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 64 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $4.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $70.6m.
Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.
Pyrowave is a company founded by Jocelyn Doucet, Jamal Chaouki, and Jean-Philippe Laviolette.
9
Funding Rounds
$177.9m
Money raised
Back Market is an online refurbished goods marketplace connecting consumers with sellers of electronic devices.
9
Funding Rounds
$1.3b
Money raised
A New Zealand industrial biotechnology company developing a gas fermentation platform for converting concentrated industrial emissions into valuable chemicals.
6
Funding Rounds
$265.4m
Money raised
Ecovadis is an environmental sustainability ratings platform to assess corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement.
6
Funding Rounds
$732.4m
Money raised
AMP Robotics is a Denver-based robotics company developing robotic systems that sort recyclable material at a lower cost than current technology.
8
Funding Rounds
$301.4m
Money raised
Enerkem is a Quebec-based company producing biofuels and renewable chemicals made from non-recyclable waste.
2
Funding Rounds
$302.7m
Money raised
Evrnu is a Seattle-based developer of technology to recycle cotton garment waste into renewable textiles.
6
Funding Rounds
$28.6m
Money raised
Ceres is a non-profit organization advocating sustainability founded in 1989 by Joan Bavaria.
1
Funding Rounds
RecycleMatch is a developer of a marketplace for recyclables, industrial byproducts and other waste products.
2
Funding Rounds
$620.0k
Money raised
Digital marketplace for moving, recycling or delivering items.
1
Funding Rounds
$7.5m
Money raised
Phenix is a Paris-based company providing a platform and services for the management of unsold items and waste reduction.
1
Funding Rounds
$31.0m
Money raised
Carbon Upcycling Technologies Inc. is a Calgary-based carbon capture and storage company developing technologies to turn the carbon into building materials.
3
Funding Rounds
$6.0m
Money raised
Platform aiming to revolutionize the financial, environmental, and social impact of waste.
2
Funding Rounds
$14.6m
Money raised
Nordsense is a SaaS-based smart waste management platform that helps with the waste collection processes.
1
Funding Rounds
$5.0m
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.
1
Funding Rounds
$106.6m
Money raised
Waste Repurposing International, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2016 by Chris Ripley.
9
Funding Rounds
$71.2m
Money raised
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
Recyclebank is a New York City-based company founded in 2004 by Ron Gonen.
4
Funding Rounds
$85.1m
Money raised
Sierra Energy is a Davis, California-based technology company turning waste into energy without burning.
1
Funding Rounds
$33.0m
Money raised
Infinite Cooling is a Cambridge, Massachusets-based renewables and environment company that specializes in wastewater management and recycling.
1
Funding Rounds
$12.3m
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.
1
Funding Rounds
$119.0k
Money raised
Axiom Energy is a Richmond, California-based company developing cooling systems into intelligent, cloud-connected batteries.
3
Funding Rounds
$10.1m
Money raised
RoadRunner Recycling is a company founded in 2014.
3
Funding Rounds
$108.6m
Money raised
Resourcify is on a mission to enable a zero-waste future and circular economy.
2
Funding Rounds
$20.7m
Money raised
The leading business intelligence & trading platform for the global trade of scrap & recyclable commodities.
1
Funding Rounds
$19.7k
Money raised
Reflow is a company that is using 3D Printing to translate creative ideas into physical reality.
2
Funding Rounds
$174.6k
Money raised
ROSI is a Grenoble-based company.
1
Funding Rounds
$226.0k
Money raised
Gazelle is an american internet company founded in 2006 by Israel Y. Ganot.
5
Funding Rounds
$46.4m
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.
2
Funding Rounds
$150.0k
Money raised
ReDeTec is a company that develops 3D printing filament extrusion and recycling system for recycling old 3D printed parts.
3
Funding Rounds
$75.0k
Money raised
Paptic is a manufacturing company producing eco-friendly packaging materials founded in 2015.
1
Funding Rounds
$25.0m
Money raised
Moment Energy is a start-up striving to provide greater access to renewable and reliable energy storage.
2
Funding Rounds
$17.8m
Money raised
ZaaK technologies is a Zwickau-based company founded by Abbas Khan.
2
Funding Rounds
$1.2m
Money raised
Altilium is a critical metals supplier for EV batteries founded in 2020 by Christian Marston.
4
Funding Rounds
$19.4m
Money raised
Aihuishou is a is a company providing a bidding-based consumer-to-business platform for recycling and selling used electronic items.
1
Funding Rounds
$500.0m
Money raised
BlueOak Resources is a developer of mini-refineries for the extraction of precious minerals and rare earth minerals from electronic waste.
3
Funding Rounds
$36.5m
Money raised
TrueCircle is building a marketplace to support waste processing facilities in selling the verified material they reclaim.
1
Funding Rounds
$5.5m
Money raised
Blockchain platform that digitizes waste streams for buyers and auditors.
1
Funding Rounds
$900.0k
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.
1
Funding Rounds
$30.0m
Money raised
Device that produces green hydrogen and recycles CO2 using solar energy.
1
Funding Rounds
Developer of circular solutions converts orange peels into new raw materials.
$4.5m
Money raised
Recycling platform for textile, yarn and production material waste.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.1m
Money raised
Technology company specializing in research and development in renewable energy.
1
Funding Rounds
$560.0k
Money raised
Green Machine Equipment is a company that engineers lithium batteries out of Buffalo, New York.
1
Funding Rounds
$7.0m
Money raised
Flipswap is a Torrance, California-based recycling company founded in 2005.
1
Funding Rounds
$14.0m
Money raised
Technology that separates the components of mixed plastic waste for recycling.
1
Funding Rounds
$3.2m
Money raised
Connora Technologies is an Hayward, California-based company founded in 2011 by Rey Banatao.
1
Funding Rounds
Tribogenics is a Los Angeles-based company founded by Dale Fox.
2
Funding Rounds
$8.7m
Money raised
YouRenew is an Illinois-based company founded by Rich Littlehale.
2
Funding Rounds
$920.0k
Money raised
Impact Solutions is a Grangemouth-based plastics research and development company.
1
Funding Rounds
$60.0k
Money raised
Rester is a textile recycling solutions provider founded in 2019.
1
Funding Rounds
$6.3m
Money raised
Developer of a novel PET & polyester textile waste upcycling technology.
$6.5m
Money raised
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
Roserve is a Mumbai-based wastewater recycling and treatment company.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.6m
Money raised
DEScycle is an e-waste metal recycling solutions provider founded in 2018 by Geoff McNamara.
1
Funding Rounds
$12.7m
Money raised
Compost Crew provides food scrap collection services for homes and businesses in DC, MD and VA.
2
Funding Rounds
$11.0m
Money raised
NiftyThrifty is a company founded by Topper Luciani.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.0m
Money raised
Replenysh is a company founded in 2016 by Mark Armen.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.0m
Money raised
CurbWaste is a company founded by Michael Marmo.
1
Funding Rounds
$6.0m
Money raised
TrashButler is a Tampa, Florida-based company founded in 2011.
2
Funding Rounds
$8.2m
Money raised
RECUPYL is a France-based company.
1
Funding Rounds
$18.7m
Money raised
Lithium Salvage is an end-to-end household lithium-ion battery recycler founded in 2021 by Duncan Noble.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.1m
Money raised
METYCLE is an AI-powered platform for global metal recycling founded in 2022.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.6m
Money raised
WastePlace is a company founded in 2016.
1
Funding Rounds
$3.0m
Money raised