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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

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.

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.

Antora Energy

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

Aureus Earth

Aurora Hydrogen

Automat Solutions

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

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.

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

Cache Energy

Cambridge Electric Cement
Creating a circular model to recycle cement using existing industrial infrastructure in the steel sector.

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.

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.

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

Compact Membrane Systems
Developing membrane solutions for hard-to-decarbonize industrial sectors and applications.

Criaterra Innovations

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

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

Dimensional Energy
Defossilizing future hydrocarbons.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

rePurpose Global

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.

Seaforestation
Pioneering algae production in deeper water away from coastlines.

SeeO2 Energy

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.

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

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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