35 Best Bioplastic Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Bioplastic Startups

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There are 35 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $47.6m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$12.5m

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

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$635.4m

Money raised

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

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$265.4m

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A New Zealand industrial biotechnology company developing a gas fermentation platform for converting concentrated industrial emissions into valuable chemicals.

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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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$151.6m

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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.

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$23.5m

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

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$2.0m

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Full Cycle Bioplastics is a company that transforms waste into bioplastic

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$5.6m

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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.

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Funding Rounds

$74.9m

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

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$1.8m

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A company transforming food waste into PHA biodegrdable plastics

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7

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$124.0m

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

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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.

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$5.3m

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MetGen is a Kaarina-based chemical and enzyme company.

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$6.0m

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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.

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$63.2m

Money raised

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

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$475.0k

Money raised

Dimensional Energy is an Ithaca, New York-based company using photochemistry to produce environmentally responsible polymers and chemicals for its industrial partners.

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$159.7m

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

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$1.6m

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Mobius is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based bioplastic and biorefinery company founded in 2016 by Jeffrey Beegle and Tony Bova.

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$15.0m

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

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$74.7m

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

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$1.3m

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$4.5m

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Terraverdae Bioworks Limited is an Edmonton-based manufacturer of green materials and chemicals for the development of sustainable products.

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Funding Rounds

$7.9m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$2.7m

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

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Funding Rounds

$6.1m

Money raised

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

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$3.2m

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$7.2m

Money raised

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

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$2.4m

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

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$279.0k

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

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$2.0m

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

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$2.2m

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

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

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$60.0k

Money raised

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

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$2.5m

Money raised

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

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