Best Advanced Materials Companies in Germany
The 83 best Advanced Materials companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: AMSilk.
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Ranked: Best Advanced Materials companies in Germany
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Tech stack | Founder | Employees | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AHC Developer of surface designs of materials. The company surface designs of materials made from various… | — | — | — | — | 550 | — | — |
| 2 | ALLOS Semiconductors Provider of GaN-on-Si epiwafers for micro LED display manufacturing | — | — | — | Burkhard Slischka Co-founder and CEO | — | 22 patents GaN-on-silicon epitaxial wafers with strain‑decoupling for high‑power optoelectronic devices | — |
| 3 | amynova polymers amynova polymers operates as a developer and manufacturer of starch-based biopolymer. | — | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+15 | — | 20 | 10 patents Modified starch carriers for agro‑chemical and cosmetic/personal‑care delivery systems. | — |
| 4 | BEHtec A company involved in development of natural fiber-reinforced bio-plastics materials | — | — | — | Dominique Bergmann Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 5 | Bio-Composites And More Provider of biocomposite materials | — | — | — | Klaus Dippon Owner | — | — | — |
| 6 | BioCer Designs and develops biomaterials for application in medical device | — | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | Markus Heinlein Co-CEO & Co-Managing Director | 21 21 → 27 (+29%) | — | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 7 | biotec Biotec specializes in the production of bioplastics manufactured from plant-based materials for packaging… | — | — | StoryblokTailwind CSSReact+12 | — | 42 | — | — |
| 8 | boraident Manufacturer of glass materials | — | — | — | Jochen H Hesselbach Managing Director | — | 67 patents Advanced porous SiO₂ glass components, bird‑deterrent devices, and glass defect detection technologies. | — |
Top 12 Advanced Materials companies in Germany
#1
Series D · Neuried, Bavaria · founded 2008 · 33 employees$69.4Mraised▾
Manufacturer of biotech silk protein materials for various industry applications. The company utilizes protein design and precision fermentation to produce materials with superior performance and lower environmental impact. These materials are available in formulations including fibers, yarns, hydrogels, and silk powder. The company provides these materials to enhance consumer lives across multiple industries.
- Sep 2025Series D$61M
- Apr 2023Series C$27.1M
- May 2021Series C$35.2M
- Jul 2016Series C—
#2
Series A · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2017 · 30 employees$10.1Mraised▾
Developer of an AI-powered platform for packaging design and solutions. The platform helps brands make informed decisions about packaging, aiming to optimise time to market. It offers tools for material scouting, packing trials, and customer acquisition. The platform seeks to minimise guesswork by calculating product-market fit and optimising research and development spend. It also focuses on future-proofing growth by complying with regulations and leveraging sustainable innovations.
- Jan 2026Series A$16.2M
- Sep 2022Seed$10.1M
#3
Seed · Leipzig, Saxony · founded 2024$3.8Mraised▾
Developer of fully recyclable, high-performance plastics from upcycled waste feedstocks. The company transforms plastic waste into chemical building blocks through efficient upcycling. These blocks are then used to create high-performance materials designed for repeated recycling. The resulting materials match the performance of polyolefins and are ready for large-scale production.
- Oct 2025Seed$3.8M
#4
Series A · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2020 · 2 employees$39Mraised▾
Manufacturer of bioplastics from agricultural waste. Its product portfolio includes biodegradable and traceless films, plastics, and coatings. Its features include natural polymer materials, home-compostable, and environment-friendliness.
- Sep 2023Series A$39M
- Jan 2022Grant (prize money)$2.8M
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$60.6K
- May 2021Seed—
#5
Seed · Darmstadt, Hesse · founded 2020 · 10 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of bio-degradable plastic materials
- Sep 2024Seed$2.5M
#6
Public · Zwingenberg, State of Hessen · founded 1993 · 308 employees$5.4Mraised▾
Developr of bio-based products and natural compounds for biotechnological solutions. It provides users with a platform that offers a wide range of biobased products and solutions for various industries, including feed, food, health, and chemicals, as well as environmental applications. The company also provides high throughput isolation of biological products, compound discovery, product development, gene and protein engineering, data analytics, bioinformatics, process development, and process optimization among others.
- May 2024Unattributed$5.4M
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$645.9K
#7
Series A · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2017 · 22 employees$9.3Mraised▾
Manufacturer of biodegradable polymer materials from agricultural waste. It develops sustainable packaging and disposable tableware solutions made of agricultural residues. It converts raw materials into self-binding natural fibres through a mechanical process. The manufactured products are claimed to be compostable, recyclable, water and oil resistant, and burnable with the lowest carbon footprint.
- Feb 2021Series A$3.2M
- May 2019Series A$9.3M
#8
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2016 · 22 employees$5.8Mraised▾
Manufacturer of carbon-negative biocarbon fillers and boards for industrial applications. The company transforms biowaste into engineered biocarbon, suitable for integration into various products. This process enables the creation of materials that actively reduce carbon. The company’s products are available as fillers, masterbatches, and boards, primarily for use in the built environment. The technology converts biogenic carbon into functional fillers for composites.
- Oct 2021Seed$5.8M
#9
Funding Raised · Berlin, Berlin · founded 1993$2.7Mraised▾
Developer of photoresists, polymers, and photopolymers. It is involved in the processing of chemicals for lithographic manufacturing processes in micro and nanostructuring used in key technologies and growth markets such as microsystems technology, microelectronics, optoelectronics, micro and nanophotonics, and micro and nanotechnology. It has various certificates regarding polymer development.
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$539.4K
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$451.4K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$557K
- Nov 2017Grant (prize money)$499K
#10
Public · Dortmund, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2005 · 65 employees$3.7Mraised▾
Temicon GmbH (previously called Holotools) develops and manufactures micro and nanostructured products serving as key components for applications like light management, displays, solar technology, or life science. Temicon's core business is the development and production of nanoimprint tools, injection molds, precision components, and stencils with functional micro and nanostructured surfaces. Temicon uses lithographic methods, thin-film technologies, and electroforming for the production of micro and nanostructures with extensive patterning.
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$409.7K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$417.4K
- Nov 2014Series A$3.7M
#11
Funding Raised · Berlin, Berlin · founded 1993$1.6Mraised▾
Plasmachem provides nano-materials, detonation-, vacuum-, plasma- and ultra-thin film technologies and their biomedical and technical applications. It has facilities to offer measurements of modified surfaces and nano-objects using different analysis methods including Scanning Probe Techniques (AFM/STM/STS). It also has a business line for production and sale of nanopowders, nanodiamonds, nanoceramics, nanometals, composite nanoparticles and capsules, etc. The ready-to-use industrial nano-products offered includes nano-abrasives, additives to engine oils, composite nano-suspensions for electroplating and electroless plating of metals.
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$376.6K
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$373.2K
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$215.4K
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$212.3K
#12
Seed · Darmstadt, Hesse · founded 2021 · 19 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Provider of hemp fiber based sustainable textiles. The company offers textiles that are made of hemp residue and are moldable and non-abrasive, with a variety of textures and appeals. It claims that the textiles are vegan, biodegradable, recyclable, and plant-based.
- May 2022Seed$1.1M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Advanced Materials coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Advanced Materials is moving in Germany
A read on the academic research around Advanced Materials — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 461 Germany-affiliated papers.
- Technische Universität Dresden35
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology30
- Saarland University24
- Chemnitz University of Technology20
- TU Dresden20
- Nanotechnology4→18
- Smart material21→33
- Elastomer4→13
- Actuator19→27
- Polymer6→14
- Shape-memory alloy13→18
- 3D printing1→4
- Elastomer5→8
- Self-healing hydrogels4→6
- SMA*6→8
- Smart material1→5
Where advanced materials is researched across Germany
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing advanced materials patents in Germany
Germany advanced materials patent filing is cooling — 27,694 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by BASF SE, Siemens, Fraunhofer GES Forschung; annual filings 3096→1972.
- BASF SE2645
- Siemens2092
- Fraunhofer GES Forschung1469
- Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe1264
- Constr RES & TECH1183
- Thyssenkrupp1112
- Robert Bosch1101
- Merck Patent1053
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.