Sunday, March 23, 2025
Who are the leading companies in cleantech today? The Global Cleantech 100 2025 report is the 16th annual showcase of the most promising private companies in the cleantech ecosystem.
The report profiles the innovators with outstanding technologies, business models, and bold plans that can help tackle environmental challenges and climate commitments toward a net zero future.
The Cleantech 100 taps into expert panelists whose proficiency helps to evaluate, synthesize, and tabulate the many hundreds of company nominations. This is combined with in-depth analysis from the San Francisco-based Cleantech Group research team. The comprehensive research provides an informed overlook on market trends.
In the foreword to the report, Richard Youngman, CEO of The Cleantech Group, discusses the context of change evident in the past five year. “Exaggerated, unrealistic promises made in the hot markets of 2020-21 have come home to roost,” he states.
“As we look forward to 2025, market sentiments today suggests that we will see two obvious consequences,” writes Youngman. He predicts less of the “shiny new objects” (noting ones that are fully reliant on U.S. federal policy and taxpayer support will struggle) and less of the “me-too” (noting that with capital more scarce, the best and the reasonably valued should flourish as there may be fewer, well-funded competitors).
“The market is still open to new technologies and approaches. It’s not as if some of the forerunners have obviously and fully got the future solution set tied up,” he explains. “However, the bar has gone up for what kind of level of potential novelty, uniqueness, and cost improvements might be attractive.”
“A more sober, skeptical environment and a return to fundamentals is apparent,” concludes Youngman.
This year only nine Canadian companies made the cut, down from 13 last year.
Here are the Canadian cleantech companies who made the 2025 Global Cleantech 100:
Cyclic Materials – Circular supply chain service platform facilitating the recycling of critical metals
enersion – Cooling technology that uses waste heat instead of electricity
e-Zinc – Zinc reactor technology that stores electricity in zinc metal for large-scale energy storage
Ionomr Innovations – Durable hydrocarbon ion-exchange materials and polymers for fuel cells, hydrogen production, energy storage, metal recovery, and CCU
Mangrove Lithium – Modular platform for the cost-effective production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide
Pani – AI-powered water treatment operations and management software
pH7 Technologies – Processes and new methodologies for extractive metallurgy
Summit Nanotech – Lithium and other valuable metals from brine water using advanced nanomaterials
Svante – Carbon capture energy-efficient technology
For a link to the full report, visit: https://www.cleantech.com/the-global-cleantech-100/
