Best Sustainability Tech Companies in Manchester, United Kingdom
The 38 best Sustainability Tech companies in Manchester, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Manchester Housing Group.
Our analysis of 59 Sustainability Tech companies
$4.5b in tracked funding; 81% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sustainability Tech companies in Manchester
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manchester Housing Group Provider of temporary accommodation services | $354M | 28 mo ago | — | Daniel Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | F2g Developer of therapeutic treatments for rare and life threatening infections 64Fin. health top 22%Funding top 23%Moat top 26%Growth top 28% All 11 signals ▾Fin. healthtop 22% Fundingtop 23% Moattop 26% Growthtop 28% Patentstop 38% Markettop 45% Innovationtop 46% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 47% Techbottom 28% Newsbottom 22% Fin. health: Revenue ~$101M Funding: Raised $353M across 12 rounds · 12 rounds over 24 yrs (0.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $353M | 24 mo ago | 27 | Francesco Lavino CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | Top 50M | 138 patents Antifungal drug compounds and pharmaceutical formulations for treating fungal infections | — |
| 3 | Great Places Provides affordable social housing | $25M | 52 mo ago | — | Matthew Harrison CEO | WordPressPleskApple iCloud Mail+18 | Top 5M | — | 7 job openings |
| 4 | Yourgene Health Provider of non-invasive prenatal genetic tests and genomic services | $15M | 88 mo ago | 253 253 → 169 (-33%) | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | NeuTec Pharma Developer of recombinant antibody therapies for infectious diseases | $12M | 340 mo ago | 20 | Ruth Christine Matthews Founder & COO | — | — | 105 patents HSP90 inhibitor drugs and antibody therapies for fungal, bacterial, and cancer infections | — |
| 6 | Genedrive Provider of point of care molecular diagnostics platform for genotyping and sequence analysis | $9M | 17 mo ago | 43 43 → 45 (+5%) | Christopher Potten Co-Founder | Apache HTTP ServerFont AwesomejQuery+3 | Top 10M | — | 1 partnership |
| 7 | SteamaCo Provider of smart metering platform and revenue management solutions | $9M | 85 mo ago | 29 | Tom Parkinson Managing Director | TypeScriptUbuntuGoogle Maps+16 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 8 | UrbanChain Developer of technology facilitating direct energy transactions between generators and consumers | $7M | 39 mo ago | 7 | Mo Hajhashem Co-Founder | Tailwind CSSVercelAmazon Web Services+14 | Top 10M | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership |
| 9 | Watercycle Technologies Provider of technology for filtration and production of valuable minerals and clean water | $6M | 21 mo ago | 10 | — | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+14 | Top 50M | — | 1 job opening |
| 10 | LigBiowise Rapid diagnostic platform for the detection of pathogenic microorganisms | $3M | 103 mo ago | 7 | Alexander Sheppard CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Molymem Provider of waste water management and drink processing application services | $2M | 39 mo ago | 9 | Mark Bissett Co-Founder & CSO | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Dsposal Offering cloud-based platform for waste reporting and compliance management | $954K | 105 mo ago | — | Sophie Walker CEO and Co-Founder | TurbopackSentryNode.js+20 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 13 | Vickers Electronics Load management solution provider | $586K | 125 mo ago | 31 | Chris Pearson Managing Director | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Vector Housing Developer of affordable houses | $547K | 42 mo ago | 9 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Power OLEDs Provider OLED products for energy management systems | $376K | 102 mo ago | — | Tim Dempsey Founder & Director | — | — | 21 patents Heterocyclic materials for organic OLED, OPV, and OFET optoelectronic devices | — |
| 16 | Elucigene Provider of in vitro diagnostics for cystic fibrosis and other genetic diseases | $263K | 143 mo ago | 180 | Mark Street-Docherty CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Node Platform providing IoT based smart building solutions | $122K | 84 mo ago | 5 | Christian Anderton Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | 1 partnership |
Top 12 Sustainability Tech companies in Manchester
#1
Series H · Manchester, England · founded 1998 · 27 employees$353.3Mraised▾
Developer of therapeutic treatments for rare and life threatening infections. Research focuses on identifying and creating pharmaceutical compounds to address fungal pathogens. These medical products aim to provide treatment options for patients affected by serious fungal conditions.
- Sep 2024Series H$100M
- Aug 2022Series E$70M
- Aug 2020Series D$60.8M
- Jan 2019Series C—
#2
Public · Manchester, England · founded 2000 · 43 employees$9.3Mraised▾
Provider of point of care molecular diagnostics platform for genotyping and sequence analysis. The company offers MT-RNR1 ID Kit, a pharmacogenetic test to prevent antibiotic induced deafness in infants, and Genedrive HCV ID Kit is used to screen for hepatitis C and COVID-19.
- Apr 2025Post IPO$1.6M
- Nov 2018Post IPO$7.7M
#3
Funding Raised · Manchester, England · founded 2017$353.5Mraised▾
Provider of temporary accommodation services. It provides services to individuals and families facing homelessness or difficult times.
- Apr 2024Conventional Debt$353.5M
#4
Series A · Manchester, England · founded 2020 · 10 employees$6.3Mraised▾
Provider of technology for filtration and production of valuable minerals and clean water
- Nov 2024Grant (prize money)—
- Nov 2024Series A$5.6M
- Nov 2023Seed$59.5K
- Mar 2022Seed$618.8K
#5
Series A · Manchester, England · founded 2006$24.8Mraised▾
Provides affordable social housing
- Apr 2022Conventional Debt$124.9M
- Sep 2019Series A$24.8M
- Jul 2019Grant (prize money)$36.5M
#6
Series A · Manchester, England · founded 2017 · 7 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Developer of technology facilitating direct energy transactions between generators and consumers. The technology enables private and local energy markets, connecting renewable energy generators with local consumers. It facilitates energy usage across multiple sites and building private markets. The technology aims to cut carbon emissions and encourage investment in low carbon generation.
- May 2023Series A$6.5M
- Mar 2023Grant (prize money)$517.4K
#7
Seed · Manchester, England · founded 2020 · 9 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Provider of waste water management and drink processing application services. Company specializing in advanced ceramic membrane technologies for water and wastewater treatment, leveraging proprietary2D material coatings to deliver high-performance, durable, and selective filtration solutions. Company develops next-generation ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membranes using a unique2D coating technology, which can be applied at room temperature and integrated into existing filtration systems.
- May 2023Seed$1.2M
- Jan 2023Seed$604.9K
#8
Series B · Manchester, England · founded 2012 · 29 employees$8.8Mraised▾
Provider of smart metering platform and revenue management solutions. The platform offers prepaid smart metering, revenue visibility, and interoperable solutions. It features theft detection, technical loss monitoring, and tools to investigate revenue loss. The platform aims to improve profitability, customer experience, and attract investment for grid growth.
- Jul 2019Series B$5M
- Apr 2018Grant (prize money)$60.6K
- Dec 2017Series A$2.9M
- Nov 2017Grant (prize money)$58.1K
#9
Public · Manchester, England · founded 2000 · 253 employees$15.3Mraised▾
Provider of non-invasive prenatal genetic tests and genomic services. It had its flagship for non-invasive prenatal testing IONA and Sage Prenatal Screening for the unborn child for Down’s syndrome and other genetic disorders.
- Apr 2019Post IPO$15.3M
#10
Seed · Manchester, England · founded 2020 · 9 employees$547.2Kraised▾
Developer of affordable houses
- Mar 2023Seed$547.2K
- Jun 2022Grant (prize money)$233.6K
#11
Acquired · Manchester, England · founded 1996 · 20 employees$12.2Mraised▾
Developer of recombinant antibody therapies for infectious diseases. The company's product line include Mycograb targeted heat shock protein 90 for the treatment of systemic candidiasis and Aurograb, which targets Staphylococcus aureus, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
- May 1998Series A$12.2M
#12
Series A · Manchester, England · founded 2014 · 7 employees$2.5Mraised▾
LigBiowise is commercializing nanotechnology-based platform for the capture and rapid detection of a wide range of pathogenic microbes at low levels from any type of clinical sample.
- Feb 2018Series A$2.5M
- Sep 2017Grant (prize money)$83.2K
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
What Manchester researches in climate adaptation
- University of Manchester25
- Manchester Metropolitan University6
- University of New Hampshire at Manchester2
- Manchester University1
- Manchester Academic Health Science Centre1
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