Circular Economy Startups

Vendi runs a marketplace for buying and selling second-hand and new tech devices such as smartphones, using a verification and authentication system to secure peer-to-peer transactions. It targets consumers seeking lower prices on in-demand devices while supporting a circular economy for electronics.

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Vendora is a peer-to-peer marketplace platform founded in 2017 that connects buyers and sellers of new and secondhand items across the European Union. The company promotes circular economy principles by facilitating the resale of products across over 20 categories throughout Europe.

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Veragrow makes agricultural biostimulants derived from vermicompost (worm castings) to improve crop growth, resilience, and soil fertility for farmers, market gardeners, and winegrowers. It also designs and installs continuous-flow vermicomposting systems that let organizations, businesses, and industrial sites process their organic biowaste on-site.

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Verde is a platform technology company that produces advanced biomaterials made from agricultural waste to replace fossil-based plastics, petrochemicals, and emissive materials. Its first commercial product is a biodegradable rheology modifier for the personal care industry, with additional applications in automotive composites, packaging coatings and films, and cement replacement.

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Vericool makes fiber- and paper-based protective packaging as an alternative to EPS foam and plastic for shipping temperature-sensitive, high-value hardware. Its RecyCooler Server Shipper line targets AI infrastructure and data center supply chains—server OEMs, system integrators, and hyperscale/colocation deployments—shipping rack-mount, GPU, and liquid-cooled server hardware.

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Verretex regenerates textile from 100% recycled fiberglass, transforming composite waste into glass fiber mats with virgin-like mechanical properties and lower CO2 impact. Its regenerated glass fibers serve industries including construction, automotive, marine, energy, electronics, and sports equipment.

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Vetrazzo makes recycled glass surfaces used for countertops and other applications, produced from reclaimed glass. It is part of the Polycor group of companies.

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N&E Innovations develops ViKANG, a natural antibacterial agent made from food waste, certified to eliminate bacteria and viruses for use in disinfectants, water treatment, and food-grade plastics. The company operates with a circular economy model to reduce carbon emissions and environmental impact while addressing global health challenges.

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Vinden is a Swedish moving service with a digital platform that tags each item during packing so customers can decide via an app what to move, store, sell, donate, or recycle. It handles packing, transport, assembly, move-out cleaning, storage billed by actual volume, and resale or recycling of unwanted belongings.

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V.I.P. Soap Products manufactures plant-based cleaning solutions for both branded and private-label customers across domestic and export markets. The company has been producing eco-friendly liquid and powder cleaning products since 1951 from its facility on Canada's West Coast.

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LILA is an electric home composter that converts food scraps into nutrient-rich compost indoors, designed to reduce household food waste without odors or outdoor bins. The product serves residential consumers looking for convenient sustainability solutions for their kitchens and gardens.

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Viridian Renewable processes black soldier fly larvae to produce food-grade protein, oil, and frass ingredients for manufacturers. The company operates the V-series production system to deliver consistent, traceable end products.

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Viridis develops water treatment technologies to remove organic pollutants and enable water circularity. The company serves industries and communities facing water quality and access challenges globally.

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VRC Companies operates a family of information management brands serving over 35,000 clients across more than 200 markets, providing document management, records storage, healthcare compliance, secure destruction, and digital transformation solutions for businesses and healthcare providers.

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Viva la Faba produces cheese made from beans using plant-based ingredients. The company serves consumers interested in sustainable, innovative food alternatives.

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Vividye develops sustainable pigments and dyes that eliminate harmful chemicals and microplastics from the color production process. The company serves industries requiring high-performance colorants while reducing environmental contamination and health risks.

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An agriculture technology company based in Montreal that develops solutions to address food insecurity by enabling sustainable, local crop production in protected environments. The company focuses on making fresh, nutritious, pesticide-free produce affordable and accessible while promoting circular economy principles and reducing agricultural deforestation.

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VLS provides hazardous waste removal, treatment, and disposal services across North America, with specializations in waste-to-energy conversion and marine/railcar cleaning. The company serves industrial clients across aerospace, manufacturing, chemical, oil & gas, and other sectors, with over 14 locations in the US and Mexico.

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VOID is a materials science company that helps plastic and packaging manufacturers develop sustainable products using its VO+ technology platform, with R&D labs and manufacturing facilities across North America, the UK, and Europe.

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Voidless develops an on-demand packaging system for warehouses that uses proprietary algorithms to produce custom-sized boxes just-in-time, eliminating the need to stock multiple standard formats. The system can automatically add personalized branding, graphics, and QR codes to each box.

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Volta Circle is a venture capital fund investing in technology-driven companies that convert linear economic systems into circular ones, focusing on pollution prevention, closed-loop consumption, and waste valorization. It targets Seed to Series A startups in areas such as advanced recycling, novel materials, green chemicals, and recycling enablers, with a global focus on Europe, the US, and India.

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Voltrinov, a Quebec-based company founded in 2021, works in electric mobility by optimizing energy use, reconditioning batteries, and extending the life of critical resources through circular practices. It builds flexible, traceable energy modules and partners with manufacturers, repair shops, active-materials industrials, and recycling centers across Quebec and Canada.

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Voro Metals operates a patent-pending pyrometallurgical process that removes residual copper and other contaminant metals from recycled scrap steel, upgrading low-grade feedstock into higher-value material. It serves electric arc furnace steelmakers, helping them produce higher-quality steel at lower cost with reduced carbon emissions while recovering copper and other metals.

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Vuala is a bio-robotics company that builds on-site automated food waste systems which lift, weigh, empty, and treat food waste caddies, separate out contaminants like plastics, capture waste data, and convert waste into a stable liquid used to generate renewable energy. It serves commercial and hospitality operators such as airports, hotels, staff restaurants, and science parks.

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