Top 89 Smart (Energy-Efficient) Home startups

Nov 18, 2024 | By Alexander Gillet

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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Country: Norway | Funding: NOK20M
Starflow is a hardware platform designed to optimize the flow of energy between solar panels, EV chargers, batteries and home energy systems.panels.
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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.
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Country: Germany | Funding: €630M
1Komma5° is aiming to offer households everything needed for a carbon neutral home, including energy storage, charging infrastructure for electric vehicles and solar.
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Country: USA | Funding: $582M
Swell is a residential energy storage developer and aggregator.
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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.
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Country: UK | Funding: $404M
Hometree operates as an online-led boiler installation company.
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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.
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Country: USA | Funding: $230.3M
Span.IO develops intelligent hardware & software for the Distributed Grid. It's building a smart & seamless I/O for distributed energy by developing a platform that supplants the traditional electrical panel. By integrating sensing, actuation, and logic in to a single device, Span.IO enables fast and inexpensive deployment of distributed energy as well as offer an extensible platform for intelligent home automation.
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Country: USA | Funding: $230M
Nest Labs is a home automation producer of programmable, self-learning, sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled thermostats, smoke detectors, and other security systems. It develops Nest Learning Thermostat and other smart home products. Acquired by Google.
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Country: Germany | Funding: $217.5M
Tado° offers smart thermostats and apps that adjusts to the real-time behavior of residents in private homes and small businesses.
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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.
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Country: USA | Funding: $182.3M
Aquion Energy is a company that manufactures sodium ion batteries and energy storage systems.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Country: USA | Funding: $153.8M
Mighty Buildings is a developer of 3D printing technology and automation platform that makes housing more affordable for customers.
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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.
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Country: USA | Funding: $134.5M
Dandelion is an Alphabet spinout that develops geothermal heating, air-conditioning and cooling systems
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Country: USA | Funding: $119M
Aeroseal seals both air ducts and building envelopes so you waste less energy and reduce your bill
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