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This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Sustainabile startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside Sustainability around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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1. Persefoni
The idea behind this startup: Persefoni builds an AI, SaaS-based platform enabling organizations to plan, monitor, analyze, and reduce their carbon footprint.
Headquarters: Tempe, Arizona, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Software, Sustainability
Founders: Jason Offerman, Kentaro Kawamori, Kim Stroh
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]2. Renoon
The idea behind this startup: Renoon is the search platform that empowers shoppers to easily find sustainable options for what they want to wear.
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Industries: E-Commerce, Fashion, Search Engine, Shopping, Sustainability
Founders: Gabriele Trapani, Iris Skrami, Nicolò Tresoldi, Piero Puttini
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]3. Tryft
The idea behind this startup: Tryft is a marketing company that finds deals and saves money.
Headquarters: Malibu, California, United States
Industries: CleanTech, E-Commerce, Marketing, Sustainability
Founders: Kartik Gurmule, Terry McGinnis
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]4. Nama Water
The idea behind this startup: Ethically sourced, sustainably packaged premium drinking water
Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
Industries: Food and Beverage, Sustainability, Water
Founders: Deepika Phakke
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]5. Virimodo, PBC
The idea behind this startup: Become and remain Carbon Neutral – Carbon Reduction Intelligence for real estate portfolios
Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
Industries: CleanTech, Software, Sustainability
Founders: Donna Sanders
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]6. Serendipity Capital
The idea behind this startup: Serendipity Capital is a financial services principal investing firm.
Headquarters: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Financial Services, FinTech, Sustainability, Venture Capital
Founders: Robert Jesudason
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]7. Food Bear
The idea behind this startup: Food Bear is sustainable food startup.
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Organic Food, Sustainability
Founders: Unknown
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]8. Future Kitchens
The idea behind this startup: Reducing food waste by turning overproduced vegetables into a tasty powder soup through high-quality freeze drying technique
Headquarters: Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
Industries: Food and Beverage, Organic Food, Snack Food, Sustainability
Founders: Floris Schoenmakers, Jef Cavens
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]9. Cocoboards
The idea behind this startup: Cocoboards transforms agricultural byproducts into sustainable and affordable bio-based materials.
Headquarters: Biel, Bern, Switzerland
Industries: Building Material, Sustainability, Waste Management
Founders: Unknown
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]10. Squared Circles
The idea behind this startup: Venture Studio
Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
Industries: Automotive, Consumer Goods, Electric Vehicle, Financial Services, Food and Beverage, Marketing, Retail, Sustainability
Founders: Alexander Gilkes, Lukas Derksen, Osman Khan
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]11. Giotto
The idea behind this startup: Circular Home Office Subscription Platform
Headquarters: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Industries: E-Commerce, Green Consumer Goods, Interior Design, Internet, Rental, Subscription Service, Sustainability
Founders: Unknown
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]12. Greenlight
The idea behind this startup: Browser Extension
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: Consumer Software, E-Commerce, Software, Sustainability
Founders: Evan O’Connor
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]13. Concular
The idea behind this startup: Platform is digitalizing the process of circular construction material procurement
Headquarters: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Industries: Construction, Green Building, GreenTech, Recycling, Sustainability, Waste Management
Founders: Dominik Campanella, Julius Schäufele, Marc Haines
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]14. Marda Swimwear
The idea behind this startup: Marda Swimwear is a sustainable men’s swimwear company that uses plastic from oceans and landfills.
Headquarters: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Industries: Fashion, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing, Recycling, Sustainability
Founders: August Dyrberg
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]15. Washaby
The idea behind this startup: Great quality, wonderful smelling ecological laundry capsules, regularly delivered to your home in an eco-responsible packaging.
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Sustainability
Founders: Ferran Aznar, François Louart
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]16. Blue Lake Packaging
The idea behind this startup: Blue Lake Packaging provides fiber-based sustainable packaging solutions.
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Manufacturing, Packaging Services, Sustainability
Founders: Bing Cao, Ying Liu
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]17. Whering
The idea behind this startup: Mobile App
Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom
Industries: CleanTech, Fashion, Retail Technology, Shopping, Sustainability
Founders: Bianca Rangecroft
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]18. Byprotex GmbH
The idea behind this startup: B2B marketplace for trading animal by-products and plant-based materials.
Headquarters: Munich, Bayern, Germany
Industries: AgTech, Animal Feed, B2B, Biofuel, Marketplace, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, Trading Platform, Waste Management
Founders: Andi Wieser
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]19. Green Growth
The idea behind this startup: Making it easier for everyone Green Investments through our app and platform
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: FinTech, Impact Investing, Sustainability
Founders: Chris Webb
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]20. Dodo
The idea behind this startup: In less than 5 minutes, make your entire workforce climate positive. Feel empowered to take on the challenge of climate change.
Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom
Industries: Sustainability
Founders: Csaba Szabo, Jack Kennedy
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]21. Heriot
The idea behind this startup: International Food Packaging Supplier
Headquarters: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Marketing, Sustainability
Founders: Unknown
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]22. Green Collective
The idea behind this startup: New Amazon, but vegan and sustainable. Launched at the Founder Institute
Headquarters: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Industries: E-Commerce, Sustainability
Founders: Shipko Vladimir
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]23. ALT+SOFT
The idea behind this startup: Sustainable Fashion
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail, Sustainability
Founders: Devender Gupta, Roshan Baid, Rupi Arora, Victoria Ganzi
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]24. SustainLab
The idea behind this startup: SustainLab is a Sustainability Intelligence Company that helps businesses to gather, process, and understand their sustainability data.
Headquarters: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Industries: Information Services, SaaS, Sustainability
Founders: Kamal Hakimzadeh, Maria Svantemark
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]25. Fusion8 Ltd
The idea behind this startup: Next generation green-first solar.
Headquarters: Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Industries: Energy, GreenTech, Solar, Sustainability
Founders: Unknown
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]26. MUGO
The idea behind this startup: MUGO is a platform that leverages on tech to empower consumers to fight climate change.
Headquarters: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
Industries: Apps, CleanTech, GreenTech, Software, Sustainability
Founders: Benedetto Ruggeri
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]27. JAMH
The idea behind this startup: SaaS
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, SaaS, Software, Sustainability
Founders: Alec Lamb, Huda Abbas, Jackson Cooper, Maggie Thai
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]28. ec0mission
The idea behind this startup: Our committment is to the protection of our people and our planet.
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: Green Building, GreenTech, Health Care, Hospital, Medical, Plastics and Rubber Manufacturing, Public Safety, Sustainability, Textiles
Founders: Houston Wade, Kristina Soman-Faulkner
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]29. Blue Monday Project
The idea behind this startup: SaaS, Mobile App, Big Data
Headquarters: Vienna, Wien, Austria
Industries: Big Data, Mobile Apps, Sustainability
Founders: Daniel Pfeiffer, Dennis Platzl
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]30. Mobius Materials
The idea behind this startup: The trusted marketplace for buying and selling preowned electronic components
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: Electronics, Marketplace, Sustainability, Waste Management
Founders: Unknown
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]31. SPECTRUMLAB
The idea behind this startup: IP Licensing firm
Headquarters: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
Industries: Energy Efficiency, Green Building, Smart Building, Sustainability
Founders: Willy CAMOU
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]32. Worthmore
The idea behind this startup: Donate all or part of their value of your used phones to support initiatives for a more sustainable future.
Headquarters: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Industries: CleanTech, GreenTech, Sustainability
Founders: Tegan Spinner
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]33. Pretail
The idea behind this startup: A Peer to Peer Retail app that allows the purchase of any items directly from the brand or from an intelligent second-hand market
Headquarters: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet, Peer to Peer, Retail Technology, Sustainability
Founders: Unknown
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]34. 3rdRisk
The idea behind this startup: The first truly collaborative platform for third-party risk management
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: Cyber Security, Quality Assurance, Risk Management, SaaS, Software, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability
Founders: Bram Ketting
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]35. Redigo
The idea behind this startup: Redigo is a sustainability platform that with use of Machine Learning allows companies to track, analyse and act on their carbon footprint.
Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, CleanTech, Data Visualization, GreenTech, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Software, Sustainability
Founders: Magdalena Stelmach and Tangi Coatanea
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]36. Caesar Sustainability
The idea behind this startup: Corporate Sustainability SaaS
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Industries: Software, Sustainability
Founders: Unknown
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]37. GreenFunder
The idea behind this startup: Sustainability focused crowdfunding community
Headquarters: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Industries: Crowdfunding, GreenTech, Sustainability
Founders: Michael Ter Mors
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]38. The Bio Company
The idea behind this startup: Sustainable Bio-Materials
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Industries: Biotechnology, Fashion, GreenTech, Lifestyle, Sustainability
Founders: Pritesh Mistry
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]39. Mixbrains
The idea behind this startup: Mixbrains is forecasting software that helps brands grow more sustainably, with less excess production and overstock.
Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
Industries: Consumer Goods, Enterprise Software, Fashion, Retail Technology, Software, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability
Founders: Dorian Scrima
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]40. Universal Aquaculture
The idea behind this startup: Universal Aquaculture is a newly formed deep-tech company with an indoor farming facility.
Headquarters: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Industries: Aquaculture, Sustainability
Founders: Unknown
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]41. Wearly
The idea behind this startup: The idea behind Wearly is to create sustainable and innovative solutions in the fashion industry
Headquarters: Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Fashion, Machine Learning, Sustainability
Founders: Tomas Gesino and Matias Armentano
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]42. Fox Holt
The idea behind this startup: E-commerce
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: E-Commerce, Retail, Sustainability
Founders: Unknown
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[adace-ad id=”4426″]43. The Kliek Club
The idea behind this startup: The Kliek Club delivers delicious meals made out of rescued food to your doorstep.
Headquarters: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability
Founders: Unknown
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44. Genvalues
The idea behind this startup: Helping Nordic impact companies grow with engineers based on sustainability goals and values.
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: Employment, Human Resources, Information Technology, Sustainability
Founders: Carwan Rasoal
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45. BIO-PLY
The idea behind this startup: Sustainable Plywood Alternative
Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Industries: Biotechnology, Green Consumer Goods, GreenTech, Lifestyle, Sustainability
Founders: Pritesh Mistry
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46. Fairify
The idea behind this startup: Fairify is a platform that helps consumers make more sustainable choices.
Headquarters: Unknown
Industries: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software, Sustainability
Founders: Lars Dinjens
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