Proxima Fusion
proximafusion.com
$468M
Series A
Francesco Sciortino
CEO & Co-founder
- Sciortino earned his physics PhD at MIT and previously researched plasma at the Max Planck Institute before founding Proxima.
Series AClimate TechDeep TechHiring
109 Climate & Energy companies raised a combined $2.34B across 19 pre-seed, 48 seed, 30 series a. Tracked daily from announcement. Founder contacts and growth signals included.
- Sciortino earned his physics PhD at MIT and previously researched plasma at the Max Planck Institute before founding Proxima.
- Thomas spun Focused Energy out of academic laser-fusion research and assembled a transatlantic team across Darmstadt, Berlin, Austin and San Francisco.
- Rafael Suchan co-founded Metycle in Cologne in 2022 with Sebastian Brenner to bring transparency and efficiency to the global market for recycled copper and aluminium.
The Climate & Energy sector saw 109 funding rounds tracked on FundedStartupsDaily this year, totalling $2.34B. The median round sits at $8M, with 61% of activity at pre-seed and seed stage and the remaining 39% at Series A and later. Pre-Seed rounds dominate, accounting for 17% of all Climate & Energy activity in 2026.
Geographically, Climate & Energy funding is concentrated in United States, which accounts for 32 of the 109 raises (29%). The remainder is distributed across other regions tracked by FundedStartupsDaily.
The largest Climate & Energy round in 2026 is Proxima Fusion's $468M series a, led by Francesco Sciortino. Climate & Energy activity accelerated through Aug, when raises jumped to 24 announcements.
Every entry on this page is sourced from public funding announcements, then enriched with founder LinkedIn handles, company websites, and growth signals. If you're a founder, operator, salesperson, or recruiter tracking Climate & Energy, this page updates every weekday with new rounds.
| # | Company | Stage | Raised | Founder / CEO | Region | Signals | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hadean Energy hadeanenergy.com.au | Debt / Non-dilutive | A$15M | Liz Boylan CEO | Australia | Debt Deep Tech Climate Tech | |
| 2 | Okra Solar okrasolar.com | Debt / Non-dilutive | $7M | Afnan Hannan Co-founder and CEO | Australia | Debt Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 3 | Koolboks koolboks.com | Debt / Non-dilutive | Undisclosed | Ayoola Dominic Co-founder and CEO | Nigeria | Debt Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 4 | Project Omega projectomega.com | Series A | $80M | Stafford Sheehan Founder and CEO | United States | Series A Deep Tech Climate Tech | |
| 5 | GraphEnergyTech graphenergytech | Seed | Undisclosed | Thomas Baumeler CEO and co-founder | United Kingdom | Seed Deep Tech Climate Tech | li n/asrc |
| 6 | Green Voltis greenvoltis.com | Series A | €13.5M | Martin Kievit CEO & Co-founder | Sweden | Series A Climate Tech AI-Native | |
| 7 | Sortrace sortrace | Stage undisclosed | $800K | Rahel Surshi CEO & Co-founder | Sweden | Climate Tech AI-Native B2B | li n/asrc |
| 8 | Vensum Power vensum.com | Series A | €9M | Finland | Series A Deep Tech Climate Tech | ||
| 9 | Go Eve goeve.com | Debt/Non-dilutive | £750K | John Goodbody Co-founder & Marketing Director | Ireland | Debt Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 10 | Epyr epyr.co | Series A | €15M | Bastien Oggeri Co-founder | France | Series A Deep Tech Climate Tech | |
| 11 | Pathways pathwaysai.co | Seed | $6M | Leise Sandeman CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed AI-Native B2B | |
| 12 | CarbonFarm carbonfarm.tech | Series A | €7M | Vassily Carantino Co-founder & CEO | France | Series A Climate Tech B2B | |
| 13 | Neela Biotech neelabiotech.com | Pre-Seed | £2.1M | Deepanshu Singh CEO & Co-founder | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 14 | VoltaBack voltaback.com | Seed | €2.8M | Arnaud Tran CEO & Co-founder | France | Seed B2B Hiring | |
| 15 | NOX Energy nox.energy | Seed | $3.5M | Axelle Moortgat CEO & Co-founder | Belgium | Seed Climate Tech B2B | |
| 16 | M-Based m-based.com | Seed | $700K | Gorkem Gokoglu CEO & Co-founder | Turkey | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 17 | R2Crete r2crete.com.au | Pre-Seed | A$750K | Tuan Nguyen Co-founder | Australia | Pre-Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 18 | Reactive Technologies reactive-technologies.com | Debt | €19M | Marc Borrett Co-founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Debt Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 19 | Prime Minute prime-minute.com | Pre-Seed | $15M | Gabe Sganga Co-founder & Chief Growth Officer | United States | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Climate Tech | |
| 20 | Metycle metycle.com | Debt | $150M | Rafael Suchan Co-founder | Germany | Debt Revenue-Generating Climate Tech | |
| 21 | CIOC Energy cioc-energy.com | Seed | $3.4M | Alexander De Bievre CEO | Belgium | Seed B2B Climate Tech | |
| 22 | Bekia bekia-egypt.com | Seed | $765K | Alaa Afifi Founder & CEO | Egypt | Seed Climate Tech Marketplace | |
| 23 | Metris Energy metrisenergy.com | Seed | $5M | Natasha Jones Co-founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Seed B2B New Market | |
| 24 | Treewater treewater.fr | Seed | $2.3M | Bruno Cedat Technical Director | France | Seed Climate Tech B2B | |
| 25 | Wasoria wasoria.fr | Seed | $1.7M | Franck Lafontaine President | France | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 26 | Biochar Industrial Group industrialbiochar.com | Pre-Seed | $1.5M | Ikenna Nzewi CEO & Co-founder | Nigeria | Pre-Seed Climate Tech B2B | |
| 27 | Ravel ravelfuture.com | Seed | $8.2M | Zahlen Titcomb CEO | United States | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 28 | Laki Power lakipower.com | Series A | €6M | Oskar Valtysson Co-founder | Iceland | Series A Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 29 | Rune rune.energy | Series A | $40M | William Layden CEO | United States | Series A Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 30 | AcouBatt acoubatt.ai | Pre-Seed | $1.4M | Arthur Fordham Co-Founder | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 31 | Furo furoenergy.com | Seed | $4M | Lena Sophia Voß Co-Founder | Germany | Seed B2B Climate Tech | |
| 32 | Ultimarii ultimarii.com | Series A | $9.5M | Doug Schweitzer Co-Founder | Canada | Series A B2B Regulated Industry | |
| 33 | Rebaba rebaba.se | Seed | $4.6M | Paula Runsten Co-founder and CEO | Sweden | Seed Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 34 | Fusionality fusionality.com | Pre-Seed | $3.7M | Federico Felici Co-Founder & CEO | Switzerland | Pre-Seed Ex-FAANG Deep Tech | |
| 35 | ARC Ride arcrideglobal.com | Series A | $33.3M | Joseph Hurst-Croft Co-Founder & CEO | Kenya | Series A Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 36 | Veridue veridue.ai | Pre-Seed | $4M | Daniel Csonth Co-founder | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed Climate Tech AI-Native | |
| 37 | DigitalPaani digitalpaani.com | Series A | $2.5M | Mansi Jain Co-founder | India | Series A Climate Tech B2B | |
| 38 | Yuma Energy yuma.energy | Series A | $35M | Muthu Subramanian Managing Director | India | Series A Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 39 | Newlight newlight.blue | Seed | $9M | Haran Cohen Hillel Co-Founder & CEO | United States | Seed Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 40 | Remedium remedium.sa | Pre-Seed | $1.5M | Fawaz Abu-Ghazaleh CEO | Saudi Arabia | Pre-Seed Climate Tech B2B | |
| 41 | Octave.energy octave.energy | Series A | $11.6M | Maxime Snick Co-Founder & CEO | Belgium | Series A Profitable Revenue-Generating | |
| 42 | Leanwatts leanwatts.com | Seed | $2M | Abhilash Reddy Co-founder | India | Seed Hardware Climate Tech | |
| 43 | Rightcharge rightcharge.co.uk | Seed | $635K | Charlie Cook Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Seed Revenue-Generating B2B | |
| 44 | Cloover cloover.com | Debt | $100M | Jodok Betschart Co-Founder | Germany | Debt Profitable Revenue-Generating | |
| 45 | Ki 13 ki-hydrogen.com | Seed | $5M | Koji Muto Co-Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 46 | Light poweredbylight.com | Series A | $46M | Baker Shogry CEO & Co-Founder | United States | Series A Climate Tech API-First | |
| 47 | Facet Amtech facetamtech.com | Seed | $2.1M | Peter Richardson Founder | Australia | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 48 | Zenergize zenergize.in | Seed | $4M | Navneet Daga CEO & Co-founder | India | Seed Climate Tech Revenue-Generating | |
| 49 | Ponda ponda.bio | Seed | $1.7M | Julian Ellis-Brown Co-Founder | United Kingdom | Seed Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 50 | Nanolope nanolope.de | Pre-Seed | $860K | Felix Marske CEO and Co-founder | Germany | Pre-Seed Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 51 | YOGa Clean Air yogacleanair.com | Series A | $2.4M | Sachin Panwar Founder and CEO | India | Series A Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 52 | os.energy os.energy | Pre-Seed | €1M | Niklas Allamand Dib Co-founder & CEO | Denmark | Pre-Seed Climate Tech B2C | |
| 53 | Emerald AI emeraldai.co | Series A | $150M | Varun Sivaram Founder & CEO | United States | Series A Climate Tech Enterprise | |
| 54 | Mantel mantelcapture.com | Series A | $18M | Cameron Halliday Co-founder & CEO | United States | Series A Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 55 | Teragen Energy teragenenergy.com | Pre-Seed | $6M | Ruofan Wang Co-founder & CEO | United States | Pre-Seed Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 56 | Certain Energy certainenergy.webflow.io | Series A | $12.7M | Tim von Werne CEO | United Kingdom | Series A Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 57 | Boldr boldrenergy.com | Seed | $5M | Madi Ablyazov CEO & Co-founder | United Kingdom | Seed Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 58 | HexSeed hexseedtechnology.com | Seed | $770K | Mark Tandy CEO & Co-founder | United Kingdom | Seed Deep Tech Climate Tech | |
| 59 | EcoNomad economad.co.uk | Debt | $510K | Dr Ilan Adler Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Debt Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 60 | Apollo Atomics apolloatomics.com | Seed | $31M | Assil Halimi Founder and CEO | United States | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 61 | Ocean Intelligence oceanintelligence.io | Pre-Seed | Undisclosed | Joel Bowater Chief Executive Officer | New Zealand | Pre-Seed Climate Tech B2B | |
| 62 | EcoNomad Solutions econnomad.com | Debt | $505K | Ilan Adler Founder and CEO | United Kingdom | Debt Climate Tech Hardware | |
| 63 | SnerpaPower snerpapower.com | Seed | $3.7M | Íris Baldursdóttir CEO and Co-founder | Iceland | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 64 | AGent Energy agent.energy | Seed | $11M | Stephanie Hendricks CEO | United States | Seed Climate Tech AI-Native | |
| 65 | Curio curio.inc | Debt | $2.5M | Ed McGinnis CEO | United States | Debt Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 66 | Riven Systems rivensystems.ai | Pre-Seed | $7.9M | Chip Breitenkamp CEO | United States | Pre-Seed Deep Tech AI-Native | |
| 67 | Watercycle Technologies watercycletechnologies.com | Non-dilutive | $3.8M | Sebastian Leaper Co-founder | United Kingdom | Debt Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 68 | Metal Morph metalmorph.co.uk | Pre-Seed | $890K | Moletsane Mophethe Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 69 | Reservoir reservoirhome.com | Seed | $8M | Luke Winston-Almanzar Co-founder | United States | Seed Hiring Climate Tech | |
| 70 | Fluxco fluxco.com | Seed | $26.0M | Brian Tochman Founder & CEO | United States | Seed B2B Climate Tech | |
| 71 | Buzz Solutions buzzsolutions.co | Series A | $20M | Kaitlyn Albertoli CEO & Co-Founder | United States | Series A Climate Tech B2B | |
| 72 | FAST Metals fastmetals.com | Pre-Seed | $4.3M | Sumedh Gostu Co-founder & CEO | United States | Pre-Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 73 | Nuclear Turbines nuclearturbines.com | Seed | $20M | Jeremy Owston Co-founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 74 | Bluecore Energy bluecore.energy | Pre-Seed | $10M | Kofi Asante Founder & CEO | United States | Pre-Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 75 | Sofab Inks sofabinks.com | Seed | $6M | Blake Martin Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 76 | reverse.fashion reverse.fashion | Pre-Seed | $1M | Karsten Pufahl Co-founder | Germany | Pre-Seed Climate Tech AI-Native | |
| 77 | Applied Computing appliedcomputing.ai | Series A | $20M | Callum Adamson Co-founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Series A AI-Native Climate Tech | |
| 78 | Syntetica syntetica.co | Series A | $30M | Marco Bertone CEO & Co-founder | France | Series A Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 79 | Proxima Fusion proximafusion.com | Series A | $468M | Francesco Sciortino CEO & Co-founder | Germany | Series A Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 80 | Companion companion.energy | Seed | €7.8M | Thomas Vyncke Co-founder | Belgium | Seed Climate Tech Enterprise | |
| 81 | Isometric isometric.com | Series A | $40M | Eamon Jubbawy Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Series A Climate Tech B2B | |
| 82 | encosa encosa.energy | Seed | €25M | Sascha Koberstaedt Co-founder & CEO | Germany | Seed Climate Tech B2B | |
| 83 | New Dawn Bio newdawnbio.com | Pre-Seed | €2.1M | Tom Clement Co-founder & CEO | Netherlands | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Climate Tech | |
| 84 | Evotrex evotrex.com | Series A | $30M | Alex Xiao Co-founder & CEO | United States | Series A Hardware Climate Tech | |
| 85 | GALVANY galvany.energy | Seed | $11M | Raik Belka CEO & Founder | Germany | Seed Climate Tech Profitable | |
| 86 | Endurance Energy enduranceenergy.com | Seed | $25M | Andrew Redd Founder & CEO | United States | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 87 | Terra AI terra.ai | Series A | $20M | John Mern Co-founder & CEO | United States | Series A AI-Native Deep Tech | |
| 88 | Barocal barocal.com | Seed | $10M | Xavier Moya Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 89 | Focused Energy focused-energy.co | Series A | $240M | Thomas Forner Co-founder & President | Germany | Series A Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 90 | GridCARE gridcare.ai | Series A | $64M | Amit Narayan Co-founder & CEO | United States | Series A Climate Tech AI-Native | |
| 91 | Shatterdome Energy shatterdomeenergy.com | Pre-Seed | $3.5M | Amann Shariff Founder & CEO | India | Pre-Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 92 | Lithosquare lithosquare.com | Seed | $25M | Aymeric Preveral-Etcheverry Co-founder & CEO | France | Seed Deep Tech Climate Tech | |
| 93 | Casimir casimir.inc | Seed | $12M | Harold White Founder & CEO | United States | Seed Deep Tech Climate Tech | |
| 94 | Star Catcher star-catcher.com | Series A | $65M | Andrew Rush CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A Deep Tech Climate Tech | |
| 95 | Enaxiom enaxiom.com | Seed | $1.8M | Tia Collings CEO & Co-founder | Australia | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 96 | Satellites on Fire satellitesonfire.com | Seed | $2.7M | Franco Rodriguez Viau Co-Founder & CEO | Argentina | Seed Climate Tech AI-Native | |
| 97 | Renewable Metals renewable-metals.com | Series A | $12M | Luan Atkinson CEO | Australia | Series A Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 98 | VREY vrey.de | Seed | $3.6M | Julius Pahmeier Co-founder & CEO | Germany | Seed Climate Tech Vertical SaaS | |
| 99 | Exergy3 exergy3.com | Seed | $13.5M | Markus Ronde CEO & Co-founder | United Kingdom | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 100 | Rivan rivan.com | Seed | $34M | Harvey Hodd Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 101 | Plume geoplume.com | Seed | $3.6M | Edouard Labarthe Co-founder | France | Seed Climate Tech YC Backed | |
| 102 | Critical Loop criticalloop.com | Series A | $26M | Balachandar Ramamurthy CEO & Co-Founder | United States | Series A Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 103 | Applied Atomics appliedatomics.com | Seed | $8.3M | Ben Kellie CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed Deep Tech Climate Tech | |
| 104 | Helix Earth helixearthtechnologies.com | Seed | $12M | Rawand Rasheed CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed Hardware Climate Tech | |
| 105 | ThinkLabs AI thinklabs.ai | Series A | $28M | Josh Wong Founder & CEO | United States | Series A Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 106 | Renasens renasens.com | Seed | €10M (~$11.5M) | Jade A. Bouledjouidja Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Seed Climate Tech Deep Tech | |
| 107 | GoSwap goswap.org | Seed | Undisclosed | Hamza Slimani Founder & CEO | Nigeria | Seed Climate Tech New Market | |
| 108 | Arinna arinnasolar.com | Seed | $4M | Koosha Nazif CEO | United States | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 109 | Claros claros.tech | Seed | $30M | Daniel Kultran CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed Hiring Climate Tech |