📈 150 ClimateTechs to Watch

The need for impactful climate solutions has never been more urgent. In response, startups are stepping forward with bold ideas.

To gain a glimpse of the next wave of breakthrough solutions, we turned to 50 forward-thinking investors in the climate space.

From Founders who are reinventing ammonia production, industrialising sustainable building renovation and revolutionising textile manufacturing, experts highlight their top ClimateTechs to watch - and why.

Head straight to the startups working in:

• Agriculture

• Carbon

• Circularity

• Energy

• Food

• Manufacturing

• Materials

• Mobility

• Nature

Note: Startups marked with a (*) have ties / are portfolio companies of the investor.

150 Must-Watch Startups, According to VCs

Agriculture

Nathalie Öhlander at Climentum Capital

🇳🇴 Saga Robotics

Founders: Pål Johan From and Lars Grimstad
Why: Saga Robotics specialises in autonomous robotic solutions for agriculture. Their flagship robot, Thorvald, is a modular, battery-powered platform designed to perform primary tasks such as UV-C light treatment for disease control, thereby reducing the need for chemical pesticides.

🇩🇪 SenseUp

Founder: George Schaumann
Why: SenseUp is developing biological crop protection solutions based on dsRNA technology. This approach uses RNA interference (RNAi), a natural biological process in which RNA molecules inhibit gene expression or translation, effectively silencing specific genes in pests and weeds.

🇩🇰 Agrobiomics

CEO: Ananda Scherner
Why: Agrobiomics is dedicated to enhancing agricultural resilience to climate change through innovative biostimulants. Their flagship product, Fortify, is derived from natural soil microorganisms and is designed to help plants withstand abiotic stresses such as drought and soil salinity.

Pierre Jouve at Zebra Impact Ventures

🇫🇷 .Omics

Founder: Cyril Veran
Why: .Omics is aiming to leverage A.I. for trait discovery that could be a game changer to create more climate resilient crops as they go beyond genomics to really understand what could work in the fields.

🇺🇸 Heritable Agriculture

Founder: Brad Zamft
Why: Heritable managed to leverage google's infrastructure to build model to accurately predict which crops and what traits will be best for each environment for a wide variety of crops and has already built very strong partnerships showcasing their capacity to attract the majors and the potential of the technology.

🇺🇸 Agrospheres*

Founder: Payam Pourtaheri
Why: Initially viewed as outsiders in a very traditional industry, Agrospheres has managed to build a technology increasing the efficiency of biologicals by a proprietary encapsulation platform and has a solid pipeline of their own active ingredients based on a variety of mode of actions.

Matteo Leonardi at Grey Silo Ventures

🇩🇪 NoMaze

Founder: Jean-Pascal Lutze
Why: Strong market need (shortening new crop varieties development timelines) + right founding team to build & capitalise on that need.

🇫🇷 .Omics

Founder: Cyril Veran
Why: Strong market need and solid team to build a product in that space

🇸🇪 Olsaro

Founder: Elen Faxo
Why: One of the most fascinating projects in ag-tech: developing a new variety of wheat that could grow in salty soils in developing countries, increasing food security, access to new land and creating new jobs at the same time.

George Darrah at Systemiq Capital

🇬🇧 Epoch

Founder: Jinal Surti
Why: Jinal is working where no-one else has gone - directly with the mid-tier wholesalers and aggregators who basically run the world's soft commodity system. By making it easier to track and reward regenerative practices at this level in the supply chain, the Epoch team are changing the way corporates improve their supply chain resilience.

🇺🇸 Helios

Founder: Francisco Martin-Rayo
Why: Helios are basically building an AI-native S&P - to provide soft commodity buyers with pricing forecasts across >50 different commodities, along with deep analytics on supply exposure to weather and climate risks.

🇮🇱 Greeneye

Founder: Nadav Bocher
Why: Nadav and the Greeneye team have built something remarkable... an intelligent spraying system that reduces farmer herbicide costs by nearly 90%.

Timothy Rann at Mercy Corps Ventures

🇬🇧 Epoch*

Founder: Jinal Surti
Why: Epoch is an AI-enabled environmental data platform that helps tropical agricultural commodity producers drive top-line growth. Trusted by some of the largest commodity producers like Volcafe and Sinarmas, Epoch's customers account for more than 2.5M farms globally and the company is positioned to facilitate the transition to regenerative food systems.   

🇳🇱 Meridia*

Founder: Thomas Vaassen
Why: Meridia provides a SaaS solution to help food & ag companies identify and mitigate compliance and reputational risks. The team brings over a decade of industry-leading expertise in first-mile agricultural data collection & analysis, and their solution set is crucial for the future of our resilient & inclusive food systems.

🇺🇸 Terraton*

Founder: Greg D'Alesandre
Why: Terraton’s ERP and financing solution aims to dramatically scale CDR and critical farmer resilience-building interventions (i.e. biochar) in agricultural value chains. It is one of the most impressive teams I’ve encountered: repeat founders, with three startups and two acquired companies and 30 years of experience at Google, Accenture and Salesforce.

Manuella Cunha Brito at Mudcake

🇫🇷 Amatera*

Founder: Omar Dekkiche
Why: Amatera is reshaping the future of agriculture through automated plant cell screening. Their breakthrough technology drastically cuts the cost and time required for genetic crop improvement, making resilient, high-quality crops accessible faster than ever.

🇫🇷 Centeon*

Founder: Jerome Unidad
Why: Centeon is reinventing ammonia production with electrified biology, making it so cheap that it can go head-to-head with fossil fuel-based ammonia production. They have an exciting approach to meet the +80B (and growing) global ammonia demand using only air, water, and electricity; no green hydrogen or green premium is required.

🇦🇷 Apolo Biotech

Founder: Mati Badano
Why: Apolo Biotech developed nanotech for RNA stabilization in plants responding to the global need to replace toxic pesticides in agriculture. Stabilized RNA offer an exciting new way to communicate with plants and protect crops.

Tiphaine Muepu at Capagro

🇫🇷 Phagos*

Founder: Adèle James
Why: Phagos develops customized phage cocktails to treat bacterial infection in animal husbandry. The company leverages bacteriophages and AI to create personalized medications through a proprietary discovery platform.

🇳🇴 Nofence

Founder: Joachim Kähler
Why: Nofence sells virtual fencing collars to replace physical fences and enable herd monitoring. By enabling farmers to save time on fencing, virtual fencing alleviates a significant pain point that prevents the wider adoption of rotational grazing and therefore improves carbon storage and biodiversity in the soil.

🇸🇪 Agteria Biotech

Founder: Martin Blomberg
Why: Agteria develops a feed additive to reduce methane emissions in cows while maintaining milk yield and limiting the additional costs for the farmer. By ensuring a economically viable approach for the farmer, the company ensures a wider adoption of its solution, enabling methane emission reductions at scale.

Carbon

Desiree Pettersson at Satgana

🇧🇪 Sirona Technologies*

Founder: Thoralf Gutierrez
Why: Sirona Technologies is determined to bring speed and scale to the Direct Air Capture (DAC) industry, their sorbent-agnostic, modular approach to CO2 capture, along with their decision to establish operations in Kenya due to its low-carbon grid and abundant renewable energy resources, makes us think that they are a startup to watch in the DAC space in the coming years.

🇬🇧 Bio-Logical

Founder: Rory Buckworth
Why: Bio-Logical is a climate-tech company pioneering scalable carbon removal and regenerative agriculture solutions. By transforming invasive Prosopis biomass into high-value biochar, they are able to generate premium carbon credits, produce organic fertiliser, and develop adjacent industrial applications, ensuring both environmental impact and commercial scalability.

🇳🇱 Brineworks*

Founder: Gudfinnur Sveinsson
Why: Brineworks is building a highly efficient seawater electrolyzer. This invention enables the low-cost extraction of CO2 through Direct Ocean Capture, along with the significant co-production of H2, the two building blocks of e-fuels.

Myke Näf at Übermorgen Ventures

🇨🇭 Open Forest Protocol*

Co-Founder: Fred Fournier
Why: Open Forest Protocol provides a transparent, community-enabling platform for monitoring, verification, and issuance of high-quality carbon credits for forest projects.

🇩🇪 Inplanet*

Founder: Felix Harteneck
Why: Enhanced Rock Weathering has the potential to be one of the truly scalable tools in the carbon removal toolbox and InPlanet demonstrates impressive execution towards that scale.

🇨🇭 Cotierra

Founder: Thomas Käslin
Why: Impressive team + clear focus + appealing vision of decentralized, reliable biochar production within the (coffee and other) supply chains.

Caitlin Wale at Kinjani

🇰🇪 Ecorestore*

Founder: Joy Nyang’or
Why: EcoRestore is advancing soil restoration in Africa through microbial biochar solutions that enhance soil fertility, boost crop yields, and sequester carbon. By tailoring microbial inoculants to local contexts, they aim to scale regenerative agriculture and climate resilience across the continent.

🇿🇦 AfriWild

Founder: Rob Grave
Why: AfriWild develops high-integrity carbon removal projects across Africa that removes invasives to restore ecosystems, and support local communities. Focusing on biochar and soil carbon in degraded rangelands, they offer end-to-end carbon project development for landholders, blending science-based methods with community-driven impact and biodiversity co-benefits.

🇰🇪 Flux

Founder: Sam Davies
Why: Flux’s tech platform enables scalable, transparent, and verifiable carbon credits, driving both environmental impact and farmer income, with ambitions to restore 1M hectares and remove 5M tons CO₂ by 2030.

Jonas Kavaliauskas at Contrarian Ventures

🇬🇧 BeZero Carbon*

Founder: Tommy Ricketts
Why: BeZero Carbon is a global ratings agency for the Voluntary Carbon Market that helps market participants to assess carbon efficacy, price and manage risk.

🇮🇱 Marvin*

Founder: Ofer Judovits
Why: Marvin transforms fragmented supply chains into AI-powered, future-proof systems—boosting resilience, ensuring compliance, and driving real-world action.

🇬🇧 Cur8

Founder: Marta Krupinska
Why: CUR8 is dedicated to building the leading science, procurement and management platform for carbon removal. They work with the best nature and technology partners to build removals portfolios of the highest quality.

Burhan Pisavadi at PT1

🇩🇪 NeoCarbon*

Founder: René Haas
Why: Direct carbon capture from the air. By using existing infrastructure, e.g. cooling towers, NeoCarbon can actually scale this process fast, while other players need huge amounts of time and resources to build facilities from the ground up.

🇬🇧 Kita 

Co-Founder: Paul Young
Why: While there are many flaws in the voluntary carbon market, it is still the best way of getting capital markets to care about carbon removal. Kita's insurance expertise keeps the cogs of the carbon market turning - and is one to watch.

🇩🇪 Atmio 

Co-Founder: Matthias Schmittmann
Why: Atmio helps oil and gas operators reduce their methane emissions. Because of methane's potent radiative forcing potential, each tonne of methane they prevent reaching the atmosphere has an equivalent carbon removal potential of c80 tonnes CO2.

Circularity

Svetlana Tokareva at UVC Partners

🇩🇪 Radical Dot*

Founder: Andreas Wagner
Why: Radical Dot is led by top-tier chemists and sustainability veterans, and offers a cost-competitive, circular economy solution that redefines how we produce and recycle plastic, revolutionising modern chemical production.

🇩🇪 Cyclize*

Founder: Maike Lambarth
Why: Cyclize’s scalable, patent-protected plasma technology and strong academic roots promise a groundbreaking carbon circular economy, positioning Cyclize as a compelling player.

🇩🇪 Traceless

Founder: Johanna Baare
Why: Traceless Materials transforms agricultural residues into plastic-like granulates that fully biodegrade without leaving microplastics. By offering a drop-in, high-performance replacement for conventional plastics, it reduces carbon footprints, avoids food conflict, and paves the way for a truly circular bioeconomy.

Fernando Casado at Inclimo Climate Tech Fund

🇪🇸 Recovo*

Founder: Monica Rodríguez 
Why: Recovo is reinventing the way the fashion industry manages textile waste. At its core, its a B2B marketplace for surplus fabrics—turning what would be waste into new business opportunities for brands seeking sustainable materials; and a strategic SaaS platform, built to digitize and streamline excess inventory management for fashion brands.

🇩🇪 Cardino*

Founder: Lukasz Pajak
Why: Cardino is redefining the lifecycle of electric vehicles (EVs) by building a digital platform for buying and selling used EVs across Europe. In doing so, they are unlocking a powerful circular economy loop in a sector that often neglects second-life potential.

🇪🇸 Dawa

Founder: Javier Dolcet
Why: Dawa is revolutionising how companies manage returns and unsold goods. Their SaaS platform enables brands and retailers to resell, donate, recycle, or rechannel returned or surplus products — reducing waste and creating new revenue streams from goods that would otherwise be written off.

Guilherme Penna at Silence VC

🇧🇷 Musa*

Founder: Martin Junck
Why: Musa has developed an incredible solution to the waste Brazilian market, gained traction with large customers and the best retention rates in the industry.

🇺🇸 Sourgum

Founder: Luciano DiNardi
Why: Sourgum has a very interesting solution for waste management and recycling for the US market.

🇺🇸 Revise Robotics

Founder: Rupesh Jeyaram
Why: Bringing the enormous $85B electronics refurbishment industry into the Age of Robotics.

Marion Schuppe at Makesense

🇧🇪 Resortecs*

Founder: Cedric Vanhoeck
Why: Amazing, unique tech innovation for a deep, systemic change of the textile value chain.

🇫🇷 Onima

Founder: Nikola Stefanovic
Why: Onima transforms an abundant and underutilised byproduct into a nutritious, great-tasting, and affordable protein-rich flour using a patented debittering process. Onima addresses both environmental impact and the limitations of existing protein solutions to make high nutritious food accessible to all.

🇳🇱 United Repair Center 

Co-Founders: Thami Schweichler, Paul Kerssens
Why: URC is developing a one-stop-shop solution to scale at large scale repairs in the fashion and textile industry, based on repair facilities across Europe and a tech platform managing reverse logistics and financial flows specific to repair operations. This combination enables URC to bring very high quality service to brands and end consumers.

Clara Camesasca at Volta Circle

🇺🇸 Macrocycle*

Founder: Stwart Pena Feliz
Why: Their proprietary process based on the synthesis of cyclic macromolecules enables the production of virgin-grade PET and polyesters, with significantly lower energy demand than competing technologies.

🇬🇧 Arborea*

Founder: Julian Melchiorri
Why: A breakthrough biomimicry technology that leverages photosynthesis to convert plentiful and surplus inputs like CO2 into lipids, proteins and other food ingredients.

🇩🇪 re.solution

Founder: Amrei Becker
Why: They developed a salt-waste free downstream processing technology for hydrolysis processes that can improve the sustainability, performance and cost profile for chemical textile recycling.

Romain Diaz at Satgana

🇫🇷 Onima Bio*

Founder: Nikola Stefanovic
Why: Onima transforms "waste into wonder". We need to find new, more sustainable bio-based ways to address a growing population’s needs and sometimes, the best resources already exist. Onima's flagship ingredient results from the upcycling of brewer's yeast to produce a sustainable, circular, affordable, nutritious and tasty alternative protein.

🇬🇧 Arda Biomaterials*

Founder: Brett Cotten
Why: Arda's groundbreaking supramolecular chemistry enables sustainable, high-performance materials at price parity—eliminating the harms of industrial animal agriculture and plastic waste. Its flagship product is an alternative leather that looks and feels like the animal-based thing, without the harm to the cow and our planet.

🇩🇪 Cirplus

Founder: Christian Schiller
Why: Cirplus is a leading B2B marketplace for recycled plastics, connecting buyers and sellers while ensuring quality and reliability. By consolidating supply and demand, it brings much-needed efficiency, transparency, and trust to a fragmented industry, paving the way for scalable growth.

Iris ten Have at Visionaries Tomorrow

🇩🇪 Radical Dot*

Founder: Andreas Wagner
Why: Radical Dot's innovative technology overcomes two major barriers to large-scale adoption of plastic recycling: the inability to process mixed plastic waste and high energy demands. Their low-energy catalytic process transforms unrecyclable plastics into valuable chemical building blocks, making recycling economically attractive.

🇩🇪 Cyclize

Founder: Maike Lambarth
Why: Cyclize's innovative plasma technology reformulates waste plastics into valuable intermediate chemicals, promoting a circular economy. Their approach not only mitigates CO2 emissions but also enables industries to reduce reliance on fossil feedstocks, driving sustainability in the chemical sector.

🇺🇸 SiTration

Founder: Brendan Smith
Why: SiTration's silicon membrane technology enables ultra-efficient separations in mining, refining, and recycling. Their chemical-free, energy-efficient approach significantly lowers costs and resource intensity, providing a scalable solution for the recovery of critical minerals, for example in mining operations and in lithium-ion battery recycling.

Energy

Jessica Burley at Planet A Ventures

🇫🇷 Epyr

Founders: Bastien Oggeri, Léa Dardenne
Why: Clean, cheap industrial heat! Epyr is turning renewable power into high-temperature heat with thermal energy storage solutions. Its technology captures low-cost intermittent renewable electricity, stores it as heat, and delivers high-temperature energy on-demand, paving the way for industries to transition from fossil fuels to clean, cost-effective thermal energy.

🇸🇰 GA Drilling*

Founder: Igor Kocis
Why: The race to harness base load energy is on. Energy security and independence is climbing the global agenda, accelerating urgency around tapping “always on” clean, renewable energy sources. GA Drilling’s breakthrough drilling technology is set to play a critical role unlocking geothermal as a permanent supply of renewable heating, cooling and power, anywhere in the world.

🇦🇹 Podero

Founders: Christoph Bernkopf, Moritz Schrader
Why: Podero is a pivotal player in the transition to a more flexible and resilient energy grid. By integrating with home energy systems for assets like EV batteries and heat pumps, Podero’s AI software enables utilities to stabilise the grid, reduce energy costs, and tap into profitable revenue streams, passing on lower costs and emissions to customers.

Maelis Carraro at Catalyst Fund

🇳🇬 Earthbond 

Founder: Chidalu Onyenso
Why: Earthbond is powering Nigeria’s clean energy transition by helping small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) switch to solar. Through its digital platform, Earthbond matches businesses with tailored solar solutions and financing partners, enabling affordable, long-term payment plans.

🇪🇬 Noor Nation

Founder: Ragy Ramadan
Why: Noor Nation enables climate resilience in off-grid and underserved communities in Egypt through affordable access to clean energy and safe water. By deploying decentralized, solar-powered desalination and solar energy access boxes in rural areas, Noor Nation addresses energy poverty and water scarcity while supporting community health and productivity in vulnerable regions.

🇳🇬 PowerLabs 

Founder: Tobechukwu Arize
Why: Designed for high-energy users like manufacturers and chain businesses, PowerLabs combines real-time data on power availability, usage, weather, and pricing to deliver predictive insights, optimise energy sourcing across grid, generator, and solar, and automate switching between sources.

Felix Winckler at White Star Capital

🇬🇧 Flatpeak

Founder: Alex Alenberg
Why: Flatpeak provides much needed capabilities in energy tariff data optimisation. I have been impressed with the strong use-case and product-market fit with OEMs.

🇩🇪 Cariqa

Founder: Tamara Ciullo
Why: Cariqa's is pursuing the critical goal of reducing EV charging cost for end consumers. By prioritizing direct connections, Cariqa's system allows CPOs to maintain control over their pricing, ensuring that drivers receive transparent and competitive rates without any markups on energy costs.

🇧🇪 Powernaut

Founder: Florentijn Degroote
Why: Powernaut is a flexibility service provider whose technology brings essential balancing to energy flows on the grid system. Their software connects millions of devices —think electric vehicles, solar panels and batteries— to help energy suppliers stabilise the grid.

Felix Krause at Vireo Ventures

🇬🇧 About:Energy*

Founder: Gavin White
Why: About:Energy is a market leading cell modelling company. Spun out from two world-leading universities, Imperial College London and the University of Birmingham, About:Energy brings together world-leading battery parameterisation and modelling IP, empowering key technical and commercial decisions.

 🇬🇧 Spruce

Founder: Joseph Saxby
Why: Spruce is helping heat pump installers work smarter, not harder. Their platform simplifies planning, quoting, and installation - making heat pumps as easy to install as gas boilers. By boosting installer efficiency, they’re unlocking scalable home energy upgrades across Europe.

🇩🇪 Atmen*

Founder: Flore de Durfort
Why: Together with TÜV Nord, ATEM enables enables the simulation of energy flows and carbon intensity across the entire hydrogen value chain - making it possible to screen for regulatory compliance. Their innovative tool empowers hydrogen project developers to embed the compliance and certification constraints - from day one.

Ellen Smeele at SET Ventures

🇨🇭 Exnaton

Founders: Liliane Ableitner, Arne Meeuw, Anselma Worner
Why: ​Exnaton provides AI-powered billing and energy management solutions for utilities, enabling innovative services like dynamic electricity tariffs, energy sharing communities, prosumer models, and EV smart charging. Exnaton partners with over 50 energy providers across Europe to accelerate the energy transition through modular, white-label SaaS platforms.

🇪🇸 Barbara

Founders: David Puron, Isidro Nistal
Why: With industry-grade cybersecurity and seamless orchestration, Barbara is trusted by global energy companies to optimise grid operations, renewable integration, and asset performance.

Atlan Nguyen at Earth Venture Capital

🇺🇸 Aalo Atomics

CEO: Matt Loszak
Why: Its Aalo Pod, a 50 MWe microreactor system, targets data centers offer scalability and efficiency. With a new manufacturing facility, Aalo aims for commercial deployment by the early 2030s, addressing global energy needs sustainably.

🇬🇧 Supercritical

CEO: Matt Bird
Why: Its innovative technology achieves 99% efficiency, reducing costs and avoiding scarce materials. Partnering with industries, Supercritical aims to decarbonise energy, targeting commercial-scale systems by 2030, supporting a sustainable, net-zero future.

🇸🇬 GetSolar*

Founder: Bolong Chew
Why: GetSolar pioneers solar energy in Singapore with a digital rent-to-own platform, offering zero-upfront-cost solar systems for homeowners. Targeting a $250-400B opportunity, it solarises SEA’s underserved small-to-medium rooftops—84% of capacity—driving sustainability and affordability with cutting-edge tech and scalable solutions.

Peter George at Spark+ Africa Fund (managed by Enabling Qapital)

🇰🇪 BURN*

Founder: Peter Scott
Why: The only vertically integrated modern cookstove company in Africa, its solar-powered manufacturing facility in Kenya has a capacity of 400,000 stoves per month and employs over 2,500 people, half of whom are women.

🇰🇭 ATEC*

Founder: Ben Jeffreys
Why: ATEC developed the world’s first cooking sector PAYG-enabled product in 2018, followed by the first IoT-enabled smart stove in 2020. ATEC's hardware, software, and data technology stack enables women to measure, verify, and transact these reductions into global carbon markets as Gold Standard verified emission reductions.

🇺🇸 Envirofit International

Founder: Tim Bauer
Why: One of the first companies to commercialise customer-focused cooking solutions using firewood, charcoal, and LPG, Envirofit has developed over 10 in-market factories, and hundreds of routes to market. Envirofit has enabled more than 45 million tons of GHG reduction and over USD 10 billion in socio-economic co-benefits impacting more than 5 million people.

Camille Zivré at Exa VC

🇺🇸 Hephae*

Founder: Steve Krase
Why: Hephae is essential for unlocking deeper, hotter geothermal resources with high-temperature directional drilling, enabling cost-effective, scalable, and continuous clean energy by tapping previously inaccessible reservoirs at 210°C and beyond.

🇸🇬 Thorcon*

Founder: Matt Wilkinson
Why: ThorCon delivers reliable, safe, and coal-cost-competitive power with molten salt reactors. Its shipyard-built design enables ultra-rapid deployment and scaling, driving global decarbonization and energy security.

🇮🇹 SiZable

Founder: Manuele Aufiero
Why: Sizable Energy revolutionises offshore pumped hydro storage using dense brine, enabling scalable, land-free, and efficient energy storage. Its modular design integrates with offshore renewables, accelerating decarbonisation with rapid deployment and sustainable economics.

Green Manufacturing

Andrei Xydas at Lightrock

🇺🇸 Augury

Founder: Saar Yoskovitz
Why: Predictive maintenance for manufacturing machinery enabling high uptime and more energy efficient production.

🇩🇪 Makersite

Founder: Neil D’Souza
Why: Product lifecycle intelligence software that enables you to manufacture sustainably, cost-efficiently and with low sourcing risk.

🇸🇬 Silicon Box

Founder: BJ Han
Why: Proprietary semiconductor packaging foundry that enables next gen tech with lowest power use possible.

Abhi Desai at Desai Ventures

🇬🇧 Ki Hydrogen*

Founder: Koji Muto
Why: Green hydrogen has had its hype and fall in the climate tech world, but the viability of hydrogen is all about unit economics. Ki Hydrogen has shown hydrogen production from biomass electrolysis at 25kWh/kgH2 at the lab scale and their technology has the potential to revolutionize the space.

🇺🇸 DTE Materials*

Founder: Jose Urizar
Why: There are lots of people looking for concrete alternatives given how emissions intensive construction is. DTE has developed a proprietary thermo-chemical process to treat biomass and make it an aggregate to be used in concrete, a technology which can be scaled today.

🇫🇷 Centeon*

Founder: Jerome Unidad
Why: Centeon is developing a novel process that uses microorganisms within an electrolyser to produce green ammonia using just air, water and electricity.

Materials

Anna Raptis at Amplifica Capital

🇲🇽 Bioplaster Research*

Founder: Andrea Bonilla
Why: BioPlaster Research creates cost-competitive, biodegradable plastic alternatives using environmentally problematic resources such as sargassum. Their products, including GreenShell films, require no industrial changes and target industries aiming to reduce plastic use.

🇲🇽 Mycorium Biotech

Founder: Agustin Schiavo
Why: Mycorium Biotech is transforming agro-industrial waste into sustainable leather. They seek to promote an innovative alternative by utilizing exponential technologies such as synthetic biology and precision fermentation to transform the fashion industry, one of the most polluting industries in the world.

🇸🇪 Swedish Algae Factory

Founder: Sofie Allert
Why: Swedish Algae Factory produces uniquely functional materials that are good for the planet. They cultivate and sell diatom algae shells to create Algica, a porous silica with unique light altering, absorptive and binding properties that are unmatched by synthetic materials.

Mark Windeknecht at World Fund

🇩🇪 Ecoworks*

Founder: Emanuel Heisenberg
Why: Ecoworks is industrialising building renovation by bringing scalable, tech-driven NetZero retrofits to the housing sector, enabling a paradigm shift in how real estate is upgraded. We chose ecoworks because hitting climate targets in the building sector requires a step change - not incremental improvement.

🇳🇱 Monumental 

Founder: Salar al Khafaji
Why: Monumental is developing autonomous robotic solutions to automate on-site construction tasks. Their platform tackles this head-on, including for NetZero retrofits. With robotics and AI converging, the timing is right.

🇫🇷 Woodoo

Founder: Timothée Boitouzet
Why: Woodoo transforms low-grade wood into high-performance, sustainable materials that can replace traditional materials like steel, glass, and concrete. Their patented process enhances wood's properties, making it a viable alternative for various structural and cladding applications, thereby contributing to reduced environmental impact in construction.

Nic Gorini at Spin Ventures

🇬🇧 SEQUINOVA*

Founder: Clare Lichfield
Why: Sequinova is tackling microplastic pollution at its glittering source—sequins and sparkle materials. Already commercialized with Stella McCartney, Sequinova replaces petroleum plastics and metal-based glitters with non-toxic, high-performance biobased solutions.

🇫🇷 BioFluff

Founder: Roni Gamzon
Why: ​BioFluff is pioneering the luxury textile industry with Savian, the first 100% plant-based fur, shearling, and fleece-like fabrics crafted from natural fibers using proprietary technologies. With a recent $2.5 million seed funding, BioFluff is poised to scale its innovative approach, reducing reliance on animal and synthetic-derived products in the textile industry. ​

🇬🇧 Nanoloom*

Founders: Victoria Mataczynski and Alexander Seifalian
Why: Designed as a sustainable alternative to traditional synthetic fibers like nylon and elastane, Nanoloom's graphene based fibres and yarns integrate seamlessly into existing production processes, providing a fully recyclable, circular and biodegradable non-toxic solution that addresses numerous environmental challenges along the fashion supply chain.

Anne-Sophie Krechting at Atlantic Labs

🇩🇪 tozero*

Founder: Sarah Fleischer
Why: Proving its recycled materials can power a battery cell, tozero is the first in Europe to recover critical battery materials at industrial scale - recently achieving this with 100% recycled graphite. With a breakthrough process, massive market need, and a deeply experienced and driven female-led team, they’re redefining the future of battery recycling.

🇩🇰 Skycore Semiconductors

Founder: Pere Muntal
Why: Skycore is revolutionising power conversion by rethinking the materials and architecture behind high-voltage chips. Their switched-capacitor tech delivers compact, efficient performance - leaving legacy analog players behind. They’re set to transform the $20B+ power electronics market.

🇬🇧 Epoch Biodesign

Founder: Jacob Nathan
Why: Epoch uses generative AI to design enzymes that break down plastics like nylon and polyester into original materials. With fast-evolving tech and cost advantages, they’re unlocking scalable biorecycling to reduce dependence on fossil-based materials.

Maex Ament at Earth

🇺🇸 Deep Earth*

Founder: Christie Capper 

Why: Deep Earth is building an intelligent subsurface exploration. They are developing digitization tools that unify fragmented datasets — historical maps, written reports, geologic databases, and more — into a single source of truth. Using advanced modeling and analysis, Deep Earth transforms raw data into actionable insights for subsurface understanding.

🇫🇷 Lithosquare

Founder: Aymeric Preveral-Etcheverry
Why: Combining advanced geoscience, chemistry, and physics models, Lithosquare’s proprietary system accelerates geological analysis and automates workflows, providing a 10x efficiency gain over traditional methods.

🇺🇸 Matter Intelligence

Founder: Vishnu Sridhar
Why: Matter is pioneering the next generation of hyperspectral imaging to transform climate-critical industries like mining, forestry, and environmental monitoring. By capturing the unique light signatures of materials from satellites and drones, Matter’s advanced spectrometers provide unparalleled insights into the Earth’s surface and atmosphere.

Karina Rubinstein at Innegev

🇮🇱 Lamin Biotex*

Founder: Kfir Ben Harush
Why: introducing lamin based fibers the next gen of highly strong, flexible sustainable fibers to replace and blend in with glass/carbon fibers to reduce carbon emissions and create a new world of materials to variety of industries from aerospace to textile

🇮🇱 Snow Polymer*

Founder: Sharon Raymond
Why: Snow Polymer is at the forefront of the circular economy. We transform industrial waste streams into biodegradable polymer raw materials and products, offering cost-effective alternatives to traditional, petroleum-based plastics.

🇮🇱 Eva Greentech

Founder: Tamara Mumcuoglu
Why: EVA has innovated a novel building material designed to partially substitute traditional polluting cement in concrete, significantly reducing carbon footprint while preserving essential physical properties.

Charles Fourault at AFI Ventures

🇫🇷 Nova Carbon*

Founder: Hugo Cartron
Why: Nova Carbon's proprietary Long Fiber Realignment technology allows for the transformation of carbon fiber waste into high-performance materials. This approach not only addresses the environmental challenges associated with carbon fiber waste but also offers sustainable alternatives for various industries.

🇫🇷 Dionymer*

Founder: Thomas Hennebel
Why: Dionymer has developed a proprietary process that transforms organic waste, such as food scraps and grape pomace, into high-performance, biodegradable PHA polymers. This technology addresses both waste management challenges and the demand for eco-friendly materials.

🇩🇪 Radical Dot

Founder: Alexandre Kremer
Why: Radical Dot has developed a proprietary chemical recycling platform capable of converting complex, mixed plastic waste into valuable chemical components. This technology addresses the significant challenge of recycling plastics that are traditionally deemed unrecyclable, thus reducing environmental pollution and promoting sustainability.

Mobility

Elzan Godlewski at kopa ventures

🇩🇪 Limatica*

Founder: Bastian Ruther
Why: As the battery market continues to surge (projected ~$400B by 2030) and production globally diversifies, faster production and scrap rate reduction are critical. Limatica drastically reduces battery cell aging time, by as much as 95%, from as much as 14 days to mere minutes – and provides battery manufacturers with the data they need to improve production quality.

🇨🇭 Nautica Technologies

Founder: Cédric Portmann
Why: Biofuling on ship hulls increases drag, spreads invasive species, and drives up fuel costs and emissions. Nautica’s fast, autonomous, underwater robot swarms clean hulls without crew involvement, slashing fuel costs and minimizing costly maintenance.

🇩🇪 Arinto

Founder: Isabel Sum
Why: Arinto acts as a “central control tower” for maritime shipping, integrating port and vessel data to cut costly wait times. Its AI-powered, multi-vessel ETA predictions enable slower sailing speeds and reduced idle time at anchor—saving fuel, cutting emissions, and streamlining global trade.

Michael Campos at Energy Impact Partners

🇨🇭Metafuels*

Founder: Saurabh Kapoor 
Why: Metafuels has developed a catalytic process to produce SAF from methanol with exceptionally high selectivity, improving economics while reducing emissions.

🇩🇪 Terragia*

Founder: Kristin Brief
Why: Terragia is developing a breakthrough in cellulosic ethanol technology, combines biomass pre-treatment and fermentation into one step. Cost-effective cellulosic ethanol will unlock a multi-hundred $b market opportunity across aviation, maritime, and ground transportation

🇺🇸 Scalvy

Founder: Mohamed Badawy
Why: Scalvy is to EVs what microinverters were to PV. Scalvy dramatically improves EV powertrains by modularising and integrating the inverter BMS, OBC, converter, and software. This results in lower weight, greater range, and shorter vehicle model development times.

Jan Palasinski at Future Energy Ventures

🇩🇪 Reev*

Founder: Eduard Schlutius
Why: Reev simplifies life of EV charging station operators, electricians, and EV drivers. They are growing very fast due to their easy to use SaaS platform that automates all aspects of EV charging, with a particular focus on semi-public spaces.

🇳🇱 Deftpower

Founder: Jacob van Zonneveld 
Why: Deftpower provides best in class EV charging software for drivers and mobility service providers. Its smart charging feature helps to stabilise the electricity grid.

🇩🇪 Cariqa

Founder: Issam Tidjani
Why: Cariqa is building an EV charging software platform to allow EV charging point operators to monetise their assets without intermediaries. Based in Berlin but with an Italian hearth.

Nature

Benjamin Wochner at kopa ventures

🇩🇪 Klim*

Founder: Robert Gerlach
Why: Klim is empowering the transition to regenerative agriculture by supporting farmers with knowledge, tools, and financial incentives. By monetizing climate-positive practices through regional CO₂ certificates and carbon insetting, Klim helps restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and measurably reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.

🇩🇪 Pluvion*

Founder: Phillip Grimm
Why: Pluvion has developed an innovative approach to supporting resilient water management in a changing climate. Their AI-powered software suite enables smarter, more sustainable water systems, addressing challenges such as extreme weather events and aging infrastructure.

🇦🇹 refinq

Founder: Franziska Walde
Why: By showing how biodiversity risks affect business operations, refinq highlights nature as a valuable asset—proving that protecting it is a strategic necessity. Their science-based insights drive real, actionable change.

Abby Stern at Holocene

🇿🇦 ReWild 

Director: Matthew Child
Why: Develops carbon and biodiversity projects in African rangelands. Uses technology to review and quantify the land being assessed for the project and takes a percentage of carbon credits generated. 

🇰🇪 Iroko Analytics

Co-Founder: Jules Caron
Why: Africa reforestation platform that pinpoints reforestation opportunities with tech that prioritises land integrity, carbon sequestration, biodiversity enhancement, and community welfare.

🇰🇪 EarthAcre

Co-Founder: Yasha Portnoy
Why: Platform that provides tools and expertise to empower indigenous communities and landowners in ecosystem conservation. Integrates peer-reviewed science, machine learning models, and remote sensing data to monitor and manage ecosystem health effectively.

Eric Gossart at Serena 

🇫🇷 Cosma

Founders: Yannick Pennecot, Frédéric Mittaine
Why: Cosma combines autonomous underwater drones and AI to map and monitor benthic ecosystems, a largely unexplored part of the ocean. 

🇩🇪 Nala Earth

Founder: Nicolas Somogyi
Why: Nala Earth offers a platform that brings nature and biodiversity management into corporate strategy—areas long overlooked by businesses. 

🇨🇭 Carbonpool

Founder: Coenraad Vrolijk 
Why: Carbonpool builds an insurance system for carbon credits, increasing market transparency and thereby accelerating large-scale ecosystem restoration. 

Food

Divya Murthy at Oyster Bay VC

🇸🇪 Ironic Biotech

Founder: Nélida Leiva Eriksson
Why: Ironic Biotech is developing a novel, protein-based iron ingredient designed to tackle iron deficiency more effectively and gently than traditional supplements. Backed by a strong technical team, their iron ingredient offers high bioavailability with minimal side effects.

🇬🇧 Nukoko*

Founder: Ross Newton
Why: Nukoko is a London-based bean-to-bar manufacturing company that creates delicious chocolate alternatives from locally grown fava beans. Founded by Ross Newton, Kit Tomlinson, and David Salt in 2022, Nukoko’s 100% cocoa-free chocolate is a sustainable and healthier alternative to traditional chocolate.

🇩🇪 GoodBytz GmbH*

Founder: Hendrik Susemihl
Why: Goodbytz is tackling the challenge of access to good and healthy food independent of location and time. They are developing Robotic Kitchen Assistants that combine premium kitchen appliances with advanced robotics and sensors to cook dishes from scratch using fresh ingredients delivering up to 3,000 high-quality meals per day.

Tobias Weissgerber at Deeptech & Climate Fonds

🇩🇪 Aiperia

Co-Founder: Franz Seubert
Why: AIPERIA has developed an AI planning solution that, for the first time, enables planning from production to supermarket shelves and reduces food waste through prediction. There is an urgent need for accurate forecasts to prevent €13 billion in lost sales and 32 million tons of CO2 emissions each year.

🇩🇪 Project Eaden*

Founder: Jan Wilmking
Why: Project Eaden is reinventing plant-based meat using innovative fiber-spinning tech inspired by the textile industry. Their ultra-realistic products replicate meat in taste, texture, and nutrition — but with a fraction of the environmental footprint. 

🇩🇪 Planet A Foods 

Co-Founder: Sara Marquart
Why: Planet A Foods produces future-proof chocolate through precision fermentation. This makes their chocolate 10x more sustainable and 20% cheaper than conventional chocolate. To imitate chocolate, they work on replacing the cocoa butter, also on the taste itself.

Nadav Berger at PeakBridge

🇦🇺 Vow*

Founder: George Peppou
Why: Vow is a trailblazer in the cultured meat industry, dedicated to expanding consumer choices beyond traditional meats. With a vision to create meat that is uniquely delicious, nutritious, and sustainable, Vow uses proprietary technology to harness the nutrition and flavors of diverse cells and species.

🇫🇷 The Mediterranean Food Lab*

Founders: BZ Golberg and Yair Yosefi (CEO)
Why: The Mediterranean Food Lab is truly the flavor house of the future. They create natural flavors and culinary products from 100% food ingredients with zero additives and zero synthetics.

🇳🇱 Revyve

Founder: Cedric Verstraeten
Why: Revyve is a food-tech company transforming how the world experiences texture. Using a proprietary, low-impact process, Revyve converts existing yeast biomasses into high-performance, natural proteins that replace eggs and additives—without compromise.

Hadar Sutovsky at ICL Group

🇮🇱 Imagindairy

Founder: Eyal Afergan
Why: Imagindairy is transforming the dairy industry with sustainable, animal-free proteins that replicate the taste, texture, and nutrition of traditional dairy. Using advanced computational biology and precision fermentation, the company enables production of cholesterol-, lactose-, and hormone-free dairy products—driving innovation in alternative proteins and the future of food.

🇺🇸 Plantible Foods*

Founder: Tony Martens Fekini
Why: Plantible Foods’ breakthrough ingredient enhances taste, texture, and nutrition while lowering environmental impact and cost—positioning Plantible as a key enabler of the next generation of sustainable, high-performance food products.

🇫🇷 Protera*

Founder: Franck Leyze
Why: Protera leverages AI and protein engineering to create next-generation functional food ingredients. Its proprietary deep-learning platform rapidly predicts and develops high-performance proteins and enzymes, enabling healthier, safer, and more sustainable food solutions.

Steve Molino at Synthesis Capital

🇮🇱 Redefine Meat*

Founder: Eshchar Ben-Shitrit
Why: Redefine Meat has developed a patented and scalable 3D-printing platform along with novel plant-based ingredient formulations to bio-mimic structured meat products.

🇺🇸 Savor*

Founder: Kathleen Alexander
Why: Savor is an alternative fats company that uses chemistry to produce cost-competitive synthetic fatty acids that can be used to make a wide array of proprietary formulations that mimic edible fats and oils.

🇺🇸 Helaina

Founder: Laura Katz
Why: With the development of Helaina's human protein platform, Helaina is the first company to make human bioactive proteins available as an ingredient for nutrition offerings, starting with effera™ Human Lactoferrin.

Marie Asano at ECBF 

🇩🇰 Reduced*

Founder: Emil Munck de Voss
Why: REDUCED combines fermentation techniques with enzymatic hydrolysis enabling the conversion of vegetable and animal side streams into organic and clean label savoury ingredients.

🇧🇪 FoodPairing

Founder: Nick Poels
Why: Foodpairing increases the probability of developing highly successful food products and decreasing the very high failure rate in the food industry for newly launched products (85%+). The company has proprietary AI trained on data sets that combine not only insights into market trends but nutritional, sensory and chemical profiles of food ingredients and products.

🇩🇪 VegDog*

Founder: Valerie Henssen
Why: VegDog specialises in producing vegan, allergen-free pet food, addressing two key market needs: (i) dogs suffering from food allergies and requiring specialised diets and (ii) in Europe, 2%-4% of consumers are vegan or vegetarian.

Charlie Macdonald at Rubio Impact Ventures

🇬🇧 New Wave Biotech

Founder: Zoe Tung-Law
Why: New Wave Biotech stands out as a company using AI to solve a real problem for novel foods, namely simulating complex fermentation to predict how a process will scale

🇳🇱 NoPalm Ingredients*

Founder: Lars Langhout
Why: NoPalm is solving the massive palm oil challenge with a groundbreaking "simple fermentation" process that turns cheap offcuts from the food industry into sustainable oils.

🇳🇱 Agstacked

Founder: Emily Harayda
Why: Agstacked helps reduce our massive food waste problem with an AI platform that predicts food problems in complex supply chains, making sure it gets to its highest possible use (and avoids the bin).

Mirasbek Kuterbekov at Thia Ventures

🇮🇱 Metabolize

Founders: Morris Laster, Jonathan Long
What: Metabolize is commercialising newly discovered metabolites that are naturally present in our bodies and associated with appetite suppression and fat tissue loss.

 🇩🇪 Primogene

Founders: Reza Mahour, Linda Karger, Valerian Grote
What: Primogene is leveraging cell-free manufacturing to produce previously inaccessible highly complex human milk oligosaccharides for more complete infant nutrition.

🇺🇸 one.bio

Co-Founders: Matt Amicucci, Carlito Lebrilla, Bruce German, David Mills, Matt Barnard
What: one.bio is developing designer fibers with improved processability that allow food manufacturers to put fiber back into foods from which it was stripped off.

Andres Baehr at Savia Ventures

🇨🇱 Done Properly*

Founder: Claudio Pedreros Bustamante
Why: Done Properly is transforming food from the inside out. With science at their core, they create sustainable, nutritious, and delicious ingredients through fermentation, proving food innovation can be scalable, rigorous, and impactful.

🇨🇴 NanoFreeze

Founder: Isabel Pulido
Why: NanoFreeze is redefining cold chain logistics with bionanotechnology that freezes at higher temperatures and lasts twice as long as conventional ice. Their tailored, energy-efficient cooling solutions reduce waste, lower emissions, and cut plastic use, offering a smarter, more sustainable way to keep things cool.

🇲🇽 ChumChum

Founder: Verónica Macías Díaz
Why: Through seasonings, ready-to-eat meals, and custom solutions, ChumChum reduce waste, save water, and help kitchens run more efficiently; all while proving that sustainability and flavour can go hand in hand.

Steve Simitzis at Solvable Syndicate

🇬🇧 New Wave Biotech

Founder: Zoe Tung-Law
Why: New Wave Biotech’s AI-powered SaaS platform reduces cost and resource use in biomanufacturing, helping alt protein and other synthetic biology companies get products to market quicker, better, and at lower cost.

🇺🇸 Deco Labs*

Founder: Natalie Rubio
Why: Deco Labs is a spin-out of the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture, and is commercialising research that will significantly reduce cost and increase scale of cultivated meat, starting with lower cost components for cell media.

🇺🇸 Pitri

Founder: Jesse Adler
Why: Pitri is replacing artificial colors with beautiful, functional pigments made with precision fermented compounds from fungi, with applications in food, beauty, skin care, and textiles. They will have the first animal-free cool-tone reds on the market.