Best Environment Tech Companies in Pennsylvania, United States
The 155 best Environment Tech companies in Pennsylvania, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Renmatix.
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 Pennsylvania
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renmatix Technology developer for cellulosic sugar | $251M | 74 mo ago | 49 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | Top 50M | 437 patents Production and application of nano-cellulose particles and cellulose-based composites. | — |
| 2 | Viridity Energy Demand side management by online software | $76M | 121 mo ago | 27 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | PURAGLOBE Provider of used oil recycling company | $76M | 46 mo ago | 277 | Andreas Schuppel CEO & President | WebflowApple iCloud MailPreact+10 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 4 | Plextronics Developer of conductive polymers and inks for electronic printing | $59M | 152 mo ago | 31 | — | — | — | 293 patents Conductive polymers for organic photovoltaics, OLEDs, capacitors, and device encapsulation | — |
| 5 | RedZone Robotics Robotic and software solution for wastewater network monitoring | $53M | 124 mo ago | 76 | Dave Petrosky Chief Executive Officer | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+32 | Top 10M | 100 patents Robotic modular platforms for visual and sensor‑based inspection of underground infrastructure | — |
| 6 | ClimeCo Provider of environmental project development and management services | $50M | 50 mo ago | 59 59 → 93 (+58%) | Bill Flederbach President and CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+36 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 7 | Sapient Industries Provider of AI-driven energy management system | $21M | 62 mo ago | 28 | Sam Parks Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+15 | Top 10M | 16 patents Location-based advertising platforms and region-aware IoT analytics for targeted digital media | — |
| 8 | InspectionGo SaaS-driven building inspection solutions for facility managers | $10M | 27 mo ago | 36 36 → 69 (+92%) | Chad Hett Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+36 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 9 | Powercast Provider of wireless power technologies, devices, development kits, and design services | $10M | 230 mo ago | 14 | Joe Walton co-founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | Top 10M | 263 patents Wireless RF power transfer and energy harvesting for battery‑less IoT devices | 2 launchs |
| 10 | kWantera Predictive analytics for Power seller and purchases of the wholesale energy market | $10M | 113 mo ago | 7 | Mark DeSantis Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Conservation Labs Provider of IoT-based water pipeline monitoring solutions | $10M | 27 mo ago | 19 | Mark Kovscek Founder and CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | Top 50M | 51 patents Patents concentrated in transport & manufacturing processes | — |
| 12 | Versify Provider of compliance services | $9M | 122 mo ago | 11 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | Top 50M | 21 patents Real-time monitoring and aggregation of distributed generators and demand‑response systems | 1 launch |
| 13 | Encentiv Energy Online platform offering energy efficiency incentive solutions | $7M | 64 mo ago | 27 | — | — | — | — | 3 launchs |
| 14 | Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation Developer of marine technologies based on OTEC and SWAC | $7M | 101 mo ago | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Crystalplex Develops alloy gradient quantum dots (QDs) for the Optoelectronics industry | $6M | 83 mo ago | 4 | Matt Bootman CEO & President | — | — | 41 patents Nanocrystal quantum dot dispersion and stabilization for optoelectronic devices | — |
| 16 | The Efficiency Network Provider of building energy efficiency management solutions | $6M | 123 mo ago | 29 29 → 59 (+103%) | Rob Campbell Pe President and Co-Founder | SanityTailwind CSSEmotion+8 | Top 50M | — | 1 job opening |
| 17 | Boss Controls Energy management system with smart plugs | $5M | 93 mo ago | 15 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Clean Robotics Manufacturer of a smart trash bin robot for sorting recyclables from landfill waste | $4M | 36 mo ago | 15 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | CeeLite Provider of the flat light emitting capacitor and LED lighting products | $4M | 222 mo ago | 90 | — | — | — | 11 patents Electroluminescent lighting modules with constant‑brightness control and safety circuitry | — |
| 20 | Fischer Block Developer of power system management and sensor data analytics for smart grid | $4M | 94 mo ago | 3 | — | — | — | 26 patents Predictive maintenance and condition monitoring for power and wind turbine assets | — |
| 21 | Airviz Device for indoor air quality monitoring | $3M | 103 mo ago | — | Shweta Sarode Founder | — | — | 14 patents Low‑power indoor air‑quality sensing, ultrafine particle detection, and data analytics | — |
| 22 | Pearl Street Technologies Provider of grid planning solutions | $3M | 15 mo ago | 13 13 → 23 (+77%) | David Bromberg Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 23 | Tangent Energy Energy as a Service company optimizing distributed energy resources with technology | $3M | 116 mo ago | 25 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Prescient Weather Provider of weather and climate risk management services for various industries | $2M | 64 mo ago | 4 | Richard James Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | RePipe 4710 Trenchless pipeline rehabilitation solution | $2M | 110 mo ago | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 26 | EnviroKure Biostimulants and biofertilizers improving crop yields and soil health | $2M | 67 mo ago | 22 | — | — | — | 41 patents Production of biofertilizer and soil amendment compositions for enhanced plant nutrition. | — |
| 27 | INTAG Provider of recycling and nutrient delivery solutions for agribusinesses | $1M | 62 mo ago | 6 | Bob Welsh CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 28 | Sustainable Composites Upcycler of leather waste into reusable materials | $1M | 21 mo ago | 8 | Frank Fox Co-Founder | — | — | 7 patents High‑strength, tear‑resistant leather composites and dispersion aids for leather processing | — |
| 29 | BERT Provider of IoT-enabled smart switches and plugs | $950K | 158 mo ago | 25 | Scott Yetter CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 30 | HiberSense Premier online platform for direct web slots, offering secure gaming | $775K | 78 mo ago | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 31 | Evoqua Provider of water treatment solutions | $772K | 126 mo ago | 11 | — | Cart FunctionalityOptimizely Content ManagementApple iCloud Mail+24 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 32 | LeanFM Technologies Provider of an AI-driven smart 3D building visualization management platform | $605K | 74 mo ago | 8 | Burcu Akinci Co-Founder & CIO | — | — | — | — |
| 33 | Nestec Provider of thermal oxidation systems and air pollution control solutions | $498K | 99 mo ago | — | James Nester Chief Executive Officer | WordPressMySQLPHP+16 | Top 50M | 1,024 patents Air pollution control and industrial process automation systems | — |
| 34 | Kapsul Manufacturer of connected, modular air conditioning units for residential climate control | $420K | 96 mo ago | 5 | Kurt Swanson Co-Founder & CEO | WixSentryZoho+7 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 35 | Curb-It App-based on-demand junk removal service provider | $399K | 108 mo ago | 8 | — | WordPressMySQLFirebase+21 | Top 50M | 19 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 36 | Anactisis Technology solution for recycling of wastes | $375K | 98 mo ago | 2 | Athanasios Karamalidis Co-Founder & Co-CEO | — | — | — | 2 job openings |
| 37 | Lumigent Provider of services and software solutions for lighting retrofits | $375K | 151 mo ago | 4 | Bart Pasternak Chairman & CEO | — | — | 2 patents Database activity auditing and access control compliance systems | — |
| 38 | Tern Water Provider of smart tap-water filtration faucet | $300K | 110 mo ago | 6 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 39 | Appalachian Lighting Systems Provider of LED lighting systems | $300K | 192 mo ago | 6 | Jim Wassel Founder & CSO & CTO | — | — | — | — |
| 40 | Rego Provider of waste diversion operations automation and data management solutions | $270K | 27 mo ago | — | Brandon Castagna Co-Founder | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+16 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 41 | SusMaX Provider of solutions for upcycling coal combustion products | $256K | 58 mo ago | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 42 | Akeptus Provider of AI-based home automation systems for energy management | $150K | 23 mo ago | — | Nana Wilberforce Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 43 | Tule Irrigation decision support using sensors, AI, and mobile leaf water potential | $120K | 136 mo ago | 14 | Jeff LaBarge Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Environment Tech companies in Pennsylvania
#1
Acquired · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2018 · 13 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Provider of grid planning solutions
- Mar 2025Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Mar 2022Seed$2.8M
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$340K
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$749.9K
#2
Seed · Lancaster, Pennsylvania · founded 2012 · 8 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Upcycler of leather waste into reusable materials. It transforms discarded leather scraps into a new material that can be finished and used like new leather. The company offers various products made from upcycled leather waste, including options sourced from traceable origins, cutting room scraps, and post-consumer returns. This process diverts significant amounts of leather waste from landfills and incineration, promoting a more sustainable approach to leather production. The resulting material maintains the look, feel, and smell of genuine leather.
- Aug 2024Seed$75K
- Sep 2023Seed$800K
- Oct 2017Seed$300K
#3
Series A · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2016 · 19 employees$10Mraised▾
Provider of IoT-based water pipeline monitoring solutions. The device can be plugged into the water plumbing system which senses water flow and transmits data over a wifi network. The data is processed using a proprietary machine-learning algorithm in a cloud platform to provide water flow behaviour & detects leakage conditions. Provides a smartphone application that gives water usage reports and alerts the user about water leakages. Can be used in residential properties and restaurants.
- Feb 2024Series A$7.5M
- Dec 2023Seed—
- Aug 2020Seed—
- Apr 2020Seed$725K
#4
Series A · Altoona, Pennsylvania · founded 2019 · 36 employees$10.5Mraised▾
SaaS-driven building inspection solutions for facility managers. The platform enables users to manage home inspection businesses. Users can schedule inspections with the call center. The platform provides services including booking services, recruiting/training services, marketing/business coaching, and accounting services.
- Mar 2024Series A$6.6M
- Jul 2023Series A$5.5M
#5
Series E · King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania · founded 2007 · 49 employees$251.3Mraised▾
Technology developer for cellulosic sugar. Its proprietary Plantrose Process pioneers the use of supercritical hydrolysis to break down non-food biomass quickly, using no significant consumables. The company produces cellulosic sugars from non-food based biomass, such as waste wood and agricultural residue. The resulting Plantro sugars serve as the intermediaries for partners to develop fossil fuel-based products.
- Mar 2020Series E$48.6M
- Sep 2016Series D$14M
- Jul 2016Series D$31.2M
- Mar 2015Series D$11.3M
#6
Series C · Devon, Pennsylvania · founded 1995 · 277 employees$75.5Mraised▾
Provider of used oil recycling company. Holds license for using patented UOP HyLube and HyLubeSAT technology through which used oil is recycled to produce base oils. Has partnered with Applied Graphene Materials to develop graphene-enhanced base oil formulation for machining and automotive applications. Operating 4-recycling facilities in the United States & Germany.
- Aug 2022Conventional Debt$15M
- Aug 2018Series C—
- Aug 2017Series C$75.5M
#7
Funding Raised · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2007 · 5 employees$25Kraised▾
Provider of hydrocarbon remediation products for industrial, stormwater, and railroad applications. These products remediate oil, fuel, and other liquid petroleum hydrocarbons. Offerings include powder, booms, and socks for use in various applications. These applications include groundwater remediation, machine shops, oil separators, transformers, and rail yards.
- Jul 2025Conventional Debt$25K
#8
Series A · Boyertown, Pennsylvania · founded 2011 · 59 employees$50Mraised▾
Provider of environmental project development and management services. It specializes in voluntary carbon, regulated carbon, renewable energy credits, plastics credits, and regional criteria pollutant trading programs.
- Apr 2022Series A$50M
- Feb 2021Seed—
#9
Acqui-Hired · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · founded 2008 · 27 employees$76.5Mraised▾
Viridity Energy is a Demand Side Management platform which regulates and controls the Demand Side/Consumer side of the Power market. Through its online software, VPower, it assists C&I power consumers optimize their power costs by accessing the power pool of the wholesale power market. To counter the losses that might occur due to mandatory DR programs, the users are offered Energy Intelligence through the platform to buy power from the wholesale market at a lower cost than Utilities, thus helping them reduce their energy costs. Apart from this they also assist renewable energy storage developers and generators in combinong renewable energy with storage and produce dispatchable electricity that the electric grid can rely upon. By combining solar with storage, the customer has a new opportunity to generate revenue through the wholesale markets and access tax credits designed to increase storage penetration.
- May 2016Series D$8.5M
- Apr 2015Series C—
- Aug 2012Series C$15M
- Jan 2011Series B$14M
#10
Series A · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2015 · 15 employees$4.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of a smart trash bin robot for sorting recyclables from landfill waste. It uses advanced robotics and artificial intelligence during the sorting process. The product monitors the waste processed and analyzes the data about recycling. It also provides an online dashboard to view instant waste-related data and enables data to drive waste management decisions. It comes with a monitor which can be integrated for advertisement and corporate communication.
- 2023Series A—
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$400K
- Aug 2022Series A$4.5M
- Aug 2021Series A—
#11
Funding Raised · Mars, Pennsylvania · founded 2019$150Kraised▾
Akeptus is a provider of AI-based home automation systems for energy management. It enables users to economise monthly bills and reduce carbon emissions through automatic control of lighting, water, heating and cooling usage. Its AI-based system automatically learns optimal settings and facilitates energy monitoring for various appliances. It allows remote connection and management of all home devices from a unified platform. It integrates with smart water monitoring systems, lights and plugs.
- Jun 2024Grant (prize money)$150K
#12
Acquired · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · founded 2002 · 31 employees$59.3Mraised▾
Developer of conductive polymers and inks for electronic printing. Its main product is an organic solar cell and OLED lighting system. Its technology is solution processable ink for printed electronics either conductive, photoactive, or semi-conductive. The inks are unable to provide customized solutions.
- Oct 2013Conventional Debt$572.5K
- Jun 2013Series B$2.5M
- Jul 2012Series B$4M
- Apr 2012Conventional Debt$3M
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
What Pennsylvania researches in environmental monitoring
Penn State and University of Pennsylvania lead Pennsylvania's environmental-monitoring research, focusing primarily on air quality, health impacts, and climate policy, with a contested yet cautiously optimistic tone reflecting balanced concern and breakthrough findings.
- Pennsylvania State University13
- University of Pennsylvania4
- California University of Pennsylvania3
- Pennsylvania Department Of State1
Common questions
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