Top Environmental Innovation Startups in 2024

Coastal Carbon is a seed-funded startup on a mission to create positive impact through earth observation and AI. Founded at the University of Waterloo by a team of PhDs and engineers, we’re backed by some of the best AI and climate tech investors like HF0, Inovia Capital and Propeller Ventures, angels like James Tamplin (cofounder Firebase) and Sid Gorham (cofounder OpenTable, Granular), and partners like Amazon AWS and the United Nations. We’re building multimodal foundation models for the natural world. We believe there’s more to the world than the internet + more to intelligence than memorizing the internet. Our models are trained on satellite remote sensing and real world ground truth data, and are used by our customers in nature conservation, carbon dioxide removal, and government to protect and positively impact our increasingly changing world. Our ultimate goal is to build AGI of the natural world.

Businesses of all sizes—from startups to global enterprises—use CHOOOSE APIs and software to offer climate compensation at check-out, in-app, or anywhere they meet their customers. We bring together everything that’s required to integrate climate action into your customer experiences. Happy Customers, Happy Planet We know that when you put customers at the center of climate action, the impact becomes greater. So we work with you to integrate climate into modern, market-leading customer experiences. Optimized Our RESTful API enables partners to optimize climate integrations, flexibility adjusting for any customer type, market, or compliance specification. Global Climate change is a global challenge. Our integrations support secure climate-oriented customer experiences in 40+ languages, all currencies and major payment methods, ensuring you can enable your customers wherever they are. Trusted Climate Impact From verified carbon removal to Nature-based Solutions to sustainable fuels, CHOOOSE platform has dozens of trusted, pre-vetted climate solutions ready to integrate for all types of climate programs. chooose.today

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Open Earth Foundation is a California-based research and deployment non-profit developing open innovative technology to increase planetary resilience and avoid a catastrophic climate crisis. We are building open infrastructure for the Paris Agreement, energy finance, biodiversity tracking, and other critical problems. We are a diverse international team, working remotely with a network of collaborators and partners globally, from the United Nations to startups.