Top 86 Smart (Energy-Efficient) Home startups

Updated: Dec 09, 2025
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These startups develop smart thermostats, solar systems, smart HVAC and lighting, residential energy storage systems and other energy-saving home technologies.
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Base Power
Country: USA | Funding: $1.2B
Base Power is a modern power firm for the electric era that has built a reliable and affordable residential energy service.
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
Swell Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $582M
Swell is a residential energy storage developer and aggregator.
4
Hometree
Country: UK | Funding: $468.9M
Hometree operates as an online-led boiler installation company.
5
SolarEdge
Country: Israel | Funding: $454.8M
SolarEdge Technologies, global leader in the DC power optimizer market. SolarEdge developed the DC optimized inverter solution that changed the way power is harvested and managed in photovoltaic (PV) systems. The SolarEdge intelligent inverter solution maximizes power generation while lowering the cost of energy produced by the PV system, for improved RoI.
6
Lunar Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $300M
Lunar Energy was founded to transition homes to 100% clean energy—making our electricity greener, our air cleaner, and our energy more safe, secure and reliable for all.
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
SPAN
Country: USA | Funding: $230.3M
SPAN develops smart electrical panels that unlock whole-home, room and appliance energy data designed to lower your energy bill.
9
BBOXX
Country: UK | Funding: $215M
BBOXX designs, manufactures, and distributes plug and play solar systems. It also offers pay-as-you-go solar power. BBOXX Power DC product range is closed DC systems in standardised sizes. BBOXX Hub brings the smart capabilities of remote monitoring and control to larger capacity systems and projects. BBOXX Pulse is a comprehensive management platform that enables growth of next generation utility businesses.
10
Aquion Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $182.3M
Aquion Energy is a company that manufactures sodium ion batteries and energy storage systems.
11
Tibber
Country: Sweden | Funding: $181.2M
Tibber provides energy consumer services and learns to buy, save, and control electricity for homes. Stockholm wants to replace the original power company with an app to help you reduce your own electricity bill.
12
Dandelion Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $174.5M
Dandelion is an Alphabet spinout that develops geothermal heating, air-conditioning and cooling systems
13
Sense
Country: USA | Funding: $174.6M
Sense is offering home owners better insight into their energy usage levels, so they can adjust accordingly. The tech, which relies on AI/ML, works with smart meters from companies like Landis+Gyr and Schneider Electric.
14
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.
15
Sonnen
Country: Germany | Funding: $169.2M
Sonnen is a German-based pioneer for intelligent lithium based energy storage. The sonnenBatterie is not just a battery, it's an intelligent storage system that automatically adjusts the energy usage in your household. In combination with solar panels the sonnenBatterie will enable you to supply yourself with clean energy – thus making you independent and protecting you from energy price hikes.
16
Mighty Buildings
Country: USA | Funding: $153.8M
Mighty Buildings is a developer of 3D printing technology and automation platform that makes housing more affordable for customers.
17
ecobee
Country: Canada | Funding: $149.4M
Ecobee is a provider of Wi-Fi enabled smart thermostats comes with Amazon's Alexa voice assistant built in for residential and commercial applications.
18
dcbel
Country: Canada | Funding: $145M
dcbel offers AI-driven sustainable technologies which enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, homes, and lifestyles.
19
Cloover
Country: Sweden | Funding: $121.4M
Cloover partners with renewable energy professionals to simplify and finance sustainable home upgrades, offering embedded financing options for technologies like solar panels, battery storage, heat pumps, and EV charging systems.
20
Aeroseal
Country: USA | Funding: $119M
Aeroseal seals both air ducts and building envelopes so you waste less energy and reduce your bill
21
EcoFlow
Country: USA | Funding: $114.4M
EcoFlow develops outdoor and smart home portable energy storage solutions.
22
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.
23
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.
24
Domna
Country: UK | Funding: £70M
Domna provides retrofit assessment software that predicts works programme, maximising energy efficiency services to housing properties.
25
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.
26
My Energi
Country: UK | Funding: £60M
My Energi makes Electric Vehicle charging equipment and eco-smart home devices.
27
SpotmyEnergy
Country: Germany | Funding: $69.4M
Spot My Energy increases the value of smart power by making energy flows transparent.
28
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.
29
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.
30
Moixa
Country: UK | Funding: $46.1M
Moixa is the UK’s leading smart battery company. We develop our Smart Battery hardware and GridShare software to facilitate smart energy storage and sharing.
31
Enter
Country: Germany | Funding: €39.4M
Enter provides one-stop energy audits, procurement, financing & benchmarking for electrifying european homes.
32
Woltair
Country: Czech Republic | Funding: $42.4M
Woltair makes software that allows homeowners to find and hire installers for items like heat pumps. It also makes software for technicians for handling administrative work
33
SunRoof
Country: Sweden | Funding: €35M
SunRoof is a start-up developing fully solar 2-in-1 roofs and facades as well as solutions to support smart energy management.
34
EnergyHub
Country: USA | Funding: $33.1M
EnergyHub is the consumer face of the Smart Grid, helping home owners reduce energy consumption and save money. EnergyHub produces smart, simple, and cost-effective energy management tools that strengthen the relationship between consumers and utilities and solve the energy problems of today and tomorrow.
35
Quatt
Country: Netherlands | Funding: €29.8M
Quatt designs AI-powered smart hybrid heat pumps to accelerate the decrease of gas consumption.
36
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.
37
Franklin Whole Home
Country: USA | Funding: $25M
Franklin Whole Home has developed an integrated battery and control system with artificial intelligence. It is inverter-agnostic, can be used to charge electric-vehicle batteries, and turns homes into microgrids when utility services are down.
38
Evergen
Country: Australia | Funding: $22.2M
Evergen is a new energy services company that sells and manages intelligent home energy systems
39
Redback Technology
Country: Australia | Funding: $20.3M
With the Redback Smart Hybrid System, you’ve got options. Its advanced hybrid technology with battery manages and stores solar energy.
40
Samara
Country: Spain | Funding: €18M
Samara offers an online configurator to help householders choose a photovoltaic system to buy or rent and other digital energy products, as well as connecting them with a network of local installers to carry out the work.
41
Fuergy
Country: Slovakia | Funding: €16M
FUERGY has developed a highly-scalable hardware device and proprietary AI-powered software backed by blockchain called “brAIn”. This unique solution helps to optimize energy consumption and maximize efficiency of renewable energy sources. Thanks to an automated energy management it also significantly reduces the user's energy costs.
42
Bisly
Country: Estonia | Funding: €15.8M
Bisly is an Estonian startup developing intelligent building solutions.
43
Verv
Country: UK | Funding: $16.9M
Verv is an intelligent home hub, which gives the power to take control of energy usage to ultimately reduce energy bills.
44
LIFX
Country: USA | Funding: $16.3M
LIFX is the creator of Wi Fi-enable, multi-colored LED lights controllable via a smart device.
45
Greenely
Country: Sweden | Funding: $15.9M
Greenely provides an energy management platform for consumers to manage energy use and contribute to overall power system stability.
46
Zendure
Country: USA | Funding: $15.7M
Zendure is the most durable external battery you can find for your everyday life. Works with most USB powered devices.
47
Solar Analytics
Country: Australia | Funding: $13.7M
Solar monitoring company that maximises the value home owners get from their solar power system
48
Lun Energy
Country: Denmark | Funding: €10.3M
Lun builds software to decarbonise homes faster.
49
Haven Energy
Country: USA | Funding: $11.2M
Haven Energy a climate technology firm that is hastening the adoption of home battery systems
50
Brite Solar
Country: Greece | Funding: €9.6M
Brite Solar produces solar-energy-generating glass that allows 80% of light to pass through, making it suitable for use in places like greenhouses, homes and office buildings, while also producing green energy.
Alexander Gillet
Editor: Alexander Gillet
Alexander Gillet is a senior editor for EnergyStartups. He has a deep background in energy sector and startups. Alexander graduated from Emlyon Business School, a leading French business school specialized in entrepreneurship. He has helped several non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting environmental education and sustainability and has written over 250 articles on energy technology for various websites. In his free time, Alexander enjoys yoga, camping and exploring the Blue Ridge Mountains. You can contact Alexander at alexgillet(at)energystartups(dot)com