Oklo
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What they do:
Emission free, always on power from advanced fission power plants.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Energy Startups
This list has 86 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 17 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (36), New York (5), and Paris (4). Largest teams: Gecko Robotics, Oolu, and Statiq. Latest round: HyLight raised €13M (Oct 12, 2026).
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Gecko Robotics
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What they do:
AI + Robotics for the Built World
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HQ: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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India's Largest EV charging network
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Building the world's first fusion power plant
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
Gridware
Hiring
What they do:
Protecting the grid today, preparing the grid for tomorrow
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Making car ownership and management frictionless.
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HQ: Nashville, TN, United States
HyLight
Hiring
What they do:
Unmanned airships for inspecting our critical assets
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€13M · Oct 2026
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A carbon MRV solution for energy and hard-to-abate sectors
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Sunrun for the developing world
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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First electric business aircraft designed for hydrogen propulsion
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HQ: Toulouse, France
Enode
Hiring
What they do:
Energy Orchestration Platform
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Shepherd
Hiring
What they do:
Modernizing commercial insurance
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
AI Platform for Efficient and Sustainable Operations
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Paces
Hiring
What they do:
Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Reach
Hiring
What they do:
Long range, wireless energy distribution that scales
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Enterprise software to quantify cost-effective decarbonization…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Predictive battery management software for electrified fleets
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Engineering the future of chemistry for natural resource extraction
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HQ: Austin, TX, United States
What they do:
We use solar and wind power to make zero net carbon electrofuels
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HQ: Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Nira Energy
Hiring
What they do:
Software to find the best sites for renewables on the electrical grid
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HQ: Remote
HeyCharge
Hiring
What they do:
Low-cost, high-scale EV charging platform for apartments (and more).
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Traceable AI for billion-dollar infrastructure.
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dili
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Automating Compliance for Construction
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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Decarbonized heat and power cheaper than fossil fuels
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Nuclear-inspired cooling that turns wasted power into more AI compute
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Providing clean, safe, virus free air for homes, buildings and cars
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HQ: Hong Kong
Nectar
Hiring
What they do:
Manage energy cost & usage with AI for facility & sustainability teams
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Silurian
Hiring
What they do:
Foundation models to simulate Earth, starting with weather.
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
Maritime Fusion
Hiring
What they do:
Fusion reactors for ships
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Torus
Hiring
What they do:
Legora for physical engineering firms
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Spark
Hiring
What they do:
AI-powered workflows for energy infrastructure
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A single point integration for secure and automated EV charging.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Renewable infrastructure deployment at scale.
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What they do:
using ultrasonics + ml to analyze fluid behavior at infrastructure…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Software that increases the value of oil & gas wells
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Energy Superintelligence, AI that operates critical infrastructure
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Questions and answers
How many startups are on this list?
There are 86 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
Which of them are hiring?
17 of them are hiring right now, including Gecko Robotics, Gridware, and HyLight.
Which of them have the largest teams?
By team size: Gecko Robotics (230 employees), Oolu (230 employees), and Statiq. (200 employees).
Which of them raised money recently?
Latest rounds: HyLight — €13M (Oct 2026).
Where are they based?
The biggest hubs are San Francisco (36), New York (5), and Paris (4).