Across packaging, textiles, transportation, and industrial materials, manufacturers are under growing pressure to deliver high performance while reducing environmental and human health impacts. Regulators, brands, and consumers are increasingly demanding safer chemistries, lower carbon footprints, and credible end-of-life pathways, raising the cost of inaction through bans, compliance risk, and stranded assets.

However, today’s material systems were not designed for circularity. In composites in particular, performance relies on petro-derived binders, sizings, and resins that permanently lock fibers into unrecyclable structures. These materials embed fossil dependence, generate hazardous waste, and make recovery or reuse economically unviable creating a structural conflict between performance, safety, and sustainability.

Most “sustainable” alternatives fail to resolve this tension. They often require expensive process changes, lack the scale or unit economics needed for industrial adoption, or sacrifice performance in critical applications. As a result, manufacturers face a false choice: accept environmental and regulatory risk, or adopt solutions that cannot compete at scale. This gap represents both a growing liability for industry and a missed opportunity for meaningful, systems-level impact.

Soarce converts underutilized biomass — such as algae and agricultural residues — into functionalized nanocellulose additives engineered to enhance the performance of composite materials. These additives improve interfacial adhesion, stiffness, and barrier properties in systems like carbon fiber, fiberglass, and natural fiber composites, while supporting more circular and recyclable material architectures.

Soarce’s flagship product line, Seabind™, is designed as a drop-in, application-tuned additive that integrates directly into existing manufacturing workflows without requiring retooling or process overhauls. By operating at the nanoscale, Seabind forms high-strength fibrillar networks that bridge fibers and matrices, improving load transfer, reducing resin demand, and increasing overall composite efficiency.

Through controlled functionalization and morphology tuning, Soarce tailors rheology, dispersion, and compatibility to specific resin systems and processing methods — ensuring smooth runnability on industrial production lines. In practice, this enables manufacturers to achieve equal or better mechanical and barrier performance while using lower-cost fibers, reduced material inputs, or more sustainable feedstocks, unlocking both performance gains and cost advantages across composites, paper, films, and textiles.

– Anthony Bellafiore, Investment Manager at Katapult Ocean

Soarce tackles a core circular materials challenge: replacing PFAS-like chemistries and petro-derived additives with safer, high-performance materials that can scale within existing industrial systems. By delivering drop-in, application-tuned nanocellulose additives, Soarce lowers the friction to adoption enabling manufacturers to respond to accelerating regulatory pressure around PFAS, hazardous chemistries, and end-of-life waste without compromising product performance.

Rather than incremental substitutions, Soarce advances structural circularity across packaging, textiles, and composites. Its materials reduce toxicity, support recyclability, and decrease reliance on fossil-based inputs while maintaining or improving mechanical and barrier performance. This positions Soarce as an enabler of real, measurable progress — helping industry transition from linear, high-risk material systems to scalable circular solutions that align environmental impact with economic value.

We invested because Soarce offers a credible path to cleaner, better materials without forcing manufacturers to rebuild their plants. Diligence showed strong technical fundamentals, validated performance in early pilots, an extremely healthy customer pipeline, and enthusiastic early partners.​

Soarce is led by a team with deep materials science and industrial know-how — people who understand both nanostructure and the realities of scaling a materials-science business from the ground up. They are backed by an experienced consortium of investors with a strong track record in advanced materials, adding further support as they move from lab to large-scale deployment.

We’re excited to help Soarce move from pilots to pervasive adoption across global supply chains. You can follow their progress, and/or order samples of the next wave of blue-economy materials, here.