[ 01 / R&D ]
Deep R&D Access
Labs, testing rigs and research partnerships to turn breakthrough science into working processes.
Pushing the frontiers/Circular Economy Ecosystem
Further
Building the next 100 circular economy companies.
Not an accelerator. An ecosystem — research, capital, policy, space and each other — for the founders re-architecting industry.
THE NEXT 100 CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMPANIESR&D · CAPITAL · POLICY · SPACENOT AN ACCELERATOR — AN ECOSYSTEMGRANTS · SCHEMES · SUBSIDIES · EQUITYBUILT IN INDIA · BUILT FOR THE WORLDTHE VENTURE LAYER OF BEYONDTHE NEXT 100 CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMPANIESR&D · CAPITAL · POLICY · SPACENOT AN ACCELERATOR — AN ECOSYSTEMGRANTS · SCHEMES · SUBSIDIES · EQUITYBUILT IN INDIA · BUILT FOR THE WORLDTHE VENTURE LAYER OF BEYOND
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The linear economy is a design flaw.
Take, make, waste. It built the last century — it cannot build the next one. Circularity is not a niche; it is the re-architecture of industry itself.
02
The most critical problem of the next generation.
Climate, resources, waste and supply chains converge here. The companies that close the loop will define the next hundred years of industry.
03
Nobody builds it alone.
Science needs labs. Startups need capital and policy. Founders need each other. So we are building the ecosystem that holds all of it — and the next 100 companies inside it.
02The ecosystem
Everything a circular company needs. One roof.
Capital is necessary and nowhere near sufficient. Further wraps every company in the full support system.
[ 02 / NETWORK ]
Peer Support
A coalition of founders solving the same materials, logistics and policy problems — together, not alone.
[ 03 / CAPITAL ]
Equity, Grants & Subsidies
Equity-based funding, access to grants, government schemes and industrial subsidies — the full capital stack.
[ 04 / SPACE ]
Co-working & Labs
Shared workspaces and prototyping facilities built for hardware, atoms and real-world testing.
[ 05 / CURRICULUM ]
Learning
Proprietary knowledge on circular supply chains, regenerative economics and industrial scale-up.
[ 06 / MENTORSHIP ]
Shared Mentors
Operators and experts across policy, manufacturing, climate finance and go-to-market — shared across the cohort.
+ Events network/+ Government schemes/+ Subsidies desk/+ Investor introductions/+ Pilot partners/+ Permanent alumni network
07On the ground
Places to build, not just slides to pitch.
Circular companies are built in labs, on plant floors and inside supply chains. Further gives founders access to all of them from day one.
01R&D
Materials & process labs
Polymer, textile and e-waste characterisation rigs, pilot extruders and process testing — booked by the day, not by the grant cycle.
02SPACE
Co-working & prototyping floors
Desks for the team, benches for the hardware. Fabrication, 3D printing, electronics and a workshop that lets you break things.
03PILOTS
Live industrial sites
Run your process inside working recovery plants and energy sites — real feedstock, real tonnage, real failure modes.
04NETWORK
Summits & founder gatherings
Closed-door sessions with operators, policy makers and buyers. Fewer stages, more rooms where deals actually happen.
08Mentors & industry leaders
The people who have already done the hard part.
A shared bench of operators, scientists, regulators and buyers — attached to every company in the ecosystem, not sold as an add-on.
01Materials science
Polymer & textile scientists
PhD-level chemists who have taken recovery processes from beaker to tonne-per-hour line.
02Industrial operations
Plant builders
Operators who have commissioned recovery, sorting and energy infrastructure across India and Southeast Asia.
03Policy & compliance
EPR and regulation leads
People who write, contest and implement extended producer responsibility rules — not just read them.
04Capital
Climate finance
Grant committees, blended-finance funds and growth investors who fund atoms, not only software.
05Demand
Enterprise buyers
Sourcing and sustainability heads at brands who sign the offtake that makes a plant bankable.
06Go-to-market
Commercial operators
Leaders who have sold recovered material, machines and compliance software into industrial buyers.
09Pilots at scale
Big pilots, inside real companies.
The hardest step for a circular company is the first industrial deployment. Inside the ecosystem, that step is already staffed, powered and permitted.
01
Recovery plants
Test sorting, washing and reprocessing at commercial throughput inside operating facilities.
02
Energy & storage sites
Prove energy-intensive processes against live solar, storage and open-access power arrangements.
03
Enterprise supply chains
Pilot with brands and manufacturers already reporting through the ecosystem's compliance layer.
04
Municipal clusters
Work with city and industrial-cluster operators on collection, logistics and material streams.
10Events & networking
A calendar built around building.
Founders, scientists, policy makers and buyers — in the same room, often.
MONTHLY
Build nights
Working sessions where founders debug processes, costs and plant design in front of peers.
QUARTERLY
Circular summit
Founders, scientists, policy makers and buyers in one closed room for two days.
QUARTERLY
Capital rooms
Grant bodies, government schemes and climate funds meeting companies that are actually ready.
ONGOING
Lab residencies
Two to eight week residencies inside partner labs and pilot sites, with technical supervision.
ONGOING
Policy clinics
One-to-one sessions on EPR, subsidies, incentives and state-level industrial schemes.
ANNUAL
Ecosystem day
The whole Beyond network — companies, plants, partners and alumni — in one place.
03Inside Beyond
Further is the venture layer of Beyond.
A company backed by Further does not start from zero. It starts inside an operating industrial system — power, machines, markets, compliance and infrastructure already running.
01OPERATE
Modus
Runs the city and cluster infrastructure that circular companies plug into.
02POWER
Helios
Generates, stores and distributes the energy those facilities run on.
03RUN
Verto
Machines and processing lines that turn recovered material into feedstock.
04MONETISE
Zeno
Markets, price discovery and settlement for recovered materials.
05REPORT
Cercle
The compliance and reporting layer brands and enterprises are measured on.
06BUILD
Further
Backs and builds the next 100 companies that will use all of the above.
Infrastructure flows down the chain; new companies flow back up it.
04The scale of the vision
What we are building toward.
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100
Circular economy companies built
02
1000s
Founders, scientists and operators
03
Millions
Tonnes of material kept in the loop
04
Global
Ecosystem, started in India
Aspirational targets, not achieved figures — they describe the system Further intends to build.
05Positions
Three things we build against.
01
Circularity is infrastructure, not a campaign.
We fund companies that move atoms, build plants and rewrite supply chains — not pledges.
02
Capital alone has never built an industry.
Labs, policy access, offtake, space and peers decide survival as much as the cheque does.
03
If Beyond builds it, Beyond should back it.
Every company inside the ecosystem is a first customer, pilot site or distribution channel.
06Company architecture
Further, inside Beyond.
BEYOND
Holding company
01
Cercle
02
Modus
03
Verto
04
Zeno
05
Helios
06
Route Resources
07
Further
Seven companies · one systemFurther position — venture layer, above every other company
Build for Beyond.
We are assembling the founders, scientists and operators who will build the next 100 circular economy companies. If that's you — we should talk.
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