Climate Tech Engineering Signals: What GitHub Data Reveals About Green Startups

Climate tech startups combine hardware and software development in ways that create distinctive GitHub patterns. Software-heavy climate companies (carbon accounting, energy trading, grid optimization) show patterns similar to enterprise SaaS. Hardware-adjacent companies (battery management, sensor networks, IoT) show lower commit velocity but higher infrastructure buildout. The key insight for investors: climate tech GitHub engineering acceleration (commit velocity + new repository creation) often indicates a transition from R&D to deployment – the moment when a technology moves from lab to field, which requires capital.