Uplift360, a startup focused on recovering and reusing high-value composite waste for aerospace, defence and industrial sectors, has raised £6.4 million in a seed round led by Extantia, with significant contributions from the NATO Innovation Fund, Promus Ventures and Fund F. The oversubscribed round will enable it to foster additional partnerships with major industry players and expand the scale of production.
Advanced materials such as carbon fibre and aramids are critical to defence, aerospace and manufacturing, but face supply-chain bottlenecks driven by geopolitical pressure and limited virgin fibre availability. These materials also contribute to a growing global waste stream due to their durability. Uplift360 addresses this challenge through a proprietary chemical process that regenerates advanced composite materials, producing output of the same quality as the input and giving materials a second life without degradation.
The funding will be used to scale proprietary technologies that regenerate hard-to-treat advanced composite materials, including carbon fibre, aramid and hybrid laminates from aerospace, defence, wind energy and high-performance automotive sectors. Financing will also support commissioning a first pilot-scale processing line in the United Kingdom in 2026, expanding partnerships with aerospace, defence, automotive and energy OEMs, increasing research and development into regenerated-fibre performance, and building a distributed, scalable model for composite circularity across Europe.
Uplift360 already works with industrial partners including Babcock on Eurofighter Typhoon end-of-life materials recovery, Leonardo on repurposing Merlin helicopter blades into UxV components, and on a project with Rolls-Royce. The business operates with a presence in both the United Kingdom and Luxembourg.
