Top 10 Sustainability startups in USA

Updated: April 29, 2024

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Utopia Plastix is a plant based alternative polymer using what is traditionally known as agricultural cover crops. Pelletized resins are a drop in replacement used in vast applications including blown film, blow molding, thermoforming, extrusion, injection molding, and 3D without equipment modifications. 100% recyclable. Degradable. Compostable. Utopias IP also includes the ability to add their material to petroleum-based plastics to make them eco-friendly.
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Funding: $606.5M
Grove creates and curates high-performing, planet-first home, and personal care products.
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Funding: $250M
Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
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Funding: $200.6M
Liquid Death is the first bold, hilarious beverage focused on health and sustainability, and it is one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverage brands of all time. They take the healthiest beverage available (water) and package it in infinitely recyclable tallboy cans that can compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands.
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Funding: $85.2M
Recyclebank inspires and rewards smarter, everyday choices for a more sustainable future.
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Funding: $55M
Brimstone Energy is producing mass-market, zero-carbon Portland cement, a key building material.
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Funding: $42M
The Rounds is a refill and delivery service for everyday products.
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Funding: $36.5M
Parade is an underwear company that creates designer and eco-friendly fabrics undergarments.
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Funding: $15.2M
Planet FWD specializes in developing a regenerative food platform.
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Funding: $4.4M
Yardbird is an outdoor furniture brand, which makes its wares in part from recycled plastic harvested from beaches and ocean-bound waterways
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Funding: $1.5M
Rebundle provides synthetic hair products that eliminate skin rashes and single-use waste.
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Funding: $500K
Azure is using recycled plastic to 3D print prefab homes.
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MerMade is a creative collective that helps people reimagine traditional plastic products by using certified ocean plastic. In short, we take plastic pollution out of the ocean, and help you tell a powerful sustainability story.
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Coffee Smile Werks discovered the technology for a fully commercially compostable Nespresso compatible coffee pod.
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CIRT is a geospatial database of products, materials, and recycling schemes that gives an immediate answer to the question "Can I Recycle This?"
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Sabai Design is a manufacturer and supplier that delivers furniture products and accessories as well as design services.
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Woolybubs is developing biodegradable baby shoes that dissolve in boiling water.