Top 13 AI for Ecology startups

Updated: Nov 17, 2025
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These startups use AI to solve ecological challenges, such as climate monitoring, wildfire detection, track carbon emissions, ocean cleaning, waste recycling, etc.
1
RoadRunner Recycling
Country: USA | Funding: $174.1M
RoadRunner Recycling is using AI to optimize recycling routes
2
Pano AI
Country: USA | Funding: $89M
Pano uses deep learning AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real time.
3
Pachama
Country: USA | Funding: $88.3M
Pachama is an AI-powered marketplace for nature carbon removal credits.
4
Smarter Sorting
Country: USA | Funding: $65.1M
Smarter Sorting is a machine learning for waste. Smarter Sorting allows municipalities to take waste of extreme negative value and use our proprietary software to sort that waste into high value commodities that are sold into established markets.
5
Cervest
Country: UK | Funding: £32.7M
Cervest is building an AI-first platform to help businesses, governments and growers adapt to climate volatility, and protect our planet.
6
Treefera
Country: UK | Funding: $44.2M
Treefera is transforming the way the world approaches forest data and conservation, to create a clear future for the carbon market and the planet. It intends to solve the carbon credits credibility problem with AI
7
ClimateView
Country: Sweden | Funding: €28.3M
ClimateView is a climate action technology company that combines scientific modelling, machine learning and interface design to help cities understand and act on the complex climate challenge, clearly.
8
Insight Robotics
Country: Hong Kong | Funding: $16M
Insight Robotics is to enable active risk management of the world's assets by generating and making sense of data.
9
CarbonChain
Country: UK | Funding: $12.1M
CarbonChain's AI platform automates emissions tracking in carbon-heavy supply chains for a net-zero economy.
10
Wegaw
Country: Switzerland | Funding: $2.5M
Remote sensing satellite data processing with artificial intelligence for energy production optimization
11
Hubble
Country: Australia | Funding: $1.5M
Hubble is an AI platform that guides residents in understanding energy efficiency and building resilient communities prepared for climate change.
12
ClearBot
Country: Hong Kong
Clearbot is a swarm of AI powered, self-driving, ocean trash collecting robots that can detect and collect trash from water.
13
exci
Country: Australia
exci is the “Smoke Alarm for the Bush”. The exci system detects bushfires automatically within minutes, using satellite and ground-based sensor data analysed by powerful deep machine learning algorithms.
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