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.

Afresh is on a mission to reduce food waste and increase access to nutritious food globally by transforming the fresh food supply chain. Our AI-powered solutions optimize the multi-trillion-dollar grocery industry's food ordering, production, and merchandising processes. We built the first platform capable of handling all of Fresh food’s complexities. We are relentlessly focused on helping grocers reduce waste, increase profitability, and bring better, fresher food to their communities. Afresh is currently deployed in hundreds of grocery stores across the United States and is on track to reduce 30 million pounds of food waste per year with our existing customers alone. By 2021, we're aiming to reduce food waste by a quarter billion pounds per year. We are a passionate team united by our mission to make an impact. As an Afresh employee, you’ll own meaningful work that will challenge you and change the future of how fresh, nutritious food makes its way through the supply chain. We hope you’ll join us!

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.

We collect, analyze, and rate product health & sustainability data for consumers, companies (food/cpg/grocery), and investors. Evaluated the dietary, health, & climate impacts of 360K+ products (and counting). Named by Google 1 of the 3 “Best Apps 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.

As consumers continue to demand greater transparency and accountability for the products they use, sustainability is no longer optional. That’s why we’ve built a technology-forward, data-driven network solution that empowers clean brands and manufacturers. Novi is the first to provide our thousands of users with the data, tools, and marketplace they need to procure materials and build the clean and transparent products that their customers are demanding. And while our roots are in the wellness and personal care category, we anticipate serving a much broader set of markets, including food, household cleaning, and more. The opportunity in front of us is vast (a $1.5T market), our mission is urgent, and we’re well-funded by top-tier VC firms (Defy, Greylock, and Tiger Global) making the investments required to achieve it. We’re looking for talented people passionate about sustainability to join us in building the future of consumer product development. If that’s you, let’s talk!