🌳 Last week in climate (#91) by ClimateU

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💌 Here is your weekly update of everything that happened in climate last week.

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Let’s get to it - short and sweet as always:

Today, we'll cover last week’s:

💰 closed rounds,

💼 climate jobs,

👋 community asks,

🚀 dealflow,

📰 news, and

🗓 events.

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💰 Closed Rounds

🇫🇷 ACC - €4.4B Debt Financing

📍 Bruges, France

⚡️ Designs and manufactures batteries for electric vehicles.

Investors: BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, ING Group, Intesa Sanpaolo, Bpifrance, Euler Hermes, SACE

Article, Company

🇫🇮 Vapaus - €15M Debt Financing

📍 Helsinki, Finland

🚗 Provides electric bikes for businesses.

Investors: Norion Bank

Article, Company

🇳🇱 LionVolt - €15M Funding Round

📍 Eindhoven, Netherlands ⚡️ Solid-state batteries.

Article, Company

🇮🇹 DazeTechnology - €14.6M Series A

📍 Almenno San Bartolomeo, Italy

🚗 EV charging.

Investors: 035 Investimenti, CDP Venture Capital, European Innovation Council, Founders Future, PranaVentures, SIMEST

Article, Company

🇸🇪 Fever Energy - €10M Seed

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

⚡️ Platform for virtual power plants.

Investors: General Catalyst, La Famiglia, Norrsken VC

Article, Company

🇩🇰 Aegir Insights - €8.5M Series A

📍 Copenhagen, Denmark

⚡️ Helps make better decisions about offshore wind investments.

Investors: Climentum Capital, Seaya

Article, Company

🇨🇭 Medusoil - CHF 5.2M Seed

📍 Lausanne, Switzerland

🏗 Bio-cementation for more sustainable construction.

Investors: Technology Fund

Article, Company

🇹🇷 Getmobil - $4M Seed

📍 Sisli, Turkey

🏭 Marketplace for refurbished goods.

Investors: 212, Ahmed Faruk Karslı, Arya Ventures, DFF (Dutch Founders Fund), Logo Ventures, Maxis, Nevzat Aydın, TechOne VC, Ömer Aras

Article, Company

🇩🇪 Simplyblock - $2.8M Seed

📍 Berlin, Germany

🏠 Reducing the CO2 footprint of datacenters.

Investors: 42CAP, Antler, Begin Capital, Johan Svensson

Article, Company

🇬🇧 OX Delivers - £1.2M Grant

📍 Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

🚗 Affordable electric trucks for emerging markets.

Investors: Energy Catalyst

Article, Company

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💼 New Climate Jobs

Check out 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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Briink

Briink is your AI-powered EU Taxonomy assistant. All roles are based in Berlin, on-site, at the incredible AI Campus.

🇩🇪 Business Development Manager

🇩🇪 Senior Backend Engineer

🇩🇪 Senior Frontend Engineer

🇩🇪 Build Your Own Engineering Role

Cambrium

Cambrium's mission is to trigger the next wave of material innovation by harnessing nature’s protein building blocks. All roles are based in Berlin, on-site, at the incredible AI Campus.

🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations

🇩🇪 Business Development Intern

🇩🇪 Head of Sales - Cosmetic Ingredients

🇩🇪 Chief of Staff

🇩🇪 Head of Finance & Operations

🇩🇪 Business Development Intern

Carbon Atlantis

Carbon Atlantis is an early-stage startup developing a first-of-a-kind, low-cost Direct Air Capture technology to remove CO2 from the air. They permanently store the CO2 in rock carbonates and are currently building up the team around Munich.

🇩🇪 Electrician / Elektriker:in (Munich, On-site)

🇩🇪 Electrochemical Test Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Pilot Plant Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Absorption Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Technical Founder’s Associate (f/m/d) (Ismaning, On-site)

🇩🇪 Data Engineer (Ismaning, On-site)

Choco

Choco just joined ClimateU on their mission to enable a sustainable food system, one that runs transparently and without waste. They are hiring for on-site roles across Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, London, and the US.

🇩🇪 Head of Revenue Operations (Berlin, Hybrid)

🇩🇪 Senior Backend Engineer, Platform (Berlin, On-site)

🇩🇪 Product Manager (Berlin, On-site)

🇩🇪 Solutions Engineer (Berlin, On-site)

🇩🇪 Senior CRM Manager (Berlin, On-site)

🇫🇷 Solutions Engineer (Paris, On-site)

🇫🇷 Account Executive (Paris, On-site)

🇫🇷 Account Manager (Paris, On-site)

🇫🇷 Account Manager (Paris, On-site)

🇪🇸 Senior Account Executive (Barcelona, On-site)

🇪🇸 Senior Automation Specialist (Barcelona, On-site)

🇬🇧 Head of Buyer Sales (London, On-site)

🇺🇸 Buyer Sales (Chicago, On-site)

🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (Chicago, On-site)

🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (Boston, On-site)

🇺🇸 Strategic Account Executive (New York, On-site)

🇺🇸 Buyer Sales (Spanish speaking) (Chicago, Hybrid)

Net Zero Academy

The NetZero Academy is an educational platform specializing in energy efficiency, sustainability and decarbonization. Their goal is to train professionals who support climate protection measures and enable the achievement of net-zero goals.

🇩🇪 Impact Werkstudent Business and Sales (Munich, Hybrid)

🇩🇪 Chief of Staff (Munich, On-site)

🇩🇪 Education Manager (Munich, Hybrid)

🇩🇪 Head of Sales (Munich, On-site)

Simbiotec App

Ohad is currently building Simbiotec App - your one-stop app for a sustainable lifestyle - and is looking for his Tech Lead. He is based out of Mallorca but the role can be remote.

🇪🇸 Tech Lead (Remote)

That’s all the featured jobs for this week! Remember, you can view thousands of more jobs on ClimateU.earth, and you can feature your jobs here by signing up for our new monthly membership.

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👋 Community Asks

❓ Mrinalini is looking for a climate job around Zurich.

❓ Constance is looking for a PM role in biodiversity or nature conservation.

❓ Hannah is looking for a job that requires a science/engineering background.

❓ Laura seeks opportunities in energy transition or CDR strategy.

❓ Niamh is looking for a product/project role in an Agile environment.

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🚀 Climate Dealflow

Currently, 84 companies on ClimateU are looking to close a funding round. 3 announced their round last week:

🇬🇧 Bridge - 2024 Q3 (New Materials)

🇺🇸 Seed - 2024 Q2 (Packaging)

🇬🇧 Series B - 2024 Q2 (Hydrogen)

Investors and corporates on our membership can access all companies, funding rounds, pitch decks, and 750+ founders on ClimateU.

discover all deals and founders

📰 Climate News

Adaptation

☔️ Scientists Try Risky Air and Water Experiments

☔️ Switzerland proposes first UN expert group on solar geoengineering

Carbon Removal & Emissions

💨 Google joins mission to map methane from space

💨 How rising water vapour in the atmosphere is amplifying warming

💨 Mystery over ‘unexpectedly large’ emissions from Africa’s tropical ecosystems

💨 Revealed: the 1,200 big methane leaks from waste dumps trashing the planet

Climate Intelligence

💡 In big tech we trust, climate strategies we question

💡 Sustainability, a surprisingly successful KPI

Energy

⚡️ (FT) Geologists signal start of hydrogen energy ‘gold rush’

⚡️ (FT) World’s biggest solar company warns west not to cut out Chinese suppliers

⚡️ Rooftop solar renaissance

⚡️ The planet needs solar power. Can we build it without harming nature?

Finance

💸 (FT) Flagship climate finance scheme struggles to raise capital

💸 (FT) Coalition of universities threatens banks over fossil fuel financing

💸 (FT) JPMorgan and State Street quit climate group as BlackRock scales back

Industry

🏭 Certified natural gas is “dangerous greenwashing scheme”

🏭 Opera to launch green AI cluster in Iceland by 2024

Nature

🌳 England brings in biodiversity rules for builders

Policy & Advocacy

📢 One of NZ’s most contentious climate cases is moving forward.

Transport

🚗 Agreement reached for £4.5m takeover of SAF firm Velocys

🚗 Norway's green hydrogen revolution: a breakthrough in maritime sustainability

🚗 Will hydrogen overtake batteries in the race for zero-emission cars?

see all news / add news

🗓 Upcoming Events

🇵🇹 FoodHack Lisbon: From Farm to Fork (Feb 21)

🇬🇧 London Ganddizens' get-together (Feb 22)

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

🇮🇹 UnPlug (Mar 6)

🇨🇭 Verbier Summit (Mar 15)

🇮🇳 Net Zero Summit (Mar 15)

🇫🇷 Hello Tomorrow (Mar 21-22)

🇫🇷 ChangeNow (Mar 25)

🇬🇷 Ocean Youth Leadership Summit (Apr 15)

🇬🇧 Climate Informatics 2024 (Apr 22)

🇬🇧 Innovation Zero 2024 (Apr 30)

🇫🇷 Sustainable Investment Forum Europe (May 2)

🇦🇹 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (May 11)

🇩🇪 Greentech Festival (May 15)

🇺🇸 Carbon Unbound USA (May 21)

🇩🇪 Super Climate Berlin (Jun 4)

🇬🇧 ClimateTech Summit 2024 (Jun 12)

🇨🇭 HackSummit (Jun 13)

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

🇬🇧 Cambridge Tech Week 2024 (Sep 1)

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

🇸🇪 The Drop 2024 (Sep 17)

🇪🇪 impact day (Oct 10)

🇵🇹 Planetiers 2024 (Oct 20)

🇩🇪 Impact Festival (Oct 30)

🇫🇮 Slush 2024 (Nov 20)

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