Your Next Job in Germany Could Help Save the Planet

A guide to German climate tech startups. Funny German words. A space saving cover letter tip. 13 funded start-ups. AI will take all jobs or create new jobs? The alarming rise of the far-right in DE.

Personal News & Musings

🫣 Sometimes I’ll overshare and/or rant a bit.

I finally booked my first real vacation of the year. I’ll be heading to the Polish Baltic Sea next month and I can’t wait.

Until then, I’ve been channeling that longing for fresh sea air and (hopefully) clear skies into something a little different.

🌍 Say hello to a brand new career guide featuring German climate tech startups that are quite literally saving the planet (and hiring now).

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Community News

🤝 News from our community.

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🗓️ Our Events (+ Other Events)

• A Dose of Optimism - This one-night-only Berlin art pop-up blends stunning visuals, a short film, and a pub quiz to show how solar power is changing lives. Not to mention, how good it feels to believe in something again. This Thursday, July 10.

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🔊 Featured Germany Life Guide

Ready to fight climate change and get paid for it? 💪 Our guide to German climate tech startups spotlights innovators hiring right now, from solar disruptors to sustainable AI. Find your mission, and perhaps your next job as well.

📖 See our 60+ life and career guides.

Polling Vibes

📊 Results of our weekly polls.

Our last poll asked: How are you really doing in Germany these days?

Only 8% of you are living the dream in German, while everyone else is navigating burnout, instability, or clinging to carbs. The most common answers? “Burnt out & broke” and “stable-ish, somehow,” both at 34%. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Take part in this week’s poll. ⬇️

Let’s keep it fun, shall we? Vote for the German word you think is the silliest, funniest, or just plain ridiculous.

A little translation to guide your choice:

1. Kummerspeck - Grief bacon. Weight gained from emotional eating.

2. Backpfeifengesicht - A face that's begging to be slapped.

3. Schnapsidee - Schnapps idea. An idea you'd only have when drunk.

4. Kaffeeklatsch - Coffee gossip. A casual chit-chat over coffee.

Companies Hiring Right Now

🇩🇪 Companies in Germany hiring right now.

1. 1KOMMA5° (AI-optimized renewable energy systems) - DE wide & remote | 350 jobs

2. Building Minds (Digitizing real estate for sustainability.) - Berlin | 2 jobs

3. ecosio (Automated business data exchange solutions) - Remote in DE | 11 jobs

4. Leapsome (AI-powered HR platform) - Berlin | 7 jobs

5. Spark Networks (Sparking love connections that matter.) - Berlin | 4 jobs

📢 Job of the Week: Senior Team Lead Customer Support @ Tibber in Berlin

🏢 For even more companies hiring in Berlin right now, see our list.

Recently Funded Startups

🤑 German startups that recently raised new funding may also have vacancies.

✨ TL;DR - We tracked around €153 M in reported funding, across 13 startups in 8 German cities. Talon.One came out big with €114 M. And a big congrats goes to Edurino, a rarely funded female-founded startup.

1. abaut (Construction & mining AI SaaS) | Munich - 6 jobs

2. Avoltra (AI-powered industrial energy procurement) | Munich & Nuremberg - 3 jobs

3. Carelane (Digitizes clinical trial workflows) | Bremen - 1 job

4. CustomCells (Accelerating battery innovation from lab to market) | Itzehoe - No jobs atm

5. Edurino (Play-based early‑learning digital app) | Munich & Berlin - 3 jobs

6. Otter Energy Trading (Automated PV energy trading platform) | Munich - No jobs atm

7. Peec AI (AI search analytics for marketers) | Berlin & remote - 9 jobs

8. Rabot Energy (Dynamic green‑energy tariff provider) | Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, remote - 29 jobs

9. StudyFriends (Peer tutoring education‑equality platform) | Paderborn - No jobs atm

10. Talon.One (Enterprise promotion & loyalty engine) | Berlin - 16 jobs

11. Venta AI (GDPR‑compliant AI sales outreach) | Munich - No jobs atm

12. Warmwind (Streamlining repetitive tasks with smart cloud tools.) | Jena - 11 jobs

13. Yuno (Audio‑based general knowledge app) | Berlin - No jobs atm

🥳 To see all 266 funded startups in 2025, see our extensive list for even more job opportunities.

Job Search Tip

🙌 A weekly tip to help you crack that job search.

📨 A quick and dirty cover letter tip: When writing a German cover letter, omit your address, the company address, subject line, date, and a physical signature.

We no longer live in the age of snail mail. This information is not needed, and including it is a waste of everyone’s time. It takes up valuable space that could be better left for your core content.

For more cover letter tips, see our recently revised guide.

⭐ Are you having a hard time finding work in Germany? I can help. See our career coaching services.

Smart Reads for Curious Minds

💡 Articles about tech, the world of work, & other random things.

🧑‍💼 The World of Work

• Kids today are building brands before they can legally drive. It’s got us all rethinking what a “career path” even looks like.

• Feeling nervous about your job? You’re not alone. AI layoffs are creeping into offices everywhere.

• Maybe it needs to get worse before it gets better? Others are predicting a hiring boom, where humans with mad AI skills will be in demand.

👸 All About Women

• 👭 Tech bros, step aside. A new wave of badass women is redefining the term and reclaiming their space in tech.

🤖 Everything Tech

• Never mind vibe coding. This explainer breaks down context engineering, the secret sauce to getting better, more useful AI results.

• Email overload, meet your match. Grammarly’s new AI-powered Superhuman collab wants to fix how we write and reply.

• Generative AI is cool … until it steals your job, identity, and perhaps your soul. The backlash is here. Also, see this video from Last Week Tonight on AI slop.

🔮 Random

• A bold new project aims to create a human genome from the ground up.

News in Germany

🗞️ The scoop on what’s happening in Germany.

ℹ️ General

• All the changes happening in DE this month. The TL;DR is that things are getting more expensive. One piece of good news? Elderly care workers are going to get a long-overdue raise!

• Shoplifting is on the rise in Germany, and the numbers are likely higher than what’s actually reported.

• Most Germans would like to see stricter rules on teenage drinking.

• Over 1 M subscribers were lost when the Deutschlandticket price went from €49 to €58 per month. 🤯

• SPD folks in Berlin want to trial 3D zebra crossings to slow down Berlin’s speed freaks.

📈 Politics & Economy

• Chancellor Merz appealing to the AfD base? He has refused to fly the Pride flag over Parliament on CSD.

• Meanwhile, Pride events are getting more dangerous for those trying to celebrate due to the far-right.

• The SPD is still calling for an outright ban of the AfD.

• The CDU campaigned on lowering electricity costs for businesses and individuals. Now they are backtracking on their promise, because ofc.

• A court has ruled that Berlin can hold a referendum to decide if the entire inner Ring should go car-free. 🤔

👩‍⚕️ Immigration & Labour Developments

• The extreme heat is causing the sick leave rate to rise in Germany.

• Karma clapped back at the AfD when they requested a report of the most common names of people who receive unemployment. Their racist agendas were left unfulfilled when the top names were Michael, Andreas, and Thomas.

💃🏻 Fun, Interesting, and/or Useful

• Only in Berlin?! A swamp gets a glow-up and becomes the city’s newest clean swimming spot. 🏊‍♀️

• Hot events in Berlin this July.

• A lost novel from Nazi-era Germany just became a bestseller … 90 years later. 📚

Germany Life Hacks

🥨 Things to make life in Deutschland (a little bit) better.

• Whether for your coffee table or a thoughtful gift, Take Me to the Lakes highlights some of the best lakes around Berlin.

• We also recommend: 20% Berlin & Smart Living in Germany.

• See more Berlin Life hacks.

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