Startups 2025

circuly is a B2B subscription management software solution that enables companies to launch, manage and scale a subscription-based business mode and thus brings sustainability and circularity to e-commerce. With the help of the circuly solution, retailers and manufacturers of consumer durable products can make their business circular, add a recurring revenue stream, extend the product lifecycle, reach new customer segments and achieve their sustainability goals. circuly makes the process of renting products online as seamless and scalable as traditional sales, revolutionising the way businesses operate in the digital landscape.

enplify is your customer-oriented partner for sustainable energy cost optimisation. From the tendering of energy supply contracts, operational procurement, optimisation of ancillary energy costs, support with decarbonisation measures (PPA, HKN, GoO, certificates) to making energy supply more flexible - our services save companies time and money. With enplify analytics - the leading energy data management software tool - we leverage synergies, reveal unprecedented data transparency and analyse energy data automatically - for more savings and less complexity.
Our self-developed procurement logics are market leaders and reduce energy costs for numerous customers. Bosch – Buderus Guss – egeplast - Geberit – Grillo - KME – Lhoist/ Rheinkalk – STIHL - Vodafone

OCELL is a Munich-based climate-tech startup that develops local climate projects that are transparent, measurable, and effective. Our mission is to unlock the full potential of forests and make a significant contribution to climate mitigation. To achieve this, we use aerial photographs, data from various sources, and artificial intelligence to create ‘digital twins’ of forests. These provide valuable insights into forest growth, current carbon storage capacity, and other metrics, and enable us to predict optimal forest management strategies. With our state-of-the-art technology and unwavering commitment to data transparency, we ensure the effectiveness of our solutions. Currently, OCELL manages around 350,000 hectares of sustainable forest land in Europe, North America, and South America.

Save the Children is the world's largest independent children's rights organization, founded in 1919 by the British teacher Eglantyne Jebb. The organization campaigns for children's rights in around 120 countries, particularly in the areas of health, education and protection from violence and exploitation. Save the Children has been active in Germany since 2004 and is committed to helping disadvantaged children both domestically and internationally.

Website: www.savethechildren.de/

With SUSTAYN, you inspire your employees for sustainable topics, motivate them to act sustainably and to help shape sustainability in the company. SUSTAYN is the platform for more sustainability in your company! With playful microlearning, quizzes, news, tips & tricks, we provide you with the necessary knowledge to initiate sustainable changes. Your users will find our currency, the SUSTAYNs, throughout the app. These coins can be collected again and again and can even be collected in the analogue world with the help of NFC chips and the smartphone. The coins can then be redeemed for personal rewards or, depending on your wishes, also for co-determination according to the crowdfunding principle for sustainability measures. Our library delivers over 500 measures, actions, benefits and personal rewards!

For more information, visit sustayn.de

The future is made of forests – let’s build rainforests against climate change

In the midst of the climate and species crisis, The Generation Forest offers a sustainable, nature-based solution to combat climate change and global warming: genetic forests.

Our concept represents a holistic solution to protect the rainforests.
To counteract global deforestation, we as a cooperative plant tropical forests in Panama, which naturally remove CO₂ from the atmosphere and at the same time create new habitats for animals and plants - for a healthy, liveable planet.

We are convinced that the major challenges of our time can only be solved by working together and involving all stakeholders. We offer companies a holistic and nature-based solution that is equally effective in tackling the climate and biodiversity crisis and improving people's living conditions.

It’s about more than compensation.
 

The German technology company Ubirch has created the ESG Data Exchange Network so that companies and their suppliers can easily and audit-proof fulfill the EU requirements for ESG data in sustainability reports from 2024. It is therefore a crucial CSRD process component and enables transparency and climate protection through the exchange of machine-readable ESG data that can be used directly in operations. Both data suppliers and data collectors can thus reduce their costs and become more efficient. The purpose of the ESG Data Exchange Network is to provide the ESG data for Scope 3 of the CSRD once for all customers or to receive it uniformly from all suppliers.

UBIRCH specialises in digital proof of data and was founded in 2016. Together with a consortium, the company developed the EU digital COVID certificate for Germany.