The Leipzig-based chemistry startup aevoloop has raised round €3.25 million in a Seed funding spherical, along with slightly below €5 million in funding from to speed up the market launch of its round expertise.

The general public funding is co-financed by the European Regional Improvement Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Saxony as a part of an R&D collaborative venture grant from the Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB). It’s supplied underneath the “Saxy Plastics” venture, wherein aevoloop is cooperating with the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Analysis, Leipzig College and the Heart for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC).​ Alongside lead investor Flow into Capital, Positron Ventures and bmp Ventures by way of the IBG Innovationsfonds (Innovation Fund) are additionally investing.

“Plastic isn’t basically dangerous – solely the best way we deal with it,” says Dr Manuel Häußler, Co-founder and scientific lead at aevoloop. “With our expertise, we make plastics totally recyclable. In doing so, we mix the efficiency of typical plastics with true circularity. Our objective is a world wherein sustainable plastic can be utilized endlessly – with out waste and with out squandering.”

This funding spherical enters a 2025 European panorama wherein circular-plastics and sustainable-materials ventures are more and more attracting capital.

Within the UK, Epoch Biodesign secured €17 million in Sequence A funding to increase its enzyme-based recycling platform, whereas Dutch agency Xycle obtained funding for a chemical-recycling facility in Rotterdam. In Germany, VYTAL International raised €14.2 million to scale its reusable-packaging infrastructure, and CYNiO, positioned within the broader Leipzig area, attracted over €2 million for CO₂-based speciality chemical substances.

This sample underscores Germany’s rising focus of exercise in sustainable-chemistry innovation. Inside this context, aevoloop’s mixture of personal Seed capital and important public co-funding positions it as a part of a pan-European shift in the direction of round polymer applied sciences that bridge industrial scalability with environmental efficiency.

Wolfgang Hafenmayer, founding companion of lead investor Flow into Capital, provides: “aevoloop’s expertise is a big advance for the round financial system in polyolefins. For the primary time, we have now a real materials different – with out the compromises that different options entail. It’s exactly this type of scalable innovation that may drive a systemic shift throughout your complete plastic worth chain.”

Based in 2024, aevoloop has developed a patented plastic round expertise. It allows chemically recyclable and biodegradable plastics that may be totally reused with none lack of high quality.

On this means, aevoloop combines the efficiency of typical plastics with true circularity and allows upcycling as a substitute of downcycling – for sustainable packaging, movies, injection-moulded elements and textiles.

This allows high-performance, chemically recyclable and biodegradable plastics and, for the primary time, combines the benefits of typical polymer supplies with true circularity.

The startup replaces particular person hyperlinks in typical polyethylene or polypropylene chains with bonds that may be selectively opened – by means of a form of “predetermined breaking level.” They reprotedly retain all properties in use, however on the finish of their life cycle they are often chemically damaged down into their fundamental elements and processed into new plastic.

This can be utilized like typical polyolefins and, in contrast to different sustainable plastics, isn’t restricted to area of interest purposes. The biodegradability of those novel plastics additionally affords, in the long run, an answer to the microplastics downside.

The underlying expertise can be utilized instantly on present extruders and injection-moulding machines. As well as, manufacturing is relatively cost-effective – purely bio-based alternate options are sometimes considerably dearer.