Climate Tech startup ecosystem
Climate technology encompasses carbon capture, emissions monitoring, circular economy platforms, and sustainable materials. Europe's regulatory leadership and corporate ESG commitments create strong demand and growing capital flows. We track 137 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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011h
011h is a Barcelona-based industrialized construction company that designs and builds residential buildings using a digital platform connecting factory, design, and on-site assembly, with prefabricated components such as industrialized bathrooms and cross-laminated timber panels and facades. Its turnkey design-and-build projects target the residential and build-to-rent market across Spain, aiming for low-carbon, high-efficiency buildings delivered on reduced timelines, with delivered projects in Barcelona, Alicante, and L'Hospitalet and several more under construction nationwide.
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33East
33East was founded by Demetrios Zoppos and Yiannis Eftychiou and selected by the European Investment Fund in 2023 as Cyprus's first EIF-backed venture capital fund. It closed a €26 million debut fund in January 2025, anchored by the Cyprus Equity Fund (NRRP) and private investors including the Bank of Cyprus. The fund targets pre-seed and seed-stage startups with a Cyprus connection, writing cheques of €100K–€1M across enterprise software, fintech, gaming, marketplaces, logistics, digital health, and climate tech. First portfolio companies include Electryone AI, an AI-powered renewable-energy management platform.
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42watt
42watt is a German climate-tech company focused on making home-energy retrofits and heat-pump conversions easier for homeowners, combining software planning tools with installation services to speed up decarbonizing the German residential building stock. The company markets its service directly to homeowners through its German-language site.
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4YFN Barcelona 2026
Global startup platform co-located with MWC at Fira Gran Via, featuring broad investor and corporate access. Includes the 4YFN Awards 2026 live pitch sequence: top startups pitch on March 2, 2026 with finalists advancing to the March 4, 2026 final during MWC week.
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Aerospacelab
Aerospacelab designs, builds and operates satellites end-to-end, offering versatile platforms (150 kg–1 t), payloads spanning earth observation and telecom, and full mission operations. Founded in 2018 by ex-NASA and ESA engineer Benoît Deper, the company is 90% vertically integrated and ITAR-free. It raised a €94 M Series B in August 2025 (including €37.5 M from the EIB) and is completing a Megafactory in Charleroi — Europe's largest satellite plant, targeting 500 units per year by 2026. Aerospacelab is one of two finalists competing to build the LEO layer of the EU's IRIS² secure-comms constellation.
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Agrovar
AgroVAR is a Bulgarian regenerative-agriculture platform that helps farmers adopt soil-carbon-sequestering practices and monetize the results through verified carbon certificates. The company estimates sequestration potential of one to five tonnes of CO2 equivalent per hectare and additional revenue of 40-250 BGN per hectare from regenerative practices. Its team includes climate-science and software specialists supporting farms through the transition.
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Akros Energy
Akros Energy is a German company, based in Rostock-Laage and backed by H2APEX with EU funding, developing chemical hydrogen-storage technology that stores hydrogen safely in salt-based carriers rather than as pressurized or cryogenic gas. It positions the approach as a zero-hazard, cost-efficient alternative to liquid hydrogen, ammonia and other carrier technologies for transporting and deploying hydrogen at industrial scale.
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Alan Chang
Co-founder and CEO of Fuse Energy and an early Revolut executive who served as its chief revenue officer. He started Fuse to build a vertically integrated renewable-energy and battery business.
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Aphea.Bio
Aphea.Bio develops microbial-based biological crop solutions that replace synthetic pesticides and fertilisers — biostimulants, biofungicides, bioherbicides and bioinsecticides — using its proprietary APEXbio™ platform. The technology was spun out of research at Ghent University, KU Leuven and VIB. Co-founded in 2017 by Isabel Vercauteren (CEO) and Steven Vandenabeele, the company raised a €70 M Series C in July 2023 backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, SFPIM, BNP Paribas Fortis and Innovation Industries. In 2025 it secured a VLAIO grant to launch its TRANSCEND platform screening 5,000 proprietary microorganism candidates. Aphea.Bio holds B Corp certification and is a Ghent biotech hub anchor.
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Arctic Circle Assembly 2026
The largest annual international gathering on Arctic affairs, held at Harpa with governments, academia, NGOs, Indigenous representatives and private-sector stakeholders. Strong tracks on climate, clean energy, ocean tech and Arctic innovation.
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Ark Climate
Provides software that helps municipalities plan, coordinate and measure climate-protection efforts, integrating energy and emissions data so urban planners can track progress toward climate-neutrality goals. Works with 40+ German cities.
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Atmonia
Atmonia is developing a breakthrough electro-catalytic process for synthesising ammonia directly from air, water and renewable electricity at ambient temperature and pressure — with zero carbon emissions. Its precious-metal-free catalyst technology, protected by multiple patents, could disrupt the conventional Haber-Bosch process that accounts for roughly 2% of global CO2 emissions. Founded in 2016, the company has raised $3M in equity alongside $10M in non-dilutive funding from sources including the Icelandic Research Fund, Technology Development Fund and Horizon Europe. Atmonia collaborates with Fujitsu on AI-accelerated catalyst development and leads the EU-funded VERGE project.
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Aurélien de Meaux
Co-founder and CEO of Electra, the fast EV-charging network deploying hubs across Europe. He co-founded the company in 2021 and raised large rounds from Eurazeo, PGGM and others.
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Bartosz Składzień
Investment Director at Movens Capital. Focused on pre-seed and seed dealflow across CEE, with emphasis on SaaS, climate tech, and industrial software. Works closely with portfolio on fundraising and metrics operationalisation.
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Benoit Lemaignan
Co-founder and CEO of Verkor, the low-carbon battery-gigafactory company building cells for electric vehicles in northern France, backed by Renault, EQT and Macquarie.
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Bio360 Expo 2026
Specialized bioeconomy and bioenergy event covering biomass, waste-to-energy, and carbon capture. Price: free for verified professionals or about EUR 50-100. Includes startup pitches and B2B matchmaking for industrial pilots.
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Bling Energy
Residential solar company offering panels, batteries, EV chargers and backup systems via a no-upfront-cost subscription model, aiming to cut household electricity bills by up to 50%.
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Carbfix
Carbfix dissolves captured CO2 in water and injects it into basalt rock formations, where it permanently mineralises into solid carbonate stone in under two years. Founded in 2007 as a joint research initiative by Reykjavik Energy, the University of Iceland, CNRS France, and Columbia University's Earth Institute, the company operates at the Hellisheiði geothermal power plant. In 2023 it secured a $117M EU grant and became the first company to receive an EU permit for onshore carbon capture & storage, with capacity for ~106,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. It was a WIPO Global Awards 2025 finalist and partners with Climeworks on the Mammoth DAC plant.
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Carbon Recycling International
Carbon Recycling International (CRI) designs, licenses and sells its proprietary Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL) process technology for producing green methanol from captured CO2 emissions and green hydrogen. Founded in 2006 and operating at industrial scale since 2012, CRI is globally recognised as a leader in CO2-to-methanol technology. The company raised $30M led by Equinor Ventures and counts Geely, Methanex and Eyrir Invest among its major shareholders. CRI's technology has been deployed in commercial projects in China, including one of the world's most efficient CO2-to-methanol plants built in partnership with Jiangsu Sailboat.
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Catalyco
Catalyco is a Latvian deep-tech materials company that produces high-purity, high-surface-area zinc oxides from industrial waste in a circular process, drawing on more than 30 years of production experience in the underlying chemistry. Customers benefit from using less of these valuable materials while cutting manufacturing costs, and the technology is aimed at industrial applications that currently rely on virgin zinc oxide.
