Detrapel is an advanced materials company that develops safe protective (PFAS-free) coatings with a single step application and various best-in-class properties that are proprietary. The company partners with its customers to deploy and apply their coatings in a variety of market verticals with a focus on food packaging and footholds in specialty textile and B2C. Detrapel has received FDA approval to use their formulas in medical devices and food packaging with a >100 fold performance increase over current paraffin wax-based coatings. Fitz Gate co-invested in the company’s Series A round with Material Impact, a deep tech fund with a focus in materials science-based companies. Detrapel’s founder David Zamarin pitched an early version of Detrapel to Shark Tank in 2017 and received offers from Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner.
