Eight new businesses making circular living easier

From a lending service for household appliances to sustainable fashion labelling, eight new Irish businesses are being supported to make it easier than ever to go circular. 

The government-funded Circular Ventures Accelerator programme, operated by Circuleire, will this year work with a new cohort of companies to make sustainable and circular services easier to access and more widespread.   

This year’s cohort comprises:

• Anaula, which transforms distillery wastewater into algae-based fertiliser and feed. 

• Bean Around, which turns used coffee grounds into high value-added cosmetics products. 

• Circular Food Co, making “high-value ingredients” from food manufacturing waste.

• EcoRoots, which combines biology with digital optimisation “to deliver mycelium-based circular packaging solutions”.  

• Hibra Design, which is focused on battery-electric powertrains. 

• HomePerk, which is aiming to embed circular household practices through lending and sharing.

• Kinset, which is driving circularity in fashion through labelling and supply-chain traceability. 

• Mesh BioPlastics, which is “developing plant-based alternatives to single-use medical plastics”.

Started in 2020, the Circuleire programme has so far supported 26 ventures, with a total of €130,000 provided in equity-free funding.
Find out more about the programme, and exciting businesses, here.

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2025 Ventures and the IMR team at the Rediscovery Centre, Ballymun
Sourced From circuleire.ie