Circular Economy Startups — Critical Metals and Minerals

Startups Shaping the Future of EV, Solar, Wind, and Battery Storage with a Circular Approach.

What’s the role of critical metals and minerals in the energy transition?

Electric vehicles, solar panels, wind farms, and battery storage all require heavy resource input. If the net offset and consumption improvement they provide over their lifetime are not high enough, we are not making progress.

This calls for circular business models!

This infographic highlights pioneering startups with a circular approach in the Critical Metals and Minerals sector, across three key innovation categories:

• Battery Energy Storage Solutions

• EV and Consumer Electronics Subscriptions

• Solar and Wind Energy Solutions

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Circular Economy Startups — Critical Metals and Minerals: The full list

Please note that there may be overlaps among these criteria, such as multiple segmentations intersecting.

This list includes various circular economy companies spanning the areas of critical metals and minerals. If your company isn't included and you have exposure to circular economy startups, feel free to submit it here, and we’ll make sure to include you.

Full List
Company Name

1. Battery Energy Storage Solutions

1. Emulsion Flow Technologies

2. Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. (USA)

3. 24 Technologies (USA)

4. POSH (YC W22) (USA)

5. Ascend Elements (USA)

6. Redwood Materials (USA)

7. Recell Ltd (UK)

8. Li-Cycle (Canada)

9. Evolve Renewable Materials, Inc. (USA)

10. ADVANO (USA)

11. Duesenfeld (Germany)

12. EnergyX (USA)

13. Ruicycle (China)

14. Bib batteries (France)

15. VoltR (France)

16. Refurb Battery (The Netherlands)

17. NOWOS (The Netherlands)

18. ACE Green Recycling, Inc. (Singapore)

19. Moment Energy (USA)

20. Mangrove Lithium (USA)

21. Battri (France)

22. Redivivus (USA)

23. NEU Battery Materials (Singapore)

24. Greenbase (South Korea)

25. Green Li-ion (USA)

2. EV and Consumer Electronics Subscriptions

1. UFODRIVE (Luxembourg)

2. Onto (UK)

3. EZOO (UK)

4. Voltric (USA)

5. Autonomy (USA)

6. BlueSG (Singapore)

7. SPARK Lithuania

8. Rabbit Mobility (Egypt)

9. Steer EV Subscription (Canada)

10. imove (Norway)

11. myev HUB

12. Dance (Germany)

13. SWYTCHD (India)

14. Borrow (USA)

15. Ooodles (UK)

16. Circular (YC W22) (Singapore)

17. Plenti (Poland)

18. Raylo (UK)

19. Everphone (The Netherlands)

20. INKI (The Netherlands)

21. Yuno (Switzerland)

22. Wiserentr (Spain)

3. Solar and Wind Energy

1. Solarcycle (USA)

2. EtaVolt Pte Ltd (Singapore)

3. We Recycle Solar (USA)

4. Kite Kraft (Germany)

5. Wind Catching Systems (Norway)

6. Modvion FLAXRES GmbH (Sweden)

7. Soren (France)

8. ROSI (France)

9. Biosphere Solar (The Netherlands)

10. Solarge (The Netherlands)

11. NexWafe (Germany)

12. Bcircular (Spain)

13. ReBlade Limited (UK)

14. Voodin Blade Technology (Germany)

15. BladeBridge (UK)

16. REGEN Fiber (USA)

17. Wind Turbine Up-Cycle (UK)

18. Vortex Bladeless Wind Power (Spain)