This article showcases our top picks for the best United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom Sustainability Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Altruistiq
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Altruistiq provides a platform that enables enterprises to automate sustainability data measurement, management, and exchange.
ESG Book
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ESG Book is a global leader in sustainability data and technology, trusted by many of the world’s largest financial organisations.
Iceotope
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Engineered to cool the whole IT stack, in every use case, from Hyperscale to the Extreme Edge
Save Your Wardrobe
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FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Notpla
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Notpla is a sustainable packaging start-up that develops a material derived from seaweed and plants.
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Tulipshare is the first activist investment platform, with a focus on impactful project to make this planet better.
Vedanta Resources plc
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Vedanta Resources plc is a global diversified metals and mining company with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.
Clim8 Invest
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Clim8 Invest provides an app that allows individuals to invest in industries that work towards fighting climate change.
Cheeky Panda
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Cheeky Panda is a sustainable bamboo tissue manufacturer.
Provenance
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Provenance is the leading software solution for sustainability communications
TreeCard
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Treecard is a fullstack green finance platform, allowing consumers to spend, save and invest responsibly.
Shellworks
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Shellworks is a biotech startup on a mission to make plastic waste a thing of the past.
CUDONI
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Europe’s only full-service luxury resale platform. Effortlessly buy and sell authentic designer items at up to 90% off retail price.
Generation Investment Management
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Generation Investment Management is a private equity firm focused on integrated sustainability research and client alignment.
Emex
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Our cloud-based platform consolidates all safety, sustainability, environmental processes and reporting capabilities into a single place
Supercritical
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Supercritical is a software platform that helps businesses reach carbon net zero and tackle the climate crisis.
Carbon Trust
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Carbon Trust is to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy, by working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions now and develop.
Vizibl
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Vizibl is a global cloud platform that enables enterprise companies to manage their innovation lifecycle.
GrowUp Farms
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We’re turning food production on its head to make way better food, that doesn’t cost the earth.
Lune Climate
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Lune Climate offers the API for emissions calculations and carbon removal.
Yayzy
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Yayzy is an application for carbon footprint calculator.
Unibio International
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Unibio is operating in the biotechnology sector with core competences within bacterial fermentation.
Nuw (The Nu Wardrobe LTD)
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Nuw is the app to swap preloved fashion. ‘Spend your money anywhere, spend your clothes on Nuw’.
Kyomei
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Kyomei develops a meat protein production system using plant cell biology.
Viritech
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Viritech develops solutions and technology powered by hydrogen.
OCEANIUM
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Oceanium develops innovative, all-natural food and nutraceutical products and sustainable materials from sustainably-sourced seaweed.
Ecometrica
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Ecometrica is an end-to-end environmental software-as-a-service that helps businesses and governments identify risks and opportunities.
Much Better Adventures
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Much Better Adventures helps people organize their skiing, cycling, or road biking holiday directly with specialist independent operators.
elmo
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elmo is a mobility-as-a-service platform providing all-inclusive electric car subscriptions.
Farmstand
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Farmstand provides personalized ready-to-eat meals for hybrid businesses and their customers who are WFO and WFH.
Skipping Rocks Lab
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Skipping Rocks Lab develops natural and biodegradable packaging for liquids made from seaweed extract.
Mattereum
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Mattereum enables NFTs to be used as internationally enforceable IOUs for physical assets
Bageera
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Unlocking investment opportunities to protect and restore nature
Material Evolution
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Creating a revolution in how we build, live in and grow our environments.
SENS Foods
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SENS Foods aims to make sustainable insect protein super-tasty and the most affordable high-quality protein.
Riversimple
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Riversimple develops hydrogen fuel-cell cars for clients in the United Kingdom.
Materra
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Reducing Fashion’s environment impact by developing farm and intelligence systems to grow radically more sustainable cotton.
Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT)
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Nova Pangaea Technologies is a cleantech company that has developed a sustainable technology called REFNOVA
Zero Carbon Farms
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Shaping the future of the growing industry to accelerate the world’s transition to carbon negative farming.
SKOOT
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SKOOT is a B Corp accredited platform for Climate Change helping businesses and individuals IDENTIFY, OFFSET & AVOID their CO2 footprints.
Sundrop Farms
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Sundrop Farms is a leader in sustainable horticulture for the arid world; growing high-value crops using seawater and sunlight.
Pawprint
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Pawprint app will not only enable people to understand and tackle their own carbon footprint.
GreenGrowth
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GreenGrowth is a sustainable retail investments platform, bringing transparency and personalisation to retail investing
The Smart Container Company
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IoT-enabled intelligence, transparency, and net-zero solutions for the beverage industry
Compare Ethics
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The sustainable platform that makes it easy for conscious consumers to find verified sustainable products.
Carnot
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Carnot is a developer of hydrogen engine used to reduce the fuel consumption and zero CO2 emissions.
A/O PropTech
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Europe’s largest Proptech VC firm investing in technology companies transforming the real estate industry.
envoPAP
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envoPAP is a Sustainable Materials Company utilizing green technology to provide agricultural waste with a second life.
Stuffstr
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Stuffstr makes recommerce a part of every retail transaction
Terrabotics
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An Earth Observation & Remote Sensing Data Analytics company for more sustainable production and supply of natural resources.
TOTM
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TOTM is a people-powered and purpose-led brand on a mission to make ethical and sustainable period care mainstream.
Inhabit
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Inhabit is a web platform helping businesses achieve net zero.
Quimera Energy Efficiency
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Energy Efficiency, ESCO, Energy Saving, Energy Service
ARC Marine
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ARC Marine is a sustainable fishing company that rehabilitates damaged marine habitats to create new reef structures.
Mandulis Energy
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Develops renewable energy projects in emerging markets
ZuBlu
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ZuBlu is the leading ocean experiences travel platform to search, compare and book scuba diving and underwater adventure travel worldwide.
junee
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junee specializes in the circular economy, b2b2c, sustainability, lunch, reusables, and office.
Spintex
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Spintex produces a low-cost and sustainable biomaterial platform for spinning high-performance silk fibers.
WASE
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WASE provides a decentralized sanitation system with the goal of accelerating the global adoption of circular waste treatment.
ALVATECH
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ALVATECH develops water treatment solutions and technology for effective farming productivity.
DataClue
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Industry experts in ESG and Climate Data Analytics – Big Data, Analytics, AI, ML, Digital Transformation and Algorithm development –
Globechain
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Globechain is a B2B reuse marketplace connecting businesses to charities, creating social impact data.
Xworks Tech
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Xworks is the end-to-end compliance provider using AI & blockchain digitising & minimising waste while improving recycling rates.
What on Earth
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A curated e-commerce to discover the best sustainable independent fashion brands.
SWAN Group
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SWAN Group specialises in the development of affordable housing.
Floating City
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Floating City is an ideal place to live or conduct business with areas of open space and recreational facilities.-The Sustainable Project
Central Plains Group
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Central Plains Group develops sustainable farming solutions and low-cost farming technology.
Greengame
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Working with organisations to incentivise sustainable behaviour using automated activity detection, gamification and behavioural economics
Amcor
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Amcor is a provider of packaging solutions in Australia, Western Europe, North America.
Farmhopping
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Farmhopping is a community-based online marketplace that connects small farms with prospective consumers.
DoNation
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Making sustainable living the norm with our sponsorship tool (actions not cash) and CSR programmes
whatimpact.com
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AI platform for companies to plan, implement and report validated social value activities
Carbn
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Carbn is a gamified app that simplifies climate action.
Pallite
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Pallite is an alternative packaging specialist that provides a viable alternative to wooden pallets and crates.
Love Ocean
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Love Ocean develops ocean-friendly bathroom products in sustainable packaging.
BUG
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BUG develops recipe kits and provides ingredients of sustainable insect meals.
Carbon Gold
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Carbon Gold promotes the use of biochar as a way to make farming more sustainable, to enable farmers and growers.
Yomp
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Yomp is B2B Employee-engagement platform to improve Health and Wellbeing.
Power Transition
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Power Transition is a software architecture for a smart energy system.
The Crowd
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The Crowd is a platform for the business community to share ideas and innovations.
Avoidance of Mass Extinctions Engine
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Amee houses is a Wikipedia-style database that enables viewers to check the financial and environmental credibility of companies.
Icaruus
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Make on demand and production using local, distributed and centralised manufacturing chains.
Epic Impact
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A mobile app that helps users track their CO2, environmental & social footprint, and rewards them for buying ethical & sustainable products.
FINDS
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FINDS is a unique, video & live streaming marketplace app for the next generation to buy and sell fashion.
Waterscope
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Waterscope is a not-for-profit impact-defined company based in Cambridge.
Lumi Space
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Lumi provide precise positioning for satellites and space debris, using laser ranging.
Yodomo
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Yodomo focuses on craft making for well-being and understanding the re-use of materials.
JOHNNY’S
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JOHNNY’S develops a vegan and sustainable condom brand option.
Antonym
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Award-winning electric autonomous transportation addressing the £1.8 trillion road freight market.
Balfour Beatty
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Balfour Beatty is an international infrastructure group that finances, develops, and maintains vital infrastructures that people depend on.
Hams Hall
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Hams Hall is a Birmingham based sustainable energy provider.
Net Purpose
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Net Purpose is the world’s first data provider to make impact measurement effortless for investors: who invest for profit and purpose
Treeapp
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Treeapp is a mobile app enabling anyone to plant a tree for free everyday in less than a minute.
Kelpi
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A sustainable biotech start-up bio-refining seaweed to make bioplastic packaging that is marine-safe and home-compostable
