10 Companies to Watch: Green Hydrogen & Plastic Alternatives
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Green Hydrogen
👉 Alchemr | Last Raise Dec 2021, €1.36M (Grant) | [USA]
Reliable industrial-scale electrolyzer that can also run on intermittent power and doesn’t need expensive metals. Basically—super flexible and affordable!
👉 Integrated Dynamics | Last Raise Nov 2023, $0.12M | [USA]
Sending low-voltage electricity through nasty industrial waste to produce hydrogen and other hydrocarbons. It’s also 10x faster than anaerobic digestion and 10x more energy efficient. 🤯
👉 Peregrine | Last Raise Sept 2023, $7.6M | [USA]
Solving the Green Hydrogen cost issue by co-producing other high-value chemicals. It’s like ordering an ice cream and also getting a smoothie. Yum! 😋
👉 BoMax Hydrogen | Last Raise N/A, 1.8M | [USA]
Using light as a catalyst in conjunction with some bio-organic molecules… boom (was that inappropriate?), you’ve got green hydrogen. It’s got legs! It can be located at the place of use to avoid transport.
👉 Hydrum | Last Raise Jun 2022, $0.01M | [Poland]
Building an electrolytic reactor that doesn’t need desalinated water as a raw input — seems a little salty to me.
Plastic Alternatives
👉 Ourobio | Last Raise Jun 2023, $0.09M | [USA]
Taking unloved (wasted) industrial byproducts and using engineered microorganisms to make petrochem alternatives.
👉 Kelpi | Last Raise Mar 2024, $5.53M | [USA]
Using seaweed to make a plastic alternative coating (think taking paper and putting this stuff on it so you can store liquids in it… I wonder if they can fix paper straws 🤔)
👉 Kelpy | Last Raise Feb 2023, $0.12M | [Australia]
(Wow, popular name) An injection-moldable bioplastic product! Guess what? It’s marine degradable and easy to compost at home.
👉 BioFluff | Last Raise Oct 2023, $2.5M | [USA]
Plant-based fur… yep you read that right. And yes… it is a luxury brand. Luxury + Climate 🤩
👉 Genecis | Last Raise July 2022, $10M | [USA]
Turning organic waste into biodegradable materials. Did someone say circular economy?
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Peregrine sounds like an awesome company! Thanks for the list.