Top 10 Smart (Energy-Efficient) City startups

Updated: February 08, 2024

Smart (energy-efficient) city startups are dedicated to developing comprehensive solutions that leverage advanced technologies, data analytics, and IoT (Internet of Things) infrastructure to optimize energy consumption, enhance urban mobility, improve waste management, promote renewable energy integration, and enable efficient resource allocation, creating sustainable and livable cities that prioritize energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and quality of life for residents while reducing carbon footprint and fostering economic growth.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.5B
Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
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Country: USA | Funding: $336.2M
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.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $260M
Optibus is a developer of an AI-enabled SaaS platform for planning and running mass transportation.
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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.
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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.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $65M
Peak Power provides energy management solutions for commercial real estate and industrial companies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Country: USA | Funding: $19.9M
Populus is a platform for cities to manage the future of mobility.
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Country: Switzerland | Funding: $18.5M
DEPsys provides evolutive solutions enabling traditional low-voltage electricity networks to cope with the new constraints of decentralized production from renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic systems and wind turbines, as well as emerging storage technologies.
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Country: Portugal | Funding: €12M
GoWithFlow is a sustainable Mobility Management solution manages and optimizes the entire mobility and energy lifecycle.
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Country: UK | Funding: $8.5M
Pavegen is the global leader in harvesting energy and data from footfall.
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Country: UK | Funding: £6.2M
Upside Energy reduces greenhouse gases by enabling people to make smart choices about when to use energy. It uses advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to match energy demand with the available supply, helping the electricity grid deal with fluctuations and times of peak usage.
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Country: USA | Funding: $6.5M
InPipe Energy enable water agencies to manage pressure while producing renewable energy-turning excess pressure into a revenue stream.
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Country: France
Clem developed a platform for managing eco-mobility stations. It's smart city electric vehicle car sharing operator to offer carpooling via our user interface. Customers can thus share their journeys and associated costs.
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Country: France
Evolution Energie provides energy management solutions to large companies & utility intensive industries.
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Country: France | Funding: $3.7M
Luceor is pioneering the development of WiMesh technology to connect strategic and mission critical applications. These WiMesh network solutions ideally complement existing fibre and powerline networks to give the flexibility and rapid deployment needed to support diverse distribution environments.
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Country: Canada
Leading global solar road solutions provider backed by market leading research and innovation. It develops critical materials, modules, and process know-how for solar roads – an emerging industry sector that paves driveways, walkways, parkways, bike paths, and highways with photovoltaic (PV) materials, turning road surfaces into a site for dependable, accessible, and affordable clean electricity production and consumption
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Country: USA
Online bidding platform for residential solar buyers. Compare quotes from dozens of top solar companies.
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Country: USA | Funding: $50K
Constructis is a leader in kinetic energy. With the high demand for clean energy. Constructis has brought to life a roadway system that allows traffic to create renewable energy. The Roadway Energy Sensory System or R.E.S.S are roadway installed power modules capable of capturing vehicle traffic and converting it into usable energy.
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Country: Denmark
Suncil deliveres street lights that include solar panels and can also provide streets with WiFi connectivity and air quality monitoring.
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Country: Italy | Funding: €115K
SUNSPEKER creates a fully recyclable graphic cover able to camouflage any solar panel.
24
Country: Germany
Smart City Factory integrates efficient LED-lamps with proprietary communication and control electronics for the M2M infrastructure.
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Country: China
Meinergy aims to create an energy internet network, which includes both home energy management system and grid asset management. Their software can be dubbed as a ‘utility-in-a-box’ solution, providing all components for operation and management of electricity selling companies.
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Country: USA
RoadPower Systems is a developer of a clean power-generation platform used to produce clean power from wasted vehicular energy.