NZ Clean Tech · Portal

New Zealand's clean tech ecosystem.

A portal tracking the companies being built, the capital backing them, and the system that connects both — across the full NZ clean tech value chain.

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328
Entities & companies
122
Climate companies
25
Clean tech VCs
6
Sectors covered
Context
The opportunity

Clean tech is the decade's defining investment theme

Decarbonising energy, agriculture, industry, and transport requires $4–5 trillion in annual investment by 2030. The science is no longer the bottleneck — deployment is. Capital backing the right technology early is positioned for structural, decade-long returns as the global economy re-prices carbon.

Why New Zealand

Structural advantages and far less competition for deal flow

NZ has a disproportionate position in climate-relevant deep tech: geothermal energy, agricultural emissions science, renewable hydrogen, advanced materials, and food technology. Strong university research and Callaghan Innovation underpin an improving VC ecosystem — with a fraction of the noise of US or European markets, and world-class science that remains undervalued.

Why now

Policy pull is converting research into commercial opportunity

NZ's Emissions Trading Scheme, green hydrogen roadmap, and AgriZeroNZ's $191M programme are creating market demand that didn't exist five years ago. The translation gap — from world-class science to scaled commercial product — remains the central challenge. It is also the central opportunity for early capital.

What's inside
Value chain

The NZ clean tech value chain, end to end

328 entities and companies across five value chain steps — from research labs and tech transfer, through accelerators and capital providers, to the scale institutions and enablers that hold it together. Click any step to explore; click any entry for detail.

328
Entities & companies
5
Value chain steps
51
Investors mapped
Landscape

Six sectors. The industrial geography of NZ clean tech.

An interactive sector map of the NZ clean tech industry — six sectors from Agriculture & Food and Energy & Power through to Waste & Recycling. Click any tile to open a sector panel with the NZ companies operating within it, the sub-sectors they cover, and where NZ has structural advantages — pasture systems, renewable generation, bio-based feedstocks — that translate into commercial opportunity.

6
Sectors
20
Sub-sectors
122
Companies mapped
Company database

Clean tech focused startups, by sector and stage

122 NZ clean tech companies seeded from 25 VCs and the NZ Cleantech Impact Report 2026. Each rated Clean tech focused, Clean tech focused, or Agnostic — filterable by sector, stage, and investor. Click any company for detail.

122
Companies
6
Sectors
25
VCs tracked
Showcase

What New Zealand clean tech looks like, at its best.

A curated showcase of the NZ clean tech companies that have achieved global scale, international capital, or landmark scientific milestones — from a Nasdaq-listed carbon capture business to the world's only levitated dipole fusion reactor.

10
Featured companies
US$2B
Largest valuation
3
Continents of deployment