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 37 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $142.1m.
Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.
Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.
8
Funding Rounds
$406.4m
Money raised
Modern Meadow is a biotechnology company using cellular agriculture and biofabrication to manufacture bioleather, "Zoa", out of cultured animal free collagen mixed with natural and man made materials.
9
Funding Rounds
$331.1m
Money raised
Reformation is a women's fashion company aimed at designing sustainable clothing and accessories.
2
Funding Rounds
$37.0m
Money raised
Allbirds is a startup company manufacturing wool footwear.
8
Funding Rounds
$2.0b
Money raised
Spiber, Inc is a private biomaterials company using industrial biotechnology to develop silk.
13
Funding Rounds
$1.1b
Money raised
AMSilk is a Munich-based synthetic biology company that produces fibers made from the same protein as spider silk.
6
Funding Rounds
$129.3m
Money raised
A medical company in Massachusetts focusing on lowering the cost of vaccine distribution.
14
Funding Rounds
$87.2m
Money raised
Natural Fiber Welding is a Peoria, Illinois-based company developing a scalable fabrication platform that can offset the global dependence on petroleum-based, human-made materials.
3
Funding Rounds
$113.0m
Money raised
Stuffstr is a London-based recommerce technology company, founded by John Atcheson in 2014.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.9m
Money raised
A biotechnology company developing and commercializing spider silk for textiles and performance polymers. Kraig Biocraft Laboratories uses genetic engineering to produce recombinant spider silk based fibers on an industrial scale.
4
Funding Rounds
$14.0m
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.
7
Funding Rounds
$151.6m
Money raised
Vitrolabs is a San Francisco based company developing lab-grown leather and pelts for fashion and interiors, with aspirations to use their platform to grow human organs.
3
Funding Rounds
$54.4m
Money raised
EV Biotech is a microbial cell factory (MCF) strain development company.
1
Funding Rounds
$4.7m
Money raised
Outdoor Voices is a company founded in 2014 by Cheryl J. Tyler.
2
Funding Rounds
$43.0m
Money raised
Cuyana is a e-commerce and women's fashion brand focused on women's essentials.
2
Funding Rounds
$31.7m
Money raised
WOODOO manufactures a new wood material, translucent, weatherproof, stronger and durable, transforming lower grade wood species into high-performance materials.
4
Funding Rounds
$5.3m
Money raised
MOGU manufactures materials and technologies that are based on fungi as main constituent.
$16.0m
Money raised
Frank & Oak is a company founded in 2012 by Hicham Ratnani.
3
Funding Rounds
$41.0m
Money raised
Aunt Flow is a Columbus, Ohio-based company founded by Claire Coder.
2
Funding Rounds
$10.0m
Money raised
Reflaunt allows retailers to offer a new service to their customers: the possibility to resell, donate or recycle their past purchases in a click directly from the retailer's e-commerce site.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.7m
Money raised
Yulex is a company founded in 2017 by Jeffrey A. Martin.
1
Funding Rounds
$15.0m
Money raised
Modern Synthesis is a biomaterials producer for textile industry founded in 2019 by Ben Reeve.
3
Funding Rounds
$13.7m
Money raised
unspun uses body scanning technology to manufacture bespoke jeans.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.5m
Money raised
Xampla is a Cambridge, Cambridgeshire-based company founded in 2018 by Tuomas Knowles.
2
Funding Rounds
$11.0m
Money raised
ADAY is a London-based company founded in 2015 by Nina Faulhaber.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.0m
Money raised
Summersalt is a company founded in 2017.
4
Funding Rounds
$42.8m
Money raised
Operator of a clothing brand intended to offer premium performance apparel inspired by the active Coastal California lifestyle.
2
Funding Rounds
$445.0m
Money raised
Brand focused on creating sustainable everyday essentials from organic cotton and recycled materials.
1
Funding Rounds
Faircraft is a sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather founded in 2021.
1
Funding Rounds
$3.0m
Money raised
Spinnova has developed a new technology for making textile fibre out of wood or waste, such as leather, textile or food waste, without harmful chemicals.
2
Funding Rounds
$12.7m
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
Wolf & Badger is a Mayfair-based company founded in 2010 by George Graham.
1
Funding Rounds
$4.5m
Money raised
The Company produces natural degradable biopolymers from non-food sources.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.7m
Money raised
United By Blue is a company founded in 2010.
1
Funding Rounds
$525.0k
Money raised
Tentree is a company founded in 2012.
1
Funding Rounds
1
Funding Rounds
$16.0m
Money raised
Nisolo is a Nashville, Tennessee-based company founded by Patrick Woodyard.
1
Funding Rounds
$14.1m
Money raised