Advanced Materials: venture funds and startups
Sector hub · Deep Tech
◆ Funds tracked
50
◆ Combined AUM
$15.7B
◆ Startups tracked
36
◆ Raised between them
$402M
◆ Overview
Fusion42 tracks 50 venture funds in Advanced Materials with $15.7B in combined assets under management, and 36 startups that have raised $402M 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 Solari Capital, NVM Ventures, Linse Ignition, ERV Fund II and MISUMI Venture Capital Fund I, LP; startups in Advanced Materials include IndigoTex, Hertha Metals, Azulene Labs, Nexstrom and Fluxnium. 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 (50 tracked)
| Fund | Type | HQ |
|---|---|---|
| Solari Capital | vc | United States |
| NVM Ventures | vc | Italy |
| Linse Ignition | vc | Puerto Rico |
| ERV Fund II | vc | United Kingdom |
| MISUMI Venture Capital Fund I, LP | corporate vc | Japan |
| Matter Venture Partners Fund II | vc | United States |
| $100 million fund in partnership with Future Play | vc | Saudi Arabia |
| 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 |
Show all 50 funds
| 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 |
| 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 (36 tracked)
| Startup | Stage | HQ | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|
| IndigoTex | seed | India | $0.5M |
| Hertha Metals | series-a | United States | $133.7M |
| Azulene Labs | pre-seed | United States | $3.4M |
| Nexstrom | seed | Singapore | $12M |
| Fluxnium | seed | United States | $7M |
| AcouBatt | pre-seed | United Kingdom | $1.5M |
| Biochar Industrial Group (BIG) | pre-seed | Nigeria | $1.5M |
| N&E Innovations | series-a | Singapore | $1.7M |
| nanoSkunkWorkX | seed | Malaysia | $2M |
| Meissner | pre-seed | Canada | $2.6M |
| Kimtechnix | — | South Korea | — |
| ABLE Labs | series-a | South Korea | $8.7M |
| Bioactivx | seed | Singapore | $3M |
| Neocrete | — | New Zealand | $3.5M |
| CarbonStrong | seed | India | $1.5M |
| Nanolope | pre-seed | Germany | $0.9M |
| Riven Systems | pre-seed | United States | $7.9M |
| Princeton Critical Minerals | series-a | United States | $11M |
| 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 |
Show all 36 startups
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
◆ Recent Wire analysis
- Parkdale, Inc. Subsidiary Acquires Full Ownership of Ciclo Technology5 Oct 2026
- Henkel completes €2.1bn acquisition of specialty coatings maker Stahl5 Oct 2026
- Cement-based supercapacitors could power next-generation 'smart' buildings1 Oct 2026
- China Completes World's Largest Superconducting Fusion Magnet1 Oct 2026
- Toray Develops First Solvent-Based PPS Recycling Technology30 Sept 2026
- INEOS welcomes European Commission investigation into unfair PVC imports and calls for ...30 Sept 2026
- Physics-grounded AI framework aims to make predictions about new materials more testable29 Sept 2026
- Recycled Plastics Markets Face Pricing Pressures, Uncertainty29 Sept 2026
- European Commission clears acquisition of SABIC Europe by Aequita29 Sept 2026
- Terra Quantum and Empa Develop AI Model That Brings Real-Time Prediction to Laser ...29 Sept 2026