A Call to Climate-Focused Industry & Investors
It’s no secret: capital for deep tech and bio-based materials has become harder to raise. Especially for startups like ours, with hard assets and industrial ambitions.
Why? Because venture capital typically runs on shorter timelines than innovation. R&D cycles in chemicals and materials may last 3-10 years. A factory runs for +20 years at optimum. That’s a fundamental timing mismatch for venture returns, and it’s why many promising climate startups risk stalling at pilot scale.
But when making the green and clean transition, this paradigm has to be changed. There is a huge valorization potential with green chemicals decarbonizing the industry with decent returns, and the momentum is to be kept.
This is where we invite the industry to act with us. Whether it’s through direct investment, capitalizing on the development efforts or taking partner positions in transition-focused funds, industrial players need to lead with us. They shape the markets and we also need them. They know the infrastructure, value chains and markets. And increasingly, they have sustainability goals that require real action for which they also need us.
Physical innovation is harder to evaluate than software. But this is exactly why it matters. You can’t decarbonize global supply chains with code alone. We need material solutions.
🔧 What We’re Doing at Boreal
We’re raising a round to scale from pilot to pre-commercial production. Our customers, from adhesives to coatings, need more material than our pilot plant can provide. This round bridges that gap and takes us to investment readiness for a commercial production just around the corner. A first-of-its-kind biorefinery at Metsä Group’s sawmill in Vilppula, Finland, targeted for 2027. Substantial non-dilutive funding is also secured for that - but we need to get there first.
🌲 Our strategic partner, Metsä Spring, is committed to this round, when also other investors join the like minded group of companies from the future value chains and green chemicals focused venture capital.
📣 If you’re a climate tech investor, industry VC, or sustainability-focused LP, let’s talk.
We’re inviting a few more partners to join us in building the next chapter of European biomanufacturing. The capital is there. The need is real. The time is now.
- Jaakko, CEO for Boreal Bioproducts