Top Natural Resources Startups in 2024

We offer food grown fresh food grown in an innovative way. We grow our crops without using GMOs or pesticides, in a system known as vertical farming. We make sure our crops are getting the exact amount of water each one needs, while recycling the remainder. We use LED lighting on the perfect wavelength for each crop, and our indoor farms are kept at the perfect temperature for these plants to grow at. Because we grow indoors, our crops are always available and in season.

cove.tool is a building performance platform for intelligent design. We recently raised a $30 million Series B with the backing Coatue and Robert Downey Jr's Footprint Coalition! Come join a company that is making a difference in the fight to stop climate change. We've already helped the building industry avoid 5x more carbon than Tesla in the last year!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hawaiian Cool Water develops, distributes and services water purification and water filtration equipment, including next generation water coolers for offices. Coffee Systems Hawaii provides coffee, water, ice and other services to office breakrooms. AAA Best Water is Hawaii's largest residential and commercial water treatment dealer. Puro Rabjohn Water Equipment is a 100+ year old distributor and servicer of water coolers and water purification systems in Los Angeles, CA.

DecisionNext is the only prescriptive analytics solution built especially for commodities-driven industries. It helps them maximize profit margins, minimize uncertainty, and gain competitive edge by providing meaningful context for their decisions about what to produce and where to sell it. DecisionNext is helping commodities-based industries achieve the same profit margin gains enjoyed by the airline and retail industries.

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.