unWOOD was named one of 14 winners of the Yes/Bengaluru Urban Innovation Challenge, led by UpLink (World Economic Forum) and the WEF's Centre for Urban Transformation. The programme is supported by Anthill Ventures, AWS, Cisco, Deloitte, Salesforce, SAP, the Government of Karnataka, and the Greater Bengaluru Authority, and is designed to bridge high tech entrepreneurship with sustainable urban development through mentorship, strategic collaborations, and pathways to city scale deployment.

unWOOD was selected as one of 33 winners of ELEVATE NxT 2026, the flagship DeepTech grant programme by the Department of Electronics, IT & BT, Government of Karnataka. Out of 983 startups that applied from across India, 661 were shortlisted for pitches, 256 advanced to the Grand Finale, and 33 were declared winners.

unWOOD (Sustainable Innovative Materials Pvt. Ltd.) has been granted a joint patent with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) by the Indian Patent Office for "Methods for recycling polyolefins via vitrimerization and polyolefin vitrimers thereof."

unWOOD was selected for the inaugural cohort of the Circular Bharat Accelerator, a national programme by NSRCEL (IIM Bangalore), Hindustan Unilever, NITI Aayog, and Xynteo.

unWOOD was one of eight ventures selected from nearly 100 applicants for the Circular Economy Catalytic Grant Facility, a programme by Climate KIC and SecondMuse, supported by the IKEA Foundation.