The FireTech Ecosystem Map
A live map of the wildfire technology ecosystem: the companies, public programs and nonprofits building FireTech, the agencies and communities deploying it and the investors and funders backing it. Builders are mapped across five categories (Connectivity, Digital, FinTech, Mechanization and Materials) and three phases of the fire cycle (prevention and mitigation, detection and response, recovery and adaptation).
Innovators can find open calls, active funders and ways into agency procurement in North America, Europe and Latin America. Fire agencies, utilities, land managers and communities can compare technologies by fire problem and operational maturity. Funders can see where capital is flowing and where it is not.
Updated monthly as a companion to The State of FireTech 2026.
Companion toThe State of FireTech 2026
Updated monthly
The State ofFireTechEcosystem Map
Where is the opening, and who backs teams like mine? Pick your category and stage. The grid shows how crowded each phase is; the panels list funders that have backed your category at your stage, open calls and the buyers your peers sell to.
Density by phase
Builders on the map
Darker cells are more crowded. Pale cells are white space: fewer builders, and usually fewer buyers.
What the map says
Funders to know
Open calls
Who your peers sell to
Primary buyer of each builder in your category.
Where agencies are buying
Public buyers procuring FireTech directly from vendors, 2024–2026
Ways in for innovators
Before the next raise or procurement conversation: complete the RFTF Innovator Self-Assessment. It can help an agency procurement officer or funder understand your operational and impact readiness.
What is proven, and for my problem? Start from the fire problem you are trying to solve. Each builder shows what it does, how far it has gone operationally (at scale, commercial deployments, pilot or R&D) and where it is based and deployed, ordered from most to least operationally proven.
What peer agencies are buying
Recent procurements, pilots and contracts by public agencies
Assess a deployment before you take it on. The Responsible Innovation Toolkit asks each party the questions that fit its role, so readiness is judged by the people who receive the technology.
Where is capital going, and where is it not? The matrix lists investors and funders active in FireTech, placed on the same five categories and three phases of the fire cycle as the builders, so the flow of capital reads directly against what is being built. Switch the ecosystem map to its Capital layer to see the same grid by funder. Fund-seeking teams can read it in reverse.
Builders and funders
By category
Builders on the map and funders in the matrix whose public deals, grants or programs cover each category.
Open and recent calls
Follow the money
Capital disclosed by those who put it in, 2020–2026
Four streams, each counted from its own disclosures: equity raised by builders built mainly for wildfire, and what philanthropies and dedicated funds, governments, and utilities and insurers report committing. Headline totals count technology-specific lines only, exclude overlaps and unawarded offers, and are not added across streams. Every row carries its source and who reported it.
Equity raised by wildfire builders, by category
Other accountings
The ledger
Funder-, company- and government-reported lines
Funders: report a FireTech commitment through Suggest an entry (choose "Funding commitment"). Wonder Labs checks each figure against a public source and marks whether it is funder-reported, recipient-confirmed or third-party before it appears.
Capital against the fire cycle
Builders and funders in each category and phase of the fire cycle.
Typical check. Few FireTech investors publish a check size. Where a funder does, the figure is marked Published; otherwise the matrix shows the size of the FireTech rounds it led or joined (From deals), which bounds the check without revealing its share of the round. Grant programs show their published award range.
For funders: the RFTF Funder Readiness Self-Assessment checks whether a funding instrument fits the deployment timelines, validation costs and community obligations FireTech actually carries.
Know a company, program or funder that belongs here? Every suggestion is verified against a public source and reviewed by Wonder Labs before it is published. Accepted entries appear in the next monthly update.
Editorial review. Approve or reject each candidate. Approved items are published in the next monthly update with their sources; rejected items stay out. Only editors of this page can see this view.
What changed
Every published change, newest first