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This week: AI weather forecasting, ocean drones, diversity tools, irrigation-tech, the MBA pay gap, and impact startup jobs.

| View in browser OCTOBER 5, 2021 Impact startup jobs are growing, fast. Launched yesterday, the Amsterdam Employment 2021 report, which outlines the state of startup jobs in Amsterdam, shows that Impact startups are a significant job growth engine, creating jobs at a faster rate than non-impact startups. On impact.dealroom.co there is a dedicated tab to job openings that allows you to perform various type of searches, such as:   📊 Impact jobs in sales roles 🇳🇱 Jobs at Amsterdam-based impact startups 👩🏼‍💻 Impact jobs in data science Access over 11K impact job openings   In addition, we are also adding a dedicated Job opportunities section in the newsletter to highlight job offers across global impact startups. Scroll for more. 👇   In other news 💰 MBA Salary: Female Graduates Earn $11,000 less Than Male Peers - Bloomberg. How are female MBA founders doing? Check the Tip of the Week for more insights.   🌧 DeepMind and UK's Met Office use AI to improve weather forecasts - Financial Times. Curious about climate risk startups using cutting edge AI? You can find 33 here.   🌊 Ocean drone captures videos from inside a hurricane - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The drone is manufactured by Saildrone, the most valuable North American company tackling SDG 14 - Life Below Water. 9️⃣ Bend the curve in nine years… only nine - 2150 Partner Christian Hernandez on reaching net zero.   Latest impact deals: The largest this week:   🇬🇧 Octopus Energy raised a $600M Growth Equity round from Generation Investment Manager at a $4.6B valuation, more than double compared to its previously disclosed valuation in Dec 2020 ($2.1B). After Arrival, Octopus Energy is the #2 most valuable impact company in the UK.    🇺🇸 Perfect Day - a dairy substitute startup - raised a $350M Series D round. New unicorn and the #4 most valuable alternative dairy startups globally.   🇺🇸 Xpansiv - a marketplace for ESG commodities - raised a $100M growth equity round. It targets an IPO in H1 2022.   Other promising impact deals:    🇳🇱 Zola Electric - a solar energy startup providing renewable energy to off-grid areas in Africa - raised a $90M round, of half equity, half debt. TotalEnergies, one of the equity investors, has already invested in 31 other impact startups.   🇺🇸 Ceres Imaging - that uses satellite imagery to improve irrigation and agriculture - raised a $23M round at a $125 valuation.   🇸🇪 Doconomy - a banking service that tracks the carbon footprint of users - raised a $17M funding round from MasterCard, CommerzVentures and other investors.   ​​🇸🇪 ClimateView - a startup developing a SaaS tool to help cities monitoring their journey towards carbon neutrality - raised a €10M Series A round from Norrsken VC, CommerzVentures and other investors.   🇸🇬 Diversely - a recruitment platform focussed on improving diversity and inclusion in the workplace - raised $550K Seed.    🇭🇰 Ampd Energy - a lithium-ion-battery powered device to power construction equipment - raised an undisclosed round from 2150 and Taronga Ventures.   Read up on all the latest impact deals in Dealroom.co     Job opportunities   Arrival, the UK most valuable impact company, is hiring for 160 positions.   EVBox - the 2nd fastest growing impact company per job openings in Amsterdam - is hiring for 37 positions.   ClimateView is hiring for front-end and backend developers. This company already said that this number will increase as a result of the latest financing.    Discover 11,500+ job openings at impact startups (login for full results)   💡 Tip of the week   On the Startups & Scaleups tab you can filter for startups founded by founders with a specific degree, such as a MBA. Currently, we identify 244 impact startups whose founder has an MBA, of which 68 are female-founded.   Dive in   📈 7,600+ impact startups and 11,000+ funding rounds on https://impact.dealroom.co ♻️ Sort by the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals: https://impact.dealroom.co/curated/taxonomy/sdgs     Knowledge partners   Matteo Renoldi Impact Tech Specialist Dealroom.co About this newsletter   This is Dealroom's weekly impact newsletter.  You can subscribe here to get more industry-specific intelligence on the evolving world of impact, expert insights on purpose-driven startups, responsible tech, ethical investment, and more.  Delivered on Tuesdays. Dealroom.co, Cornelis Dirkszstraat 27-2, 1056 TP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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