We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.
There are 37 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $49.6m.
Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.
A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.
1
Funding Rounds
$12.5m
Money raised
Genomatica is a San Diego-based company founded in 2000 by Christophe Schilling.
10
Funding Rounds
$635.4m
Money raised
A New Zealand industrial biotechnology company developing a gas fermentation platform for converting concentrated industrial emissions into valuable chemicals.
6
Funding Rounds
$265.4m
Money raised
Roquette is a French company focused on the production of plant-based food and nutrition ingredients for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. The company was founded in 1933 by Dominique & Germain Roquette, and is headquartered in Lestrem, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France.
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A carbon sequestration technology and bioplastics company based in Huntington Beach, California, founded in 2003, that uses their technology to capture carbon from greenhouse emissions for production of bioplastics.
7
Funding Rounds
$151.6m
Money raised
Anellotech is a Pearl River, New York-based biorefinery company founded in 2008 by David Sudolsky.
7
Funding Rounds
$23.5m
Money raised
Full Cycle Bioplastics is a company that transforms waste into bioplastic
2
Funding Rounds
$2.0m
Money raised
Bluepha Co., Ltd. is a synthetic biology and biomaterial company established in Beijing, China. The technology developed by Bluepha can achieve low-cost production of a kind of biodegradable material polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs). PHAs are well accepted as replacements of traditional petro-based plastics.
2
Funding Rounds
$5.6m
Money raised
Virent Energy Systems is a Madison, Wisconsin-based renewable fuel source company.
4
Funding Rounds
$74.9m
Money raised
Mango Materials is a Redwood City, California-based company.
1
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A company transforming food waste into PHA biodegrdable plastics
4
Funding Rounds
$1.8m
Money raised
TIPA® is a developer and producer of fully compostable flexible packaging solutions.
7
Funding Rounds
$124.0m
Money raised
Kiverdi is a Hayward, California-based carbon capture and storage company working to commercialize technology using chemoautotrophic microbes to transform carbon dioxide and related gases into bio-based products.
1
Funding Rounds
MetGen is a Kaarina-based chemical and enzyme company.
5
Funding Rounds
$5.3m
Money raised
LOLIWARE has pioneered the world's leading seaweed technology to replace single-use plastics. LOLIWARE's products harness LIST (LOLIWARE Intelligent Seaweed Technologies) to create single-use items designed to disappear. LOLIWARE is poised to completely replace single-use plastics beginning with the launch of the company's new seaweed-based straw in 2019. LOLIWARE's straw looks, feels, and acts like plastic, but is made from 100% food-grade materials. It is designed to disappear either through composting or natural processes.
1
Funding Rounds
$6.0m
Money raised
Kebony is an environmentally friendly wood modification process developer founded in 1997 by Sabine Domayer.
6
Funding Rounds
$63.2m
Money raised
Dimensional Energy is an Ithaca, New York-based company using photochemistry to produce environmentally responsible polymers and chemicals for its industrial partners.
4
Funding Rounds
$475.0k
Money raised
Renmatix is a biorefinery company founded in 2010 by Srinivas Kilambi.
7
Funding Rounds
$159.7m
Money raised
Mobius is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based bioplastic and biorefinery company founded in 2016 by Jeffrey Beegle and Tony Bova.
7
Funding Rounds
$1.6m
Money raised
NatureWorks is a Minnetonka, Minnesota-based bioplastic company manufacturing their proprietary bioplastic Ingeo.
1
Funding Rounds
$150.0m
Money raised
GlycosBio is an Houston-based company.
7
Funding Rounds
$19.0m
Money raised
Yulex is a company founded in 2017 by Jeffrey A. Martin.
1
Funding Rounds
$15.0m
Money raised
FRX Polymers is a Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2007 by Marc Lebel.
6
Funding Rounds
$74.7m
Money raised
Company & Organization, based in Washington
1
Funding Rounds
$1.3m
Money raised
Terraverdae Bioworks Limited is an Edmonton-based manufacturer of green materials and chemicals for the development of sustainable products.
1
Funding Rounds
$4.5m
Money raised
Green Dot Bioplastics is a company which makes bioplastic and bio-composite pellets.
3
Funding Rounds
$7.9m
Money raised
Venvirotech is a Barcelona-based biotechnology company working to develop organic waste into bioplastics.
2
Funding Rounds
$2.7m
Money raised
Producer of bio-based water-soluble polymer alternatives to plastics.
2
Funding Rounds
$6.1m
Money raised
Radical Plastics, Inc. is a Winchester, Massachusetts-based bioplastics company.
2
Funding Rounds
$3.2m
Money raised
Biologiq Inc. is an Idaho Falls, Idaho-based plastics and bioplastics company founded in 2011.
3
Funding Rounds
$7.2m
Money raised
Lyspackaging is a Chaniers-based bioplastic packaging company founded in 2015.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.4m
Money raised
Maistic is a Helsingør-based bioplastic company manufacturing compostable and bioplastic packaging products for consumers and companies.
1
Funding Rounds
$279.0k
Money raised
Eco Products is a Boulder, Colorado-based bioplastic company.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.0m
Money raised
Woodly is a Helsinki-based producer of bioplastics for furniture, furnishing accessories, cots, and beds, and toys.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.2m
Money raised
Rodenburg Biopolymers is an Oosterhout-based developer and manufacturer of biodegradable of biopolymer products.
1
Funding Rounds
Impact Solutions is a Grangemouth-based plastics research and development company.
1
Funding Rounds
$60.0k
Money raised
Biovox is a sustainable bioplastics manufacturer for medical applications founded in 2021 by Vinzenz Nienhaus.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.5m
Money raised