Best Energy Efficiency Tech Companies in Oregon, United States
The 33 best Energy Efficiency Tech companies in Oregon, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: IOTAS.
Our analysis of 50 Energy Efficiency Tech companies
$7.8b in tracked funding; 86% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Energy Efficiency Tech companies in Oregon
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IOTAS Provider of a smart home hub for integrating various connected devices on one platform | $18M | 66 mo ago | Acquired | 30 | — | RubyRuby on RailsEnvoy+23 | 5 patents Secure multi-factor provisioning and authentication for wireless IoT devices | — |
| 2 | Ventacity Provider of heat recovery ventilation units | $8M | 94 mo ago | Series A | 28 | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Home Comfort Zones Energy efficiency systems for home | $8M | 198 mo ago | Acquired | — | David Alles CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | Get Emme Provider of IoT-enabled building energy management solutions | $6M | 169 mo ago | Series A | 5 | Jon Brodeur CEO | — | — | — |
| 5 | Pacific Light Tech Provides engineered nano materials for high-efficiency solid-state lighting | $5M | 142 mo ago | Acquired | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | NetVendor Property management | $4M | 59 mo ago | Acquired | 37 | — | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+32 | — | — |
| 7 | EnergyRM Provider of solutions for energy efficiency metering and analytics for commercial building | $4M | 74 mo ago | Seed | 4 | Jason Gregory Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 8 | Community Energy Labs IoT, SaaS & AI-driven energy monitoring solutions for commercial applications | $3M | 38 mo ago | Funding Raised | 10 | Tanya Barham CEO | — | — | — |
| 9 | Elexity Provider of energy control software for cost saving | $1M | 39 mo ago | Funding Raised | 13 | John Powers Founder/CSO Elexity (formerly Extensible Energy) | HubSpot CMS HubVimeocore-js+16 | 2 patents Predictive control algorithms for building energy management and HVAC optimization | — |
| 10 | Building Energy Cloud-hosted solutions for managing energy efficiency in buildings | $930K | 124 mo ago | Deadpooled | 11 | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | AlphaCard ID cards, printers, software, and supplies for secure identification | $645K | 142 mo ago | Acquired | 40 | — | Cart FunctionalityMagentoMySQL+30 | — | — |
| 12 | IT Aire Data room cooling systems | $325K | 122 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Jason K. Patz CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Energy Efficiency Tech companies in Oregon
#1
Seed · Portland, Oregon · founded 2021 · 2 employees$50Kraised▾
Provider of cloud-enabled building energy management solutions. The company offers solutions for automating and maintaining building energy efficiency. It provides an automation system for building owners and operators to get customer oversight information.
- 2025Seed$50K
- Jun 2023Seed—
#2
Funding Raised · Portland, Oregon · founded 2019 · 10 employees$2.6Mraised▾
IoT, SaaS & AI-driven energy monitoring solutions for commercial applications. It offers smart energy management & decarbonization for community building owners.
- Sep 2023Grant (prize money)$650K
- Feb 2023Grant (prize money)$275K
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$131.5K
- May 2022Grant (prize money)$150K
#3
Acquired · Portland, Oregon · founded 2014 · 30 employees$17.5Mraised▾
Provider of a smart home hub for integrating various connected devices on one platform. The company automates home appliances by installing smart outlets, switches sensors, thermostats, and more. All these devices are controlled using a proprietary hub that can connect many devices at once. The software leverages machine learning to learn about user activities.
- Apr 2021Series A$2.8M
- Oct 2019Series A$8.5M
- Nov 2018Series A$700K
- Nov 2017Series A$5.3M
#4
Funding Raised · Bend, Oregon · founded 2018 · 13 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Provider of energy control software for cost saving. It offers a platform that helps users to predict and automate their energy use for reducing costs, and centralize their energy intelligence.
- Jul 2023Grant (prize money)$200K
- Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$1.1M
#5
Acquired · Lake Oswego, Oregon · founded 1996 · 37 employees$4.4Mraised▾
NetVendor is a vendor compliance and risk management company servicing the multifamily industry. Its multifamily property management solution is a real-time solution that automates vendor compliance for the properties that customer own and/or manage. Claims to be managing certificates of insurance in over 3,000 locations and a vendor database coast to coast.
- Nov 2021Series D—
- May 2021Series D—
- 2000Unattributed$4M
#6
Acquired · Beaverton, Oregon · founded 2002$8.1Mraised▾
Home comfort zone was a energy management company. In 2012 Emme E2MS acquired the rights to the Home Comfort Zone's MyTemp System primarily for its room by room temperature control technology.
- Apr 2010Series A$634.2K
- Apr 2010Series A$1.2M
- Feb 2010Series A$300K
- Feb 2009Series A$315.2K
#7
Series A · Portland, Oregon · founded 2015 · 28 employees$8.2Mraised▾
Provider of heat recovery ventilation units. It offers high-efficiency, intelligent heat recovery systems that deliver fresh outdoor air within a comfortable few degrees of room temperature, reducing heating and cooling loads and HVACR equipment energy requirements.
- Dec 2018Series A$3M
- Dec 2017Series A$2M
- Aug 2017Series A$3.2M
#8
Acquired · Portland, Oregon · founded 2011 · 12 employees$5.2Mraised▾
Provides engineered nanomaterials for high-efficiency solid-state lighting. It offers rare-earth-free downconverter materials for high-efficiency solid state lighting and displays, and capable of on-chip integration into an LED package.
- Dec 2014Series A$1M
- Nov 2014Series A$325K
- Jul 2013Series A$700K
- Sep 2012Seed$1.3M
#9
Seed · Portland, Oregon · founded 2009 · 4 employees$3.6Mraised▾
Provider of solutions for energy efficiency metering and analytics for the commercial building. It also provides solutions for performance-based energy transactions. It provides solutions for utilities, energy service companies, building portfolio, and others.
- Aug 2020Seed$1.2M
- Nov 2019Seed$653.6K
- Dec 2014Seed$1.8M
#10
Seed · Milwaukie, Oregon · founded 2021$40Kraised▾
Provider of water heat pumps. It provides net zero energy solutions direct to homeowners and builders. It provides heating, cooling, hot water, and balanced ventilation products.
- Jul 2024Grant (prize money)$191K
- May 2024Seed$40K
#11
Series A · Beaverton, Oregon · founded 2012 · 5 employees$5.6Mraised▾
Provider of IoT-enabled building energy management solutions. It offers an energy management system- a platform that provides environmental controls and SmartSensors, HVAC equipment monitors, wireless outdoor temperature sensors, and wireless receivers.
- Oct 2012Series A$3M
- May 2012Series A$2.6M
#12
Deadpooled · Portland, Oregon · founded 2012 · 11 employees$930Kraised▾
Building Energy develops building data and applications in order to catalyze better profits and practices for building owners and the whole built environment ecosystem from design and finance, to build, operate, manage, and improve. Building Energy brings together energy data on the 5.6 million commercial buildings in the U.S. so that service providers and utilities can deliver cost-effective energy efficiency improvements to building owners. Service providers and utilities can quickly benchmark a customer’s individual buildings against a comparable peer group and provide energy efficiency services and decrease their sales costs.
- Jun 2016Conventional Debt$133.7K
- Nov 2015Seed$630K
- 2015Seed—
- Mar 2015Seed$300K
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Energy Efficiency Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
What Oregon researches in energy efficiency
- University of Oregon7
- Oregon State University5
- Oregon Institute of Technology4
- Oregon State University Cascades1
- Oregon Medical Research Center1
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