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Carbon Cell featured in Secrid Talent Podium at DDW 2025

We’re proud to have been featured in the Secrid Talent Podium at Dutch Design Week 2025, showcasing Carbon Cell among a group of pioneering sustainable designers. The exhibition highlighted innovative materials shaping a more circular and regenerative future.

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Morrama to host 'From the Ground Up' exhibition at London Design Festival 2025

Carbon Cell was featured in From the Ground Up, an exhibition by Morrama for the London Design Festival 2025. The show brought together material innovators reimagining how design can move from extraction toward regeneration.

As part of the collaboration, we showcased a lamp whose body is also its packaging, a single, seamless piece made entirely from Carbon Cell. Alongside it, we showcased ring boxes and plant pots formed from our carbon-negative foam, each exploring new ways materials can serve and regenerate.

Carbon Cell named to Cleantech's global top 50 to watch 

Carbon Cell was selected for Cleantech Group’s global 50 to Watch list, recognizing emerging companies driving sustainable innovation worldwide.

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Carbon Cell featured in Dezeen shortlist

Carbon Cell has been shortlisted for Dezeen's 2025 Sustainability awards

Listen to Liz in conversation with Appleyard Lees

As part of the "Greenshoots" podcast, Liz shared thoughts on company beginnings, branding, and biochar

Carbon Cell wins EASI25 Award for Innovation for Good

Carbon Cell received the EASI25 Award from The Worshipful Company of Entrepreneurs, recognizing innovations that create positive social and environmental impact. The award celebrates Carbon Cell’s carbon-negative, compostable foam as a sustainable alternative to plastic-based materials.

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Carbon Cell featured in WDCD Accelerator 2025

Carbon Cell took part in the What Design Can Do Accelerator, supported by the Secrid Impact Fund. The program brought together eight global projects advancing regenerative design, with Carbon Cell showcasing its carbon-negative, compostable foam as a sustainable alternative to plastic-based materials.

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Morrama to host 'From the Ground Up' exhibition at London Design Festival 2025

We're excited to announce "From the Ground Up," an immersive exhibition at the London Design Festival, running from September 16th to 20th, 2025. The exhibition aims to reframe industrial design from an extractive practice to a regenerative one, drawing inspiration from natural processes and a revised relationship with materials.

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Morrama to host 'From the Ground Up' exhibition at London Design Festival 2025

We're excited to announce "From the Ground Up," an immersive exhibition at the London Design Festival, running from September 16th to 20th, 2025. The exhibition aims to reframe industrial design from an extractive practice to a regenerative one, drawing inspiration from natural processes and a revised relationship with materials.

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News & Updates

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Carbon Cell raises £1.2m to scale production of innovative low-carbon foam material

We're tremendously excited to announce that we have closed a £1.2M pre-seed round to scale our novel, plastic-free foam made from biochar and natural polymers. The round was led by Green Angel Ventures and Counteract, with participation from HERmesa, RCA Design and Innovation S/EIS Fund, and One Planet Capital.

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Carbon Cell awarded Net Zero Living Programme grant

Carbon Cell received support from Innovate UK’s Net Zero Living Programme, a key milestone that strengthened our understanding of the packaging supply chain and accelerated our growth from an emerging startup to industry experts.

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Carbon Cell named Start-up of the Year at the 2024 BBIA Demeter Awards

We’re honoured to have been awarded Start-up of the Year at the inaugural BBIA Demeter Awards, celebrating innovation and impact across the UK’s bio-based sector. Hosted by the Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA), the event highlighted companies driving the transition to a circular and carbon-negative economy.

Carbon Cell joins CRL Accelerator Cohort 12

We’re thrilled to join Cohort 12 of the CRL Accelerator, an 18-week programme supporting innovative hardware startups through product development, business strategy, and manufacturing guidance

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Carbon13 invests in Carbon Cell through its Venture Launchpad program

We’re excited to be one of six climatetech startups backed by Carbon13 through its Venture Launchpad in partnership with Barclays Eagle Labs.

Carbon Cell raises £1.2m to scale production of innovative low-carbon foam material

We're tremendously excited to announce that we have closed a £1.2M pre-seed round to scale our novel, plastic-free foam made from biochar and natural polymers. The round was led by Green Angel Ventures and Counteract, with participation from HERmesa, RCA Design and Innovation S/EIS Fund, and One Planet Capital.

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Greenhouse demo day

Our CEO and Co-founder, Liz, presented at The Undaunted: Tackling Climate Change with Innovation Greenhouse Demo Day, and we are thrilled to announce that she secured first place for her outstanding pitch.

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Greenhouse demo day

Our CEO and Co-founder, Liz, presented at The Undaunted: Tackling Climate Change with Innovation Greenhouse Demo Day, and we are thrilled to announce that she secured first place for her outstanding pitch.

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2024 QMSVF Pitch Competition

Carbon Cell has won the 2024 QMSVF Pitch Competition! It’s an honor to have been chosen as the winner among such remarkable innovators. The level of innovation showcased was truly humbling, and we’re deeply grateful for the recognition.

2024 QMSVF pitch competition

Carbon Cell has won the 2024 QMSVF Pitch Competition! It’s an honor to have been chosen as the winner among such remarkable innovators. The level of innovation showcased was truly humbling, and we’re deeply grateful for the recognition.

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Sustainable Times Podcast

Ep.2 Elizabeth Lee in conversation with Profit meets Purpose Podcast

Sustainable Times Podcast

Ep.2 Elizabeth Lee in conversation with Profit meets Purpose Podcast

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