Salt & Fiber, a Malmö-based ClimateTech startup remodeling beach-cast seagrass into sustainable textile yarns, has secured €300k in a pre-Seed funding spherical. Right now, the corporate can be launching a €45,000 crowdfunding marketing campaign.
Based in 2025 by Annika John, the corporate develops sustainable textiles from seagrass, a pure useful resource discovered alongside coastlines. In accordance with the corporate, its answer tackles two vital points. It states that coastal municipalities spend hundreds of thousands eradicating beach-cast seagrass, then landfill it, releasing methane emissions.
In the meantime, typical textile manufacturing is among the world’s most polluting industries, and European manufacturers are going through rising strain to cut back supply-chain emissions and adjust to sustainability rules similar to CSRD and prolonged producer duty frameworks, whereas needing native, traceable, low-impact supplies.
By remodeling beached seagrass, a cloth that sometimes goes unused, into high-quality fibres, Salt & Fiber claims to create an environmentally accountable various to standard textiles.
The corporate states that its fibres are constituted of beached seagrass that doesn’t require contemporary water, fertilisers, or land. These fibres are fully plant-based and biodegradable, with no artificial polymers or microplastic shedding all through their lifecycle. It claims they’re protected for each people and the surroundings.
It additional notes that its processing strategies exclude dangerous chemical substances and don’t generate poisonous by-products. Seagrass fibres are naturally fire-resistant, making them much less more likely to ignite and might self-extinguish with out chemical therapies.
Salt & Fiber experiences that its pilot manufacturing is in progress and has secured a provide settlement with a Swedish municipality on the nation’s southern coast. The corporate can be a part of the Älmhult x IKEA incubator, and is focusing on commercialisation between 2027 and 2028. It additionally plans to donate 5 per cent of proceeds from the crowdfunding marketing campaign to Baltic Sea seagrass restoration, although this initiative remains to be beneath dialogue.
