March Week 4, 2023: In this monthly 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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Guillaume and the SBC TEAM
Energy use in Industry and Buildings
1. Circadian
Founded:
2021 – Berlin, Germany
Founders:
Mike Rosenberg and Max Boit
Elevator Pitch:
We help businesses in frontier markets adopt renewable energy. Circadian empowers solar developers to win more projects, reduce operating costs and grow revenue with its SaaS platform and proprietary IoT hardware.
Problem they solve:
IoT that catalyzes renewable energy adoption: The Circadian Cortex Remote Intelligence Hub enables remote load profiles and asset management, driving customer conversion and transforming O&M.
Impact:
Our solution was born of the challenges faced deploying hundreds of Solar & Storage installs from 1 kWh homes to 1 MWh C&I across West, East, and Southern Africa over the past 10 years. By empowering installers, we seek to be the catalyst for the mass adoption of decentralized energy.
Stage:
Seed
Interested in Circadian?
To learn more about their technology or get in touch, see here
2. Electric Air
Founded:
San Francisco, USA
Founder:
Chris Mui
Elevator Pitch:
Electric Air is building the Tesla of home heating and cooling, with a complete solution of modern heat pump technology, HEPA filtration and direct-to-homeowner purchase and install experience.
Problem they solve:
The air in your home is more than just temperature. The Electric Air thermostat measures PM2.5 particulate and CO2 in the air, triggering filtration and fresh air intake to deliver healthier air for you and your family. Humidity monitoring and control means air doesn’t leave you sweaty in the summer, or too dry in the winter.
Optional energy optimization features work to lower your monthly bill by integrating with the grid, your time-of-use electricity rate plan, and the weather.
Impact:
Electric Air is accelerating the adoption of residential heat pumps through improved product design.
Stage:
Pre-seed
Interested in Electric Air?
If you are interested in learning more, see here.
3. Lun
Founded:
2022 – Copenhagen, Denmark
Founders:
Anders Valentin and Martin Collignon
Elevator Pitch:
Lun is decarbonising homes faster.
Problem they solve:
We allow you to sell, plan and install heat pumps with happier customers and fewer truck rolls.
Impact:
The planet needs us to get our homes out of the fossil era, fast. At Lun, we remove any and all friction standing in the way.
Stage:
Seed
Want to learn more about Lun?
To learn more about their technology or get in touch see here.
Industry
Founded:
2021 – Edmonton, Canada
Founders:
Andrew Gillis and Erin Bobicki
Elevator Pitch:
Aurora Hydrogen is developing the next generation of hydrogen production technology
Problem they solve:
At present, hydrogen is primarily produced by the steam reforming of natural gas, which results in the production of CO2. With hydrogen demand expected to increase dramatically, there is an urgent need to develop new low-cost and low-carbon technologies for hydrogen production.
Impact:
Aurora Hydrogen is developing a technology that uses efficient microwave energy to heat natural gas in the absence of oxygen and water (pyrolysis) to produce hydrogen and solid carbon while avoiding the generation of CO2. The technology is highly scalable and modular, units can be installed anywhere there is natural gas and electricity. Hydrogen production using Aurora’s technology has the potential to reduce global CO2 emissions by over 500 million tonnes per year.
Stage:
Series A
Interested in Aurora Hydrogen?
To learn more about this company, see here.
Waste (water & landfills)
Founded:
2020 – Manchester, UK
Founder:
Sebastian Leaper and Ahmed Abdelkarim
Elevator Pitch:
Watercycle Technologies has developed advanced membranes and innovative filtration systems for the production of valuable minerals and clean water
Problem they solve:
Able to treat highly concentrated water, its core technology spans mineral extraction, concentration, and crystallisation. This is initially being utilised for primary lithium production from sub-surface waters and industrial brines. In addition, the company is specialising in the recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries, which is essential for enabling the transition towards a Circular Economy.
Impact:
A critical element of the transition to Net Zero is the electrification of transport and the use of lithium-ion batteries.
Our direct lithium extraction and crystallisation (DLEC) technology can sustainably, and cost effectively produce lithium carbonate to supply this accelerating transition, improving the environmental credentials of industry participants.
Stage:
Seed
Interested in Watercycle Technologies?
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 350+ climate tech startups to watch we have featured.
