This article showcases our top picks for the best United States 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 States Sustainability Startups
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Goodr
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Goodr is a sustainable surplus food management platform that leverages technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger.
Generate Capital
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Generate Capital builds, owns, and operates sustainable infrastructure to deliver affordable and reliable resource solutions.
The EVERY Company
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The EVERY Company makes real animal protein without the use of a single animal, starting with chicken-less egg proteins.
Amogy
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Amogy builds an innovative clean energy system using ammonia as a renewable fuel.
Evolved By Nature
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Evolved By Nature is a biotech company that focuses on creating Activated Silk technology.
Rubicon
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Rubicon is a software platform that provides smart waste and recycling solutions for businesses and governments worldwide.
Watershed
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Watershed is a software platform for running a world-class climate program. Start reducing your carbon footprint in weeks, not years.
AtoB
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AtoB is a technology company building payments infrastructure for the transportation industry.
Persefoni
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Persefoni is a climate management and accounting platform (CMAP) for real-time management, analytics, and disclosure.
Mighty Buildings
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Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company that creates sustainable high-quality homes using 3D printing and robotic automation
AlgiKnit
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AlgiKnit is a biomaterials company integrating science and design into textile production.
MycoWorks
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MycoWorks is a biotech company that delivers commercially viable non-plastic and non-animal materials to the market.
Apeel Sciences
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Apeel Sciences develops plant-derived shelf life extension technology for fresh produce that improves quality and reduces food waste.
LanzaTech
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Creating new economic opportunities for companies, communities and countries around the world.
Rheaply
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Rheaply provides a platform that enables organizations to exchange materials and resources effectively.
Ecovative Design
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Ecovative Design is a biomaterials company focused on the development of innovative materials from natural growth processes.
StyleScan®
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Al-powered visualization for fashion e-commerce.
R-Zero
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R-Zero is a biosafety technology company dedicated to making shared indoor environments safer, healthier, and more productive.
Material Impact Fund
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Material Impact Fund is a venture fund building deep tech companies powered by material science innovations.
Gradiant
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Gradiant is a global solutions provider and developer of cleantech water projects for advanced water & wastewater treatment.
Codexis
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Codexis is a biosciences company applying synthetic chemistry technologies to create improved versions of small molecule therapeutics.
Astraea
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GeoSpatial AI SaaS start-up with end-to-end platform for rapid, cost-effective development of GeoAI applications using EO satellite imagery
Wisk Aero
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Wisk is an urban air-mobility company on a mission to leave traffic on the ground and make sustainable flight a reality for everyday life.
NCX
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NCX enables corporations to support landowners and their forests through its forest carbon marketplace.
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.
Circ
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Circ helps industries meet consumer expectations for sustainability without compromises in quality, price, or convenience.
One Concern
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One Concern’s climate analytics software provides information on the potential financial impacts of weather & climate-related loss events.
Iron Ox
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Solving global climate through our food, grown renewably, using technology
Measurabl
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Measurabl is the world’s most widely adopted ESG (environmental, social, governance) data management solution for commercial real estate.
Inspectorio
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Inspectorio’s SaaS solution improves quality, compliance and on-time delivery with actionable insights and data-driven collaboration.
HowGood
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HowGood is a SaaS data platform with the worlds largest database on food and personal care product sustainability.
Aqua Cultured Foods
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Fermentation based whole cut seafood alternative.
Kemin Industries
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Kemin Industries provides health-related products to improve the quality, safety, and efficacy of food.
Ripple Foods
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Ripple Foods specializes in making non-dairy milk with just as much protein as milk and half the sugar.
Air Protein
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Air Protein is a startup that develops protein-enriched food made from CO2.
GridPoint
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GridPoint is a clean tech company delivering a comprehensive suite of hardware and software, and other related services.
RoadRunner Recycling
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RoadRunner Recycling is a provider of a data-driven waste management platform for commercial waste recycling.
Carbon Lighthouse
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Delivering easy building decarbonization for commercial real estate owners
Full Harvest
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Full Harvest is the first B2B marketplace for ugly and surplus produce
Natural Fiber Welding
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Natural Fiber Welding develops a technology that can use plants and natural fibers to make textiles and other durable items.
Gotham Greens
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Gotham Greens designs, builds, and operates commercial scale greenhouse facilities for fresh vegetable production.
Finless Foods
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Finless Foods provides cellular-agriculture technologies to create accessible plant-based and cell-cultured seafood alternatives.
Bubble Paper
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Bubble Paper™ designs and manufactures optimized paper-based packaging solutions for the industrial, void fill, and cold chain markets.
Sustain.Life
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Helping businesses to meet sustainability targets with customized action plans, easy-to-use implementation tools and progress reporting.
Smarter Sorting
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Smarter Sorting helps companies know more about consumer products to make, market and move them better.
Better Place Forests
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Better Place Forests provides memorial spreading forests for families who choose cremation.
Spinn
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Spinn makes wifi connected coffee machines that brew coffee using patented centrifugal technology.
Gardyn
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Gardyn develops cutting-edge technologies to grow large quantities of nutritious and tasty produce at home.
CNX Resources
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CNX Resources is an independent natural gas exploration, development, and production company that offers a growth strategy solution.
Redwood Materials
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Redwood Materials is a battery recycling startup that makes electric vehicles and sustainable materials for circular supply chains.
C16 Biosciences
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C16 Biosciences produces clean, safe alternatives to palm oil.
Voyage Foods
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Voyage Foods is a food technology company that creates sustainable versions of beloved food and drinks.
Change Foods
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Change Foods is a producer of animal-free cheese and dairy products.
Motiv Power Systems
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Motiv delivers medium-duty class 4-6 commercial battery-electric trucks & buses, with charging infrastructure & guidance for fleets.
EcoCart
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EcoCart is a climate and sustainability-focused eCommerce enablement startup pitching consumers on ways to offset their carbon emissions.
Ethic
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Ethic operates as a tech-driven asset manager that powers the creation of investment portfolios.
Plant Prefab
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Plant Prefab is a prefabricated design and construction company dedicated to sustainable construction, materials, processes, and operations.
Alpha Foods
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Alpha Foods produces plant-based foods focused on taste, texture, and sustainability.
Cabinet Health
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Cabinet Health is a sustainable healthcare company, starting with over-the-counter medicine.
Remoov
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Unlocking the value of the secondary goods market. Reduce waste by increasing reuse.
Posh
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Posh automates EV battery recycling using robotics arms and computer vision.
Novoloop
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Advanced upcycling company creating quality chemicals and materials made from plastic waste
Phospholutions
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Phospholutions is a State College, PA-based sustainable fertilizer startup.
WeSpire
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WeSpire’s behavior change platform helps forward-thinking global companies engage their employees in purpose based initiatives.
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.
Copia
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Copia is the next-generation technology platform for food waste management.
SupplyShift
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SupplyShift is a supply chain sustainability platform that offers supply chain solutions for customers and businesses.
Carbon America
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Carbon America transforms the carbon capture and sequestration industry by lowering costs and rapidly increasing deployment.
MP Materials
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MP Materials provides a sustainable, low-cost supply chain of coveted materials that help power the modern economy.
New Wave Foods
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New Wave Foods is a provider of algae and plant-based food used to preserve and enrich seafood traditions.
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Microshare® provides Smart Facilities data solutions at scale that bring safety, cost savings and sustainability to the Built World.
The Live Green Co
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The Live Green Co is a blends nature with science & tech to make plant based foods tastier, healthier, and more sustainable.
Optera
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Optera platform tracks emissions upstream and downstream in a company’s supply chain.
Spoiler Alert
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Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory
Source Intelligence
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Delivers a unique blend of cost-effective technology, expertise and data to rapidly improve supply chain sustainability.
Climax Foods
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Climax Foods provides develops machine intelligence animal-based predecessors.
Loveseat.com
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Loveseat is the returned goods marketplace. New in-box furniture & appliances + more for the home.
Wardrobe
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Wardrobe is a peer-to-peer fashion rental app focused on sustainability.
Biome Makers
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Biome Makers develops neural biocomputing applications that enable sustainable and productive farming.
Green Badger
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Green Badger provides cloud-based automation and compliance solutions for the green construction industry.
GoSun
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GoSun offers solar technology that provide fuel-free cooking, cooling, charging, lighting and water purification and more!
WINT – Water Intelligence
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WINT – Water Intelligence developing advanced solutions for smart water management and control.
Ecomedes
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Ecomedes is a SaaS platform that helps manufacturers, designers, builders, and building owners save time and money.
Neutral
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Neutral is a carbon-neutral food company that builds a sustainable carbon-neutral food ecosystem starting with milk and a half and half.
Enduring Planet
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Enduring Planet (EP) is a fintech lender focused on the New Climate Economy.
Epic Cleantec
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Epic Cleantec is a full-service water reuse firm that provides turnkey wastewater treatment and reuse systems for customers.
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
PATHWATER
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Join Us In Saving The Planet One Bottle At A Time
TerraScale
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TerraScale accelerates the transition to a sustainable planet through large-scale green infrastructure and technology deployment globally.
Cambrian Innovation
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Cambrian’s water solutions solve resource challenges for food and beverage producers.
Package Free
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Package Free is a retailer that sells products that help to live a zero or low-waste lifestyle.
Geli
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Geli provides software and business solutions to design, automate, and manage energy storage systems.
Yard Stick PBC
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Yard Stick enables soil carbon removal at scale.
Swap.com
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Swap.com leads the low-priced online pre-owned clothing consignment segment in the U.S. due to its unique deep neural network AI.
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.
Perfect Day
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Perfect Day produces dairy proteins that are nutritionally identical to proteins from cow’s milk.
Rubi Laboratories
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Rubi Laboratories develops technology that turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles.
NewLeaf Symbiotics
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NewLeaf Symbiotics develops and commercializes the bacteria found in Pink Pigmented Facultative Methylotrophs.
