mannyAI
Pre Seed Round in 2024
MannyAI is a fashion technology startup that operates an artificial intelligence-powered platform designed to enhance the sourcing process for both fashion brands and factories. The company's innovative network enables small batch production by aggregating similar orders from various brands, which helps streamline the manufacturing process. MannyAI offers features such as instant pricing and efficient order management, allowing fashion brands to mitigate inventory risks while simultaneously improving production efficiency for factories. By leveraging AI technology, MannyAI aims to transform traditional sourcing methods in the fashion industry.
Retraced is a Düsseldorf, Germany-based company that operates a blockchain-powered transparency platform for the fashion supply chain. The platform gives end consumers reliable information to verify sustainability and fairness, helping fashion brands earn trust and attract customers. Using artificial intelligence, the software collects data from suppliers on working conditions, materials, certifications, and environmental impacts and makes this information accessible to brands and their customers. By increasing visibility across the supply chain, Retraced enables informed purchasing decisions and helps brands demonstrate transparency and accountability throughout sourcing.
Matereal
Seed Round in 2024
Matereal is a manufacturer specializing in biobased polyurethane, aiming to replace traditional, toxic polyurethane products. The company focuses on producing environmentally safe plastics, particularly for the fashion and outdoor gear industries, providing sustainable coatings and adhesives. By offering these alternatives, Matereal helps its clients transition to a cleaner, more sustainable chemical supply chain.
Insempra is a biotechnology-powered company focused on producing sustainable ingredients and materials for various industries, including beauty and personal care, food and nutrition, and fashion. By leveraging advanced synthetic biology, Insempra enables businesses to shift away from petrochemical production and reduces environmental impact through innovative solutions. The company connects bioengineers with nature to develop new organisms and integrates these solutions into existing manufacturing processes. This approach not only helps brands meet consumer demand for eco-friendly products but also addresses regulatory pressures for sustainability. Insempra's mission is to facilitate the transformation of ingredient lists, empowering leading brands to create superior, sustainable products that contribute to a healthier planet.
Sway is a company based in San Francisco that specializes in regenerative design solutions aimed at addressing plastic pollution. Co-founded by Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, and Leland Maschmeyer, Sway focuses on developing bioplastics made from seaweed, which serve as compostable alternatives to single-use plastics, specifically starting with flexible packaging. The company's products are engineered to match the essential performance qualities of conventional plastics while being compatible with existing infrastructure, allowing clients to scale their operations effectively and achieve sustainability goals.
LIZEE provides a logistics and managed services platform that supports rental businesses in the circular economy. The platform optimizes ecommerce operations for rented products, including packing, shipping, payments, and quality checks for returned items, helping organizations scale rental offerings and reduce environmental impact in retail.
treet
Venture Round in 2022
Treet operates a peer-to-peer resale marketplace designed to assist apparel brands in adopting circular economy practices and managing their secondhand market. By providing a platform where customers can buy and sell used items directly with one another, Treet creates additional revenue opportunities for brands while enhancing customer loyalty. The company oversees all logistics and support, allowing brands to focus on their core business while benefiting from the resale experience. This approach enables e-commerce brands to promote sustainability and take ownership of their secondhand sales, transforming used products into valuable offerings that feel new to consumers.
Circ, founded in 2011 and based in Danville, Virginia, operates a textile recycling business. It focuses on transforming discarded clothing into valuable raw materials for fabric production. Circ's proprietary technology enables it to cost-effectively recycle various fiber types, including cotton, poly-cotton, polyester, and nylon, using water as a solvent. The company aims to meet consumer demands for sustainability without compromising quality, price, or convenience. It produces market-grade dissolving pulp and petroleum monomers equivalent to virgin materials, which can be sold at competitive prices to manufacturers.
Indyx
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Indyx is a digital wardrobe concierge that offers a comprehensive platform for users to catalog, style, and resell their clothing and accessories. The company focuses on wardrobe digitization, providing professional styling services along with a user-friendly resale experience. By building a robust database of collective wardrobes, Indyx aims to transform the traditional resale market and promote sustainable consumption practices. This approach empowers users to curate their personal style while addressing the challenges of overconsumption, making fashion more accessible and affordable.
Flyp is a platform that uses artificial intelligence and workflow automation to monetize used goods by organizing a decentralized network of online resellers who sell items for consumers and businesses on marketplaces such as eBay, Poshmark, and Facebook. The system pairs inventory with the most suitable resellers using historical sales data, enabling individuals such as stay-at-home parents, students, and small entrepreneurs to turn discarded items into cash. Flyp provides a free automation suite that handles inventory and multi-channel sales, dramatically reducing manual effort and enabling thousands of daily transactions. The approach aims to reduce landfill waste from the fashion and consumer goods industry while creating income and jobs, supporting a circular economy and broader environmental and economic benefits.
Novoloop is an upcycling company focused on transforming plastic waste into high-performance materials through a circular approach. The company advances Lifecycling, a process that converts hard-to-recycle plastics into materials molecularly identical to conventional products, unlocking value from plastics that have little use today. By chemically modifying post-consumer polyethylene, Novoloop creates building blocks for thermoplastic polyurethane and other performance materials, enabling brands to meet sustainability goals while preserving material quality. The approach supports a circular economy by turning waste into market-ready materials with broad applicability across industries, reducing landfill waste and providing scalable, durable alternatives for manufacturers.
LIZEE provides a logistics and managed services platform that supports rental businesses in the circular economy. The platform optimizes ecommerce operations for rented products, including packing, shipping, payments, and quality checks for returned items, helping organizations scale rental offerings and reduce environmental impact in retail.
Flyp is a platform that uses artificial intelligence and workflow automation to monetize used goods by organizing a decentralized network of online resellers who sell items for consumers and businesses on marketplaces such as eBay, Poshmark, and Facebook. The system pairs inventory with the most suitable resellers using historical sales data, enabling individuals such as stay-at-home parents, students, and small entrepreneurs to turn discarded items into cash. Flyp provides a free automation suite that handles inventory and multi-channel sales, dramatically reducing manual effort and enabling thousands of daily transactions. The approach aims to reduce landfill waste from the fashion and consumer goods industry while creating income and jobs, supporting a circular economy and broader environmental and economic benefits.
Treet operates a peer-to-peer resale marketplace designed to assist apparel brands in adopting circular economy practices and managing their secondhand market. By providing a platform where customers can buy and sell used items directly with one another, Treet creates additional revenue opportunities for brands while enhancing customer loyalty. The company oversees all logistics and support, allowing brands to focus on their core business while benefiting from the resale experience. This approach enables e-commerce brands to promote sustainability and take ownership of their secondhand sales, transforming used products into valuable offerings that feel new to consumers.
FIT:MATCH
Seed Round in 2021
FIT:MATCH is a B2B2C technology platform that connects apparel brands with the best-fitting products in difficult-to-fit categories. It offers a data science-enhanced recommendation platform that matches consumers based on a variety of attributes derived from third-party 3D tools using patented discrepancy scoring technology.
Sway
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Sway is a company based in San Francisco that specializes in regenerative design solutions aimed at addressing plastic pollution. Co-founded by Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, and Leland Maschmeyer, Sway focuses on developing bioplastics made from seaweed, which serve as compostable alternatives to single-use plastics, specifically starting with flexible packaging. The company's products are engineered to match the essential performance qualities of conventional plastics while being compatible with existing infrastructure, allowing clients to scale their operations effectively and achieve sustainability goals.
LIZEE provides a logistics and managed services platform that supports rental businesses in the circular economy. The platform optimizes ecommerce operations for rented products, including packing, shipping, payments, and quality checks for returned items, helping organizations scale rental offerings and reduce environmental impact in retail.
Circ, founded in 2011 and based in Danville, Virginia, operates a textile recycling business. It focuses on transforming discarded clothing into valuable raw materials for fabric production. Circ's proprietary technology enables it to cost-effectively recycle various fiber types, including cotton, poly-cotton, polyester, and nylon, using water as a solvent. The company aims to meet consumer demands for sustainability without compromising quality, price, or convenience. It produces market-grade dissolving pulp and petroleum monomers equivalent to virgin materials, which can be sold at competitive prices to manufacturers.
Mango Materials
Series A in 2019
Mango Materials, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Albany, California, that specializes in producing biopolymers from waste biogas, specifically methane. Founded in 2010, the company focuses on converting polyhydroxyalkanoate into biodegradable plastic products that are economically competitive with traditional oil-based plastics. Its innovative approach allows for the creation of eco-friendly plastic products, including those in powder form, which can be utilized by manufacturers to develop sustainable alternatives in various applications. The team at Mango Materials comprises engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators dedicated to advancing the field of biodegradable plastics.