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Where solar startups are based
367 solar startups worldwide have raised money in rounds we track, $35B between them. 262 of them are placed on the map by their city; San Francisco leads with 10, then Berlin with 8.
Each circle is a city, sized by how many startups are based there. Countries are shaded by their count.
Leading cities
- San Francisco10$413M
- Berlin8$1.2B
- Paris7$53M
- San Diego5$919M
- Denver5$564M
- San Jose4$581M
- Singapore4$241M
- Austin4$354M
- Boston4$666M
- London4$340M
- Mumbai4$129M
- Lagos4$2.5M
- Sydney3$211M
- Cambridge, United Kingdom3$57M
- Fremont3$1.8B
By country
- United States158$21B
- United Kingdom28$1.4B
- France21$274M
- Canada18$427M
- Australia16$3.3B
- India14$500M
- Germany12$1.7B
- Spain8$1.1B
- Italy7$836M
- Netherlands7$21M
- Switzerland7$94M
- Sweden5$695M
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SwedenBest-funded
Atlas Renewable EnergyUnited States · $3.1B
CleneraUnited States · $2.9B
Edify EnergyAustralia · $2.4B
SolyndraUnited States · $1.8B
EnpalGermany · $1.0B
Solar LandscapeUnited States · $900M
AvantusUnited States · $800M
Rezolv EnergyRomania · $763M
Primergy SolarUnited States · $760M
Maxwell PowerUnited States · $750M
BNZ energySpain · $740M
Sunlight FinancialUnited States · $730M
Romania · $763MHow this map is made. Every startup here has raised money in rounds we track. Each is placed at the city we hold for it, matched to that city's position in GeoNames (cities of 15,000 people or more; geonames.org, CC BY 4.0); startups without a city on record count in the totals but not on the map. Rebuilt nightly; updated 15 November 2026.
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