Top 26 Smart (Energy-Efficient) City startups

Oct 26, 2024 | By Alexander Gillet

These startups optimize city electric grids, energy generating systems, lighting, transportation systems, etc.
1
Country: USA | Funding: $1.5B
Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
2
Country: USA | Funding: $349.2M
NineDot Energy creates innovative energy solutions that make the urban grid cleaner, more resilient and less costly. It wants to turn underused properties into community battery-farm projects.
3
Country: Israel | Funding: $260M
Optibus is a developer of an AI-enabled SaaS platform for planning and running mass transportation.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $213.5M
With Passport, cities can easily analyze scooter usage, parking patterns and curb utilization. Passport also enables cities to implement real-time curbside pricing and payments and better manage scooter placement.
5
Country: UK | Funding: $86.5M
Origami Energy is creating a real-time marketplace for a distributed energy world. It's smart technology intelligently manages and remotely controls distributed energy assets to access the most profitable current and future value opportunities.
6
Country: Canada | Funding: $65M
Peak Power provides energy management solutions for commercial real estate and industrial companies.
7
Country: Israel | Funding: $50M
ElectReon provides a complete solution for the future E-city with no gas and charging stations, no visible infrastructure and with a shared energy platform for the near future ban on fossil fuel vehicles entering the urban environment. It's developing a smart transportation technology for underground electric coils that recharge EVs wirelessly as they travel.
8
Country: Sweden | Funding: €28.3M
ClimateView is a climate action technology company that combines scientific modelling, machine learning and interface design to help cities understand and act on the complex climate challenge, clearly.
9
Country: Australia | Funding: $23.9M
AEV Robotics has built a modular vehicle system for cities. The system allows businesses to configure solutions for a multitude of applications.
10
Country: USA | Funding: $19.9M
Populus is a platform for cities to manage the future of mobility.
Editor: Alexander Gillet
Alexander Gillet is a senior editor for EnergyStartups. He has a deep background in energy sector and startups. Alexander graduated from Emlyon Business School, a leading French business school specialized in entrepreneurship. He has helped several non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting environmental education and sustainability and has written over 250 articles on energy technology for various websites. In his free time, Alexander enjoys yoga, camping and exploring the Blue Ridge Mountains. You can contact Alexander at alexgillet(at)energystartups(dot)com