Nine climate-focused start-ups from across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland are set to pitch at the ClimateLaunchpad Australia 2026 National Final on 23 July.
On 23 July, nine Australian climate start-ups from across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland will pitch at the ClimateLaunchpad Australia 2026 National Final.
Delivered in Australia by Climate KIC Australia in collaboration with EnergyLab and Boomerang Labs, ClimateLaunchpad (CLP) is the world’s largest green business ideas competition. Running in more than 50 countries, the program supports early-stage climate entrepreneurs with world-class training, mentoring, coaching and pitching opportunities to help transform promising ideas into viable, scalable climate solutions.
The Australian National Final is the next step in a global journey. The winning team will receive a sponsored trip to represent Australia at the Asia-Pacific Regional Final in Singapore, where leading climate innovators from across the region will compete for a place in the ClimateLaunchpad Global Grand Final, also being held in Singapore later this year.
Meet the finalists
CO2 LAB
Building an AI Analyst that handles an organisation’s carbon footprint and decarbonisation planning. It works like a teammate: email it, and it reaches out to teams and suppliers, processes data, writes reports, and plans your path to net zero.
CycloPave
CycloPave is an embodied-carbon platform for road construction. We characterise construction and demolition waste stockpiles, design circular blends for use as structural road base, and verify the CO₂ savings, all backed by physics-informed knowledge.
Urban Inventors Pty Ltd
Urban Inventors is commercialising Smart Drain, a retrofit stent for clogging hotspots in urban drainage networks. It captures debris at the inlet and uses IoT-enabled real-time monitoring to help councils act before drains fail.
myDepth
myDepth turns recreational divers into an ocean sensor network by extracting temperature and depth data from dive computers to monitor ocean health where satellites cannot see. AI-powered anomaly detection flags bleaching events as parametric insurance triggers.
D-Ply
D-Play “grows” biodegradable engineered wood for furniture-making and construction, without any toxic glue or virgin wood, using agricultural, construction and industrial biomass waste and fungi, thereby sequestering carbon without destroying forests.
Compound
A biomaterials research and design studio developing alternatives to conventional materials. Using seaweed as a primary feedstock, we create materials for products, interiors, packaging and future manufacturing systems.
Bridge Renewables
Developing a pretreatment process that unlocks some of the largest aggregated organic feedstocks to become competitive inputs to biogas plants globally. In Australia alone, this technology could approximately double the scale of the biogas industry.
Fed Up
A “Return-and-Earn” solution for organic waste from high-density residential areas. Converting waste into black soldier fly larvae and frass via on-site bio-pod technology and an app that rewards participants with a choice of fertiliser or bugs (pet food).
COtoCap
Developed a waste-derived organic concrete additive specifically for 3D-printed concrete that captures and permanently locks away CO₂—up to 40% of its weight—during the printing and curing process.
What’s coming up next?
Together, these ventures showcase the breadth of climate innovation emerging across Australia, addressing challenges in carbon reduction, circular economy solutions, sustainable materials, renewable energy, waste management and climate resilience.
On 23 July, they will take to the national stage to pitch their ideas, with the opportunity to represent Australia at the Asia-Pacific Regional Final in Singapore and compete alongside some of the world’s most promising climate entrepreneurs.
More information
Follow the 2026 Australian finalists’ journey through the world’s biggest green business ideas competition on the Climate Launchpad website.