September Week 1, 2024: In this weekly series, we highlight 5 climate tech startups to watch by featuring the incredible startups, companies, or projects that are leading the fight against the climate crisis.
Each month, we add these startups to our running list, which we have categorized based on fuel emission sector data from the most detailed, recent data SBC could identify from the World Resource Institute in 2016.
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Cross-cutting enablers
1. Atlas Metrics
Founded: 2021- Berlin, DE
Founder: Wladimir Nikoluk
Elevator Pitch: Atlas Metrics offers an all-in-one platform for ESG compliance and sustainability performance management, enabling organizations to measure, analyze, and communicate their impact on people and the environment. With AI, automation, and secure data sharing, they streamline sustainability reporting to accelerate the transition to sustainable business models.
Problem they solve: Atlas Metrics simplifies the complex process of tracking ESG metrics, helping businesses comply with regulatory requirements and make their impact transparent.
Impact: By making sustainability reporting easy, Atlas Metrics supports businesses in reducing their environmental footprint and enhancing accountability.
Stage: Seed.
Interested in Atlas Metrics?
To learn more about their technology or get in touch, see here.
GHG Capture, Use, and Storage
2. Vaayu
Founded: 2020 – Berlin, DE
Founders: Namrata Sanhu & Luca Nils Schmid
Elevator Pitch: Vaayu is the world’s first automated software designed to help the retail industry track and reduce its carbon footprint in real-time. Utilizing AI and machine learning, Vaayu provides granular insights into environmental impacts across products, packaging, and logistics.
Problem they solve: Retailers often struggle to track and minimize their environmental impact. Vaayu simplifies this by automating the process of carbon tracking and offering actionable insights.
Impact: By providing real-time data, Vaayu empowers retailers to make sustainable decisions, reducing emissions, waste, and water consumption across their operations.
Stage: Seed.
Interested in Vaayu?
If you are interested in learning more, see here.
GHG Capture, Use, and Storage
3. Unisieve
Founded: 2021 – Zürich, CH
Leardership: Samuel Hess
Elevator Pitch: UniSieve develops advanced molecular separation membrane solutions that decarbonize heavy-emitting industries. Their innovative sieving membranes reduce energy costs and CO2 emissions across a range of industrial applications.
Problem they solve: Heavy-emitting industries face challenges in purifying chemical feedstocks and capturing carbon emissions. UniSieve’s membrane technology provides an energy-efficient, scalable solution for these separation processes.
Impact: UniSieve’s membrane platform technology enables industries to significantly lower their carbon footprint while maintaining operational efficiency, making them a vital player in the transition to sustainable industrial practices.
Stage: Seed.
Want to learn more about Unisieve?
To learn more about their technology or get in touch see here.
Energy use in Industry and Buildings
4. Eco-Tech Ceram
Founded: 2014 – Balma, FR
Founder: Antoine Meffre
Problem they solve: With over 30% of industrial energy lost as waste heat, Eco-Tech Ceram focuses on capturing and reusing this energy, helping manufacturers improve competitiveness and reduce carbon emissions.
Impact: By recovering industrial waste heat, Eco-Tech Ceram significantly reduces CO2 emissions, playing a key role in global decarbonization efforts.
Stage: Seed.
Interested in Eco-Tech Ceram?
To learn more about this company, see here.
GHG Capture, Use, and Storage
5. Carbonminer
Founded: 2020 – Kiev, UA
Founder: Nick Oseyko
Elevator Pitch: Carbominer is pioneering modular Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology. By combining dry and wet CO₂ capture methods with electrochemical regeneration, Carbominer captures CO₂ near the place of use, making it cost-effective and adaptable for various industries.
Problem they solve: Carbominer addresses the growing need for localized, cost-efficient CO₂ capture to support industries in reducing their carbon footprint, using renewable energy.
Impact: Carbominer’s DAC units and innovative wind capture towers offer a scalable solution to lower carbon emissions, supporting global decarbonization efforts.
Stage: Seed.
Interested in Carbonminer?
If you are interested in learning more, see here.
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How do these startups fit in with all the others we have looked at?
Check out our running list of the 400+ climate tech startups to watch we have featured.
