August Climate Startup Deal Share by 4WARD.earth ♻️🍔🍎
Discover climate companies from eliminating food waste, biomass byproducts, circular fashion and decarbonizing chemical production.
4WARD Editor's Note
Welcome to this month's climate deal flow roundup by 4WARD.earth. We've identified 10 promising climate and sustainability startups across key sectors that may be actively raising funds or considering a raise in the coming months who might be worth reaching out to :)
🚀 Featured Sustainability Startups
Sector: Circular Economy / Food & Ag
🇺🇸 GTF Technologies (Seed ) GTF’s flash-drying technology offers a scalable and efficient solution to preventing food waste by instantly locking in nutrients for sustainable, nutritious powders.
🇪🇸 MOA FoodTech (Seed) MOA is a B2B platform for healthy, sustainable ingredients from food by-product’s valorisation through fermentation process optimised AI.
🇺🇸 Oleo (Pre-seed) Oleo leverages a cutting-edge biomanufacturing process to transform biomass waste into sustainable oil products. They can accept a wide variety of biomass input materials and efficiently convert it to high quality oil products for use in consumer products and biofuels.
🇨🇭Climatex (Seed) Climatex has patented a breakthrough circular fashion technology for cost-effective recycling of blended fabrics. Their low CAPEX tech allows fabric manufacturers to efficiently separate mixed fabric materials (like polyester, cotton etc…) to repurpose for new apparel & fabric production.
Sector: Manufacturing
🇺🇸 Aepnus Technologies (Seed) Aepnus electrifies and decarbonizes the production of a variety of commodity chemicals. Their ultra-efficient electrolyzers run on renewable electricity to process critical minerals, reagents, or metals at lower costs and lower emissions than the existing status-quo.
🇺🇸 Electroflow Technologies (Seed) Electroflow has developed a 3-step brine to battery materials process to make the cheapest battery electrode materials in the world.
🇺🇸 Membravo (Pre-seed) Membravo manufactures advanced polymer membranes to increase efficiency in gas and liquid separations, cutting waste and energy usage in industrial applications.
Sector: Carbon
🇺🇸 Graphyte (Series A) Graphyte has engineered Carbon Casting—a carbon removal technique to turn crop & timber waste into dense carbon blocks for permanent underground storage. It is ultra-low energy & costs under $100/ton, locking away CO₂ for 1,000+ years. Backed by Breakthrough Energy, they currently operate the world’s largest carbon removal plant.
🇨🇭 Climease (Seed) Climease carbon tariff (CBAM) mgmt software and cost saving (ie legal carbon tax avoidance :) system allows EU importers & industrials to report & minimise EU carbon import tariffs of 20-40% scheduled to start in 2026.
🇩🇪 NeoCarbon (Series A) NeoCarbon is pioneering affordable Direct Air Capture (DAC) by retrofitting existing industrial cooling towers to capture carbon dioxide. By leveraging waste heat and the vast infrastructure already in place across Europe, their solution drastically lowers the cost and speed of DAC deployment.
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