Top 69 Sustainability startups

Updated: Jan 25, 2026
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These startups create sustainable products and find other ways to reduce carbon footprints.
1
Grove Collaborative
Country: USA | Funding: $621.5M
Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home, and personal care products.
2
Everphone
Country: Germany | Funding: $579.9M
Everphone’s business takes care of the supply, support, repair/replacement and recycling of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) for enterprises customers — billed under a per-user monthly subscription.
3
Liquid Death
Country: USA | Funding: $267.6M
Liquid Death is the first bold, hilarious beverage focused on health and sustainability, and it is one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverage brands of all time. They take the healthiest beverage available (water) and package it in infinitely recyclable tallboy cans that can compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands.
4
Aspiration
Country: USA | Funding: $250M
Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
5
Brimstone Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $244M
Brimstone Energy is producing mass-market, zero-carbon Portland cement, a key building material.
6
Sylvera
Country: UK | Funding: $95.5M
Sylvera develops machine learning-based tools to track the performance of carbon offsets.
7
Recyclebank
Country: USA | Funding: $85.2M
Recyclebank inspires and rewards smarter, everyday choices for a more sustainable future.
8
Greenly
Country: France | Funding: $78M
Greenly develops a carbon accounting platform to track, assess, manage, and reduce CO2 emissions.
9
Agreena
Country: Netherlands | Funding: $77.6M
Agreena is a Dutch startup which mints, verifies, and sells carbon credits generated by farmers who transition to more regenerative forms of farming.
10
The Rounds
Country: USA | Funding: $66M
The Rounds is a refill and delivery service for everyday products.
11
Kebony
Country: Norway | Funding: $60.4M
Kebony produces sustainable softwood that behave like hardwood, using food waste.
12
Calyxia
Country: France | Funding: €46.5M
Calyxia designs and industrially produces a new class of microcapsules that are transforming the way the world makes formulated products.
13
Plan A
Country: Germany | Funding: $43M
Plan A is a GreenTech company that develops a carbon quantification platform to measure, monitor, and reduce environmental footprint.
14
Planet FWD
Country: USA | Funding: $38.7M
Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform.
15
Klim
Country: Germany | Funding: $28.5M
Klim mission is to scale up regenerative agriculture to make agriculture part of the climate solution
16
Byborre
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €20.1M
Byborre is committed to shifting towards a circular textile economy. It specializes in design, material development, engineered knits, and supply chain services.
17
Ever Dye
Country: France | Funding: €18.4M
Ever Dye innovates in the fashion industry by developing ecological dyeing processes for the textile industry.
18
Pledge
Country: UK | Funding: $14.5M
Pledge builds a carbon-measurement and removal API that enables businesses of any size to provide efficient and measurable climate solutions to its customers.
19
Treefera
Country: UK | Funding: $14.2M
Treefera is transforming the way the world approaches forest data and conservation, to create a clear future for the carbon market and the planet. It intends to solve the carbon credits credibility problem with AI
20
Vaayu
Country: Germany | Funding: $13.1M
Vaayu develops carbon tracking platform aimed specifically at retailers.
21
Cleanhub
Country: Germany | Funding: $11.9M
Cleanhub is a company dedicated to protect the oceans and facilitates a platform that enables the large scale collection of plastic waste in coastal regions.
22
Ecologi
Country: UK | Funding: £8.2M
Ecologi is a subscription carbon offsetting platform
23
noissue
Country: New Zealand | Funding: NZ$14M
Noissue is a global packaging platform, wants to make sustainable packaging accessible to businesses of all sizes.
24
SURI
Country: UK | Funding: £8M
SURI (for Sustainable Rituals) redesigned the electric toothbrush to make it repairable and recyclable
25
Suominen
Country: Finland
Suominen manufactures nonwovens as roll goods for wipes and other applications. Our vision is to be the frontrunner for nonwovens innovation and sustainability.
26
Wild
Country: UK | Funding: £7.5M
Wild makes refillable plastic-free deodorant
27
Krill Design
Country: Italy | Funding: €6M
Krill Design is creating beautiful, well-designed lamp made of Sicilian orange peels.
28
Kubik
Country: Kenya | Funding: $5.3M
Kubik is an environmental technology company that uses plastic waste to make low-carbon, durable, and affordable buildings.
29
Yardbird
Country: USA | Funding: $4.4M
Yardbird is an outdoor furniture brand, which makes its wares in part from recycled plastic harvested from beaches and ocean-bound waterways
30
Save Your Wardrobe
Country: UK | Funding: $3.4M
Circular digital platform using technology to streamline the post purchase experience through digital wardrobes and care and repair services
31
Hylo
Country: UK | Funding: £2.5M
Hylo Athletics creates sustainable athletic footwear, that offers high performance and low environmental impact
32
Nohbo
Country: USA | Funding: $3.1M
Nohbo operates as a sustainable beauty & personal care technology company. The company houses its shampoos, conditioners, body washes, and shaving creams in a water-soluble membrane that dissolves during use.
33
Lacus Innovations
Country: Canada | Funding: $3M
Lacus Innovations is a start-up that specializes in the manufacture of spas and plastic parts.
34
ID Geneve
Country: Switzerland | Funding: CHF2M
ID Genève is a native luxury watch brand. It's watches are made from 100% recycled stainless steel.
35
Saola
Country: France | Funding: €2M
Saola is an eco-friendly footwear firm that creates unique shoes using recycled and bio-based materials.
36
Adapteo
Country: Finland | Funding: €2M
Adapteo is a leading Northern European company for adaptable buildings.
37
Rebundle
Country: USA | Funding: $1.5M
Rebundle provides synthetic hair products that eliminate skin rashes and single-use waste.
38
PLAEX Building Systems
Country: Canada | Funding: $1.4M
Plaex Building Systems uses composite material to process a difficult-to-recycle thermal plastic waste for use in construction applications.
39
Phantm
Country: Australia | Funding: A$2M
Phantm is a regenerative company that replaces plastic by designing products using PHA materials to make the planet plastic-free.
40
Vienna Textile Lab
Country: Austria | Funding: €750K
Vienna Textile Lab fabricates organic colors made from naturally occurring bacteria in order to provide the most sustainable.
41
PulpaTronics
Country: UK | Funding: £430K
The goal of Pulpatronics is to give companies more economical and environmentally friendly inventory solutions.
42
Azure Printed Homes
Country: USA | Funding: $500K
Azure Printed Homes developed World's First Robotically Printed Homes using recycled plastic bottles
43
Azure
Country: USA | Funding: $500K
Azure is using recycled plastic to 3D print prefab homes.
44
Got Bag
Country: Germany | Funding: $155K
Got Bag, works with a network of 1,500 fishermen near Java, Indonesia, to collect plastic, which is then sorted and recycled into pellets that are turned into thread that the company uses to make backpacks and other bags.
45
Gjenge Makers
Country: Kenya | Funding: $100K
Gjenge Makers is manufacturing bricks from recycled plastic.
46
Recycle.Green
Country: Netherlands
Recycle.Green is a one-stop-shop for all environment-friendly products, technologies, services and consumables.
47
Aruna Revolution
Country: Canada | Funding: $40K
Aruna Revolution has developed a compostable natural fiber menstrual pad from agricultural by-products. It has redesigned the menstrual pad into a product that works well yet still decomposes quickly and avoids plastic and harmful chemicals.
48
DiaperRecycle
Country: Australia | Funding: A$20K
DiaperRecycle recycles disposable nappies into cat litter
49
Aeropods
Country: Ireland
Aeropods is repurposing old commercial airplanes into home offices, glamping pods, and everything in between, taking work from home to new heights.
50
Econiture
Country: India
Recycle Bell Private Limited (Econiture) tries to solve the problem of urban waste. Econiture furniture are made from 100% recycled plastic which diverts plastic waste that would have been destined for a landfill or ocean.
Marjana Bačić
Editor: Marjana Bačić
Marjana Bačić is a senior editor for RecyclingStartups. She has has more than 5 years experience covering the recycling industry. Marjana graduated from University of Belgrade, where she edited Recycling and Sustainable Development Journal. She has helped several non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting environmental education and sustainability. She also participates in beach clean-up initiatives and advocates for sustainable practices in local businesses. In her free time, Marjana enjoys hiking in the scenic Montenegrin countryside, practicing yoga for mindfulness, and experimenting with plant-based recipes in her kitchen. You can contact Marjana at marjanabacic(at)recyclingstartups(dot)com