New Materials Startups
2,476 companies tagged New Materials, with their investors and founders.
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
CarbonCure develops technologies that inject captured CO₂ into fresh concrete during mixing, where it mineralizes and permanently embeds in the material while reducing the amount of cement needed. The company sells these systems to cement and concrete producers to help lower the embodied carbon of concrete and the built environment.
4 investors
Carbon Upcycling captures CO2 and converts industrial byproducts — such as iron and steel slag, coal ash, and mine tailings — into low-carbon cement and materials for cement, steel, energy, and mining manufacturers. It offers carbon utilization technology that helps producers decarbonize and build domestic supplies of low-carbon materials from local resources.
4 investors
Cascade Bio develops improved biocatalysts (enzymes) that are reusable, long-lasting, and offer higher output and a wider operating window compared to conventional options. Its products target industrial and commercial biocatalysis 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
CPP produces complex superalloy, titanium, aluminum, magnesium, and steel castings using investment and precision sand casting for aerospace, defense, and power generation applications. It manufactures airframe and engine parts, mission-critical defense components, and industrial gas turbine components across more than 20 facilities.
4 investors
Coreshell develops battery materials and technology aimed at improving battery capacity, performance, and cost while reducing reliance on critical materials. The company targets clean energy and electrification applications.
4 investors
Crop Enhancement develops CropCoat, a nontoxic crop treatment that leaves no residue on the harvested crop, aimed at agricultural growers. Its ingredients are exempt from tolerance, allowing growers to export their crops.
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
DetraPel manufactures PFAS-free protective coatings and stain-repellent technologies for use in textiles, packaging, healthcare, and electronics. The company serves consumer and industrial customers seeking sustainable, non-toxic alternatives to traditional fluorinated chemistry.
4 investors
Diamond Foundry produces lab-grown diamond and diamond wafers for use as a semiconductor material, aiming to enable diamond transistors and electronics. It targets thermal-management challenges in applications such as AI computing, electric vehicles, and wireless technology.
4 investors
Dimensional Energy develops catalyst and service technology for producing sustainable fuels, licensed to project partners through a recurring, capital-light licensing model. The company sells catalyst and service bundles to enterprises and project developers.
4 investors
Dunia operates an autonomous materials acceleration platform called IRIS that combines robotics, AI foundation models, and experimental data to speed up the discovery of new materials, beginning with energy applications. The platform generates large-scale, reproducible materials datasets to train AI models and shorten R&D timelines.
4 investors
Dust Identity uses engineered diamond-dust to create discreet, clone-proof object markers, each tied to a digital record that tracks the object over its lifespan. The technology provides material integrity and product authentication for brands, manufacturers, OEMs, and collectors across the supply chain.
4 investors
EF Polymer makes a 100% natural super-absorbent polymer produced by upcycling agricultural waste such as fruit peels and pulp. Applied to farmland, it retains water to improve crop yields and lower production costs in arid conditions, and is biodegradable.
4 investors
eFlow extracts lithium from dilute brines in North America using direct lithium extraction technology, serving the clean energy and electric vehicle supply chain. The company focuses on domestic lithium production with minimal water and chemical use, positioning itself as an alternative to traditional mining operations.
4 investors
Extracellular is a contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) for animal and plant cell technologies in non-health biotech, offering R&D, regulatory support, and scale-up and contract manufacturing services. It serves innovators in cultivated meat and seafood, plant-cell-derived food ingredients, personal care and cosmetics active ingredients, and cultivated materials such as leather, cotton, and wood.
4 investors
FabricNano develops cell-free biocatalysis technology that immobilizes engineered enzymes onto scalable, environmentally friendly support materials for use in bio-processes. It offers enzyme immobilization and interaction engineering services to help companies turn biocatalysis projects into commercially viable, scalable biocatalyst products.
4 investors
Feon develops high-performance battery electrolytes using a discovery platform (EDGE) to improve battery performance, safety, and cost across various battery chemistries. Its electrolytes support clean energy storage for applications including mobility and electronics.
4 investors
FluoRok, a spin-out of the University of Oxford, develops patented fluorinating technologies to produce fluorochemicals such as Li-ion battery electrolytes, agrochemicals, and pharmaceutical ingredients without generating toxic hydrofluoric acid. The company aims to offer safer, cheaper, and more sustainable chemical production methods.
4 investors
Folio Photonics develops optical storage media using multi-layer read/write materials science to provide enterprise-scale, immutable active archive storage. It targets organizations managing large-scale, long-term data archiving needs, positioning its technology on cost, security, and sustainability.
4 investors
Group14 develops and manufactures SCC55, a patented silicon anode material for lithium-ion batteries, aimed at improving energy density and charge times. Its materials serve electric vehicles, grid-scale energy storage, consumer electronics, data center backup power, and electric aviation.
4 investors
Halion develops color-changing nanomaterials that enable reflective displays with full color and video capability, as well as color-changing plastics. The company targets applications in outdoor displays and other industrial uses.
4 investors