Top 9 Space startups for Ecology and Climate Change monitoring

Updated: Sep 09, 2025
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These startups enable deforestation tracking, biodiversity monitoring, carbon emission mapping, habitat restoration support, pollution detection, etc.
1
Pixxel
Country: India | Funding: $95M
Pixxel is building a high-resolution hyperspectral imaging satellite constellation to offer its clients AI-powered insights that discover, solve and predict climate issues in real time.
2
AiDash
Country: USA | Funding: $91.5M
AiDash is a SaaS company enabling climate-resilient and sustainable infrastructure with satellites and AI.
3
Near Space Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $40M
Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery company that provides timely wide-scale imagery from the stratosphere at affordable prices.
4
Kuva Space
Country: Finland | Funding: €23.3M
Kuva Space improves life on Earth by using the world's most extensive hyperspectral satellite constellation and artificial intelligence. The company's platform addresses some of the world's most important concerns, including climate change, disaster response, food demand, and safety and security.
5
Airmo
Country: Germany | Funding: €5.3M
Airmo is a satellite constellation that provides monitoring greenhouse gas emissions.
6
Space DOTS
Country: UK | Funding: $5,1M
Space DOTS provides the intelligence core for smarter, faster, more ambitious space missions
7
Orbify
Country: Poland | Funding: $1M
Orbify allows users to create own applications and digital solutions without codes.
8
Satellite Applications Catapult
Country: UK | Funding: £500K
Satellite Applications Catapult collaborates with other companies, educational institutions, and government agencies to create state-of-the-art medical, agricultural, and environmental research satellite applications. In particular it provides access to high-resolution methane emissions
9
Geolabe
Country: USA | Funding: $16K
Geolabe is a provider of global Earth data and analytics, enabling an improved characterization of the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of the Earth.
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Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com