Best Environment Tech Companies in District of Columbia, United States
The 36 best Environment Tech companies in District of Columbia, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Arcadia.
Our analysis of 83 Environment Tech companies
$16.0b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Environment Tech companies in District of Columbia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Stage | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arcadia 🦄 Provider of clean energy data platform and solutions for businesses. 69Tech top 12%News top 14%Funding top 19%Growth top 23% All 11 signals ▾Techtop 12% Newstop 14% Fundingtop 19% Growthtop 23% Moattop 28% Producttop 34% Talenttop 37% Innovationbottom 49% Patentsbottom 48% Globalbottom 48% Marketbottom 38% Tech: 58 technologies across 7/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront News: 7 BI events in 12 mo (of 187 tracked, 14 types) · +250% YoY rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $554M | 29 mo ago | 2 | Kate Henningsen Co-Founder And Chief Operations Officer | SentryAtlassian StatuspageZendesk+23 | Series D | 11 patents Smart appliance hardware, building closures, foot imaging diagnostics, and electronic health record systems | — |
| 2 | Emerald Developer of a platform optimizing power grids and artificial intelligence infrastructure 50Funding top 25%AI top 30%Global top 45%Talent bottom 49% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 25% AItop 30% Globaltop 45% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 40% Techbottom 38% Funding: Raised $66.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $67M | 7 mo ago | — | Varun Sivaram Founder & CEO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowGSAP+11 | Seed | — | 2 partnerships |
| 3 | Blue Whale Materials Provider of lithium-ion battery recycling and critical materials reclamation services | $55M | 23 mo ago | 8 | Robert Kang Co-Founder & CEO | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceTypeScript+14 | Funding Raised | — | 1 job opening |
| 4 | Sparkfund Subscription-based energy as a service provider | $50M | 69 mo ago | 62 | Pier LaFarge Founder & CEO | HubSpot CMS HubSalesforceLinkedin Insight Tag+15 | Series C | — | 1 partnership |
| 5 | Aquicore Provider of SaaS-driven ESG data and analytics platform for the real estate industry | $49M | 73 mo ago | 62 | — | — | Acquired | 3 patents IoT-enabled building energy monitoring, automated diagnostics, and web-based metering systems | — |
| 6 | SparkMeter Provider of smart metering solutions for energy service delivery and management | $42M | 33 mo ago | 14 14 → 13 (-7%) | Allison Archambault Co-founder | WeeblyMySQLPHP+20 | Series A | 3 patents High‑capacity wireless mesh networking for IoT data transport | — |
| 7 | ICCT Non-profit organisation focused to improve environmental performance and energy efficiency for transportation… 57Innovation top 30%Growth top 35%Tech top 41%Funding top 49% All 7 signals ▾Innovationtop 30% Growthtop 35% Techtop 41% Fundingtop 49% Productbottom 48% Marketbottom 43% Globalbottom 29% Innovation: 3 product lines Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $26M | 17 mo ago | 153 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+38 | Funding Raised | — | — |
| 8 | Cortex AI-driven building energy management solution for commercial spaces | $11M | 64 mo ago | 33 | — | — | Series A | 23 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 9 | GHG Protocol Online platform offering emission management solutions | $9M | 41 mo ago | — | Tigran Alekyan Founder | DrupalMariaDBPHP+22 | Funding Raised | — | — |
| 10 | MOLG Provider of robotic microfactories and design services for circular manufacturing | $6M | 9 mo ago | 8 | Rob Lawson-Shanks CEO and Co-founder | WebflowTypekitcore-js+10 | Series A | — | — |
| 11 | Pingthings AI-driven platform offering solutions for predictive analytics for managing assets in the utility industry | $4M | 59 mo ago | 31 | Sean Murphy Founder & CEO | BootstrapAmazon Web ServicesLazySizes+13 | Seed | — | — |
| 12 | Rhizome Developer of an AI-powered software platform for climate risk assessment | $4M | 17 mo ago | — | Mishal Thadani CEO | — | Seed | — | — |
| 13 | Nexgrid Smart grid solutions provider optimizing energy efficiency and utility operations | $3M | 143 mo ago | 24 | Costa Apostolakis President & Founder | — | Seed | 5 patents Wireless mesh networking for IoT energy monitoring and photovoltaic communication systems | — |
| 14 | Jasmine Provider of solutions for renewable energy credits | $3M | 9 mo ago | 8 | — | — | Seed | 5 patents Protective masks, zinc-based biomedical nanomaterials, and automated contact-alignment tools. | — |
Top 12 Environment Tech companies in District of Columbia
#1
Seed · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2024$66.5Mraised▾
Developer of a platform optimizing power grids and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The platform facilitates data centers flexible power demand, transforming them into grid partners. It unlocks capacity on existing grid infrastructure to power artificial intelligence. The platform connects utilities and data centers in real time. It enables data centers to respond to grid signals and orchestrates compute alongside onsite energy. The platform verifies performance, establishing data centers as grid resources.
- Feb 2026Seed$25M
- Jul 2025Seed$34.2M
- Nov 2024Seed$7.3M
#2
Series A · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2021 · 8 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Provider of robotic microfactories and design services for circular manufacturing. The company’s robotic microfactories disassemble electronic devices, recovering components for reuse, remanufacturing, or recycling. Unlike destructive processes, the technology maximizes reuse potential across brands and product categories. The company also collaborates with manufacturers to design electronics optimized for circularity. Their software generates assembly methods, enabling scalable products designed with their entire lifecycle in mind. The company offers an open standard for device, component, and material traceability, enabling detailed tracking from manufacturing to de-manufacturing.
- Dec 2025Series A$29.1M
- Feb 2025Seed$4.5M
- Nov 2024Grant (prize money)$5M
- Mar 2024Seed$5.5M
#3
Funding Raised · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2001 · 153 employees$26.2Mraised▾
Non-profit organisation focused to improve environmental performance and energy efficiency for transportation sectors
- Apr 2025Grant (prize money)$350K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$159.9K
- Dec 2019Grant (prize money)—
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$136.6K
#4
Seed · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2022 · 8 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Provider of solutions for renewable energy credits. It offers a platform to buy and sell climate assets, tokenize, and more.
- Dec 2025Conventional Debt$25M
- Sep 2022Seed$2.5M
- 2022Seed$500K
#5
Arcadia 🦄Series D · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2014 · 2 employees$554.5Mraised▾
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- Apr 2024Conventional Debt$30M
- Mar 2024Series D$50M
- 2023Series D—
- Dec 2022Series D$128.5M
#6
Funding Raised · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2015 · 8 employees$55Mraised▾
Provider of lithium-ion battery recycling and critical materials reclamation services. The company’s technology reclaims cobalt, nickel, and lithium from spent batteries. It offers processing technology for safely discharging batteries and reclaiming critical minerals. Subsidiary provides battery testing and evaluation services, including performance and abuse testing.
- Sep 2024Grant (prize money)$55M
#7
Seed · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2022$3.5Mraised▾
Developer of an AI-powered software platform for climate risk assessment. The platform helps electric utilities identify vulnerabilities from climate hazards. It quantifies risk and measures the benefits of asset investments. The software ensures infrastructure and communities are protected against extreme weather threats.
- Apr 2025Seed$9.8M
- Jul 2024Seed$1M
- Oct 2023Seed$2.5M
#8
Series A · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2013 · 14 employees$41.6Mraised▾
Provider of smart metering solutions for energy service delivery and management. It facilitates sustainable smart metering solutions and business models with sector stakeholders. The organization ensures the continuity of critical infrastructure for high-quality energy services. It works to ensure open collaboration with stakeholders in the sector.
- Nov 2023Series A$5M
- Mar 2022Series A$10M
- 2021Series A—
- Aug 2020Series A$12M
#9
Series C · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2013 · 62 employees$49.9Mraised▾
Subscription-based energy as a service provider. It provides subscription-based energy efficient solutions for the commercial and industrial sectors. The technology subscriptions offered by the company include a monthly payment basis provision of energy efficient solutions including HVAC, LED lighting, building control, and other technology. The OpEx payment method provided by the company covers installation, repairs, monitoring, and ongoing service, with no upfront costs. Traditional loans and leases are also provided as financial services.
- Dec 2020Conventional Debt$1.5M
- Oct 2020Conventional Debt$1M
- Apr 2019Series C$16.5M
- Feb 2018Series B$6.9M
#10
Acquired · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2012 · 62 employees$48.8Mraised▾
Provider of SaaS-driven ESG data and analytics platform for the real estate industry. It offers a platform that connects to energy meters that have already been installed. It also centralizes energy data enabling building owners to monitor energy usage and bill their tenants according to their energy usage. It enables organizations to make decisions that improve staff productivity, reduce energy waste, increase tenant satisfaction, and meet strategic energy goals.
- Jul 2020Series B$14M
- Mar 2019Series B$25.9M
- May 2016Series A$5M
- Oct 2015Grant (prize money)$122.5K
#11
Funding Raised · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 1997$9.2Mraised▾
Online platform offering emission management solutions. It provides standards, guidance, tools, and training for businesses and governments to measure and manage climate-warming emissions. It offers comprehensive global standardized frameworks to measure and manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private and public sector operations, value chains, and mitigation actions.
- Mar 2023Grant (prize money)$9.2M
#12
Series A · Washington, DC, District of Columbia · founded 2014 · 33 employees$11.1Mraised▾
AI-driven building energy management solution for commercial spaces. It can be used to build management systems and meters to translate unused information into tangible value for buildings and offer energy savings by operating HVAC systems with more precision. It offers a mobile platform to control the building assets from any location and offers charts, demand alerts, and recommendations to operate those assets. The app is available for download on android devices.
- May 2021Series A$6M
- Apr 2018Series A$1.7M
- Jan 2017Series A$3.5M
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
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How research on Environmental Monitoring is moving in the United States
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 3,039 United States-affiliated papers.
- United States Geological Survey157
- Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies112
- Environmental Protection Agency84
- National Research Council79
- National Park Service76
- Software deployment2→31
- Pollution3→27
- Air quality index1→25
- Water quality10→34
- Air pollution3→25
- Air quality index14→60
- Air pollution8→51
- Pollutant4→32
- Sampling (signal processing)14→42
- Water quality23→48
- Human health1→32
- Pollution4→33
- Air quality index6→31
- Pollutant6→28
- Biodiversity1→22
Where environmental monitoring is researched across United States
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 the United States
United States environmental monitoring patent filing is accelerating — 450 filings from 343 assignees (2016–2025), led by LEEO, Valencell, United Parcel Service; annual filings 47→49.
- LEEO41
- Valencell25
- United Parcel Service21
- Honeywell INT20
- Apple18
- Venturedyne18
- Pillar TECH17
- IND Scient16
Common questions
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