French cleantech startup Blackfuel, led by serial entrepreneur Charles Kantor, has landed contracts totaling €250 million, marking a major commercial milestone for the company.
Zurich‑based climate‑tech startup Cotierra secured a $3 million funding round led by PINC and Carbon Removal Partners to commercialise its decentralised biochar platform, aiming to improve soil health, farmer productivity and reduce supply‑chain emissions across tropical agriculture.
German deep‑tech startup Reverion secured a €154 million Series B round led by the Deeptech and Climate Fund Kembara, with participation from Allianz, KfW Capital, aurum Impact and Carbon Equity, to fund a new factory that will create 800 jobs and scale up its high‑efficiency gas‑powered fuel‑cell power plants across Europe.
Polish startup WIDMO Spectral Technologies from Krakow was selected as a winner of the Scaling Land Restoration Challenge, an initiative of UpLink, the World Economic Forum’s innovation platform, recognizing its SGPR technology for supporting degraded land restoration projects
Fortum, the Finnish energy group, became a limited partner in Norrsken Evolve’s €62 million pre‑seed fund, reinforcing the fund’s mission to accelerate startups that drive Europe’s transition to clean electricity and industrial decarbonisation.
Metycle, a Cologne‑based platform for secondary copper and aluminium, secured a €131.7 million credit facility from Rivonia Road Capital, giving it the capacity to finance bigger metal trades, increase recycled feedstock volumes and scale its operations across 15 countries.
Belgian startup CIOC Energy, founded in September 2023, provides a unified platform for monitoring, controlling and trading energy from solar panels and batteries. The company secured a €3 million minority‑investment from CleverNett to grow its team and expand market access across several European countries.
A French refrigeration specialist, Syclef Holding SAS, is set to acquire four Romanian refrigeration firms—Unicool, Acsa Coolteam, Horeco Impex and Frigoclima—through its newly created Romanian arm. The deals cover both commercial and industrial refrigeration segments and involve companies with combined revenues exceeding €35 million. The acquisitions are part of Syclef’s broader European expansion strategy, backed by private‑equity investor Ardian.
Metris Energy, an AI‑native platform for managing energy assets, secured a $5 million seed round led by PT1 Ventures and other investors, bringing its total funding to $7.5 million. The round will fund the expansion of its unified data layer, new AI features, and European market growth, especially in Germany.
Roseo is a Spanish startup that provides intelligent wind‑energy data platforms for businesses and governments, enabling the hybridisation of urban wind into reliable, cost‑effective renewable power for installers and community energy projects.