Climate Tech Startups

Rize builds an end-to-end platform for rice farmers in Southeast Asia, combining financing, AI-driven agronomy, and market access to scale sustainable practices such as alternate wetting and drying, reduced pesticide use, crop residue management, and site-specific nutrient management. The platform handles farmer onboarding, financing, input and repayment tracking, and provides dashboards for monitoring and sustainability compliance, aiming to raise farmer incomes while cutting water use and methane emissions.

2 investors

Root offers a platform that helps food and agriculture processors reduce farm-level emissions across their supply chains by collecting farm activity data, generating tailored action plans for farmers, and tracking year-over-year emissions reductions. It focuses on in-value-chain decarbonisation for agricultural processors rather than carbon credits or offsets, with a stated focus on European processors.

2 investors

Rubicon Carbon offers curated portfolios of carbon credits for corporate buyers, allowing clients to build bespoke portfolios aligned with their climate and sustainability goals. The company operates in the carbon markets and climate solutions space.

2 investors

Rubio is an impact venture fund providing early-stage growth capital to founders building companies that combine profit and purpose. It focuses on two thematic areas: social cohesion through wellbeing, education, and inclusion, and net-zero transitions in energy, industry, and agrifood.

2 investors

Rural Farmers Hub provides digital agriculture services for medium-to-large farm operations, using satellite data and cloud-based analysis to assess crop health, soil nutrients, and soil moisture and deliver precision farming advice. It also offers training in climate-smart and precision farming methods.

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Saara AI provides an AI-powered platform for ecommerce brands with three main products: EcoReturns for returns management, EcoShip for multi-carrier shipping optimization, and FlyOS for no-code AI agents that automate marketing and operations. The platform serves direct-to-consumer brands across fashion, beauty, electronics, and other sectors.

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Samudra builds an intelligence layer for the blue economy, developed by a team of ocean scientists, engineers and operators. The company focuses on ocean data and technology for maritime and marine operations.

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The Sanergy Collaborative is a network of partner organizations addressing urban sanitation through a circular economy model, building safe sanitation systems, collecting waste, and upcycling it into products such as organic fertilizer, insect-based animal feed, and ecofuels. It serves cities and low-income communities across the developing world, with operations centered in Nairobi, Kenya.

2 investors

Satleo Labs operates a constellation of low Earth orbit microsatellites with onboard edge computing and machine learning to capture high-resolution thermal (MWIR, LWIR, and visible band) imagery and temperature data. Its thermal intelligence serves sectors including agriculture, defense, climate science, weather forecasting, renewable energy, disaster management, and urban planning.

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Sceye develops high-altitude platform station (HAPS) aircraft designed for long-endurance flight in the stratosphere, providing direct-to-cellphone broadband connectivity as an alternative to ground infrastructure and earth observation for monitoring environmental and climate indicators. It serves telecommunications and earth-monitoring needs from the stratosphere.

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Sea6 Energy develops mechanized, large-scale ocean farming of tropical seaweed and converts the biomass into patented products for agriculture, aquaculture, food ingredients, renewable chemicals, bioplastics, and biofuel. The company focuses on producing a scalable, carbon-negative feedstock for these industries.

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Sedron develops technology that converts biosolids and manure into carbon-negative commodities and clean water at lower cost than traditional methods. It operates in the waste upcycling and resource recovery space.

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Segura manufactures portable electrochemical sensors for detecting lead, copper, cadmium, and zinc in drinking water at parts-per-billion concentrations in under five minutes, serving water utilities, environmental consultancies, and field teams globally. The platform replaces traditional lab-based testing with on-site analysis and cloud-connected compliance reporting.

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Semios provides on-farm monitoring and management tools for growers, covering weather monitoring, pest management (including mating disruption), and irrigation monitoring and automation. It pairs these tools with field technicians and advisors who support farm operations throughout the growing season.

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SenseUP develops dsRNA-based biopesticides as an eco-friendly alternative to chemical pesticides, aimed at helping farmers protect crops from pests and pathogens. A spin-off from the German research institute FZJ, the company applies a patented dsRNA development platform for agricultural pest and disease control.

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Sensible Weather offers a Weather Guarantee product that automatically reimburses travelers up to 100% of their daily rate or booking cost when qualifying weather (such as rain or excessive heat) occurs during trips or outdoor activities like camping, golf, ski trips, theme parks, and concerts. The guarantee is sold at checkout through the company's travel and hospitality partners, with proactive same-day payouts and no claims process.

2 investors

Seqana provides satellite-based measurement of soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration using scientific approaches for agrifood companies, with a focus on monitoring and reporting soil health across supply chains globally.

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Sequestr provides working capital financing to farmers, landowners, and project owners in climate-related sectors including renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and forestry, while aligning with corporate environmental objectives. The distributed team develops financial services and zero-waste market solutions focused on climate mitigation projects.

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Seraphim is a venture capital investor focused on space technology, backing space and deeptech startups from inception to exit through its investment funds, accelerator, and investment trust. It supports ventures in areas such as Earth observation, secure communications, defense, and climate intelligence.

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Shadow Power deploys, owns, and manages distributed energy resources such as onsite batteries, aggregating and synchronizing them with grid operations to provide flexible, resilient power. Its operating platform serves utilities and their customers by turning customer-sited assets into utility-grade infrastructure.

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Shift EV converts commercial vehicle fleets to electric by retrofitting existing vehicles with battery packs and electric powertrains. The company serves logistics and delivery fleet operators across emerging markets and Europe.

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Shift Invest is an early-stage venture investor focused on climate and nature, backing and supporting impact entrepreneurs to help them scale. It operates as an impact-oriented investment firm.

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Shift Thermal develops FLEX Thermal Storage technology for building HVAC systems, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooling. The company positions its technology as part of the clean energy transition for buildings.

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Shifted Energy develops a Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS) platform for utilities to control and optimize virtual power plants at the grid edge. The software enables utilities to forecast, dispatch, and scale distributed energy resources across their grids through asset-level visibility and device integration.

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