🗽 90 New York-Based Founders in Climate To Know

New York City is world-renowned for its financial, real estate, and media industries, and it’s also fast becoming a hotspot for cutting-edge Climate Techs.

From decarbonizing buildings to electrifying transport and reinventing food systems, these companies are building directly within one of the world’s most complex urban ecosystems.

With access to dense infrastructure, diverse talent, top research institutions, and ambitious state policies like New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, the city is proving to be more than just a headquarters location, but a living lab for solutions at scale.

Later this year we’ll be hosting the HackSummit at Newlab, bringing together 500 Founders, Investors and Operators on December 10-11th to explore Abundance in energy, supply chains and climate adaptation.

But first, who are the startups and scaleups building the future of Climate in New York? Scroll on for a list of 60+ NY-based Climate companies to watch.

Let’s take a look at the homegrown, local talents and the CEO and Founders who have moved to NYC to scale faster.

Agriculture

❄️ Brekland
Founder and CEO: Eric Bellefroid
What: Building tools and technology to build farmers climate resilience against frost.

🌱 Gotham Greens
Co-Founder: Viraj Puri
What: Producing and delivering long-lasting and delicious leafy greens, herbs, salad dressings, dips and cooking sauces all year round to retail, restaurant and foodservice customers.

🌾 Re-Nuble
Founder: Tinia Pina
What: Using organic cycling science™ technology to transform unrecoverable vegetative food byproducts into a platform of sustainable technologies for soilless farming.

🥗 Square Roots
CEO: Tobias Peggs
What: An indoor farming platform built to accelerate agricultural research in the face of climate change.

🧬 Quorum Bio
Founder: Sudharsan Dwaraknath
What: Engineering the crop microbiome for climate-smart farming.

Carbon 

💦 Arbon
Founder: Xiaoyang Shi
What: Using the humidity-swing method to capture CO2 when dry and releasing it concentrated when wet—eliminating the need for additional heat.

🌪️ CapCO2 Solutions
CEO: Jeff Bonar
What: Delivering local sourcing solutions to decarbonise the manufacturing / production process by substituting the typical fossil-CO2 by biogenic CO2, a carbon neutral alternative.

☁️ Cella
Co-Founders: Corey Pattison and Claire Nelson
Latest Funding: $3.3 million
What: Transforming carbon emissions into underground rock for safe, natural, and permanent carbon removal.

🌊 Fiora Mara
Founder: Adam Ornstein and Sunny Lad
What: Exploring ways to scale sinking seaweed in the open ocean as a form of carbon sequestration and to monetize it as a nature-based carbon removal business.

💨 Genvision
CEO: Emiel Cockx 
What: Measuring CO2 removal in nature by analyzing satellite images with AI.

⚡️ Loa Carbon
Founder: Ryan Shearman
What: Scaling up our e-NG manufacturing technology so to begin supplying the energy and transportation sectors.

🌊 Vycarb
Founder: Garett Boudinot
What: Enabling fully-measured, low-cost and permanent marine carbon dioxide removal and storage.

Energy

⛽️ Aircela
Co-Founders: Eric Dahlgren and Mia Dahlgren
What: Creating an affordable carbon neutral alternative to fossil fuels.

💚 Ambient Fuels
Founder: Jacob Susman
What: Pioneering custom-engineered green hydrogen solutions to tackle tough decarbonization challenges. 

💥 Canyon Magnet Energy
Founder: Honghai Song 
What: Expediting the realization of fusion energy.

🌬️ Crux
Co-Founders: Alfred Johnson and Allen Kramer
What: The ecosystem for developers, tax credit buyers, and financial institutions to transact & manage transferable tax credits

☀️ Heliotrope Photonics
Co-Founders: Conrad Caviezel and Minh Tran
What: Developing an innovative coating that transforms the sunlight to enhance solar panel performance. 

💥 Nano Nuclear Energy
Founder: Jay Yu
What: Developing “ZEUS”, a solid core battery reactor, and “ODIN”, a low-pressure coolant reactor, each representing advanced developments in clean energy solutions that are portable, on-demand capable, advanced nuclear microreactors.

🔋Terrament
Founder: Eric Chaves
What: Building low-cost, long-duration energy storage using underground gravity batteries.

⚡ Tierra Climate
Co-Founders: Emma Konet and Jacob Mansfield
What: Accelerating grid-scale battery deployment by unlocking and monetizing grid decarbonization services. 

Food

🍄 50CUT
Founder and CEO: Shalom Daniel
What: Crafted for use in ground beef, pork, and poultry dishes, seamlessly boosting umami flavor, nutrition, and yield while slashing environmental impact.

⭕️ Afterlife Mushrooms
Co-Founders: Winson Wong, Sierra Alea and Ryan Freed
What: A circular farm that turns food scraps into fresh, local, sustainable mushrooms.

🐕 Bramble
Founder: Amanda Rolat
What: The first 100% plant-based pet food that looks, feels and tastes just like the meat they love.

🌿 Climax Foods
Chair and CEO: Sandeep Patel
What: Using deep plant intelligence to create foods by unlocking smarter paths from plants to products that will out-compete animal-based predecessors on taste, nutrition, environmental impact and cost.

🍄 Fable Foods
Co-Founder: Michael Fox and Jim Fuller
What: Making delicious meaty food from shiitake mushrooms and all natural ingredients.

🧬 Helaina
Founder: Laura Katz
What: A biotech company pushing the boundaries of what food can do for health, putting human proteins into food.

🥓 My Forest Foods
Co-Founder: Eben Bayer
What: Their flagship product, MyBacon is the first of many plant-based, clean-label, mycelium-grown eats.

🥗 Phood 
CEO: Luc Dang
What: Using computer vision and powerful data processing to automate food waste tracking for retail grocers and prepared food operations.

🥖 Plantega
Founder and CEO: Nil Zacharis
What: Working within the trusted spaces people already rely on: corner stores / bodegas, neighborhood delis, making better food part of daily life through familiar menus and real choices.

🧀 Pleese Cheese
Co-Founders: Kobi Regev and Abev Samain-Regev
What: Helping people transition from traditional dairy with Pleese, a plant-based cheese made from a unique blend of beans.

🤍 NotCo
CEO: Matias Muchnick
What: Combining Ai and Human knowledge to quickly and accurately develop and scale plant-based foods that appeal to the mass market.

🥯 Stockeld Dreamery
Founder: Sorosh Tavakoli
What: Using science and technology we aim to develop plant based food alternatives for the masses that are tastier and more nutritious.

Home Decarbonization

🏠️ Hydronic Shell Technologies
Founder: David Goldstein
What: Transforming buildings with a facade-integrated HVAC technology for cost-effective and non-invasive retrofits

🔥 Kelvin
Founder: Marshall Cox
What: Reducing wasted energy, saves money, and enables pinpoint temperature control for apartments in legacy buildings.

🧮 Nantum AI
CEO: Gary Chance
What: Enabling buildings to hit energy targets via real time and predictive data as well as intelligent recommendations to save energy, reduce carbon emissions, and lower costs.

🏡 Sealed
Founders: Lauren Salz and Andy Frank
What: On a mission to stop home energy waste by enabling contractors to install more home weatherization and electrification projects and grow their businesses.

🤖 Renovate Robotics
Founder: Andy Stulc
What: Working on construction automation, starting with roofing.

🏛️ Thalo Labs
Founder: Brendan Hermalyn
What: Modular hardware and software systems to help buildings measure, reduce and capture GreenHouseGas emissions for permanent storage.

Manufacturing

🔌 Amogy
Co-Founders: Young Suk Jo, Seonghoon Woo and Jongwon Choi
What: Decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors with mature, scalable, and efficient ammonia-to-power solutions.

🛢️C16 Biosciences
Co-Founders: Shara Ticku, David Heller and Harry McNamara
What: Producing high-performance biodesigned ingredients for the personal care, home care, and food industries.

📈 Caladan Bio
CEO and Co-Founder: Michael Kobida
What: Building the next generation of biomanufacturing technology, starting with high-throughput 250 mL benchtop bioreactors. Our customers use biology to create groundbreaking products—from alternative proteins to high-performance enzymes, sustainable materials, and next-gen therapeutics.

🦠 Cascade Bio
Co-Founder and CEO: Alex Rosay
What: Empowering enzymes to disrupt the chemicals industry

🧪 InFLOWS AI
Founder: Abdou Kane
What: A chemistry applications in the development of daily use consumer essentials with the goal of safer, more sustainable products from leading manufacturers.

🔬 Kingdom Supercultures
Founder: Kendall Dabaghi
What: Designing natural microbial cultures that deliver exciting new flavors, preservation abilities, and functional benefits.

🎨 Pitri
Founder: Jesse Adler
What: Unlocking the potential of fungi to create high-performing non-toxic colorants for beauty & beyond

🤖 Revise Robotics
Co-Founders: Rupesh Jeyaram and Antonio Monreal
What: Accelerating electronics refurbishment and resale through robotics and automation.

❄️ SnoFox Sciences
Co-Founders: Benjamin Rubin and Matthew Rubin
What: Providing analytics focused on increasing efficiency and decreasing energy usage for the cold industrial space with no additional hardware required.

🔍 Synonym
Co-Founders: Joshua Lachter and Edward Shenderovich
What: Building and scaling infrastructure enabling the commercialization and manufacture of bioproducts.

⚒️ Teknobuilt
Co-Founder: Abhishek Srivastava
What: Enabling end to end digital speed, surety and productivity control.

🧪 Turnover Labs
Founder: Marissa Beatty
What: Building durable electrolyzers that can withstand the harsh conditions and impurities found in industry. 

Materials

👕 Bloom Labs
Co-Founders: Simardev Gulati and Richard Freundlich 
What: Accelerating the world’s transition to a circular economy, by developing next-gen alternatives to fibers and plastics.

🍄 Ecovative
Co-Founder: Eben Bayer 
Latest Funding: $28 million
What: Using mycelium to grow category defining products ranging from leather like textiles to sustainable packaging to high performance foams for apparel and beauty. 

🪡 Kintra Fibers
Co-Founders: Alissa Baier-Lentz and Billy McCall
What: Developing a proprietary bio-based and biodegradable polyester.

🧱 Ouros Materials
Founder: Teresa Liu 
What: Building carbon-negative building materials and products.

👕 SXD
Founder: Shelly Xu
What: Turning fashion brands' leftover/wasted textiles into beautiful and efficient zero waste clothing using patent-pending AI.

🍃 Plantaer
Co-Founder: Manuel Benitez Ruiz
What: Developing solutions to reinvent how architecture interacts with nature with scalable urban greening solutions.

🧶 TômTex Inc
Co-Founders: Uyen Tran, Ross McBee and Atom Nguyen
What: Developing a cutting-edge platform technology for creating sustainable textiles sourced directly from waste materials, not fossil fuels.

☕️ Unspent
CEO: Kathryn Williamson
What: Pioneering a high-performance material derived from spent coffee grounds for the plastics industry.

🧵 UNCAGED Innovations
Founder: Stephanie Downs
What: A biomaterials start-up developing next-generation performance materials to replace bovine and exotic leather.  

🐑 Werewool
Co-Founders: Chui-Lian Lee and Valentina Gomez
What: Biomaterials with tailored aesthetic and performance properties.

Transport

🛩️ AIR COMPANY
CEO: Gregory Constantine
What: Paving a pathway to global decarbonization by transforming CO₂ into endless resources via industrial scale applications.

🚲 CLIP
Co-Founders: Clement De Alcala and Som Ray
What: Building the world’s first instant e-bike upgrade.

🚗 Gravity
Founder: Moshe Cohen
What: Building cutting-edge software and hardware that governs the flow of electricity between vehicles and the grid.

🔌 it’s electric
Founder: Tiya Gordon 
What: Bringing curb-side EV charging to cities across the U.S. and advance the adoption of electric vehicles.

🛞 Voltpost
Co-Founders: Luke Mairo, Jörn Vicari and Jeff Prosserman
What: On a mission to decarbonize mobility by democratizing charging access, by retrofitting lampposts into a modular electric vehicle charging platform.