October 21, 2025
From rethinking meat alternatives and clearing your clutter sustainably, to giving landowners a way to profit from restoring nature, we’ve gathered the leading Berlin-based startups that are proving that innovation and impact go hand in hand. Whether they’ve been building their offering for years or are just getting started, these tools make sustainable change simple, for you, your business, and the planet.
Here are 7 sustainability pioneers (plus a few brilliant non-profits we love) who are building smarter, greener solutions towards a better future for us all.
Founded: 2017 | Funding to date: $40 million
Plan A’s end-to-end software solution enables companies to effectively reduce their carbon footprint. The platform allows you to easily collect carbon data, measure your carbon footprint, set science-based targets, report progress to stakeholders, and create a comprehensive decarbonisation plan to reduce emissions.
Founded: 2019 | Funding to date: $115m
It’s the dairy (alternative) products you love, minus the harms to animals and the planet. Formo uses microfermentation to create delicious cheese and other dairy alternatives, reducing the climate footprint that comes with animal dairy products (and giving the cows an endless vacation too!). Look for it in your (German) supermarkets today!
Founded: 2019 | Funding to date: $16.7 million
Klima is the easy app in your pocket to make real change to your personal climate impact. Calculate your climate footprint, create a personal action plan, and offset your unavoidable emissions by funding high-quality and certified carbon offset projects.
Founded: 2020 | Funding to date: $3.75 million
It’s a meat-alternative with a difference; using the roots of fungi for naturally grown whole-cuts, without the need for excessive processing. By harvesting mycelium, Bosque Foods aims to create better-than-meat products that deliver on the entire taste experience, nutrition, and price of traditional meat.
Founded: 2021 | Funding to date: $46 million (latest, series B June 2025)
This app-based platform is making renewable energy more accessible and inclusive, via their user-friendly interface and seamless tool. From the convenience of your own phone you can effortlessly switch to their greener energy, and track and reduce your energy consumption. Plus they've just developed NeoGrid - the first virtual power plant for electric car users.
Founded: 2025
The AI-powered app to help you finally clear the clutter from your house, and give it a new life. The Re-Circle Impact platform enables you to simply snap a photo of an under-used item in your home, and it will identify it, assess its condition, and automatically enrich it with structured data. The app will then even recommend the most suitable reuse option: resale, donation, sharing, or recycling.
Founded: 2021
Nature conservation is good for the planet, and Green Account are making it good for business too. Their platform connects landowners with companies ready to invest in large-scale ecosystem restoration. The land’s value is transformed into ecopoints - a currency for conservation that benefits both the planet and the people who care for it. By building infrastructure that connects landowners with project developers, they're making it possible to restore nature and generate real economic value.
Founded: 2019
Helping individuals reduce their carbon emissions, to bring Europe closer to the goal of being the first carbon-neutral continent. Through a climate subscription, ForTomorrow helps you reduce your individual carbon footprint in the longterm, whilst offsetting the rest through the EU Emissions Trading System. By leveraging the system, you buy emission rights away from industrial polluters and force them to reduce their carbon emissions.
Founded: 2021
An independent network of leading start-ups, scale-ups and investors in Germany and the DACH region, this initiative develops innovative financing instruments and policy frameworks to accelerate the scale of breakthrough technologies in energy, industry and resilience. It improves access to growth capital, promotes market demand and creates a regulatory environment that supports transformative innovation.
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