Top 73 Energy-efficient Building startups

Updated: Feb 24, 2026
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These startup develop smart HVAC, lighting systems, energy storages, solar roofs, energy management systems, sustainable building materials and other technologies for energy-efficient buildings.
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Whisper Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $2.2M
Whisper Energy is developing an AI-native sensor to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings. The company is targeting small to midsized buildings with its easy-to-install sensors and system as an affordable alternative to large-scale energy automation solutions.
2
Redaptive
Country: USA | Funding: $1.7B
Redaptive is an Energy-as-a-Service provider that funds and installs energy-saving and energy-generating equipment and manages energy use in buildings.
3
BlocPower
Country: USA | Funding: $266.6M
BlocPower is offering smart, all electric heating, cooling, and hot water systems to building owners for no money down.
4
Urban Volt
Country: Ireland | Funding: €224M
Urban Volt is an energy-saving LED lighting firm. They retrofit commercial premises with LED lighting for no upfront cost. Their unique Light as a Service business model allows our clients to enjoy cash and energy savings from the moment of installation.
5
Atom Power
Country: USA | Funding: $174.5M
Atom Power built the world’s first and only true solid-state circuit breaker. Using semiconductors to control the current digitally, this breakthrough unlocks a future where power is smartly controlled and exponentially safer.
6
Ice Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $132M
Ice Energy develops Ice Bear - thermal energy storage for air conditioning, that is lowering electric bills for businesses and homeowners, and reducing CO2 emissions.
7
Aeroseal
Country: USA | Funding: $119M
Aeroseal seals both air ducts and building envelopes so you waste less energy and reduce your bill
8
David Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $100.5M
David Energy looks to transform every building into an energy retailer that helps customers get more value out of their solar and storage systems.
9
Solatube International
Country: USA | Funding: $100М
Solatube developed the system that revolutionized the way daylight was brought into a building. Known as a tubular daylighting device (TDD), this product was a compact and leakproof alternative to traditional skylights.
10
Broad Group
Country: China
Broad Group produces clean air-conditioning systems and other sustainability-oriented products to enhance building efficiency. The company uses a patented, non-electric air chiller in its air conditioning design. Instead of using Freon (the traditionally used chiller), the system taps into natural gas to produce a solution that ultimately cools the air.
11
ecoworks
Country: Germany | Funding: €78.9M
ecoworks uses industrial prefabrication, digital processes, and energy systems to modernise multi-family houses with up to four floors within a few weeks. During the renovation process, the building is converted into “a small, decentralised power plant” by installing photovoltaic systems, heat pumps and thermal reservoirs.
12
75F
Country: USA | Funding: $74.9M
75F is a predictive and proactive IoT-based building automation system that addresses HVAC, lighting, and equipment control needs.
13
BrainBox AI
Country: Canada | Funding: $75.1M
BrainBox AI utilizes cloud-based computing, algorithms, and a proprietary process to create an autonomous building technology.
14
Ubiquitous Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $75M
Ubiquitous Energy is developing a special kind of “solar glass” designed to convert sunlight into electricity, minus the traditional photovoltaic panels.
15
Carbon Lighthouse
Country: USA | Funding: $67.1M
Carbon Lighthouse is on a mission to stop climate change by making it easy and profitable for building owners to eliminate carbon emissions caused by wasted energy. The company’s unique approach to Efficiency Production goes deep into buildings to uncover and continuously correct hidden inefficiencies that add up to meaningful financial value and carbon elimination that lasts.
16
Verdigris Technologies
Country: USA | Funding: $51.5M
Verdigris Technologies is a SaaS-based platform that develops artificial intelligence in order to optimize energy consumption.
17
Qarnot
Country: France | Funding: €48M
Qarnot designs and develops Q.rad, a computing heater embedding microprocessors as a heat source and connected to the Internet.
18
Kontrol Energy
Country: Canada | Funding: $50M
Kontrol Integrates smart energy devices, energy software and energy retrofits to help organizations benefit from energy cost savings while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions.
19
Worlds
Country: USA | Funding: $40.7M
Worlds' technology combines deep learning and IoT inside of a 4D environment to give organizations the ability to observe their organization’s physical space and then, analyze and learn from their physical surroundings
20
Blue Frontier
Country: USA | Funding: $38.1M
Blue Frontier specializes in air conditioning systems designed for sustainability, comfort and energy storage. It's technology is based on liquid desiccants, which dehumidifies air.
21
Covetool
Country: USA | Funding: $36.8M
Covetool is a B2B SaaS company that helps make buildings energy efficient while saving on construction cost.
22
cove.tool
Country: USA | Funding: $36.8M
Covetool is a B2B SaaS company that helps make buildings energy efficient while saving on construction cost.
23
Energy X
Country: South Korea | Funding: $31.5M
Energy X develops an ESG sustainable architecture platform that enables the construction of zero-energy buildings.
24
aedifion
Country: Germany | Funding: €29M
Aedifion develops tools for the cloud-based processing of operating data from building automation systems.
25
AeroShield Materials
Country: USA | Funding: $25.9M
AeroShield Materials is creating thermally insulating transparent inserts. The inserts are only four millimeters of AeroShield's material and, when placed inside a double-pane window, provides 65 percent more energy efficiency.
26
Effy
Country: France | Funding: €20M
Effy is a France based energy renovation company. The company workes on energy renovation for public buildings, residential buildings and industrial facilities
27
Emulate Energy
Country: Sweden | Funding: $18M
Emulate provides SaaS for utilities to offer behind-the-meter services and optimize demand flexibility with virtual battery technology.
28
Iyris
Country: Saudi Arabia | Funding: $17.5M
Iyris is creating special, high-tech glass that blocks heat, saves energy and produces electricity.
29
Bisly
Country: Estonia | Funding: €15.8M
Bisly is an Estonian startup developing intelligent building solutions.
30
Flair
Country: USA | Funding: $12.7M
Flair makes smart vents and wireless thermostats and advanced software for residential heating and cooling.
31
Solarstone
Country: Estonia | Funding: €10.5M
Solarstone develops and produces building-integrated PV (BIPV) solutions that promote sustainable building principles
32
measurable.energy
Country: UK | Funding: £8.5M
measurable. energy is a machine learning and hardware platform to eliminate wasted energy and GHG emissions in buildings.
33
Aeromine Technologies
Country: USA | Funding: $10.1M
Aeromine Technologies provides bladeless wind energy solutions for building environment that is motionless.
34
SkyCool Systems
Country: USA | Funding: $9.5M
Skycool Systems is improving the efficiency of all cooling systems by harnessing an untapped renewable resource. It's panels turn the sky into a renewable resource and reduce the electricity use of air conditioning and refrigeration systems
35
dPoint Technologies
Country: Canada | Funding: $6.1M
dPoint develops and sells membranes and energy recovery technology that significantly improve the energy efficiency and air quality in buildings. It has adapted its patented fuel-cell heat and humidity exchanger technology for use in energy recovery ventilator systems, which transfer heat and humidity between the intake and exhaust in a residential or commercial building’s ventilation system.
36
Viboo
Country: Switzerland | Funding: $6M
viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service.
37
INOVUES
Country: USA | Funding: $5.5M
INOVUES is a window technology company that provides the only solution that enables existing building facades to be retrofitted with the latest energy-saving and smart glass innovations without removal or replacement
38
NanoTech Materials
Country: USA | Funding: $5M
Nanotech is a material science company that focuses on using Nano Technology to fireproof and reduce global energy consumption.
39
Dabbel
Country: Germany | Funding: €4.4M
DABBEL controls the energy system in buildings using AI technology, reducing energy consumption and CO₂ emissions up to 40%
40
Ento
Country: Denmark | Funding: $3.6M
Ento is an AI-powered platform that identifies the best ways to build and improve buildings in order to reduce their carbon emissions. It produces reports to display where energy has been optimised, has an alarm to alert when there’s an issue and offers a tracking space to monitor the progress of energy-saving projects.
41
Conry Tech
Country: Australia | Funding: $3.5M
Conry Tech is reinventing air-conditioning to improve comfort and make it sustainable, founded by award winning HVAC experts.
42
Monodraught
Country: UK | Funding: £2.7M
Monodraught manufactures natural lighting, air conditioning and ventilation technology that is now widely used by the likes of IKEA, Ford and Waitrose.
43
QEA Tech
Country: Canada | Funding: $3.3M
QEA Tech is a software company that combines AI, drone technology, and thermal imaging to provide insights into the building envelope.
44
NETenergy
Country: USA | Funding: $2.8M
NETenergy is a thermal energy storage company that is creating a thermal battery designed to offset peak electricity load.
45
R8tech
Country: Estonia | Funding: €2.4M
R8 Digital Operator develops artificially intelligent add-on software for your existing Building Automation System (BAS, BMS).
46
Tablepointer
Country: Singapore | Funding: SGD3M
TablePointer is the AI solution for small and medium commercial facilities, helping them optimise energy usage and increase profitability.
47
SUNSPEKER
Country: Italy | Funding: €2.1M
SUNSPEKER creates a fully recyclable graphic cover able to camouflage any solar panel.
48
Ampotech
Country: Singapore | Funding: SGD2.8M
Energy intelligence at the edge: connected hardware company making buildings smarter and more efficient.
49
Onyx Solar
Country: Spain | Funding: $2M
Onyx Solar is the world’s leading manufacturer of transparent photovoltaic (PV) glass for buildings. PV Glass is used as a building material plus as an energy-generating device, capturing the sunlight and transforming it into electricity.
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Smart Energy Link
Country: Switzerland
Smart Energy Link (SEL) is a software developer and service provider for captive power solutions in residential and commercial buildings and quarters. SEL lowers energy costs, simplifies accounting of service charges and reduces investment for public power supply.
Alexander Gillet
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