Sortrace raises approximately $800,000 to expand waste-analysis use
Almi Invest led the Stockholm company's funding round, which will support growing municipal demand and applications beyond collection vehicles.
Sortrace has raised approximately $800,000 in a round headed by Almi Invest. The Stockholm-based waste-analysis company will use the investment to help meet rising demand from municipalities and extend its technology to additional stages of waste management. Antler, Gorilla Capital and several angel investors also participated.
The company uses computer vision, camera sensors and analytics to assess how households sort their rubbish. Cameras mounted on collection vehicles capture waste during bin emptying, with AI turning the images into structured information to identify sorting errors and patterns in collections.
Findings are connected to data for individual bins and collection routes, helping local authorities and waste operators pinpoint where sorting needs attention. Sortrace says the analysis protects privacy and that images are kept within the EU.
Chief executive and co-founder Rahel Surshi said municipalities were spending heavily on collections and household information but lacked data to assess whether those measures worked. Surshi founded Sortrace with Tomas Kjellstrand.
Sortrace already serves several municipalities and recycling organisations. Its technology is intended to inform decisions that could cut waste-management costs, reduce incineration and raise recycling rates.
