Local weather tech innovation isn’t getting any simpler in 2025. Political and financial uncertainty problem founders and buyers. Nonetheless, U.S. funding within the first half of 2025 was up 21% in comparison with the identical interval a 12 months in the past.
The annual Trellis listing of 25 Local weather Tech Startups to Watch acknowledges essentially the most promising of those early stage startups and their local weather applied sciences — and to assist maintain sustainability leaders at the vanguard of decarbonizing operations. To that finish, it options early-stage corporations in 5 sectors: vitality, carbon, transport, trade and nature.
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Apply beneath to get showcased — together with a video of your “elevator pitch” — on the 2025 listing, primarily based on a overview by Trellis editors and analysts primarily based on the next standards: answer uniqueness, traction, staff energy and impression potential.
The 25 finalists may also make their pitches to an in-person viewers of sustainability and local weather executives, buyers, and authorities officers throughout Trellis Influence 25, our main occasion for sustainability professionals creating revolutionary options to the planet’s largest challenges, Oct. 28-30 in San Jose, Calif.
5 winners from every of 5 classes will current dwell to our viewers, who will vote on the Local weather Tech Startup of the Yr. The winner — together with the 25 Local weather Tech Startups to Watch in 2025 — might be profiled in an article within the Trellis Briefing e-newsletter and on Trellis.web. A “folks’s alternative” winner may also be chosen primarily based on on-line voting.