TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Bearing the brunt of the impact is the fashion industry, which employs millions of workers at retail stores, suppliers, and manufacturing factories around the world. Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

A few years ago Kathleen Chan , the CEO and founder of Calico , launched a couple of small fashion companies, but as those companies scaled quickly with the help of Shopify and Facebook ads, she noted a lack of tools to help her manage the back office of a business specifically geared to fashion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. The Little Black Door app makes luxury wardrobes shareable, resalable and sustainable. She made a pivot into fashion after winning a competition for an editorial mentorship at British Marie Claire.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Moreover, shoppers are more interested than ever in sustainability, and buying someone else’s never or lightly used items is more environmentally friendly than supporting, say, a fast fashion brand. Forever 21, the fast-fashion mall staple, filed for bankruptcy in 2019.). It has numerous things going for it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. The Little Black Door app makes luxury wardrobes shareable, resalable and sustainable. She made a pivot into fashion after winning a competition for an editorial mentorship at British Marie Claire.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Online shopping and speedy delivery through services like Instacart and Amazon Prime are the height of modern conveniences, but for many consumers who care about sustainability and e-commerce’s impact on the environment, every box and plastic bag deposited on their doorstep is also accompanied by a feeling of guilt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Yet, today it’s become one of the hottest topics for consumers, brands and investors alike with a record ~$6 billion of venture capital funding pouring into recommerce companies in 2021 and the market projected to reach $250 billion+ by 2027. That’s 5x faster growth than the overall retail market. Why the sudden recommerce resurgence?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Earlier this year, a startup called Olive launched its new shopping site and app with the goal of making e-commerce more efficient, convenient, and sustainable by offering a way for consumers to aggregate their orders from across retailers into single shipments that arrive in reusable packaging, not cardboard.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Treet , a company rethinking the resale retail market, announced the close of a $2.8 Despite the fact that selling old clothes is the most sustainable, and most financially beneficial way to dispose of them, the process can be super tedious for both sellers and buyers. million seed round today. VC, and Alante Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Platforms like OnlyFans and Patreon have helped creators earn a sustainable income, while Linktree managed to turn a chunk of Instagram real estate into a unicorn. Regardless, a few companies stuck out in this batch as up-and-coming tools for fashion bloggers and Twitch streamers alike. ” Image Credits: Jamble.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Twig , a London-based fintech targeting Gen Z and younger Millennial consumers with an e-money account that gives them instant cash-outs on fashion and electronics they want to sell, has closed a $35 million Series A round of funding. So that’s one potential wrinkle in Twig’s sustainability pitch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

“What we have seen is that many younger generations are very much open to the idea of sustainable consumption,” co-founder Philip Franta told TechCrunch. “We Back Market reaches $5.7B Reebelo’s goal is to build the biggest inventory of pre-owned, refurbished devices, and says it is already the market leader in Singapore and Australia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Today, SPIN by lablaco, launched its first digitized retail experience called Web3 Fashion: The Origin Story at the famed Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées. The plan is to host a three-week takeover with Crypto.com, showing consumers how digitized fashion could lay the path toward a zero-waste and more sustainable future.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Before TMV, Darabi managed digital partnerships and social media marketing at The New York Times. She also co-founded two companies: Zady, which helps with sustainable fashion manufacturing, and Foodspotting, a visual guide that helps diners find dishes near them (since acquired by OpenTable).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Most problematic right now: the exit market is all but frozen. billion for its fifth growth-investment strategy as of April, and it’s reportedly in the market for a $500 million early-stage fund at the moment. It should also be noted that the Patagonia vest has fallen out of fashion, replaced by an even more expensive vest !

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. But amid pandemic-induced lockdown fears, consumer discretionary spending reduced in Nigeria and other African markets. Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had spent years building what I thought was shaping up to be a fashion e-commerce giant for the Indian marketplace. With solid early-stage funding at Fashionara, my first venture, our leadership and marketing team became overconfident. We even have marketing strategies that we only use when the market is strong.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Even if sustainability isn’t a key differentiator, brand-owned resale sites can help capture some of the value that would otherwise go to secondhand markets. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

While the New Zealand-based company is still at an early stage – it’s about halfway through its proof of concept – if Humble Bee is successful, its bioplastics are likely to make it into the sustainable textiles industry. The CTO also said fashion brands have been reaching out to Humble Bee Bio. Humble Bee, which just raised $3.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Pixyle AI’s neural networks train its visual AI algorithms to not only identify fashion items in an image, but also categorize them by attribute, like color or pattern, that match the keywords shoppers use when searching for an item. They have built a robust tech stack, which has been tried and tested in the market and is ready to scale.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The tumble has pushed the market cap of Delhivery to below $3.4 The company said it has made “sufficient capacity investments in FY22 and early FY23 to sustain our current rate of growth and expect new mega-gateway and sorter decisions only by early FY24.”. “As apiece to as low as 382 Indian rupees ($4.62) before slight recovery.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The rush to grow, outrun, and disrupt runs in the lifeblood of today’s entrepreneurs, driving their fervor and enabling them to capture markets from giants of industries too big to maneuver in a quickly changing landscape. Startups are the embodiment of frenetic action.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

As the boom of the e-commerce aggregator trend continues in Asia, South Korea, the fifth-largest e-commerce market in the world, is rolling up. This generated brand traction and consumer following but led to growth that’s difficult to sustain for many brand entrepreneurs. The solution to their pain points is why Wholesum exists.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Brazilian construction tech startup Ambar announced it has raised a large Series C round: R$204 million, approximately $36 million at today’s mid-market rate. The startup’s home country presents two advantages: It is the region’s largest market, and Brazilian Portuguese acts as a moat against competitors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Powered by People links small brands to retailers keen on supply-chain transparency, sustainability and small-batch production — companies that are also pushed by the need for diversity and have pledged to support small traders as they also keep up with the rise of conscious customers. which is our primary market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Co-founder and CEO of Mycel Sungjin Sah told TechCrunch that the company uses mycelium, a root-like structure of mushroom, to make leather substitutes that can be used in car seats and luxury cosmetic products, and fashion products like shoes, clothes and bags. billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Olive starting with apparel is fitting because the fashion industry is quite wasteful, contributing an estimated 13 million tons of textile to landfills per year. We want it to be more of a ‘buy one, sell one’ behavior that gets items into that secondary market easier and faster when the items still have a more usable life,” he added.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Before TMV, Darabi spent time at The New York Times as the manager of digital partnerships and social media marketing. She also was the co-founder of two companies: Zady, which helps with sustainable fashion manufacturing, and Foodspotting, a visual guide that helps locals find dishes near them that was acquired by OpenTable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The tailwinds that were supportive of our business in 2020 and 2021 have only gotten better, as has consumer sentiment around sustainability, so we have grown accordingly,” he added. On the fashion front, companies like Recurate announced $17.5 The company-sponsored survey done in 2021 found that over 90 percent of U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

“We are looking to roll out a green taxi category in South Africa in the next few months, and plan to roll out green categories in other African markets,” said Bolt’s regional director for Africa and Middle East, Paddy Partridge. The company already offers a green option in Kenya, where it also runs e-bike food delivery.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

They don’t scale; they don’t sustain. A big part of our journey as a business — and I think for the reusable concept in general — has been that if we don’t build scalable, sustainable options for reuse, we’re never really going to make a dent in the packaging.” Image Credits: Returnity.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

These products go beyond an influencer moneygrab — Cobalt is deliberately not developing apparel products, since Black is concerned about the environmental impact of fast fashion. ” With the funding, Cobalt hopes to get the product to market and continue building out creator tools. In Cobalt’s $2.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Joining Initialized in the round is the serial entrepreneur Moise Emquies, whose previous clothing lines, Ella Moss and Splendid, were acquired by the fashion holding company VFC in 2017. “For us the calculus was to look at personal care and see what categories need to be reinvented because of sustainability,” said Bloom.

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Cloudera

APRIL 23, 2024

Back in October, we announced the first-ever Cloudera Climate and Sustainability Hackathon , powered by AMD. More than 2,300 data scientists competed in the Climate and Sustainability Hackathon—a record number of Cloudera Hackathon participants for an incredibly important cause.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2024

Choose the overall experience At the same time, e-commerce is moving more toward ultra fast fashion, a development led by Chinese fashion retailer Shein. We believe in the range, to create a holistic experience for customers where we offer the best combination between fashion, quality, price, and sustainability.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Regulation will help incentivize corporations to clean up, but only technology can solve the intractable problem of sustainably giving us what we desire. None of the solutions above are within a decade to market; all are in the research stage. They have made a few bricks and are years from the market. Leather and fabrics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

When you first launch a startup, you’re just trying to build a product and get it to market. The company was in the midst of Series A financing with about 20 engineers who were still trying to feel their way to product-market fit. And he felt that while this was working for the short term, it wasn’t really sustainable.

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