# Miranda Wang

> Miranda Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Novoloop, a climate-tech materials company turning hard-to-recycle polyethylene waste into virgin-quality performance plastics. She started the venture as a Vancouver high-schooler after a field trip to a waste transfer station, gave a TED talk at 19, and has since built a chemical-upcycling process (ATOD) into a commercial-scale operation, earning the Rolex Award for Enterprise, a UN Young Champions of the Earth honor and the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award along the way.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Novoloop
- **Organizations:** Novoloop, BioCellection
- **From:** China (raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** Secondary education, Magee Secondary School, Vancouver, BA in Molecular Biology, minors in Philosophy and Engineering Entrepreneurship, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Co-founded and scaled Novoloop, commercializing the Accelerated Thermal Oxidative Decomposition (ATOD) process for upcycling polyethylene, Developed XIRC, a line of polyester-based TPU elastomers made with up to 50% post-consumer polyethylene, Achieved production claimed to produce up to 91% fewer carbon emissions than conventional plastic

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Entered the Sanofi BioGENEius Canada competition with Jeanny Yao, researching plastic-degrading bacteria found in the Fraser River
- **2013** — Gave a TED talk in Long Beach, California as a first-year university student on plastic-eating bacteria
- **2015** — Co-founded BioCellection (later Novoloop) in Menlo Park, California
- **2018** — Won the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award and named a UN Young Champion of the Earth
- **2019** — Named a Rolex Award for Enterprise Laureate at age 25
- **2021** — Company rebranded from BioCellection to Novoloop
- **2022** — Raised an $11 million Series A round
- **2024** — Completed continuous 24/7 operations at a demonstration plant in Surat, India
- **2025** — Latest funding round (Series B / extended raise), with total funding reaching roughly $42 million

## Achievements

- Co-founded and scaled Novoloop, commercializing the Accelerated Thermal Oxidative Decomposition (ATOD) process for upcycling polyethylene
- Developed XIRC, a line of polyester-based TPU elastomers made with up to 50% post-consumer polyethylene
- Achieved production claimed to produce up to 91% fewer carbon emissions than conventional plastic
- 2019 Rolex Award for Enterprise Laureate
- 2018 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award ($100,000)
- 2018 UN Environment Programme Young Champion of the Earth (North America)
- Forbes 30 Under 30 (social entrepreneurs)
- TED speaker at age 19 (TED 2013, Long Beach)

## Latest updates

- **2024** — Novoloop completed continuous 24/7 operations at its demonstration plant in Surat, India, validating the ATOD process at scale.
- **2025-06** — Company's latest funding raise reported around this period, bringing total funding to roughly $42 million.

## Links

- Website: https://novoloop.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirandaywwang
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mirandaywwang
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/biocellection

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Last updated: 2026-06-10