68 Best Recycling Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Recycling Startups

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There are 68 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $4.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $67.3m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$177.9m

Money raised

Pyrowave is a company founded by Jocelyn Doucet, Jamal Chaouki, and Jean-Philippe Laviolette.

9

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$1.3b

Money raised

Back Market is an online refurbished goods marketplace connecting consumers with sellers of electronic devices.

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6

Funding Rounds

$265.4m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$732.4m

Money raised

Ecovadis is an environmental sustainability ratings platform to assess corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement.

8

Funding Rounds

$301.4m

Money raised

AMP Robotics is a Denver-based robotics company developing robotic systems that sort recyclable material at a lower cost than current technology.

2

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$302.7m

Money raised

Enerkem is a Quebec-based company producing biofuels and renewable chemicals made from non-recyclable waste.

6

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$28.6m

Money raised

Evrnu is a Seattle-based developer of technology to recycle cotton garment waste into renewable textiles.

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Ceres is a non-profit organization advocating sustainability founded in 1989 by Joan Bavaria.

2

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$620.0k

Money raised

RecycleMatch is a developer of a marketplace for recyclables, industrial byproducts and other waste products.

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1

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$7.5m

Money raised

Digital marketplace for moving, recycling or delivering items.

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1

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$31.0m

Money raised

Phenix is a Paris-based company providing a platform and services for the management of unsold items and waste reduction.

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3

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

Carbon Upcycling Technologies Inc. is a Calgary-based carbon capture and storage company developing technologies to turn the carbon into building materials.

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2

Funding Rounds

$14.6m

Money raised

Platform aiming to revolutionize the financial, environmental, and social impact of waste.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

Nordsense is a SaaS-based smart waste management platform that helps with the waste collection processes.

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1

Funding Rounds

$106.6m

Money raised

AgriProtein is a Cape Town-based developer of insect based nutrient recycling to create sustainable sources of protein for the mono-gastric animal feed industry.

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$71.2m

Money raised

Waste Repurposing International, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2016 by Chris Ripley.

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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

$85.1m

Money raised

Recyclebank is a New York City-based company founded in 2004 by Ron Gonen.

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1

Funding Rounds

$33.0m

Money raised

Sierra Energy is a Davis, California-based technology company turning waste into energy without burning.

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1

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$12.3m

Money raised

Infinite Cooling is a Cambridge, Massachusets-based renewables and environment company that specializes in wastewater management and recycling.

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1

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$119.0k

Money raised

Graviky Labs is a company that started as MIT Media Lab experiment and the company is now a dedicated team that is trying to transform the industrial production.

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3

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$10.1m

Money raised

Axiom Energy is a Richmond, California-based company developing cooling systems into intelligent, cloud-connected batteries.

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3

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$108.6m

Money raised

RoadRunner Recycling is a company founded in 2014.

2

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$20.7m

Money raised

Resourcify is on a mission to enable a zero-waste future and circular economy.

1

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$19.7k

Money raised

The leading business intelligence & trading platform for the global trade of scrap & recyclable commodities.

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2

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$174.6k

Money raised

Reflow is a company that is using 3D Printing to translate creative ideas into physical reality.

4

Funding Rounds

$37.9m

Money raised

Vytal is a reusable packaging solutions provider founded in 2019 by Sven Witthöft, Fabian Barthel and Tim Breker.

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1

Funding Rounds

$226.0k

Money raised

ROSI is a Grenoble-based company.

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5

Funding Rounds

$46.4m

Money raised

Gazelle is an american internet company founded in 2006 by Israel Y. Ganot.

2

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

Intuitive has created a sensor and display that allows commercial facility managers to sort waste based on recycling category and captures information about the items being disposed. The decision to sell the technology as an add-on to existing bins rather than a stand-alone device was refined after feedback from pilot customers.

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3

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$75.0k

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ReDeTec is a company that develops 3D printing filament extrusion and recycling system for recycling old 3D printed parts.

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1

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

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

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2

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$17.8m

Money raised

Moment Energy is a start-up striving to provide greater access to renewable and reliable energy storage.

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2

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

ZaaK technologies is a Zwickau-based company founded by Abbas Khan.

1

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$5.5m

Money raised

TrueCircle is building a marketplace to support waste processing facilities in selling the verified material they reclaim.

4

Funding Rounds

$19.4m

Money raised

Altilium is a critical metals supplier for EV batteries founded in 2020 by Christian Marston.

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1

Funding Rounds

$500.0m

Money raised

Aihuishou is a is a company providing a bidding-based consumer-to-business platform for recycling and selling used electronic items.

3

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$36.5m

Money raised

BlueOak Resources is a developer of mini-refineries for the extraction of precious minerals and rare earth minerals from electronic waste.

1

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$900.0k

Money raised

Blockchain platform that digitizes waste streams for buyers and auditors.

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$30.0m

Money raised

Circ is revitalizing the future of material technology and recycling using hydrothermal technology to separate polyester from cotton in blended materials, recovering both to be re-made into new fibers, closing the loop for fashion and textiles.

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Device that produces green hydrogen and recycles CO2 using solar energy.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised

Recycling platform for textile, yarn and production material waste.

$4.5m

Money raised

Developer of circular solutions converts orange peels into new raw materials.

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1

Funding Rounds

$560.0k

Money raised

Technology company specializing in research and development in renewable energy.

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1

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$7.0m

Money raised

Green Machine Equipment is a company that engineers lithium batteries out of Buffalo, New York.

1

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$14.0m

Money raised

Flipswap is a Torrance, California-based recycling company founded in 2005.

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$3.2m

Money raised

Technology that separates the components of mixed plastic waste for recycling.

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Connora Technologies is an Hayward, California-based company founded in 2011 by Rey Banatao.

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$8.7m

Money raised

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

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2

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$920.0k

Money raised

YouRenew is an Illinois-based company founded by Rich Littlehale.

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1

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$60.0k

Money raised

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

1

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$6.3m

Money raised

Rester is a textile recycling solutions provider founded in 2019.

$6.5m

Money raised

Developer of a novel PET & polyester textile waste upcycling technology.

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1

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$21.8m

Money raised

Ultra-efficient catalysis technology developer to mass-produce green methanol

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1

Funding Rounds

$96.8m

Money raised

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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$2.9m

Money raised

Chemical recycling technology developer to turn plastic waste into valuable chemicals.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

Roserve is a Mumbai-based wastewater recycling and treatment company.

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$12.7m

Money raised

DEScycle is an e-waste metal recycling solutions provider founded in 2018 by Geoff McNamara.

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2

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$11.0m

Money raised

Compost Crew provides food scrap collection services for homes and businesses in DC, MD and VA.

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$2.0m

Money raised

NiftyThrifty is a company founded by Topper Luciani.

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$2.0m

Money raised

Replenysh is a company founded in 2016 by Mark Armen.

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Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

CurbWaste is a company founded by Michael Marmo.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.2m

Money raised

TrashButler is a Tampa, Florida-based company founded in 2011.

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$18.7m

Money raised

RECUPYL is a France-based company.

1

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$2.1m

Money raised

Lithium Salvage is an end-to-end household lithium-ion battery recycler founded in 2021 by Duncan Noble.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

METYCLE is an AI-powered platform for global metal recycling founded in 2022.

1

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$165.0k

Money raised

Manufacturer of high-performance textiles made from recycled fiberglass.

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$3.0m

Money raised

WastePlace is a company founded in 2016.

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