Top Material Science Startups in 2024

Apeel uses materials that exist in the peels, seeds, and pulp of all fruits and vegetables to create a protective extra peel that seals moisture in and keeps oxygen out. That means our produce stays fresh, nutritious, and delicious twice as long. It also means less produce goes to waste throughout the supply chain—from grower to retailer to consumers at home. Less waste for you means less waste for the planet and a more abundant future for us all.

We offer food grown fresh food grown in an innovative way. We grow our crops without using GMOs or pesticides, in a system known as vertical farming. We make sure our crops are getting the exact amount of water each one needs, while recycling the remainder. We use LED lighting on the perfect wavelength for each crop, and our indoor farms are kept at the perfect temperature for these plants to grow at. Because we grow indoors, our crops are always available and in season.

Each year the mining industry discards over 200 billion tons of waste (tailings) and produces more than 7% of the world’s carbon emissions. Phoenix Tailings is on a mission to be the world’s first clean mining and metals production company. By eliminating this harmful waste from the environment, we can sustainably create valuable new materials. We started with the humble beginnings of a few friends in a backyard, thinking of how they can fix this broken system of metals production. Now, Phoenix Tailings has become one of the top sustainability startups in the world. A Techstars Boston 2020 company with funding from the US Department of Energy and National Science Foundation, Phoenix has demonstrated early success in our clean mining mission. We still have a long way to go to achieve this mission. However, it’s our belief that together, the right people can overcome any obstacle and change the world.

Modern Meadow harnesses the building blocks of nature to make products that can perform for the future we want to have. Our focus is on protein-based materials and ingredients for a range of applications from fashion to other consumer sectors. We are a deeply R&D driven company partnering with some of the worlds best brands and manufacturers in a material coalition for change.

Mat3ra.com (prev. Exabyte.io) is a digital platform accelerating the discovery of new advanced materials for critical industries and applications. Our product is a comprehensive web-based environment (think Adobe Creative Cloud) combining 3D design tools, physics-based and data-driven models, and large-scale cloud computing to transition materials R&D to the AI/ML era. We boost the productivity of R&D by simplifying the process of deploying state-of-the-art modeling, enabling collaboration and collective intelligence, and organizing materials data to make it directly usable by AI/ML engines. Dozens of enterprise customers in the electronics, energy, and manufacturing sectors, including Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Tokyo University of Science, are among our platform customers today, contributing to the growing community of over 7,500 (Sep 2022) scientists worldwide. Find out more at: - Video of the founder/CEO, Timur Bazhirov, presenting the company: youtu.be/n7JGfebTmIQ - How we design the world of tomorrow, blog post: mat3ra.com/blog - The Wall Street Journal about our Seed Funding: wsj.com/articles/startup-that-models-materials-at-atomic-level-raises-seed-ca… - Case studies with customers: mat3ra.com/case-studies. - Manuscript explaining the concept and example applications: arxiv.org/abs/1902.10838

The Scientific Software Engineering (SSE) Center at Georgia Tech is a new effort that is part of the Virtual Institute for Scientific Software (VISS). VISS was launched by Schmidt Futures to address the need for training and educating software engineers, and the SSE center at Georgia Tech is focused on developing new methodologies for improving high-performance scientific codes and for training tomorrow’s software engineers.

Nodes Advisors is a Zurich-based Corporate finance Life Science firm that work with vital but underfunded companies at the intersection of bio & technology. Our team is made up of entrepreneurs, engineers, product managers, researchers and venture capitalists who share a passion for accelerating the adoption of cutting edge technologies in Biology.

An electron microscope for schools and the bio/pharma industries at a significantly cheaper price point than current offerings