Best Chemicals and Materials Companies in Turkey
The 122 best Chemicals and Materials companies in Turkey in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: LIVZYM.
Tracking the best Chemicals and Materials companies in Turkey by disclosed equity funding, our directory covers 122 firms with a combined $14M on the books. Livzym dominates that pool almost entirely, pulling in $11M of the total. DowAksa follows at $3M, and after that the numbers drop fast. MagSpin clocks in under $106K, and a handful of names, M-Based, Erdemir, Abaci Group, carry zero disclosed funding at all. So what does that tell you? Concentration risk, mostly. One company is carrying the sector's headline figure on its own.
The broader signal is more interesting than the funding math alone. Coverage is flat, but the themes heating up inside it are urban sustainability, green infrastructure, and sustainable city planning, exactly the areas where materials innovation actually matters right now. As shown in 2014 research, green chemistry frameworks are increasingly shaping how industrial materials get designed at the molecular level, and that pressure is filtering into emerging markets like Turkey's. I'd also note the demand-side momentum: median install growth across 32 chemicals and building materials apps is running at roughly 18% year-over-year, which suggests end-user adoption is moving even when venture dollars aren't. Active backers here include Europa, Sabancı ARF, and Cube Incubation, a thin but real investor base watching this space closely.
Our analysis of 234 Chemicals and Materials companies
$21.9b in tracked funding; 57% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Chemicals and Materials companies in Turkey
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LIVZYM Company that produces industrial enzymes through its strong R&D infrastructure | $11M | 22 mo ago | Series A | Serdar Uysal Founder | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — |
| 2 | DowAksa Manufacturer of carbon fiber products, intermediates, and composite solutions | $3M | 108 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2012 | PleskWindows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NET+12 | — |
| 3 | MagSpin Manufacturer of transparent ceramics | $106K | 79 mo ago | Seed | Hakan Duman CEO | 2016 | — | — |
| 4 | M-Based Company that focuses on developing sustainable material technologies using mycelium, the root structure of… | — | 22 mo ago | Seed | Gorkem Gokoglu Co-Founder | 2024 | — | 1 job opening |
| 5 | Erdemir Producer and distributor of electrical steel coils and strips | — | 42 mo ago | Public | Sedat Orhan CEO | 1965 | PHPLaravelGSAP+14 | — |
| 6 | Abaci Group Distributor of industrial chemicals. The company primarily focuses on raw materials for the production of… | — | — | Acquired | — | 1990 | — | — |
| 7 | acipayam seluloz Acipayam Seluloz produces CMC used to drill mud as detergent, paint, wallpaper glue, paper, and textile. | — | — | Public | — | 1973 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — |
| 8 | Ak-Al Gayrimenkul Gelistirme Manufacturer of fiber and yarn intended to serve the textile industry. | — | — | Acquired | — | 1974 | — | — |
Top 5 Chemicals and Materials companies in Turkey
#1
Series A · Istanbul, Istanbul · founded 2014 · 23 employees$11Mraised▾
LIVZYM Biotechnologies is a Turkish-based biotechnology company that produces industrial enzymes with a strong R&D infrastructure. The company has developed a unique enzyme technology platform, with a focus on serving customers in the food, animal feed, and pharmaceutical industries.
- Jul 2024Series A$11M
- 2022Seed—
#2
Funding Raised · Yalova, Yalova · founded 2012$2.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of carbon fiber products, intermediates, and composite solutions. It provides integrated solutions from precursor to resin, including engineering, technology, and knowledge for industrial markets. The company offers advanced carbon fiber composites solutions to sectors like aerospace and defense. It utilizes polyurethane-based pultrusion technology for stiffness, lower weight, and optimized cost, serving industries such as wind energy and automotive.
- Jun 2017Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$1.2M
#3
Seed · Eskisehir, Eskisehir · founded 2016 · 3 employees$105.9Kraised▾
Developer of powder synthesis and powder processing technologies designed to facilitate the manufacture of transparent ceramics. The company's ceramics features scratch-resistant screens that can be used in smartphones, watches, camera lenses and other civil and military applications, enabling users to get a resistant glass-like substance that can withstand high temperatures and rough conditions.
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$56K
- Mar 2017Seed$105.9K
#4
Seed · Ankara, Ankara · founded 2024—raised▾
Company that focuses on developing sustainable material technologies using mycelium, the root structure of fungi
#5
Public · Atasehir, Istanbul · founded 1965 · 12000 employees—raised▾
Erdemir is a producer and distributor of electrical steel coils and strips. It offers non-grain-oriented electrical steel products, used in the manufacturing of electro-technical applications, electrical motors, and power transformer and generators. It has a 3.850 Mt of liquid steel production capacity. In 2018, the company recorded annual revenues of $5.6B, and a net profit of $1.2B.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
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
How research on Advanced Materials is moving in Turkey
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 81 Turkey-affiliated papers.
- Karabük University12
- Koç University9
- Middle East Technical University5
- Gazi University4
- Erciyes University4
- Smart material1→7
- Actuator2→5
- Smart material3→12
- Composite material2→5
- Piezoelectricity1→4
- Smart material3
- Nanotechnology2
- Textile2
- Thermochromism1
- Composite material1
Where advanced materials is researched across Turkey
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.
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.