GIAB Nordic
GIAB industrializes circular solutions for reusage of returns and damaged goods. By prolonging the life of products, we provide a service to companies with unwanted products while simultaneously benefitting the environment.
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

GIAB industrializes circular solutions for reusage of returns and damaged goods. By prolonging the life of products, we provide a service to companies with unwanted products while simultaneously benefitting the environment.

We develop two products for the lighting industry. A renewable wax from pine oil to replace fossil paraffin wax and a new material that can replace aluminium, plastic and glass in various applications.

SurfCleaner is a Swedish water treatment specialist and pioneer of the world’s first skimmer separator hybrid. We are on a mission to make a positive, direct and sustainable impact on the environment.

SweGreen is an agtech company specializing in AI-driven in-store vertical farming solutions, enabling hyper-local production of leafy greens and herbs within retail environments.

We want to disrupt the traditional railway industry and make it super easy for everyone to enjoy the beauty of train traveling. Our mission is to get more people in Europe to choose the train over flying.

Our vision is to build a circular retail ecosystem benefiting all stakeholders. We provide financial solutions, enable collaboration, and take responsibility for the entire product lifecycle, aiming for complete circularity in the supply chain.

ClimateHero helps private people and companies to calculate and reduce their carbon footprints.

Revolutionizing energy trading by unlocking the power of data and machine learning. Our software products help energy trading companies to increase the profit and reduce the risk of their renewable energy trading.

Lupinta creates healthy and tasty products from locally grown and harvested lupine beans from Skåne. Our goal is to provide you with a more environmentally friendly and tasty alternative to meat and soy.

Drupps works with recycling of industrial evaporative wastewater with negative opex by utilizing steam’s own latent heat to increase water efficiency and drought resiliency.

CarbonCloud offers a web-based SaaS solution enabling detailed calculations of climate footprints of food products and production processes. This enables calculations at a fraction of the cost and time spent on traditional life-cycle assessments.

Ekolution creates sustainable, fossil-free building materials from hemp, including carbon-negative insulation and panels, revolutionizing eco-friendly construction.

Circulaire is a premium second-hand discovery platform, where customers can browse and find their next gems from different online stores, all in one place.
Iternio develops and runs ABetterRouteplanner.com (ABRP) the most used electric vehicle planning service in the world. Enter your destination select a car model and we will plan your charge stops for you.

Ligna Energy commercialize green and safe energy storage, by utilizing sustainable materials and innovative manufacturing methods. Our first series of organic energy storage is made from forest materials, making use of lignin.
At Enerpoly, we are dedicated to making a positive, enduring change in global energy access and decarbonization. Through honest innovation, we seek to deliver the energy storage solutions of tomorrow through sustainable battery technology
Biocompost provides turnkey solutions for composting organic waste into clean resources. The result is hygienic, nutrient-rich soil improvement products.

We optimize power grid owners’ asset management with our platform that visualizes and annotates image data so they can maintain and expand their grid more sustainably, both from a climate and business perspective.
HYENGEN is developing a patented electrode solution that functions as both an anode and cathode, enabling next-generation electrochemical cells for cost-efficient, durable, and sustainable green hydrogen production from water without downtimes.

Alight builds, operates and owns solar projects, on our customers’ properties and as independent solar parks. We create sustainable solar energy for large companies, with a fixed price level that saves money from day one.
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