Rubi raises $7.5m in new funding to scale CO2 materials platform

AP Ventures and FH One Investments co-led the latest financing, which besides drew information from Talis Capital, CMPC Ventures, H&M Group, Understorey Ventures, and respective angel investors.

Rubi intends to usage the recently secured superior to standard up its accumulation systems, commercialise further merchandise lines, and make precocious enzyme platforms for improved ratio and outgo reduction.

The concern comes arsenic the institution reports signing multi-year offtake word sheets valued astatine implicit $60m with starring manner brands and manufacturers.

The offtake agreements impact contracts with large manufacture partners who person committed to purchasing Rubi’s materials implicit aggregate years.

In 2025, Rubi expanded its commercialized partnerships from 7 to 15 companies, including Walmart and Reformation.

The institution besides completed fibre show investigating with respective partners and began caller aviator projects with businesses successful the user packaged goods and aerospace industries.

Rubi co-founder and CEO Neeka Mashouf said: "We started Rubi with the imaginativeness that cell-free, multi-enzyme pathways would unlock efficient, scalable, high-performance manufacturing for captious materials from CO2.

“We've present demonstrated this exertion scales efficaciously and meets oregon exceeds lawsuit merchandise standards, driving an inflection constituent of commercialisation. The caller backing volition accelerate our scaling and maturation to conscionable beardown planetary request for modular and affordable manufacturing of indispensable materials from discarded c crossed textile, CPG, aerospace, and chemicals verticals."

In summation to fiscal and commercialized milestones, Rubi was included connected the Norrsken Impact/100 database successful 2025.

Mashouf appeared connected the MIT 35 Under 35 database and spoke astatine the World Economic Forum’s authoritative programme successful Davos.

The institution added six caller members to its technological advisory board, including experts successful biocatalysis, AI enzyme engineering, and cell-free systems, specified arsenic Dr Michael Jewett, PhD, Dr Richard Fox, PhD, and Dr Alex Patist, PhD.

Rubi’s level uses proprietary cell-free enzyme systems to person c dioxide into analyzable materials specified arsenic cellulose polymers. This method differs from accepted fermentation oregon chemic processing by relying connected cascades of specialised enzymes for production.

The strategy is designed to alteration modular manufacturing with reduced superior requirements, portion AI- and machine-learning tools enactment ongoing improvements successful enzyme performance.

AP Ventures spouse Kevin Eggers said: “Rubi has reached an important modulation point, with its exertion present demonstrated astatine aviator standard and wide request emerging crossed aggregate extremity markets. The squad has made beardown advancement translating a differentiated technological level into aboriginal commercialized traction. We’re pleased to enactment Rubi arsenic it moves into concern objection and the adjacent signifier of scaling.”