We built the device the industry was asking for.
Lab-grade NIR spectroscopy, redesigned for the floor, portable, affordable, and proven at scale across 60+ countries.
Matoha Over The Years.
Matoha proudly delivered 1000+ identification devices over 60 countries all over the world.
1000+
Devices Deployed
60+
Countries
24M
Scans Completed
Make material identification
accessible to everyone.
The idea started at Imperial College London, where an early version won the Faculty of Natural Sciences "Make A Difference" award in 2017. Matoha was founded in 2018, and the following year co-founders Martin and Hans walked into a textile sorting facility in East London and watched operators burning fabric scraps to identify fibres. They left with a clear problem to solve.
NIR spectroscopy had existed in labs for decades. It was proven, accurate, and fast. But the instruments cost £40,000, required trained technicians, and weren't designed for the shop floor. So we built one that was.
The result: a device that fits in one hand, priced to pay back within months on most sorting lines, and identifies any material in under a second, with a cloud trail that proves every scan..
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understand the problem.
Independently verified.
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one mission.
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