Best Environment Tech Companies in Indiana, United States
The 45 best Environment Tech companies in Indiana, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Joule Unlimited.
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 Indiana
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joule Unlimited Developer of technology to convert CO2 directly into renewable fuels | $190M | 135 mo ago | Series C | — | 2007 | — | 22 patents Engineered cyanobacterial biosynthesis of fuels and chemicals (alkanes, alkenes, ethanol). | — |
| 2 | Sortera Provider of industrial scrap metal recycling solutions powered by AI technology | $59M | 9 mo ago | Series C | Nalin Kumar Founder & CTO | 2020 | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+11 | 7 patents Automated sorting and classification of metal alloys, zorba, and plastics by material properties. | — |
| 3 | 120Water Provider of digital water management solutions for government agencies and water systems | $58M | 31 mo ago | Series B | — | 2016 | WebflowVimeoYouTube+17 | — | — |
| 4 | Go Electric Micro grid management system and UPS | $8M | 97 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2011 | — | 1,525 patents Advanced fault isolation, protection, and automation for medium/high-voltage power distribution. | — |
| 5 | FloVision Solutions Provider of food waste management solutions for restaurants | $2M | 15 mo ago | Series A | — | 2020 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+31 | — | — |
| 6 | CSA360 Online platform for Security Operation Management | $1M | 50 mo ago | Seed | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Ziptility Provider of water and wastewater management platforms | $872K | 31 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | WebflowHubSpotcore-js+16 | — | — |
| 8 | JUA Technologies Developer of smart food dehydration solutions | $856K | 47 mo ago | Funding Raised | Reiko Ileleji Co-Founder & CFO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Aerovy Software provider for managing electric aviation goals and infrastructure | $800K | 34 mo ago | Seed | Nick Gunady Founder & CEO | 2022 | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+7 | — | — |
| 10 | Atlas Energy Systems Provider of solutions to generate electricity from heat | $578K | 78 mo ago | Seed | Ian Hamilton Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 11 | WindStream Technologies Solar-Wind hybrid energy generators | $407K | 146 mo ago | Seed | — | 2008 | — | 10 patents Modular wind and alternative energy generation units with simplified electrical integration. | — |
| 12 | Thermodynamic Process Control Energy management systems optimizing boiler plant efficiency and reducing energy consumption | $100K | 197 mo ago | Seed | Melissa Johnson Founder | 2005 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Environment Tech companies in Indiana
#1
Series C · Markle, Indiana · founded 2020 · 50 employees$59.3Mraised▾
Provider of industrial scrap metal recycling solutions powered by AI technology. It uses artificial intelligence technology for production of metal alloys for domestic manufacturing. It reuse metals recovered from end-of-life products for manufacturing. It also provides AI powered sensors for automated sorting.
- Nov 2025Conventional Debt$25M
- Nov 2025Series C$20M
- Apr 2023Series C$59.3M
- Nov 2021Series A$10M
#2
Series A · South Bend, Indiana · founded 2020 · 6 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Provider of food waste management solutions for restaurants. The software offers a food analytics platform that uses proprietary image recognition technology to determine food waste. The platform allows users to identify the foods that they want the system to track. The company installs cameras above customer's workstations, production lines, and trash cans. The cameras monitor the food production process, automatically classifying food items and quantifying the amount thrown away.
- Apr 2025Series A$8.7M
- Jun 2024Seed$670K
- Nov 2021Seed$1.1M
- Mar 2021Seed$270K
#3
Series B · Zionsville, Indiana · founded 2016 · 70 employees$57.6Mraised▾
Provider of digital water management solutions for government agencies and water systems. It offers software and digital sampling kits to manage water safety, compliance, and wastewater monitoring programs. The platform unifies data and simplifies tasks such as Lead and Copper Rule compliance, sampling processes, and public transparency initiatives. Services include lead service line inventory and replacement support, predictive modeling, and tools for consumer engagement. The company also provides support and guidance to its clients.
- Jan 2024Series B$43M
- Jul 2022Series A$1M
- Mar 2021Series A$4.5M
- 2019Series A$7M
#4
Series C · Bedford, Indiana · founded 2007 · 60 employees$190Mraised▾
Developer of technology to convert CO2 directly into renewable fuels. The company has developed a photosynthetic technology to produce drop-in fuels in a single-step conversion process using waste carbon dioxide (CO2) feedstock, waste brackish water sunlight and a genetically modified bacterium. The company’s CO2-to-fuel production platform converts CO2 directly into renewable fuels, such as ethanol or hydrocarbons for diesel, jet fuel, and gasoline without the use of agricultural land, freshwater, or crops. Its products include Joule Sunflow-E, solar-derived ethanol; and Joule Sunflow-D, a hydrocarbon diesel fuel produced directly from sunlight and waste CO2.
- May 2015Series C$40M
- Aug 2013Series C$50M
- Jan 2012Series B$70M
- Apr 2010Series A$30M
#5
Seed · Bloomington, Indiana · founded 2018 · 9 employees$872Kraised▾
Provider of water and wastewater management platforms. It enables users to monitor meters, hydrants, valves, booster stations, tanks, and line repairs. It also provides a platform for predicting asset failure and maintenance routines.
- Dec 2023Seed$622K
- Jul 2019Seed$250K
#6
Seed · West Lafayette, Indiana · founded 2022$800Kraised▾
Software provider for managing electric aviation goals and infrastructure. It provides solutions such as energy infrastructure planning, energy operation management, energy cost optimization, location-optimized analysis, and more.
- Oct 2023Seed$800K
#7
Acquired · Anderson, Indiana · founded 2011 · 20 employees$8.1Mraised▾
Go Electric is a green-tech startup developing microgrid management system, uninterruptible power and energy resiliency solutions. Their patented Blinkless technology seamlessly integrates renewable energy, batteries and generators and the grid to ensure energy security for customers. Blinkless advanced uninterruptible power solutions (UPS) shave peak loads, lower energy bills, enables demand response and energy shifting. Their LYNC is a patented technology that instantly provides AC electrical power at the correct frequency, phase and voltage from any AC and DC power sources.
- Jul 2018Series A$4M
- Feb 2017Series A—
- Jan 2016Series A$4.1M
#8
Funding Raised · West Lafayette, Indiana · founded 2016 · 1 employees$856.5Kraised▾
JUA Technologies is a developer of smart food dehydration solutions.
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$600K
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$150K
- Aug 2019Grant (prize money)$106.5K
- Jun 2018PE—
#9
Seed · Indianapolis, Indiana · founded 2011 · 7 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Online platform for Security Operation Management. Some of its features are real-time project progress, design and schedule project, and its tasks, dashboard & visitor management, etc. It is a tool available on the subscription-based pricing model.
- Jun 2022Seed$1.3M
#10
Seed · Carmel, Indiana · founded 2013 · 3 employees$578Kraised▾
Provider of solutions to generate electricity from heat. It provides plasma thermionic energy converters for waste heat power generation, concentrated solar, and advanced nuclear reactors. It provides caesium thermionic energy converters that use high-grade heat to boil electrons from a material via thermionic emission. These boiled-off electrons are collected across a small gap, then used to generate electricity
- Jan 2020Seed$558K
- Jan 2015Grant (prize money)$20K
#11
Seed · New Albany, Indiana · founded 2008 · 42 employees$406.8Kraised▾
Windstream develops and manufactures small to medium scale wind and solar hybrid energy plants for domestic and commercial use. The company has an academic alliance with Purdue University and received a grant from the State of Indiana. They worked with specialists with expertise in fluid dynamics, turbine design, power electronics, and electromechanical engineering for developing a design of plant which can be deployed in a range of environments including the urban marketplace.
- Jun 2014Seed$406.8K
#12
Seed · Indianapolis, Indiana · founded 2005 · 7 employees$100Kraised▾
Energy management systems optimizing boiler plant efficiency and reducing energy consumption. This company pioneers innovative boiler control systems, optimizing total energy for comfort heat. Their flagship system measures building energy usage, optimizing gas and electrical consumption. The system learns building energy requirements, maintaining a database for control optimization. It reports results via an embedded website, accessible on computers, tablets, and smartphones, emailing graphs on energy usage and efficiency. The system measures and reports all mechanical room energy usage, optimizing plant operation for the lowest possible total energy output. Their patented design eliminates short-cycling, calculates real-time building loads, reduces fuel bills, and extends equipment life. This is a B2B, SaaS, software company.
- Mar 2010Seed$100K
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- Indiana University Bloomington6
- Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis6
- University of Indianapolis3
- Indiana State University2
- Marian University - Indiana1
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