Best Environment Tech Companies in China
The 425 best Environment Tech companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Londian Electrics.
China's Environment Tech sector is bigger and more contested than most outsiders realize, and if you're trying to find where the real capital is concentrated, this directory ranks 425 tracked companies by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum. Total disclosed funding across the cohort sits at $1.5B, with JBD alone pulling in $140M and EcoCeres not far behind at $108M. Those two account for a disproportionate share of the pool, which tells you something about how unevenly capital clusters even in a sector with genuine tailwinds. The global environment tech market was valued at roughly $552.1B in 2021 and is forecast to reach $690.3B by 2026 at a 4.6% CAGR, driven by tightening government emissions rules and accelerating demand for renewable energy infrastructure. Stringent regulatory pressure in China specifically has pulled in investors like Cowin Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group, and China Merchants, all active across this directory.
So what's moving right now? EV powertrain advancements and next-generation battery technology are the hot themes this quarter, and median app install growth across 161 environmental and renewables apps is running at roughly +20% YoY. That number is a decent proxy for consumer-side engagement with the category. I'd also note that Jiuzi New Energy ($30M) and Xiangji Technology ($18M) represent the mid-tier companies worth watching, funded enough to execute but still early enough to move fast. The sector has one confirmed unicorn in the cohort. Competition for follow-on rounds is real, and the companies that get there will likely be the ones leading on EV drive system innovation and platform-level thinking.
- DataM Intelligence
Our analysis of 241 Environment Tech companies
$25.6b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Environment Tech companies in China
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Employees | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Londian Electrics Provider of electric metering devices | $356M | 86 mo ago | Late Stage | Frank CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Zhonglai Manufacturer of solar cells and solar PV panels | $210M | 101 mo ago | Public | — | 3,918 | — | 3 patents Low‑pressure solar thermal power generation and wolfberry‑based food flavoring technologies | 2 partnerships · 3 awards |
| 3 | JBD Manufacturer of micro-LED displays 48Funding top 27%Talent top 28%Growth top 35%Moat top 42% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 27% Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% Moattop 42% Marketbottom 36% Techbottom 36% Globalbottom 36% Funding: Raised $140M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 5 yrs (0.2/yr) Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 · 2 named leaders on record rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $140M | 7 mo ago | Series B | Lei Zhang Co-Founder | — | BootstrapNginxOpenResty+9 | — | 1 launch |
| 4 | Inspur Provider of cloud computing, data center, and enterprise software solutions | $109M | 69 mo ago | Public | Sun Pishu Co-Founder & CEO | 3,054 | SkolengoMariaDBJava+12 | 14 patents Patents concentrated in its core technology | — |
| 5 | EcoCeres Provider of renewable fuels including sustainable aviation fuel and cellulosic ethanol 7Talent top 38%Funding top 42%Global bottom 36%Market bottom 29% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 42% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 29% Newsbottom 28% Techbottom 16% Growthbottom 10% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $108M · 2 rounds over 4 yrs (0.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 7/100 | $108M | 41 mo ago | Unfunded | Philip Siu Co-Founder | — | PHPCentOSOpenSSL+6 | — | 2 partnerships · 1 award |
| 6 | Clobotics Provides drone data management solutions | $84M | 63 mo ago | Series A | Mads Rasmussen Managing director | 11 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | — |
| 7 | Yunyinggu Technology Display drivers and IP licencing for display driver chips and circuit boards | $74M | 66 mo ago | Deadpooled | Gu Jing Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Microquanta Developers of perovskite solar cells | $56M | 44 mo ago | Series D | Buyi Yan Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | niu technologies Niu Technologies is an electric scooter manufacturing company that provides smart urban mobility solutions. | $50M | 91 mo ago | Public | — | 641 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+46 | — | — |
| 10 | Zhongshu Guoneng Technology Provider of energy storage services | $48M | 48 mo ago | Seed | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Yeelight Provider of app-based internet-connected smart bulbs | $47M | 53 mo ago | Series E | Eric Jiang Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Jinko Solar Manufacturer of solar modules 80Patents top 10%Fin. health top 11%Innovation top 22%Market top 24% All 13 signals ▾Patentstop 10% Fin. healthtop 11% Innovationtop 22% Markettop 24% Techtop 34% Talenttop 39% Partnerstop 40% Producttop 42% Fundingtop 43% Moattop 44% Newstop 49% Globalbottom 47% Growthbottom 36% Patents: 1,575 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 1521 filings since 2022 vs 54 in 2017-21 Fin. health: Revenue ~$12.8B · Revenue 366.7x total funding rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 80/100 | $35M | 67 mo ago | Acquired | Kangping Chen CEO | 46,511 | DrupalPHPZURB Foundation+18 | 1,575 patents Advanced silicon solar cell designs, back-contact modules, and manufacturing processes | 1 award |
| 13 | Jiuzi New Energy Provider of charging networks and energy storage systems for electric vehicles 29Funding top 34%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 25% All 3 signals ▾Fundingtop 34% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 25% Funding: Raised $30.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $30M | 8 mo ago | Public | Li Tao CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Carbon Block Carbon management software and consulting solutions | $23M | 46 mo ago | Series B | Luhui Yan Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Xiangji Technology Big data platform to analyze and process data | $18M | 26 mo ago | Series C | Lin Zhong Co-Founder | 20 | — | 5 patents Flexible 3D forming equipment for shaping workpieces and ping‑pong training devices | — |
| 16 | Guangzhou Boyt Technology Provider of tech-based manufacturing solutions for multiple industries | $15M | 63 mo ago | Series A | Li Jigeng CEO | 100 | — | — | — |
| 17 | 365bdj Online platform offering waste collection services | $15M | 120 mo ago | Deadpooled | Chang Tao CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Sunpure Provider of robotic solutions for cleaning and installing photovoltaic modules 27Growth top 45%Moat top 45%Funding top 50%Product bottom 45% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 45% Moattop 45% Fundingtop 50% Productbottom 45% Marketbottom 41% Innovationbottom 38% Techbottom 37% Globalbottom 36% Patentsbottom 29% Newsbottom 24% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 4/10 · IP moat: 2 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100 | $14M | 28 mo ago | Series A | — | 100 | BootstrapNginxOpenResty+8 | 2 patents PV array connection bridge inspection and monitoring technology | 1 award |
| 19 | Zheda Energy Provider of smart power carbon asset management solutions for businesses | $14M | 43 mo ago | Series A | Jiang Xuedong Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | I2Cool Developer of electricity-free passive radiative cooling technologies. 22Talent top 28%Growth top 45%Funding bottom 42%Tech bottom 35% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Growthtop 45% Fundingbottom 42% Techbottom 35% Globalbottom 29% Marketbottom 23% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 22/100 | $14M | 25 mo ago | Series A | Christopher Chao Co-Founder | 20 | PHPGSAPNginx+9 | — | — |
| 21 | Wuxi Jiufang Technology Provider of commercial weather solutions integrating supercomputing, simulation, and AI | $11M | 59 mo ago | Series A | Zhou Zheng Founder & CEO | 70 | — | — | — |
| 22 | Small EEL Provider of SaaS-based energy management platform | $11M | 40 mo ago | Series A | Zhu Yueyang Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | PowerBee IoT solutions for energy management | $9M | 94 mo ago | Series A | Timo Meyst Owner | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Weifulai Technology Provider of smart waste management solutions 55Market top 31%Funding top 47%Global bottom 29% All 3 signals ▾Markettop 31% Fundingtop 47% Globalbottom 29% Market: 300 employees (top 7% of High Tech) Funding: Raised $8.4M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 3 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $8M | 3 mo ago | Series C | — | 300 | — | — | — |
| 25 | KAT VR Provider of a VR-based omnidirectional treadmill | $7M | 57 mo ago | Series A | — | 60 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyBootstrap+28 | — | — |
| 26 | SunMan Developer of flexible PV modules | $7M | 67 mo ago | Series B | Zhengrong Shi Founder | 100 | Element UINginxOpenResty+3 | — | — |
| 27 | CoClean Developer of a smart portable air purifier | $6M | 36 mo ago | Series B | Fei Zhao Founder & CEO | 68 | — | — | — |
| 28 | Starpower Provider of decentralized energy storage system 29Talent top 38%Growth top 45%Funding bottom 42%Tech bottom 39% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Growthtop 45% Fundingbottom 42% Techbottom 39% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 34% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Growth: Web rank 5,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $4M | 17 mo ago | Seed | Laser Ding CEO & Co-founder | — | LeafletMapbox.jsMapbox GL JS+13 | — | — |
| 29 | R&B Technology Developer of online AI and IoT-enabled data platform for multiple industries | $4M | 77 mo ago | Series A | Charles Wong Founder & CEO | 8 | — | — | — |
| 30 | MDGS Provider of waste to energy generation solutions | $2M | 78 mo ago | Deadpooled | Tracy Hall CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 31 | Beijing Rongxing Technology Blockchain and AI-based energy intelligence solutions | $2M | 95 mo ago | Seed | Richard Yu Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 32 | Jinan Hengyu Environmental Protection Technology Developer of multiple solutions for polymer waste treatment | $2M | — | Early Stage | — | 97 | — | — | — |
| 33 | Shenzhen Xing Zhi shaped Technology Development Provider of energy saving and management solutions | $1M | 83 mo ago | Deadpooled | Duan Zhixuan Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 34 | Homi Provider of end-to-end home automation solutions for residential buildings | $1M | 82 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 7 | — | — | — |
| 35 | Carnot Innovations AI-enabled predictive maintenance solution for HVAC systems | $857K | 79 mo ago | Seed | Ashish Justin Co-Founder & CEO | — | Webflow EcommerceWebflowjQuery+8 | — | 2 partnerships |
| 36 | Migratory Bird Manager Technology Online platform offering in-house security and standard services | $724K | 85 mo ago | Seed | Ma Haonan Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 37 | Hey moms Intelligent hardware for producing fresh fruits and vegetables | $540K | 131 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 15 | — | — | — |
| 38 | Fox ESS 🦄 Manufacturer of inverters, chargers, batteries, and energy storage system components | $55K | 36 mo ago | Series D | Justin Claxton Co-Founder & Vice President | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | — | 1 launch |
Top 12 Environment Tech companies in China
#1
Series B · Pudong, Shanghai · founded 2015$140.4Mraised▾
Manufacturer of micro-LED displays. It develops active-matrix inorganic microLED display chips and panels, which have wavelengths ranging from UV to IR. It also offers control circuit boards to drive those display chips. It also offers custom displays with custom wavelengths, resolution, pixel pitch, and brightness.
- Oct 2025Series B$140.4M
- Jun 2024Series A—
- Jun 2023Series A—
- Aug 2022Series A—
#2
Series C · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2013 · 300 employees$8.4Mraised▾
Provider of smart waste management solutions. Its offerings include a cloud-based waste sorting machine and AI and blockchain-powered data analytics software. Its solution covers the entire waste management life cycle from classification, cearing, transportation, recycling, reduction treatment, and operations mangement. It alo offers smart access control locks, QR-code based samrt cabinets, sensor embedded sanitizer dispensers, and waste recycling plants.
- Mar 2026Series C—
- Jun 2023Series B$8.4M
#3
Public · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2021$30Mraised▾
Provider of charging networks and energy storage systems for electric vehicles. The company develops direct current fast charging stations integrated with energy storage. It is also advancing a smart energy cloud platform project. This platform aims to enable interaction between charging facilities and power grid systems using IoT technology. The company is also initiating research and development testing for digital payment solutions.
- Oct 2025Post IPO$30M
#4
Seed · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2023$4.5Mraised▾
Provider of decentralized energy storage system. They specialize in designing advance energy network stability and sustainability through virtual power plant solutions. They offer a network connecting distributed energy devices through IoT,blockchain and AI.
- Jan 2025Seed$2.5M
- Jun 2024Seed$2M
#5
Unfunded · Kwun Tong, Hong Kong · founded 2021$108Mraised▾
Provider of renewable fuels including sustainable aviation fuel and cellulosic ethanol. The company focuses on energy transition through technology. It produces hydrotreated vegetable oil and renewable naphtha. The company promotes an open market to support climate goals.
#6
Series C · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2014 · 20 employees$17.8Mraised▾
Xiangji offers a big data platform to analyze and process data. The platform allows users to collect data, process, analyze and visualize data to capture actionable insights from the real-time data. It enables businesses to store data, build reports and extract data from the cloud with the help of queries. It also provides solutions to import and export data, clean and transfer data.
- Apr 2024Series C—
- Jan 2018Series B$17.8M
#7
Series A · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · 20 employees$13.8Mraised▾
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#8
Late Stage · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 1996$356.5Mraised▾
Provider of electric metering devices. Products and solutions provided include single and three-phase smart meters, concentrators, prepaid meters, and electric meters alongside solutions to enable AMI architecture. AMI solutions include a smart home system with integrated energy management.
- Apr 2019PE$250M
- Dec 2018PE$106.5M
#9
Series A · Hefei, Anhui · founded 2019 · 100 employees$14.1Mraised▾
Provider of robotic solutions for cleaning and installing photovoltaic modules. The company offers a range of robots designed for comprehensive cleaning, including dry and wet options, and module installation. These robots address challenges in photovoltaic power plants, improving efficiency and reducing costs. The product line includes fully automatic, semi-automatic, and distributed robots.
- Jan 2024Series A$14.1M
- Aug 2022Seed—
#10
Series D · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2015$55.7Mraised▾
Microquanta is a developer of thin film perovskite solar cells and aims to commercialize the technology. The company claims to have the built the first set of perovskite solar cell production equipment in their lab and can produce 6x6 sq. cm. scale perovskite solar cells with a conversion rate of 16%.
- Oct 2022Series D—
- Jan 2021Series C$55.7M
#11
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2016 · 11 employees$83.9Mraised▾
Provides drone data management solutions. It offers drone data acquisition flight services and a cloud-based data analysis and viewing software solution. It also offers IT consulting and data migration services to enterprise clients. It also provides drone-based wind turbine inspection and monitoring solutions.
- Mar 2021Series A$30.9M
- Jan 2020Series A$10M
- Aug 2019Series A$22M
- Aug 2018Series A$11M
#12
Public · Suzhou, Jiangsu · founded 2008 · 3918 employees$210.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of solar cells and solar PV panels
- Jan 2018Post IPO$210.5M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Environment Tech 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
- Zhejiang Hengda Instr3
- INST Oceanology Chinese ACAD3
- Chengdu Qinchuan IOT TECH2
- UNIV Shandong2
- Changxin Memory TECH2
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.