Our investment in aevoloop
Plastics are a fantastic material - maybe even the most versatile material ever invented. They are durable, mechanically stable, hydrophobic - useful for all kinds of applications - and extremely cheap. No wonder this material has created a several hundred billion dollar market.
However, plastics come at a different cost: a non-renewable feedstock (oil) and a huge burden on the environment. Yearly, we produce more than 400 million tons of it. Less than a third is recycled or even incinerated. The rest remains in landfills, or - worse - litters the environment. Most plastics don’t degrade naturally, and on top shed toxic microplastics, which negatively impact the environment and human- and animal health.
Bioplastics have been introduced to the market in the last decades. These are based on renewable feedstocks and are recyclable and/or biodegradable under the right conditions. However, they have shortcomings on the performance side: Most of these are mechanically not very durable, they are brittle and often only practical for a one-time usage - their biodegradability works against them.
A new material is therefore necessary.
One that combines the performance attributes of fossil-based plastics with full recyclability (and biodegradability) and a renewable feedstock.
Aevoloop sets out to create exactly this material.
The team has created a new patented platform technology that allows them to create a variety of new plastic materials that can be fully recycled and are biodegradable but also have the same performance characteristics as current fossil-based plastics.
These new plastic materials are created by chaining together molecular building blocks that can be sourced from natural sources or by recycling existing plastics. Aevoloop is the first to produce these building blocks cheaply and chain them together into new materials. Chaining them together creates natural breaking points that don’t harm the performance but allow for very efficient recycling back into the original components.
Aevoloop was founded in 2024 by Dr. Manuel Häußler, former PhD student at the University of Kostanz and now group leader at Center for the Transformation of Chemistry, along with entrepreneur Philipp Kessler.
Since incorporation, they have identified the first pilot use cases and are now growing the team and scaling the technology to supply the first materials to potential customers.
In Spring 2025, aevoloop relocated its headquarters from Konstanz to Leipzig—right in the heart of Germany’s “Chemistry Triangle” and began an intensive collaboration with the Center for the Transformation of Chemistry (CTC), Germany’s largest and most ambitious sustainable-chemistry research initiative.
We are a proud investor in Manuel, Philipp and the growing team since day one - and are incredibly impressed by the progress they have made.
