This article showcases our top picks for the best Canada based CleanTech companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the CleanTech industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top Canada CleanTech Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
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Creative Destruction Lab delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.
Svante
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Svante offers a carbon capture technology to capture CO2 directly at its sources.
Metamaterial Inc.
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Mastering Light using Smart Materials & Photonics. Changing the way we use, interact and benefit from Light.
dcbel
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dcbel offers AI-driven sustainable technologies which enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, homes, and lifestyles.
Terramera
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Terramera provides intelligence developing safer, more effective plant-based replacements to synthetic chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
Enerkem
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Enerkem is a cleantech company transforming waste into transportation biofuels, renewable chemicals, and everyday products.
Peak Power Inc
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Software company that enables intelligent energy in smart cities
CarbonCure Technologies
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CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete.
Li-Cycle
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Li-Cycle is a clean technology company on a mission to leverage its innovative solutions to address an emerging and urgent global challenge.
Eavor
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Eavor is a technology based energy company that provides a clean, carbon-neutral, scalable, baseload power solution.
ExRo Technologies
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Exro Technologies develops a technology for self-optimizing electric motors to improve efficiency in applications with high variability.
SWTCH
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Electric vehicle charging and energy management for high-density urban settings
Pond Technologies
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Pond captures industrial emissions and grows algae off it. Algae are processed into nutraceuticals, animal feed, or petroleum derivatives.
SPARK Microsystems
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SPARK is the enabling wireless technology of the future.
TransPod
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TransPod Inc. is a company dedicated to bringing the Hyperloop to reality.
e-Zinc
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e-Zinc is an electrochemical technology developer of energy storage solutions.
Genecis
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Genecis is an early-stage organic waste processing startup that uses biotechnology to convert waste into high value materials.
Cooledge Lighting
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Cooledge Lighting is a startup focused on delivering high value solid-state solutions to the general illumination market.
Clear Blue Technologies
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Clear Blue Technologies, the Smart Off-Grid company, combines green energy with the proven advantages of communications.
VoltSafe Inc.
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The future of connecting to electricity is: Safe. Simple. Smart.
Carbon Upcycling Technologies Inc.
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Carbon Upcycling Technologies uses the pollution of today to build the materials of tomorrow.
Oneka Technologies
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Zero-Energy Sustainable Drinking Water source from the ocean using All-in-One easily Expandable Wave-Powered Desalination Systems
VeloMetro Mobility
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Our Veemo velomobile sharing service liberates you from traffic congestion, the need of a driver’s licence, inactivity, and bad weather.
Lucent BioSciences, Inc.
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Bio-Released Micronutrient Fertilizer for Agriculture
Solaires Entreprises Inc
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Solaires Entreprises Inc. is a group of scientists and engineers dedicated to bringing solar energy to a broader audience.
Oxygen8
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Oxygen8 is a Clean Energy Technology company developing products that improve the health, comfort and energy efficiency of buildings.
Greenlane Renewables
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Greenlane is a pioneer in the rapidly emerging renewable natural gas (RNG) market.
EnviCore Inc.
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EnviCore is an R&D company that specializes in developing technologies that are essential for improving natural resource development.
Nyoka Design Labs
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Nyoka Design Labs has developed the worlds first earth-friendly glow sticks
Livestock Water Recycling
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Livestock Water Recycling is an environmental company focused on livestock manure management.
CRAiLAR
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Naturally Advanced Technologies, a cleantech company, provides textile, composite and pulping solutions using hemp and other bast fibers.
Synauta
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Desalinate water with less energy and chemicals. Save costs and CO2e.
Reazent
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Reazent is an agtech company that makes more economically viable, sustainable, and safer alternatives to synthetic agrochemicals.
SimpTek
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SimpTek’s GridEdge360 platform delivers industry-leading measurement, analysis, and customer engagement solutions
Direct-C
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Direct-C has developed a proprietary, polymer nano-composite platform technology.
FLITE Material Sciences Corp.
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Surface engineering that gives ordinary materials extraordinary abilities
Dispersa
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Harnessing the power of microbe-derived natural solutions to decarbonize the chemicals industry.
E2metrix
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E2metrix develops and commercializes wastewater and recirculated water systems to remove targeted contaminants for a variety of industries,
Terrapin Geothermics
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Terrapin Geothermics specializes exclusively in finding and utilizing heat to drive profitability.
Hanatech
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Hanatech’s OneSmartView platform utilizes IoT, AI, and data analytics to help companies increase revenues and improve efficiencies.
Advanced Data Cooling Technologies
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Advanced Data Cooling Technologies is a Data Center, Cooling, Carbon Capture company.
Sustane
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Sustane is a cleantech innovator, focused on municipal waste transformation.
Orbite Technologies
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Orbite is a Canadian clean technology based mineral-processing and resource development company.
KILOWATTPACK
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Mobile charging stations and Electric Carsharing
Laricina Energy
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Since its founding in late 2005, privately-held Laricina has advanced two grassroots oil sands exploration plays through the technical
MetaMixis
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Their founding team possesses a unique combination of expertise in synthetic biology, environmental genomics, and bioinformatics.
Urban Stalk Inc.
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Urban Stalk is developing innovations in hydroponic technologies to ensure increased food security for urban and at-risk communities.
SHM Control
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Developer of the SHM Controller, a smart touch-screen device that employs a predictive-adaptive algorithm to control boilers, pumps.
CRB Innovations
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CRB Innovations develops and markets clean technologies and green products.
SmartCool Systems
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SmartCool Systems is a clean technology company that provides energy efficiency products to customers.
Xogen Technologies
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Xogen Technologies is a cleantech company that provides the industry and the government with innovative wastewater treatment solutions.
Thetis
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Thetis Environmental is a cross-flow filtration technology.
Maapera Analytics
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Maapera applies advanced sensing and computer automation technology to soil assessment and clean up operation.
Rainmaker Worldwide
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Rainmaker Worldwide develops a self-sustainable technology that produces clean water.
ClinnUp
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ClinnUp is a clean-tech company by changing how municipal wastewater is treated by merging electricity with biological processes.
Kwick Clean and Green
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THIS COMPANY IS GOING TO CHANGE THE PAINT BRUSH INDUSTRY The Enviro Brush is similar to regular paint brushes.
Cardero Resource
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Cardero Resource is a resource company focused on building a base metals exploration and development company.
OzoneBio
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OzoneBio is a cleantech company that focuses on lignocellulosic waste-derived bio-plastics production.
Arcadia EcoEnergies
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Arcadia EcoEnergies is a clean tech company. Our plan is to produce bio oil and flour from hemp seed oil plants.
ElectroKinetic Solutions
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ElectroKinetic Solutions focuses on developing technologies for dewatering and decontamination using novel application of electro-kinetics.
Awesense
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Awesense drives the decentralized and decarbonized future of energy with their Digital Energy Platform and Open Energy Data Model.
EAIGLE
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Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Machine Learning, Deep-Tech, Prop-Tech, Retail-Tech, Clean-Tech
ZESSE Power Systems
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ZESSE Power Systems’ (Patent Pending) is a start-up company resident in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
Mintgreen
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MintGreen is a CleanTech company using bitcoin mining to monetize heat generation.
AI Shading
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AI Shading develops AI & IOT enabled technologies to reduce the environmental footprint from homes and buildings.
Aquafort
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Transforming and fortifying the aquaculture industry to help producers efficiently manage fish health and welfare.
Aerialytic
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Aerialytic focuses on AI powered property analytics for real world applications.
Nexterra
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Nexterra delivers advanced gasification systems to self-generate clean, low cost heat and power using waste fuels.
Longbow Capital
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Longbow Capital is a private equity investment management company that invests in the energy and technology sector.
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.
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Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation explores and develops iron ore projects in the Qikiqtani Region of Nunavut on Baffin Island.
SF Market
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We’re a marketplace startup building the “AliExpress of solar equipment supplies”.
Greengate Power
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Greengate develops wind energy projects with contracted sources of revenue and available transmission capacity.
SimuApp
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SimuApp creates the next generation chemical engineering software
Solar Earth Technologies
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Leading global solar road solutions provider backed by market leading research and innovation.
SensoDrive Technology
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Greentech IOT platform that connects underutilized amenties in buildings (currently parking and EV charging) to users via a smartphone app.
Farmer’s Legacy Biotech
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FLB works on genetic modification of seeds to improve various crop characteristics
Quadrogen
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Quadrogen is a clean technology company that builds customized biogas to turn waste biogas into clean energy.
Applied Quantum
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AQM researches, develops, and synthesizes metal-free, biocompatible silicon quantum dots and semiconductor nanoparticles.
BFG Enterprise Services
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BFG Enterprise Services specializes in project & asset management, loss prevention, procurement, warehousing & technical support services.
R&D Partners
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We help technology companies get government funding in Canada.
Lambda Science
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We use AI to help home builders build energy efficient homes, on the same budget, and comply with new regulations.
The Luminaires Group
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A Quebec-based manufacturer of specification-grade and architectural lighting fixtures.
National Thermovoltaics
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National Thermovoltaics develops energy producing large scale, solid-state, low temperature thermovoltaic generation (TVG).
Sawback Technologies
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We collect, visualize and analyze near-surface data to identify underground utilities, fluid leaks, soil layers, and infrastructure health.
Tulmar Safety Systems
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Tulmar Safety Systems manufactures and distributes engineered protective textiles, survivability and safety solutions.
Thermal Energy International
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Global provider of energy efficiency & emission reduction solutions.
Ionic Solutions
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Ionic Solutions improves the efficiency of desalination, deionization, and selective ion removal from water.
UBIOS.ai
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We prevents water damage in multi-resident buildings
Sanuvox technologies
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Sanuvox Technologies Inc. is a global leader in UV air purification with residential, commercial and medical applications.
Tree Services Calgary Pros
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Tree services Calgary pros one of the best tree service companies located in Calgary, Alberta.
Eleos Robotics
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Eleos Robotics invented the RoboWeeder an artificially intelligent weeding killing robot.
FlowFilters
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Flow is creating the most economic, efficient, and easy to use carbon filter.