37 Best Bioplastic Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Bioplastic Startups

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.

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DSM logo

DSM

A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

Genomatica logo

Genomatica

Genomatica is a San Diego-based company founded in 2000 by Christophe Schilling.

10

Funding Rounds

$635.4m

Money raised

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LanzaTech

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

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Roquette

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.

1

Funding Rounds

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Newlight Technologies

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

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Anellotech

Anellotech is a Pearl River, New York-based biorefinery company founded in 2008 by David Sudolsky.

7

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

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Full Cycle Bioplastics

Full Cycle Bioplastics is a company that transforms waste into bioplastic

2

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Bluepha

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

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Virent Energy Systems

Virent Energy Systems is a Madison, Wisconsin-based renewable fuel source company.

4

Funding Rounds

$74.9m

Money raised

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Mango Materials

Mango Materials is a Redwood City, California-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

Genecis EnviroTech logo

Genecis EnviroTech

A company transforming food waste into PHA biodegrdable plastics

4

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

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TIPA

TIPA® is a developer and producer of fully compostable flexible packaging solutions.

7

Funding Rounds

$124.0m

Money raised

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Kiverdi

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

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MetGen

MetGen is a Kaarina-based chemical and enzyme company.

5

Funding Rounds

$5.3m

Money raised

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LOLIWARE

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

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Kebony

Kebony is an environmentally friendly wood modification process developer founded in 1997 by Sabine Domayer.

6

Funding Rounds

$63.2m

Money raised

Dimensional Energy logo

Dimensional Energy

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

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Renmatix

Renmatix is a biorefinery company founded in 2010 by Srinivas Kilambi.

7

Funding Rounds

$159.7m

Money raised

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Mobius

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

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NatureWorks

NatureWorks is a Minnetonka, Minnesota-based bioplastic company manufacturing their proprietary bioplastic Ingeo.

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0m

Money raised

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GlycosBio

GlycosBio is an Houston-based company.

7

Funding Rounds

$19.0m

Money raised

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Yulex

Yulex is a company founded in 2017 by Jeffrey A. Martin.

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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FRX Polymers

FRX Polymers is a Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2007 by Marc Lebel.

6

Funding Rounds

$74.7m

Money raised

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Corumat

Company & Organization, based in Washington

1

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

Terraverdae Bioworks Limited logo

Terraverdae Bioworks Limited

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

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Green Dot Bioplastics

Green Dot Bioplastics is a company which makes bioplastic and bio-composite pellets.

3

Funding Rounds

$7.9m

Money raised

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Venvirotech

Venvirotech is a Barcelona-based biotechnology company working to develop organic waste into bioplastics.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.7m

Money raised

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Lactips

Producer of bio-based water-soluble polymer alternatives to plastics.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.1m

Money raised

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Radical Plastics, Inc.

Radical Plastics, Inc. is a Winchester, Massachusetts-based bioplastics company.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.2m

Money raised

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Biologiq Inc.

Biologiq Inc. is an Idaho Falls, Idaho-based plastics and bioplastics company founded in 2011.

3

Funding Rounds

$7.2m

Money raised

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Lyspackaging

Lyspackaging is a Chaniers-based bioplastic packaging company founded in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

Maistic logo

Maistic

Maistic is a Helsingør-based bioplastic company manufacturing compostable and bioplastic packaging products for consumers and companies.

1

Funding Rounds

$279.0k

Money raised

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Eco Products (company)

Eco Products is a Boulder, Colorado-based bioplastic company.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Woodly

Woodly is a Helsinki-based producer of bioplastics for furniture, furnishing accessories, cots, and beds, and toys.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

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Rodenburg Biopolymers

Rodenburg Biopolymers is an Oosterhout-based developer and manufacturer of biodegradable of biopolymer products.

1

Funding Rounds

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Impact Solutions

Impact Solutions is a Grangemouth-based plastics research and development company.

1

Funding Rounds

$60.0k

Money raised

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Biovox

Biovox is a sustainable bioplastics manufacturer for medical applications founded in 2021 by Vinzenz Nienhaus.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised