Top Illinois Greentech Startups (36)
Energy CX is a family-founded energy broker redefining how businesses buy energy. Powered by ABEL™, a proprietary platform, the company uses math-based trading methodologies to help customers treat energy like an investment, not a line item. Energy CX replaces fragmented tools and legacy broker models with a centralized, technology-led approach—reducing risk, controlling spend, and bringing clarity to complex energy markets....
At Infleqtion, we are building an ecosystem of quantum technologies and commercial products for today, driving us, and the entire industry toward tomorrow. We believe in taking quantum to its limit and leading from the edge. Infleqtion is built on ColdQuanta’s 15 years of pioneering quantum research. Its scalable and versatile quantum technology is used by world-class organizations around the...
The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest's leading environmental legal advocacy organization that combines public interest litigation with policy advocacy to protect natural resources, advance climate solutions, and promote environmental justice.
FloWaste’s food analytics platform uses proprietary image recognition technology to empower food service providers and industrial food producers to reduce food waste automatically. Using kitchen data, FloWaste allows foodservice providers to optimize meal preparation, ingredient combinations, and portion sizing, while reducing labor costs, to maximize profits and minimize excess. FloWaste has 3 live paid pilot customers, who have just signed...
Bulqit is a neighborhood-based marketplace that groups homeowners together to unlock better pricing, better service quality and stronger accountability for recurring outdoor home services. Instead of every homeowner hiring landscapers, pool cleaners, pest control or other service providers individually, Bulqit organizes homes into small geographic “Blocks” of roughly 500 to 1,000 homes. When neighbors commit to the same vetted vendor, the...
BioBlend offers a full spectrum of lubricants, greases and industrial products that enable a seamless transition to biobased products. Our experts can guide customers down the path from petroleum-based to more sustainable products that enhance their environmental and safety objectives without sacrificing performance or value.
Cultivate Power is a distributed solar and storage development company. We're committed to strengthening communities, the grid, and climate stability by developing distributed solar and storage projects. We believe clean power generation can play a key role in cultivating healthy, economically robust communities.
EndInMind Design creates art-driven solutions that enable recycling and reduce environmental impact.Art is a primal, restorative force. We seek to leverage this power to advance and elevate material recovery and reuse. Our first product is the RecyclerSack™, a solution for hospitality and private
PrintEco in on a mission to save 1 billion pages by 2020. Help us achieve that goal by downloading our free product that automatically helps save paper and ink, making it dead simple to reduce costs and be more eco-friendly. Say good-bye to all those annoying ad images when printing! If you're part of an organization looking to reduce wasteful...
Tradewater is a mission based B Corp that creates, develops, and implements high-value projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Our integrated approach results in verifiable, permanent climate impact and sustainable economic benefit through the highest quality carbon offset credits. We are one of the world's only companies actively focused on scalable strategies for collecting, controlling, and destroying potent greenhouse and...
HYZON Motors was established in the US in January 2020. HYZON is a global supplier of zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell powered commercial vehicles, including heavy duty trucks, buses and coaches. Headquartered in Rochester, NY and with operations in Europe, Singapore, Australia and China, the company is led by HYZON co-founders George Gu, Craig Knight and Gary Robb and commercializes Horizon’s 17...
Verde has a simple purpose - to save Chicago businesses and non profits energy and money. We are an industry-leading energy efficiency company with unmatched utility rebate expertise. We assess & install energy efficient equipment, ranging from lighting to HVAC units (and everywhere between), to improve your business and reduce your operating costs
"Light Poverty" is a debilitating condition that adversely affects over 1.4 billion people in the world. Light Poverty directly impacts the quality of life and the impact is more skewed for the marginalized and weaker sections of society in developing and emerging economies. The problem worsens when it comes to global issues such as climate change and sustainability. Light Up...
AMS is currently a small team, comprised of independent thinkers, working to solve challenges in software development, data analysis, mechatronics, electrical engineering, and computer engineering. We are a cross-disciplined group and are excited to be pioneers in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence and machine learning for 3D printing.
Harvest₂O builds and markets elegant home hydroponic gardening systems that make growing food at home easy, productive and fun. Our system is the most advanced consumer product on the market. It adapts commercial-grade hydroponic technology for consumer use.
Buildings are the world's #1 consumer of energy and resources, and our mission is to help them use less. We are an early-stage company seeking to disrupt the $40B market for energy efficiency retrofits by developing a marketplace that connects buildings, people, products and services. Green Per Square Foot, enables building owners and managers to profile their buildings, find savings opportunities, and...
AMPY is a wearable device that captures your kinetic energy to rechage your smartphone or any USB-powered device. Our proprietary inductor technology can be integrated directly into smartwatches, fitness trackers, and other wearables so you never have to plug them in.
Energy Foundry invests venture capital in today’s most promising energy innovators, and we work with the world’s leading energy companies to build and scale new ventures. Our approach merges venture capital with the perks of partnership, and includes an arsenal of essential tools and relationships to help bring great ideas to market.
We believe we can renew the planet by fighting climate change, ending the use of landfills, eliminating single use packaging and re-enriching our soil. We do this by enabling brands to use the most sustainable packaging solutions on the planet. To help us make this happen, contact: [email protected]
