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10 Start-Ups to Watch 2025 Amid a tough funding environment, chemistry start-ups shine

The next big breakthroughs in chemistry start here. Explore 10 innovative start-ups in fields including food, agriculture, industrial chemicals, textiles, energy, mining, and drug discovery.
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Light Horse puts function first in pursuit of precision cancer drugs

Light Horse Therapeutics, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, scans entire proteins with CRISPR to find functional vulnerabilities, then hunts for molecules that exploit them. Read more: cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

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Shiru searches for natural proteins to create more-sustainable food

Shiru, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, uses artificial intelligence to discover proteins for food ingredients and other applications. Read more: cen.acs.org/business/foo...

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How PostEra designs drugs from code

PostEra, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, uses artificial intelligence and machine learning tools alongside medicinal chemistry to design new molecules. Read more: cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

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Seloxium seeks to pluck precious metals from mine effluent

Seloxium, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, says its technology can recover valuable metals from mine effluent and tailing ponds. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/Se...
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Spiritus wants to make carbon capture affordable

Spiritus, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, is making towers that will hold tennis ball–size sorbent spheres that capture carbon dioxide from air. Read more: cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

Peptobiotics aims at alternative antibiotics for agriculture

Peptobiotics, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, is creating novel antibiotic peptides for use in aquaculture. Read more: cen.acs.org/business/agr...

Ever Dye aims to make the textile dyeing process sustainable

Ever Dye, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, aims to make the textile dyeing process sustainable. Read more: cen.acs.org/business/con... #chemsky 🧪

Syndeio targets the brain’s connections

Syndeio, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, is focused on targeting synapses to deliver better drugs to treat depression, Alzheimer’s disease, and other conditions. Read more: cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

Mattiq is on a quest to make billions of nanomaterials

Mattiq, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, is on a quest to make billions of nanomaterials. The company is training AI models with data generated by its own technology. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/Ma...

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Light Horse puts function first in pursuit of precision cancer drugs The company scans entire proteins with CRISPR to find functional vulnerabilities, then hunts for molecules that exploit them

Light Horse, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, scans entire proteins with CRISPR to find functional vulnerabilities, then hunts for molecules that exploit them. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

10 Start-Ups to Watch 2025: Shiru searches for natural proteins to create more-sustainable food and cosmetics AI mines a database of 77 million natural proteins for novel ingredients

Shiru, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, uses artificial intelligence to discover proteins for food ingredients and other applications. cen.acs.org/business/foo... #chemsky 🧪

How PostEra designs drugs from code The start-up is making antivirals and cancer drugs for Big Pharma—and working to treat reproductive problems on its own

PostEra, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, uses artificial intelligence and machine learning tools alongside medicinal chemistry to design new molecules. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

Seloxium seeks to pluck precious metals from mine effluent Polymers from the University of Oxford spin-off promise to improve the sustainability of mining

Seloxium, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, says its technology can recover valuable metals from mine effluent and tailing ponds. cen.acs.org/materials/Se... #chemsky 🧪

Spiritus wants to make carbon capture affordable New easy-to-make sorbent could slash the cost of pulling carbon from the air

Spiritus, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, is making towers that will hold tennis ball–size sorbent spheres that capture carbon dioxide from air. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

Peptobiotics aims at alternative antibiotics for agriculture Using small peptides, the company hopes to slow the rise of antibiotic-resistant pathogens

Peptobiotics, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, is creating novel antibiotic peptides for use in aquaculture. cen.acs.org/business/agr... #chemsky 🧪

Ever Dye aims to make the textile dyeing process sustainable Pigments use electrostatic interactions to cling to fabric, thus reducing waste and energy use

Ever Dye, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, aims to make the textile dyeing process sustainable. cen.acs.org/business/con... #chemsky 🧪

Syndeio targets the brain’s connections The synapse may hold the key to treating major depressive disorder and dementia

Syndeio, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, is focused on targeting synapses to deliver better drugs to treat depression, Alzheimer’s disease, and other conditions. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

Mattiq is on a quest to make billions of nanomaterials The company is training AI models with data generated by its own technology

Mattiq, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, is on a quest to make billions of nanomaterials. The company is training AI models with data generated by its own technology. cen.acs.org/materials/Ma... #chemsky 🧪

Låkril tackles the challenge of biobased acrylic acid Start-up may have a catalyst that finally makes the process work

@lakril.bsky.social, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, tackles the challenge of biobased acrylic acid. The start-up may have a catalyst that finally makes the process work. cen.acs.org/business/bio... #chemsky 🧪

C&EN - 10 Startups to Watch

The next big breakthroughs in chemistry start here. Explore 10 innovative start-ups in fields including food, agriculture, industrial chemicals, textiles, energy, mining, and drug discovery: cen.acs.org/business/sta...

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10 Start-Ups to Watch 2025 Amid a tough funding environment, chemistry start-ups shine

The next big breakthroughs in #chemistry start here. Explore 10 innovative #startups in fields including food, agriculture, industrial chemicals, textiles, energy, mining, and drug discovery: cen.acs.org/business/sta...
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Nominate a start-up for C&EN’s 10 Start-Ups to Watch

C&EN's 10 Start-Ups to Watch program is seeking nominations for promising chemistry #StartUps. Nominate a company today and help us uncover the future of innovation in chemistry. The deadline is tomorrow, Aug. 1!

Nominate here: cen.acs.org/surveys/star...

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Vilya, one of C&EN's #10StartUpsToWatch, uses computational protein design to create membrane-permeable macrocyclic drugs. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

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C&EN is seeking innovative chemistry start-ups to be a part of C&EN's 10 Start-Ups to Watch. Nominate a company today and help us recognize their groundbreaking innovations. Deadline: Aug 1—just one week away!

C&EN is seeking innovative chemistry start-ups to be a part of C&EN's 10 Start-Ups to Watch. Nominate a company today and help us recognize their groundbreaking innovations. Deadline: Aug 1—just one week away! Nominate today: cen.acs.org/surveys/star...

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Planet A Foods, one of C&EN's #10StartUpsToWatch, uses chromatography, mass spectrometry, and genetic engineering to make “chocolate” without cocoa: cen.acs.org/food/food-sc...

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Know an innovative start-up? Nominate them today.

Do you know a #StartUp driving scientific breakthroughs in chemistry? Nominate a start-up for our #10StartUpsToWatch program by Aug 1. Self-nominations permitted. Nominate now: cen.acs.org/surveys/star...

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PhaBuilder, one of C&EN's #10StartUpsToWatch, brews better bioplastics with extremophile bacteria: cen.acs.org/materials/po...

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Pascal, one of C&EN's #10StartUpsToWatch, thinks it can side-step the global warming impact of refrigerants with a heat pump system: cen.acs.org/business/spe...

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C&EN is looking for groundbreaking chemistry #StartUps to be featured in C&EN’s #10StartUpsToWatch. The nominees will be highlighted in our Special Double Issue in Nov 2025. Nominations close Aug 1. Self-nominations are permitted. Submit now: cen.acs.org/surveys/star...

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