Best Energy Tech Companies in Auckland, New Zealand
The 44 best Energy Tech companies in Auckland, New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: PowerbyProxi.
Our analysis of 287 Energy Tech companies
$109.4b in tracked funding; 82% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Energy Tech companies in Auckland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PowerbyProxi Wireless Power solutions | $19M | 141 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2007 | — | 233 patents Wireless inductive power transfer systems for charging electric devices and vehicles | — |
| 2 | Gentrack Smart billing and customer management solutions for energy, water and airport utilities | $17M | 31 mo ago | Public | Gary Miles Chief Executive Officer | 1989 | WordPressMySQLPHP+38 | — | 1 job opening · 1 launch · 1 award |
| 3 | Vertus Energy Provider of technology for biogas generation using waste as well as carbon capture | $10M | 25 mo ago | Seed | Danilo Perez Co-Founder | 2019 | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceTypeScript+12 | 2 patents Microbial activity control in biofuel production and waste treatment | 1 partnership |
| 4 | solarcity Developer of monitoring software for solar systems | $4M | 145 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 5 | EMROD Developer of long range wireless power transmission equipment | $3M | 46 mo ago | Seed | Greg Kushnir Founder & CEO | 2019 | ReactGatsbyNetlify+7 | 20 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 6 | ESP Provider of AI-driven energy utility management solutions | $3M | 68 mo ago | Seed | Lincoln Watson CEO | 2001 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Tether Provider of CO2 monitoring solutions for managing virus transmission risk and building performance | $2M | 25 mo ago | Seed | Jordan Clist Co-Founder & CTO | 2017 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+24 | — | — |
| 8 | Frankie SaaS-driven maintenance management software for property managers | $900K | 55 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | — | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
Top 8 Energy Tech companies in Auckland
#1
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2019 · 6 employees$10.2Mraised▾
Provider of technology for biogas generation using waste as well as carbon capture. It provides solutions to control bacteria to create power from waste.
- Jun 2024Seed$9.4M
- Oct 2021Seed$862.4K
#2
Public · Auckland, Auckland · founded 1989 · 584 employees$17.3Mraised▾
Gentrack offers utility billing and CRM solutions provider for energy utilities, water companies and airports. Its products include Retail billing and CRM, Distribution billing, demand response billing, meter data management software which are used across Australasia and the UK, and Tier 1 airports around the world. All their products can be offered as a SaaS business model as per the customer requirement.
- Dec 2023Post IPO$17.3M
#3
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2017 · 3 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Provider of CO2 monitoring solutions for managing virus transmission risk and building performance. It offers IoT interfaced CO2 monitoring solutions for managing virus transmission risk within alert level or protection framework. It also provide building performance solutions by modeling, measuring, and interpreting how a building is constructed and performs. It offers a referral program for new business and has various products for energy consumption monitoring.
- Jul 2024Seed$1.9M
#4
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2019 · 32 employees$2.9Mraised▾
Emrod provides solutions for wireless power transmission. It is using tele-energy technology to enable long-range wireless energy transmission. It transmitted energy through electromagnetic waves over long distances.
- Oct 2022Seed$1.9M
- Oct 2021Seed$1.1M
#5
Acqui-Hired · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2007 · 55 employees$19Mraised▾
With solutions ranging from less than 1 Watt to Kilowatts, PowerbyProxi provides consumer electronics and industrial suppliers (semiconductor, OEMs, and ODMs) with the freedom to wirelessly transfer reliable, efficient power in the most difficult places: from a miniaturised receiver inside a smartphone or wearable device, to mission critical applications in hostile environments such as a wind turbine control system.
- Nov 2014Series D$10M
- Sep 2013Series C$4M
- Apr 2013Series C$5M
#6
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2001 · 32 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Provider of AI-driven energy utility management solutions. It offers a solution that allows users to monitor energy use, manage utility consumption, and more. Additionally, it offers consulting services, auditing, accounting, reporting, and more.
- Dec 2020Seed$2.7M
#7
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2019 · 10 employees$900Kraised▾
SaaS-driven maintenance management software for property managers. Features include portfolio-wise property performance dashboard, task tracking, spend tracking, schedule maintenance, data duplication management, property visualizing, floor area management, task prioritizing, issue reporting, asset tracking, and more.
- Jan 2022Seed$900K
#8
Deadpooled · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2012 · 361 employees$4.4Mraised▾
SolarCity is a New Zealand based, solar power company which offers an app called Solarzero for remote monitoring of solar systems. Solarzero monitors the solar power generated by the installed system, energy usage and remotely control the pre-wired hot water cylinder. SolarCity is also engaged in the design, installation, financing, and service of solar panels and power systems.
- Jul 2014Series A$4.4M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Energy Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Energy Storage in Auckland is moving
A read on the academic research around Energy Storage in Auckland — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 61 papers.
- University of Auckland44
- Auckland University of Technology20
- Supercapacitor4
- Battery (electricity)4
- Electrical engineering3
- Capacitance3
- Energy (signal processing)3
- Renewable energy1→12
- Battery (electricity)1→9
- Renewable energy2
- Anode1
- Battery (electricity)1
- Magnesium1
- Passivation1
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.