Top Sustainability Startups in 2026

Buzz Solutions provides solutions for automating the process of power line inspection using data collection from drones as well as fault detection using our proprietary AI software platform with predictive analytics and insights. By using our product, the utilities can do frequent inspections in a cost-effective way, prevent power outages and wildfires. Our approach through automation allows the utilities to reduce current costs by at least 50%, prevent power outages, prevent wildfires and manage their assets in an effective way.

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.

Skandax Nexus is a technology-driven organization dedicated to harnessing AI, Blockchain, Quantum and Decentralised sustainability solutions to build a decentralized, intelligent, and eco-conscious world.

Divert Inc. (Divert) is a cleantech company providing customers with clean and efficient recycling solutions. Divert’s technologies allow entire retail chains to simplify the recycling process through automated monitoring, data analysis, and reliable processing facilities. Our two core business operations are GOBY Recycling, which monitors, measures and drives behavioral changes in retail locations, and our Recovery Systems, which process contaminated food waste to create renewable energy and organic fertilizer.

Developing several digital products for our customers that will ultimately add value and greater efficiency in the crop production process.

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!

We are energy specialists that help clients take a strategic approach to their energy requirements in a way that vendors do not. We are indifferent to technologies, existing relationships, markets, or solutions. Energy services have become siloed and the failure to coordinate supply and demand services creates significant risks and is difficult to manage. We work across different teams to help design solutions for the entire energy portfolio that align to an organization’s goals, targets and spend. This unique approach allows us to design solutions that span across energy disciplines, from supply and demand to renewables and maintenance. We use data analysis to produce valuable insights and expose unaddressed risk you may have overlooked.

rePurpose Global is the world's leading Plastic Action Platform dedicated to reducing waste, reviving lives, and restoring nature's balance. Through its pioneering ecosystem of solutions that span across advisory, action, and advocacy, the organization helps people and companies calculate, reduce, and offset their plastic footprint, while empowering grassroots innovators on the cutting edge of solving for the planet's future. To date, rePurpose Global has created systemic change for people across 26 countries and hundreds of purposeful brands worldwide, such as Grove Collaborative, AB InBev, The Hut Group, Google, and Colgate. On behalf of its global coalition, the organization eliminates millions of pounds of plastic waste from nature every year, and in doing so, positively impact the lives of 10,000+ marginalized waste workers and community members worldwide.

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.