Modular Cycling
Modular Cycling develops, builds and installs innovative low-carbon active mobility infrastructure solutions. By replacing asphalt with wood, we provide a healthier product both for people and the earth.
Explore startups and scaleups contributing to a more sustainable future on the Swedish Climate Startup Map. This comprehensive Map features a wide-range of companies developing innovative solutions across numerous sectors.
Climate startups and scaleups

Modular Cycling develops, builds and installs innovative low-carbon active mobility infrastructure solutions. By replacing asphalt with wood, we provide a healthier product both for people and the earth.

Freelway creates more transport and delivery opportunities through matching and coordination for public transport, businesses, village teams and other organizations

Ignitia began as a research project to understand the differences in tropical weather events and create a model to more accurately predict them. With an accuracy of 84%, our forecasts are more than twice as accurate as global producers.

Planboo offers a transparent and affordable way to remove your company’s CO2 emissions through the planting of bamboo. Reach Net Zero restore degraded land and empower communities in the Global South.
Blue Ocean Closures is a Swedish company specializing in the development and production of fiber-based closures designed to replace traditional plastic caps, thereby reducing plastic waste.

Our business idea is to close the gap between business and technology through a lean transformation of AI algorithms, systems and sensors into commercially viable Energy Optimisation Solutions-as-a-Service.

Convert your waste heat into electrical energy with ORC systems. You lower your electricity costs while contributing to a more sustainable energy system.

Cyclothe offers a circular solution focusing on textile waste. Cyclothe’s technology prolongs the lifespan of garments through collection and AI-driven sorting systems to promote circularity and sustainability in the textile industry.

SWATAB is Swedish company with a focus on a sustainable society. With the patented product DIRO, SWATAB can offer everyone an opportunity to wash and clean completely without chemicals.

LEVTEK combines product design, robotics and machine learning to develop new types of light electric vehicles for new user groups and applications. We aim to replace the car for many everyday trips as well as in many commercial use cases.

SustainLab is a Sustainability Management platform that automates the collection, processing and visualization of sustainability data. We give you better visibility into your data, so you can take better action.

We are Sea Water Desalination company with a unique process that uses 50% less energy consumption than current market solutions today.

Hydroyal, manufacture the key component of electrolyzers, membrane electrode assembly (MEA), in large-scale. Their unique MEA is composed of eco-friendly and inexpensive materials and improves stack efficiency with high hydrogen purity and electrolyzer-friendly conditions (low KOH concentration)

EVLR International AB, based in Stockholm, Sweden, develops and manufactures sustainable solutions like FibreStrap, a patented paper cable tie designed to replace plastic cable ties across various industries.

We are an innovative technology and electronics company with products in environmental monitoring. Smart alarm notify you if values are exceeded, regarding e.g. temperature, humidity, radon, CO2, pressure or energy consumption.

Cellcomb Cleantech Solutions take overall responsibility and contribute to being able to manage resources in a sustainable way, both environmental, financial and human. We develop products for short-term use focusing on hygiene, comfort and safety.

Instead of buying new, you subscribe to Light as a Service. This means that you can adapt different lighting in the future – at no extra cost, and without having to be on the environment. No big investments. Only fixed price per month.

Edgy Veggie is a Malmö-based start-up that produces good, smart and sustainable seitan-based alternatives to meat! Eddy Veggie is founded by a group of happy and hungry food enthusiasts who have worked with food all our lives.

Our energy storage system BLESS™ is equipped with a fully integrated energy management system and the intelligent net zero analytics technology. It’s an indispensable solution for businesses willing to reach net-zero while having financial control.

QLEANTAB makes every day products that do less harm, to us and our planet. We’ve started with provably eco-friendly, sustainbly made cleaning products for home and commercial use.
The Swedish Climate Startup Map provides a comprehensive selection of categories to facilitate the search for startups and scaleups. These categories cover sector, enabling technology, Sustainable Development Goals, type, team size, turnover, location, incubator and founding year.
Solutions for the production and processing of food, crop cultivation and animal husbandry, and innovations to the forestry industry.
Technologies to capture and store carbon dioxide from the air or exhaust gas for utilization or storage.
Solutions to improve the construction and building process, and services related to the maintenance and upkeep of existing buildings.
Solutions to promote energy efficiency, smarter grid systems and energy storage.
Solutions to optimize resource utilization and enhance environmental values.
New and/or improved innovations to manufacturing processes or products.
Solutions that enhance efficient transportation such as carpooling, improved vehicles, as well as solutions supporting infrastructure for transportation such as charging infrastructure.
Solutions for the end-of-life treatment for materials not suitable for reuse.
Solutions for the production of renewable energy or supporting renewable energy solutions.
Materials designed to be more sustainable than competing products or used to create more sustainable applications (e.g. due to lighter weight).
Solutions to improve water management, from manufacturing to daily use or irrigation, as well as wastewater management.
Solutions that are not contained in any of the previous sectors.
Utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning for enhancing sustainability.
Automated processes for improved efficiency.
Distributed ledger technology and its applications for a decentralized web.
Alternatives to traditional business models such as sharing and leasing that enhance a more circular economy.
Information and data sharing structures to enhance sustainability.
Innovative funding mechanisms to support sustainable initiatives.
Development of new products to meet market demands.
Optimization of industry production through advanced technologies.
Solutions that enable a more sustainable way of life, such as improved grids, charging stations, and induction roads.
Integration of smart technology to manage appliances more sustainable.
Providing software, products, and services as a subscription rather than ownership.
Solutions to drive behavioural change towards sustainability.
Enabling environmental sustainability through other options than those mentioned above, e.g. combining offerings in innovative ways, developing new systems or creating alternative food products.
Companies that focus on providing products or services to other businesses.
Companies that focus on providing products or services directly to consumers.
Companies that focus on providing products or services to government agencies and public sector organizations.
Solutions designed to have a positive sustainability impact in developing countries.
Emergent from a research context
Companies with at least one female co-founder
Verified solutions with high sustainability impact
Founded within the last two years
Companies with turnover surpassing 20MSEK