Top Natural Resources Startups in 2026

DecisionNext is the only native AI solution built specifically for buyers and sellers of commodity products. DN's SaaS software helps maximize profit margins and minimize risk. DN pushes buying transactions into the troughs in a volatile price environment, and does the opposite with selling transactions. It also provides a clear audit trail of exactly how prices were set. DN has patents awarded and pending for its method of incorporating users' market knowledge into its models. DecisionNext is helping commodity product buyers and sellers achieve similar profit margin gains to those created by applying deep analytics to several other industries, including airline, retail, high tech, pharmaceuticals, aerospace and logistics.

Citylitics delivers predictive intelligence on local utility & public infrastructure markets The U.S. needs to invest $4.5 Trillion over the next 5 years to upgrade its infrastructure, including water, energy, public transit, roads, airports, and more. Citylitics is the only source of predictive intelligence on where, how, and why these infrastructure investments will be made. Our Data Engine transforms over a billion documents buried in 31,000+ cities & utilities data sources into high value intelligence for targeted business development. The largest infrastructure industry leaders rely on Citylitics for external datasets and intelligence reports Citylitics' vision is a world where data drives Trillions of dollars of societal infrastructure investment towards the most ideal social, economic, and environmental outcomes.

Each year the mining industry discards over 200 billion tons of waste (tailings) and produces more than 7% of the world’s carbon emissions. Phoenix Tailings is on a mission to be the world’s first clean mining and metals production company. By eliminating this harmful waste from the environment, we can sustainably create valuable new materials. We started with the humble beginnings of a few friends in a backyard, thinking of how they can fix this broken system of metals production. Now, Phoenix Tailings has become one of the top sustainability startups in the world. A Techstars Boston 2020 company with funding from the US Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, Phoenix has demonstrated early success in our clean mining mission. We still have a long way to go to achieve this mission. However, it’s our belief that together, the right people can overcome any obstacle and change the world.

Aquaria creates clean water from the air to backup residential and commercial water. Whether faced with drought, contamination or other disruptions, Aquaria's atmospheric water generators can guarantee an alternative water supply. We are transforming access to life's most precious resource.

The products are a water-free, energy efficient, liquid CO2-based textile & garment processing system; and the associated chemistry and services that go with that. CO2 is non-toxic, non-hazardous, non-flammable, in-exhaustible, and cheap. It has material properties that make it ideal for cleaning/sterilizing/coating many fabric types. TERSUS enhance performance & economics (water, energy, infrastructure savings) and eliminates uncertainty.

Teck is a diversified resource company, focused on providing products that are essential to building a better quality of life for people around the globe. Over more than 100 years, Teck has grown into one of the world’s leading diversified natural resource companies, committed to responsible mining and mineral development. Over that time, our people have helped to build communities, create jobs and drive innovation, making our industry more sustainable.

Know your environment. Protect your health. Environmental Working Group (EWG) works to protect people from toxic chemicals – in their homes, food, tap water and everyday household products. We use unique expertise to gather and analyze mountains of data – on personal care products, household cleaners, processed foods, drinking water contaminants, agriculture damage – to expose risky practices, and products, confront manufactures and industries directly, and challenge the chemical status quo. Our signature shopping guides and databases push companies to make cleaner, greener products and give consumers the information they need to make safer choices today. Our teams in DC, San Francisco, Sacramento and Minneapolis go directly to lawmakers to educate them about these issues and push for the regulatory reforms we need. In 2020, EWG published 142 new’s and analysis posts, 19 AG Mag blog posts, 11 Children’s Health posts and 130 press releases and statements. More than 26 million web

Overstory’s mission is to help solve our climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet’s vegetation. In our first step toward this mission, we are applying machine learning to satellite imagery to track forests and vegetation, helping to reduce the risk of wildfires and prevent biodiversity loss. We just raised a round of funding, led by Moxxie Ventures and Capital T. Other investors include: Pale Blue Dot, Omidyar Technology Ventures, Toba Capital, Overwater Ventures, Climate Capital and Techstars. If you want to have a real impact by working in climate tech, come join our talented, passionate team.

ispace technologies Inc. is a space resource exploration company founded in 2013 to develop micro-robots that will locate the resources necessary to extend human life into outer space. ispace manages the technological and business development operations of Team HAKUTO in the Google Lunar XPRIZE Competition. Team Hakuto is a front runner in the $30M competition to land a privately funded robot on the Moon and was one of only three teams to win a $500,000 Milestone Prize in mobility. ispace specializes in developing extremely mass and power-efficient sensors and mobility systems to maintain cutting edge performance for even the smallest swarm systems. Utilizing this technology allows mission architectures to be eminently scalable: as the mission size increases, so does the ispace robot swarm. ispace micro-robots will explore larger areas faster, at a fraction of the cost of large robots.

Upwell Water supplies, treats, and manages water assets globally. We own operating and new build assets, partnering with solution providers to provide supply and treatment as a service to customers in need. Water scarcity, pollution, and aging infrastructure are among the greatest challenges of our time. Upwell Water is on the cutting edge of solutions and capital to enable a sustainable water future.