas Capital Partners, FJ Labs, Metaplanet, monashees, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Notion Capital

Article, Company

🇱🇻 Aerones - €4.4M Grant

📍 Riga, Latvia ⚡️ Wind turbine blade inspection and maintenance robotics.

Investors: European Union

Article, Company

🇱🇻 Naco Technologies Ltd - €1.2M Series A

📍 Riga, Latvia ⚡️ Nano coating for green hydrogen.

Investors: Impact Ventures Hungary, The Untitled Ventures

Article, Company

🇹🇷🇺🇸 Lumian - Pre-Seed

📍 Turkey / United States ⚡️ AI-based low code platform for smart energy management.

Investors: DOMiNO Ventures, Ismail Ferhat Özlü

Article, Company

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💼 New Climate Jobs

Check out some of the latest featured jobs below. If you don't see anything that speaks to you, you can always head to ClimateU to explore thousands of other opportunities.

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CHOOOSE

“CHOOOSE delivers a software platform that enables individuals and organizations to understand their carbon footprint and support trusted climate solutions.“

🇳🇴 Senior Business Controller (Norway, Remote)

aeco

“Restoring peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors and the planet.“

🌍 Head of Operations (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)

🌍 Senior Carbon Project Developer (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)

🌍 Projektentwickler*in (Berlin, Munich, or Remote)

Cambrium

“Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks.“

🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations (Berlin, On-site)

🇩🇪 Business Development Intern (Berlin, On-site)

leonardo.

“leonardo is a B2B SaaS solution to measure, verify, and report sustainability impact credibly.“

🇩🇪 Lead Software Engineer (Frankfurt, Hybrid)

That’s all featured jobs for this early first week of 2024! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth.

That’s all featured jobs for today! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth.

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🚀 New Climate Dealflow

Last week, Unibloom announced that they’re raising an Angel round in Q1.

This quarter, 25+ companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round:

🇺🇸 Grant (💡 Climate Education)

🇬🇧 Angel (🏭 Consumer Goods / Food Waste)

🇬🇧 Angel (💡 Climate Education)

🇩🇰 Pre-Seed (💡 Climate Education)

🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (🌳 Biodiversity)

🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (💡 Climate Data)

🇬🇧 Pre-Seed (🚗 Logistics & Supply Chain)

🇺🇸 Pre-Seed (🌳 Biodiversity)

🇺🇸 Pre-Seed (⚡️ Energy Distribution / Biomass)

🇦🇹 Seed (⚡️ Wind Energy)

🇩🇪 Seed (⚡️ Biomass / Chemicals)

🇩🇪 Seed (🏠 Distributed Energy Resources)

🇩🇪 Seed (💸 Climate Investing)

🇩🇪🇹🇷 Seed (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)

🇫🇷 Seed (💡 Earth Observation)

🇫🇷 Seed (💨 Technology-Based CC)

🇬🇧 Seed (🏗 Construction Software)

🇬🇧 Seed (🚗 Logistics & Supply Chain Efficiency)

🇮🇳 Seed (⚡️ Energy Software & Analytics)

🇮🇹 Seed (💡 Carbon Accounting / Carbon Offsetting)

🇳🇱 Seed (🧑🌾 Vertical / Indoor / Urban Farming)

🇳🇴 Seed (🚗 Aviation)

🇩🇰 Series A (🏭 Recycling)

🇬🇧 Series A (🏭 New Materials / Packaging / Plastics)

🇳🇱 Series A (⚡️ Hydrogen)

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📰 Climate News

Here are a few articles from last week to kick off the year:

⚡️ France bets €1bn on startups building bus-sized nuclear reactors

⚡️ Britain turns to floating turbines to tap into ‘remarkable’ wind speeds

⚡️ Spain confirms nuclear power phase-out

💡 Navigating the future of climate tech: Predictions for 2024

💡 2024: Is this the year AI helps us fight climate change?

PS: We’re looking for a volunteer to lead our weekly news section this year. If that is you, please contact us (team@climateu.earth).

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🗓 Upcoming Events

We want to revive this section this month. If you’ve come across great sources for climate events, or you’re organizing an event/meetup/webinar, please ping me.

🇬🇧 Can we leverage technology to achieve education equity? (Jan 16)

💡 Your business' carbon footprint: what it is and how to measure it? (Jan 31)

🇬🇧 Nature and your business: why it matters and how to take action. (Feb 22)

🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow (Mar 21-22)

🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)

🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13)

🇬🇧 London Climate Action Week (Jun 22-30)

🇮🇹 ICSD 2024 : International Conference on Sus. Development (Sep 11)

🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17)

🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)

🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30)

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A Final Note to Start the Year in Style

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Tim

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