Uplift360 Raises €7.4 M To Strengthen European Supply Chains Through Advanced Material Regeneration

The round was led by Extantia, with participation from the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), Promus Ventures, and Fund F.

Sam Staincliffe, CEO and co-founder of Uplift360, said: “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.”

Uplift360’s Seed round sits within a broader wave of investment flowing into circular economy and advanced materials innovation across Europe.

In France, climate-focused investor SlateVC announced a €132 million first close for its inaugural growth fund in 2026, targeting low-carbon industrial processes and next-generation materials. Germany has also attracted notable investment in adjacent technologies including aevoloop which raised approximately €8 million in 2025 to scale chemically recyclable and biodegradable plastics and Cologne based METYCLE which secured €14 million to expand its AI driven metal recycling platform.

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Across the Baltics Estonia’s Jälle Technologies raised €2 million in pre-Seed funding to advance recovery of high-value carbon materials from end-of-life batteries. At the ecosystem level, France-based makesense launched a €15 million Seed fund focused on circular and inclusive ventures across Europe.

Collectively, these developments represent roughly €170 million or more in disclosed funding directed toward European circular materials and industrial recycling sectors over the past two years.

Against this backdrop Uplift360’s Seed round highlights a UK-based contribution to the trend, positioning composite regeneration and supply chain resilience within Europe’s broader push to retain strategic materials in circulation rather than downcycling or exporting them as waste.

Joern-Carlos Kuntze, Partner at Extantia, said: “High-performance composites underpin strategic sectors critical to Europe’s reindustrialisation, yet remain notoriously difficult to recycle. Uplift360 is changing that: transforming end-of-life materials into high-quality feedstock while building resilient circular supply chains in the process. We’re proud to back Sam, Jamie, and the team as they build the circular backbone of the composites industry.

Founded in 2021, Uplift360 is developing chemical regeneration technologies for critical industrial materials, including carbon fibre and aramid. The company’s vision is to advance circular economy innovation by enabling a future in which high-performance materials are continuously recovered and reused rather than discarded.

Advanced materials such as carbon fibre and aramids are essential to sectors including defence, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing, and play a key role in Europe’s broader efforts to strengthen industrial capacity. However, according to Uplift360, these materials face significant supply-chain constraints driven by geopolitical pressures and limited availability of virgin fibre. At the same time their durability contributes to a rapidly growing global waste stream once products reach end of life.

Uplift360 aims to tackle this challenge through its proprietary chemical regeneration process, which recovers advanced composite materials while maintaining output quality equivalent to the original input.

Sander Verbrugge, Partner at the NATO Innovation Fund, says: “Durable, high-quality advanced materials are of strategic importance to securing the future of NATO nations. Uplift360’s platform is exactly the kind of dual-use innovation Europe needs tackling a real supply-chain vulnerability, reducing carbon emissions and bolstering the resilience of the sectors that underpin European industrialisation and competitiveness.”

Seed funding will support the scale-up of Uplift360’s proprietary technologies, enabling the regeneration of difficult-to-recycle advanced composite materials, including carbon fibre, aramid (such as Kevlar), and hybrid laminates used across aerospace, defence, wind energy, and high-performance automotive industries.

Carina Roth, Investment Manager at Fund F, adds: “Uplift360 stands out due to Sam and Jamie’s exceptional synergy, deep industry expertise and drive to create an impact. Their team perfectly bridges DeepTech innovation with the operational maturity needed to scale, positioning them uniquely to turn composite waste into a sovereign industrial strength.”

As part of Europe’s expanding ecosystem of dual-use and strategic materials innovators, with operations spanning both the UK and Luxembourg, Uplift360 is strategically positioned to help secure and reinforce critical supply chains across the region.

About Uplift360

Uplift360 is an advanced materials company developing chemical regeneration technologies for critical materials such as carbon fibre, aramid, and high-performance composites. The company focuses on recovering these materials at near original quality, helping reduce waste, improve supply chain resilience, and support reuse across aerospace, defence, energy and other industrial sectors.