Ponda secures $2.4M to commercialise regenerative insulation BioPuff®

Investors in this round: Faber, Counteract, PDS Ventures, Evenlode Impact, RCA Design & Innovation S/EIS Fund

Ponda, a Bristol-based biomaterials company pioneering regenerative-material supply chains, has successfully closed a $2.4 million seed funding round to commercialise its flagship insulation, BioPuff®. The oversubscribed round was co-led by Faber (Lisbon) and Counteract (London), with participation from PDS Ventures, Evenlode Impact and the RCA Design & Innovation S/EIS Fund.

BioPuff® is a first-of-its-kind, plant-based insulation made from Typha, a wetland crop cultivated through paludiculture – the rewetting and sustainable cultivation of degraded peatlands. By linking material innovation with ecosystem restoration, Ponda’s technology produces a high-performance thermal insulation that is already at multi-tonne production scale. BioPuff® has equivalent thermal properties to goose-down whilst being significantly cheaper and grown from plants that regenerate wetlands.

This latest raise brings Ponda’s total funding to $6.5 million, combining venture capital with substantial non-dilutive support from Innovate UK and international recognition through the H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award and King Charles III’s Terra Carta Design Lab.

The investment will accelerate the scale-up of Ponda’s plant-based insulation technology and regenerative wetland farming model to decarbonise the global textiles industry. Over the next 18 months Ponda will expand production capacity, scale its European wetland farming network, and launch commercial BioPuff® lines for Autumn/Winter 2026 collections.