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Top 10 Wind Energy startups
Updated: February 26, 2024 |
Wind energy startups are focused on developing advanced turbine designs, such as floating wind turbines and vertical axis turbines, as well as implementing smart grid technologies and predictive analytics to optimize energy generation, increase efficiency, and integrate wind power into existing energy infrastructure seamlessly.
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Country: India | Funding: $12.7B
ReNew Power is a wind energy firm based in India. ReNew Wind Power has several wind projects under development, including a 25 megawatt wind farm in Gujarat and
ReNew Power is a wind energy firm based in India. ReNew Wind Power has several wind projects under development, including a 25 megawatt wind farm in Gujarat and
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Country: Brazil | Funding: $736.5M
Atlas Renewable Energy, a renewable and clean energy startup that develops, builds and operates solar and wind projects in Latin America
Atlas Renewable Energy, a renewable and clean energy startup that develops, builds and operates solar and wind projects in Latin America
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Country: Denmark | Funding: $671.4M
Ørsted develops, constructs and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, bioenergy plants and innovative waste-to-energy solutions and provides smart energy products to its customers.
Ørsted develops, constructs and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, bioenergy plants and innovative waste-to-energy solutions and provides smart energy products to its customers.
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Country: UK | Funding: $231.8M
Venterra engineer, build, and support the operations of wind energy developments around the world.
Venterra engineer, build, and support the operations of wind energy developments around the world.
5
Country: China
Goldwind is one of the world’s leading wind power companies and one of the biggest wind turbine manufactures in the world
Goldwind is one of the world’s leading wind power companies and one of the biggest wind turbine manufactures in the world
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Country: UAE | Funding: $57.9M
Hydro Wind Energy develops hybrid energy system that harnesses offshore altitude wind using kites or vertical axis wind rotors combined with subsea oceanic pressure to provide reliable, low-cost clean electrical energy and grid scale energy storage.
Hydro Wind Energy develops hybrid energy system that harnesses offshore altitude wind using kites or vertical axis wind rotors combined with subsea oceanic pressure to provide reliable, low-cost clean electrical energy and grid scale energy storage.
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Country: Latvia | Funding: $53.1M
Aerones develops robotic Blade Care Systems. Wind turbine generator blade maintenance, inspections and repairs using robotic technology to save costs, reduce downtime and increase Annual Energy Production
Aerones develops robotic Blade Care Systems. Wind turbine generator blade maintenance, inspections and repairs using robotic technology to save costs, reduce downtime and increase Annual Energy Production
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Country: USA | Funding: $50.7M
Altaeros Energies develops airborne wind turbine to produce abundant, low cost, renewable energy.
Altaeros Energies develops airborne wind turbine to produce abundant, low cost, renewable energy.
9
Country: Poland
EuroCape New Energy is an independent renewable energy company which aims to develop, construct and operate renewable projects in core European markets.
EuroCape New Energy is an independent renewable energy company which aims to develop, construct and operate renewable projects in core European markets.
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Country: USA | Funding: $50M
ComboCurve is a Fintech business that focuses on good predictions and cash flow analysis in the energy sector.
ComboCurve is a Fintech business that focuses on good predictions and cash flow analysis in the energy sector.
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Country: South Korea | Funding: $29.2M
Nearthlab is developing deep learning based software solution for autonomous drones to inspect industrial facilities such as wind turbine blades
Nearthlab is developing deep learning based software solution for autonomous drones to inspect industrial facilities such as wind turbine blades
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Country: Canada | Funding: $25M
Orennia provides an all-in-one data, analytics and insights platform for efficient, fast and accurate capital allocation decisions in energy transition spaces.
Orennia provides an all-in-one data, analytics and insights platform for efficient, fast and accurate capital allocation decisions in energy transition spaces.
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Country: Ireland | Funding: $19.6M
Gazelle Wind Power is a developer of a floating wind platform.
Gazelle Wind Power is a developer of a floating wind platform.
14
Country: USA | Funding: $19M
Windesco is an energy company that creates hardware and software solutions for wind-power assets.
Windesco is an energy company that creates hardware and software solutions for wind-power assets.
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Country: UK | Funding: $19.1M
Ripple Energy is building world's first consumer-owned wind farm
Ripple Energy is building world's first consumer-owned wind farm
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Country: Sweden | Funding: $19.4M
Modvion develops modular wind power towers in composite materials.
Modvion develops modular wind power towers in composite materials.
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Country: USA | Funding: $17.5M
Windlift is an engineering and computer programming company that develops airborne wind energy systems. Its wind system allows unmanned aerial vehicles to harvest electricity anywhere there is wind, both onshore and offshore.
Windlift is an engineering and computer programming company that develops airborne wind energy systems. Its wind system allows unmanned aerial vehicles to harvest electricity anywhere there is wind, both onshore and offshore.
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Country: UK | Funding: £9M
3D vision and artificial intelligence applied to subsea robotics servicing offshore wind decommissioning
3D vision and artificial intelligence applied to subsea robotics servicing offshore wind decommissioning
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Country: UK | Funding: $10.3M
Kite Power Systems has created commercial kite-driven power station. The kites fly in a figure-of-eight pattern 450 metres in the air, pulling a tether that turns a turbine and produces electricity. Two kites working in tandem create a continuous energy source.
Kite Power Systems has created commercial kite-driven power station. The kites fly in a figure-of-eight pattern 450 metres in the air, pulling a tether that turns a turbine and produces electricity. Two kites working in tandem create a continuous energy source.
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Country: Norway | Funding: $10M
Wind Catching Systems develops offshore wind energy station Windcatcher that generates 2.5x more annual energy per swept area than a conventional turbines.
Wind Catching Systems develops offshore wind energy station Windcatcher that generates 2.5x more annual energy per swept area than a conventional turbines.
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Country: China | Funding: $6.8M
Tang Wind Energy is a Chinese clean energy projects company. Current projects include manufacturing wind turbine rotor blades, developing wind farms, providing wind equipment and cleaning coal emissions.
Tang Wind Energy is a Chinese clean energy projects company. Current projects include manufacturing wind turbine rotor blades, developing wind farms, providing wind equipment and cleaning coal emissions.
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Country: Brazil | Funding: $6.5M
Delfos is an intelligent maintenance platform that integrates state of the art machine learning modules, and technical knowledge to transform the already available data from the wind turbine into useful information. It was developed to provide customers the ability to achieve operational excellence by leveraging all the available operational data...
Delfos is an intelligent maintenance platform that integrates state of the art machine learning modules, and technical knowledge to transform the already available data from the wind turbine into useful information. It was developed to provide customers the ability to achieve operational excellence by leveraging all the available operational data...
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Country: Portugal | Funding: €5.8M
Fibersail is a Portuguese/Dutch startup that will make critical structures on wind turbines smarter and safer.
Fibersail is a Portuguese/Dutch startup that will make critical structures on wind turbines smarter and safer.
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Country: USA | Funding: $5.5M
Accio Energy is making distributed wind energy systems scalable, reliable, and affordable with Aerovoltaic energy systems that directly
Accio Energy is making distributed wind energy systems scalable, reliable, and affordable with Aerovoltaic energy systems that directly
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Country: Portugal | Funding: €5M
Jungle is tackling machine underperformance, predominantly for the renewable energy sector.
Jungle is tackling machine underperformance, predominantly for the renewable energy sector.
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Country: Netherlands | Funding: $3.9M
Flower Turbines develops small vertical axis wind turbines that produce low noise and are cost-effective.
Flower Turbines develops small vertical axis wind turbines that produce low noise and are cost-effective.
28
Country: France
LEVISYS is a French high-tech company specializing in the design, development, production and marketing of very high performance flywheels. The founders of LEVISYS, convinced that flywheels will occupy a prominent place in the inevitable transition to low carbon energy, have from the outset oriented the development of their product to optimize yields, reliability and cost reduction
LEVISYS is a French high-tech company specializing in the design, development, production and marketing of very high performance flywheels. The founders of LEVISYS, convinced that flywheels will occupy a prominent place in the inevitable transition to low carbon energy, have from the outset oriented the development of their product to optimize yields, reliability and cost reduction
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Country: Spain | Funding: $120K
Vortex Bladeless is developing an environmentally friendly aerogenerator which needs no blades. It is a new wind energy technology specially designed for on-site generation in residential areas, being able to work on-grid, off- grid, or along with regular solar panels or other generators.
Vortex Bladeless is developing an environmentally friendly aerogenerator which needs no blades. It is a new wind energy technology specially designed for on-site generation in residential areas, being able to work on-grid, off- grid, or along with regular solar panels or other generators.
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Country: USA | Funding: $3M
Uprise Energy is developing a new class of portable, powerful, and affordable wind turbines for distributed power generation.
Uprise Energy is developing a new class of portable, powerful, and affordable wind turbines for distributed power generation.
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Country: Netherlands | Funding: €2.5M
GBM works develops conventional methods and techniques for installing offshore wind turbine foundations.
GBM works develops conventional methods and techniques for installing offshore wind turbine foundations.
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Country: Iceland | Funding: $2.5M
IceWind designs and manufactures small vertical axis wind turbines for telecom towers and residential applications.
IceWind designs and manufactures small vertical axis wind turbines for telecom towers and residential applications.
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Country: France | Funding: €2.2M
WIND my ROOF develops a modular roof wind turbines intended to help flat-roofed buildings to exploit the potential of wind power.
WIND my ROOF develops a modular roof wind turbines intended to help flat-roofed buildings to exploit the potential of wind power.
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Country: USA | Funding: $2.3M
RCAM Technologies is adapting 3D Concrete Printing for manufacturing mega-scale, highly loaded structures such as ultra-tall wind turbine towers and offshore wind energy support structures.
RCAM Technologies is adapting 3D Concrete Printing for manufacturing mega-scale, highly loaded structures such as ultra-tall wind turbine towers and offshore wind energy support structures.
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Country: Australia | Funding: $1.8M
Ping uses aero-acoustic analysis to detect damage to wind turbine blades.
Ping uses aero-acoustic analysis to detect damage to wind turbine blades.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.8M
XFlow Energy manufactures vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) that reduce the cost of wind energy generation.
XFlow Energy manufactures vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) that reduce the cost of wind energy generation.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.7M
Accelerate Wind provides wind energy generation for the commercial and industrial spaces.
Accelerate Wind provides wind energy generation for the commercial and industrial spaces.
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Country: Spain | Funding: €1M
Smartive, has developed a revolutionary wind turbine optimization software tool: CloudDiagnosis. It is a cloud-based technology for wind farm data collection, so that operators can review the status of their wind turbines.
Smartive, has developed a revolutionary wind turbine optimization software tool: CloudDiagnosis. It is a cloud-based technology for wind farm data collection, so that operators can review the status of their wind turbines.
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Country: Germany | Funding: €1M
ANNEA is predictive and prescriptive maintenance platform for wind turbines, solar farms, and hydropower plant machines. Its end-to-end solutions enable you to create digital twins of each component of your devices through artificial intelligence, physical modeling, and normal behavior modeling. It then analyzes any damaged parts and replicates them.
ANNEA is predictive and prescriptive maintenance platform for wind turbines, solar farms, and hydropower plant machines. Its end-to-end solutions enable you to create digital twins of each component of your devices through artificial intelligence, physical modeling, and normal behavior modeling. It then analyzes any damaged parts and replicates them.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.1M
Aeromine Technologies provides bladeless wind energy solutions for building environment that is motionless.
Aeromine Technologies provides bladeless wind energy solutions for building environment that is motionless.
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Country: Australia | Funding: $1M
Fulcrum3D develops inventive solutions that add value to wind and solar investment.
Fulcrum3D develops inventive solutions that add value to wind and solar investment.
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Country: USA
The Floating Wind Technology Company focuses on engineering of floating wind solutions, including coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic analyses, and design and verification of support structures and mooring systems.
The Floating Wind Technology Company focuses on engineering of floating wind solutions, including coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic analyses, and design and verification of support structures and mooring systems.
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Country: USA | Funding: $75K
Pecos Wind Power designs, builds, and sells low cost wind turbines for schools, businesses, and towns to generate their own inexpensive, renewable energy.
Pecos Wind Power designs, builds, and sells low cost wind turbines for schools, businesses, and towns to generate their own inexpensive, renewable energy.
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Country: Iceland | Funding: €450k
Youwind helps the energy industry accelerating Offshore Wind with the leading design & optimization IT-Platform. The software helps accelerating offshore wind farms with the combination of site data and the speed of wind farm analysis and evaluation.
Youwind helps the energy industry accelerating Offshore Wind with the leading design & optimization IT-Platform. The software helps accelerating offshore wind farms with the combination of site data and the speed of wind farm analysis and evaluation.
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Country: Iceland
The YOUWINd software and management consultancy tool enables its users to optimize an offshore wind farm business case in an easy an efficient way with a state of the art algorithm, market data and enables comparing the results with over 800 already developed and operated wind farms worldwide.
The YOUWINd software and management consultancy tool enables its users to optimize an offshore wind farm business case in an easy an efficient way with a state of the art algorithm, market data and enables comparing the results with over 800 already developed and operated wind farms worldwide.
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Country: Czech Republic | Funding: $430K
Octoteq is developing offshore renewable energy platforms solar, wind and wave power combined.
Octoteq is developing offshore renewable energy platforms solar, wind and wave power combined.
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Country: Serbia | Funding: $185K
Poduhvat develops innovative wind turbine that is many times smaller and more efficient than classic, modern windmills.
Poduhvat develops innovative wind turbine that is many times smaller and more efficient than classic, modern windmills.