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We keep you in the loop about the entrepreneurs and investors tackling the planet’s biggest environmental and social challenges. ‍Impact Loop is the new go-to business news service for leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors in the European impact space. We spotlight companies that centre around the UN’s sustainable development goals, digging up the most important stories, interviewing game-changers, and analysing the latest trends. Our quality daily journalism covers core impact sectors from energy and foodtech, to agritech, mobility and mental health care. Founded in 2023 by Swedish media entrepreneur Camilla Bergman and team, Impact Loop already has a strong base and community in Sweden (here is our Swedish website). In December 2024, we launched this English news channel targeting European impact entrepreneurs and investors. We pride ourselves on our independent, unbiased reporting. While we are passionate about companies that aim to make the world a better place, we don’t shy away from scrutinising their work, and whether or not they live up to their impact goals. Make sure to sign up for our free daily newsletter – and stay in the loop! Source

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10 hottest impact investments this week: sawdust batteries, profitable heat pumps, and a French banking giant

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By Siôn Lawrence-Geschwindt
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A Berlin heat-pump platform turns a profit before closing its seed round. A Finnish startup turns telecom towers into weather stations. And one of France's biggest banks co-leads a €20m bet on battery storage. Here are the biggest deals in European impact investing this week that you need to know.
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‘Nobody else can do what we do': The fibre-optic firm sensing its way into defence and high-tech industries

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By Christian von Essen
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By etching microscopic patterns into fibre-optic cables, Kista-based Proximion can offer its customers both faster data transmission and extraordinarily precise measurement – in environments where every other technology gives up. And new markets are opening up all the time. "Industry 4.0 and the rise of AI-driven systems will demand more sensors capable of capturing data at the highest possible level of detail," says CEO Johan Pejnefors. This is a paid partnership with Kista Limitless.
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World's most active energy investor ramps up dealmaking after slow spell: 'Impact is in the money now'

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By Siôn Lawrence-Geschwindt
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InnoEnergy has spent the past two years riding the downturn in VC funding. But now, its looking ramp up new investments in energy tech startups, Magnus Lundin, investment director for Scandinavia, tells Impact Loop. "The market generally feels much more positive now than maybe just half a year ago," he says.
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Three UK firms seek £100m to build Europe's largest carbon-sucking machine

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By Siôn Lawrence-Geschwindt
| Impact Loop
Europe's direct air capture (DAC) crown could be heading from Iceland to northern England. Two UK startups and a veteran project developer have formed a joint venture, UnionDAC, that aims to build a plant capable of sucking 60,000 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere each year.
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Agrifoodtech investor Pymwymic swallows Dutch bank's food fund

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By Camilla Bergman
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One food fund just changed kitchens. Dutch impact investor Pymwymic has acquired a food fund from Dutch bank Triodos – poaching three dealmakers in the process. "A step-change in our ability to back food system innovators also at scale," said Rogier Pieterse, managing partner at Pymwymic. Dutch impact investor Pymwymic has taken over a food-focused growth fund from Dutch asset management firm Triodos Investment Management.
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EU launches €10bn bioeconomy push to stop European startups being sold off

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By Camilla Bergman
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The European Commission is mobilising €10bn in corporate offtake commitments by 2030 to stop promising bio-based startups being acquired by non-European investors before reaching scale. The European Commission has launched three coordinated initiatives aimed at unlocking investment in Europe's bio-based sector – a space where, by the Commission's own admission, innovative startups are routinely acquired by non-European buyers before they reach industrial deployment.
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Einride founder on the Nasdaq debut: "Feels as though we've found a home for the business"

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By Camilla Bergman
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Swedish tech and logistics firm Einride lists on the US stock exchange today in a deal valuing the company at €1.2bn. "It feels as though we've found a home for the business – somewhere it can compete on the right terms," co-founder Robert Falck tells Impact Loop VC – and opens up about his next step. Robert Falck, co-founder of Einride, is cradling his four-month-old baby when we reach him in New York.
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This impact film producer is raising its first fund – and working with Trevor Noah on next movie

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By Siôn Lawrence-Geschwindt
| Impact Loop
Think-Film have spent a decade running impact campaigns alongside major Hollywood releases, from Dark Waters to Navalny. Now founder Danielle Turkov is raising a fund to get investors to back the films shaping the issues they care about. "Budgets for films don't include impact," she tells Impact Loop. "We're looking to completely disrupt that model." In November 2019, Avengers star Mark Ruffalo delivered a speech at the European Parliament about toxic PFAS ‘forever chemicals’.
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Paris-based impact VC makes first investment outside France

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By Siôn Lawrence-Geschwindt
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Asterion Ventures has joined a €7.8m seed round in Belgian energy tech startup Companion.energy. Partner Antonin Leonard confirmed to Impact Loop that this is the Paris-based venture capital firm's first investment outside France, as it looks to push beyond its home market. Asterion Ventures has backed Companion.energy, a Belgian software company that helps large industrial and commercial enterprises optimise energy procurement and distributed asset management in real time.
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12 hottest impact deals this week: lab-grown timber, big family money, and Andreesen Horowitz

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By Siôn Lawrence-Geschwindt
| Impact Loop
A German family-backed VC invests in AI cutting food waste. A Swiss cleantech company prepares to build the world's first microwave PET recycling plant. And a London startup raises $26m to rewire the control systems of heavy industry. Here are the biggest deals in European impact investing this week that you need to know.
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