54 Best Materials Science Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Materials Science Startups

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There are 54 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $59.9m.

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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

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$20.3m

Money raised

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.

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$1.9b

Money raised

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.

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$24.9m

Money raised

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

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$187.0m

Money raised

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

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

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$105.0m

Money raised

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

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$40.5m

Money raised

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

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$5.8m

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

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$200.0k

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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.

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$55.6m

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

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$2.3m

Money raised

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

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$144.0k

Money raised

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

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$124.0m

Money raised

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

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$45.9m

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

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$63.2m

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

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$23.1m

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

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$1.7m

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

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$2.7m

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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.

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$51.3m

Money raised

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

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$11.6m

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Primet Precision Materials is an advanced materials company.

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$6.6m

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

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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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$7.6m

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

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$16.0m

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

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$8.9m

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

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$41.6m

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

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$30.2m

Money raised

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

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$65.0m

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Ionic Materials is a battery manufacturing company.

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$64.8m

Money raised

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

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$138.7k

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

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$9.6m

Money raised

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

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Intellegens is an artificial Intelligence company founded by Ben Pellegrini.

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$9.0m

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ApNano is a company founded by Menachem Genut.

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$786.5k

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

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$14.4m

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

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$150.0k

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

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$15.5m

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Quantum Materials Corp. is a nanotechnology company.

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$5.0m

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

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$22.0m

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

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$5.0m

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

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$85.5k

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

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$1.3m

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

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$13.8m

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Lyncean Technologies is a company founded in 2002.

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$8.7m

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

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$15.0m

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

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$96.8m

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

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$3.5m

Money raised

Xheme Inc. is a company founded in 2019.

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$2.5m

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

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Nuovo Film is a Suzhou-based company.

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$4.0m

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

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