🔝 75 Top North American Startups to Watch

A new generation of builders are rewriting the industrial playbook.

As they upend manufacturing, energy, and materials industries at a speed rarely seen outside the digital world.

To get the inside track on the one’s to watch, we asked 25 top-tier Climate Tech investors to highlight the companies they believe hold the most promise, as they turn lab breakthroughs into real-world systems that are faster, cheaper, cleaner.

What emerges is not a list of hopeful concepts, but a snapshot of a sector in motion: labs moving to pilots, pilots moving to plants, and founders building infrastructure to power, feed and build the world differently. Whether it’s reinventing heat, batteries, bio-manufacturing or industrial materials, these 75 teams are ‘ones to watch’.

75 North American Startups To Watch, According To:

Shuo Yang at Lowercarbon Capital

⚡️ Gridware*

🇺🇸 California
CEO and Co-Founder: Timothy Barat
Why: Building a robust grid is vital to ensuring not only national security, but also that everyone has access to safe and reliable power.  

🏭️ Antora*

🇺🇸 California
CEO and Co-Founder: Andrew Ponec
Why: Energy storage allows American industry to thrive by showering our domestic factories with an abundance of affordable energy.

🏘️ Haven

🇺🇸 New York
CEO and Founder: Aidan Heintzman
Why: Haven builds stronger, more affordable homes that also withstand the most challenging disasters.

Craig Wilson at Collaborative Fund

🏭 Phaidra*

🇺🇸 Seattle
Founder: Jim Gao
Why: Phaidra provides artificial intelligence controls to optimize mission critical facilities. Their closed-loop AI control service helps your operations team deliver step function improvements in plant stability, energy efficiency and sustainability. Data Centers are becoming larger consumers of energy and will continue to do so. Phaidra helps make them orders of magnitude more efficient and sustainable. 

⌚️ Anthro Energy*

 🇺🇸 San Francisco
Founder: David Mackanic
Why: Athro is a developer of flexible battery technology designed to improve the capacity of wearable electronic devices. The company transforms the conventional lithium-ion battery with its patented polymer electrolyte technology, giving rise to a polymeric supramolecular lithium-ion conductor comprising an amalgamation of mechanical and ionic properties, enabling device manufacturers to have flexible and safe batteries. 

🏡 Stand 

🇺🇸 San Francisco
Founder: Dan Preston
Why: Stand uses AI-powered property modeling to create safer homes through customized resilience plans. Their innovative insurance model is simple: the more you protect your property, the less you pay in premiums. As more homes become uninsurable due to climate disaster, Stand could become a critical way for many to keep the peace of mind they need. 

Mark Dryden at WIND Ventures

📈 Monalee

🇺🇸 Boston
CEO: Walid Halty
Why: Monalee is revolutionizing distributed energy sales with a customer-centered, end-to-end platform that slashes customer acquisition costs, boosts conversion rates, streamlines installer operations and automates design and proposal workflows using AI. 

🚘 Moment Energy

🇨🇦 British Colombia
Founder: Edward Chiang
Why: Moment Energy is unlocking the second-life EV battery market by delivering certified, cheaper stationary storage systems at scale, with an AI-driven battery management system that breathes another 10+ years of life into heterogenous end-of-life EV batteries.

🏢 75F*

🇺🇸 Minnesota
Founder: Deepinder Singh
Why: 75F is revolutionizing building management and energy efficiency with its AI-powered platform that cuts costs, boosts comfort, and tackles one of the biggest climate challenges - carbon emissions from buildings.

Aly Hudson at New System Ventures

🔋 Estes Energy

🇺🇸 San Francisco
Co-Founder and CEO: Dustin Grace
Why: Estes Energy Solutions, Inc. is an electrification systems development and manufacturing technology company, currently focused on high voltage battery systems. Estes is taking a novel approach to battery systems architecture, leveraging advanced, light-metal alloy manufacturing processes, vertical integration, and building a US-based supply chain and manufacturing footprint.  Estes battery systems will set a benchmark for cost and performance unmatched by systems currently manufactured in the US, to serve the commercial vehicle, off-highway, marine, and emerging applications in the EV space.

🏭 Visia

🇺🇸 New York
Co-Founder and CEO: Raghav Mecheri
Why: Visia converts industrial material variability from an operational liability into a strategic asset through AI-powered material control systems. Their technology processes over 2,000 contamination events daily across 30+ industrial facilities, preventing catastrophic equipment failures while optimizing circular economy feedstock streams that overwhelm traditional quality control systems.

⚡️Crux*

🇺🇸 Remote
Co-Founder and CEO: Alfred Johnson
Why: Crux is redefining how capital moves through the clean economy, turning a fragmented market into a coordinated system of action. By fusing authoritative data, purpose-built technology, and hands-on advisory, Crux makes the capital stack liquid, efficient, and intelligent. What began as the leading marketplace for transferable tax credits is now the operating backbone of clean energy finance — ensuring capital flows with confidence, speed, and scale across tax credits, debt, and equity.

Evan Nisselson at LDV Capital

🦠 Fieldstone Bio*

🇺🇸 Boston
CEO: Patrick Stone
Why: Fieldstone Bio leverages living microbial sensors to detect target chemicals in the environment with millimeter precision. These biodegradable microbes can cover large areas and convert chemical data into visual maps through hyperspectral imaging and AI, enabling detection via drones, planes or satellites. Their microbial-based maps give customers across agriculture, mining, national security and many other sectors the ability to analyze and monitor the environment exponentially more effectively than today’s manual approaches. 

🧵Unspun

🇺🇸 San Francisco
CEO: Kevin Martin
Why: Unspun is a fashion-tech company revolutionizing garment production with Vega™️ 3D weaving, which spins yarn directly into finished garments, reducing waste, lead times and emissions. Recognized by Vogue 100, TIME, and Fast Company, unspun is also piloting workwear with Walmart, showcasing the real-world impact of its sustainable, on-demand production.

⚡Heliogen

🇺🇸 Pasadena
CEO: Christie Obiaya
Why: Heliogen is on a mission to decarbonize industry to help solve climate change. The company develops AI-enabled, modular concentrated solar systems to deliver near 24/7 carbon-free energy – heat, power, or green hydrogen – for heavy industry at scale. Heliogen is now part of Zeo Energy, which plans to leverage Heliogen’s expertise in long-duration energy generation and storage to power commercial and industrial clients, including AI and cloud computing data centers.

Darren Clifford at Adapt [us] Capital

🏙️ Thermoshade

🇺🇸 Los Angeles
Founder and CEO: Emily Dinino 
Why: ThermoShade's is making cities and farms more resilient to extreme heat by providing high tech passive cooling shade panels that create shady spaces feeling up to 20°F cooler than under a basic awning.

🍇 Brekland

🇺🇸 New York
Founder and CEO: Eric Bellefroid
Why: Brekland is innovating the hardware and formulation to develop a new category of crop protection products

🌊 RCOAST

🇺🇸 Louisiana
Founder: Christy Swann
Why: 4D modeling of coastal erosion including data collection, data management, and mitigation predictions

J.P. Keating at proChain Ventures

🔋 Intramotev*

🇺🇸  Saint Louis
Founder: Tim Luchini
Why: Intramotev develops and deploys battery-electric, self-propelled railcars and retrofit kits (like TugVolt and ReVolt) that automate and decarbonize freight movement across mines, plants, ports, and rail yards — enabling significant cuts in diesel usage, lower transport costs, and greater flexibility in shipping.

🤖 Logic Robotics

🇺🇸 Boston
Founder: Michael Santora
Why: Logic OS offers a combined hardware + software warehouse automation platform. Their signature is the “Logic Pallet”—an autonomous, mobile robot that replaces traditional pallets & forklifts, and LINK, a warehouse operating system that uses AI and digital twin tech to orchestrate robotic fleets, optimize workflows, track real-time inventory, and automate fulfillment across multiple sites.

⛓️ Laundris*

🇺🇸  Austin
Founder: Don Ward
Why: Laundris provides an AI- & RFID-driven enterprise software platform that digitizes and automates linen & textile inventory management across hospitality, healthcare, commercial laundry, and supply chain operators. They enable real-time tracking, predictive forecasting of inventory (PaR levels), auto-replenishment, and visibility across stakeholders to cut waste, costs, and inefficiencies.

Sean O'Sullivan at SOSV

🖥️ Hyperlume

🇨🇦 Ottawa
Co-Founder and CEO: Mohsen Asad
Why: Hyperlume builds high speed, ultra low power, low cost optical interconnects for data centers and high performance computing systems.

🌾 Avalo 

🇺🇸 North Carolina
Co-Founder and CEO: Brendan Collins
Why: Avalo uses machine learning and AI to accelerate crop breeding for climate-resilient crops, not by genetically modifying them, but by using traditional cross-breeding methods more efficiently. The platform identifies which natural crosses will produce desired traits, like drought or pest resistance, which significantly speeds up the development process.  

🌫️ Mitico

🇺🇸 California
Co-Founder and CEO: Clément Cid
Why: Mitico has developed a point-source carbon capture system that is able to capture and purify CO2 at prices below $50/ton. Their system is amine-free, modular and mass manufacturable and easily integrates into existing infrastructure.

Laura Fox at Streetlife Ventures

🔥 Eztia Materials*

🇺🇸 San Francisco
CEO: Tiffany Yeh, Jack Wilson 
Why: 2024 was the hottest summer on record globally, and 2025 is on track to be on par. By 2030, extreme heat is expected to drive $2.1T in corporate asset loss annually (S&P), and extreme heat is already the leading cause of climate-related deaths (500K per year, with one-third in Europe). Eztia is a novel material science breakthrough that absorbs body heat and reduces skin temperature by ~10°C for 6-8 hours of strenuous physical activity, enhancing human performance, worker productivity, and protecting against heat-related injuries. Eztia’s technology can be used anywhere in the world, integrates into existing clothing and gear, and recharges with only water in under 30 minutes — no batteries, refrigeration, or electricity needed.

⚡️ Public Grid *

🇺🇸 New York
Co-Founder: Zach Schmitz, Joe Robbins
Why: More than a third of Americans feel burdened by energy costs, and 20% of renters have missed energy payments due to high costs — and renters on average pay 10% more for energy. Public Grid transforms how residents and multifamily properties interact with their electricity providers to reduce bills. Public Grid saves renters 10-30% on their utility bills while delivering clean energy through three business lines: energy brokering, low-cost delivery of community solar benefits, and virtual power plant programs (VPPs), which also help utilities optimize their grid infrastructure.

🔍 Silera

🇨🇦 Quebec
Co-Founder: Andrei Muresanu, Jerome Malevez 
Why: Computer vision is 10 years behind, and large language models (LLMs) have 3,000x more labeled data than vision models – delaying important innovations to built world systems to lower costs and decrease emissions and waste. Silera generated photoreal synthetic data to scale vision models, to solve critical pain points for circular economy, resilient infrastructure, zero-waste manufacturing, and climate-smart agriculture use cases.

Oscar Williams at Visionaries Tomorrow

✈️ Cosmic Aerospace*

🇺🇸 Colorado
Founder and CEO: Christopher Chahine
Why: Cosmic Aerospace is developing an all‑electric aircraft with 1,000+ km range, zero emissions, and turbofan‑level thrust—built using today’s battery tech and ultra‑efficient long‑span wings. With successful demonstrator flights already completed and rapid prototyping underway, they're reshaping sustainable aviation.

❄️ SirenOpt*

🇺🇸 California
Co-Founder and CEO: Jared O'Leary
Why: SirenOpt leverages cold atmospheric plasma combined with physics‑informed AI to deliver real‑time, non‑destructive multi‑property material analysis, addressing critical challenges across a broad spectrum of advanced manufacturing processes. Their innovation empowers smarter quality control across semiconductors, batteries, medical devices, and more.

✨ Terragrit

🇺🇸 California
Founder: Sam N
Why: Terragrit digitizes processes for a wide range of organizations by building virtual twins of physical environments. The rise of AI-driven industrial optimization is unlocking new value in risk management and adaptive operations, fueling demand for scalable, cross-sector platforms.

Rachel Slaybaugh at DCVC

⚡️ Fervo Energy*

🇺🇸 Texas
CEO: Tim Latimer
Why: Clean, firm energy is incredibly important for grid reliability, clean air, and economic abundance. My whole career, geothermal was written of as a rounding-error power source that would never contribute meaningfully in most places. Fervo has torn down that assumption by making clean, firm geothermal energy viable and valuable in lots of locations. 

🔌 Mainspring*

🇺🇸 California
CEO and Founder: Shannon Miller
Why: flexible, behind the meter power is key for businesses functioning on today's grid and Mainspring offers a power generation asset that fits that need. Mainspring's linear generators are fuel flexible, so they can bridge to a clean fuel future as well as use all of the renewable natural gas available today. Importantly, they are modular and flexible and can be built and scaled today. 

🏭 Guidewheel

🇺🇸 California
Ceo and Co-Founder: Lauren Dunford
Why: Reindustrialization means improving existing factories and building new ones that work with high efficiency. Guidewheel provides the sensors, intelligence, and operational tools to save energy, improve uptime, and drive performance in any factory. This crosscutting tool is driving value in factories and manufacturing. 

Micah Kotch at Blackhorn Ventures

⚡️ ThinkLabsAI*

🇺🇸 New York 
Founder: Josh Wong
Why: Physics-based AI agent for mission critical-grid planning and operations.  Founder exited his last gridtech co. to GE Vernova. They have a trong customer pull from Tier 1 IOUs to help usher in the 'Golden Age of Utilities'.

🤖 Formic*

🇺🇸 Chicago
Founder: Saman Farid
Why: Robots-as-a-Service to increase the productivity and capacity of factories across the US.  Full service automation for reindustrialization. They have a stellar team, high margins in a rapidly-growing domestic manufacturing sector.

❄️ Dandelion Energy

🇺🇸 New York
Founder: Kathy Hannun
Why: Geothermal is not just for data centers. Emissions-free, 24/7, residential cooling and heating at 1/2 the cost of the status quo. Their team just executes and is well-positioned for national expansion.

Evaline Tsai at Gigascale Capital

🐮 Pasture Biosciences*

🇺🇸 California
Founder and CEO: Matt Zehnder
Why: Pasture Biosciences is tackling livestock methane, one of agriculture’s biggest climate challenges. Its vaccines also improve feed efficiency, offering a scalable way for producers to maintain yields and animal health while cutting emissions.

⛏️ Solcoa Industries*

🇺🇸 California
CEO: Hooman Reza Nezhad
Why: Solcoa is rebuilding North America’s rare-earth supply chain with carbon-zero, domestically sourced metals. As demand from AI and electrification accelerates, Solcoa shows how industrial competitiveness and sustainability can scale together.

⚡️ Skouria*

🇺🇸 Pennsylvania
Founder and CEO: Matt Uddenberg
Why: Skouria is reinventing copper production through deep-brine extraction that’s faster, cleaner, and less destructive than traditional mining. The approach delivers scalable copper supply for electrification and data infrastructure without the footprint of conventional operations.

Paul Seidler at Evergreen Climate Innovations

🧲 CorePower Magnetics

Pittsburgh, PA
CEO: Sam Kernion
Why: Magnetics have been a bottleneck in the race to modernize the grid and meet soaring energy demands. CorePower Magnetics is changing this by delivering the efficiency and scalability needed to power the next generation of electrification. Their technology reduces the reliance on rare earth elements in electric motors and the grid, offering supply chain resilience through U.S.-based manufacturing. 

🏢 Darcy Solutions 

🇺🇸 Minnesota
CEO: Andrew Steiner
Why: Darcy Solutions provides groundwater-based geothermal systems for ultra-efficient heating and cooling in commercial buildings. Their systems enable geothermal installation in minimal footprints by utilizing groundwater to access significantly more thermal capacity than other technologies in limited space. Darcy systems offer sustainable heating and cooling solutions that eliminate emissions when coupled with renewable electricity, and a payback in less than a year after incentives.

✈️ LanzaJet

🇺🇸 Illinois
Co-Founder and CEO: Jimmy Samartzis 
Why: LanzaJet is advancing the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) that are compatible with existing aircraft and infrastructure. LanzaJet’s proven Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technology can utilize any source of low-carbon ethanol, making it the most scalable solution currently available in the market.

Dominic Go at Nomadic Venture Partners

🌬️ AiMinr

🇺🇲 California
Co-Founder: Dela Ariela Rostami
Why: AiMinr is AI-powered platform which digitizes and optimizes every stage of mine planning and feasibility, integrating eight modular workflows for technical reporting, compliance, and resource modeling. Nomadic Venture Partners is watching AiMinr because it targets the $30 billion pre-approval mining market currently dominated by technical consulting and is poised to significantly reduce the ~10 year gap between discovery and production of critical minerals.  

⛏️ Chemfinity

🇺🇸 New York
Co-Founder and CEO: Adam Uliana
Why: Chemfinity has created a proprietary nanotechnology that selectively captures and recovers metals from electronic waste and industrial effluents, operating without toxic solvents or high heat. We view Chemfinity as a key player in circular-economy metals, enabling scalable, clean urban mining at a time when demand for rare and precious metals is outpacing new primary production.

🦠 Endolith

🇺🇸 Colorado
Founder and CEO: Liz Dennett
Why: Endolith uses microbial and enzymatic processes to bioleach critical minerals, offering a low-impact alternative to traditional smelting and chemical extraction. We see Endolith as a breakthrough in sustainable resource extraction, dramatically increasing recovery rates while simultaneously lowering energy intensity and environmental footprint across the mining value chain.

Carl Choi at Alumni Ventures

🌾 Nitricity

🇺🇸 California
Co-Founder and CEO: Nicolas Pinkowski
Why: Nitricity produces carbon-free nitrogen fertilizer using renewable energy, air, water, and agricultural by-products, offering a cleaner alternative to fossil-fuel-based fertilizers. Their differentiator is a decentralized, electrochemical process that reduces emissions and enables localized production. We invested because they address one of agriculture’s largest carbon challenges with a scalable, modular, and cost-competitive solution.

🧱 Fortera*

🇺🇸 California
CEO and Co-Founder: Ryan Gilliam
Why: Fortera creates low-carbon cement by mineralizing CO₂ into durable binders through its ReCarb® process, which retrofits into existing cement plants. Their differentiator is drop-in compatibility with current infrastructure and ASTM-compliant performance. We invested because they can meaningfully decarbonize one of the largest industrial emitters while fitting into incumbents’ supply chains.

🔌 Omnidian*

🇺🇸 Seattle
CEO and Founder: Mark Liffmann
Omnidian provides protection and performance plans for residential and commercial solar + storage systems, ensuring they deliver on promised returns. Their differentiator is predictive monitoring combined with a nationwide service network that guarantees performance. We invested because they increase investor confidence in distributed clean energy assets amid market uncertainty.

Anna Trendewicz at Future Energy Ventures

⚡️ piq energy

🇺🇸 California
CEO and Founder: Tom Nudell
Why: piq energy solves the critical problem of data center grid integration through grid planning software solution enabling flexible connection. Demand side flexibility is critical for connecting large loads and helping with system balancing.

🔢 gridCARE 

🇺🇸 California
CEO and Founder: Amit Narayan
Why: gridcare increases grid capacity with a software only solution enabling smart planning. It unlocks data center and large loads interconnection.

⛈️ Rhizome Data

🇺🇸 Washington
CEO and Co-Founder: Mishal Thadani
Why: Rhizome Data is a software solution for climate risk assessment and intelligent investment planning for critical infrastructure. As extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, resilient power grids become crucial for reliable power supply.

Cvic Innocent at Frankenbuild Ventures

🛰️ Rogue Space Systems 

🇺🇸 New Hampshire
Cofounder & President: Jon Beam
CEO: Brook Leonard Maj Gen
Why: Rogue is turning space into a reusable, lower cost supply chain. Their modular, sustainable Orbots™ can be refueled and upgraded in orbit, and their OrBlock™ containers let customers fly just the payload, not an entire satellite, which cuts price, complexity, and launch mass. This reuse reduces waste and speeds iteration, creating a more sustainable, circular space economy and a clear path to on orbit manufacturing, with production runs targeted for early 2028. Looking ahead, Rogue’s platform helps turn retired hardware and space junk into useful materials through recovery and reuse with partners.

🚀 bluShift 

🇺🇸 Maine
CEO: Sascha Deri
Why: bluShift Aerospace delivers hybrid rocket engines and sea-based launch services for faster, lower-cost and safer hypersonic testing and suborbital research. Its boosters offer reusable, non-toxic propulsion that slashes costs and logistical barriers, while bluShift’s mobile ocean platform provides rapid, affordable access to near-space and is creating a scalable new launch corridor for government and commercial customers.

🔢 Mesa Quantum

🇺🇸 Colorado
Co-Founders: Sristy Agrawal and Wale Lawal 
Why: Mesa Quantum Systems builds chip-scale quantum sensors for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) beyond GPS. They are backed by the U.S. Space Force, State of Colorado, State of New Mexico, and top deep-tech VCs. Their breakthrough quantum manufacturing model enables scalable production of clocks and other quantum sensors, positioning them as a U.S. leader in commercial quantum sensing, while solving one of the most urgent national security and infrastructure challenges.

Lukasz Skarka at InnoEnergy

🧬 DexMat

🇺🇸 Colorado
CEO: Bryan Hassin
Why: DexMat is pioneering advanced carbon nanotube (CNT) materials to create ultra-strong, lightweight, and highly conductive fibers and composites. Spun from their patented "Galvorn" CNT technology, DexMat’s materials outperform metals like copper and aluminum in strength-to-weight and conductivity, opening new frontiers in aerospace, defense, EVs, and grid infrastructure. By replacing legacy metals with Galvorn, DexMat enables radically lighter, more efficient systems, while advancing sustainable, next-gen manufacturing.

⛏ Nth Cycle

🇺🇸 Boston
Founder: Megan O'Connor
Why: Nth Cycle is transforming critical mineral recovery with a clean, modular electro-extraction technology that replaces dirty, chemical- and heat-intensive refining methods. Their patented system, powered by renewable electricity, recovers key metals like nickel, cobalt, and rare earths from low-grade ores, mining waste, and recycled electronics. Nth Cycle is building a circular, domestic supply chain for the energy transition - turning today's waste into tomorrow’s clean energy infrastructure.

🔋 Graphenix Development Inc.*

🇺🇸 New York
Founder and CEO: Robert Anstey
Why: GDI specializes in advanced 100% silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries, offering over 30% higher energy density and enabling 15-minute charging times. Their roll-to-roll manufacturing process, developed in partnership with a major corporate, allows for rapid scalability without the need for traditional battery manufacturing steps. This innovation enhances battery performance, safety, and sustainability, contributing to the advancement of electric vehicles and clean energy storage solutions.

Janelle Goulard at Pangaea Ventures

🔁 PH7 Technologies*

🇨🇦 Vancouver
Founder and CEO: Mohammad Doostmohammadi
Why: Global shifts toward clean energy and resource sovereignty have exposed vulnerabilities in critical mineral supply chains, where traditional mining and refining methods are environmentally damaging, costly, and geopolitically constrained. pH7’s novel closed-loop, solvometallurgical approach redefines how vital metals like copper, platinum, and palladium are recovered, enabling a low-emission, energy-efficient alternative to conventional extraction. By efficiently transforming end-of-life materials and low-grade feedstocks into high-purity resources, pH7 empowers electrification industries and beyond with secure, local, and sustainable supply.

🦠 Kanvas Biosciences*

🇺🇸 New Jersey
Co-Founder and CEO: Matthew Cheng
Why: The enormous untapped potential of the human microbiome is constrained by poor visibility into how microbial communities interact and influence health outcomes, leaving a multi-billion-dollar diagnostic and therapeutic opportunity largely unrealized. Kanvas Biosciences’ breakthrough HiPR-FISH spatial biology technology maps host-microbiome interactions in situ to unlock unprecedented insight into microbiomes in their native environment. The company’s integrated platform enables discovery, development and manufacturing of novel live biotherapeutics that will improve patients' response rates to immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer treatment.

🧪 Tidal Vision*

🇺🇸 Washington
CEO: Craig Kasberg
Why: Tidal Vision develops high-performance, biodegradable chitosan solutions through a proprietary zero-waste extraction process. Their scalable technologies enable cleaner water treatment, more effective agriculture inputs, and safer materials, offering sustainable alternatives to harmful chemicals across multiple industries.

Jasmin Kern at Lever VC

🍄 Joyn Foods/ 50Cut*

🇺🇸 New York
Founder and CEO: Shalom Daniel
Why: Hybrid meat is one of the most practical levers to cut animal protein use without asking consumers to change their habits. By enabling processors to replace up to 50% of ground meat with a mycelium ingredient while maintaining taste and cost, JOYN targets a multi-billion-dollar global meat market with a scalable, margin-enhancing, GHG emissions-reducing solution.

🦐 Atarraya

🇺🇸 Indiana
CEO: Daniel Russek
Why: Atarraya offers modular, fast-to-deploy shrimp farms that can produce local, antibiotic-free shrimp at prices competitive with imports. As global shrimp supply faces mounting sustainability and logistics challenges, the company is well-positioned to capture a significant share of the growing demand for resilient, domestic seafood production.

🌾 Heritable Ag

🇺🇸 California
CSO and Co-Founder: Davide Sosso
Why: Heritable’s platform integrates environmental, management, and genetic data to dramatically improve predictive breeding. By using AI to identify which genetics will perform best in specific environments, the company can guide breeding programs with unprecedented precision and shorten development cycles from years to months. This capability has broad applications across row crops, specialty crops, and forestry—unlocking major productivity gains in a climate-stressed agriculture system.

Murat Aktihanoglu at Remarkable Ventures Climate

⚡️ GridAstra*

🇺🇸 Texas
Founder: Srinivas Musunuri
Why: GridAstra is tackling one of the most fundamental bottlenecks in the clean-energy transition: grid congestion and interconnection delays. Their software platform — branded as “Integrated Digital Grid Enhancing Technologies (ID-GETs)” — enables utilities, ISOs/RTOs and large load- or generation-developers to unlock latent capacity in the existing transmission network rather than build entirely new lines. With U.S. peak electricity demand projected to triple over the next decade and interconnection queues ballooning (12,000+ projects and many waiting 6+ years), this is a massive market. By offering a software-centric, faster-time-to-impact solution, GridAstra sits at the convergence of demand-side electrification, large data center loads, renewable generation growth and grid reliability imperatives—making it a high-leverage point for decarbonization.

🏭 NeuralWatt*

🇺🇸 Washington
Founder: Chad Gibson
Why: Neuralwatt addresses a massive and rapidly growing pain point: the energy-intensive compute demands of AI and data centers. Their software enables operators of GPU infrastructure to boost inference throughput (demonstrated +33%) while reducing idle GPU power draw by over 40%. What makes this especially attractive in a climate-tech context: Neuralwatt’s value proposition isn’t just cost-reduction, but carbon-emission mitigation. Their dashboard reports real-time carbon data and optimizes for “tokens/watt” and “Tokens/CO₂”.

💡 Mercury Computing

🇺🇸 Colorado
Founder: Mark Gately
Why: Mercury Computing turns data centers into flexible grid assets by optimizing compute workloads and enabling real-time coordination with utilities. As AI-driven power demand accelerates amid grid constraints, Mercury’s platform represents a critical enabler for scaling compute sustainably within existing energy limits.

Josh Grehan at Helios Climate Ventures

🛞 Coreshell*

🇺🇸 California
Co-Founder and CEO: Jonathan Tan
Why: Coreshell is the first to develop a commercial solution for metallurgical Silicon batteries. It’s the only anode material that is lower cost than current Chinese Graphite and breaks cost parity with fossil fuels. The material is readily available in the US and Europe, enabling western EV producers the chance to bring supply chains closer to home while lowering battery costs. 

💦 Aqua Membranes*

🇺🇸 New Mexico
CEO: Craig Beckman
Why: Aqua Membranes uses 3d printing technology to improve existing reverse osmosis (RO) elements. They have field deployments showing 30% energy savings, 2x longer lifetime, and 4x less cleaning/maintenance. Able to drop into existing RO plants, their product is helping semiconductor producers, mines, and food & beverage operators use water more efficiently. 

⚡️ TS Conductor

🇺🇸 California
CEO: Jason Huang
Why: Existing grid infrastructure is unable to meet energy demand, and building new transmission lines is slow and expensive. TS Conductor has created a new transmission line that allows utilities to double or triple their transmission capacity on existing infrastructure. 

Sahaj Kumar at Counteract

🐟️ CarbonRun*

🇨🇦 Toronto
Co-Founder and CEO: Luke Connell
Why: CarbonRun restores river health and boosts local fish populations, all while removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Their approach, River Alkalinity Enhancement, is poised for scale with verifiable, safe, and cheap carbon removal.

💨 Arca

🇨🇦 Vancouver 
CEO: Paul Needham
Why: Arca is an Industrial Mineralization company that leverages pre-existing infrastructure and alkaline waste from heavy industry like mining and steel to accelerate the natural process of carbon mineralization to remove and permanently store atmospheric carbon dioxide as rock.  Arca's process offers several commercial co-benefits to its industry partners, and shows how we can leverage existing industry to reach the scale of CDR we need.

🌫️ CREW Carbon*

🇺🇸 New York
Founder: Joachim Katchinoff
Why: CREW Carbon is permanently removing biogenic CO₂ from wastewater treatment. CREW will leverage wastewater’s immense existing infrastructure, which already concentrates gigatonnes of CO₂ in water, to accelerate the weathering of minerals in a highly measurable process that also provides important benefits to municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities.

Karen Sheffield at Pachamama Ventures

🧬 Mars Materials*

🇺🇸 Texas
CEO: Aaron Fitzgerald
Why: Mars Materials is turning insidious materials in a variety of industries into carbon sinks starting with the 1st-ever carbon negative acrylonitrile.

🔌 ElectricFish*

🇺🇸 California
CEO: Anurag Kamal
Why: ElectricFish provides reliable back-up energy to the grid when it needs it most while also providing ultra-fast EV charging infrastructure.

🌊 Celeste

🇲🇽 Mexico City
Founder and CEO: Leni Redondo
Why: Celeste is building the go-to platform for enterprise water management. They are just at the starting line, but they have made impressive progress with a simple yet revolutionary solution that F500s are loving today.

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