Top Sustainability Startups in 2026

At Veo, we're bringing the next generation of mobility sharing to cities and universities globally through our dockless pedal bike, e-bike and e-scooter systems. We also offer fat-tire bikes, cargo bikes and ADA-compliant bikes – making us the only shared mobility provider with this breadth of options. We design and engineer our own vehicles, hardware and software systems to provide a greener, healthier mode of transportation to make the communities we serve more sustainable and livable. Our mission is to offer the best combination of multi-modal sharing technology and seamless customer service, so users can unlock joy in their day. We are looking for exceptionally talented individuals who are ready to take on exciting challenges and own solutions. We are headquartered in Chicago, IL, but we are hiring across the U.S. Join us!

We are a technology-driven, sustainable asset manager empowering institutions to create passive investment portfolios specific to their values and financial goals. We are powering the future of sustainable investing.

The Wellness Feed launched in late 2019 as a premier lifestyle and news publication devoted to the eco-friendly scene- and all its chic lifestyle components. Created by a journalist – we’re known for impeccable reporting, trend spotting, and recommending the best eco-friendly brands, influencers, and research about living a sustainable lifestyle. Our team carefully chooses who we feature by asking the hard questions about their sustainable goals for both the present and the future. Read an influencer’s journey to quit fast fashion. Support small businesses and shop a sustainable brand. Watch a tutorial on clean beauty. Or, maybe a good ole’ plastic-free petition is more your style? Whatever your favorite beat is, we want to excite you and keep you well informed. Our goal is to become your trusted go-to for intel on eco-friendly beauty, fashion, travel and more. Consider The Wellness Feed your breeding ground for living a sustainable lifestyle.

Lime is the world's largest shared electric vehicle company. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company in 2021, Lime has powered more than 300 million electric bike and scooter rides in nearly 250 cities, replacing an estimated 75 million car trips and preventing 26,000 tons of CO2. Learn more at li.me! We're on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Guided by our core pillars of safety, sustainability, community, and innovation, we're helping to decarbonize transportation and change the way people move in cities for good.

SafetyConnect is about making life better for people around the world. By giving meaningful suggestions and metrics that solve a range of driving challenges to large enterprises to save lives! Safety Connect does: Driving Behaviour Monitoring Near Miss / Incident Reporting Make sure the right safety protocols are being followed all the time on the field. Share safety developments and advisories to the team in real-time. Visibility into the productivity of the field force, get insights into strong and weak areas.

At home, work, and on the road, we put the right chargers in the right places. EVgo operates in over 50 major metropolitan areas across the country with charging stations that serve all electric cars on the road today. Founded in 2010 by NRG Energy, Inc., a Fortune 200 leader in renewable energy, EVgo is now an independent company with a majority ownership by Vision Ridge Partners of Boulder, Colorado, a climate action-oriented investment firm.

COP 26, COP 27, COP 40 etc. Really? It's time to ACT! In a money driven system the most important factor for societal impact is MONEY! How much is shifted? How fast? In what direction? and by whom? If you think about it, the connected consumer can shift the most money, the fastest, in a sustainable direction and democratically - right? The connected consumer could impact all stakeholders "overnight" in a sustainable direction. ACT is a mobile marketplace of marketplaces and a data gathering tool that helps all of us gather data so that we can all make a free and informed decision to buy tomato A over tomato B because it is produced in a way that emits the least CO2. ACT is an answer to the craving for action against the climate crisis. Coordinate your and your network's combined purchasing power towards the producers that emits the least CO2 with just a few clicks in the app and join us in the quest against global warming! It's simple and convenient: make a shopping list, optimize it for the environment and/or price (or vegan, organic etc.), navigate inside the shop, pay via mobile and check-out in 3 sec. ACT is a high-tech solution scalable to extreme-scale with no bottlenecks both in terms of data gathering and shop integration, making global collaboration around sustainable shopping a fact. With the ACT app, we can unite and change the course of history - starting today. Join ACT - work with us to market the most hands-on solution to mitigate global warming. Become an ACT developer - develop a high-tech, infinitely scalable, SOA backend and mobile app system. Go to aacctt.org/careers. Invest in ACT - invest in a company with unicorn/decacorn potential in 4-8 years. Reach out to Thomas Jepsen, CEO, linkedin.com/in/thomasjepsen and mention why you reach out.

Zowasel leverages data science, nature-based solutions, and technology to improve smallholder farmers' productivity, sustainability, and profitability across the value chain. The company works with corporate organizations, from processors to manufacturers, breweries to FMCGs, financial institutions, DFIs, and agricultural research institutions, committed to sustainable agriculture and transforming agriculture from a carbon source to a carbon sink. Zowasel provides farmer cooperatives and agribusinesses with technology and alternative finance and guarantees markets across national, regional, and global markets needed to earn more for their crops. Founded 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria, Zowasel is on a mission to develop sustainable value chains across communities, people, and the planet. Visit zowasel.com to learn more.

NobleAI offers commercially proven Chemical and Materials Informatics [CMI] solutions built with our innovative Science-Based AI technology. Companies use the actionable insights and predictions delivered by our powerful cloud-based NobleAI Reactor Platform to accelerate product development and reduce costs while improving product performance, sustainability, and reliability. NobleAI solutions are already delivering real value in production deployments at leading chemical, material and energy companies around the world. Our team of scientists, engineers and AI experts is ready to work with you to deliver the results you are looking for.

Lineaum's (lineaum.com) AI infrastructure layer automates private aviation from request to takeoff. Lineaum OS connects clients, brokers and operators through one transaction layer, automating aircraft sourcing, quoting, contracts, payments and booking across a global network of 30,000+ aircraft and 10,500 operators. • 30,000+ Aircraft • 10,500 Operators • 190 Countries • 12,000 Airports "LIN", Lineaum’s AI jet concierge assistant, turns hours of manual private jet booking into one command: “LIN, book me a jet to New York tomorrow at 8am.” LIN then handles everything from aircraft sourcing, price comparison to digital contracts, card payments, and booking in minutes.