Circular Economy Startups

Living Ink produces black pigments and inks made from discarded algae biomass as a replacement for petroleum-based carbon black. Its ALGAE BLACK pigment and ALGAE INK product lines serve brands in packaging, footwear, textiles, cosmetics, and paints.

2 investors

Living Outlines (formerly Outlines) designs home cleaning and organizing products with closed-loop lifecycle management, aiming to eliminate consumer waste by shifting responsibility to manufacturers. The company serves environmentally conscious households seeking sustainable alternatives to traditional single-use cleaning products.

2 investors

Livsn Designs makes durable, repairable outdoor and everyday apparel — including pants, shorts, and shirts built for trail, travel, and daily wear — using recycled materials. It sells directly to consumers with a lifetime warranty, at-cost repairs, and free exchanges.

2 investors

ShopLocale is a meal delivery service that provides meals made with high-protein, organic natural ingredients, without seed oils and reduced microplastics. The service targets health-conscious consumers seeking science-backed nutrition.

2 investors

Loopos provides a validation and decision platform for circular economy operations, enabling back-office teams to review, approve, or reject items through a no-code workflow builder with automation capabilities. The platform serves companies managing post-purchase item refurbishment and resale workflows, tracking sustainability metrics across the circular ecosystem.

2 investors

Loopworm produces custom recombinant proteins—antigens, antibodies, cytokines, growth factors and enzymes—by using living silkworms as bioreactors instead of stainless-steel fermenters or mammalian cell culture. It serves human and animal therapeutics, diagnostics, biotech research and industrial applications, and is based in Bengaluru, India.

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

Loscam operates a pallet pooling network across Asia-Pacific, providing reusable pallets, crates, bins, and related logistics equipment to businesses. The company serves supply chain and logistics operations in 11 countries including Australia, China, Southeast Asia, and New Zealand.

2 investors

Lucky Sweater is a community-driven marketplace for buying, selling, and trading clothing among members who prioritize keeping items in circulation rather than discarding them. The platform combines social features with commerce, allowing members to trade, follow sellers, and participate in communities around shared fashion interests.

2 investors

Lumvin is a Swiss company offering LED lighting retrofitting and technical product engineering, focused on re-use and sustainable renovation of existing lighting systems. It also develops new technical components, working with regional partners and apprentices from libs.

2 investors

Maasloop makes a compact reverse vending machine (recyclomat) that compresses returned glass bottles and packaging, reducing their volume by up to 80%, along with the Maas Sync app for monitoring, fleet management, and analytics of collection. It serves retailers and store networks in Poland connecting to deposit-return (kaucyjny) systems and POS integrations.

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 coatings for shrink sleeve labels that enable their separation and recycling during PET bottle recycling processes, solving contamination issues in the plastic recycling supply chain.

2 investors

Manna Insect operates a comprehensive platform for black soldier fly (BSF) farming that provides educational content, farm management tools, remote monitoring of production units, and a marketplace for trading products and services. The platform serves insect farmers and BSF operators with learning resources, AI-assisted guidance, and networking capabilities.

2 investors

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

Mass Magnetics manufactures high-performance neodymium-iron-boron rare-earth magnets in the United States from recycled and domestic feedstocks, using a rapid sintering process and machine learning to sort scrap by grade and chemistry. It targets defense and industrial buyers needing DFARS-compliant domestic magnets and also sells DFARS-compliant rare-earth alloys to domestic metallurgists.

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.

2 investors

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.

2 investors

Matsmart is a Swedish online store that sells surplus and short-dated food, beverages, and household and beauty products at discounted prices to consumers. It offers items nearing their best-before date at reduced cost to reduce food waste.

2 investors

Metastable extracts critical metals like cobalt, lithium, copper and aluminium from recycled materials using proprietary carbothermal reduction technology, producing them in standard commodity forms for reuse.

2 investors

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.

2 investors

Micvac develops food packaging and processing technology used in the food industry. The company is based in Sweden.

2 investors

Midland Seafood raises Pacific white shrimp indoors in the Midwest using a proprietary algae-based closed-loop aquaculture system, selling fresh shrimp to regional grocers, specialty markets, and consumers online. The company operates a network of independent Midwest farmers and emphasizes sustainable practices with zero-discharge operations.

2 investors