Celebrating Insight companies focused on environmental sustainability this Earth Day

From saving the bees, to conserving water, or making carbon credits more accessible, Insight Partners has invested in some incredible climate tech companies that are making the earth a better, more sustainable place to live.

While physical solutions like EVs, solar panels, and carbon-sequestering materials are vital, software is what unlocks their full potential. Climate software will be key to helping businesses and governments adapt, thrive, and accelerate the transition to a resilient, low-carbon economy.

This shift is both a necessity and one of the century’s greatest opportunities — and this Earth Day, we celebrate the innovators tackling these urgent challenges.

The climate tech landscape

Afresh

Afresh is the world’s leading fresh technology company. Afresh’s AI-powered solutions optimize critical functions in fresh food, including ordering, inventory, merchandising, and operations. Afresh significantly reduces food waste, improves its partners’ profitability, and makes fresher, healthier food more accessible to all.

Alasco

Alasco is digitally revolutionizing the cost, revenue and sustainability management of real estate projects with cloud-based real-time planning, collaboration, and control. Alasco’s Real Estate Success software enables customers to connect all sources of ESG and financial data – from planned costs to revenues and budgets, to ESG criteria — and utilizes cutting-edge technology to automate and support financial and sustainability decision-making.

AMCS

AMCS is the leading supplier of integrated software and vehicle technology for the waste, recycling, and material resources industries.

Beewise

Beewise is a company with one mission in mind: saving the bees. This exclusive focus of the company is manifested in its first solution, the Beehome, the world’s first autonomous beehive with an integrated robotic beekeeper.

“Putting the focus on environmental sustainability on Earth Day is a wonderful thing, but with our planet in crisis, it is critical to think about sustainability the other 364 days of the year too. One way to stay hyper-focused on sustainability is to build a business that ‘does well by doing good.’ That’s why when we founded Beewise with the goal of reversing the global bee colony collapse crisis and thereby securing the global food supply, we made sure our business was intrinsically aligned with our mission. For every dollar we make, we save at least two bees.”

— Saar Safra, Cofounder and CEO

CeresAI

CeresAI is an aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that serves farmers and agribusinesses. Using proprietary sensors, analytics, machine learning models, and plant science, Ceres delivers university-validated imagery-based intelligence to farms in the U.S. and Australia. This enables customers to identify pest, disease, water, and fertilizer issues weeks before they are visible to the naked eye.

CivicPlus

CivicPlus delivers technology solutions that enable local governments to drive more revenue, operate more efficiently, and generate positive recognition for the many services they provide every day.

CoreLogic

CoreLogic, a leading provider of property insights and solutions, promotes a healthy housing market and thriving communities. Through its enhanced property data solutions, services and technologies, CoreLogic enables real estate professionals, financial institutions, insurance carriers, government agencies, and other housing market participants to help millions of people find, buy, and protect their homes. 

“Happy Earth Day! At CoreLogic, we are proud to be at the forefront of leveraging innovation for a better planet. Our Climate Risk Analytics solution is empowering our customers to mitigate climate risks associated with their properties, from floods to wildfires and more. We are committed to using data and advanced analytics to build resilient communities and safeguard homes while also actively working to reduce our environmental footprint and promote sustainable practices across our operations.”

— Patrick Dodd, President and CEO

Further reading: The state of climate tech: 2024 and beyond

Diligent

Diligent is the pioneer of modern governance, empowering leaders to turn effective governance into a competitive advantage.

“The future of doing well by doing good by our environment is not just an aspirational or trendy value. A lot of people warn businesses that ESG regulations are on the way, but in many parts of the globe, regulations are here to drive behavior change and they are trending strong in North America. I am so excited to be in a position to help you and your business get ready.”

— Amanda Carty, General Manager, Compliance Solutions

Enverus

Through its SaaS platform, Enverus provides innovative technologies and predictive/prescriptive analytics, empowering customers to navigate the future. Enverus’ solutions deliver value across upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors, enabling the industry to be more collaborative, efficient, and competitive.

Exiger

Exiger is revolutionizing the way corporations, government agencies and banks navigate risk and compliance in their third parties, supply chains, and customers through its software and tech-enabled solutions.

Inspectorio

Inspectorio is the leading AI-powered supply chain platform optimizing performance, building resilience, and providing intelligence across production chains for global brands, retailers, and their multi-tier suppliers.

Klir

Klir is the single operating system for water. With one platform to connect every team, Klir allows water utilities to manage critical processes across the entire water system—from permits to sampling, inspections, and everything in between.

“Water is the #1 challenge facing humanity. You’ve no doubt seen troubling headlines on drought, flash floods, and water scarcity, or maybe you’re even seeing it in your own backyard. That’s why now, more than ever before, water managers need access to accurate, up-to-date information so that they can analyze the health of their water system and tackle these challenges—and that’s what we’re delivering at Klir.”

— David Lynch, Cofounder and CEO

Kpler

From numerous disparate and unstructured sources, Kpler creates technology-led data, analytics, and insight that bring transparency to dynamic markets characterised by opaque and incomplete information, such as commodity and power markets.

Motorq

Motorq provides customers with business intelligence through its cloud-based connected car data and analytics platform.

Olea Edge Analytics

Olea Edge Analytics’s proven technology empowers utilities to optimize water delivery, billing, and conservation so cities can generate millions more in revenue. Committed to helping water utilities combat aging infrastructure, meet greater demand and limit rate increases, Olea’s patented solution combines IoT and edge computing capabilities to bring transparency, accuracy and reliability to the delivery of the world’s most precious resource.

OneTrust

OneTrust is the #1 fastest-growing and most widely used technology platform to help organizations be more trusted and operationalize privacy, security, data governance, ethics, and compliance programs. 

“OneTrust helps make environmental impact a foundational part of every organization. As global environmental crises put sustainability at the top of the corporate agenda, we help organizations avoid greenwashing and regulatory scrutiny with ESG Program Management. Making ESG reporting simpler and more streamlined means organizations can transparently show progress against climate commitments and demonstrate integrity with their consumers, partners, employees, and most importantly the planet.”

— Dan Quintas, Former Head of Product and Strategy, ESG & Sustainability Cloud

Further reading: Investors and CEOs need a climate risk strategy now more than ever. Here are 5 reasons why.

PDI Technologies

PDI Technologies, Inc. resides at the intersection of productivity and sales growth, delivering powerful solutions that serve as the backbone of the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale ecosystem. By “Connecting Convenience” across the globe, PDI empowers businesses to increase productivity, make informed decisions, and engage faster with their customers.

Prisma Photonics

Prisma Photonics helps keep the most critical large-scale infrastructure up and running with a quantum leap in utility monitoring.

project 44

project44 is the world’s leading advanced visibility platform for shippers and third-party logistics firms. project44 connects, automates, and provides visibility into key transportation processes to accelerate insights and shorten the time it takes to turn those insights into actions.

Project Canary

Project Canary is a SaaS-based data analytics company focused on environmental performance, or the “E” in ESG, for emission-intensive companies.

Run: AI

Run:AI helps companies execute on their AI initiatives quickly, while keeping budgets under control, by virtualizing and orchestrating AI compute resources in order to pool, share and allocate resources efficiently. Consolidating computational workloads yields greater server utilization, lowering TCO and speeding delivery of AI initiatives.

Sylvera

Sylvera‘s mission is to be a source of truth for carbon markets by 2024. We help corporate sustainability leaders, carbon traders, and policymakers confidently evaluate and invest in the best carbon credits by providing comprehensive and accessible insights on carbon projects.

“If we’re to prevent catastrophic global warming, we need corporations to prioritise climate action and protecting our ecosystems. After emissions reduction, one of the most urgent available levers is purchasing carbon credits, which fund projects around the globe that are either reducing or capturing carbon dioxide or the equivalent amount of greenhouse gas. However, for years, companies had to buy these credits in the dark, not knowing their true climate impact – until Sylvera.

We’re on a mission to bring transparency to this historically opaque market. We use a combination of proprietary tech including satellite imagery and machine learning models, complemented by boots on the ground, to rate the quality of projects so that organisations can make their climate investment decisions with confidence.”

— Allister Furey, Cofounder and CEO

Vector Solutions

Providing industry-focused solutions that connect information and technology, Vector Solutions’ unique product set includes training management, continuing education (CE), compliance training, workforce scheduling, safety management, and more. Its extensive online and mobile training library features carefully curated world-class content to meet the unique needs of professionals in the industrial, engineering, education, and public safety industries.

WINT

WINT is passionate about helping the world conserve one of its most precious resources and is dedicated to helping businesses prevent the hazards, costs, waste and environmental impact associated with water leaks and waste.

How we’re thinking about the future of climate tech

Explore the trends, technologies, and companies redefining climate tech in our latest investor POV. If you are a founder or exploring ideas in this space, we’d love to hear from you at mgoldberg@insightpartners.com and nshimer@insightpartners.com.

In general, Insight believes that innovative software and technology will play a critical role in achieving a more sustainable and prosperous future. Through our traditional software investment pipeline, we find that we are frequently sourcing, evaluating, and partnering with software companies that may contribute to addressing some of society’s pressing environmental and social challenges. However, please note that Insight is not an “impact investor,” meaning we not make investments with any explicit intent to contribute to measurable positive social or environmental outcomes. Moreover, our Funds do not have sustainable investment as their objective (within the meaning of SFDR Article 9, or otherwise), nor do our Funds actively seek to promote environmental or social characteristics through their investments (within the meaning of SFDR Article 8, or otherwise).