Top 32 Energy-efficient cooling and air-conditioning startups

Updated: Dec 09, 2025
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Startups that develop smart air-conditioning systems for buildings and houses, industrial cooling systems and cold storages.
1
Nostromo
Country: Israel | Funding: $347.7M
Nostromo Energy designed a water-based energy storage system that is challenging the current BTM energy storage landscape.
2
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.
3
Phononic
Country: USA | Funding: $214.9M
Phononic innovates solid state semiconductor solutions that displace compressors, heat sinks and fans for cooling & heating
4
Dandelion Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $174.5M
Dandelion is an Alphabet spinout that develops geothermal heating, air-conditioning and cooling systems
5
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.
6
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.
7
Sealed
Country: USA | Funding: $97.5M
Sealed covers the upfront costs to install energy-saving upgrades like insulation, smart tech, and HVAC to make your house feel like new.
8
BrainBox AI
Country: Canada | Funding: $75.1M
BrainBox AI utilizes cloud-based computing, algorithms, and a proprietary process to create an autonomous building technology.
9
Quilt
Country: USA | Funding: $62M
Quilt produces ductless, dual-zone home heat pumps controlled by artificial intelligence. Quilt's indoor and outdoor units, Dial and mobile app work together to create intelligent home climate control solution. To compete with established players in the heat pump market, the company has focused on software and design. One example is the over-the-air update it has implemented for existing heat pumps - the new firmware improved unit performance by over 20%. Ductless systems ensure a consistent temperature in every room. Quilt is even more efficient thanks to the Auto-Away feature, which uses smart sensors to save energy when rooms are unoccupied. Installation is simple and quick, like other ductless systems and most modern systems are currently in production. The company is building a network of certified installation partners.
10
Exergyn
Country: Ireland | Funding: $36.9M
Exergyn is a clean-tech company that develops waste heat recovery and conversion technology.
11
HT Materials Science
Country: Ireland | Funding: $23.6M
HT Materials Science is developing a heat transfer fluid technology that acts as an additive for new or existing commercial and industrial cooling and heating systems. This technology reduces energy consumption
12
Bedrock Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $20.5M
Bedrock Energy develops drilling technology and advanced subsurface simulation software to enable geothermal heating and cooling.
13
Iyris
Country: Saudi Arabia | Funding: $17.5M
Iyris is creating special, high-tech glass that blocks heat, saves energy and produces electricity.
14
Infinite Cooling
Country: USA | Funding: $17.8M
​Infinite Cooling's mission is to provide novel technology to enable water-sustainable thermoelectric power. Its technology reduces water consumption in evaporative cooling tower systems by over 20% by capturing water from cooling tower plumes
15
Koolboks
Country: France | Funding: $15.4M
Koolboks provides a storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design. The sustainable cooling company, which offers accessible cold storage solutions to businesses across Africa
16
MagnoTherm Solutions
Country: Germany | Funding: €11.3M
MagnoTherm's cutting-edge energy conversion solutions allow cooling and heating with low pressure systems and is 40% more efficient than current systems.
17
MAGNOTHERM
Country: Germany | Funding: €11.3M
MAGNOTHERM builds highly efficient and sustainable cooling systems based on magnetocaloric materials. Instead of climate-damaging or hazardous refrigerant gases, it uses a temperature-active metal in combination with water.
18
Smart Joules
Country: India | Funding: ₹957M
Smart Joules offers retrofits for energy-intensive systems like cooling, heating, compressed air and steam in commercial and industrial facilities
19
Axiom Exergy
Country: USA | Funding: $10.1M
Axiom Exergy transforms the world's cooling systems into intelligent, cloud-connected batteries.
20
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
21
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.
22
Dig Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $5M
Dig Energy produces purpose-built drilling technology to create highly efficient geothermal heating and cooling systems.
23
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%
24
Barocal
Country: UK | Funding: $4.5M
Barocal is a Zero-carbon refrigeration. Barocal's breakthrough solid refrigerants deliver unprecedented efficiency and are inexpensive and safe for people and the planet - a true paradigm shift
25
Humboldt Blue
Country: Belgium | Funding: €3.4M
Humboldt Blue develops patented liquid‑solid phase‑change chillers for ultra‑efficient, GHG‑free cooling in data centers and industrial HVAC—cutting both energy and refrigerant-based GHG emissions.
26
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.
27
Asperitas
Country: Netherlands | Funding: $81.9K
Asperitas creates unique liquid cooling solution for data centers. By adding integration of power and network components, improving cooling physics with a strong focus on design and engineering for usability, Asperitas has come up with a complete and integrated solution which can be effectively utilised in most, if not all situations.
28
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.
29
SoundEnergy
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €1.1M
SoundEnergy develops technology that uses freely available heat; industrial waste heat or solar heat and turns it into cooling. Its THEAC-25 converts the heat directly into cold. The technology is 100% clean: no refrigerants, no electricity, no GWP and no CO2.
30
Breezi.io
Country: USA | Funding: $1M
Breezi builds wireless devices that enable homeowners to detect problems with their HVAC systems before they become severe.
31
AMBIATOR
Country: India
AMBIATOR works on alternatives to Air Conditioners for the Global South. They've developed the AMBIATOR 5 TR for Hoat and Dry climate zones that uses only 1kW of power vs 7.5 using water as a refrigerant. No compressors and refrigerants make the product eco-friendly, affordable, and have the ability to run on solar power. Future variants are being developed in the Room Air Conditioner segment for multiple climate zones that opens a global market.
32
Coolar
Country: Germany
Coolar’s system powers refrigerators that run independent from the electricity and instead with hot water from solar heat, which makes them close to carbon neutral.
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