May Week 1, 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
Founded:
Oxford, UK
Founders:
Amaury van Trappen de Buggenoms and Benjamin White
Elevator Pitch:
A&B Smart Materials introduces a novel smart hydrogel material to passively cool PV panels.
Problem they solve:
Solar farms are missing out on up to 25% extra revenue due to overheating of PV panels (reaching 80°C). For this reason, PV panels require climate control to increase power output and extend their lifetime.
A&B Smart Materials introduces a novel smart hydrogel material that passively cools any surface it is applied to (IP filing in progress). The material is painted on the back of a solar panel and increases their efficiency. The hydrogel absorbs atmospheric water at night and releases it through evaporation during the day, cooling the solar panel during operating times.
Impact:
CarbonBright brings accurate and comprehensive product-level sustainability data to suppliers, retailers & brands in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry, enabling transformation across supply chains to meet global demand for more sustainable products, while improving agility, resilience, and brand differentiation.
Stage:
Pre-seed
Interested in A&B Smart Materials?
To learn more about their technology or get in touch, see here
2. OPTIML
Founded:
2022 – Zurich, Switzerland
Founders:
Evan Petkov and Jordi Campos
Elevator Pitch:
OPTIML is a software platform harnessing the power of optimization for digitalized and sustainable real estate investment planning
Problem they solve:
23 million properties nationwide are in poor energy condition. As a result, 70 million tons of CO 2 are emitted per year too much. That has to change so that we can achieve the energy transition. With Enter we simplify the way to a sustainable home.
Impact:
Our mission is to power the sustainability transition with forward-looking technology
Our SaaS products engage real estate and infrastructure owners to make smarter investment decisions towards Net Zero CO₂
Our solutions have already been tested on multi-billion value portfolios with some of the largest building owners in Europe
Stage:
Pre-seed
Interested in OPTIML?
If you are interested in learning more, see here.
Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use
3. Data Farming
Founded:
2017 – Woowoomba, QLD, Australia
Founder:
Tim Neale
Elevator Pitch:
Precision agriculture should be affordable and easy to use.
That’s our motto, and the reason we build simple, low cost precision agriculture solutions that can be incorporated into your daily activities.
Problem they solve:
DataFarming delivers an easy to use, low cost platform to help you grow smarter.
No software download, no pre-payment – only pay for the premium products you need, with straightforward pricing and ordering. Get started today by creating your own free satellite farm map with NDVI.
Impact:
Our mission is to deliver precision agriculture products that are simple, automated, affordable and provide actionable on-ground solutions. We aim to deliver tangible benefits to the Australian agricultural sector and beyond.
Stage:
Series A
Want to learn more about Data Farming?
To learn more about their technology or get in touch see here.
GHG Capture, Use, and Storage
4. Enter
Founded:
2020 – Berlin, Germany
Leadership:
Justus Menten, Max Schroeren, and Alexander Müller
Elevator Pitch:
23 million properties nationwide are in poor energy condition. As a result, 70 million tons of CO 2 are emitted per year too much. That has to change so that we can achieve the energy transition. With Enter we simplify the way to a sustainable home.
Problem they solve:
Owners need to be concerned with the energetic condition of their property. Around 200,000 properties are currently being renovated in Germany every year. To ensure that the 1.5 degree target is not missed, more than a million have to be renovated.
With Enter, homeowners can optimize their property energetically and make all relevant decisions on the way to a CO 2 neutral home.
Impact:
We help millions of people to decarbonise their homes by providing the easiest end-to-end solution of one-stop energy audits, procurement, financing, and energy monitoring. With Enter our clients have all the data of their home in one app.
Stage:
Series A
Interested in Enter?
To learn more about this company, see here.
Cross-cutting enablers
Founded:
2020 – London, UK
Founders:
Nicholas Chadwick, Shiladitya Ghosh, and Gaël Gobaille-Shaw
Elevator Pitch:
We’re developing direct air capture (DAC) technology that will recover high-purity CO2 from the air while incurring only a fraction of the costs and energy it takes to do so today.
Problem they solve:
We’re developing direct air capture (DAC) technology that will recover high-purity CO₂ from the air while incurring only a fraction of the costs and energy it takes to do so today. This allows us to unlock CCU & CCS markets in a decentralized manner, enabling many more players to join the journey towards Net Zero.
Impact:
Mission Zero is an early stage startup revolutionising the CO2 value chain by offering affordable direct air carbon capture services at any scale. We are working to enable the fulfillment of Net Zero ambitions across industries by facilitating carbon removal together with storage and sequestration partners.
Stage:
Seed
Interested in Mission Zero Technologies?
If you are interested in learning more, see here.
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