New Materials Startups

Blisspack designs and manufactures customized blister packaging, including specialized blister package designs, and offers tailored packaging solutions and a range of product lines. The company is based in South Korea.

4 investors

Bloom Biorenewables develops bio-based ingredients derived from non-food biomass, including a white lignin biopolymer, a bio-based solvent (DPX), and high-solids microfibrillated cellulose. These ingredients serve formulators in personal care, functional paper coatings, and paints and coatings as sustainable replacements for conventional additives.

4 investors

BlueDot Photonics develops light-emitting and light-shifting materials, including a quantum-cutting technology that boosts the energy output of silicon solar panels and phosphors for x-ray imaging and document security. The company has been acquired by UbiQD, Inc.

4 investors

Bolt Threads was a manufacturer of biomaterials for personal care formulations. The company is no longer operating.

4 investors

BTRY develops solid-state battery technology designed to charge in one minute, extending electrification to applications previously limited by energy storage constraints. The company is a Swiss spin-off from Empa and ETH Zürich focused on manufacturing energy-dense batteries using a solvent-free process.

4 investors

C3D Materials develops advanced elastomer materials and an additive manufacturing platform for 3D printing industrial-strength polyurethane rubber parts. Its reaction-based technology cures liquid materials as they are deposited, allowing durable elastomeric parts to be printed on substrates such as metal, textile, plastics, and ceramics for industrial product design and manufacturing.

4 investors

Caelux develops perovskite-based solar technology and manufactures Active Glass solutions to improve solar energy efficiency, power output, and cost-effectiveness using advanced manufacturing and machine learning.

4 investors

Carbice manufactures aligned carbon nanotube-based thermal management products for aerospace, defense, and industrial power applications. The company operates the world's largest vertically aligned carbon nanotube production facility, located in Atlanta, Georgia, with additional operations in France and California.

4 investors

CarbonBlue develops EcoLime, a fully electrified, patented lime production process that operates at ambient temperatures and uses low-quality waste feedstocks such as steel slag, quarry fines, and demolition waste. It targets industrial producers in steel, paper (Kraft process mills), and construction to reduce emissions, cut fuel reliance, and enable circular reuse of waste streams.

4 investors

ChemFinity Technologies develops highly selective sorbent and membrane materials for molecular separations used in resource recovery, including extracting critical minerals, metals, and water from waste streams. The company focuses on scaling these materials from lab to pilot and industrial deployment for sustainability and energy-efficiency applications.

4 investors

Chiral develops electron spin alignment technologies and applications based on the CISS effect to reduce resistivity and overpotential waste, enabling sustainable and higher-performance solutions.

4 investors

Chromologics is a Danish biotech company that uses a precision fermentation platform to produce natural food colours, marketed to food and beverage manufacturers as an alternative to synthetic colourants. Its lead product, Natu.Red®, is a heat- and pH-stable red colourant compatible with kosher, halal, and vegan diets.

4 investors

Cirkla makes plant-fiber ready meal trays with easy-peel liners that are microwave- and oven-safe, leak-proof, and recyclable, designed as drop-in replacements for conventional ovenable and microwaveable trays. It serves ready meal manufacturers with customizable liner and lidding film combinations that run on existing packaging lines.

4 investors

Claros Technologies develops PFAS ("forever chemical") detection, analytical testing, and destruction technologies that eliminate PFAS at the source at commercial scale, serving PFAS manufacturers and companies facing environmental regulation and liability. It operates an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory offering analytical services and privileged legal assessments.

4 investors

Climitra builds a vertically integrated platform that converts India's waste biomass into bio-coal and removes carbon dioxide at scale for industrial decarbonization. The company serves industries seeking to reduce their carbon footprint through waste biomass conversion.

4 investors

CPP produces high-integrity structural investment castings, including titanium, steel, aluminum, and nickel-based superalloy components such as engine housings, mounts, frames, and casings. It supplies these load-bearing parts to the aerospace, defense, and power generation industries.

4 investors

Core Biogenesis is a French biotech that uses an oleosome fusion platform to grow active peptides and proteins (such as EGF and FGF-2) inside camelina seeds, producing formulation-ready topical delivery carriers for skin and scalp. It supplies these recombinant protein actives to the cosmetics and personal care industry, serving formulators, R&D teams, and brands.

4 investors

Cove is a material innovation company that designs and commercializes sustainable alternatives to conventional polluting materials for global consumer brands. The company develops fiber-based packaging solutions to reduce plastic consumption in the packaging industry.

4 investors

Cruz Foam produces a compostable protective packaging foam designed as a drop-in replacement for petroleum-based EPS and EPE foam. It supplies existing foam producers and converters as well as brands shipping physical goods, and its material is designed to disintegrate after use.

4 investors

De Novo Food Labs produces nature-identical bovine lactoferrin (branded NanoFerrin) using precision fermentation instead of dairy extraction, offering customizable iron saturation, purity, and sequence identity per batch. It supplies formulators of products such as infant formula, gut-health blends, and iron supplements with lactoferrin at lower cost and higher, more consistent volumes than traditional dairy sourcing.

4 investors

Drew Marine provides marine and energy solutions including cargo hold systems, fuel management, water treatment, maintenance, refrigeration, and recreational products for maritime and energy sector customers.

4 investors

Echion Technologies is a battery technology company that develops and commercialises XNO®, a niobium-based fast-charging battery anode material supplied to cell manufacturers worldwide. Its technology is deployed across industries including mining, AI datacentres, robotics, industrial energy storage, rail, and marine.

4 investors

Ecologic Brands designs and manufactures biodegradable, paper-based packaging, including a patented hybrid bottle with a recyclable liner and a molded fiber shell made from recycled materials. It serves consumer packaged goods brands across food and beverage, personal care, and home categories, and has been part of Jabil Packaging Solutions since 2021.

4 investors

Econic Technologies develops a patented catalyst technology that converts CO2 and other renewable carbon sources into polyols and surfactants for use in consumer products. The company licenses its technology to manufacturers who produce materials for major consumer brands, offering reduced carbon footprint and improved performance versus petroleum-based alternatives.

4 investors