Uplift360 Secures €7.4M to Bolster EU Supply Chains

The round was led by Extantia, one of Europe’s leading deep tech venture funds, with significant contributions from the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), Promus Ventures and Fund F. This constitutes a significant milestone for deep-tech dual-use investments in advanced material resilience.

This investment is a clear signal that Europe intends to lead in sustainable advanced-materials manufacturing. Our technology turns what is currently burned, buried or exported into a reliable, high-quality feedstock stream, strengthening supply-chains for primes, OEMs and government customers. With Extantia and the NATO Innovation Fund behind us, we’re now positioned to scale with urgency. - Sam Staincliffe, CEO & Co-Founder of Uplift360

Advanced materials like carbon fibre and aramids underpin defence, aerospace and manufacturing and are critical to Europe’s ability to revitalise industrial capabilities more broadly. However, these materials currently face severe supply-chain bottlenecks due to geopolitical pressure and limited virgin fibre availability and, as they are built to last, contribute to a fast-growing global waste stream.

Uplift360 can help address this challenge through its proprietary technology, a chemical process that recovers advanced composite materials, resulting in the same quality output as inputted. Unlike recycling, Uplift360’s regeneration process is non-degenerative, giving them a true second life.

This seed funding will scale Uplift360’s proprietary technologies, enabling the regeneration of hard-to-treat advanced composite materials such as carbon fibre, aramid (e.g., Kevlar®) and hybrid laminates from aerospace, defence, wind energy and high-performance automotive sectors.