54 Best Materials Science Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Materials Science 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 54 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $59.9m.

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

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Basilisk logo

Basilisk

Basilisk is a Delft-based manufacturer of self-healing concrete and concrete healing products founded in 2015 by Hendrik Jonkers and Bart van der Woerd

2

Funding Rounds

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New Wave Foods

New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant-based shellfish food products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.

9

Funding Rounds

$20.3m

Money raised

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Apeel Sciences

Apeel Sciences is a company that develops treatments to prevent spoilage of fruits and vegetables using molecules naturally found in peels, which maintain moisture and keep out oxygen.

21

Funding Rounds

$1.9b

Money raised

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Riffyn

Riffyn is a company that develops cloud-based R&D software that they call the Scientific Development Environment (SDE). The SDE is a computer aided design (CAD) platform allowing users to visually design processes and experiments, execute experiments, collect and analyze data in real-time using machine learning, and share results and protocols eas

4

Funding Rounds

$24.9m

Money raised

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MycoWorks

A company creating sustainable design solutions with biomaterials. It was founded in 2013 and is located in San Francisco, California.

3

Funding Rounds

$187.0m

Money raised

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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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Nanox Intelligent Materials

Nanox Intelligent Materials develops solutions for antimicrobial protection in the retail, food packaging, textile, architecture and design segments.

1

Funding Rounds

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Solidia Technologies

Solidia Technologies is a Piscataway, New Jersey-based technology company offering solutions for using CO2 for manufacturing construction and industrial products.

4

Funding Rounds

$105.0m

Money raised

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Kebotix

Kebotix is a company using AI and robotics to brainstorm and then test new compounds.

6

Funding Rounds

$40.5m

Money raised

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Made of Air

Made of Air is a carbon storage company converting captured carbon into biomass and biochar for negative emissions products.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.8m

Money raised

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Gel4Med

Gel4Med is a medical technology company developing biomaterials for the treatment and regeneration of tissues. It has developed an antimicrobial tissue-scaffolding matrix that promotes regeneration while shielding the tissues from bacteria. Manav Mehta founded the company in Boston, Massachusetts in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised

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Citrine Informatics

Citrine Informatics is a Redwood City, California-based company founded in 2013 by Greg Mulholland.

4

Funding Rounds

$55.6m

Money raised

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Metis Design Corporation

Metis Design Corporation is a Boston-based company founded in 2002.

10

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Mango Materials

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

1

Funding Rounds

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FLITE Material Sciences Corp.

FLITE Material Sciences Corp. is a Montréal, QC-based company founded by Dan Cohen in 2018.

2

Funding Rounds

$144.0k

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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Vorbeck Materials

Vorbeck Materials is a Jessup, Maryland-based company founded by John S. Lettow.

11

Funding Rounds

$45.9m

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

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LiquiGlide

LiquiGlide eliminates the friction between solids and liquids to innovate in products, packaging, processes & patient experiences.

5

Funding Rounds

$23.1m

Money raised

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Robotic Materials (company)

Robotic Materials is a computer software company that offers robot-native manufacturing execution and time-keeping systems.

8

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

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Texas High Energy Materials, LLC

Texas High Energy Materials, LLC is a Cedar Park, Texas-based R&D firm and manufacturer of specialty chemicals and materials for military, aerospace, and other applications.

9

Funding Rounds

$2.7m

Money raised

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CHASM Advanced Materials

CHASM Advanced Materials, Inc. is a company that produces advanced materials.

5

Funding Rounds

$51.3m

Money raised

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Primet Precision Materials

Primet Precision Materials is an advanced materials company.

8

Funding Rounds

$11.6m

Money raised

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Liquid X Printed Metals

Discover the advantage of Liquid X® metallic inks:pushing the boundaries of functional electronics fabrication by enabling additive manufacturing techniques

6

Funding Rounds

$6.6m

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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CarboCulture

CarboCulture is a carbon conversion company turning waste into biomass and high carbon content charcoal.

5

Funding Rounds

$7.6m

Money raised

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MOGU (company)

MOGU manufactures materials and technologies that are based on fungi as main constituent.

$16.0m

Money raised

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Swedish Algae Factory

Swedish Algae Factory is a Gothenburg-based company extracting silicon algae as a raw material with nanoporous material.

5

Funding Rounds

$8.9m

Money raised

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nanomech inc.

nanomech inc. is a Springdale, Arkansas-based company founded in 2002 by Ajay P. Malshe.

8

Funding Rounds

$41.6m

Money raised

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N12 Technologies, Inc.

N12 Technologies, Inc. is a company founded in 2012 by Jeff Sabados.

3

Funding Rounds

$30.2m

Money raised

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Ionic Materials

Ionic Materials is a battery manufacturing company.

1

Funding Rounds

$65.0m

Money raised

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Holo (machine learning company)

HOLO is a digital surgery company.

1

Funding Rounds

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Oxford Performance Materials, Inc.

Oxford Performance Materials, Inc. is a South Windsor, Connecticut-based materials science company founded in 2000 by Scott DeFelice.

7

Funding Rounds

$64.8m

Money raised

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Applied Graphene Materials PLC

Applied Graphene Materials PLC is a producer of specialty graphene materials founded in 2010 by Karl Coleman.

1

Funding Rounds

$138.7k

Money raised

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MolyWorks Materials Corp

MolyWorks Materials Corp is a company founded in 2015 by Christopher Eonta.

3

Funding Rounds

$9.6m

Money raised

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Intellegens

Intellegens is an artificial Intelligence company founded by Ben Pellegrini.

1

Funding Rounds

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ApNano

ApNano is a company founded by Menachem Genut.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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CENS Materials

CENS is a company that develops technology for improving the energy and power of super-capacitors and lithium ion batteries.

2

Funding Rounds

$786.5k

Money raised

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Adaptive Surface Technologies

Adaptive Surface Technologies (formerly SLIPS Technologies) is a Cambridge-based manufacturer of anti-ice coating technologies for aerospace applications.

2

Funding Rounds

$14.4m

Money raised

Indium Corporation logo

Indium Corporation

Indium Corporation is a Clinton, Oneida County, New York-based company founded in 1934.

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

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Quantum Materials Corp

Quantum Materials Corp. is a nanotechnology company.

3

Funding Rounds

$15.5m

Money raised

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SDCmaterials, Inc.

SDC Materials, Inc. is a company that designs and develops nanomaterials.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Factorial Energy

Lionano redefines battery materials manufacturing & revolutionizes markets for electric vehicles, consumer electronics, & industry storage.

1

Funding Rounds

$22.0m

Money raised

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Deep Cell

Deep Cell is a cannabis company founded in 2015 by Kelly Ogilvie.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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Materialize.X

Materialize.X is a company founded by Haidin F. Rashid, Adrien Hitz and Fabio Fiorelli.

2

Funding Rounds

$85.5k

Money raised

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MITO Material Solutions

MITO Material Solutions is an Oklahoma-based company founded by Haley Marie Keith, Bhishma Sedai and Kevin Keith.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

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Lyncean Technologies

Lyncean Technologies is a company founded in 2002.

1

Funding Rounds

$13.8m

Money raised

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Tribogenics

Tribogenics is a Los Angeles-based company founded by Dale Fox.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.7m

Money raised

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480 Biomedical

A company developing bioresorbable scaffold for treating occlusive disease in the superficial femoral artery

1

Funding Rounds

$15.0m

Money raised

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E-Leather

E-Leather is a Peterborough-based developer of leather goods designed and manufactured from leather waste from the traditional leather industry.

1

Funding Rounds

$96.8m

Money raised

Xheme Inc. logo

Xheme Inc.

Xheme Inc. is a company founded in 2019.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

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BeeMetal Corp.

BeeMetal Corp. is a microscale powders manufacturer based in Pasadena, California founded in 2017.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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Nuovo Film

Nuovo Film is a Suzhou-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

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Terecircuits Corp

Terecircuits Corp is a Mountain View, California-based materials science company.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised