Best Environment Companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands
The 58 best Environment companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Perpetual Next.
Our analysis of 309 Environment companies
$75.8b in tracked funding; 79% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Environment companies in Amsterdam
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perpetual Next Converter of organic waste streams into biofuels and sustainable materials. | $334M | 12 mo ago | 135 | 2019 | Martijn Rheenen Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | 10 patents Torrefaction, drying, and cooling technologies for biomass-derived solid fuels and hot coal. | 2 partnerships |
| 2 | ZOLA Electric Provider of solar installation and upgradation services for rural customers | $133M | 21 mo ago | 603 | 2011 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 4 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 3 | Lumos Distributed solar power for off-grid regions | $40M | 69 mo ago | 205 | 2013 | Davidi Vortman Co-Founder | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+13 | — | — |
| 4 | Emergya Wind Technologies Wind Turbine manufacturers | $32M | 109 mo ago | 25 | 2004 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | — |
| 5 | The Waste Transformers Provider of organic waste recycling services | $26M | 56 mo ago | 14 | 2011 | — | PHPGSAPApache HTTP Server+8 | — | — |
| 6 | Solnet Group Provider of solar O&M services | $16M | 48 mo ago | 32 | 2014 | — | HubSpot CMS HubPlyrMicrosoft Advertising+25 | — | — |
| 7 | Thorizon Developers of thorium molten-salt reactor | $13M | 16 mo ago | 12 | 2018 | Sander Groot Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+17 | — | 1 job opening · 2 expansions · 1 award |
| 8 | Photon Energy Provider of project development, operation & maintenance services for solar power solutions | $12M | 89 mo ago | 343 | 2008 | Georg Hotar Co-Founder & CEO | PleskApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+21 | — | 1 partnership |
| 9 | Triple Solar Solar panels for roofing, heating and electricity | $11M | 41 mo ago | 49 | 2009 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+34 | 5 patents Integrated photovoltaic‑thermal panels with air heat exchangers for combined electricity and heat generation. | 1 partnership |
| 10 | Brineworks Provider of climate company focused on reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change | $2M | 9 mo ago | — | 2023 | Joseph Perryman Co-Founder | DatoCMSTurbopackNode.js+10 | 6 patents Electrochemical mineral extraction and bipolar membrane electrodialysis for brine processing | 4 job openings · 1 internship |
| 11 | Windcentrale Provider of wind energy through shared ownership of wind turbines | $2M | 153 mo ago | 5 | 2010 | Harm Reitsma Co-Founder | Node.jsVarnishVue.js+13 | — | — |
| 12 | Gigawatt Global Utility-scale solar energy project developer | $2M | 143 mo ago | 22 | 2011 | Josef Abramowitz CEO & President | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | — | — |
| 13 | Oscar Circulair Provider of waste collection services | $2M | 38 mo ago | 14 | 2019 | Remco Wagemakers Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | — | — |
| 14 | NXT Grid Manufacturer of solar grids | $1M | 54 mo ago | 10 | 2019 | Bert Dequae Co-founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — | — |
| 15 | Circle Economy Provider of renewable energy industrial systems and services | $557K | 58 mo ago | — | 2013 | Robert-Jan Ogtrop Founder & Chairman | WebflowPersonioMailChimp+22 | — | — |
| 16 | C2CAT Provider of carbon capture and energy storage services | $452K | 49 mo ago | — | 2020 | Farnaz Sotoodeh Founder & Director | — | 3 patents Manufacturing 3D porous materials for filtration and catalyst support | — |
| 17 | Closing the Loop Provider of recycling services | $414K | 130 mo ago | 17 | 2010 | — | — | — | 2 awards |
| 18 | Vitality Vector Technology solution for generation of drinking water | $112K | 118 mo ago | — | 2013 | Iggy Kogan Founder | — | 2 patents Atmospheric water generation and air-conditioning via heat‑exchange and component extraction systems | — |
Top 12 Environment companies in Amsterdam
#1
Series B · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2019 · 135 employees$333.7Mraised▾
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- 2025Series B$158.8M
- Jun 2022Series A$333.7M
#2
Series E · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2011 · 603 employees$133Mraised▾
Zola Electric offers solar installation and upgradation services for rural areas in Africa. Has a proprietary software platform, Surge, that claims to offer personalized services for customers. Services include engineering, installation, financing, commissioning and others. Specializes in Pay-As-You-Go systems.
- Sep 2024Conventional Debt$8M
- Sep 2021Series E$45M
- Sep 2021Conventional Debt$45M
- Dec 2018Conventional Debt$32.5M
#3
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2018 · 12 employees$12.7Mraised▾
Developers of thorium molten-salt reactor
- Mar 2025Grant (prize money)$4.4M
- Mar 2025Series A$17.5M
- Mar 2024Grant (prize money)$10.8M
- Aug 2022Series A$12.6M
#4
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2023$2.2Mraised▾
Brineworks is a climate-tech company that focuses on using desalination brine as a feedstock to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate climate change. They are working towards a more sustainable future by designing eco-friendly raw material production.
- Sep 2025Seed$5.9M
- Sep 2024Seed$2.2M
#5
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2013 · 205 employees$40Mraised▾
Lumos enables people to replace hazardous and expensive kerosene generators and lanterns with modern solar electricity that can power lights, cellphones, fans, computers, TVs and other small electronic devices (all at once, every day). By offering Solar Power as a Service, Lumos offers homes and small businesses a simple and affordable way to pay for electricity in small installments using their mobile phones.
- Sep 2020Conventional Debt$45M
- Jul 2020Conventional Debt—
- Dec 2019Grant (prize money)$75M
- Dec 2016Series A$40M
#6
Series B · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2009 · 49 employees$10.8Mraised▾
Triple Solar is a designer and manufacturer of solar roof and wall panels. The company name suggests that their solar panels are used for three purposes such as roofing, heating and electricity. It uses solar panels in combination with a heat pump to develop a high-quality aluminium roofing system that also collects energy for room heating. It is incubated at New Energy Docks, a renewable energy incubator
- Jan 2023Series B$10.8M
- May 2014Series A—
#7
Funding Raised · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2011 · 14 employees$25.8Mraised▾
Provider of organic waste recycling services
- Nov 2021Grant (prize money)$818.8K
- Apr 2018Grant (prize money)$25M
#8
Series B · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2014 · 32 employees$15.6Mraised▾
Solnet Green Energy is a Finland based provider of smart solar solutions. Offers IoT based solar utilities and system integrations for business customers. Provides turn-key solutions for energy production and solar power as a service, in which the customer, under the PPA, purchases the solar power from the power plant built, owned, and funded by Solnet.
- Jul 2022Series B$15.6M
#9
Series B · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2004 · 25 employees$32.2Mraised▾
EWT is a global designer and producer of utility grade gearless wind turbines of 250kW, 500kW to 1MW. The company has over 600 turbines installed across North America, Europe and Asia. Their turbines are used majorly for distributed power generation including microgrids and energy solutions integrated with other sources of generation.
- Jun 2017Grant (prize money)$104.4K
- Dec 2009Series B$364.4K
- Jan 2008Series B$10M
- Jan 2008Series B$2.8M
#10
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2019 · 14 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Provider of waste collection services
- Apr 2023Seed$1.6M
#11
Public · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2008 · 343 employees$12.1Mraised▾
Provider of project development, operation & maintenance services for solar power solutions
- Jan 2019Conventional Debt$11.8M
- Jan 2010Grant (prize money)$150K
- Jan 2008Grant (prize money)$100K
#12
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2019 · 10 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Developer of mini-grids designed to democratize developing and operating profitable solar micro-utilities. The company provides rented solar panels and batteries to mini-grid entrepreneurs and automates load control and maximizes the production of solar energy, enabling non-engineer to run their own local utilities and be profitable in their endeavors.
- Dec 2021Seed$1.4M
- 2020Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Environment coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
What Amsterdam researches in environmental monitoring
University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam lead Amsterdam's environmental monitoring research, focusing primarily on microplastics and air quality, with a contested tone reflecting more concern than breakthrough findings.
- University of Amsterdam14
- Amsterdam University of the Arts4
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam4
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers1
- Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions1
Common questions
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