Climate & Sustainability startups

Designed out, not offset

The companies here have one thing in common: they intervene early. Almost none of them sell offsets. They change the material, the fuel, the farming method or the measurement - which is also why the hub reads as five separate industries.

Waste is a feedstock

The circular cluster is the most vivid. CasuallyLoaded takes the lithium-ion cells out of discarded vapes and builds rechargeable powerbanks from them. Re-Fresh Global does the same trick with textile waste, and Tradion builds grid storage and EV charging out of second-life batteries. Primal Soles starts one step earlier, designing footwear that can be returned to the loop at all.

The unglamorous products matter most

Twipes makes wet wipes that are genuinely flushable, which sounds trivial until you read what non-flushable ones do to a sewer. Packhelp works on packaging, the single most visible waste stream in e-commerce, and Cleanlots turns litter collection into a viable business rather than a volunteer activity.

Agriculture, from the soil up

Biome Makers connects soil biology to what a farmer actually decides to do, and ClearLeaf replaces conventional crop protection with an organic certified alternative. Agro.Club works further along the chain on the grain trade itself, and Farmer Focus rebuilds the economics of chicken farming around the farmers.

Fuel is the hardest problem here

Amogy is the most technically ambitious company on the hub, building a carbon-free energy system that runs on ammonia. Outbound works at the other end of the scale, putting shared EVs inside the buildings people already live in, and Kucher ECO took electric bikes from occasional sales to a substantial business.

The paperwork became the product

Finally, the reporting layer. Sustainability claims now have to survive an audit, and ESG Flo, BeCause and Enmon all sell into that obligation. Merge Impact is the most pointed of them, treating unverifiable claims as the problem to be solved.