Circular Economy Startups

LoopOS is a no-code platform for orchestrating after-sales and circular operations, unifying trade-ins, returns, repairs, refurbishment, and resale channels with embedded AI for pricing and product condition diagnosis. It serves enterprises across sectors such as retail, insurance, electronics, fashion, and IT asset management, with operations across Europe, the UK, the US, and Mexico.

2 investors

Loowatt develops a patented waterless, chemical-free flush toilet that seals waste in a lining and offers end-to-end sanitation-as-a-service, including servicing and processing of waste into biogas and fertiliser via anaerobic digestion. The company operates in the UK (HQ), Madagascar, and South Africa, serving homes, commercial sites, glamping, and emergency relief with circular-economy sanitation.

2 investors

Lucky Sweater is an online marketplace and community for trading and selling secondhand clothing, with curated weekly drops of items available for swap. It targets consumers interested in sustainable fashion as an alternative to landfill waste.

2 investors

Magisso is a design studio that creates consumer products and helps client businesses with product design and global sourcing. It focuses on purposeful design and sustainable materials, and produces its own house-brand products.

2 investors

Magnomer develops magnetizable functional coatings, marketed as Magmark, that make packaging labels such as PET shrink sleeves easier to sort out during recycling. Its technology targets packaging and recycling operations to improve the recyclability of PET containers.

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Manna Insect runs a digital platform that teaches individuals and businesses how to farm Black Soldier Fly and turn organic waste into valuable products. It provides training on business strategies, farming processes, and low-cost technologies for setting up local insect farms.

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Marie-Laure PLV is a design and eco-design consultancy that develops multi-material merchandising products and packaging solutions. The company specializes in product design, lifecycle assessment, and sustainable solutions compliant with international standards, with focus on environmentally friendly materials and end-of-life recycling.

2 investors

Material Index provides an end-to-end digital platform for building material audits, material passports, material exchange, tracking, and procurement across sites, estates, and portfolios. It supports circular economy practices in the construction and real estate sectors.

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Matrix Pack manufactures fiber-based single-use food packaging products and paper drinking straws for Quick Service Restaurants, FMCG, food service, HORECA, retail, and industrial applications. Founded in Greece in 2009, it operates eight production facilities and serves customers across more than 64 countries.

2 investors

Motatos helps households reduce food waste by providing access to surplus and discounted food products. The service operates in Northern and Central Europe.

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MetGen develops industrial enzymes for bio-based chemical and material production from biomass and wood feedstocks. The company provides enzyme solutions to biotechnology and chemical manufacturing companies seeking greener alternatives to petroleum-based production processes.

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Minus Waste Solutions provides food and organic waste collection, processing, and recycling services for businesses across Canada. The company converts food waste into energy, animal feed, compost, and other resources while offering customized collection programs, depackaging services, and onsite waste management solutions.

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Mitte Home is a water filtration, mineralization, and carbonation system for home use that transforms tap water into filtered, mineralized, and carbonated beverages. The company manufactures the device in Germany and operates a subscription model for replacement cartridges and CO₂ cylinders.

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Mobile Club offers a subscription-based smartphone rental service in France, providing premium models such as recent Apple iPhones for a fixed monthly fee plus a deposit. The service includes breakage and theft insurance, 72-hour home delivery, and the option to swap devices every 20 months.

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Movopack develops reusable, customizable packaging designed for repeated use in e-commerce and logistics, replacing single-use packaging to reduce waste and carbon emissions. The solution enables brands to implement a circular packaging system where containers are returned and reused across multiple shipping cycles.

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Natáur uses a synthetic biology platform that engineers microbes to produce naturally occurring compounds through fermentation, with its first product being bio-based taurine sold as a ready-to-use ingredient. The company applies metabolic engineering and fermentation to create sustainable bio-based nutrients for human and animal wellness.

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Natural World Products is an organics recycling company that turns organic waste into peat-free compost and soil improvers, sold under its New Leaf Compost brand. It serves farmers, vegetable growers, garden designers and the garden retail market across the UK and Ireland.

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Natural Fiber Welding (NFW) develops plant-based, plastic-free performance materials, including a leather alternative (MIRUM), engineered textiles (CLARUS), footwear outsoles (PLIANT), and biobased foam (TUNERA). It supplies these materials to fashion, footwear, and consumer brands seeking sustainable alternatives to plastic-based products.

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Nature Coatings makes BioBlack, a biobased pigment that serves as a nontoxic, sustainably-sourced alternative to carbon black for use in textiles, cosmetics, asphalt, and other industrial applications. The company sells to global brands and manufacturers and handles its own in-house pigment production.

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NEPRA is an Indian environmental services company providing ESG consulting and advisory, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance software (EPR Connect), solar EPC solutions as an Adani Solar channel partner, and turnkey waste management, recycling, and circular economy infrastructure. It serves businesses, cities, industries, and institutions across India, and operates a joint venture with Netherlands-based HuMeij for windshifter material sorting technology.

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Nfinite makes ultra-high barrier paper that is 100% curbside recyclable and designed as a drop-in replacement for flexible plastic packaging on high-speed form-fill-seal lines. The paper uses a Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (SALD) process to apply ultra-thin ceramic oxide coatings, and is sold as semi-finished, printable, sealable rolls for downstream converting.

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NILO develops technology to upcycle hard-to-recycle plastic waste, primarily polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), into materials for use in circular systems and safer products. Based in New Zealand, it is the first company in the country validated under the Plastic Pollution Reduction Standard (PPRS) by SGS.

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Nordsense provides smart sensors and a data platform that monitor waste bins to track fill levels and generation patterns, helping cities, universities, and organizations optimize collection routes, reduce overflows, and cut emissions. It serves municipalities, facility managers, and waste service operators seeking to digitize and improve waste collection operations.

2 investors

NorthLadder operates a trade-in platform for used mobile devices and other electronics, connecting sellers with a network of buyers. It positions itself as a device trade-in and resale solution supporting circular use of electronics.

2 investors