50 Best Chemical Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent chemical companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 21,535 companies tracked on Fsome.

21,535
Total Companies
$209.7B
Total Funding
$9.7M
Avg Funding
Mumbai
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
CuspAI
CuspAI is an AI company that discovers new materials to solve problems and enabl…
Cambridge 11 - 50 $130.0M Non Equity Assistance 2026-03-19
2
Altris
Altris is a sodium-ion battery developer that focuses on enhancing energy storag…
Uppsala 11 - 50 $62.9M Corporate Round 2026-01-15
3
Ammobia
Ammobia is a chemical manufacturing company that specializes in the clean produc…
San Francisco 1 - 10 $11.7M Seed 2026-01-13
4
CHARBONE
CHARBONE Corporation is a green hydrogen company focusing on ultra-high purity h…
Brossard 11 - 50 $63.6M Post Ipo Debt 2026-03-30
5
Bayer
Bayer is a life science company that specializes in the areas of health care and…
Leverkusen c 10001 max $9.3B Post Ipo Debt 2025-09-26
6
Atomgrid
Atomgrid builds a tech enabled custom manufacturing and sourcing platform for sp…
Bengaluru 11 - 50 $8.2M Seed 2026-01-13
7
Liberation Bioindustries
Liberation Bioindustries is a biotech firm that develops an industrial biotechno…
New York 11 - 50 $182.1M Series Unknown 2025-12-09
8
Chemify
Chemify integrates chemistry with robotics and machine learning to digitize the …
Glasgow 101 - 250 $97.4M Series Unknown 2026-02-12
9
Psivant Therapeutics
Psivant Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that offers drug design, biology…
Watertown 11 - 50 $47.5M Series A 2025-12-10
10
BIOWEG
BIOWEG is a biotechnology company that develops bio-based, biodegradable ingredi…
Quakenbr├╝ck 11 - 50 $36.2M Grant 2025-12-22
11
Twelve
Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide int…
Berkeley 251 - 500 $929.4M Series Unknown 2025-05-06
12
Lydian
Lydian is the electric fuels company, developing the lowest cost SAF from CO2, w…
Salem 11 - 50 $55.8M Series Unknown 2026-01-06
13
BASF
BASF is a manufacturing company that offers chemicals for industries such as con…
Ludwigshafen c 10001 max $337.4M Grant 2024-10-15
14
Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks is a developer of biological engineering products and custom mic…
Boston 501 - 1K $1.6B Grant 2024-04-10
15
Iktos
Iktos is a deep learning technology platform focused on new drug design and disc…
Paris 51 - 100 $19.0M Grant 2025-02-20
16
Syzygy Plasmonics
Syzygy Plasmonics is a developer of a photocatalytic reactor designed for fuel c…
Houston 101 - 250 $106.0M Series Unknown 2024-02-21
17
E3 Lithium
E3 Lithium is a lithium resource and technology company that produces battery gr…
Calgary 11 - 50 $82.8M Post Ipo Equity 2025-10-07
18
Brimstone
Brimstone is a hardware cleantech startup that aims to reduce CO2 emissions thro…
Berkeley 51 - 100 $244.0M Undisclosed 2025-08-04
19
Draslovka
Draslovka is a chemical specialties and agricultural chemicals including next ge…
Tullamarine 251 - 500 $150.0M Private Equity 2022-02-02
20
Nitricity
Nitricity is an energy company that creates renewable nitrogen fertilizer produc…
Fremont 11 - 50 $104.9M Series B 2025-09-10
21
Miru Smart Technologies
Miru Smart Technologies commercializes electrochromic windows that can be tailor…
Vancouver 11 - 50 $29.6M Corporate Round 2026-01-14
22
Enko Chem, Inc.
Enko Chem utilizes predictive analytics to develop products for farmers that pro…
Mystic 11 - 50 $134.7M Series C 2023-01-31
23
Oncoinvent
Oncoinvent develops new radiopharmaceutical products for better treatment option…
Oslo 11 - 50 $72.0M Undisclosed 2024-12-04
24
Pulsar Helium
Pulsar Helium focuses on the business of acquiring, exploring, and developing he…
White Rock 1 - 10 $21.2M Post Ipo Equity 2025-11-06
25
BEWi
BEWi Group AB is supplier of expandable polystyrene and producer of insulation p…
T├╕rring 51 - 100 $368.0M Post Ipo Debt 2025-09-05
26
OCOchem
OCOchem develops technology that electrochemically converts CO2 into Green Formi…
Richland 11 - 50 $13.7M Undisclosed 2026-01-14
27
Albert Invent
Albert Invent provides a digital platform for materials science research and dev…
Oakland 101 - 250 $50.0M Series Unknown 2025-02-24
28
Anaphite
Anaphite is a manufacturer of electrodes by replacing energy-intensive wet proce…
Bristol 11 - 50 $27.0M Series A 2025-12-09
29
Provivi
Provivi develops biopesticides for agriculture, commercial, household, and publi…
Santa Monica 51 - 100 $191.7M Debt Financing 2026-04-07
30
OXCCU
OXCCU develops technology to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into synthetic …
Oxford 1 - 10 $54.1M Series B 2025-09-29
31
Capra Biosciences
Capra Biosciences develops bioreactor technology that turns byproducts and waste…
Alexandria 1 - 10 $12.7M Convertible Note 2024-11-15
32
Bruker
Bruker is a manufacturer of analytical and medical instruments covering NMR, ESR…
Billerica c 10001 max $1.0B Post Ipo Equity 2025-09-03
33
AFYREN
AFYREN develop innovation in biotechnologies for the valorization of non-food bi…
Saint-beauzire 101 - 250 $65.4M Post Ipo Equity 2025-10-28
34
T-CURX
T-CURX develops personalized T cell therapies for cancer, leveraging a proprieta…
W├╝rzburg 1 - 10 $20.0M Series A 2025-12-17
35
Phlow
Phlow supplies affordable, quality, essential medicines through U.S.-based advan…
Richmond 51 - 100 $117.2M Series C 2025-07-22
36
Locus Fermentation Solutions
Leading the ESG revolution by fermenting award-winning, green ingredients to the…
Solon 51 - 100 $192.0M Convertible Note 2025-12-10
37
Kebotix
Kebotix is a high-tech materials discovery and production company that reinvent …
Cambridge 11 - 50 $23.6M Series Unknown 2024-08-05
38
Anzen Industries
Anzen Industries focuses on biotech innovation, engineering molecular resilience…
London 1 - 10 $2.3M Pre Seed 2026-01-19
39
Reliance Industries
Reliance Industries is a multi-industry company that engages in the energy, petr…
Mumbai c 10001 max $17.5B Post Ipo Debt 2025-09-15
40
Sunthetics
Easy-to-use machine-learning platform that leverages small data to develop new c…
San Marcos 1 - 10 $5.7M Seed 2024-11-13
41
Addis Energy
Addis Energy is on a mission to alter the way we feed and fuel our society, harn…
Somerville 1 - 10 $17.1M Seed 2025-12-01
42
Arzeda
Arzeda is a protein design company that creates and manufactures proteins and en…
Seattle 51 - 100 $103.2M Grant 2025-09-30
43
GALY
GALY produces agriculture from cells in a facility, not plants in the field
San Francisco 51 - 100 $65.9M Series B 2024-09-03
44
Kemira
Kemira products and delivers water treatment, Fiber production, and fibre-based …
Helsinki 1K - 5K $192.9M Post Ipo Debt 2025-10-20
45
Knowde
The leading software platform for the chemical industry.
San Jose 101 - 250 $222.8M Series C 2024-08-01
46
Twist Bioscience
Twist Bioscience is a biotechnology company that offers synthetic DNA solutions,…
San Francisco 501 - 1K $553.1M Post Ipo Equity 2022-02-09
47
Planet Smart
Planet Smart produces compostable, bio-based superabsorbent polymers for sustain…
London 1 - 10 $1.0M Pre Seed 2025-11-18
48
EcoCeres
EcoCeres is an innovative biomass utilization company that develops decarbonizat…
Kwun Tong 501 - 1K $508.0M Private Equity 2023-01-12
49
Telescope Innovations
Telescope Innovations develops chemical manufacturing processes and tools for th…
Vancouver 11 - 50 $2.7M Grant 2025-11-04
50
Zymochem
Zymochem provides a carbon-efficient bio-manufacturing platform that converts re…
San Leandro 51 - 100 $31.1M Series Unknown 2025-05-06