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Tackling global billion-dollar markets and hard-to-abate sectors, our climate tech startups are addressing the emissions challenges that will make or break this decisive decade.
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Accelerate Wind
Unlocking onsite wind with rooftop turbines for commercial buildings

ACE Green Recycling
Enabling zero carbon emissions and toxic discharge technology across the battery (lead and lithium-ion) recycling ecosystem.

Adena Power
Developing an energy storage system that enables 1.4 GWh of fossil energy to be replaced by firm carbon-free electricity, corresponding to 1295 tons of CO2e/year.

Adept Materials
Regulating moisture in buildings to increase durability and reduce the total carbon footprint, while ensuring a healthy and comfortable environment for occupants.

Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems
Turning industrial waste heat into reliable electricity at megawatt scale.

Aepnus Technology

Aeromutable
Reducing aerodynamic drag on trucks with an AI-controlled air injection system.

Allume Energy
Unlocking rooftop solar benefits for apartment renters with the SolShare, a breakthrough technology alleviating renter energy burdens.

Allye Energy
Repurposing EV batteries for energy storage, reducing waste to landfill, and improving carbon intensity of energy used through increased renewable generation throughout the system.

ALT Mobility
Electrifying urban mobility in India with simplified, affordable commercial EV leasing solutions.

Altus Thermal
Electrifying domestic hot water to deliver greater savings, ensure user comfort, and reduce carbon emissions.

Ampd Energy
Developing and deploying energy storage systems that are purpose-built to serve industrial applications to make them quieter, cleaner, more operationally efficient, and less carbon-intensive.
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Antora Energy

Aris Hydronics
Delivering fully integrated heating, cooling, and hot water systems that intelligently adapt to each building’s unique thermal needs.

ATEC Global
Decarbonising cooking globally, an opportunity larger than the global airline industry — enabled through automated IoT payments.

Aureus Earth

Aurora Hydrogen

Automat Solutions

Ayrton Energy
Developing a novel hydrogen storage technology for large, scalable, and efficient storage and transport of H2.

Banyan Infrastructure
Making it easier for lenders and borrowers to finance sustainable infrastructure projects.

Bedrock Energy

betteries AMPS GmbH
Developing mobile, modular, multi-purpose, and connected power supply systems based on second-life batteries.

Binding Solutions Limited
Producing iron ore pellets without high temperatures, enabling the production of green steel at scale.

Blitz Electric Mobility
Optimising last-mile logistics with EV fleets, reducing carbon emissions and setting a new standard for sustainable delivery practices.

Bloom Biorenewables
Displacing fossil-based chemical feedstocks with renewable biomass derived feedstocks.

Blue Frontier
Reducing air conditioning-related energy consumption up to 90%.

BlueDot Photonics
Enabling perovskite-based photovoltaics that improve the efficiency and durability and lower the costs of solar energy.

Brimstone Energy

Brineworks
Advancing the state-of-the-art in saltwater electrolysis technology, which unlocks several ocean-based carbon dioxide removal pathways that can scale to Gt/year levels.

Cache Energy

Capacitech Energy
Expanding the value of batteries, renewables, and e-mobility platforms by integrating energy storage where it is needed but has never gone before, such as inside of existing wiring infrastructure.

Carbon Cell
Developing a carbon-negative, compostable, and high performance expanded foam replacement to EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) Insulation — for use in packaging, insulation, and more.

Carbon Negative Solutions
Mineralizing CO2 into industrial wastes to create carbon-negative supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), reducing the need for cement while remediating ground/air pollution at industrial sites.

Carbon Signal
Accelerating building decarbonization with scalable, high-fidelity energy intelligence that cuts analysis time from months to minutes.

Carbonfuture

Cascade Bio
Empowering enzymes—nature's catalysts—to change how molecules are made, displacing energy-intensive petrochemicals with renewable feedstocks to decarbonize the chemicals sector.

Celadyne Technologies
Developing a new proton exchange membrane (PEM) for use in fuel cells and electrolyzers.

Cell Propulsion
Electrifying commercial vehicle fleets in India by offering full-stack solutions, comprising electric trucks, operations and management support, charging, and energy and asset management services.

CERT Systems
Converting captured carbon dioxide into ethylene, an essential chemical, without the use of fossil fuels.

ChemFinity Technologies
Creating new sorbent-based ways to efficiently refine over 20 critical minerals, projecting lower costs and 99% reductions in energy use and carbon emissions compared to traditional methods.

CleanFiber
Providing carbon-negative cellulose insulation that outperforms conventional products, without added costs.

ClimateCrop

ClimateWells

CM Materials

Cocoon Carbon
Repurposing steel waste into low-carbon supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) to reduce the carbon intensity of concrete.

CoFlow Jet Wind Turbines

Continuum Ag
Providing farmers a digital roadmap for soil health success and scaling profitable regenerative ag implementation.

Criaterra Innovations

Darcy Solutions
Boosting the efficiency, reducing cost, and reducing the number of boreholes needed for ground-source heat pumps.

Determinant Materials
Providing low-carbon, zero-waste critical metals needed for the climate transition.

Digital Harvest
Using machine learning technology to enhance agricultural yields and increase profits for sustainable agriculture farmers.

Dimensional Energy
Defossilizing future hydrocarbons.

DNA Energy
Changing the way companies, energy utilities, policy makers and peers in the sector think about how buildings and energy interact, and in turn how the energy transition can be accelerated.

DTE Materials
Accelerating concrete decarbonization through low-cost, low-capex bioaggregate solutions that directly reduce emissions by ~40%.

Dunia Innovations
Integrating physics-informed AI with robotic automation, enabling the discovery of breakthrough electroactive materials 10x faster and at a third of the traditional R&D costs.

Dynami Battery
Enabling 5x faster charging and higher capacity batteries using patented microstructuring technology that enhances battery physics.

e-TRNL Energy
Simultaneously unlocking ultrafast charging in EV batteries while making manufacturing of battery cells inexpensive and scalable.

Eavor Technologies
Creating the world’s first truly scalable form of clean, baseload, and dispatchable power.

Eden GeoPower
Developing novel reservoir stimulation technologies for sustainable recovery of earth's natural resources.

Edgecom Energy
Deploying IoT and AI in energy management, optimizing consumption and reducing emissions for a sustainable future.

EH Group Engineering

ElectricFish
Building portable, modular solutions to replace diesel generators and provide future-proofed EV infrastructure for entertainment equipment providers as they navigate a more complex and volatile grid.

Elementium Materials
Enabling high performance, affordable batteries that can power every aspect of the energy transition from mobility to grid storage, to the future of AI, robotics, electronics, and defense.

Enchi Corporation
Driving the next generation of biofuels, starting with non-food cellulosic ethanol.

Energy Dome
Developing a low-cost and efficient system for long-duration electricity storage using liquid CO2.

Energy Integration Inc.
Designing and installing mechanical vapor recompression (MVR) systems for efficient, electrified, decarbonized biofuels production.

Enline Transmission
Bringing solutions to optimize, monitor and protect energy assets and their surroundings.

Eolic Wall
Creating the Eolic Cell, a hyper-efficient wind energy system specifically designed for distributed generation.

Excess Materials Exchange
Acting as a dating-site for secondary materials and waste by identifying high value next uses that save materials from landfill and incineration.

Ferrum Technologies
Decarbonizing global steel production cost competitively with the vision to eliminate the 3 Gt CO2 emitted by the industry every year.

Firefly Fusion
Deploying existing technologies to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion energy and then develop new technologies for future power plants to provide clean, safe baseload fusion power.

Flexodes Inc
Eliminating the need for rare earth metals, and delivering safer batteries with 50% higher energy density using commonly available materials.

Frost Methane
Helping to identify and neutralize concentrated sources of methane worldwide, including larger anthropogenic methane sources such as abandoned and active coal mines.

FSC Technologies

Geminus.AI

Great Carbon Valley
Working to harness Kenya’s abundant resources towards global decarbonization efforts by seeding, planning, and executing large-scale CO2 removal and green industry projects.

Greengine Environmental Technologies
Decarbonizing global industries and institutions through low-cost, modular, scalable, and sustainable microalgae-based carbon capture technology.

GreenLIB Materials
Reclaiming critical battery metals from waste, cutting CO₂ by 73%, and accelerating circular economy solutions for electrification.

Greenlyte Carbon Technologies
Developing a low-energy direct air capture process that captures CO2 from the air, while producing hydrogen as a by-product.

GreenPod Labs
Extending the shelf life of fresh produce at ambient temperature, thus reducing food losses and greenhouse gas emissions.

H2 Portable Power Corp
Making a reliable, scalable hydrogen genset that is commercially viable for end users, and the fleet owners who serve them.

HB11 Energy
Offering a globally deployable, sustainable, safe and abundant source of energy. Accelerating development in laser cost and performance is the key enabling technology.

Heat Inverse
Providing easily-deployable cooling films to increase efficiency and asset lifetimes across industries at the crux of the energy, food, and water nexus: power, F&B, EVs, buildings, and more.

Heliotrope Photonics
Converting sunlight to improve the efficiency of solar panels.

Helix Carbon
Transforming CO2 into valuable feedstocks using energy-efficient technology, making sustainable production economically viable and scalable.

Hertha Metals, Inc.
Rapidly scaling technology to produce coal-free steel, dramatically reducing the carbon emissions of steel manufacturing.

Hone (formerly H2OnSet)
Powering climate-conscious film and TV productions with green hydrogen.

iBeam Materials
Developing a transformative new manufacturing technology for low-cost, high-efficiency, LED light.

Ionic Liquid
Replacing HFC refrigerants with proprietary additives that allow practical use of carbon dioxide as a cooling system refrigerant.

Iris Light Technologies
Developing a tunable laser that can be printed directly onto semiconductor chips for improved data center efficiency.

itselectric
Solving the biggest barriers cities face in the deployment of public EV charging.

Joule Case
Revolutionizing the accessibility and deployment of mobile clean energy solutions.

Kanin Energy

Kelp Island

Kraftblock
Providing thermal storage for high-heat industrial processes that typically rely on fossil fuels, which reduces emissions and improves the economics of direct electrification.

Krosslinker

Lex Products
Developing large, mobile energy storage, to enable short recharging times from EV fast chargers or renewable grids, thereby reducing or eliminating the need for generators.

M2 Thermal Solutions

Magnotherm
Eliminating direct global warming potential and increasing energy efficiency with magnetic cooling.

Mana Battery
Enabling best-in-class cost, safety, and performance for the grid energy storage system and low-cost electric vehicle markets.

Mangrove Lithium

Mantel Capture
Tackling high CO2 emissions and energy inefficiency in industrial processes with innovative, cost-effective carbon capture solutions.

Materials Nexus

Membravo
Reducing waste and energy use across multiple industries with robust polymer membranes—optimizing separation processes in sectors like semiconductors, hydrogen, water purification, biofuels, and pharmaceuticals to improve efficiency, lower costs, and enable more sustainable operations.

Metal Light
Creating a sustainable, affordable alternative to diesel generators using abundant metals as fuel.

MicroEra Power
Shifting electrified heating & cooling from peak to off-peak through a patented thermal energy storage solution, thus saving money and enabling a resilient renewable energy transition.

MIMiC Systems
Developing a resilient, carbon-friendly, and compact heat pump for personal climate control using solid-state technology.

Mission Zero Technologies

MOJO Green

Mycotech Labs

Nithio Holdings

NOC Energy
Enabling industries to replace fossil fuels with renewable electricity for high-temperature industrial heat.

NoPo Nanotechnologies
Enabling energy-efficiency in batteries, electronics, membranes, and polymers using single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), highly conductive materials with exceptional strength and thermal conductivity.

Octavia Carbon
Developing a geothermal-integrated Direct Air Capture (DAC) process to efficiently filter carbon dioxide from the air.

Offgrid Energy Labs
Developing and commercializing the most efficient and affordable zinc battery technology, ZincGel, primarily for stationary energy storage applications.

okom wrks labs
Creating the world's strongest carbon-storing mycelium based composite capable of serving in load-bearing and non load-bearing applications in the built environment.

Oort Energy
Enabling scalable green hydrogen production for hard-to-decarbonize sectors like aviation and heavy industry using high-efficiency, low-cost proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers.

Otoro Energy
Enhancing renewable energy integration and grid stability with Otoro Energy's safe and scalable flow battery technology.

Oxylus Energy
Converting CO2 into carbon neutral fuels and chemical feedstocks for a decarbonized future.

Parthian Energy

Pathways Technologies
Empowering material manufacturers to decarbonize their production lifecycle with automated, real-time visibility, reporting, and insights on their emissions.

Perl Street
Creating a platform to streamline project financing of emerging distributed infrastructure assets.

Planet A Energy

Power to Hydrogen (P2H2)

Prescinto Technologies

PuriFire Energy
Producing green methanol resulting in a a 95% reduction from fossil-based grey methanol, emitting 7x less CO2 than diesel and 84x times less CO2 than natural gas.

Q Gen-Next Sustainable Technology
Transforming climate control with insulation coatings to deliver year-round comfort while cutting energy use and carbon emissions to power a greener future.

Quanterra Systems

Radiant Labs
Finding the best fit across a population for technology using cost-benefit optimization and identifying market opportunities for companies.

rebase.energy
Building an open platform and community for energy forecasting and modeling.

Rebound Technologies

Refillable

Relyion Energy
Developing long-lasting, affordable, and sustainable battery energy storage systems by giving EV batteries a second life.

Renewable Metals
Developing a new way to cost-effectively recycle all types of lithium batteries with high metal recovery and no chemical by-products.

Renewell Energy
Repurposing idle oil and gas wells into low cost, highly flexible energy storage.

rePurpose Global

Rewind Turbine
Enabling fully recyclable, modular wind blades that cut costs, simplify logistics, and unlock new markets for sustainable, scalable wind energy

RIC Electronics Ltd.
Developing zero-emission mobile power solutions for the standby and prime power generator market.

Rubi Laboratories
Decarbonizing essential chemicals and materials through a carbon-to-materials enzymatic platform with ultra-low carbon, water, land, and energy footprints.

SaltX Technology
Utilizing plasma, the fourth state of matter, to achieve the ultra-high temperatures needed to produce cement without fossil fuels.

Scanalytics
Using active energy-reducing surface sensors to lower building emissions.

Seaforestation
Pioneering algae production in deeper water away from coastlines.

SeeO2 Energy

Sesame Solar Inc.
Decarbonizing off-grid power with its 100% renewably-powered Mobile Nanogrids that can be setup by 1 person in 15 minutes to generate Clean Mobile Power for a variety of applications.

Shimmer Industries

SilisiumTech
Removing material waste from every silicon wafer produced, resulting in lower solar module (panel) costs and significant reduction in CO2 generation (60 M Metric Tons per year).

Sironix Renewables

Solid Carbon
Using carbon-negative biochar-based ingredients to transform the built environment into a massive carbon sink, turning concrete from a climate problem into a climate solution.

Still Bright
Developing an electrochemical technology to produce metals needed for the energy transition.

Strawcture Eco
Making carbon negative insulating building materials to decarbonize the built environment

Summit Nanotech

SUN METALON
Enabling cost-effective, sustainable metal recycling without the quality degradation of traditional recycling methods.

Switched Source

TekUncorked
Improving reliability and reducing losses on India's electricity grid.

Tereform, Inc.
Chemically recycling synthetic textiles—which are made from petrochemicals—with an energy efficient process, diverting materials from landfills and reducing demand for new carbon-intensive materials.

Terran Robotics
Developing automated, eco-friendly construction methods to create affordable, luxury housing.

Theseus Development
Producing sustainable, interlocking concrete blocks without traditional cement, concrete's most emissions-intensive ingredient, to accelerate the transition to a green built environment.

Three Wheels United

Torus Robotics
Delivering ultra-efficient, compact axial flux motors and drives that drastically reduce energy use in industrial HVAC and mobility applications.

Travertine
Recycling waste from mining and fertilizer production for permanent carbon dioxide removal and chemical production.

TrelliSense
Deploying novel methane emissions sensors that are continuous, long-range, modular and low-cost to help detect, locate and quantify methane leaks for landfills, utilities, farms, industrial facilities, and the full oil & gas supply chain.

TS Conductor

Urban Mining Industries
Repurposing waste glass into a low-carbon cement replacement that improves concrete durability, impermeability, and mitigation of the urban heat island effect.

Utvyakta Solutions

Via Separations
Lowering the embodied carbon of everyday products and materials by replacing thermal separations, a key process to separate substances based on boiling points, with an electrified filtration process.

Volt14 Solutions

Wild Microbes

Windscape AI
Enabling more renewable wind energy generation by increasing efficiency and uptime for wind farms.

XL Batteries

Zinc8 Energy Solutions
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