23 Best Green Chemistry Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Green Chemistry Startups

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There are 23 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $885.4m. The average funding per company in this subset is $38.5m.

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2

Funding Rounds

$60.2k

Money raised

Visolis is a bioengineering and chemical processing company making sustainable and carbon-negative materials; headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Key people:

4

Funding Rounds

$90.0m

Money raised

Checkerspot is a Berkeley, California-based materials innovation company.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

GFBiochemicals produces levulinic acid and it's derivatives directly from biomass with proprietary technology.

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1

Funding Rounds

$28.0m

Money raised

Colorifix is developing a revolutionary dyeing process to help the textile industry dramatically reduce its environmental impact.

6

Funding Rounds

$46.4m

Money raised

Novomer is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2004 by Scott D. Allen.

4

Funding Rounds

$74.9m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

A company transforming food waste into PHA biodegrdable plastics

Key people:

7

Funding Rounds

$159.7m

Money raised

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

7

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$5.2m

Money raised

Poly6 Technologies is a company that is digitizing industrial manufacturing processes

6

Funding Rounds

$38.6m

Money raised

A bio-renewable chemistry company developing and producing specialty chemicals using renewable feedstocks

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Ecovia Renewables is a polyglutamic acid production company founded in 2014.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Chinova Bioworks is an antimicrobial agents manufacturing company founded in 2016 by Natasha Dhayagude, David Brown and Tanzina Huq.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Curie Co is a company founded in 2017.

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0k

Money raised

Modular Genetics, Inc. is a Woburn, Massachusetts-based company founded by Temple Smith.

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3

Funding Rounds

$254.0m

Money raised

Elevance Renewable Sciences is a company founded in 2007.

1

Funding Rounds

$120.0m

Money raised

Evolved by Nature developed technology for activating silk proteins from silkworm cocoons and are leveraging that material for use in various products.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

Zymtronix is an Ithaca, New York-based company founded in 2013.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Nohbo operates as a sustainable beauty & personal care technology company. The company houses its shampoos, conditioners, body washes, and shaving creams in a water-soluble membrane that dissolves during use.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

Biosynthetic Technologies is a biorefinery company that produces synthetic oils from organic fatty acids found in plant oils.

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2

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

xF Technologies is a green chemistry company founded in 2007.

1

Funding Rounds

$17.6m

Money raised

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