Green Angel Ventures and Archipelago Ventures back AI recycling robotics startup
10 Aug 2026
08:04
Green Angel Ventures has joined Archipelago Ventures and a group of angels to back Sorted Technologies, a startup automating waste sorting with low-cost retrofit robotics.
The £920k round will fund production scale-up and robot deployment at Sorted Technologies, which is building AI-powered robotic systems designed to slot into existing recycling facilities without major infrastructure changes.
Rather than selling hardware outright, Sorted operates a "robot-as-a-service" structure. According to the company, labour currently accounts for 50–70% of operating costs at recycling sites.