Best Environment Tech Companies in Shanghai, China
The 44 best Environment Tech companies in Shanghai, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: JBD.
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 Shanghai
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 | 9 mo ago | Series B | Lei Zhang Co-Founder | 2015 | BootstrapNginxOpenResty+9 | 1 launch |
| 2 | Clobotics Provides drone data management solutions | $84M | 65 mo ago | Series A | Mads Rasmussen Managing director | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 3 | niu technologies Niu Technologies is an electric scooter manufacturing company that provides smart urban mobility solutions. | $50M | 94 mo ago | Public | — | 2014 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+46 | — |
| 4 | 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 | 69 mo ago | Acquired | Kangping Chen CEO | 2006 | DrupalPHPZURB Foundation+18 | 1 award |
| 5 | PowerBee IoT solutions for energy management | $9M | 96 mo ago | Series A | Timo Meyst Owner | 2013 | — | — |
| 6 | R&B Technology Developer of online AI and IoT-enabled data platform for multiple industries | $4M | 79 mo ago | Series A | Charles Wong Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 7 | RESOLAR Technology solution for photovoltaic recycling | — | 28 mo ago | Series A | Zhang Hongjia Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | — | — |
| 8 | GreenOre Provider of air pollution control services | — | 30 mo ago | Series A | Xiaozhou Zhou Co-Founder & CEO | 2008 | — | — |
Top 12 Environment Tech companies in Shanghai
#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 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
#3
Acquired · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2006 · 46511 employees$35Mraised▾
Manufacturer of solar modules. It uses Bifacial module with transparent backsheet technology and half-cell module technology for manufacturing solar modules.
- Oct 2020Post IPO$461.6M
- May 2019Post IPO$85M
- Feb 2019Post IPO$15.2M
- Oct 2008Series B$35M
#4
Public · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2014 · 641 employees$50Mraised▾
Niu Technologies designs, manufactures and sells high-performance electric motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, and kick-scooters. The company has a product portfolio consisting of ten series, four electric scooter series, including NQi, MQi, UQi, and Gova, two urban commuter electric motorcycle series RQi and TQi, a hybrid motorcycles series YQi, a performance electric bicycle series, NIU Aero, and two micro-mobility series, the kick-scooter series, KQi, and the e-bike series, BQi. The group's principal operations and geographic markets are mainly in the People's Republic of China.
#5
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2013$8.8Mraised▾
PowerBee provides IoT solutions for energy management. Products include power communication chip, smart plugs, smart meters. Also, provides IoT applications such as power management system, lighting control system, temperature control system. Claims to have shipped over 100,000 smart meters to 10 cities mainly to the apartment market.
- Jul 2018Series A$8.8M
- Jul 2017Angel—
#6
Series A · Pudong, Shanghai · founded 2013 · 8 employees$3.6Mraised▾
Provider of a cloud-based augmented intelligence software platform. The company's vertical industrial application leverages artificial intelligence to develop infrastructure-level smart services and smart devices that help in achieving automatic conversion from raw data to meaningful business-related conclusions by natural language, enabling manufacturers across different industries to increase their production efficiency.
#7
Series A · Huangpu, Shanghai · founded 2019—raised▾
Technology solution for photovoltaic recycling. It offers SWT silicon cleaning technology that can convert decommissioned components into recycled glass, recycled metal, and recycled 6N-grade silicon materials.
- Apr 2024Series A—
#8
Series A · Minhang, Shanghai · founded 2008—raised▾
Provider of air pollution control services
- Feb 2024Series A—
#9
Seed · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2021 · 30 employees—raised▾
AI and blockchain-based platform for carbon emission management. It provides carbon-neutral digital transformation solutions through technologies such as blockchain, AI, IoT, big data, and others. It provides solutions for digital monitoring of carbon emissions and intelligent management of carbon assets.
- Feb 2022Angel—
- Aug 2021Seed—
#10
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2016—raised▾
Online marketplace for green asset financing. It allows businesses to finance solar energy panels. Its features include asset registration, asset financing, and asset circulation solutions. It uses blockchain technology and the Internet of Things for distributed asset financing.
- May 2021Series A—
#11
Series C · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2011—raised▾
Provider of an IoT-based wireless interconnected smart home system. It uses cloud computing, voice recognition, and AI technology, to connect household electrical products, HVAC equipment, security, audio and video. It offers an intelligent control system, lighting system, intelligent interactive system, smart HVAC system, smart window curtain system, home appliance control system, home security system, intelligent environment system, and more. The company also provides software solutions to manage the devices.
- Dec 2020Series C—
#12
Funding Raised · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 1998 · 1799 employees—raised▾
Provider of semiconductor application-specific integrated circuits and smart metering solutions. Its product offerings include smart meters, non-volatile memories, and analogue circuits. It also offers smart appliances, such as residual current protection circuits and modules, and leakage protector circuits.
- Jul 2020Unattributed—
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- Shanghai Jiao Tong University16
- Shanghai Ocean University12
- Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences7
- Shanghai Municipal Center For Disease Control Prevention4
- Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security4
- Microplastics2
- Satellite2
- Earth observation2
- Pollutant2
- Wireless sensor network2
- Pollutant1→3
- Pollution2→3
- Water quality1→4
- Pollution1→3
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