Syntetica, a French green chemistry startup developing a process to recycle both Nylon 6 and Nylon 6.6 simultaneously, has closed a $30 million Series A led by Bpifrance Green Venture, with strategic participation from lululemon and MAS Holdings. Additional investors in the round include SWEN Capital Partners and the European Innovation Council, alongside returning backers EQT Ventures, 1st Kind, Volta Circle, MILINVEST, and Athletico Ventures.
The capital will fund construction of a Commercial Demo facility at the Michelin Innovation Park – Cataroux, designed to process millions of garments per year and produce industrial volumes of virgin-quality recycled nylon. The facility is intended to demonstrate the technology at commercial scale before a full production rollout.
Syntetica was co-founded by Marco Bertone and Louis Monsigny around a single technical insight: existing nylon recycling processes typically handle only one type of nylon at a time — either Nylon 6 or Nylon 6.6 — which creates a significant sorting and logistics burden given that both variants are widely present in the same garment streams. Syntetica’s proprietary green chemistry process recycles both simultaneously, removing that barrier and enabling broader feedstock acceptance without major changes to existing supply chains. The output is described as virgin-quality recycled nylon, meaning it can substitute for newly manufactured nylon without performance compromise.
The company has established commercial partnerships with lululemon, Groupe ETAM, and MAS Holdings — brands and manufacturers that are using the technology in development. The team is doubling headcount as part of the Series A scale-up.
KEY QUOTES:
“Industries built on a century of fossil fuels can become circular. Without ripping up their supply chain. Without paying massive premiums. Tomorrow’s materials will be made from today’s waste.”
Marco Bertone, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Syntetica
