Best Sustainability Tech Companies in Utah, United States
The 88 best Sustainability Tech companies in Utah, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Sera Prognostics.
Our analysis of 84 Sustainability Tech companies
$19.4b in tracked funding; 85% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sustainability Tech companies in Utah
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sera Prognostics Developer of biomarker-based tests for pregnancy care | $258M | 62 mo ago | 123 123 → 80 (-35%) | Gregory Critchfield CEO | — | 127 patents Predictive protein/biomarker assays for pregnancy timing and complications | — |
| 2 | biofire diagnostics BioFire Diagnostics is a biotech company that detects pathogens and mutations for molecular diagnostics. | $84M | 43 mo ago | 848 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+27 | 227 patents Integrated rapid cell lysis and nucleic‑acid extraction for point‑of‑care infectious diagnostics | — |
| 3 | Torus Manufacturer of power generators and energy management app 40Patents top 24%Funding top 29%Innovation top 30%Tech top 30% All 11 signals ▾Patentstop 24% Fundingtop 29% Innovationtop 30% Techtop 30% Growthtop 35% Producttop 36% Talenttop 38% Globalbottom 40% Moatbottom 40% Marketbottom 14% Fin. healthbottom 8% Patents: 56 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 54 filings since 2022 vs 0 in 2017-21 Funding: Raised $67.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $67M | 1 mo ago | 1 | Nate Walkingshaw Co-Founder & CEO | DatoCMSApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+30 | 56 patents Flywheel-based mechanical energy storage with magnetic bearings and AI management | 1 partnership · 2 awards |
| 4 | Qnergy Manufacturer of stirling energy systems | $46M | 55 mo ago | 75 | Ory Zik CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+36 | 9 patents Advanced recuperative heat exchangers and temperature control for Stirling-cycle power systems | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 5 | Navigen Pharmaceuticals Peptide and small molecule therapeutics for infectious diseases | $34M | 84 mo ago | 22 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Great Basin Scientific Sample-to-Result molecular diagnostics devices company | $28M | 119 mo ago | 182 | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | OpenSolar Cloud-based solar design and sales platform | $25M | 8 mo ago | 73 | Andrew Birch Co-Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+33 | — | 2 launchs · 1 expansion |
| 8 | Adaptive Computing Provider of automation software for HPC, data center, and cloud environments | $25M | 133 mo ago | 10 | — | WordPressMySQLSalesforce+23 | 152 patents Dynamic cloud bursting and threshold-based compute resource allocation for scalable cloud services. | — |
| 9 | Project Solar AI-based platform for solar design and simulation | $23M | 48 mo ago | 77 | Trevor Hiltbrand Co-Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+40 | — | — |
| 10 | Solid Carbon Products Waste carbon dioxide to carbon nanotubes & nanofiber production technology provider | $18M | 174 mo ago | 7 | Gay Wyn E. Quance Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 11 | Vutility Provider of cloud and app-based energy monitoring solutions for commercial applications | $14M | 16 mo ago | 41 | Stephen Prince CEO & President | WebflowPreactjQuery+7 | 46 patents Smart electrical current sensing, monitoring, and adaptive data transmission technologies | — |
| 12 | Seek Labs Developer of a technology for the treatment and diagnostics of infectious diseases. 53AI top 15%Patents top 27%Innovation top 28%Moat top 32% All 9 signals ▾AItop 15% Patentstop 27% Innovationtop 28% Moattop 32% Fundingtop 33% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 44% Globalbottom 31% Marketbottom 29% AI: Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Patents: 48 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 30 filings since 2022 vs 12 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $14M | 4 mo ago | 27 | Jared Bauer CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 48 patents Molecular diagnostics and CRISPR-based nucleic acid testing for veterinary disease detection | — |
| 13 | Nodal Power Provider of syngas based bioenergy | $13M | 34 mo ago | 7 | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Juneau Biosciences Diagnostics for women's health using population genetics and genomics | $8M | 163 mo ago | 12 | Kenneth Ward Founder and CEO | — | — | — |
| 15 | Big Moon Power Developer of a tidal current harvesting device | $6M | 78 mo ago | 10 | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Curza Developing novel antibiotics to combat antibiotic resistance and infectious diseases | $6M | 13 mo ago | 15 | — | — | 70 patents Novel antimicrobial agents for crop protection and human therapeutics. | — |
| 17 | e-Sens Provider of solid state electrochemical sensors for water testing | $5M | 113 mo ago | 3 | Michael McCorquodale Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 18 | Larada Sciences Leading head lice treatment clinics offering fast, safe, effective solutions | $4M | 142 mo ago | 1 | Larry Rigby Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 19 | SEER Developer of chemical detection system using AI and machine learning | $2M | 164 mo ago | 13 | Fred Gallander CEO & President & Chairman | — | 201 patents Advanced bioanalytical platforms for biomolecule detection and protein corona characterization | — |
| 20 | Community Housing Services Operator of affordable housing for seniors, disabled, and families | $1M | 205 mo ago | 90 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | — | — |
| 21 | KP Biosciences Developer of therapies for treating pox viruses, influenza, and herpes virus | $1M | 101 mo ago | 5 | Matthew Cryer Co-Founder & CEO | — | 208 patents Engineering TCRs, bispecific/trispecific antibodies, and immune-modulating proteins for immunotherapy | — |
| 22 | Trace AQ Provider of air quality forecasting, alerts, and data access solutions | $1M | 12 mo ago | — | Taylor Wilmot CTO & Founder | — | 8 patents Blockchain-enabled anti-counterfeit supply chain tracking and decentralized smart‑contract asset management | — |
| 23 | Navillum Quantum dots production via a clean and energy efficient process | $1M | 141 mo ago | — | Jacqueline Siy-Ronquillo Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 24 | Thrive Smart Systems Provider of smart watering solutions for home gardeners | $1M | 14 mo ago | 3 | Bryan Brittain Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 25 | CDC Utah Provider of financial coaching, homeownership preparation, and foreclosure prevention assistance | $865K | 167 mo ago | — | J Reeder CEO | JoomlaAwesompletePHP+11 | — | 1 award |
| 26 | Care Weather Provider or satellite-based weather forecasting services | $765K | 17 mo ago | 2 | Alex Laraway Cofounder | — | — | — |
| 27 | Allosterix Molecular design and chromatographic isotope separation research enterprise | $300K | 191 mo ago | — | Greg Czyryca Founder | — | — | — |
| 28 | Fluoresentric Point-of-care instruments and assays for nucleic acid amplification | $203K | 136 mo ago | 4 | — | — | 54 patents Molecular diagnostics and chemical sensing for nucleic acid detection and amplification | — |
Top 12 Sustainability Tech companies in Utah
#1
Series D · Lehi, Utah · founded 2021 · 1 employees$67Mraised▾
Manufacturer of power generator from the sun or other renewable energy sources.They have developed an app for monitoring power generation and storage in real time, and easily load shift to maximise energy efficiency.
- May 2026Conventional Debt$35M
- Sep 2025Series D$200M
- Apr 2024Series C$67M
#2
Series B · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2017 · 27 employees$13.6Mraised▾
Developer of a technology for the treatment and diagnostics of infectious diseases. It offers point-of-care diagnostic and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based technologies to detect and treat infectious diseases.
- Feb 2026Grant (prize money)$2M
- Aug 2023Series B$13.6M
#3
Series B · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2017 · 73 employees$25Mraised▾
Cloud-based solar design and sales platform. It allows solar professionals to create rooftop solar designs on the app and has features such as deep 3D modeling tools, end-to-end business management toolkit, SolarTouch design technology, etc.
- Oct 2025Series B$20M
- Dec 2022Series B$15M
#4
Series B · Sandy, Utah · founded 2016 · 41 employees$14.5Mraised▾
Provider of cloud and app-based energy monitoring solutions for commercial applications. The product offerings include CloudVU - which provides real-time energy & sensory data for facilities, HotDrop - a sub-metering solution, PulseDrop - a dry pulse reader solution, and more.
- Feb 2025Series B$11.5M
- Aug 2022Series A$2.7M
- Apr 2020Series A$11.8M
- Sep 2016Seed$600K
#5
Series A · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2007 · 15 employees$5.6Mraised▾
Developing novel antibiotics to combat antibiotic resistance and infectious diseases. This is a small-molecule therapeutics company focused on infectious diseases, developing structurally distinct classes of proprietary drugs. The company aims to combat the rising epidemic of antibiotic resistance by developing novel antibiotic classes. Their lead program targets drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria, specifically ESKAPE pathogens, using an unexploited binding site of the bacterial ribosome. They are also developing novel antibiotics for ESKAPE pathogens or "superbugs" and antibiofilm antibiotics to treat biofilm-related infections. This is a B2B tech company focused on pharmaceutical research and development.
- Apr 2025Grant (prize money)$2M
- Apr 2025Grant (prize money)$2M
- Jul 2024Grant (prize money)$1M
- May 2024Grant (prize money)$1000K
#6
Seed · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2025$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of air quality forecasting, alerts, and data access solutions. The company offers air quality information for various applications. It delivers forecasting and alerts to assist with understanding and adapting to air quality conditions. Access to data is also provided for scientific and research purposes.
- May 2025Seed$1.2M
#7
Seed · Provo, Utah · founded 2018 · 3 employees$1Mraised▾
Thrive Smart Systems provides smart watering solutions for home gardeners. It offers a suite of wireless sprinkler valve, smart sprinkler controller, and moisture sensors to collect soil data and remotely monitor the irrigation activity.
- Apr 2025Seed$1M
#8
Public · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2008 · 123 employees$258.3Mraised▾
Sera Prognostics Inc is a health diagnostic company. It develops diagnostic tests for the early prediction of a woman's individualized risk of premature birth, preeclampsia, and other pregnancy complications.
#9
Acquired · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 1990 · 848 employees$84Mraised▾
Provider of syndromic infectious disease diagnostic services designed to offer accurate results to patients. The company's services include real-time thermocycling, mutation scanning and set the standard for molecular diagnostics through its pioneering advances in syndromic infectious disease testing, and it also has panels to test for viruses, bacteria, and antimicrobial resistance genes, enabling medical businesses to assess the cure of diseases in infants and adults.
#10
Funding Raised · Provo, Utah · founded 2019 · 2 employees$764.9Kraised▾
Provider or satellite-based weather forecasting services. Its proprietary, miniature radar satellites are solar-powered and include features like self-monitoring for thermal and electrical health, long distance communication to ground stations, attitude determination and control, as well as deployable solar arrays.
- Jan 2025Grant (prize money)$294.9K
- Aug 2024Grant (prize money)$175K
- Mar 2023Grant (prize money)$294.9K
#11
Series C · Ogden, Utah · founded 2009 · 75 employees$46Mraised▾
Manufacturer of stirring energy systems. It offers power-generation solar engines for the space and defence industries. It also develops highly efficient and cost-effective applications of micro-combined heat and power, solar power generation, solar CHP, and liquefied natural gas.
- Nov 2021Series C$16M
- Apr 2020Series B$10M
- Aug 2015Grant (prize money)$55.9K
- Jun 2015Series A$20M
#12
Seed · Salt Lake City, Utah · founded 2021 · 7 employees$13Mraised▾
Provider of syngas based bioenergy. It offers landfill gas-to-energy data center technology and systems. It produces energy from landfills. It uses gas filtration technology to produce green renewable energy.
- Aug 2023Seed$13M
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