Best Environment Tech Companies in New Zealand
The 77 best Environment Tech companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CH4 Global.
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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 New Zealand
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agility CIS Billing and Customer engagement software for utilities | — | — | 148 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | AirSuite Provider of solutions for indoor air quality monitoring | — | — | — | Peter Davison CEO | SentryZendeskAmazon Web Services+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 3 | Aquafortus Provider of water treatment solutions | — | — | — | Iris Jancik Co-CEO & CCO | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 4 | Arcubed Developer of a smart technology intended for waste management. | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Ata Touch Provider of IoT-based residential automation and energy management solutions | — | — | — | Jain Tait Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Axos Systems Provider of energy billing and meter data management solution | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 award |
| 7 | Basis Provider of a smart electric panel | — | — | 38 | Julyan Collett Co-Founder | SanityTurbopackNode.js+24 | Top 10M | 21 patents Safety monitoring and current detection for electrical distribution boards and power switchgear | — |
| 8 | Blackcurrent Online platform offering energy management solutions for commercial applications | — | — | 5 | Jurjen Paul Wilmer Geerts CFO | — | — | — | 1 partnership |
Top 12 Environment Tech companies in New Zealand
#1
Series B · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2019 · 42 employees$45Mraised▾
Provider of technology platform to minimize GHG footprints. It provides methane tamer beef feedlot natural supplement with asparagopsis seaweed to reduce methane emissions.
- Jan 2025Series B—
- Aug 2023Series B$29M
- Oct 2021Series A$13M
- Sep 2020Seed$3M
#2
Series A · Rotorua, Bay Of Plenty · founded 2021 · 28 employees$6.8Mraised▾
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- Mar 2025Series A$27.5M
- Jan 2023Series A$6.8M
#3
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2019 · 6 employees$10.2Mraised▾
Provider of technology for biogas generation using waste as well as carbon capture. It provides solutions to control bacteria to create power from waste.
- Jun 2024Seed$9.4M
- Oct 2021Seed$862.4K
#4
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2017 · 3 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Provider of CO2 monitoring solutions for managing virus transmission risk and building performance. It offers IoT interfaced CO2 monitoring solutions for managing virus transmission risk within alert level or protection framework. It also provide building performance solutions by modeling, measuring, and interpreting how a building is constructed and performs. It offers a referral program for new business and has various products for energy consumption monitoring.
- Jul 2024Seed$1.9M
#5
Series A · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2010 · 70 employees$34.3Mraised▾
Online platform offering carbon footprint solutions. The platform helps users to track their carbon footprints. It includes a personal and business carbon manager. The app is available on the Android platform.
- Jun 2023Series A$603.4K
- Oct 2021Series A$20M
- Aug 2020Series A$5.3M
- Apr 2019Angel$392.9K
#6
Public · Auckland, Auckland · founded 1989 · 584 employees$17.3Mraised▾
Gentrack offers utility billing and CRM solutions provider for energy utilities, water companies and airports. Its products include Retail billing and CRM, Distribution billing, demand response billing, meter data management software which are used across Australasia and the UK, and Tier 1 airports around the world. All their products can be offered as a SaaS business model as per the customer requirement.
- Dec 2023Post IPO$17.3M
#7
Series C · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2016 · 42 employees$42.1Mraised▾
Recovering critical metals from e-waste for a circular economy. This company pioneers innovative waste-to-value solutions, extracting valuable metals from complex waste streams like printed circuit boards and lithium-ion batteries. Their city-scale facilities process electronic waste locally, ensuring faster processing, secure data destruction, and quicker returns for recyclers. They produce circular metals essential for future industries, utilizing hydrometallurgy processes with lower carbon emissions than traditional smelting. Their technology enables a closed-loop supply chain, returning recovered metals to domestic manufacturing. The company offers safe and secure disposal of IP and data-sensitive assets, compliant with institutional data destruction standards. They are focused on diverting e-waste from landfills, reducing the need for mining, and creating a circular supply of critical metals. This is a technology company with a strong social impact.
- Feb 2023Series C$36.9M
- 2020Series B—
- Dec 2018Series A$5.2M
- May 2017Seed—
#8
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2012 · 34 employees$11.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of vending bins intended to eliminate single-use plastic. The company manufactures vending bins that leverage capture and reuse technology to accept cups specifically designed for disposal in those bins and reward people when they return the cup, enabling customers to reduce the impact of single-use plastic on the environment.
#9
Series B · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2017 · 16 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Developer of technology transforming plastic waste into valuable resources. It provides businesses with technologies enabling the transition from a linear to a circular economy for plastic waste. This is achieved by converting waste into economically useful materials at scale. The technology helps fulfill the promise of previously discarded plastic, offering a solution to a significant environmental challenge.
- Jun 2023Series B—
- Jun 2021Series A$1.5M
#10
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2019 · 32 employees$2.9Mraised▾
Emrod provides solutions for wireless power transmission. It is using tele-energy technology to enable long-range wireless energy transmission. It transmitted energy through electromagnetic waves over long distances.
- Oct 2022Seed$1.9M
- Oct 2021Seed$1.1M
#11
Seed · Rotorua, Bay Of Plenty · founded 2022 · 3 employees$4.5Mraised▾
Technology solution to convert waste into energy. It uses hydrothermal oxidation to break down the waste stream into feedstock for biological conversion to clean energy and bio products.
- Jul 2022Seed$4.5M
#12
Seed · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2016 · 24 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Online maintenance management software for property managers. It enables users to manage maintenance activities of their properties with features such as work order management, automated invoices, process management, and more.
- May 2022Seed$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
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Environmental Monitoring is moving in New Zealand
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 115 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- AgResearch21
- University of Waikato15
- University of Auckland14
- Massey University9
- Cawthron Institute8
- Environmental DNA6
- Biodiversity5
- Water quality4
- Sampling (signal processing)4
- Wireless sensor network3
- Wireless sensor network3→4
- Water quality1→9
- Ecology2→4
- Environmental resource management2→4
Where environmental monitoring is researched across New Zealand
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
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