Top 39 Energy-efficient heating startups

Updated: Dec 09, 2025
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These startups develop smart heating systems for buildings and houses and industrial heat utilizing technologies.
1
Aira
Country: Sweden | Funding: $710M
Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company driving the clean energy revolution with air source heat pumps.
2
1Komma5
Country: Germany | Funding: €652M
1Komma5° is aiming to offer households everything needed for a carbon neutral home, including energy storage, charging infrastructure for electric vehicles and solar.
3
Ovo Energy
Country: UK | Funding: £447M
OVO Energy is an independent energy technology company and supplier. OVO also installs world’s most advanced storage heaters
4
Hometree
Country: UK | Funding: $468.9M
Hometree operates as an online-led boiler installation company.
5
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.
6
Deep Green
Country: UK | Funding: £200M
Deep Green has developed a “digital boiler” technology to use the heat produced by data centers for swimming pools, apartment blocks, distilleries, laundrettes, and bakeries.
7
tado
Country: Germany | Funding: $250.1M
Tado° offers smart thermostats and apps that adjusts to the real-time behavior of residents in private homes and small businesses.
8
Dandelion Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $174.5M
Dandelion is an Alphabet spinout that develops geothermal heating, air-conditioning and cooling systems
9
Rondo Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $162.3M
Rondo Energy invented new, surprisingly simple solution to the critical need for low cost, zero-carbon heat.
10
Qvantum
Country: Sweden | Funding: $156M
Qvantum is a comprehensive supplier of innovative and efficient electric heat-pumps.
11
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.
12
BrainBox AI
Country: Canada | Funding: $75.1M
BrainBox AI utilizes cloud-based computing, algorithms, and a proprietary process to create an autonomous building technology.
13
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.
14
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.
15
Exergyn
Country: Ireland | Funding: $36.9M
Exergyn is a clean-tech company that develops waste heat recovery and conversion technology.
16
Radiator Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $35.9M
Radiator Labs invented Cozy - a wireless, low-cost and easily installed retrofit that drops on top of steam heat radiators, providing a solution to the chronic problem of uneven heating in apartment buildings. Installation throughout a building can save up to 45 percent in heating costs and reduce GHG emissions by an average of 25 percent.
17
Quatt
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €29.8M
Quatt designs AI-powered smart hybrid heat pumps to accelerate the decrease of gas consumption.
18
Naked Energy
Country: UK | Funding: £24.4M
Naked Energy has developed an innovative hybrid solar technology generating combined heat and power.
19
Kraftblock
Country: Germany | Funding: €25.5M
Kraftblock is the energy storage, based on a bottom-up materials-development, which enables the energy transition to 100% renewables in an ecological and economical sensfull way.
20
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
21
Bedrock Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $20.5M
Bedrock Energy develops drilling technology and advanced subsurface simulation software to enable geothermal heating and cooling.
22
HeatTransformers
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €15M
HeatTransformers provides a digital platform intended to install hybrid heat pumps.
23
Jimmy Energy
Country: France | Funding: €15M
Jimmy specializes in designing and operating thermal generators that replace fossil fuels, enabling clients to get an effective and massively applicable alternative to decarbonize process heat in the short term and is cheaper than fossil fuels
24
Harvest Thermal
Country: USA | Funding: $12.8M
Harvest Thermal develops a control system for home use that integrates heating, hot water, and cooling with thermal storage.
25
Triple Solar
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €11.2M
Triple Solar is on a mission to achieve maximum impact in reducing CO2 emissions while heating homes. The company has developed heat pump systems using PVT panels as an energy source.
26
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.
27
Cala Systems
Country: USA | Funding: $11.1M
Cala Systems manufactures the world's first intelligent heat pump water heater.
28
Heaten
Country: Norway | Funding: $10.3M
Heaten accelerates heat electrification for deep decarbonisation. Their HeatBooster, transforming waste heat into a valuable resource, offers viable solutions for the rapid decarbonization of industrial heating, blending economic feasibility with technical prowess in the green industrial revolution.
29
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.
30
Equium
Country: France | Funding: €5M
Equium goal is to create a French market for acoustic heat pumps.
31
Vilisto
Country: Germany | Funding: €5M
Vilisto’s flagship product is an intelligent, self-learning and fully automatic heating thermostat for non-residential buildings, with proven savings of more than 32%.
32
Dig Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $5M
Dig Energy produces purpose-built drilling technology to create highly efficient geothermal heating and cooling systems.
33
African Clean Energy
Country: Lesotho | Funding: €4.5M
African Clean Energy produces the ACE 1 Ultra-Clean Biomass Cookstove, improving health and environment, and reducing poverty.
34
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%
35
Shifted Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $4.5M
Shifted Energy enable electric water heaters to consume excess renewable energy and provide grid services.
36
Hestiia
Country: France | Funding: €2.7M
hestiia is a manufacturing company that develops smart electric radiators that are eco-friendly.
37
eCozy
Country: Germany | Funding: $806.3K
eCozy wants to eliminate the user's pain of setting up a digital thermostat, maintain comfortable and price-reasonable heating regimes. eCozy’s ergonomic shape & form makes it a long-lasting solution for years.
38
DeWarmte
Country: Netherlands
DeWarmte specializes in recovering heat from domestic wastewater and it is used to make hot tap water.
39
Sobolt
Country: Netherlands
Sobolt focuses on facilitating resilience building and climate adaption. Its AI solution HeatPuls maps heat losses in buildings by interpreting these heat scans automatically.
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