Southern Lights
Southern Lights provides SaaS solutions for green hydrogen and Power-to-X project development. We accelerate the penetration of green hydrogen allowing more projects to be done in a better way at a faster pace and at a lower cost.
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

Southern Lights provides SaaS solutions for green hydrogen and Power-to-X project development. We accelerate the penetration of green hydrogen allowing more projects to be done in a better way at a faster pace and at a lower cost.

We empower the much needed sustainability transition in small and medium sized companies, by offering a digital sustainability manager. Our tool helps companies set sustainability visions, goals and targets that are relevant for the company.

We Don’t Have Time is the world’s largest social media for climate solutions, connecting everyone who wants to solve the climate crisis. The platform brings together businesses, scientists, change makers and policy makers to create the solutions.

FarmUp is a marketplace for locally produced food that helps food producers find customers. FarmUp has channels to consumers, grocery stores, restaurants, school kitchens and hospitals.

Luma has for several years led the development of solar cell installations for commercial properties in Sweden. We have also developed a leading digital tool for monitoring and managing solar cell systems

Bintel digitizes and streamlines the waste industry. All the data that the sensors create is collected in our Cloud service, which means that our customers can analyze waste streams and thus get a better basis for working with business development.

IPercept Technology is a B2B, industrial software and services company specialized in remote and stand-alone solutions for maintenance and operational improvement of industrial machinery.

HEJMAS Agrifibre Technologies transforms farming field waste into industrial pulp via a patented process that emits 88% lower CO2, uses 80% less fresh water, consumers 70% lower power/time, and doesn’t use any sulfide/chloride chemistry to process.

PulPac’s Dry Molded Fiber technology offers a cost-competitive, sustainable packaging solution that helps companies transition towards circularity.

Ellure’s vision is to transform the FMCG sector into circularity without compromising consumer choices. We develop innovative technologies and processes that improve the life cycle of consumer products such that it maximizes value and minimizes waste.

Blue Biopower AB frigör molekylkraft och producerar hållbar elektricitet hos lantbrukare genom egenutvecklade mikrokraftverk. Överskottsel kan levereras ut på stamnätet och ger lantbrukaren en extra inkomstkälla.

Normative provides science-based carbon accounting software and tailored advice from net zero experts, enabling companies to reduce their carbon footprints and operate sustainably

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)
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Minesto is a marine energy technology developer, founded in 2007 as a spin-off from Swedish aerospace manufacturer Saab. Since then, Minesto has successfully developed its unique Deep Green technology.

Lignin Industries has a patented revolutionary technology of transforming lignin, the most abundant unused biopolymer on earth, into a renewable and functional biomaterial replacing fossil-based plastics and thereby reducing CO2 emissions radically.

OE Systems is a product company and a system developer of WaveMove® wave energy converter. WaveMove® is designed to be installed in parallel to offshore wind turbines to increase clean energy production and stability.

Smart High Tech is a company focusing on producing new heat-dissipating materials reinforced with graphene with a focus on cooling electronics, processors, graphics cards, LEDs, and other heat-sensitive and heat-intensive products.
Swedish Hydro Solutions provides environmentally sustainable water treatment solutions for large volumes, utilizing cost-effective technology based on biodegradable agents.

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.
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