Innovation Works

Established in 1999, Innovation Works is a prominent investor in Southwestern Pennsylvania's technology sector. It provides capital and resources to early-stage companies with high growth potential and significant regional impact, particularly focusing on robotics, AI, medical devices, retail technologies, and enterprise software.

Sophie Burkholder

Investment Associate

Jeffrey McDaniel

Investor

Ven Raju

Investor

Megan Shaw

Managing Director, Life Sciences

Aaron Tainter

Investor

Past deals in Textiles

Mamalux

Seed Round in 2023
Mamalux specializes in designing and selling high-quality, leakproof apparel tailored for maternity and breastfeeding. Their online platform offers a range of personal luxury items, including sleepwear designed for comfort during the postpartum period.

Gus Gear

Seed Round in 2022
Gus Gear is a manufacturer of wearable securement clothing designed to protect implanted medical devices and enhance patient outcomes. The company's flagship product, the Central Line Vest, safeguards central catheters from damage, breakage, and accidental removal, allowing patients to maintain their quality of life while undergoing treatment. In addition to the Central Line Vest, Gus Gear's platform offers securement solutions for various medical devices, including ostomy pouches and feeding tubes. By using innovative securement systems, Gus Gear enables patients to manage their medical challenges effectively, promoting independence and wellbeing.

Mamalux

Seed Round in 2021
Mamalux specializes in designing and selling high-quality, leakproof apparel tailored for maternity and breastfeeding. Their online platform offers a range of personal luxury items, including sleepwear designed for comfort during the postpartum period.

Gus Gear

Seed Round in 2021
Gus Gear is a manufacturer of wearable securement clothing designed to protect implanted medical devices and enhance patient outcomes. The company's flagship product, the Central Line Vest, safeguards central catheters from damage, breakage, and accidental removal, allowing patients to maintain their quality of life while undergoing treatment. In addition to the Central Line Vest, Gus Gear's platform offers securement solutions for various medical devices, including ostomy pouches and feeding tubes. By using innovative securement systems, Gus Gear enables patients to manage their medical challenges effectively, promoting independence and wellbeing.

Nollapelli

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2016, Nollapelli is a manufacturer of bedding products. It specializes in bed sheets and pillowcases designed with wellness-focused textiles to balance moisture, temperature, and friction for a healthier sleep experience.

Gus Gear

Seed Round in 2020
Gus Gear is a manufacturer of wearable securement clothing designed to protect implanted medical devices and enhance patient outcomes. The company's flagship product, the Central Line Vest, safeguards central catheters from damage, breakage, and accidental removal, allowing patients to maintain their quality of life while undergoing treatment. In addition to the Central Line Vest, Gus Gear's platform offers securement solutions for various medical devices, including ostomy pouches and feeding tubes. By using innovative securement systems, Gus Gear enables patients to manage their medical challenges effectively, promoting independence and wellbeing.

Trusst Brands

Seed Round in 2019
Trusst Brands specializes in engineered bras specifically designed for women with D+ cup sizes, addressing a market segment often overlooked by traditional lingerie brands. As a direct-to-consumer company, Trusst Brands employs advanced industrial design and engineering principles to create supportive and comfortable undergarments. The company's innovative approach aims to empower fuller-busted women, enabling them to feel beautiful and confident in their own skin. By focusing on the unique needs of this demographic, Trusst Brands seeks to redefine the standards of comfort and support in women's lingerie.

Trusst Brands

Seed Round in 2018
Trusst Brands specializes in engineered bras specifically designed for women with D+ cup sizes, addressing a market segment often overlooked by traditional lingerie brands. As a direct-to-consumer company, Trusst Brands employs advanced industrial design and engineering principles to create supportive and comfortable undergarments. The company's innovative approach aims to empower fuller-busted women, enabling them to feel beautiful and confident in their own skin. By focusing on the unique needs of this demographic, Trusst Brands seeks to redefine the standards of comfort and support in women's lingerie.

Trusst Brands

Convertible Note in 2018
Trusst Brands specializes in engineered bras specifically designed for women with D+ cup sizes, addressing a market segment often overlooked by traditional lingerie brands. As a direct-to-consumer company, Trusst Brands employs advanced industrial design and engineering principles to create supportive and comfortable undergarments. The company's innovative approach aims to empower fuller-busted women, enabling them to feel beautiful and confident in their own skin. By focusing on the unique needs of this demographic, Trusst Brands seeks to redefine the standards of comfort and support in women's lingerie.

Trusst Brands

Convertible Note in 2018
Trusst Brands specializes in engineered bras specifically designed for women with D+ cup sizes, addressing a market segment often overlooked by traditional lingerie brands. As a direct-to-consumer company, Trusst Brands employs advanced industrial design and engineering principles to create supportive and comfortable undergarments. The company's innovative approach aims to empower fuller-busted women, enabling them to feel beautiful and confident in their own skin. By focusing on the unique needs of this demographic, Trusst Brands seeks to redefine the standards of comfort and support in women's lingerie.

Trusst Brands

Convertible Note in 2017
Trusst Brands specializes in engineered bras specifically designed for women with D+ cup sizes, addressing a market segment often overlooked by traditional lingerie brands. As a direct-to-consumer company, Trusst Brands employs advanced industrial design and engineering principles to create supportive and comfortable undergarments. The company's innovative approach aims to empower fuller-busted women, enabling them to feel beautiful and confident in their own skin. By focusing on the unique needs of this demographic, Trusst Brands seeks to redefine the standards of comfort and support in women's lingerie.

Auratek Textiles

Convertible Note in 2017
Auratek Textiles offers a unique fabric that is changing the game, meet the engineered textile that promotes youthful skin. Auratek Textiles is changing the way you think about your bedding. The moisture naturally released from your body during sleep can interact with common bedding textiles in a way that leaves your skin looking less than refreshed. Sleeping on sheets and pillowcases made by Auratek Textiles can help prevent nightly damage to your skin.

Trusst Brands

Convertible Note in 2016
Trusst Brands specializes in engineered bras specifically designed for women with D+ cup sizes, addressing a market segment often overlooked by traditional lingerie brands. As a direct-to-consumer company, Trusst Brands employs advanced industrial design and engineering principles to create supportive and comfortable undergarments. The company's innovative approach aims to empower fuller-busted women, enabling them to feel beautiful and confident in their own skin. By focusing on the unique needs of this demographic, Trusst Brands seeks to redefine the standards of comfort and support in women's lingerie.

Trusst Brands

Convertible Note in 2015
Trusst Brands specializes in engineered bras specifically designed for women with D+ cup sizes, addressing a market segment often overlooked by traditional lingerie brands. As a direct-to-consumer company, Trusst Brands employs advanced industrial design and engineering principles to create supportive and comfortable undergarments. The company's innovative approach aims to empower fuller-busted women, enabling them to feel beautiful and confident in their own skin. By focusing on the unique needs of this demographic, Trusst Brands seeks to redefine the standards of comfort and support in women's lingerie.

Thread

Seed Round in 2013
Thread LLC, established in 2010 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, specializes in producing and marketing fabric made from recycled materials. The company's unique process involves transforming trash and plastic bottles from developing countries into raw materials for fabric production. This fabric is then used by apparel and accessories brands to create environmentally and socially responsible products. Thread's impact is significant, with its fabric supporting nearly 2,700 income opportunities and collecting over 6 million bottles monthly from communities in Haiti and Honduras. The company also captures and shares the stories of those positively affected by its process through its Ground to Good storytelling platform, helping brands enhance their social impact narrative.
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