Green chemistry Accelerator

Accelerate to a Green Future

Starting and scaling a green chemistry business, particularly one driving the transition to a circular economy, presents unique challenges. Securing customer commitment and funding for pilot and demo plants is particularly tough, delaying the demonstration of a company’s market value.

The Green Chemistry Accelerator supports these businesses with a tailored program, aimed at overcoming company-specific barriers to increase market adoption and attract the right investors. Interested? Register by November 1 via the Registration Form on the right.

Why join as a green chemistry entrepreneur?

Participation in the program allows you to:

Gain insight into the green chemistry ecosystem (market, investors)
Challenge and refine your growth strategy
Identify development goals
Access industry networks and expertise
Boost market adoption of your technology
Attract the right investors

What does the program offer?

The program includes:

A deep dive to identify core development goals

A tailored 200-day plan to achieve key objectives

Bi-weekly support for executing your custom plan

Expert consultations on specific development goals

Peer group sessions

Networking with key investors

Who is the program for?

The program is designed for entrepreneurs who:

Aim to contribute to a circular economy by bringing green chemistry innovations (recycling, biobased, CCU) to market
Aspire to grow a business with €100M+ potential (revenue, CAPEX, or value)
Want to work with trainers and experts for progress
Are developing innovations beyond TRL 5 (preferably TRL 6-7)
Have formal backing from two or more customers and feedstock suppliers
Need financing between pre-seed and Series A
Have a runway of at least 200-300 days
Are in contact with a regional development agency or Invest-NL

Proven Success

To date, 10 participants have completed the program successfully over two rounds, making significant strides in scaling up. Below, you’ll find testimonials from these participants and a video with more insights.

DOPS

You throw household, industrial, or agricultural waste into a reactor, heat it to 1,000 degrees or more, and transform it into reusable raw materials such as syngas, carbon, minerals, and metals. With this technology, DOPS Recycling Technologies aims to enter the market.

Nature's Principles

Lactic acid is used in food, cleaning agents, solvents, shampoos, and creams, but it can also be used to make bioplastics, for example, from lactic acid derived from sugar beets. Start-up Nature's Principles has developed a cheaper, more efficient, and safer technology for this purpose.

Recell

Non-recyclable old paper and cardboard: in Europe, 20 million tons of it are burned each year. The Dutch company Recell converts this waste into sugars for bioplastics, aiming to green the chemical industry. Now that its successful demo factory has relocated to England, Recell plans to build a new facility that will be at least ten times larger.

Resolved Technologies

Plastic from electronic devices, computers, cars, chip bags, or showerheads is currently recycled only sporadically into new, clean raw materials. Start-up Resolved Technologies has found a literal solution for this: dissolving it in a solvent. Next year, a pilot factory at the Chemelot chemical complex is expected to recycle 25 kilograms of plastic per hour using this method.

Senbis

Finding a biodegradable alternative to polyester in clothing is considered the holy grail in the fight against plastic pollution. The Dutch R&D company Senbis aims to bring such a solution to market by 2030. For the first time, artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to significantly accelerate the entire development process.

ETB Global

ETB Global has developed a production process to manufacture bio-butadiene from bio-ethanol. This allows for the production of an important component for various plastics and rubbers from renewable sources.

Paques Biomaterials

Bacteria in wastewater that naturally produce bioplastic, which can be completely broken down in nature by the same bacteria after use. The Frisian company Paques Biomaterials aims to conquer the market for alternatives to fossil-based plastics with this technology.

Relement

Relement offers a biobased alternative for a key fossil ingredient in paint, glue, and other binders. The potential is enormous. “We have calculated that we can save about 3 kilograms of CO2 per kilogram of product over the entire life cycle,” says co-founder Roger Blokland. However, there is one problem: scaling up as a chemistry startup is not that easy. How do they manage it?

Susphos

Dutch wastewater is full of phosphates—a substance that is essential for life on Earth but is becoming increasingly scarce. On the other hand, phosphates pollute water and threaten biodiversity in lakes, rivers, and seas. They are found in the fertilizers that farmers use to enrich their fields and in our food. Through the ditches, runoff from the fields flows into rivers and the sea, and through our waste, phosphates from food enter the sewage system.

Torwash

TORWASH develops several processing methods for sludge, wet mown grass, and mixed plastics, converting them into biofuels, biogas, fertilizers, and raw materials for new plastics.