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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.