# Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation

> Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation is a VC fund backing Manufacturing. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug…

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.amcor.com/about/ventures

Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation is a VC fund in Zürich focused on Manufacturing and Recycling. Amcor Ventures invests in innovative businesses and packaging solutions.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$661k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 38% |
| Recycling | 2 | 25% |
| Sustainability | 2 | 25% |
| Waste Management | 2 | 25% |
| Packaging Services | 2 | 25% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 13% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 25% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |
| Sweden | 1 | 13% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 13% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frank Lehmann | Vice President | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-lehmann-ab65 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bloom Biorenewables Ltd | Bloom Biorenewables is creating a global impact in the use of sustainable resources. By introducing a new route for the production of biorenewable products and fuels, they offer a sustainable alternative to fossil-based industries and contribute to mitigating climate change. | $14.8M | Series A | Apr 02, 2025 |  |
| Circolution | circolution creates a solution that makes a contribution to reducing the waste problem. Our customers and partner companies ensure that bottling, logistics, return, cleaning and inspection processes are safe and automated. | $660.8K | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Pragmatic Semiconductor | Pragmatic is a ultra-low-cost flexible electronics. Their flexible integrated circuits (FlexICs) are thinner than human hair and can be invisibly embedded in objects, enabling innovators to create novel solutions to everyday problems that are not practical with conventional electronics.Designers can create their own application-specific flexibledevices using our FlexIC Foundry® service at a fraction of the cost and time required for traditional silicon circuits, opening up multiple new markets.We also offer standard FlexIC products that extend proven applications such as RFID and NFC into mass market use cases, enabling the potential for trillions of smart objects that can engage with consumers and their environments.All FlexICs are manufactured on our revolutionary FlexLogIC® production system, a highly scalable manufacturing model for cost-effective high-volume production, achieved with orders of magnitude lower capital investment and operating cost compared to a traditional silicon IC fab.Our novel, differentiated technology is being adopted by a growing base of global companies across diverse markets, including consumer goods, retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical, gaming and security.Pragmatic is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with our first billion-unit production facility in Sedgefield. Shareholders include Cambridge Innovation Capital, Arm and Avery Dennison. | $35M | Series C | Dec 14, 2022 |  |
| PulPac | PulPac provides disruptive manufacturing technology for low-cost, high-performance fiber-based packaging. The Swedish company focuses on developing its dry-molded fiber technology for use as a viable, sustainable option for the packaging industry.PulPac allows its customers to replace single-use plastics with a sustainable and cost-competitivealternative globally. | $33.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| ePac Flexible Packaging | ePac Flexible Packaging is a digitally-based flexible packaging company driven by our mission to help brands of all sizes stay competitive with exceptional stand up pouches, lay flat pouches and rollstock. | $45M | Corporate Round | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| Nfinite Nanotechnology | Nfinite Nanotechnology is an advanced material company that enables breakthrough innovations to redefine how we live, use, and create using open-air atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology. Nfinite makes functional nanomaterials that accelerate the development and commercialization of transformative technologies for a sustainable future, such assustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics. They have created a rapid open-air nanocoating system that produces large-area, high-quality, ultrathin films at up to 100x the speed of conventional ALD at a lower cost. | $250K | Seed | Sep 06, 2022 |  |
| Bloom Biorenewables Ltd | Bloom Biorenewables is creating a global impact in the use of sustainable resources. By introducing a new route for the production of biorenewable products and fuels, they offer a sustainable alternative to fossil-based industries and contribute to mitigating climate change. | $250K | Seed | Sep 06, 2022 |  |
| Greyparrot | Greyparrot (greyparrot.ai), the leader in AI waste analytics, is applying AI to globally scale recycling and save millions of tonnes of waste from landfills and incinerators. By providing deeper, more intelligent insights about waste stream composition and value, Greyparrot is helping the waste sector recover more value from waste processing linesand reduce the environmental impact of waste.The company’s waste intelligence platform, including Greyparrot Analyzer and Greyparrot Sync (API), reveals real-time insights on over 111 waste categories across seven layers of data, including financial value, brand, and GHG emissions, captured at multiple locations across a recycling facility. In 2025, Greyparrot analysed over 52 billion waste objects helping drive efficiency to save hundreds of thousands, to millions, of dollars per facility – while diverting millions of tonnes of waste away from landfills, oceans, and incinerators.Using Greyparrot insights, recycling professionals, plant builders, packaging producers, and FMCG brands can make decisions to help them increase recycling efficiency, comply with recycling regulations, and improve recyclable packaging design.Greyparrot is recognised as: UK Green Business Awards 2026 \| Awards for Excellence 2026 \| TIME Best Inventions 2025 \| Fast Company Most Innovative Companies 2025 \| Fast Company World Changing Ideas 2025 |  |  |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amcor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amcor-ltd) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Valquest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valquest-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Aliaxis Next](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aliaxis-next) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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## FAQ

### What does Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation invest in?

Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation invests primarily in Manufacturing, Recycling and Sustainability startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation's check size?

Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation typically joins rounds of $250k–$661k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation participates in.

### How do I contact Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation?

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### Who are the partners at Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation?

The team at Amcor Corporate Venturing and Open Innovation includes Frank Lehmann (Vice President). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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