Best Environment Companies in Mexico
The 56 best Environment companies in Mexico in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Zuma Energia.
Mexico's Environment sector has more capital behind it than most people realize, and this directory ranks the 56 companies we track by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum. Total disclosed funding sits at $304M, but that number is almost entirely Zuma Energia's story: the renewables developer has pulled in $245M, dwarfing everything else in the cohort. Bright follows at $51M. After that the figures drop fast, with Niko at $3M and most of the remaining field under $2M. So you're looking at a highly concentrated funding curve, which tells you something real about where investor conviction is landing right now. BBVA Momentum, MassChallenge, and Angel Ventures are the most active backers in the mix. The global environmental services market was valued at roughly $68.8B in 2024 and is forecast to reach $73.5B in 2025, per The Business Research Company, at a 5.3% CAGR, with climate regulation and infrastructure demand doing most of the pulling.
What's interesting to me is how the digital layer is accelerating alongside the capital story. Median install growth across environmental and renewables apps is running at roughly +20% YoY across 161 tracked apps, a signal that consumer and B2B engagement with the sector is genuinely widening. AI's expanding role in environmental science is part of what's driving that, from emissions monitoring to grid optimization. And how startups adapt strategy to external environmental shifts is the live question for the smaller players here, the ones sitting well below $5M in funding, trying to find ground as climate policy tightens and procurement cycles change.
- Research Reports World
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 Mexico
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zuma Energia Power generation company | $245M | 142 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2014 | PleskPHPBootstrap+13 | — |
| 2 | Bright Offers solar as a service | $51M | 8 mo ago | Series C | — | 2014 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+19 | 1 launch · 1 partnership · 1 expansion |
| 3 | Niko Provider of solar panel installation services for homes | $3M | 17 mo ago | Seed | Raffaele Sertorio Co-Founder | 2023 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowStripe+20 | — |
| 4 | The Next 150 Developer and operator of carbon removal ventures. It extends sustainable finance solutions and operational… | $2M | 40 mo ago | Seed | Constantin Ekierman Founder & Managing Director | 2022 | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+16 | — |
| 5 | Energryn Renewable Energy invention and technology developer | $1M | 95 mo ago | Seed | Rassiel Lara Co-Founder | 2010 | — | — |
| 6 | Ilumexico Installer of solar PV systems and lighting systems for the rural sector | $600K | 103 mo ago | Funding Raised | Manuel Wiechers CEO | 2010 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — |
| 7 | Wirewatt IPP with distributed rooftop solar energy model | $23K | 137 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 8 | Blau Provider of waste management collection services | — | 49 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | — |
Top 12 Environment companies in Mexico
#1
Series C · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2014 · 181 employees$51.4Mraised▾
Bright solar installs solar power system which has net metering by which the consumer can sell excess electricity to the grid. The company offers customer subscriptions services, by which customers can use solar electricity at pre-determined price. As of 2014 the company has installed 67MW of PV.
- Oct 2025Conventional Debt$15M
- Jul 2023Series C$35.5M
- 2023Series B—
- Dec 2022Series A$3M
#2
Seed · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2023$3.3Mraised▾
Provider of solar panel installation services for homes
- Jan 2025Conventional Debt$15M
- Jan 2025Seed$8M
- Mar 2024Seed$3.3M
#3
Acquired · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2014 · 50 employees$245Mraised▾
Zuma Energía is an energy generation development platform, that intends to acquire and develop projects across Mexico, aiming to provide a total of over 500 MW of newly installed energy capacity. They develop, construct, and operate wind, solar, and thermal generation projects in Mexico.
- Sep 2014PE$245M
#4
Seed · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2022 · 11 employees$2Mraised▾
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- Mar 2023Seed$2M
#5
Seed · Cancun, Quintana Roo · founded 2010$1.2Mraised▾
Energyn develops solutions and technology in the domain of renewable energy. The company works with groups of scientists, inventors and technologists to build patented innovative solutions in the domain of solar, wind, hydro, wave, tidal, geothermal, and biofuels. The company primarily conducts business by starting spin-off companies, doing joint ventures with other companies and/or licensing inventions to product development organizations.
- Jul 2018Seed$1.2M
#6
Funding Raised · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2010 · 60 employees$600Kraised▾
Ilumexico develops and installs solar PV systems and lighting solutions for the rural sector. Provides solar panel of 15W, batteries, Prometeo charge controllers, 2 LED bulbs, wiring and sockets. Also offers credit systems where the families can choose to pay monthly or in 12-18 months. Claims to have installed over 12k systems generating a total of 1MW. Distribution centers include Campeche, Chiapas, Veracruz and others.
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$600K
#7
Deadpooled · Monterrey, Nuevo Leon · founded 2014 · 9 employees$22.7Kraised▾
Wirewatt is a distributed solar energy project developer that operates as an Independent power producer. The company installs rooftop projects for residential customers and lets the customer decide its payout based on the power being generated. The customer pays for the plant without a downpayment and furthermore once the entire payout is made, he owns the plant, thus getting practically free power.
- Jan 2015Seed$22.7K
#8
Seed · Guadalajara, Jalisco · founded 2021 · 12 employees—raised▾
Blau Corp is a developer of a digital waste management platform, focused on sustainability and efficiency. The company offers a comprehensive digital solution for corporate waste management, leveraging technology to streamline processes and reduce waste. With a strong focus on innovation, Blau Corp aims to provide a scalable and adaptable solution for businesses seeking to improve their environmental impact.
- 2022Seed—
#9
Funding Raised · Puebla, Puebla · founded 2012—raised▾
Provider of wastewater treatment services
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)—
#10
Series A · Santiago De Queretaro, Queretaro · founded 2016—raised▾
Developer of solar and wind energy projects
- Aug 2018Series A—
#11
Deadpooled · Guadalajara, Jalisco · founded 2016—raised▾
Provider of environmental services
- Jun 2018Grant (prize money)—
#12
Series B · Mexico City, Mexico City · founded 2010 · 131 employees—raised▾
Enlight is a developer of solar energy plants for residential customers. The company receives the electricity bills from prospective customers to design the solar plant. Once the design and sizing is ready, they install the plant under two different financing mechanism, a 100% down-payment which enables ownership of the plant from the first day and a 0 downpayment, monthly payment option that reduces the upfront payment for the plant owner. They handle the entire process of swithcing to captive power with the the installation, the connection to the house and the electrical network, as well as the necessary paperwork with the Distribution entity.
- Feb 2017Series B—
- Aug 2015Series A—
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 Mexico
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 141 Mexico-affiliated papers.
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México24
- Instituto Politécnico Nacional21
- Tecnológico de Monterrey12
- Tecnológico Nacional de México11
- Universidad Veracruzana6
- Water quality7
- Scalability4
- Context (archaeology)4
- Environmental data3
- Weather station2
- Contamination1→5
- Pollutant1→5
- Software deployment1→5
- Air quality index2→5
- Ecosystem3
- Pollutant3
- Environmental impact assessment3
- Pollution3
- Human health2
Where environmental monitoring is researched across Mexico
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.
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.