Tuesday, September 19, 2023
10 awesome climate startups
Not only are these awesome startups changing the world, as our beta users they're helping iron out any last-minute creases before we release our platform into the wild. 🐯
These 10 are just for starters—with many more amazing startups coming soon.👇
🍄 Rainstick is a novel indigenous startup combining traditional knowledge with modern technology, accelerating the growth of plants and fungi.
Founder: Darryl Lyons 🇦🇺
🚆 Treeva builds road & rail-side turbines that generate electricity from passing traffic and trains.
Founder: Anjali Devadasan 🇬🇧
🐠 Coralmaker: Even if warming is capped at 1.5℃, we’re set to lose ~70% of corals by 2050. Coralmaker is deep-tech for large scale reef restoration.
Founder: Taryn Foster 🇦🇺
🧻 Serious Tissues: Every day, one million trees are cut down to make toilet paper. Now there’s an affordable, carbon-neutral, quality, UK-made alternative.
Founder: Chris Baker 🇬🇧
🏠 Evitat: An AI-powered home renovation platform helping consumers remove 30 tonnes of Co2 with every renovation.
Founder: Sonja Markovic 🇦🇺
🫒 Citizens of Soil: Olive oil has been commoditised—producers are squeezed and land is degraded, while consumers miss out on flavour & nutrition. Now there’s an alternative.
Founder: Sarah Fulton Vachon 🇬🇧
🗺️ Climasens: A climate intelligence startup specialising in real-time decision support tools for urban heat adaptation and climate resilience.
Founder: Joe Glesta 🇦🇺
🏪 Canopey: Kicking Bezos to the curb by building the platform for ethical consumption.
Founder: Thomas Panton 🇬🇧
🏭 Mantaray Climate: Clean up your supply chain emissions without the need for a large budget or an in-house sustainability team.
Founder: Rujuta Natu 🇦🇺
♻️ Innovate Recycle: 500,000 tonnes of carpet (mainly plastic) go to landfill every year in the UK. Innovate Recycle makes carpets circular (now at 10+ tonnes a day, and growing).
Founder: Tim Bagshaw 🇬🇧