69 Best Plastic Packaging Containers Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Plastic Packaging Containers Startups

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There are 92 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $4.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $68.1m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

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

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$50.0k

Money raised

HYPRES is a developer of superconducting microelectronics for defense, wireless, and optical network industries.

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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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$635.4m

Money raised

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

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$265.4m

Money raised

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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Funding Rounds

$151.6m

Money raised

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

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Full Cycle Bioplastics is a company that transforms waste into bioplastic

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$5.6m

Money raised

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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$68.0m

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Bottle system offering scent-flavored water to enhance drinking experience.

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4

Funding Rounds

$101.5m

Money raised

3D Glass Solutions, Inc. (3DGS) is a private late-stage high-tech manufacturing business headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Sulapac is a fully biodegradable material innovation made of sustainably sourced wood and plant-based binders.

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$66.0m

Money raised

Mori manufactures an all-natural protective layer to slow down the spoiling process of food.

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$334.0m

Money raised

CRB is a leading provider of engineering, architecture, construction and consulting solutions, delivering safe, high-quality,...

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Funding Rounds

$46.4m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$74.9m

Money raised

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

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$1.8m

Money raised

A company transforming food waste into PHA biodegrdable plastics

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$25.0k

Money raised

JuggerBot 3D is an additive manufacturing machine builder focused on designing and building 3D printing solutions.

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Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised

EternoGen is a skin products company

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$124.0m

Money raised

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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$120.0k

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Georgette Packaging is a packaging solutions company for small businesses founded in 2013.

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$5.3m

Money raised

MetGen is a Kaarina-based chemical and enzyme company.

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Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

Notpla is a plastic-free packaging solutions provider founded in 2014 by Pierre Paslier.

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$6.0m

Money raised

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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Funding Rounds

$63.2m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$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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Funding Rounds

$159.7m

Money raised

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

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$13.7m

Money raised

Polystyvert is a Montreal, Quebec-based company providing dissolution technology services designed to recycle polystyrene.

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$9.0m

Money raised

Lumi is a printmaking supply company.

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$208.0m

Money raised

TemperPack is a developer and provider of recyclable packaging and recyclable thermal packaging solutions for sustainable commerce.

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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.

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$24.1m

Money raised

Vericool is replacing plastic coolers and packaging with plant-based products

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$57.7m

Money raised

Again provides supply chain infrastructure for circular packaging.

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Funding Rounds

$20.5m

Money raised

Cruz Foam is a Santa Cruz, California-based developer of a range of compostable packaging materials combing seafood industry waste with overflow waste from paper recycling.

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$15.0m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$20.3m

Money raised

PolySpectra, Inc. is an olySpectra Inc. is a modern materials company founded in 2015 by Raymond Weitekamp.

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1

Funding Rounds

$36.2m

Money raised

Pulpac, founded in 2018, develops Dry Molded Fiber, manufacturing technology for low cost, high-performance fiber-based packaging and single-use products.

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Funding Rounds

$74.7m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$12.4m

Money raised

Shellworks is on a mission to make plastic waste a thing of the past by creating truly compostable packaging solutions.

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$13.7m

Money raised

Modern Synthesis is a biomaterials producer for textile industry founded in 2019 by Ben Reeve.

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$1.5m

Money raised

Pakible is a company offering design and manufacture of custom product packaging.

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$1.3m

Money raised

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$4.5m

Money raised

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

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$7.9m

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

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Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

Xampla is a Cambridge, Cambridgeshire-based company founded in 2018 by Tuomas Knowles.

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$2.7m

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

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$7.0m

Money raised

Shoplogix is a company founded in 2002.

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Funding Rounds

$900.0k

Money raised

Smart Planet Technologies is a Newport Beach, California-based provider of sustainable and environmental alternatives to rigid, flexible, liner and corrugated packaging applications.

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$25.0m

Money raised

Paptic is a manufacturing company producing eco-friendly packaging materials founded in 2015.

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$230.0k

Money raised

Lyfa delivers grocery items to people's doors in reusable packaging that is then picked up during the next delivery.

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$5.1m

Money raised

Adaptive3D is a company founded by Satya Krishna Ganni.

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$6.9m

Money raised

Recyda is a packing management platform founded in 2020 by Vivian Loftin, Christian Knobloch and Anna Zießow.

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Founded in 2011, Bolder Industries makes the world's most sustainable plastic and rubber products possible. The company is a pioneer in converting end-of-life tires into desirable carbon black alternatives and petrochemicals with minimal waste.

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$6.1m

Money raised

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

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$3.2m

Money raised

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

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Funding Rounds

$3.8m

Money raised

Food and nutraceutical products and sustainable materials made from sustainably-sourced seaweed.

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$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

Money raised

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

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$279.0k

Money raised

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

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$2.0m

Money raised

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

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$200.0k

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AEROPOWDER is creating novel materials from surplus feathers. It developed world's first thermal packaging material made from surplus feathers.

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$2.2m

Money raised

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

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$8.0m

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Teramount is a company founded by Abraham Israel.

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$40.0m

Money raised

MBA Polymers is a company in the plastics industry founded in 1997.

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$900.0k

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Blockchain platform that digitizes waste streams for buyers and auditors.

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

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