🇪🇺🌳 Last week in climate (#72) by ClimateU

Hello from Amsterdam 🌳

This week, we’ll cover:

💰 closed rounds (14),

💸 upcoming rounds (6),

💼 new jobs,

📰 climate news, and

🗓 events.

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💰 Closed Rounds (Europe)

🇳🇴 Desert Control - NOK 68M Post-IPO Equity

📍 Sandnes, Norway

🧑🌾 Fighting desertification.

Investors: Woods End Interests

Article, Company

🇨🇭 Pexapark - €20M Series C

📍 Schlieren, Switzerland

⚡️ System to buy, sell & manage renewable energy.

Investors: A&G Energy Transition Tech Fund, Arctic Fund Management, BayWa r.e. Energy Ventures, Encavis, Fluence, RP Global, S&P Global, Swisscom Ventures, Telstra Ventures, Walder Wyss

Article, Company

🇩🇪 FERNRIDE - $19M Series A

📍 Munich, Germany

🚗 Platform for autonomous, electric trucking.

Investors: 10x Founders, Bayern Kapital, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, Fly Ventures, HHLA Next, Klaus Kleinfeld, KRONE, Munich Re Ventures, Promus Ventures, PUSH Ventures, Schenker Ventures, Speedinvest

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Resourcify - €14M Series A

📍 Hamburg, Germany

🏭 Waste management platform.

Investors: Ananda Impact Ventures, BonVenture, High-Tech Grunderfonds, IFB Innovationsstarter, Revent, Speedinvest, Vorwerk Ventures, WEPA Ventures

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Continuum Industries - £8M Series A

📍 Edinburgh, United Kingdom

⚡️ Energy infrastructure development platform.

Investors: Credo Ventures, Playfair Capital, Singular, Techstart Ventures

Article, Company

🇦🇹 Greenwood-Power - €5M Venture

📍 Brunn Am Gebirge, Austria

⚡️ Sensors for medium voltage grids.

Investors: eQventure, tecnet equity

Article, Company

🇨🇭 Atinary - $5M Seed

📍 Lausanne, Switzerland

🏭 Digitizing R&D for materials discovery.

Investors: AgFunder, Cherubic Ventures

Article, Company

🇮🇹 evja - €4M Seed

📍 Naples, Italy

🧑🌾 Optimizing irrigation, protection & nutrition.

Investors: CDP Venture Capital, Sefea Impact, Startupbootcamp FoodTech Rome

Article, Company

🇬🇧 Eagle Genomics - £3M Venture - Series Unknown

📍 Cambridge, United Kingdom

💡 Networking microbiome science

Investors: Abrdn, ETF Partners, Granpool Innovative Investments

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Metergrid - €3M Seed

📍 Stuttgart, Germany

🏠 SaaS for problems of decentralized energy systems.

Investors: 468 Capital, Mario Götze, Mätch VC, Tiny VC

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Concular - €3M Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany

🏗 Digital ecosystem for circular construction.

Investors: Strabag, The Hagedorn Group, KLV Bauconsult, Landmarken

Article, Company

🇫🇷 LA VIE (77 Foods) - £1M Equity Crowdfunding

📍 Paris, France

🍴 Vegetable edible fat for vegetable meats.

Article, Company

🇩🇪 NOVO - €1M Pre-Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany

🏠 Analysis, planning, & financing of energy renovation for real estate.

Investors: 2bX, Citizen Capital, Franz De Waal, Kerstin Bock

Article, Company

🇪🇪 Elcogen - Grant

📍 Tallinn, Estonia

⚡️ Fuel cells.

Investors: European Commission

Article, Company

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💸 Upcoming Rounds

6 new rounds were announced last week:

🇬🇧 Angel - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Energy Efficiency)

🇬🇧 Pre-Seed - 2024 Q1 (🌳 Biodiversity

🇵🇱 Pre-Seed - 2023 Q4 (⚡️ Energy Storage)

🇩🇰 Seed - 2023 Q4 (🏭 Packaging)

🇫🇷 Seed - 2023 Q4 (💡 Earth Observation)

🇺🇸 Series A - 2023 Q4 (🌳 Forests)

Currently, 123 rounds are live. Investors, corporates, and service providers can access all rounds and companies via the platform.

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💼 New Jobs

We sent out our weekly job recommendations to 4,900+ talents yesterday. Last week, 1,203 new jobs were posted on the ClimateU job board.

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📰 Climate News

💸 Invest-NL invests in Extantia Capital

💸 Paine Schwartz Partners closes $1.7B fund

💸 UAE's Zero Carbon Ventures raises $5 million in seed funding

💸 Majority of VC-backed UK startups do *nothing* on emissions

💸 Impact startups a match made in heaven for angel investors

🧑🌾 Dutch arm of vertical farming startup Infarm bankrupt

🧑🌾 New single-cell proteins

🧑🌾 Europe’s Largest Facility for Cultivated Meat & Seafood

🌳 Drinking water cheaper than tap water soon?

💡 Sustainable Shopping Guide, in Your Pocket

🚎 Recyclable and climate neutral boats

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🗓 Upcoming Events

This week

🇬🇧 Carbon Unbound Europe

🇺🇸 How to Win Climate Tech Grants

🇪🇪 Impact Day

🇮🇪 Dublin Meetup: Friendly Dinner & Get Together

After this week

🇦🇹 Sustainable Corporate Leadership

🇧🇪 EU Tech for Climate Action

🇮🇱 ESG Connect

🇦🇹 3 Reasons for Nature-Based Climate Strategies

🇬🇧 Investing better - why where you bank matters

🇬🇧 The International Carbon Markets Summit 2023

🇦🇹 Discover Vienna: Climate Tech

🌎 ClimateTech Founders Summit 2023

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That’s it for this week 🌳

Big hug from Amsterdam,

Tim

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