Every year since 2015, C&EN reporters have profiled 10 of the most interesting start-ups in the chemistry enterprise. These firms catch our attention for their fascinating and influential technologies, but the path of a start-up is difficult.
For every firm that upends an industry with a disruptive new technology, many more end in failure. More than a decade after publishing our first round of picks, we used data from the analytics firm PitchBook to catch up with all 120 companies we have featured.
