101 Market Leading Sustainability Companies and Startups in the UK

4 years ago

This article showcases some of the most popular players operating in the Sustainability space. Our analysts selected these companies because they excel in one of the following categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Market Position
    • Market domination
    • Market leader
    • Strong market competitor

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SEMRush.

This list may include both state and private ventures providing the most value within the Sustainability industry.

Top Sustainability Companies


The Unilever Foundry

The Unilever Foundry is Unilever’s platform to connect and engage with the world’s most innovative startups.

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Much Better Adventures

Much Better Adventures helps people organize their skiing, cycling, or road biking holiday directly with specialist independent operators.

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farmhopping

farmhopping is a community-based marketplace that connects small farms with prospective consumers.

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Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty is an international infrastructure group that finances, develops, and maintains vital infrastructures that people depend on.

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Simec Atlantis Energy

Simec Atlantis Energy Limited is an independent sustainable power generator company & is a developer of sustainable development projects.

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Ferguson plc

Ferguson plc an international business, operating group’s strength is to operate strong national businesses in home markets.

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Skipping Rocks Lab

Skipping Rocks Lab develops natural and biodegradable packaging for liquids made from seaweed extract.

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TOTM

TOTM is a people-powered and purpose-led brand on a mission to make ethical and sustainable period care mainstream.

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e-Surgery

The UK’s Sustainable Online Pharmacy That Cares

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Vedanta Resources plc

Vedanta Resources plc is a global diversified metals and mining company with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

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Emex

Emex is a powerful EHS & ESG platform | Safety, sustainability, and compliance. Simplified.

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Allot

Data analytics startup that helps pharmaceutical companies market launch their drugs.

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Bio Market Insights

The leading business intelligence and networking platform for the complete bioeconomy value chain from lab to market.

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Carbon Trust

Carbon Trust is to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy, by working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions now and develop.

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Acre Resources

Acre connects companies and people in corporate responsibility, sustainability, environment, health & safety and energy efficiency.

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Dai

Dai is an innovative womenswear brand designing sustainable tailored performance wear.

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Globechain

Globechain is a B2B reuse marketplace connecting businesses to charities, creating social impact data.

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Leading Edge Turbines

Leading Edge Turbines is a world-class designer and manufacturer of small wind turbines for bespoke off-grid power systems.

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By Rotation

UK’s Fashion Rental App. Peer to Peer, Fashion Rental, Mobile App, Sharing Economy, Social Network

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AmoThreads

An online marketplace connecting designers to deadstock fabrics

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iRed

Thermal Imaging Company

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GPE Scientific Ltd

UK’s biggest Laboratory Equipment Supplier

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Compare Ethics

The sustainable platform that makes it easy for conscious consumers to find verified sustainable products.

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DoNation

Making sustainable living the norm with our sponsorship tool (actions not cash) and CSR programmes

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DMC Healthcare

DMC Healthcare is a national provider of clinically-led and clinically-delivered services to the NHS.

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Clim8 Invest

Make an impact on climate change with your savings

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ZuBlu

ZuBlu is the leading dive travel platform to search, compare and book scuba diving and underwater adventure travel in Asia.

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Merlin Diese

Merlin Diesel has been at the forefront of aftermarket diesel fuel injection for over 70 years.

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Save Your Wardrobe

FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable

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Ecometrica

Ecometrica is an end-to-end environmental software-as-a-service that helps businesses and governments identify risks and opportunities.

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Infinity Energy Organisation

Infinity Energy Organisation is an energy saving and sustainable solutions.

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FRUU

FRUU is a cosmetics company that specializes in turning fruit by-products into sustainable cosmetics.

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CommonVC

World’s first activist led impact accelerator for startups solving the world’s biggest challenges

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Sundrop Farms

Sundrop Farms is a leader in sustainable horticulture for the arid world; growing high-value crops using seawater and sunlight.

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EDP – the right approach

EDP combines leading expertise and experience to deliver Health and Safety, Asbestos Services, Property Compliance, Security services, etc.

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HELPFUL

HELPFUL is a London based fintech start-up empowering sustainable living. Their mission is to empower people to create a healthier planet with their daily shopping and lifestyle choices.

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Offset Services

Offset Services is delivering innovative and proven asset data management services and solutions for over thirty-five years.

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envoPAP

envoPAP is a Sustainable Materials Company utilizing green technology to provide agricultural waste with a second life.

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BBM Sustainable Design

BBM Sustainable Design is an architectural practice with an international reputation for creating inspirational low energy buildings.

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Carnot

Carnot is a developer of hydrogen engine used to reduce the fuel consumption and zero CO2 emissions.

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Aurore Lingerie

Aurore is a premium lingerie brand creating minimalistic and elegant lifestyle pieces.

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Emitwise

Emitwise empowers businesses to automatically measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint in real-time.

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The Dress Change

Womenswear Exchange Platform

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CorNatural

CorNatural develops bio-based sustainable products to offer a range of natural products.

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SustainIt

Sustainability data consultancy, bringing sustainability to life.

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Airsweb

Airsweb is a leading global provider of Quality, Health, Safety & Environment software.

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SWAN Group

SWAN Group specialises in the development of affordable housing.

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Earth Capital

EC is a global private equity investment manager totally focused on Sustainable Development within the climate change nexus.

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The Cheeky Panda

The Cheeky Panda is a sustainable bamboo tissue manufacturer.

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Quensus

Water management system to monitor and control water infrastructure

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Pharos Energy

Pharos Energy Plc is an independent oil and gas company that has an interest in sustainable growth and returns to stakeholders.

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GrowUp Urban Farms

Growing sustainable, high-quality salad leaves in a completely controlled environment for the retail and wholesale market

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COGZ

COGZ is a trade only marketplace for surplus and imperfect produce in the food industry.

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Zero Carbon Food

Growing healthy, substainable salads & micro greens 33 metres under London.

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Better Tomorrows Community Interest Company

Better Tomorrows is committed to changing how we think and behave in order to be more environmentally-friendly and more sustainable.

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Impact X Partners

Impact X Partners is an SDG advisory platform providing capital and counsel to investment seekers and investors.

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Future Planet Capital

Future Planet Capital is the world’s foremost global innovation investment platform.

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Notpla

Sustainable packaging made from seaweed and plants.

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YAYZY

YAYZY is building solutions to automatically track, understand and reduce your personal carbon footprint.

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Iceotope

Iceotope provides reliable, energy efficient liquid cooling solutions for electronics to deliver a sustainable environment.

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Unibio International

Unibio is operating in the biotechnology sector with core competences within bacterial fermentation.

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Pawprint

The Pawprint app enables people to understand and tackle their own carbon footprint through a carbon footprint calculator and personalised eco challenges.

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Stuffstr

Stuffstr makes recommerce a part of every retail transaction

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Quimera Energy Efficiency

Energy Efficiency, ESCO, Energy Saving, Energy Service

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Koin

Koin is on a mission to promote sustainable consumption through rewards and personal impact tracking.

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GROUNDED

GROUNDED makes functional plant-based drinks without the cr*p.

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Inhabit

Inhabit is a web platform helping people reduce their environmental impact.

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Mandulis Energy

Develops renewable energy projects in emerging markets

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Hams Hall

Hams Hall is a Birmingham based sustainable energy provider.

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Avoidance of Mass Extinctions Engine

Amee houses is a Wikipedia-style database that enables viewers to check the financial and environmental credibility of companies.

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Pallite

Pallite is an alternative packaging specialist that provides a viable alternative to wooden pallets and crates.

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Power Transition

Power Transition is a software architecture for a smart energy system.

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Yomp

Yomp is B2B Employee-engagement platform to improve Health and Wellbeing.

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Greengame

Working with organisations to incentivise sustainable behaviour using automated activity detection, gamification and behavioural economics

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Geothermal International

Geothermal International is involved in the design and installation of heating and cooling systems.

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Sembraire

Web Platform for offsetting the carbon footprint through sustainable reforestation.

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Waterscope

Waterscope is a not-for-profit impact-defined company based in Cambridge.

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Cape Fisheries

Cape Fisheries have an exciting opportunity to develop a sustainable and profitable fishing community operation in the Western Cape region.

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The Crowd

The Crowd is a platform for the business community to share ideas and innovations.

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Treeapp

Treeapp is a mobile app enabling anyone to plant a tree for free everyday in less than a minute.

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Antonym

Award-winning electric autonomous transportation addressing the £1.8 trillion road freight market.

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Azeus Convene

Azeus Convene is a user-friendly, digital platform for board level and senior management meetings.

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Recyclan

Tech Enabled Plastic Recycling Company

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A Tale Unfolds

A Tale Unfolds is a U.K.-based company that utilizes video to accelerate literacy.

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Chrometec Capital

Venture Capital & Private Equity

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Dodo

In less than 5 minutes, make your entire workforce climate positive. Feel empowered to take on the challenge of climate change.

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2degrees

2degrees is a website for sustainable business to connect and collaborate internationally.

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Whering

Mobile App

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Waste2ES

Imagine the power to create value from food waste

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LocoSoco

Sustainability Through Distributed Ownership

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Buengo

Buengo is an app that allows people to sell the stuff they don’t need anymore and donate the proceeds to good causes.

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Fusion8 Ltd

Next generation green-first solar.

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Redigo

Redigo is a sustainability platform that with use of Machine Learning allows companies to track, analyse and act on their carbon footprint.

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Energeo

Energeo creates energy-focused data products that outline current energy performance and future potential.

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Hanno

A digital product team. We build and launch products for health and sustainability.

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HydroGen

Clean Energy Fuels and Power

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Digital Mycelium

New Media | Digital Agency | Sustainability | Smart Cities | Blockchain | Artificial Intelligence

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Alkane Energy

Alkane Energy operates distributed flexible ‘gas to power’​ generation plants.

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Sustainary

Sustainary is an online platform for Sustainable Construction.

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Clotho London

A clothing exchange platform targeted at young women, making fashion sustainable.

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Epwin Group

Epwin Group Plc is a leading supplier of low maintenance, sustainable and energy efficient products to the new build.

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