Radar · Chemicals and Materials in CA
Best Chemicals and Materials Companies in CA, United States
The 42 best Chemicals and Materials companies in CA, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
42companies tracked
$0disclosed funding
0unicorns
—have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · CHEMICALS AND MATERIALS × CA
Our analysis of 50 Chemicals and Materials companies
$3.9b in tracked funding; 74% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
50companies analysed
74%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
2016median founding year
41median Fliar Index™
Ranked: Best Chemicals and Materials companies in CA
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founded | Stage | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elkay Plastics Co Elkay Plastics provides innovative development, production and delivery of a broad range of plastic bags… | — | 294 | 1968 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Chemco Products Co Chemco Products Company is a leading specialty chemical company whose Quality, Innovation and Customer… | — | 150 | 1962 | Funding Raised | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | Top 50M | — | 1 partnership |
| 3 | Stork Materials Testing and Inspection For 140 years, Stork industry experts have offered specialized materials testing, product evaluation, failure… | — | 147 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Hydra Flow Hydraflow is committed to helping our customers meet their requirements with innovative products,high… | — | 131 | 1961 | — | — | — | — | 2 job openings |
| 5 | Yudo Yudo Inc is a plastics company based out of 3275 Grande Vista Dr # 9, Newbury Park, California, United States. | — | 100 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Biolab Biolab Inc is a chemicals company based out of 4051 Santa Ana St, Ontario, California, United States. | — | 80 | — | — | Amazon Web ServicesAmazon CloudFrontOpen Graph | Top 50M | 20 patents Biomedical tissue grafts, disinfectant chemicals, and catalytic oxidation drug formulation technologies. | — |
| 7 | Oxford Instruments Asylum Research Oxford Instruments Asylum Research is the technology leader in atomic force microscopy for both materials and… | — | 80 | 1999 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | United Calibration Corporation Established in 1964, United Calibration Corporation has succeeded in becoming one of the world's premier… | — | 79 | 1964 | — | — | — | — | — |
Funding & investor landscape
$0total disclosed funding
0companies funded
0disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 774,205 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Chemicals and Materials coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH IN CA · Materials
How research on Advanced Materials in CA is moving
A read on the academic research around Advanced Materials in CA — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,625 papers.
1625 papers · stance +0.56 · 50% breakthrough · 7% concern
top institutions
- Chinese Academy of Sciences200
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences75
- Nanyang Technological University73
- Northwestern Polytechnical University57
- Beijing University of Chemical Technology44
leading researchers
Lei Jiang · Carlos José de Araújo · S. Lanceros‐Méndez · Marcelo A. Savi · Daniel Garcia‐Gonzalez · Daniele Martella
prism intelligence · tone & topics
97% positive · 0% critical tone
ManufacturingMaterials ScienceRoboticsHealthcarePhysicsEnergy
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Breakthroughs673 · 41%
▲ 26%→49% share
▲1.9× share momentum5 median citations75% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (26%→49% of field), led by Smart material.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Smart material37→179
- Actuator19→88
- Nanotechnology23→78
- Elastomer8→58
- Self-healing hydrogels3→48
Newly emerging3D printing 0→23 · Textile 0→12 · Biocompatibility 0→12
Landmark A Bioinspired Mineral Hydrogel as a Self‐Healable, Mechanically Adaptable Ionic Skin for Highly Sensitive Pressure Sensi · 998 cites
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Advancements580 · 36%
▼ 46%→31% share
▼0.7× share momentum4 median citations55% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (46%→31% of field), led by Smart material.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Smart material70→119
- Nanotechnology22→45
- Polymer7→27
- Composite material22→42
- Fabrication5→19
Newly emergingScaffold 0→11 · Voltage 0→10 · Durability 0→9
Landmark A review of stimuli-responsive shape memory polymer composites · 1,147 cites
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Concerns95 · 6%
▲ 4%→6% share
▲1.5× share momentum5 median citations68% since 2021mostly reviews
Concerns are rising (4%→6% of field), led by Smart material.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Smart material9→23
- Nanotechnology5→14
- Soft materials1→4
- Shape-memory alloy1→4
- Biomimetic materials1→3
Newly emergingSelf-healing hydrogels 0→8 · Textile 0→6 · Piezoelectricity 0→5
Landmark Biomimetic smart nanopores and nanochannels · 721 cites
Common questions
How many Chemicals and Materials companies are there in CA, United States?
Radar tracks 42 indexable Chemicals and Materials companies headquartered in CA, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Chemicals and Materials companies in CA, United States?
The Chemicals and Materials companies in CA, United States on this list have raised a combined $0 in disclosed equity funding across 0 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Chemicals and Materials company in CA, United States?
Funding figures are not yet disclosed for Chemicals and Materials companies in CA, United States.
How many Chemicals and Materials companies in CA, United States are funded?
0 of the 42 Chemicals and Materials companies in CA, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Chemicals and Materials unicorns are there in CA, United States?
None of the Chemicals and Materials companies in CA, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in CA, United States Chemicals and Materials companies?
The most active investors in CA, United States Chemicals and Materials companies on this list include a range of venture and angel investors.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
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.