Top 144 Solar Energy startups

These startups develop new solar energy technologies, create solar farms and install solar roofs.
1
Country: UAE | Funding: $492.3M
Yellow Door Energy is a leading solar developer. Yellow Door Energy manages all stages of the solar plant and you pay a monthly solar bill once the solar plant starts producing electricity.
2
Country: Egypt | Funding: $37.2M
KarmSolar is a private off-grid solar energy integrator in Egypt.
3
Country: Switzerland | Funding: $25.9M
Insolight is an energy company that develops and manufactures solar panels. The technology, called planar optical micro-tracking, allows to concentrate sunlight on tiny solar cells, without any tilt. This makes the use of high efficiency space-grade solar cells affordable, whereas normally there are too expensive to be spread on the full sunlit area.
4
Country: South Africa | Funding: $9M
WiSolar is an on-demand prepaid solar utility. The company combines mobile payments with prepaid solar electricity to enable homeowners purchase low-cost solar electricity per kWh via the mobile app as required. This business model allows property owners to install solar at no upfront cost.
5
Country: Singapore | Funding: SGD2.2M
Solar-as-a-service for smaller, underserved property owners in Southeast Asia
6
Country: USA | Funding: $20.2B
Tesla accelerates the transition to electric mobility with a full range of increasingly affordable electric cars. Tesla also produces Solar Roof, home batteries and operates large solar stations with energy storage.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $4.9B
Recurrent Energy provides distributed solar power that makes renewable energy a practical choice for large scale energy users.
8
Country: Germany | Funding: €4.2B
Enpal is a photovoltaics leasing firm that provides solar power systems for homeowners with no money upfront.
9
Country: India | Funding: $3.7B
Avaada Energy is committed to provide affordable, clean and abundant power for India. For us, it is a new journey. A journey fuelled by our passion for sustainable energy and backed by our credentials and the trust of our stakeholders.
10
Country: USA | Funding: $3.2B
Sunnova provides low-cost solar power to homes. It owns the equipment, installs it, and also eventually sells the electricity it creates to customers.
11
Country: USA | Funding: $2.2B
Palmetto is the leading clean technology software and fulfillment company.
12
Country: USA | Funding: $2.1B
Silicon Ranch developer, owner and operator of solar energy facilities in US.
13
Country: Brazil | Funding: $2B
Atlas Renewable Energy, a renewable and clean energy startup that develops, builds and operates solar and wind projects in Latin America
14
Country: USA | Funding: $2B
Pine Gate Renewables is a U.S. developer of 2-25 MW utility-scale solar farms.
15
Country: USA | Funding: $1.2B
Nextracker creates smart solartracker solutions that improve the performance of solar PV plants.
16
Country: Kenya | Funding: $950M
Sun King is one of the largest solar companies in Africa and Asia
17
Country: Israel | Funding: $840.3M
BrightSource Energy designs, develops, and deploys solar thermal technology to produce high-value electricity and steam for power, petroleum, and industrial-process markets worldwide.
18
Country: USA | Funding: $700M
AES Distributed Energy creates solar plus storage facilities, which includes systems that can hold and release solar energy at will.
19
Country: Kenya | Funding: $590.2M
M-Kopa Solar provides customers with solar lamps that can also recharge their mobile phone or radio.
20
Country: USA | Funding: $523.5M
Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.
Editor: Alexander Gillet
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