Smart Concrete made from hyper local waste streams.
Location: United Kingdom
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $22.4M
Founded date: 2017
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Playfair C... | playfair.v... |
| - | At One Ven... | atoneventu... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 30.06.2023 | Series A | $19M | - |
| 03.12.2021 | Seed | $3.4M | - |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.07.2025 | The Concrete Edge What UK start-ups are getting right | Once seen as second fiddle to Silicon Valley, the UK start-up scene is quietly enjoying a moment. Ask Liz Gilligan, CEO and co-founder of Middlesbrough based Material Evolution, a company that uses AI and industrial waste to create eco-frie... |
| 16.04.2025 | Concrete Change: How Startups Like Material Evolution Are Building a Greener Future – And What the Government Can Do to Help From a garage startup to a game-changing force in sustainable construction,... | Cement is one of the most polluting materials on Earth, responsible for a staggering 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That's the challenge Material Evolution, a Middlesbrough based cleantech startup, set out to tackle. Co-founded by D... |
| 30.06.2023 | UK-based Material Evolution raises GBP 15 million in Series A | Middlesbrough, UK-based materials company producing cement from industrial waste streams, Material Evolution, raises GBP 15 million in Series A. The round took place on June 29, 2023. An early-stage VC firm focused on the decarbonisation of... |
| 29.06.2023 | UK's Material Evolution gets £15 million into the mix to kick the kiln to the curb and scale low carbon cement production | Material Evolution makes low carbon cement from industrial waste streams. The Middlesbrough-based company, founded by Dr. Elizabeth Gilligan and Sam Clark, is kicking the kiln to the curb as its alkali-fusion process requires only ‘ambient ... |
| 29.06.2023 | Material Evolution Raises £15M in Series A Funding | Material Evolution, a Middlesbrough, UK-based materials company producing cement from industrial waste streams, raised £15M in Series A funding. The round was led by Kompas VC, with participation from Norrsken VC, CircleRock Capital, Playfa... |
| 29.06.2023 | Material Evolution raises $19M to decarbonize the cement industry | In the industrial world, cement is about as omnipresent as materials get. But despite its clear and obvious utility, cement is responsible for some 8% of global CO2 emissions — if it was a country, it would be third biggest emitter globally... |
| 22.11.2021 | UK-based Material Evolution secures €3M to create Smart Concrete made from hyper local waste streams | Material Evolution, a Middlesbrough-based company that applies machine learning to the construction industry for the formulation of smart and sustainable concrete, announced that it has raised $3.4M (approx €3M) in its Seed round of funding... |
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| - | Material Evolution raises $3.4 million, aims to curb CO2 emissions in the cement industry by 85% | Hard tech startup Material Evolution has raised $3.4 million to further cement its ambitions to cut CO2 emissions in the cement industry by 85%. The funding will be used to further construct a world-leading material science team, build out ... |