Almotech is a Spanish (Navarra-based) circular-economy hardware startup that designed Yenxa, a small appliance using biodegradable capsules to convert used cooking oil into liquid soap on-site, for homes, hotels/restaurants, hospitals and waste facilities. Founded in 2018, it has raised roughly €700K+ across grants and small rounds and is expanding into professional/B2B installations and international partnerships. It is headquartered in Noáin (Navarra).
SectorsCircular Economy, GreenTech, Sustainability, Consumer Appliances, Waste Management
Start-up MapConsumer › Consumer hardware & home goods
Founders
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Ana Martínez Tanco
CEO & Co-founder
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Javier Vidorreta
CTO & Co-founder
Global models 5
MMill Industries
United States · mill.com ↗
Consumer countertop appliance that converts household waste into a new usable product (chicken feed), the closest match to Yenxa's on-site waste-to-product hardware model.
$130M+Comparable
DDivert, Inc.
United States · divertinc.com ↗
Valorizes food waste at the source into usable outputs (renewable energy), sharing Almotech's core 'convert waste on-site into value' thesis at commercial/grocery scale.
$100M+Comparable
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HomeBiogas
Israel · www.homebiogas.com ↗
On-site household/community appliance converting organic waste into usable outputs (cooking gas, fertilizer), the same on-site consumer valorization model as Yenxa.
$45MComparable
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Lomi (Pela)
Canada · lomi.com ↗
Countertop consumer appliance turning household food waste into a usable output (compost), directly comparable consumer hardware model to Yenxa.
$10M+Comparable
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CleanO2
Canada · www.cleano2.com ↗
Device that converts captured waste (CO2) directly into soap, the closest product-level analog to Yenxa's oil-to-soap conversion.
$2MComparable
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Investors 4
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Funding rounds 2
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2024-08 | Seed | €50K partial: only one investor's ticket was disclosed |
Lead not disclosed
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| 2022-12-17 | Pre-seed (estimated) | €275K |
Lead not disclosed
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