Best Environment Companies in Hong Kong, China
The 69 best Environment companies in Hong Kong, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: AES.
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 Hong Kong
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AES Global power company 69News top 26%Fin. health top 27%Talent top 28%Market top 29% All 11 signals ▾Newstop 26% Fin. healthtop 27% Talenttop 28% Markettop 29% Techtop 34% Moattop 34% Producttop 35% Fundingtop 45% Globalbottom 45% Growthbottom 43% Innovationbottom 41% News: 23 BI events in 12 mo (of 104 tracked, 13 types) · +77% YoY Fin. health: Revenue ~$12.2B (FY2026) · Net margin 15.3% rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $500M | 58 mo ago | Acquired | Dennis Bakke Co-Founder | 1981 | DrupalBugHerdApple iCloud Mail+30 | — | — |
| 2 | China Water Group Provider of sewage treatment and tap water supplying services | $200M | 74 mo ago | Public | Duan Liang Director | 2003 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | 268 patents Smart water resources management: predictive hydrology, erosion monitoring, irrigation optimization, sediment control | — |
| 3 | InterContinental Energy Developer of solar and wind energy projects 48Funding top 30%Growth top 35%Talent top 38%News top 42% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 30% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Newstop 42% Partnerstop 46% Techtop 47% Globalbottom 38% Moatbottom 38% Marketbottom 32% Funding: Raised $115M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $115M | 4 mo ago | Series B | Alicia Eastman Co-founder & Board Director | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — | 1 award |
| 4 | Panda Green Energy Group Developer of utility-scale and rooftop solar power projects | $25M | 111 mo ago | Series B | Li Alan CEO | 2000 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Trony Solar Manufactures thin film PV modules | $20M | 212 mo ago | Series A | Yu Ying Co-CEO | 1993 | GoDaddy Website BuilderReactRequireJS+5 | — | — |
| 6 | Beijing Enterprise Water Group City-based wastewater treatment services | $15M | 126 mo ago | Deadpooled | Li Yongcheng Chairman & CEO | 1997 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Allinfra Developer of solar energy projects | $6M | 49 mo ago | Series A | Bill Kentrup Co-founder & Head of Origination | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 8 | SPI Group Producer & distributor of solar energy | — | 42 mo ago | Public | — | 2006 | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — | — |
Top 10 Environment companies in Hong Kong
#1
Series B · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2014$115Mraised▾
Developer of solar and wind energy projects
- Feb 2026Grant (prize money)$21M
- Sep 2023Series B$115M
- Jan 2022Seed—
#2
Acquired · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 1981 · 171 employees$500Mraised▾
AES Corporation is a global power company which provides and distributes electric power. Their business categories include generation, utilities, energy storage & distributed energy. The company has operations worldwide. In 2023, the company recorded annual revenues of $12.62B and a net loss of $0.55B.
- Jul 2021Post IPO—
- Conventional Debt$500M
#3
Public · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2003 · 11400 employees$200Mraised▾
Provider of sewage treatment and tap water supplying services
- Apr 2020Post IPO—
- Mar 2018Conventional Debt$200M
#4
Series A · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2012 · 25 employees$6Mraised▾
Developer of solar energy projects
- May 2022Series A$6M
- Feb 2019Series A—
#5
Series B · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2000 · 1652 employees$25Mraised▾
Panda Green Energy Group is a company based in China that develops and finances large-scale solar PV plants. Projects in operation include a 100MW plant in China, a 20MW rooftop solar power plant, 6 solar power plants in the UK having an aggregate power of 82MW and many others. Developing projects for the China Railway Construction, Huawei CGN, Orix Group and others which is in the pipeline. Also have projects in countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia and others.
- Mar 2017Series B$25M
#6
Series A · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 1993 · 197 employees$20Mraised▾
Trony Solar manufactures thin film PV moduels, solar embedded cells and BIPV (Building Integrated PV). The company in 2006 started manufacturing standard PV modules for solar home systems and other solar off-grid applications Trony's annual manufacturing capacity is 205 MW as of 2011 and plans to expand the annual manufacturing capacity to 265 MW
- Sep 2008Series A$20M
#7
Deadpooled · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 1997$15Mraised▾
Beijing Enterprise Water Group specialises in water services and environmental protection services in China. The company currently owns and operates 282 water plants including 226 sewage treatment plants, 51 water distribution plants, 4 reclaimed water treatment plants and 1 seawater desalination plant in China, Malaysia, and Portugal, with daily design water treatment capacity 10M tons per day.
- Dec 2015PE$15M
#8
Public · Sha Tin, Hong Kong · founded 2006 · 316 employees—raised▾
Producer & distributor of solar energy
- Dec 2022Post IPO—
#9
Acquired · Hong Kong, Hong Kong—raised▾
Provider of carbon footprint reductions solutions. They provide corporate sustainability planning,carbon footprint assessments,renewable energy integration and ESG advisory services.
#10
Public · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2014—raised▾
Shunfeng International Clean Energy is an integrated photovoltaic service provider engaging in solar power generation plant construction and operation. The company is also into solar products manufacturing as well as solar energy storage. Apart from project development in the space of solar energy they are also into research, development as well as operations of other forms of renewable energy.
- Aug 2015Seed—
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
How research on Environmental Monitoring is moving in China
A read on the academic research around Environmental Monitoring — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 2,590 China-affiliated papers.
- Chinese Academy of Sciences190
- Zhejiang Environmental Monitoring Center76
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences63
- Ministry of Ecology and Environment51
- China National Environmental Monitoring Center50
- Pollution4→32
- Pollutant7→29
- Air quality index1→19
- Contamination1→17
- Air pollution1→15
- Pollutant13→42
- Air quality index11→32
- Pollution35→56
- Ecosystem2→22
- Air pollution11→25
- Human health4→45
- Pollution29→60
- Risk assessment4→30
- Ecosystem3→20
- Contamination7→24
Where environmental monitoring is researched across China
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing environmental monitoring patents in China
China environmental monitoring patent filing is accelerating — 71 filings from 70 assignees (2016–2025), led by Multidimension Technology, Goertek, UNIV China Mining; annual filings 1→11.
- Multidimension Technology11
- Goertek9
- UNIV China Mining5
- INST Oceanology Chinese ACAD3
- Zhejiang Hengda Instr3
- Chengdu Qinchuan IOT TECH2
- UNIV Dalian TECH2
- Changxin Memory TECH2
Common questions
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