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MassChallenge's Chemicals & Materials portfolio
MassChallenge has backed 11 Chemicals & Materials startups in rounds we track, $39M between them, shown by the stage each has reached. The best-funded is Naturbeads.
Funding by segment
- Stage not reported$7.7M6
- Pre-seed and seed$4.8M3
- Series A$27M2
Where they are based
- United States6$14M
- United Kingdom3$20M
- Sweden1$3.2M
- Switzerland1$1.5M
United States
United Kingdom
Sweden
SwitzerlandFounded
2 without a founding year on record.
Total raised
- Under $1M5
- $1M to $10M4
- $10M to $50M2
- $50M to $250M0
- $250M to $1B0
- $1B and over0
Each dot is a startup: the year it was founded across, the total it has raised up (each line is ten times the one below). Pick a segment to pick it out.
8 of 11 startups shown; the rest have no founding year or amount on record.
- 1 to 2
- 3 to 7
- 8 to 24
- 25 to 99
- 100 and more
- United States6
- United Kingdom3
- Sweden1
- Switzerland1
Startups by country, 4 countries in all.
Segment by segment
Stage not reported
6 startups · $7.7M raised
Biomicrogels GroupBiomicrogels Group is the developer and patent holder for biomicrogels capable of addressing the global environmental problemsUnited Kingdom$5.3M
Multiscale SystemsMultiscale Systems is an advanced material manufacturing firm.United States$1.1M
Folia MaterialsFolia Materials: using paper as a super materialUnited States$800K
DropWise TechnologiesDropWise provides a breakthrough coating technology invented at MIT to protect industrial equipment from fouling and corrosion.United States$340K
GuardionGuardion is making the world safer from radiological and nuclear threats with quantum technology radiation detectors.United States$100K
Change BioChange Bio converts waste methane into proteins to make them more affordable and carbon-negative.United Kingdom$27K
Pre-seed and seed
3 startups · $4.8M raised
PLASTICFRIGreenTech company from Sweden with a breakthrough technology turning agricultural waste to eco-friendly products for replacing plastics.Sweden$3.2M
TreelessTreeless is a Swiss cleantech startup and ETH Zurich spin-off, founded in May 2023 and based in Opfikon, Switzerland.Switzerland$1.5M
ArtaicArtaic mass customization technologies, providing robotically assembled tile mosaics for the architecture and interior design industry.United States$50K
Series A
2 startups · $27M raised
NaturbeadsNaturbeads is scaling up the technology to manufacture cellulose beads and replace plastic microbeads intentionally added to many United Kingdom$15M
Phase Two ChemicalsPhase Two Chemicals specializes in clean chemistry and industrial electrochemistry, focusing on on-site, on-demand hydrogen peroxiUnited States$12M
How this map is made. Every startup here works in Chemicals & Materials and has raised money in a round we track that names MassChallenge as an investor. Each sits under the stage of its latest round. Rebuilt nightly; updated 15 November 2026.
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