50 Best Advanced Materials Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent advanced materials companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 1,409 companies tracked on Fsome.

1,409
Total Companies
$57.1B
Total Funding
$40.5M
Avg Funding
Shenzhen
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Cambium
Cambium specializes in advanced materials for defense and aerospace, focusing on…
El Segundo 101 - 250 $127.0M Series B 2026-01-05
2
Phoenix Tailings
Phoenix Tailings is a rare earth metals production company that transforms minin…
Woburn 101 - 250 $144.4M Series B 2026-02-19
3
Lyten
Lyten is a supermaterial applications company that develops, sources, and manufa…
San Jose 251 - 500 $367.0M Series Unknown 2024-07-18
4
Paragraf
Paragraf develops and manufactures graphene-based electronic devices for the sen…
Somersham 101 - 250 $140.7M Series C 2025-08-25
5
Sierra Space
Sierra Space is a commercial space company that specializes in the development o…
Louisville 1K - 5K $2.2B Series C 2026-03-05
6
BIOWEG
BIOWEG is a biotechnology company that develops bio-based, biodegradable ingredi…
Quakenbr├╝ck 11 - 50 $36.2M Grant 2025-12-22
7
ICON
ICON is a construction technology company that uses 3D robotics, software, and a…
Austin 251 - 500 $507.5M Series C 2025-02-14
8
QV Bioelectronics
Longer, Better Quality Lives for Brain Tumour Patients
Manchester 11 - 50 $12.8M Grant 2026-01-21
9
Claros Technologies
Claros Technologies is an advanced materials company that develops safe and sust…
Minneapolis 11 - 50 $38.2M Convertible Note 2025-08-12
10
Princeton NuEnergy
Princeton NuEnergy is a clean-tech startup focused on direct recycling technolog…
Bordentown 11 - 50 $82.1M Grant 2025-08-04
11
Hithium Energy Storage
Hithium Energy Storage is a tech enterprise, specializing in the R&D, production…
Xiamen 5K - 10K $898.6M Private Equity 2024-01-01
12
Miru Smart Technologies
Miru Smart Technologies commercializes electrochromic windows that can be tailor…
Vancouver 11 - 50 $29.6M Corporate Round 2026-01-14
13
New Wave Biotech
New Wave Biotech creates bioprocess optimization software to accelerate R&D and …
London 1 - 10 $1.4M Grant 2025-10-07
14
Ascend Elements
Ascend Elements manufactures sustainable battery materials using elements from d…
Westborough 101 - 250 $1.7B Secondary Market 2024-09-09
15
Albert Invent
Albert Invent provides a digital platform for materials science research and dev…
Oakland 101 - 250 $50.0M Series Unknown 2025-02-24
16
YPLASMA
YPlasma, an INTA spin-off, develops plasma actuators for ionic flow control, ena…
Newark 11 - 50 $3.7M Seed 2025-07-09
17
Citrine Informatics
Citrine Informatics provides an informatics platform that transforms chemicals d…
Redwood City 101 - 250 $69.1M Series Unknown 2023-09-22
18
Radical AI
Radical AI is a technology startup focusing on changing materials science and ad…
New York 11 - 50 $55.0M Seed 2025-07-18
19
Anaphite
Anaphite is a manufacturer of electrodes by replacing energy-intensive wet proce…
Bristol 11 - 50 $27.0M Series A 2025-12-09
20
DexMat
DexMat is the maker of Galvorn, a conductive carbon nanomaterial that outperform…
Houston 11 - 50 $7.7M Non Equity Assistance 2025-03-26
21
Prometheus Hyperscale
Sustainable Infrastructure for the Age of AI
Evanston 11 - 50 $22.7M Series Unknown 2026-03-24
22
DP Technology
DP Technology is a global leader in "AI for Science", where AI tackles key chall…
Haidian 101 - 250 $253.7M Series C 2025-12-24
23
Sway
Sway is a material innovation company scaling compostable solutions for plastic …
Oakland 11 - 50 $8.1M Seed 2023-12-05
24
Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials is a battery recycling startup that makes electric vehicles an…
Carson City 1K - 5K $4.2B Series E 2025-10-23
25
CarbonCapture
CarbonCapture is a climate tech company that develops direct air capture (DAC) m…
Los Angeles 51 - 100 $115.0M Series A 2024-03-12
26
VVater
America's Next Water Company
Austin 11 - 50 $7.8M Undisclosed 2024-11-21
27
YBI
YBI accelerates early-stage advanced manufacturing startups with expertise in ad…
Youngstown 11 - 50 $3.3M Grant 2025-08-08
28
Caracol
Caracol develops robotic large format additive manufacturing systems and provide…
Barlassina 101 - 250 $55.8M Series B 2025-10-14
29
Mycocycle
Mycocycle is a waster management firm transforming waste with mycelium technolog…
Bolingbrook 11 - 50 $9.5M Seed 2025-08-27
30
Planet Smart
Planet Smart produces compostable, bio-based superabsorbent polymers for sustain…
London 1 - 10 $1.0M Pre Seed 2025-11-18
31
Boston Materials
Boston Materials is a manufacturer of advanced materials for semiconductors and …
Billerica 11 - 50 $40.3M Series Unknown 2025-12-11
32
TômTex Co
TomTex recycles agriculture waste and creates a sustainable, accessible, and pra…
New York 1 - 10 $4.3M Seed 2023-11-16
33
Via Separations
Via Separations is a technology company that develops membrane materials for mod…
Watertown 51 - 100 $93.4M Series Unknown 2026-04-01
34
Gelion
Lithium-sulfur and Sodium-sulfur battery innovation.
Alexandria 11 - 50 $34.7M Undisclosed 2025-10-16
35
Spiber
Spiber is a biotech company that utilizes microbial fermentation technology to d…
Tsuruoka 251 - 500 $976.1M Private Equity 2024-04-12
36
OLI
Medical Devices, Kidney Disease, Wearables, Medtech, Hardtech
North Brunswick 1 - 10 $1.1M Pre Seed 2025-02-24
37
Vartega
Vartega manufactures low-cost recycled carbon fiber sourced from various dry fib…
Golden 11 - 50 $24.6M Debt Financing 2026-01-06
38
LOLIWARE
LOLIWARE is an award-winning materials tech company dedicated to replacing singl…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $15.6M Convertible Note 2023-02-24
39
UbiQD
UbiQD is an advanced materials company that manufactures low-hazard quantum dots…
Los Alamos 11 - 50 $47.2M Debt Financing 2025-11-18
40
Origin Materials
Origin Materials is a carbon negative materials company that develops technology…
West Sacramento 101 - 250 $215.0M Post Ipo Debt 2025-11-13
41
CHASM Advanced Materials
CHASM Advanced Materials develops and manufactures advanced carbon nano material…
Canton 11 - 50 $72.1M Series Unknown 2025-02-11
42
Orbital Materials
Building the future of advanced industries with AI
London 11 - 50 $20.8M Series Unknown 2024-10-22
43
Tynt Technologies
Deep tech company developing advanced materials for smart glass applications.
Boulder 11 - 50 $17.1M Seed 2023-04-28
44
Brightplus Oy
Brightplus designs and manufactures innovative functional biomaterials from rene…
Oulu 11 - 50 $6.7M Series Unknown 2025-07-15
45
Simplifyber
Simplifyber is a creator of fully-molded garment and shoe uppers made directly f…
New York 11 - 50 $15.6M Series A 2025-04-10
46
Quaise Energy
Quaise is an energy company that develops a millimeter-wave drilling technology …
Cambridge 11 - 50 $91.0M Series A 2023-12-12
47
altrove AI
Altrove is a deep-tech materials science startup that uses AI and lab-automation…
Paris 1 - 10 $14.0M Seed 2025-10-31
48
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity mentoring program for the f…
Toronto 101 - 250 $31.5M Series Unknown 2022-10-13
49
SRI International
SRI International is a nonprofit, independent research center serving government…
Menlo Park 1K - 5K $34.0M Grant 2025-10-20
50
Nanoramic Laboratories
Nanoramic Laboratories is a an energy storage and advanced materials company tha…
Woburn 11 - 50 $184.1M Series Unknown 2025-11-17