30 Best Speciality Chemicals Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Speciality Chemicals Startups

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There are 30 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $1.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $41.1m.

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Funding Rounds

$474.1m

Money raised

Solugen is a speciality chemical manufacturing company developing aiming to replace petroleum-based chemicals with alternatives made from plant-based substitutes.

11

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

An industrial biotech company developing a commercial bioprocess for manufacturing bio-based malonic acid.

2

Funding Rounds

$645.0k

Money raised

CHAIN Biotechnology is a live biotherapeutics company founded in 2014 and based in Nottingham and Marlow, UK. CHAIN works with the Synthetic Biology Research Centre in Nottingham and has built a live biotherapeutic platform based on Clostridia to deliver bioactive molecules to treat diseases associated with the human gut microbiome.

7

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

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

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Qu & Co is a company that offers quantum-computational chemistry as-a-service.

3

Funding Rounds

$6.2m

Money raised

Alliance BioEnergy is a company founded in 2007.

3

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

enEvolv is a Medford, Massachusetts-based biological product manufacturer.

5

Funding Rounds

$291.7m

Money raised

Battery Resourcers is a company that offers a closed-loop cathode material supply chain solution

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6

Funding Rounds

$22.7m

Money raised

Averatek Corporation develops and licenses advanced manufacturing processes for a variety of electronic products including: very high density printed circuit boards, semiconductor packaging and RF and millimeter wave passive components. In addition, Averatek develops and sells the key chemistry that enables these advanced manufacturing processes.

2

Funding Rounds

$28.8m

Money raised

Syzygy is a Houston, Texas-based decarbonization technology company developing a photocatalytic chemical reactor for the industrial gas, chemical, and energy industries.

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5

Funding Rounds

$18.5m

Money raised

Ionomr is a developer and manufacturer of hydrogen technologies including fuel cells, hydrogen fuel, and infrastructure and storage.

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9

Funding Rounds

$2.7m

Money raised

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.

6

Funding Rounds

$38.6m

Money raised

A bio-renewable chemistry company developing and producing specialty chemicals using renewable feedstocks

3

Funding Rounds

$14.9m

Money raised

Nano-C is a company founded in 2001.

2

Funding Rounds

$900.0k

Money raised

Neoprospecta is an enzyme discovery and development company founded by Luiz Felipe Valter de Oliveira, Marcos De Carvalho and Ronaldo Mota.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.8m

Money raised

COMPANY O3 is a technology company producing protective materials for the construction and safe operation of industrial and infrastructure facilities.

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Pareto Biotechnologies is a synthetic biology molecule production company founded by Jamie Bacher, Michael Mendez, Mike Burkart and Joseph Noel.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.5m

Money raised

Stony Creek Colors is a company founded in 2012.

1

Funding Rounds

$34.5m

Money raised

Lehigh Technologies is an Atlanta-based company focusing on chemical manufacturing.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.3m

Money raised

A company developing and manufacturing renewable chemicals for food, fragrance, cosmetics and personal care industries

1

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GreenMantra Technologies has discovered and subsequently developed catalysts for use in a proprietary thermo-catalytic process to selectively depolymerize post consumer/industrial plastics.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Rare Earth Salts is an industrial and applications technology company that specializes in separating and refining all sixteen rare earth elements.

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Funding Rounds

$1.3m

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

2

Funding Rounds

$169.5m

Money raised

Bayotech, Inc. is an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based speciality chemicals company founded in 2015.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.7m

Money raised

Agilis Chemicals is a company founded in 2016.

1

Funding Rounds

$481.0k

Money raised

Diatomix is a Beaverton, Oregon-based speciality chemicals company founded in 2015.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

Brightspec, Inc. is a Charlottesville, Virginia-based speciality chemicals company founded in 2012.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.5m

Money raised

Vuv Analytics, Inc. is a speciality chemicals company founded in 2009.

1

Funding Rounds

Digital Specialty Chemicals is a company founded in 1987.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

Imtex Membranes is a Mississauga-based speciality chemicals company founded in 2007.

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