68 Best Energy Nuclear Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Energy Nuclear Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 1,617 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $16.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $245.0m.

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Amentum is a technical and engineering services partner working with the United States defense, security, intelligence, energy, and environmental programs.

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$577.8m

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Helion Energy is a fusion power company aiming to build the world's first fusion power plant.

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$2.9m

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Caban Systems is a Burlingame, California-based renewable energy and energy storage company developing modular energy storage platforms for critical infrastructure power needs.

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$98.9m

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Amprius is a Fremont, California-based nanotechnology company developing silicon nanowires for lithium-ion batteries and founded by Mark Platshon and Yi Cui.

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$140.5m

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Pasqal is a company building programmable quantum simulators and quantum computers made of 2D and 3D arrays of neutral atoms.

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$408.5k

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Urban Electric Power is a Pearl River, New York-based developer of a zinc manganese dioxide battery technology. The company was spun out of the CUNY Energy Institute in 2013.

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$2.1b

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research and development company developing fusion power systems based on ARC tokamak reactors.

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South Pole is a Zurich-based climate solutions company offering sustainable project development services in order to provide carbon offset credits to businesses and organizations.

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$99.3m

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LevelTen Energy provides a clean energy procurement platform for midsize businesses and enterprises.

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$32.0m

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Singularity University is a startup accelerator focusing on commercializing technologies developed in research facilities.

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$13.0m

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Blue Origin is an American, privately-funded, aerospace developer and manufacturer that is interested in lowering the cost of spaceflight in order to explore the solar system

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$175.0m

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Viridos is applying synthetic biology to microalgae for the production of products that address climate change and sustainability. Viridos is focused on producing algal biofuels and other sustainable resources from algae.

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$2.5m

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Linknovate is a data analytics and competitive intelligence scouting platform.

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$28.5m

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Membrion is a Seattle-based clean technology company and developer of flexible ceramic ion exchange membranes capable of being used in wastewater cleaning and in energy storage solutions.

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$46.9m

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LightSail Energy was a Berkeley, California based company developing above-ground compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems

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$6.5m

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A digital fertility clinic offering semen analysis, sperm improvement, and sperm cryostorage services. Founded at Harvard in 2018, the company has raised $20M from investors like Y Combinator, Bain Capital Ventures, FirstMark Capital, and celebrities like Justin Bieber.

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$6.9b

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Northvolt develops sustainable lithium-ion batteries in conjunction with R&D, industrialization, and recycling to support clean energy.

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$73.7m

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Arundo provides software to enable advanced analytics in industrial companies. Arundo's customers transform their businesses through predictive analytics, deeper understanding of physical operations, and data-driven SaaS applications.

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$876.0m

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Climeworks is a clean technology company that has developed technology for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture from ambient air. It was founded in 2009 and is located in Zurich, Switzerland.

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$262.6m

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BlocPower is a Brooklyn-based provider of a platform for energy efficiency and management for commercial and residential buildings.

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$23.0m

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Zeta Energy is a Houston, Texas-based company that develops lithium-sulfur batteries.

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$39.7m

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EmitWise helps large businesses monitor and reduce their carbon footprints.

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$693.8m

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Workrise is a workforce management solution for skilled trades.

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$779.0m

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Developer and manufacturer of systems for renewable industrial gas and fuel production.

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$21.1m

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LeadCold is a company developing lead-cooled small nuclear reactor technology founded in 2013 by Janne Wallenius, Jesper Ejenstam and Peter Szakalos.

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$265.4m

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A New Zealand industrial biotechnology company developing a gas fermentation platform for converting concentrated industrial emissions into valuable chemicals.

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$40.7m

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Terrestrial Energy is developing molten salt nuclear reactors.

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$300.0m

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Taiwanese-based venture-backed company that develops and sells electric scooters and battery swapping infrastructure

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$19.6m

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Aerones is a company building heavy-lift drones founded in 2015 by Janis Putrams.

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$150.0m

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Net Power is a Durham, North Carolina-based natural gas electricity producer using carbon capture and storage to maintain zero emissions production.

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Steelhead LNG is a Vancouver-based energy company focused on LNG project development in British Columbia.Our experience includes guiding some of the world's leading energy companies and projects with commercial and technicalexpertise that spans the entire LNG value chain.

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$49.2m

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Renaissance Fusion is a nuclear fusion reactor manufacturer founded in 2020 by Francesco A Volpe.

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$37.4m

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A diagnostics company developing products for diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases

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$172.1m

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Tokamak Energy is a fusion energy producer founded in 2009 by Alan Sykes, David Kingham and Mikhail Gryaznevich.

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$39.1m

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A long-range wireless charging technology company. It is located in Oakland, California and was founded in 2015.

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$33.0m

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NEXT Energy Technologies is a Santa Barbara, California-based developer of photovoltaic coatings for window.

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Pavegen is a London-based company founded by Laurence Kemball-Cook.

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$142.5m

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DroneDeploy is a cloud-based software that allows drones to take images and 3D models at any altitude.

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$40.4m

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Enervee is a company founded in 2010 by Hjalmar Branting, Iker Casillas, Aoife Ní Fhearraigh, Yhonastan Fabian, The Sxplay, Ujiie Naotomo, Robbie Grossman, Ingrid Gfölner, Moisey Uretsky, Don Epperson, Matt Service FBCS and Bhavesh M. Mehta.

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$490.0m

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An nanotechnology company with focus on developing solar products. It was founded in 2002 and closed in 2013.

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$332.8m

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Zap Energy is developing compact fusion power that doesn't require magnets or lasers.

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$9.1m

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Puraffinity is a company using customized granular media (CGM) to remove pollutants and contaminants from water supplies.

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$121.7m

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iUNU is a Seattle-based agricultural tech startup founded in 2013.

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$14.5m

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VALOREM is a Bègles-based renewable energy company founded in 1994.

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$27.8m

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Coreshell Technologies is engineering liquid-deposited nanolayer coatings for Lithium Ion Batteries.

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$12.4m

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Nori is a company that hosts an open-source, blockchain-based market for purchasing carbon offsets.

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$12.2m

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Capturing CO2 from the sky and re-selling it for 2x cheaper

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$41.0m

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EcoFactor is a cloud-based home energy management platform providing services to utilities and home service providers.

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$34.0m

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A technology manufacturing company making Li-Metal materials, cells, and packs for drones, consumer electronics and automotive applications.

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$18.4m

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WiBotic is a technology company specializing in wireless charging and power optimization solutions.

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$264.5m

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Arcadia, previously Arcadia Power, is a Washington, D.C. based tech company which aims to enable a zero-carbon economy. Arcadia is also the developer of a clean energy tech platform designed to facilitate access to clean energy.

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$151.6m

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A carbon sequestration technology and bioplastics company based in Huntington Beach, California, founded in 2003, that uses their technology to capture carbon from greenhouse emissions for production of bioplastics.

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$33.3m

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Liquid Light is a developer of technology to convert carbon dioxide to a variety of chemicals, fuels, and other compounds.

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$225.0m

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A biotechnology company that specialized in the renewable energy sector. It was located in Bedford, Massachusetts and is no longer in operation.

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A company developing cryogenic cooling solutions for research, material science, quantum computing, high-performance electronics, and detector applications.

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$119.5m

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Carbon Engineering is building technologies to capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere, and to use that CO2 in the synthesis of clean transportation fuels that displace crude oil.

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$1.2m

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Carbon Recycling International is a Kópavogur-based carbon capture company producing methanol for use as an alternative fuel source.

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$28.3m

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Verdigris is a California-based company developing smart grid and energy management technology aided by artificial intelligence. It was founded by Mark Chung, Thomas Chung, and Jonathan Chu.

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$77.3m

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DroneSeed is a Seattle-based company that provides automated reforestation services.

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$150.0k

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HelicitySpace is a fusion propulsion and power company, developing technology for spacecraft.

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$4.0m

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All Power Labs is a Berkeley, California-based biogas company developing biogas generators for distributed energy needs.

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$20.0m

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Zeno Power Systems is an Arlington, Virginia-based developer of a radioisotope power system intended to convert heat from recycled nuclear waste into electricity.

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$190.0m

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A company making Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) as an alternative to using fossil fuels for air crafts. It was founded in 2008 and is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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$12.9m

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A company that was developing an advanced technology mini nuclear reactor, based on intellectual property developed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It was located in Denver, Colorado.

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$24.0m

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ClearTrace is an Austin, Texas-based energy data and carbon accounting platform offering a digital infrastructure to support decision-making to mitigate environmental risk, prove climate achievements, and create market opportunities.

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$17.0m

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Synhelion is a technology company converting solar energy, waste carbon dioxide, and water into synthetic fuel.

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$20.0m

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NovaSolix is developing rectifying carbon nanotube antennas that convert light to electricity from the entire solar spectrum as a method of producing clean and inexpensive energy.

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$1.8m

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Modular direct air capture system that uses buildings' ventilation to remove carbon dioxide from the air.

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