Best Environment Tech Companies in Wisconsin, United States
The 47 best Environment Tech companies in Wisconsin, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Encorp.
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 Wisconsin
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anguil Provider of water and air treatment solution | — | — | 93 93 → 143 (+54%) | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+30 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 2 | Apprime Lighting Provider of LED lighting solutions | — | — | 2 | Adam Chetakian Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Betterbin Online platform offering reward-based recycling solutions | — | — | 4 | Michelle Goetsch Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | BioMech Processing Turnkey automated solutions for organic waste mitigation | — | — | — | Graham Brisch Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | CAGE Provider of research platform for discovering CAGE/NCAGE codes and looking up DUNS numbers | — | — | — | John Meinecke ex-Co-Founder | BootstrapCloudflare Rocket LoaderInstant.Page+9 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 6 | Collection Energy Provider of financing service | — | — | — | Bob Devine Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Edison DC Systems Platform offering data center power management solution | — | — | — | John Meinecke ex-Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Elektrifi Provider of microgrid management solutions | — | — | 2 | Sarada Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Environment Tech companies in Wisconsin
#1
Seed · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2020$7.6Mraised▾
AI-enabled HVAC and refrigeration management solutions. It provides solution to monitor and prevent refrigeration outages, reduce wasted supplies and dangerous food spoilage.
- 2025Seed$4M
- Mar 2024Seed$3.5M
- Dec 2023Seed$4.1M
#2
Funding Raised · Wauwatosa, Wisconsin · founded 2010 · 7 employees$2.6Mraised▾
NanoAffix has developed sensors for detecting the quality of water through patent-pending technology. The sensor is primarily a FET device with a Graphene oxide sensing channel and specific molecules acting as probes. The technology acts as an electronic sensing platform that can be used for the detection of various contaminants in water. The sensor is currently in a working prototype stage.
- Jun 2024Grant (prize money)$300K
- Jun 2024Grant (prize money)$293.8K
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)—
- Aug 2017Grant (prize money)$1.5M
#3
Funding Raised · Pine River, Wisconsin · founded 1998$20Kraised▾
Developer of radiant heating system designed for multiple heat sources. The system streamlines in-floor heating installation, replacing complex plumbing with a compact solution. It works with electricity, heat pumps, and solar energy. The company offers consultation services to help build facilities.
- Jun 2025Grant (prize money)$20K
#4
Seed · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2022$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of carbon capture solution. It offers a low carbon cement replacement solution that removes CO2 from the atmosphere.
- Dec 2023Seed$1.5M
#5
Public · Holcombe, Wisconsin · founded 1992 · 60 employees$53Mraised▾
Encorp manufactures integrated hardware and software systems for the distributed energy market. It provides a suite of software applications that allows users to control and monitor distributed energy assets and demand response. It also provides family of controls The Gold Box™ for single or multiple generators, the Utility Power Control™ for utility interconnect control, and the Meter Monitor Control™ for metering and monitoring applications for smart communications. It caters its products and services for micro grid to connect distributed energy systems.
- Oct 2004Series D$1.4M
- Apr 2004Series D$7.1M
- Oct 2001Series D$38.1M
#6
Acquired · Milwaukee, Wisconsin · founded 1999 · 27 employees$24.6Mraised▾
Provider of HVAC energy management solutions for commercial spaces. It offers EcoSmart products, along with the EcoCentral management platform that helps to reduce energy consumption, HVAC runtime, and utility costs in most building environments. Its app is available for Android devices.
- Feb 2016Grant (prize money)—
- Oct 2014Conventional Debt$2M
- Apr 2011Series A$1.4M
- Aug 2010Series A$1.3M
#7
Series B · Dane, Wisconsin · founded 2012 · 18 employees$11Mraised▾
Cloud-based waste and material management software. It offers cloud-based solutions for waste stream management, reporting, and compliance. It provides visibility, integration, and control for companies managing hazardous and non-hazardous waste and materials.
- Aug 2019Series B$1.2M
- May 2018Series B$8M
- Apr 2018Conventional Debt—
- Apr 2018Seed—
#8
Deadpooled · Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin · founded 1986 · 64 employees$6.8Mraised▾
Ensync Energy designs and manufactures advanced energy storage and intelligent power control platforms that effectively enable integration of renewable energy sources. EnSync storage and power control technologies are used in grid-tied and grid-independent environments for a variety of applications and markets.
- Feb 2019Conventional Debt$500K
- Oct 2013Post IPO$6M
- Mar 2010Post IPO$280K
#9
Series A · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2012 · 9 employees$3.4Mraised▾
Offers cooling systems for data centers. Their systems circulate an engineered fluid that, unlike water, poses no risk to computer hardware. It also systems features quiet, reliable centrifugal pumps which eliminate the choice for HVAC.
- Jan 2017Series A$125K
- Jan 2016Series A$2.3M
- Jan 2015Seed$1M
#10
Series A · Waukesha, Wisconsin · founded 2004$3.1Mraised▾
Kilimanjaro Energy is a research and development company that engages in the demonstration, commercialization, and promulgation of the air-capture technology for the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. It focuses on the development of ACCESS, an atmospheric carbon capture system.
- Aug 2010Series A$3.1M
#11
Funding Raised · Madison, Wisconsin · founded 2021$512Kraised▾
Developer of a desalination battery for the treatment of waste water. The company provides a battery designed for desalination processes. It focuses on waste water treatment solutions.
- Dec 2021Grant (prize money)$512K
#12
Seed · Milwaukee, Wisconsin · founded 2012 · 11 employees$1.6Mraised▾
IoT enabled water purification system manufacturer. The company develops and manufactures IoT-enabled drinking water purification systems for residential & commercial usage under the brand, Water POD. The purification system can be real-time monitored and sends alerts about process parameters to users. Claims that it can remove lead, chlorine, chloramines, nitrates without the use of chemicals and kill bacteria using an ultra-violet module. Has a treatment capacity of 15-gallons per minute. Partners are Badge Meter, Waqo & Mount Mary University.
- Nov 2017Angel$1.6M
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 Wisconsin researches in environmental monitoring
- University of Wisconsin–Madison17
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee5
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources3
- Medical College of Wisconsin2
- University of Wisconsin–Extension2
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