Top Sustainability Startups in 2026

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

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.

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.

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.

Founded in 2021, Pulsora is a public benefit corporation dedicated to empowering purpose-driven enterprises to manage and improve their ESG footprint with an integrated and comprehensive SaaS platform built for compliance tracking and insight.

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.

cKinetics provides solutions in the areas of: 1. Capturing market data to provide actionable insight, information and analytics 2. Creating and implementing a resource blueprint and improving process efficiency 3. Providing access to capital for innovation and sustainability Some of our products can be seen at: comMIT.cKinetics.com CaliforniaCarbon.info

Founded by industry veterans, Northshore is on a mission to help data center service providers maximize the profitability of their infrastructure by enhancing energy efficiency and improving capacity utilization. By auditing building infrastructure systems and their utility consumption, we can identify opportunities for improvements and upgrades that will lead to substantial energy savings and optimized capacity utilization. It is not uncommon for our clients to see million-dollar gains in profits — per building, per year.

The Intuitive journey began when we learnt that only 2% of the world’s waste gets recycled or composted - only 2%! This was two and half years ago, since then we have decided to dedicate ourselves to increasing this statistic drastically by leveraging computer vision and machine learning to nudge users into recycling their waste correctly - and at the source - where the problems begin. Our mission at Intuitive is to empower a zero waste world by reaching to as many people as possible and nudging them to recycle it right! Within our short span of being operational we have been recognized by the likes of Forbes and Macleans, supporting us as we nudge the world to empower a zero waste world! We have been through some of the world’s best incubators including Creative Destruction Lab - Toronto and NextAI - Toronto and are backed by awesome investors with successful multi-million dollar exits themselves.

Goodera is the world's leading technology platform for CSR, Volunteering, & Sustainability. Goodera's products simplify and enhance your employee engagement programs, track global social impact, and improve your ESG performance. We are transforming the CSR, Sustainability, and Volunteering ecosystem, by ensuring that there is proper flow of capital and information, while also engaging stakeholders effectively.