At Blue Earth, we don’t just wait for the best deals to come to us. We actively go out and find founders who are building what the future actually needs, often before the market fully catches up. That means backing diverse leadership, challenging conventional models, and supporting women who are quietly (and sometimes loudly) reshaping entire systems.
From AI-powered compliance and decentralised energy to regenerative housing, nature markets, robotics, fashion, food and the future of how we commemorate life, these founders aren’t tinkering at the edges. They’re rebuilding the foundations.
Here are 13 female founders we’re watching closely in 2026, and why.
Abbie Morris: Compare Ethics
Automating trust in a world of green claims.
As sustainability regulation accelerates, businesses are drowning in complexity. Abbie Morris is cutting through it with Compare Ethics, an AI-driven platform that automates the verification of sustainability claims, reducing compliance costs by up to 80%.
In a world where greenwashing can destroy reputations overnight, Compare Ethics doesn’t just help companies comply, it helps them prove integrity, at scale. This is the infrastructure layer for credible climate action.
Somayeh Taheri: UrbanChain
Rewiring how energy is bought, sold and shared
Energy markets weren’t built for a decentralised future, Somayeh Taheri is fixing that. UrbanChain enables local, private peer-to-peer renewable energy markets using blockchain, AI and optimisation algorithms, achieving 95% accuracy with zero imbalance risk.
For prosumers and ESG-driven corporates, this means price stability, transparency and direct access to clean energy. For the system, it means a faster transition to decentralised power.
Bella Soares & Sarah Humphrys: AimHi Earth
Turning apathy into agency inside the world’s biggest companies
Over 70% of major companies have climate commitments. Fewer than 1% are actually delivering. AimHi Earth tackles the missing link: people.
Bella and Sarah are building a new category of enterprise training, live, interactive, production-quality experiences that move workforces from overwhelm to ownership. Powered by behavioural science and smart infrastructure, AimHi is equipping tens of thousands of employees to think critically, act confidently and drive real sustainability outcomes from the inside out.
Louise Skajem & Auro Murillo: Resting Reef
Redefining how we honour life, and restore the oceans
Resting Reef is one of the most emotionally powerful climate solutions we’ve seen. Louise and Auro have created a new tradition around death: transforming ashes into memorial reefs that restore marine biodiversity.
Each reef shows up to 12x higher fish diversity than damaged sites nearby. It’s science-backed restoration that turns loss into life, proving that impact can be deeply human.
Joanna Yarrow: Human Nature
Building rural neighbourhoods that heal people and planet
The rural housing model is broken. Joanna Yarrow is replacing it with something radically better.
Human Nature is developing regenerative rural neighbourhoods built with biobased materials, integrated renewables, shared mobility and community-first design, delivering strong investor returns while restoring ecosystems and social fabric. This isn’t a one-off project. It’s a scalable blueprint for how we live next.
Ashley Lloyd: Kana Earth
Making nature investable at institutional scale
Capital wants into nature, but the infrastructure hasn’t existed. Until now.
Ashley Lloyd is building the digital backbone of natural capital markets. Kana Earth connects asset managers, corporates and developers through end-to-end workflows covering onboarding, verification, portfolio management and reporting. With NatureScript™ at its core, Kana is accelerating capital into high-integrity carbon removal, biodiversity and ecosystem restoration, at the speed the crisis demands.
Robyn Sands: AutoPickr
Solving agriculture’s labour crisis with autonomous robots
Autopickr didn’t start with flashy tech, it started with a real pain point: crops left rotting in fields due to labour shortages.
Robyn Sands is building fully autonomous robot farmhands that can pick crops when humans can’t. With paid trials, LOIs and proven adaptability across crops and terrains, Autopickr is showing how robotics can boost productivity, cut costs and future-proof food systems.
Marisa Selfa: Impact Tailors
Bringing fashion thinking to the uniform industry
Uniforms are everywhere, and usually ignored. Marisa Selfa saw an opportunity.
Impact Tailors works directly with businesses to redesign every textile touchpoint using innovative low-impact materials, from algae blends to recycled fibres. Each client receives a full impact report comparing old and new. Already working with Four Seasons and major hospitality groups, Impact Tailors proves sustainability can be bespoke, beautiful and commercially compelling.
Ali Munro: Butterfly Air
Using nature as the ultimate sensor
Butterflies don’t lie. Ali Munro’s work is rooted in a simple truth: butterflies are indicators of clean, healthy air.
Butterfly Air links biodiversity presence with air quality, helping communities and organisations understand environmental health through nature itself. It’s a reminder that the best technology sometimes already exists, we just need to listen.
Ella Cooper: Wylde Market
Rebuilding the food system from the ground up
Wylde Market connects consumers directly with farmers, fishers and makers across the UK, cutting out long supply chains and supermarkets.
Co-founded by Ella Cooper, the platform champions regenerative, organic and biodynamic producers, offering full traceability and fairer economics. It’s not just a marketplace, it’s a quiet rebellion against how food has been industrialised.
Sorina Uleia: Recycllux
Turning marine plastic into verifiable climate action
Plastic pollution is now a financial and regulatory risk, and Sorina Uleia is bringing accountability to the chaos.
Recycllux uses satellite imagery, AI and blockchain to detect marine plastic hotspots, match them with local cleanup capacity and track every step from recovery to recycling. The result: auditable, regulation-aligned impact that companies can actually stand behind. Award-winning, EU-recognised, and scaling fast.
Why this matters
These founders aren’t just building companies. They’re building infrastructure for a new economy, one that values trust, regeneration, dignity, nature and long-term resilience.
We’re proud to support and champion women like these, and we’ll be watching closely as they scale in 2026 and beyond.
If this is what the future looks like, we’re all in.