Footprint

Food · Gilbert, United States · Founded 2013

Footprint is a materials science company that develops and manufactures plant-based fiber alternatives to single-use plastics. The company's mission is to eliminate plastic pollution by providing sustainable packaging solutions. Footprint's products are designed to be biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable. The company uses a variety of plant-based materials, including double-lined kraft, to create its products. Footprint's product line includes a wide range of food and beverage packaging, such as trays, cups, and lids. The company serves a global market, with operations in the United States, Europe, and Mexico. Footprint's customers include restaurants, food service providers, and consumer packaged goods companies. The company's business model is based on the sale of its sustainable packaging products. Keywords: materials science, sustainable packaging, plastic alternatives, biodegradable, compostable, plant-based fiber, food packaging, beverage packaging, environmental technology, circular economy

Valuation $1–2.5B

Revenue $100–500M

Headcount 500–1k

Total funding $100–500M

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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Investors

5 investors on Footprint's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history.

Series A 5 investors entered at this stage

Olympus Partners

Impact Engine

S2G Investments

Cleveland Avenue

Trinity Capital

Global footprint

Where Footprint has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

12 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States45.2%

🇲🇽 Mexico43.5%

🇵🇱 Poland5%

🇨🇳 China0.8%

🇲🇾 Malaysia0.8%

Top 5 of 12 shown

Web traffic by country

5.6K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States78.6%

🇵🇱 Poland12.5%

🇲🇽 Mexico8.9%

🇮🇳 India1.8%

Top 4 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Footprint's talent

Dealroom maps Footprint's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

10 team members profilednamed & role-tagged by Dealroom

640 employeestotal headcount

2 executives & foundersidentified by name

DimensionScore

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Engineering

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Research

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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$32M patent portfolio · 30 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$32M

2.9% of valuation · 26.5× larger than top peer IFCO Systems ($1M)

30 active patent families

Where Footprint innovates BiotechnologyFiberFood contact materialsMechanical engineeringMoisture barrier

Where Footprint concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Footprint and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Footprint

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Footprint on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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