Advanced Materials: venture funds and startups
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◆ Funds tracked
43
◆ Combined AUM
$13.7B
◆ Startups tracked
30
◆ Raised between them
$281M
◆ Overview
Fusion42 tracks 43 venture funds in Advanced Materials with $13.7B in combined assets under management, and 30 startups that have raised $281M between them. The data below is live from the same database that powers Raise and Scout, and is continuously enriched as new rounds and funds are announced.
Part of the Raise fund database and the Scout startup database by Fusion42 — the same live data Arthur reasons over.
◆ Highlights
Active funds in Advanced Materials include Materials Innovation Platforms, Transition VC Fund II, Dimension III, Resist 2.0 and Big Sur Ventures; startups in Advanced Materials include Meissner, Pure Capture Innovations, Kimtechnix, ABLE Labs and Dongxi Fusion. Each name links through to a full machine-readable profile — its backers, rounds and related Wire analysis — and the tables below list every entity Fusion42 tracks in Advanced Materials, refreshed as new rounds and funds are announced.
◆ Funds in Advanced Materials (43 tracked)
| Fund | Type | HQ |
|---|---|---|
| Materials Innovation Platforms | vc | United States |
| Transition VC Fund II | vc | India |
| Dimension III | vc | United States |
| Resist 2.0 | vc | Estonia |
| Big Sur Ventures | vc | Spain |
| Cloudberry VC | vc | Finland |
| Lockheed Martin Ventures Europe | corporate vc | United States |
| Ashton Kutcher & Morgan Beller | vc | United States |
| EU Scaleup Fund | vc | Europe |
| HAX Plasma Forge | accelerator | United States |
| Deep33 | vc | United States |
| 201 Ventures | vc | United States |
| TDK Ventures | corporate vc | United States |
| Creator Fund | vc | United Kingdom |
| Gigascale Capital | vc | United States |
| Longwall Ventures Fund 4 | vc | United Kingdom |
| Bridgewest Venture Fund I | vc | New Zealand |
| Asabys Innvierte Tech Transfer | vc | Spain |
| Playground Global Fund IV | vc | United States |
| Lansdowne Partners Venture Capital Fund | vc | United Kingdom |
| SFU Innovates Venture Fund | vc | Canada |
| Refactor Capital Fund V | vc | United States |
| New Earth Ventures | corporate vc | United States |
| Ridgeline | vc | United States |
| Eclipse Fund VI | vc | United States |
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| Balerion Space Ventures | vc | United States |
| Northern Gritstone | vc | United Kingdom |
| NSI Nordic Science I | vc | Finland |
| Buff Venture Fund | vc | United States |
| Empirical Ventures | vc | United Kingdom |
| FoodSparks | vc | Switzerland |
| CIES IP 2025 Capital Batch | vc | Hong Kong |
| Y-Point Venture Capital Fund | vc | India |
| 321Catalyst | corporate vc | United States |
| UTokyo IPC Fund 2 | vc | Japan |
| Speciale Invest | vc | India |
| Chengtong Science and Technology Innovation Jiangsu Fund | vc | China |
| Shanghai Tongge Phase II | vc | China |
| Blue Fund | vc | France |
| Pax VC Debut Fund | vc | United States |
| Michigan Capital Network | vc | United States |
| 3M Ventures | corporate vc | United States |
| POSCO International | corporate vc | South Korea |
◆ Startups in Advanced Materials (30 tracked)
| Startup | Stage | HQ | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meissner | pre-seed | Canada | $2.6M |
| Pure Capture Innovations | pre-seed | United Kingdom | $0.7M |
| Kimtechnix | — | South Korea | — |
| ABLE Labs | series-a | South Korea | $8.7M |
| Dongxi Fusion | pre-seed | China | $44.6M |
| Bioactivx | seed | Singapore | $3M |
| Neocrete | — | New Zealand | $3.5M |
| CarbonStrong | seed | India | $1.5M |
| Atomer | seed | South Korea | — |
| Riven Systems | pre-seed | United States | $7.9M |
| Nanolope | pre-seed | Germany | $0.9M |
| Riven Systems | pre-seed | United States | $7.9M |
| Discovered Materials | seed | United States | $9M |
| Adiabatic Technologies | seed | India | $1.0M |
| PLANTNER | pre-series-a | South Korea | — |
| Fast Metals | pre-seed | United States | $4.3M |
| Sofab Inks | seed | United States | $6M |
| AGENCORE | — | South Korea | $4.1M |
| Syntetica | series-a | France | $30M |
| alqem | pre-seed | Germany | $8.7M |
| Tulon Materials | seed | India | $12.1M |
| Arcturus | seed | United States | $8M |
| Foundation Alloy | series-a | United States | $22M |
| Granarium Technologies | pre-seed | Finland | $1.2M |
| New Dawn Bio | pre-seed | Netherlands | $2.3M |
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| Apoha | seed | United Kingdom | $36M |
| Mekr Technologies | series-a | India | $8.0M |
| Uluu | series-a | Australia | $16M |
| The Better Meat Co | series-a | United States | $31M |
| D-CRBN | — | Belgium | — |
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