Shellworks
Waste Management · Plastics & Polymers
$14.9Mtotal raised · 3 rounds on record
5hiring now · +2 posted in 30 days
$14Mlatest round · Venture round · Mar 2026 · 8 mo ago
3backers · Envestors, JamJar Investments
Overview
VIVOMER | The future of materials. No microplastics. No toxic additives. No compromises. Shelf-stable and reusable.
How Shellworks hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Shellworks scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$14.9M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$14M
Venture round · Mar 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Envestors, JamJar Investments
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
36/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 4
Raised a round Venture round $14M · The Grocer
Jun 24, 2021
Raised a round Convertible Note $229k · SEC Form D
Jul 20, 2020
Raised a round Convertible Note $710k · SEC Form D
2020
Founded
Aug 20, 2007
Incorporated SHELLWORKS LTD · Companies House
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 2 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Mar 2026 | $14M | — | The Grocer |
| Convertible Note | Jun 2021 | $229k | — | SEC Form D |
| Convertible Note | Jul 2020 | $710k | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | SHELLWORKS LTD | Companies House |
| Registered | 20 Aug 2007 |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Insiya JafferjeeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Envestors 
JamJar Investments 
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$67k
Typical range
$54k – $80k
Open positions
4
3
Jobs
Junior
66.7%
Middle
33.3%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 2 | $61k | $54k – $68k |
| Middle | 1 | $67k | $67k |
Highest paying role
Process Engineer
$80k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
60/100
Growing
Open positions
5
4 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
8 days
faster than 79% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
60% ▲
Hardware
20% ▲
Operations
20% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Statistical Process Control to stack
Oct 2026
People
Insiya Jafferjee
Executive Officer, Director
Edward Jones
Director
Amir Afshar
Director
Felix Mounier
Director
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Shellworks over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
2
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
64/100
Developer tools
SolidWorks
Practices & domains
Statistical Process Control
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Connections
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Shared investors
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Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
News
Shellworks raises £11m to scale eco plastic packaging alternative
Founded in 2019, London-based Shellworks develops and manufactures Vivomer, a bio-based material made using microbes to ferment second generation feedstocks, such as used cooking oil
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The boss who has found 'nature's answer to plastic'
Insiya Jafferjee founded Shellworks in 2019, a London start-up developing compostable, petroleum-free packaging.
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Shellworks' ingenious eco packaging forges a future beyond plastic
Vivomer, a natural polymer solution developed by UK materials pioneer Shellworks, is providing retail and other industries with a biodegradable, long lasting replacement for plastic.
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Report
This Plastic Packaging Alternative Can Compost in a Year
British startup Shellworks is fed up with waste, so it created a vegan material that can be turned into compost.
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Report
Shellworks wants to crack makeup
Is the beauty industry ready to wean itself off single-use plastic? Targeting cosmetics brands, the London-based biotech startup has scooped up a $6.2 million seed round to prove it can scale its petroleum-free, compostable packaging, which
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Shellworks wants to crack makeup's single-use plastic problem
Is the beauty industry ready to wean itself off single-use plastic? Shellworks is betting on it. Targeting cosmetics brands, the London-based biotech
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
London
London
United Kingdom
HQ
3 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $61k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Management
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