The Mills Fabrica

The Mills Fabrica is a business incubator and springboard for techstyle startups and strategic partners – companies at the intersection of fashion, textile and technology. Fabrica is dedicated to establishing Hong Kong as the best place in the world to build a brand or technology business.
AC

Alexander Chan

Co-Director

CL

Cindy Law

Marketing Associate

Past deals in Pulp and Paper

Reflaunt Pte. Ltd.

Series A in 2021
Reflaunt Pte. Ltd. a fashion technology company that offers an e-commerce platforms, which connects luxury brands and hand marketplaces through embedding their technology onto brands and retailers. It allows customers to resell, donate, and recycle their past purchases directly from the e-commerce site of the brand and retailer. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Singapore.

Evrnu, SPC

Series A in 2019
Evrnu, SPC, a textile-technology company, manufactures renewable fiber by recycling cotton garment waste. It engages in purifying cotton garment waste; converting it to a pulp; and extruding it as a new fiber for the creation of textiles. Evrnu, SPC was formerly known as Loopool, SPC. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Reflaunt Pte. Ltd.

Series A in 2021
Reflaunt Pte. Ltd. a fashion technology company that offers an e-commerce platforms, which connects luxury brands and hand marketplaces through embedding their technology onto brands and retailers. It allows customers to resell, donate, and recycle their past purchases directly from the e-commerce site of the brand and retailer. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Singapore.

MOTIF

Seed Round in 2019
MOTIF Learning Ltd. operates an online platform that offers online courses on apparel and fashion. Its platform connects apparel experts and professionals. The company offers online courses such as 3D transformation, apparel costing, and sustainability and provides training on fundamental, technical, business, and creative skills topics. It serves fashion and textile industry. MOTIF Learning Ltd. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong.

Evrnu, SPC

Series A in 2019
Evrnu, SPC, a textile-technology company, manufactures renewable fiber by recycling cotton garment waste. It engages in purifying cotton garment waste; converting it to a pulp; and extruding it as a new fiber for the creation of textiles. Evrnu, SPC was formerly known as Loopool, SPC. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

unspun

Seed Round in 2018
unspun is a robotics and digital apparel company building custom jeans for each consumer, on demand. Our mission is to reduce global carbon emissions by 1% through automated, localized, and intentional manufacturing. Our revolutionary technology is currently being realized through our award-winning brand unspun.io (one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2019), a software B2B platform powering digital customization for multiple large apparel labels, and a National Science Foundation-backed hardware team working on the future of additive and automated apparel production. We’re a fast-moving company powered by Fifty Years, Prelude Ventures, SOSV, and the H&M Foundation. We also happen to make the best fitting jeans on the planet.

Goxip

Series A in 2018
Goxip is ultimate destination for searching, discovering and purchasing any fashion and beauty products. By partnering with over 500 international online retailers, Goxip’s database covers more than 36,000 luxury brands and 5 million items. Being the biggest fashion and beauty ecommerce platform, can simply search with text, categories or even images to find ideal items. They are super connector between content and ecommerce sites. Whatever see and inspires , Goxip is here to help bring home that piece of fashion cannot live without. Discover trends, find inspiration and share own styles with the Goxip community of fashionistas. Snap. Shop. Wear.

Colorifix Limited

Series A in 2020
Colorifix is the first company to apply biological dyeing to the commercial dyeing of polyamide-based jersey, polyester and cotton fabrics, and research is already underway to apply the technology to other natural and synthetic fabrics. Synthetic biology technology is already safely utilised at scale in other industries such as the production of textile scouring enzymes and bio-based chemicals. Colorifix was founded in 2016 by Drs James Ajioka, Orr Yarkoni and David Nugent following their successful collaboration on a project funded by the Wellcome Trust to develop a biosensor for detecting arsenic in drinking water.

Smartzer Ltd

Seed Round in 2019
Smartzer Ltd, a video technology company, develops interactive video players that allow e-commerce companies to generate sales and capture detailed analytics directly from their videos. It offers interactive and shoppable players; standard video player, an HTML5 player that is automatically responsive across all devices, from desktop and tablet to mobile; and access to personal analytics dashboard that provides data on engagement, product interaction, and user behavior. The company offers its solutions to retailers. Smartzer Ltd was incorporated in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional locations in Paris, France; and New York, New York.

abillionVeg

Funding Round in 2020
Launched in 2018, the abillion app is a social and peer review community focused on social impact and sustainability, with members active across English, Spanish & Asian markets. Our community has grown to include 30,000 consumer brands and 50,000 restaurants across 130+ countries. We’re building the world’s largest consumer dataset for sustainability and our mission is to help a billion people make better choices for their health, animals and the planet.

ADAY

Series A in 2020
ADAY is a fast growing direct-to-consumer brand creating consciously designed, technical clothing. We call it clothing of the future. Founded by Nina Faulhaber and Meg He, ADAY is based in New York and London.

Goxip

Series A in 2018
Goxip is ultimate destination for searching, discovering and purchasing any fashion and beauty products. By partnering with over 500 international online retailers, Goxip’s database covers more than 36,000 luxury brands and 5 million items. Being the biggest fashion and beauty ecommerce platform, can simply search with text, categories or even images to find ideal items. They are super connector between content and ecommerce sites. Whatever see and inspires , Goxip is here to help bring home that piece of fashion cannot live without. Discover trends, find inspiration and share own styles with the Goxip community of fashionistas. Snap. Shop. Wear.

Lumos Helmet

Series A in 2019
Lumos is an innovative bicycle helmet designed to keep riders safe on the road. Lumos started with a pair of engineers asking themselves how they could improve their own cycling experience and safety on the road. They loved commuting to work by bike, but all too often it'd feel so dangerous. So they decided to make a solution. A helmet that can make them and their intentions more visible.

abillionVeg

Seed Round in 2020
Launched in 2018, the abillion app is a social and peer review community focused on social impact and sustainability, with members active across English, Spanish & Asian markets. Our community has grown to include 30,000 consumer brands and 50,000 restaurants across 130+ countries. We’re building the world’s largest consumer dataset for sustainability and our mission is to help a billion people make better choices for their health, animals and the planet.

Re:NewCell AB (publ)

Venture Round in 2019
Re:Newcell AB operates as a textile recycling company in Sweden. It also produces and sells a dissolving pulp from recycled textiles under the Circulose brand name. The company’s Circulose product is used as a raw material to produce natural biodegradable textile fibers, such as viscose and lyocell. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

Origami Labs (ORII)

Series A in 2018
Redefining the mobile computing experience through screen-free, voice and gesture-based products and services.

Algalife

Seed Round in 2019
Algalife engages in manufacturing of fabrics by turning algae into bio-fibers and an eco friendly dye. It offer its services to fashion industry and textile industry. The company is based in Berlin, Germany with additional office in Israel.

Mango Materials, Inc.

Series A in 2019
Mango Materials produces a naturally-occurring biopolymer from waste biogas (methane) that are economically competitive with conventional oil-based plastics. Mango Materials is a start-up with a first-class team of engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

Tinctorium

Seed Round in 2020
Tinctorium is a provider of indigo dyeing solutions intended to reduce chemical usage in the denim supply chain.The company's offerings include harnessing the power of biotechnology by mirroring a natural plant process within microbes to produce colors using completely renewable sources, providing the denim industry an alternative to make denim.

unspun

Seed Round in 2019
unspun is a robotics and digital apparel company building custom jeans for each consumer, on demand. Our mission is to reduce global carbon emissions by 1% through automated, localized, and intentional manufacturing. Our revolutionary technology is currently being realized through our award-winning brand unspun.io (one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2019), a software B2B platform powering digital customization for multiple large apparel labels, and a National Science Foundation-backed hardware team working on the future of additive and automated apparel production. We’re a fast-moving company powered by Fifty Years, Prelude Ventures, SOSV, and the H&M Foundation. We also happen to make the best fitting jeans on the planet.