Participated · Equity · Mar 2026

WeSort.AI develops a patented AI- and X-ray-based platform designed to identify and recover valuable raw materials from mixed waste, including e-waste and batteries. The company highlights that more than 50% of e-waste and batteries are mis-sorted, causing fires at recycling facilities and loss of critical materials like lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements. Founded in 2022 by Nathanael Laier and Johannes Laier, WeSort.AI intends to expand its technology capabilities and accelerate system deployments using the newly raised capital. With €10 million in funding from impact-focused investors and organizations, the company aims to scale operations and tap into the “urban mine” of recoverable resources. The articles do not report revenue, user, or other operating metrics.

Led · Equity · Nov 2025

Fairmat is a French industrial technology company focused on turning end-of-life carbon-fibre composites into new, high-value materials through its patented Infinity Recycling process. Using advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, software and machine learning, the firm already manufactures between 6,000 and 10,000 m² of circular composite sheets per month at its plants in France and the United States. Management aims to complete full-loop circularity by 2027 and to extend its recycled composite products into additional vertical markets. The company began commercial production earlier than planned in 2024, underscoring the scalability of its automated model and positioning it to fulfill growing customer orders. Financially, Fairmat secured €51.5 million in April 2023 and has now added another €10 million, bringing total disclosed funding to €61.5 million. The new capital will accelerate technology refinement and market expansion while reinforcing Fairmat’s ambition to become a global leader in sustainable advanced materials.

Led · Series B · Jul 2024

Polystyvert develops dissolution-based recycling and low-temperature, low-pressure purification technology to recycle highly contaminated polystyrene and ABS into virgin-quality materials. Its process removes contaminants and the company states it can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90% while allowing recycled content to be used in the same applications as virgin resin. Polystyvert holds over 40 patents across 17 countries protecting its technology. The company plans to construct its first commercial plant in Montreal, expected to be operational in 2026, and aims for global deployment of its technology. Part of the recent funding will be dedicated to diversifying and expanding its intellectual property portfolio. Polystyvert serves sectors including packaging, construction, electronics, automotive, and toys and positions itself as a key player in styrenic plastics circularity. Polystyvert is a Montréal clean technology startup led by founder and CEO Solenne Brouard Gaillot. The company has developed an innovative, low-carbon-footprint dissolution-based process to recycle all types of polystyrene. Its technology includes a purification step that removes contaminants and a decentralized model designed to reduce transportation costs. Polystyvert intends to use the C$11M in funding to advance its dissolution-based recycling technology toward commercialization. The financing follows a collaboration agreement with the Polymers Business unit of Total S.A. to accelerate commercialization. The company has also received funding and support from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC). Polystyvert is a Montreal-based company that recycles polystyrene by immersing the material in an essential oil solvent and using a concentrator to separate the oil from the recovered polymer. The recovered polystyrene can be remanufactured into items such as food product trays, commercial packaging, and wall insulation. The company operates drop-off points for the public at Granby and Waterloo municipal recycling centres and serves styrofoam-intensive industries like pharmaceuticals, fisheries, and retail. Polystyvert says its Montreal plant will be the first facility built around this recycling process and describes the technology as simple, exportable, and effective. The company participated in the fall 2015 cohort of the Ecofuel Accelerator. Recent financing will be used to scale up equipment and facilities to expand access to its recycling services across Quebec, Canada, and beyond.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2024

BioBTX has developed an integrated catalytic pyrolysis process (ICCP Technology) to produce renewable aromatics (benzene, toluene, xylene) from plastic waste and biomass. The company plans to build and launch the PETRA Circular Chemicals Plant in Delfzijl to scale the technology and convert 20,000 tons of plastic waste into renewable BTX annually. BioBTX says this will be the world’s first large‑scale plant to make aromatics from plastic waste and plants. The technology is positioned to replace fossil resources for applications including foams, coatings, PET bottles, batteries and pharmaceuticals. The recent financing package of over €80M will fund the plant build and initial commercial launch, with additional public grants and regional support included. BioBTX’s offices are located in Groningen and the company intends to expand globally once production is proven.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2023

DePoly develops a chemical recycling process that breaks PET and polyester plastics down to their original monomers without using fossil fuels. The company raised a $23M Seed round to fund a 500-tonne-per-year showcase plant in Monthey, Switzerland, scheduled to open in summer 2025. The showcase plant is intended to demonstrate the technology at industrial scale and validate DePoly’s roadmap toward a circular plastics market. Investors in the round include a strategic investment from MassMutual Ventures alongside BASF Venture Capital, Beiersdorf Venture Capital, and Zürcher Kantonalbank. DePoly has collaborations with Odlo, PTI, and Beiersdorf across fashion, consumer goods, and cosmetics. Management highlights in the articles include Co-Founder and CEO Samantha Anderson and CFO David Hanf, who joined in 2024, and the company plans to refine its technology and pursue a commercial-scale plant to process larger volumes and compete with virgin pricing at scale. DePoly uses a chemical recycling process to convert PET plastics and polyester textiles back into their original monomers (PTA and MEG). Its room-temperature, standard-pressure process requires no washing, pre-sorting, or melting and can handle contaminated, mixed-color, and textile waste streams that mechanical recycling cannot. The company currently operates a pilot plant that processes 50 tons per year and serves industries including post-consumer packaging, textiles, fashion, and post-industrial streams; it reports five customers. DePoly is building a 500-ton showcase plant to demonstrate commercial scale and is scaling its technology to recover other materials such as PP, cotton, polyurethanes (PU), polylactic acid (PLA), and PBT. Founded in 2020 by Samantha Anderson, Bardiya Valizadeh and Christopher Ireland, the company has a team of 13 people. It sells recovered raw chemical components back to manufacturers, positioning its output as virgin quality to enable a circular economy for plastics. DePoly is an EPFL spin-off chemical-technology startup that converts low-value PET waste into high-value chemical monomers like TPA to enable a circular economy. It has developed a depolymerization process that returns PET to its two main chemical components identical in quality to oil-derived raw materials. The process operates at room temperature without applied pressure and uniquely tolerates mixed plastics (PET with PVC, PP, PS, etc.), mixed colors, dirty PET, and fabrics/fibers. DePoly sells the recovered monomers back to industry as feedstock for PET production. With the CHF1.3M pre-seed financing, the company will develop an enhanced recycling pre-demo plant to depolymerize PET into the raw materials required for PET production. DePoly has also been supported by Venture Kick and TOP 100. DePoly has developed a chemical recycling process that selectively treats PET in mixed plastic waste to produce chemical intermediates usable to make 100% recycled PET resins. The process works at room temperature without added heat or pressure, handles mixed colour, multi‑layer and polyester fibre PET, and uses sustainable, environmentally friendly chemicals. DePoly says every ton recycled saves energy equivalent to four European households’ annual electricity use, 18 barrels of oil, or ten London–New York passenger flights. The company collaborates with EPFL Valais‑Wallis and was founded in February 2020 by Samantha Anderson, Christopher Ireland and Bardiya Valizadeh. It has received support from VentureKick, Climate‑KIC, EPFL, Venture and CleanTechAlps and is currently conducting a seed fundraising round to build a larger demo plant. The recently awarded FIT Tech Seed loan will fund a 10 kg pilot plant footprint and help cover staff salaries to operate the unit. With those plants, DePoly targets PET resin producers, plastic recyclers and chemical industry customers.