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Here is a list of 50 innovative climate tech companies to watch in 2026 that are making a positive impact on society.
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The world is facing a major climate crisis, and we must take action. Climate tech startups are playing a massive role in creating innovative solutions to help reduce the impact of global warming.
From carbon capture and storage to renewable energy sources, these climate tech startups are leading the charge in the fight against climate change. In this blog post, we’ll look at the top climate tech startups you need to know about. These startups are transforming the future of our planet and inspiring others to follow their lead.
Climate technology refers to using scientific and technological advancements to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. Climate technology is crucial for several reasons:
Overall, climate technology is critical for mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change and creating a sustainable, low-carbon future.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to play a significant role in addressing climate change in various ways. Here are some examples of how AI is being used to tackle climate change:
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Here are some examples of Climate Tech:
These are just a few examples of Climate Tech. Many more innovative technologies are being developed to tackle climate change and build a more sustainable future.
The order does not follow a ranking.

Sylvera is a climate tech startup that uses satellite imagery and machine learning to measure and verify carbon emissions from forests. Sylvera’s platform uses machine learning algorithms to analyze satellite imagery and estimate the amount of carbon stored in forests. Companies and governments can use this data to measure their carbon footprint and track progress toward carbon reduction goals.

Solar AI Technologies is focused on improving the efficiency and reliability of solar power plants by using machine learning algorithms to predict and optimize solar energy output. The company’s platform uses satellite imagery to gather data on weather patterns, cloud cover, and other factors that affect solar energy generation. Then it uses AI to predict and adjust energy output accordingly.

Reep Green Solutions is a non-profit organization providing education and sustainable living solutions. The company offers various services, including home energy assessments, rain barrel and compost bin sales, tree planting programs, and environmental education workshops. Reep Green Solutions aims to help individuals, organizations, and municipalities reduce their environmental impact and build more sustainable communities.

Giki is a mobile app that helps consumers make more sustainable purchasing decisions by providing information on products’ environmental and social impact. The app uses a proprietary algorithm to rate products based on factors like carbon footprint, use of sustainable materials, and social responsibility. Users can scan the barcode of a product or search for it in the app to see its Giki rating and get more information on its environmental and social impact.

Watershed is on a mission to bend the climate curve. They help companies like Stripe, Spotify, Klarna, and Airbnb measure, reduce, and report their carbon emissions with real-time, audit-grade emissions data to power business value creation, regulatory compliance, and global climate impact.

Aclima is pioneering an entirely new way to diagnose the health of our air and track climate-changing pollution. Powered by their network of roving and stationary sensors, Aclima measures air pollution and greenhouse gases at unprecedented scales and block-by-block resolution.

The vision of AmphibiousAI is to manufacture green and sustainable amphibious autonomous cars which can be used for both land and underwater travel and tourism purposes, with no disturbance to aquatic life.

Scopito is a software company that offers a cloud-based platform for managing and analyzing data from visual inspections, including drones, cameras, and other sources.

Climatik is a leading Company in Mexico in providing services and advice in the field of wind resource assessment and meteorological measurement, founded in Mexico City in 2008 and now with branches in the area with major wind resources in Latin America, the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca and our new office in Panamá City.

Shayp brings real-time water flow analytics and non-invasive technology that helps reduce and prevent customer-side leakages. Using AI, they help people leverage water meter data to reveal water usage inefficiencies and leakages in all types of buildings.

Tallarna is an award-winning climate tech company for the built environment. By combining data analytics, performance guarantees, and efficient funding, the company makes decarbonization projects executable at speed and scale.

Topolytics is a data aggregation and analytics business that makes the world’s waste visible, verifiable, and valuable. Topolytics’ WasteMap® – a data analytics platform – ingests, processes, and normalizes data on waste movements, sites, and companies and generates insights for waste producers, recyclers, investors, and governments.
How do you measure impact?
Topolytics fundamentally measures its impact against its mission to make the world’s waste visible, verifiable, and valuable. In practice, our platform WasteMap, when deployed by our customers, is helping them to gain more control over their multi-site and multi-territory waste supply chain data. This supports cost and resource efficiency, improves environmental and carbon measurement, and supports more efficient and higher-quality ESG reporting. Our ability to standardize waste supply chain and infrastructure data across multiple companies, sectors, and territories enables our customers, governments, and regulators to build smarter policies and KPIs that can enable resource recovery and closed loops for materials. As a data-driven insights business, we are consistently qualifying and measuring the quality of data, the quality of metrics, and the associated impact of actionable insights.

Pledge makes it simple for businesses of every size to understand and manage the climate impact of their products. By providing tools and infrastructure, they automate the delivery of climate solutions – such as footprint measurement, reduction, and offsetting – into customer journeys.
How do you measure impact?
With more than two-thirds of companies failing to report or measure their scope 3 emissions, despite often representing 70% of a business’s total emissions, it’s clear companies need support to take control of the environmental impact of their supply chains. Pledge is a climate software product that helps businesses on their journey to Net Zero, providing the essential tools for companies to measure, manage and reduce the impact of their logistics supply chains.
To measure impact at Pledge we closely follow a business’ Net Zero journey, tracking three key metrics:

Flow Carbon uses blockchain technology to put carbon offset credits on chain, accelerating the creativity and scalability of climate change solutions. Flow Carbon is headquartered in New York, United States, and was founded in 2021.

Solavio Labs was started by engineers who wanted to develop innovative technologies and engineering solutions for improving the performance of solar power plants. All their decisions are based on what is best for customers and help increase the global solar footprint.

Gilytics help energy and engineering companies find the best route for powerlines and other linear infrastructure in seconds instead of months, saving time and money with better data, visuals, and communication. Their vision is to become the worldwide standard for planning linear infrastructure expansion to asset management.

Regen Network Development PBC (Public Benefit Corp) is the blockchain software development company powering the Regen Network blockchain protocol. RND is the core software developer of Regen Ledger, the blockchain software and core carbon accounting modules of the Regen Network blockchain protocol. RND’s engineering team has been a lead contributor to the ecosystem as the lead maintainer of the Cosmos SDK since 2019.

CleanTech, GreenTech, and Carbon Reduction are terms that refer to the use of innovative data analysis and emerging technologies to create a more sustainable built environment. These technologies allow for intelligent decision-making that can reduce the carbon footprint of buildings and other structures, while also improving energy efficiency and reducing waste.

Toucan is a company that is working to make DeFi (Decentralized Finance) accessible to everyone in a way that is beneficial to the planet. They are striving to create a system of finance that is open, transparent, and secure, while also being sustainable and environmentally friendly.
How do you measure impact?
We define “impact” as all initiatives that unlock or help scale climate action. This can be on a macro-level, by building infrastructure that powers more efficient carbon markets (which is what we at Toucan are doing). But the impact can also happen on a micro-level, for example by improving the lives of the members of small and rural communities.
The impact is generally hard to measure as it comes in so many different shapes and formats. On the topic of carbon credits, metrics to look at are trading volume, the percentage of nature-based credits that are being issued, and the number of carbon credit retirements. The key thing here: To measure impact, we need a transparent carbon market where trading history, retirement data, and credit details can be accessed and verified by anyone. This is possible – we’re using blockchain technology as a highly effective tool to improve transparency and accessibility, and to support the shift to a more open carbon market.

Instyle Solar is an award-winning solar company that provides personalized in-home consultations to customers in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth. Instyle Solar has been recognized for theiritsitment to providing quality products and services. They are dedicated to helping their customers reduce their energy costs and improve their environmental impact.

Ivy is on a mission to develop the tech stack for a united environmental market, aiming to permanently embed natural capital (e.g, ecosystem functions and CO2 reduction) into economic growth — combating climate change at a large scale.
How do you measure impact?
At Ivy, we measure our impact by the quality/quantity of the environmental projects and the satisfaction of the stakeholders involved in the financing process. This is the only impact metric that allows us to attract more talent to start projects, investors to invest, and ultimately scale this industry.

AnythingWeather Communications, Inc. has been helping companies use weather data to improve the bottom line since 1995. They build custom weather services and applications utilizing weather data collected from over 20,000 sources to deliver unique and targeted services to your business with a highly personal touch.

Klima is a personal climate action app. With Klima, everyone can calculate their personal carbon footprint and understand the climate impact of their own lifestyle. Users can offset their emissions by supporting science-backed projects that remove or prevent the same emissions elsewhere. Next, the app helps to shrink one’s personal footprint through climate education, customized tips, and achievements.

AirEx is a patented smart ventilation control. AirEx has developed a retrofit smart ventilation control system that regulates airflow via air bricks. Occupants benefit from significantly reduced energy bills and improved thermal comfort without compromising on air quality.

Zeigo accelerates decarbonization for companies of all sizes. Created by industry experts, our suite of intuitive, impactful digital solutions lights the path toward a carbon-free future.

Veritree empowers businesses to integrate verified restorative actions into their business model. Their technology provides transparency throughout the lifecycle of restorative projects, matches these projects with mission-aligned corporate partners, and ensures the projects’ ongoing impacts are authentic and reported.

Arbonaut is a company that specializes in developing information gathering and Geographic Information System (GIS) solutions for forest inventory and natural resource management. Their solutions are designed to provide accurate and comprehensive data to organizations that need to manage and monitor their natural resources.

Sheru is a software platform revolutionizing how energy networks are built. It is creating a new backend system that will allow for more efficient energy networks while also giving users more control over their energy usage. With its innovative technology, Sheru is helping to create a more sustainable energy future.
How do you measure impact?
At Sheru, we are building the digital Infrastructure for electrification
The electrification of power and transport can solve 70% of emissions globally. This is the major impact that we’re looking to create. It’s also 30% cheaper to operate over coal and oil, and can be localized as well.
Sheru is an asset lite B2B software platform solving for needs of energy and E-mobility businesses globally. Sheru’s SaaS ‘Eco’ enables discoms to source energy storage space for intraday load leveling and energy management. Sheru’s network of EVs and standalone batteries monetize idle time by lending space in batteries to discoms via Eco.
Sheru’ mobile app ‘Tezz Dukaan’ enables small retail stores service battery swapping and charging to electric 2 and 3-wheeler drivers for 60% incremental revenue per month. Our mobile app removes the need for battery and charging expertise in operations.
Sheru’s SaaS ‘ScateBat’ enables battery manufacturers and lessors to manage post-sales and asset returns respectively. Intelligent management reduces the return rate for battery manufacturers and improves IRR for lessors.

Raptor Maps offers advanced analytics, insights, and productivity software for the entire solar lifecycle. They provide asset owners, managers, O&M, EPCs, and financiers with services that include: a digital twin of solar sites, aerial thermal inspections, data normalization, serial number scanning and mapping, warranty claim features, equipment records, and mobile tools.

Route Konnect sensors and analytics tools offer intelligent, real-time insights into city movement – saving time, resources, and our planet. Most of today’s reactive traffic and transport systems are inefficient and, as a result, are often wasteful, overwhelming, and unreliable. Route Konnect will deliver the promise of smart cities.

HelioRec is on a mission to bring clean, renewable energy to near-shore locations around the world. With over half of the global population living in these areas, it is essential that renewable energy sources are implemented. To do this, HelioRec is developing floating solar power plants that can be installed in near-shore locations.

Fulcrum3D provides world-class technology solutions for accurate and robust resource monitoring in the wind and solar energy industries. They deliver precise measurements and reliable data for developing and operating renewable energy projects.

Pachama’s mission is to restore nature to solve climate change. They use AI and satellite data to originate, verify and monitor nature-based carbon sequestration projects around the world.

Climatiq develops an open dataset of global emission data and the technical infrastructure you need to realize meaningful reductions to your climate footprint. They collect and maintain open climate impact datasets that are constantly expanding and improving in collaboration with the science, technology, and sustainability communities, making the insight needed for accurate calculations and decision-making readily available.

Glint makes solar analysis simple by providing fast, valuable insights to solar development companies. They recognize that developers need reliable data to determine the most optimal floating solar solution based on the conditions of specific bodies of water.

Nori is a carbon dioxide removal marketplace. It is building a transparent and secure platform that will allow anyone in the world to pay to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Their voluntary marketplace will enable carbon removal suppliers to connect directly with buyers, improving efficiency, and reducing costs.

Earthbanc is a carbon and finance platform that combines AI-powered audits to report on tree planting and carbon credit projects. It uses machine learning and satellite remote sensing to audit and rate landscape carbon, carbon offsets, and green finance products that support carbon removal continuously.
How do you measure impact?
Earthbanc defines climate impact in our farmer-led nature-based solutions carbon removal credits – by the three key principles of carbon additionality, permanence, and leakage. We measure and report these metrics for our clients with annual audits that leverage satellite remote sensing, AI, and digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV).
We also define socio-economic, biodiversity, and ecological co-benefit impacts using accepted measurement methodologies combined with the Earthbanc MRV App that measures farmers’ reforestation and agroforestry projects that we finance and sell to our clients as carbon forward contracts.
Earthbanc has developed a sophisticated machine learning and digital MRV tech stack that automates carbon project development and finance – enabling carbon buyers to make their purchases on the Earthbanc platform with confidence and better data quality.

Trilateral Research is a UK and IE-based enterprise founded in 2004. Their rigorous research is at the foundation of their work. They provide regulatory and policy advice, develop new data-driven technologies, and contribute to the latest standards in safeguarding privacy, ethics, and human rights within the public and private sectors.

SmartICE is an award-winning technological innovation for the North. They are the world’s first climate change adaptation tool to integrate traditional knowledge of sea ice with advanced data acquisition and remote monitoring technology.

Pani helps optimize water treatment plants, accelerating the water sector toward net zero. Current product: a cloud-based machine learning software platform that can elevate the efficiency of industrial and city-scale desalination and wastewater treatment plants without any retrofits or disruption to operations.

Recycleye is a ground-breaking technology company bringing advanced machine learning, computer vision, and robotics to the global waste management industry. Their proven Recycleye Vision and Robotics solutions increase plant performance, enabling data-driven strategic decision-making and delivering transparency, traceability, and efficiency.

SINAI Technologies Inc. is mitigating climate change by enabling more intelligent emission measurement, scenario analysis, and decarbonization strategy tools for organizations. They are one of the world’s leading Decarbonization-as-a-Service platforms to measure, analyze, reduce, and price emissions using science-based methodologies.

Solenica is a revolutionary organization with a singular goal: bring sunshine to indoor spaces everywhere. They believe that spending more time in the sunlight is a critical component to our health, happiness, and productivity.

Coral Vita grows resilient corals to restore our world’s dying reefs. Coral reefs support up to 1 billion people, sustain 25% of marine life, and generate $30 billion annually through tourism, fisheries, and coastal protection, but they are dying rapidly.

Invenia Labs uses machine learning to optimize the electricity grid, and ensure demands are met at the least-possible prices and minimum pollution. Their work helps reduce emissions and pollution, improve the grid’s reliability, and increase economic efficiency.

Suncast is an online forecasting system for solar generation. It provides accurate predictions of electric power generation by crossing the historical information from the solar plants with real-time monitoring of its weather conditions through hi-res satellite imagery.
How do you measure impact?
Suncast applies Artificial Intelligence to variable renewable energy resources, predicting the performance of photovoltaic and wind parks against various scenarios. For this purpose, through Machine Learning techniques, weather forecasting and actual historical generation data from each power plant are combined, which leads to the retraining of models to obtain more precise results.
Suncast’s services allow our clients to comply with the country’s required regulations, receive weekly reports through our online platform, maximize the profitability of power plants and optimize the cleaning process of solar panels. This leads to a considerable forecasting error reduction with the Energy Forecasting Service and the reduction of yearly photovoltaic park cleanings attributed to the Soiling Forecasting Service.

WePower is an independent technology company with a team of experienced engineers, architects, technical specialists, and industry professionals working to reduce complexity for clients moving towards a net-zero emission world.

Patch focuses on building infrastructure for a climate-positive economy, starting with an API for carbon removal. The company makes carbon removal as simple as writing a few lines of code. Build sustainable products with ease and put your climate goals on autopilot. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The software platform for decarbonizing companies and their supply chains is an innovative tool that helps organizations reduce their carbon footprint. It provides a comprehensive set of features that enable companies to track, measure, and analyze their emissions and the emissions of their suppliers.

Wondrwall is a technology company dedicated to changing how we live and use energy. Wondrwall Group is made up of Wondrwall Ltd, Wondrwall Energy Solutions, Wondrwall Analytics Ltd, Wondrwall Assisted Living Ltd, and Wondrwall MGA Ltd.
The companies featured here show how climate innovation has moved from theory to real-world impact. From AI-powered emissions tracking and renewable energy optimization to transparent carbon markets, resilient infrastructure, and nature restoration at scale, these solutions are reshaping how industries operate, cities adapt, and the planet recovers. What stands out is the breadth of approaches—software, hardware, blockchain, and geospatial intelligence—working together toward a net-zero future. As climate pressures intensify, these leaders prove that technology, when applied with purpose, can drive measurable progress for both the environment and the economy.
If you’re working on a climate tech solution and want to accelerate development with real-world AI applications, let’s connect. Omdena partners with organizations to build and deploy scalable impact-driven climate innovations.