This article showcases our top picks for the best New York based Sustainability companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Sustainability industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top New York Sustainability Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Amogy
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Amogy builds an innovative clean energy system using ammonia as a renewable fuel.
AlgiKnit
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AlgiKnit is a biomaterials company integrating science and design into textile production.
Ecovative Design
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Ecovative Design is a biomaterials company focused on the development of innovative materials from natural growth processes.
Recycle Track Systems
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Recycle Track Systems helps companies track and optimize their pickups, from on-demand removal to integrated waste management.
HowGood
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HowGood is a SaaS data platform with the worlds largest database on food and personal care product sustainability.
Gotham Greens
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Gotham Greens designs, builds, and operates commercial scale greenhouse facilities for fresh vegetable production.
Sustain.Life
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Helping businesses to meet sustainability targets with customized action plans, easy-to-use implementation tools and progress reporting.
C16 Biosciences
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C16 Biosciences produces clean, safe alternatives to palm oil.
Ethic
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Ethic operates as a tech-driven asset manager that powers the creation of investment portfolios.
Cabinet Health
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Cabinet Health is a sustainable healthcare company, starting with over-the-counter medicine.
Re-Nuble
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Re-Nuble is an agtech company that transforms unrecoverable vegetative food into a platform of sustainable technologies for indoor growing
Naadam
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Naadam is an American clothing company specializing in affordable, luxury cashmere products.
Wardrobe
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Wardrobe is a peer-to-peer fashion rental app focused on sustainability.
WINT – Water Intelligence
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WINT – Water Intelligence developing advanced solutions for smart water management and control.
Queen of Raw
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No-code enterprise software to intelligently resell & recycle unused inventory on Raw Chain, measure, report, & turn pollution into profit
Package Free
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Package Free is a retailer that sells products that help to live a zero or low-waste lifestyle.
Tomorrow Farms
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Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company focused on fueling the sustainable food revolution with food and beverage brands.
Building Intelligence Inc.
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SaaS for Trusted Operations, Logistics, Security and the Access of Vehicles, Vendors and Visitors.
Phood
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Phood is a startup developing an AI-powered food waste prevention platform that aims to reduce food waste.
Earth Brands
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Next generation sustainable product company
Returnity Innovations
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Returnity develops, implements and manages reusable shipping and delivery packaging systems.
Anellotech
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Anellotech is a sustainable technology company focused on producing cost-competitive renewable chemicals from non-food biomass.
TômTex Co
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TomTex recycles agriculture waste and creates a sustainable, accessible, and practical alternatives to currently commercial materials.
Sunthetics
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Sunthetics develops smart electrochemical reactors that enable the fast, hyper efficient, and sustainable development of new chemicals.
Brightest
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Smart modern software platform for social impact and environmental sustainability
Parkday
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Building the future of personalized food service through data science.
Good Goods
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Good Goods is a marketplace solution that brings producers and retailers together to accelerate the adoption of reusable consumer products.
Outlines
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Outlines designs and manufactures home essentials.
Pure Earth
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Pure Earth is a non-profit based in New York that operates, sharing money, in some of the world’s worst industrial contaminated areas.
Personal BlackBox
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Personal Blackbox is a NYC-based, purpose-led technology company.
effa
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Effa is the first world’s 100% renewable and recyclable toothbrush made of paper.
Capro-X
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Capro-X is an ag-tech company that improves the sustainability in the dairy industry.
ThinkEco
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ThinkEco provides energy efficiency and demand response solutions for residential and commercial applications.
Prolific Earth Sciences
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Prolific Earth Sciences develops a field test that measures microbial biomass and provides the Fungal to Bacterial Ratio in soil.
Agronomic Technology
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Agronomic Technology is a cloud-based recommendation platform for farmers and agronomists.
Nama Water
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Ethically sourced, sustainably packaged premium drinking water
SANGROVE | HOME OF IMPACT SHOPPING
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The first standardized presell marketplace for fashion brands selling direct to consumers before production
YourLocal
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YourLocal is a profitable solution to food waste food at retail
Blockchain Triangle
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Smart Climate & Infrastructure Finance
CubicAcres
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A decentralized network of fully-automated indoor vertical farms.
CSRHub
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CSRHub provides access to corporate social responsibility and sustainability ratings and information on 18,000 companies.
Ener.co
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Ener.co delivers a fully transparent 15-45% cooling energy savings and 100% greater financial return on cooling assets.
Patch Organics
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Plant Based Milk, a Non – Dairy Alternative
RISE Products
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Rise is a green startup that upcycles spent barley from microbreweries into a tasty and healthy flour.
Matriark Foods
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Matriark Foods upcycles farm surplus into healthy foodservice products for the benefit of people and nature.
Closed Loop Partners
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Closed Loop Partners invests in sustainable consumer goods, advanced recycling technologies and the development of the circular economy.
Squared Circles
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Squared Circles is a venture studio that focuses on operations, branding, capital, and talent.
Uproot
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Uproot helps food services meet demand for plant milk by offering the best varieties served from convenient dispensers.
Virimodo, PBC
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Become and remain Carbon Neutral – Carbon Reduction Intelligence for real estate portfolios
bild
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We are an investing platform for sustainable assets focused on smart infrastructure and clean energy powered by the blockchain
savepod
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savepod makes truly eco-friendly alternatives to wasteful coffee products that save plastic and solve user problems
SpairTime
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Social-networking services platform for green gigs and sustainable services
TMG Energy Systems
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TMG Energy Systems implements sustainable energy solutions in commercial, residential, industrial, and healthcare buildings.
Rethink Impact
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Rethink Impact is a venture capital firm investing in female leaders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems.
Modavanti.com
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Modavanti is the destination for the new generation of socially conscious consumers, like ourselves, who are looking to find stylish.
HELPSY
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HELPSY is a for-profit B corp focusing on changing the way people think about clothing recycling.
Vitapod
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Vitapod is a revolutionary in-home drink system blending the freshest filtered water with vitamins, minerals and plant-based antioxidants.
AGRITECTURE
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AGRITECTURE is a urban agriculture consulting firm, scenario analysis, controlled environment agriculture.
Flat World Partners
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Flat World Partners is a next generation investment advisory firm, solely focused on impact investments.
Bloomist
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Bloomist is a nature-obsessed company that creates and curates the goods and green-cessories that “Make Nature Home.”
AdvanceH20
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AdvanceH20 develops an online platform for water treatment that can be used by both small systems and utility-scale plants.
Finch
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Finch is a tool that decodes products’ environmental and social impacts to incentivize consumers and brands to make better decisions.
FischTank PR
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FischTank PR is a public relations and marketing firm specializing in media relations, content writing, branding, digital/social, & more.
Stojo
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Stojo is the first collapsible & portable lifestyle brand, making reuse easy
FoodFutureCo
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FoodFutureCo is the scale-up accelerator for established, purpose-driven food businesses.
Clean Plates
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Clean Plates is an online platform that offers emails, guides, apps, cookbooks, and advice for food lovers.
Carbon Calories
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Carbon Calories is building the QuickBooks of carbon accounting for small businesses.
AWS Truepower
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A global renewable energy firm providing quality, innovative energy engineering and advisory services.
NotedSource
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NotedSource is a platform that automates the external consulting interactions of ESG scientists, professors, and industry experts.
Hearth Labs
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Hearth Labs develops thermal-LiDAR sensors to better understand the built environment by measuring the missing half of thermal comfort.
UCapture
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UCapture funds environmental projects and automatically applies coupon codes.
FLUXUS
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A real estate & infrastructure technology and consulting company, committed to sustainable way of building to improve quality of life.
FLIT Invest
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FLIT Invest is a digital investment platform that offers comprehensive sustainable investments solutions.
Zero Circle
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Accelerate the circular economy. A supply chain focused sustainability reporting platform to create sustainability labels on products sold
Perpetual Global Technologies
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Perpetual Global Technologies is in the business of design and development of recycling technologies
Mayer Brothers
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Mayer Brothers is a manufacturer of fruit fiber powder, organic and kosher products along with contract manufacturing and fleet services.
GROUPHUG
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GROUPHUG is an e-commerce company that offers solar panels and related accessories.
e2e Materials
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e2e Materials develops, designs, and engineers biocomposites for the industrial wood products marketplace.
The Dandy Horse, Inc.
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The Carbon-Free Employee Vehicle Supply-Chain Management & Reporting Company – Patent-Pending
USL Technology
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USL Technology is an energy efficiency strategy and management consulting service provider company.
EKODOME
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Self-assembly geodesic dome kits to build better spaces affordably and sustainably.
The Wally Shop
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Package-free online grocery shop, delivers in re-usable packaging, which is picked up again during future deliveries.
Wim
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Wim is a beverage system reimagined to make grab-and-go drinks waste-free for people on the go.
Impact NRS
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Impact NRS focuses on creating the commercialised visionary integrated solutions in the field of health, wellness & sustainable development.
Dartboard
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A forecasting platform for trend spotters, number crunchers, and everyone in between.
SOS Xtreme Comfort
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SOS Xtreme Comfort provides propane, fuel & heating oil delivery, HVAC services & more throughout New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania.
Walden & Associates
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Walden Environmental Engineering is a service environmental, civil engineering and consulting firm that provides environmental services.
Food Biz Supply
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Food Biz Supply company supplies companies with bio degradable products for the restaurant industry.
JumpScale
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JumpScale is an impact investment advisory firm that works with investors to improve the financial well-being of their portfolios.
Karen Karp & Partners
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KK&P is a food and agriculture consulting firm that provides solutions for food-related enterprises, programs, and policies.
Raeri
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Raeri is a consumer services company that upcycles unwanted stuff headed for the trash.
Hubbub
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Hubbub is a tech-enabled rental web platform that eliminates urban consumer waste.
Green Choice Energy
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Green Choice Energy focuses on providing renewable electricity and earth-friendly alternative energy resources.
