Top Sustainability Startups in 2026

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.

Epic Cleantec ("Epic") is a full-service water reuse firm based in San Francisco, CA. We provide turnkey water treatment and reuse systems for customers, creating a one-stop-shop for design, engineering, permitting, construction support, and ongoing operations. Our team has decades of experience across the wastewater and built environment value chain, with expertise in wastewater treatment and solids handling technology, project financing, policy, and operations. Epic deploys onsite water treatment and reuse systems into individual buildings or groups of buildings, converting building wastewater into treated water for non-potable applications, natural soil amendments, and recovered wastewater heat energy. The Epic system can help a project reduce its water demand by up to 95%, which saves owners hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on their water and sewer bills. Born out of initial work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge," Epic reduces the cost and complexity of onsite wastewater treatment and reuse, lowering costs for building owners, easing strain on municipal utilities, and strengthening sustainability and resiliency efforts. Epic has been featured widely in prominent publications (The New York Times, FastCompany, Inc. Magazine, NBC Bay Area, TechCrunch) and was most recently named a Fast Company 2021 World Changing Ideas Award honoree in two categories - Urban Design and Spaces, Places, and Cities.

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SolarGrade provides fast, easy-to-use software that standardizes solar & storage inspection procedures, enables team collaboration, and generates sharable professional reports. Our customers are any type of company that does work in the field from Engineering, Procurement and Construction, Operations and Maintenance, Independent Engineers to Quality Control Personnel.

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.

HowGood specializes in rating grocery products for the greater good. Through rigorous research and objective criteria our research covers everything related to sustainability and social responsibility from carbon emissions to labor relations. We use this information to help grocers sell their best products, and in doing so increase their revenue. We believe by analyzing a company's history and the ingredients it chooses, we can separate the good from the well-meaning. Displaying the HowGood ratings at the point of purchase makes it easy for shoppers to locate and fill their shopping carts with sustainable and socially responsibility products.

We aim to develop the world’s most efficient, distributed utility system. Leveraging the full value chain of our resources, our cutting-edge Universal Utility™ will deliver a step change in sustainable living while empowering the consumer with the choice of a low-cost, efficient, personal utility system. Our distributed systems supply the consumers with a reliable, affordable, cutting-edge technology they can trust. Leveraging the same breakthrough manufacturing innovations, Utility Global is expanding into numerous industrial sectors. Our advancements are applicable not only in producing compact electrochemical devices but also in manufacturing low-cost, nano-catalysts and high-efficiency heat exchangers. With these groundbreaking technologies, Utility Global aims to provide scalable, affordable, efficient energy solutions to our industrial customers.

Footprint revolutionizes how businesses reduce carbon emissions, fast & efficient. The SaaS Plattform empowers businesses to get a tailored climate action plan and its implementation in record time. We leverage artificial and collective intelligence to accelerate global carbon reduction.

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.