TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The company is driving change in the industry through the open sourcing of materials for others to benefit, and in doing so, is becoming the industry’s standard bearer on sustainability practices. The fashion industry alone dumps 2.1 Sustainable companies are most likely to lead the next generation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

And the company also has fashion on the brain. Or Natural Fiber Welding , which is backed by none other than the omnipresent eco-conscious fashion accessory adorning the feet of almost every venture investor — Allbirds (or are Atoms the new thing? Image Credits: Ecovative Design. I can’t keep up…).

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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. It has now raised $1.7

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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

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. It has now raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The sustainability focused shoe maker Allbirds has taken another step to green its supply chain with a small $2 million investment in a new company called Natural Fiber Welding. Natural Fiber Welding is creating scalable, sustainable antidotes to leather, and doing so with the potential for a game-changing 98% reduction in carbon emissions.

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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

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

APRIL 7, 2023

It’s largely due to the changing cultural and societal value placed on sustainability. Industry analysts estimate that the global fashion industry contributes up to 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions each year. It’s a different story in fashion. We waste a lot of … everything.

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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

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 13, 2022

Indeed, the California-based company, founded in 2013 by Philip Ross and Sophia Wang, is among a hot trend of companies working with fungus and other plant-based materials to make fabrics for fashion. In addition to using plant-based materials for fashion, other companies are finding success with fungi-based technology.

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CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2023

British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. From a sustainability perspective, utilizing a cloud platform unlocks the company’s data and its value chain’s data end-to-end,” Burion says.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

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). TMV is often the first institutional check a company might raise.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It should also be noted that the Patagonia vest has fallen out of fashion, replaced by an even more expensive vest ! SPACs are out of fashion. Top VCs have expanded into broader asset managers; is the model sustainable? The Patagonia vest has been pretty standard but everything else is changing. Marooney was joking of course.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Consumers should understand the side effects of business models — particularly the privatization of profit and the socialization of costs, including human and environmental harm.

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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 Novi is building a B2B marketplace for brands that care about sustainability. Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization.

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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. The goal is to “see” images as a human would.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Kea is a new startup giving restaurants an opportunity to upgrade one of the more old-fashioned ways that they take orders — over the phone. ” Similarly, Ahmad said that for restaurants, paying substantial third-party ordering fees on all of their orders is “not a sustainable long-term strategy.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Washington was excited about Aurate’s goals of sustainability (its gold comes from sustainable sources) and making fine jewelry more affordable. Plus, it’s a fashion item that’s visible over Zoom. ” Image Credits: Aurate. “It has survived a lot of the life editing process.

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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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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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 Image Credits: Yahoo Finance. Delhivery has assured investors that it is on the path to recovery.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Additional investors include Andrea Molteni (early investor in Farfetch), Ben Demiri (co-chairman at fashion tech PlatformE) and Nicholas Kirkwood (founder of the eponymous brand). All of this while fuelling the circular economy and supporting the commitment to sustainability as our key value proposition.

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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

JUNE 25, 2021

Rather than raising venture capital and scaling quickly, the company does business the old-fashioned way: Proving the model works in one market before moving to the next. So it’s striking to see electric scooter company Veo take a different approach to the business.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

AlgiKnit is on a mission to offer more environmentally conscious materials for the heavily polluting fashion and textile industries. This prompted the question: Is there a way to design better products and more sustainable materials themselves? And thus, the trio founded AlgiKnit in 2017.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Transforming the construction business to make it more efficient also happens to make it more sustainable. Oria Capital is a B corporation , and the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) section of its site explains that “Oria’s portfolio aims to contribute with the main Sustainable Development Objectives proposed by the UN.”

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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 can be a means for sellers to make money.

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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.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

As an icon synonymous with impeccable taste in food, fashion, beauty and more, Kim will highlight the brand’s delicious, nutritious and sustainable product portfolio with her signature recipes and engaging creative content.”. “We love her authentic and genuine connection to the brand,” the spokesperson said. “As

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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

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. Sustainable e-commerce startup Olive now ships beauty products, in addition to apparel. 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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. Before TMV, Darabi spent time at The New York Times as the manager of digital partnerships and social media marketing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

This generated brand traction and consumer following but led to growth that’s difficult to sustain for many brand entrepreneurs. . “Consumer curiosity to experiment and try new retail experiences grew. The solution to their pain points is why Wholesum exists.”

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