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VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags

TechCrunch

It’s largely due to the changing cultural and societal value placed on sustainability. Within apparel and textiles alone, billions of dollar’s worth of products are destroyed, discarded or warehoused each year because brands overproduced or the item didn’t sell. That’s 5x faster growth than the overall retail market.

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch

Ghost is coming out of stealth Tuesday with its approach to excess inventory with a marketplace approach that enables brands and retailers to buy, sell and price that inventory in a discreet, efficient and sustainable way. Naturally, they started in apparel but are also seeing opportunity in beauty and home goods.

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Fashinza, a B2B supply chain marketplace for fashion brands, raises $100M

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. “Even though brands were marking up their retail price at 75% to 80% margins, they were still making only around 8% to 10% profits and losing money due to high inventory wastage or going out of stock. They] struggled with … opacity due to multiple middlemen and their manufacturers being thousands of miles away.”

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The toilet paper startup backed by Marc Benioff, Dara Khosrowshahi and Robert Downey Jr. now sells paper towels

TechCrunch

Starting today, the company is taking pre-orders for its 12-pack boxes of sustainably sourced bamboo paper towels, which will retail for $34.99. Thought , Tasc , Free Fly Apparel , all make bamboo clothing; and Bite has a bamboo toothbrush to go with its plastic-free toothpastes and flosses. Mark Cuban, Marc Benioff, Robert Downey Jr.,

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

MeterFeeder provides backend software, enforcement devices, and payment platform are cost-effective.” “Victoria is General Partner at Prelude Ventures, where her climate tech investments span mobility, food and agriculture, clean energy, sustainable apparel and carbon markets. Victoria Beasley — Prelude Ventures.

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Pixtral-12B-2409 is now available on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Unlike many open source alternatives, Pixtral 12B achieves strong results in text-based benchmarkssuch as instruction following, coding, and mathematical reasoningwithout sacrificing its proficiency in multimodal tasks. You can find detailed usage instructions, including sample API calls and code snippets for integration.

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Innovative Solutions for Modern Apparel Fulfillment Challenges

Strategy Driven

In today’s fast-paced world of apparel retail, fulfilling customer orders quickly and accurately is more crucial than ever. However, achieving efficient apparel fulfillment poses significant challenges that require innovative solutions. Meeting these expectations requires streamlined processes and efficient logistics.

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