This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Solar companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Solar industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top San Francisco Solar Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Aurora Solar
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Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.
Sunrun
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Sunrun provides residential solar electricity and solar power services for homeowners.
Generate Capital
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Generate Capital builds, owns, and operates sustainable infrastructure to deliver affordable and reliable resource solutions.
EcoFlow Tech
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EcoFlow Tech designs, develops and manufactures eco-friendly and affordable portable power stations for personal and professional use.
Carbon Lighthouse
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On a mission to stop climate change by making it easy and profitable for building owners to cut carbon emissions caused by wasted energy.
Angaza
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Angaza provides a technology that enables businesses to provide affordable life-changing products to people in emerging markets.
Sunfolding
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Sunfolding develops new approaches to solar tracking for commercial and utility systems.
Spruce Finance
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Spruce provides consumer financing for residential solar systems, water conservation upgrades and energy-efficient home improvements.
Leap
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Leap is a marketplace for Distributed Energy Resources to participate in the energy market.
kWh Analytics
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kWh Analytics provides solar asset data and portfolio analytics for the solar industry.
BRIGHT
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Enabling the developing world with cleaner and more affordable energy.
Distributed Solar Development
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Distributed Solar Development is a solar energy management company.
Sighten
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Sighten develops a software toolset to manage the complexity of distributed solar.
Wivity Inc.
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Distributed database that holds security-critial information on cyrptographic private keys. Standardized by the SunSpec Alliance.
CivicSolar
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CivicSolar is an innovative solar distributor that offers a full selection of modules and balance-of-systems from manufacturers.
NextGrid
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NextGrid is a renewable energy company specializing in solar development, policy, and finance.
Simusolar
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Simusolar increases rural prosperity by selling and financing productive equipment to farmers and small businesses.
PV Evolution Labs
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PV Evolution Labs provides solar panel test and characterization services.
Sunverge Energy
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Sunverge Energy provides integrated solar solutions for distributed generation and storage.
Nevados
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Nevados Engineering designs and manufactures solar ground installations.
Recurrent Energy
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Recurrent Energy provides distributed solar power that makes renewable energy a practical choice for large scale energy users.
Radian Generation
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Radian Generation is an independent solar asset management and advisory firm.
Lemon
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Lemon is a corporation that designs, develops, and sells solar powered and audio consumer electronics.