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Malstrom Molecules

Investment areas

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Manufacturing
  • Natural Resources
Founders & Leadership
Matias Rojas
Headquarters
Cambridge, MA

Molecular recycling of end-of-life plastic.

The Tough Tech problem we are solving

Recycling waste plastics faces three insurmountable barriers: sky-high capex to achieve scale (bypassing oil refining economies), poor unit economics reliant on environmental premiums, and feedstock limitations requiring costly sorting or cannibalizing mechanical recycling—leaving true end-of-life plastics unrecyclable and environmentally disastrous.

About our solution

Our breakthrough technology processes unsorted end-of-life plastics into circular crude at costs below traditional oil benchmarks, leveraging existing oil refining infrastructure for seamless scale. This delivers high-grade petrochemical feedstocks for virgin plastics production with dramatically reduced carbon footprints—solving proliferation while enabling profitable, industrial-scale circularity.