WeSort.AI, a Germany-based AI recycling technology company, announced that it has raised €10 million in funding to scale its patented AI and X-ray-based material recovery platform.
The company, founded in 2022 by Nathanael Laier and Johannes Laier, is focused on addressing a major global waste challenge: the mis-sorting of e-waste and batteries. According to the company, more than 50% of such materials end up in incorrect waste streams, leading to dangerous fires in recycling facilities and the loss of valuable critical raw materials such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements.
With this new funding, WeSort.AI plans to expand its technology capabilities and accelerate deployment of its systems, which are designed to detect and recover valuable materials from mixed waste streams. The company describes this opportunity as tapping into the “urban mine” — recovering scarce resources from existing waste rather than extracting new materials.
The funding round includes participation from several impact-focused investors and organizations, including Infinity Recycling, Green Generation Fund, vent.io (part of Deutsche Leasing Group), SPRIND (the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation), and support from BayStartUP.
WeSort.AI aims to position itself as a leading European provider of AI-driven raw material recovery solutions, leveraging its proprietary technology, growing team, and newly secured capital to scale operations and address increasing demand for sustainable resource management.
