33 Best Sustainable Packaging Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Sustainable Packaging Startups

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 33 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $752.3m. The average funding per company in this subset is $22.8m.

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

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Anellotech logo

Anellotech

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

7

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

Air Up logo

Air Up

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

2

Funding Rounds

$68.0m

Money raised

Sulapac logo

Sulapac

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

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Mango Materials logo

Mango Materials

Mango Materials is a Redwood City, California-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

Genecis EnviroTech logo

Genecis EnviroTech

A company transforming food waste into PHA biodegrdable plastics

4

Funding Rounds

$1.8m

Money raised

TIPA logo

TIPA

TIPA® is a developer and producer of fully compostable flexible packaging solutions.

7

Funding Rounds

$124.0m

Money raised

Notpla logo

Notpla

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

3

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

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LOLIWARE

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.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

Lumi logo

Lumi

Lumi is a printmaking supply company.

1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

TemperPack logo

TemperPack

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

5

Funding Rounds

$208.0m

Money raised

Vericool logo

Vericool

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

2

Funding Rounds

$24.1m

Money raised

Again logo

Again

Again provides supply chain infrastructure for circular packaging.

4

Funding Rounds

$57.7m

Money raised

Cruz Foam logo

Cruz Foam

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.5m

Money raised

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Pulpac

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

1

Funding Rounds

$36.2m

Money raised

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Shellworks Group Ltd

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

2

Funding Rounds

$12.4m

Money raised

Xampla logo

Xampla

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

2

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

Paptic logo

Paptic

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

1

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

Lyfa logo

Lyfa

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

2

Funding Rounds

$230.0k

Money raised

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Recyda

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

1

Funding Rounds

$6.9m

Money raised

Lactips logo

Lactips

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

2

Funding Rounds

$6.1m

Money raised

Oceanium logo

Oceanium

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

2

Funding Rounds

$3.8m

Money raised

Lyspackaging logo

Lyspackaging

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.4m

Money raised

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Eco Products (company)

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

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

Aeropowder logo

Aeropowder

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

1

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised

Noissue logo

Noissue

Noissue is an Auckland-based tissue paper company developing compostable and custom printed tissue paper for companies and their shipping needs.

1

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Nohbo logo

Nohbo

Nohbo operates as a sustainable beauty & personal care technology company. The company houses its shampoos, conditioners, body washes, and shaving creams in a water-soluble membrane that dissolves during use.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Recup logo

Recup

Reusable system for managing and distributing reusable containers.

1

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

S.Lab logo

S.Lab

S.Lab is an eco-friendly biodegradable packaging solutions provider founded in 2021 by Julia Bialetska .

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0k

Money raised

Sana Packaging logo

Sana Packaging

Sana Packaging is a company founded in 2016 by James Eichner.

1

Funding Rounds

$886.2k

Money raised

Wild (deodorant company) logo

Wild (deodorant company)

Wild is a company that makes natural deodorant.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.8m

Money raised

IonKraft logo

IonKraft

Plasma-based barrier coatings solutions provider for the packaging industry.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.7m

Money raised

Polymateria logo

Polymateria

Polymateria is a London-based startup advancing science to help nature deal with plastic pollution.

1

Funding Rounds

$19.0m

Money raised

Bpacks logo

Bpacks

Biodegradable packaging solutions provider.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised