Looking for🌏climate tech startup💡ideas? Here are 10📈Surging Climate Tech Startups (2022 Part 2)

To help you to keep an eye on 2022's largest climate investment trend, we’ve gathered some of the most google-searched climate tech startups and their funding status. Enjoy!

With climate change becoming a pressing issue, there’s a dire need for sustainable solutions.

Certain ventures are trying to fill these gaps to create a cleaner future with climate-friendly technology.

By 2023, total investment in the climate and cleantech sectors is expected to reach $6.4 trillion.

Every year, several new companies are joining this ever-expanding sector.

We’ve gathered 20 of the fastest-growing climate tech startups to keep an eye on in 2022.

1. Power Ledger

5-year search growth: 100%

Search growth status: Peaked

Year founded: 2016

Location: Perth, Australia

Funding: $35M (Grant)

What they do: Power Ledger offers a blockchain for energy commodity tracking and trading. The platform is designed to enable clients to engage in P2P solar energy trading, sell to commercial power grids, and buy carbon credits. Today, the company’s clientele extends across more than 9 countries.

2. GreyParrot

5-year search growth: 250%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2019

Location: London, UK

Funding: $15.9M (Series A)

What they do: An AI company, GreyParrot offers waste analysis technology. Their computer vision-powered robotics systems are designed to identify, sort, and recover waste at scale. The startup has been backed by many leading accelerators and VC firms, including the Plug and Play Tech Center, Creative Destruction Lab, and Candy Ventures.

3. Carbon Lighthouse

5-year search growth: -25%

Search growth status: Peaked

Year founded: 2010

Location: San Francisco, CA

Funding: $67.1M (Seed)

What they do: A climate tech company, Carbon Lighthouse provides building owners with a platform to optimize energy usage. Their services can potentially help identify operational efficiencies, improve indoor air quality, and carbon offsetting. Carbon Lighthouse partners report 10-30% whole-building savings.

4. Freewire Technologies

5-year search growth: 92%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2014

Location: San Leandro, CA

Funding: $230.2M (Series D)

What they do: Freewire Technologies develops and sells a range of EV charging solutions. Specifically, they offer stationary charging stations, portable charging units (called “Mobi EV”), and clean power generators (called “Mobi Gen”). The company claims that its solutions can provide 10-20x more power outputs than other charging units.

5. Aclima

5-year search growth: 57%

Search growth status: Peaked

Year founded: 2007

Location: San Francisco, CA

Funding: $64M (Series B)

What they do: Aclima offers a software solution that helps governments and enterprises track greenhouse emissions and air quality. The platform is designed to visualize crucial air quality data and provide insights, which could help protect public health. As of now, more than 100 local governments use Aclima to measure and analyze air quality.

6. Skeleton Technologies

5-year search growth: 41%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2009

Location: Tallinn, Estonia

Funding: $215.8M (Series D)

What they do: An ultracapacitor manufacturer, Skeleton Technologies caters to a wide range of verticals. Their product line includes cells, modules, and systems. In 2019, Skeleton Technologies recorded 3x revenue growth with over 100 million euros in orders.

7. Carbon Engineering

5-year search growth: 250%

Search growth status: Peaked

Year founded: 2009

Location: Squamish, Canada

Funding: $110.4M (Grant)

What they do: A clean energy company, Carbon Engineering is on a mission to reduce emitted carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They use “direct air capture” (DAC) technology to catch CO2 from the air to convert into fuel. In 2017, Carbon Engineering successfully converted captured CO2 into liquid fuel for the first time.

8. Heliogen

5-year search growth: 600%

Search growth status: Peaked

Year founded: 2013

Location: Pasadena, CA

Funding: $332.6M (Post-IPO Equity)

What they do: Heliogen offers sustainable solar energy solutions to industrial and power companies. Their concentrated solar technology can produce energy through sunlight, along with green hydrogen. In 2020, Heliogen won the Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award in the energy category.

9. Aurora Solar

5-year search growth: 411%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2016

Location: Mountain View, CA

Funding: $1.1B (Post-IPO Equity)

What they do: A SaaS company, Aurora Solar offers remote shade analysis for solar designs. Through aerial imagery, they help solar energy companies determine the financial returns of their designs and create sales proposals. According to their website, over 40,000 solar projects are made using Aurora’s platform every week.

20. Ekotrope

5-year search growth: -3%

Search growth status: Peaked

Year founded: 2010

Location: Boston, MA

Funding: $4M (Series Unknown)

What they do: Ekotrope is a software company that offers a home energy rating system (HERS) platform called “RATER.” The software helps determine the overall efficiency of homes in terms of energy usage. Today, 1 in every 6 homes built in the US are analyzed with Ekotrope.

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