Top Sustainability Startups in 2024

Zevero helps businesses measure their carbon footprint and gives them the tools to reduce them.

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.

We created a new green employee benefit called a Carbon Savings Account™ (CSA), structured similarly to a health savings account (HSA). Instead of using the funds for eligible healthcare expenses, employees use the funds for eligible home technology upgrades that reduce their utility bills, and therefore their carbon footprint. Scope Zero is an investment vehicle that can scale residential energy efficiency and electrification upgrades. Scope Zero brings employees and employers together to reduce the impact of the residential sector while helping meet aggressive corporate decarbonization goals.

Coblr is a female-founded startup on a mission to modernize fashion repair and make it easy and accessible for brands and consumers. Resale and circularity are massive opportunities ($700B+) but they require repair to scale. We are building the operating system and infrastructure to power repair to help the industry meet consumer expectations and the demand driven by shifting consumer behavior towards sustainability and circularity. Join us in making repair mainstream, the first choice over buying new, and contributing to a more sustainable future.

DeepVu is a deep-learning service for autonomous supply chains for consumer goods manufacturers. Manufacturers are struggling to optimize margins amidst the exponential growth in data and the ever-growing complexity of external signals they have to track and hedge against, such as labor market fluctuations, commodity prices, tariffs, GDP, crude oil and gas prices, etc. DeepVu’s deep-learning models leverage customized hybrid algorithms including reinforcement learning along with vast number of external signals to enrich the models. DeepVu tackles end to end Integrated Business Planning to optimize margins -- this includes demand forecasting for Sales & Operations Planning (stock-out, inventory management and shelf-availability), Procurement Optimization (commodity price forecasting, hedging and BoM optimization) and real-time logistics decisioning (OTIF optimization). DeepVu has customer engagements with tier-1 Fortune 500 companies in fast moving consumer goods and automative.

The Company’s first product “Ooho” is a flexible packaging for liquids that biodegrades in 4-6 weeks, or can even be eaten, and has been used to distribute Lucozade at the London Marathon, to provide ‘edible cocktails’ at festivals, and to replace ketchup sachets for Just Eat. The company is also developing other products which will soon be launched, including a greaseproof liner for paperboard products and a film to replace plastic wraps, all of which will also be home compostable and biodegradable in nature.

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Ecowiser is a web platform and Chrome extension that is dedicated to helping people find reliable and affordable eco-friendly products for hassle-free eco-conscious living. At Ecowiser, we believe that small changes in daily habits can make a big difference in protecting our planet. In addition to our focus on sustainable living, we also help brands with their marketing and growth objectives by providing them with strategies to improve their sustainability practices. Our team is dedicated to creating a better future for ourselves and for generations to come by promoting eco-friendly products and sustainable business practices.

Lair East Labs is a startup accelerator based in New York that empowers founders to expand internationally. At the heart of Lair East Labs lies the startup accelerator. Each year 15 - 20 startups take on our program and receive investments of $75K~150K. Our 3-month program combines the best of two worlds - learn from alumni founders of top Silicon Valley-style accelerators and gain access to a network of mentors and investors with extensive experience navigating the U.S. and Asian markets. In the first four years of operation, our portfolio companies have raised $60+ million in funding after completing the accelerator. We support founders in their quest to build successful and sustainable ventures that solve global problems. We are founders accelerating founders. For more information: please visit: laireastlabs.com