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Hey, we’re Fibe! We are on a mission to turn potato harvest waste into sustainable textiles. Follow us to stay tuned!

Sparxell develops the next generation of colours and effects by providing the worlds first performance colourant from plant that is inspired by nature. Founded in 2023 as a spin-out of the University of Cambridge, Sparxell builds onto over a decade of academic research excellence on bioinspired technologies. Our mission is to eliminate toxic chemicals from colouration and provide businesses with sustainable, low-carbon and performant alternatives to traditional coloured materials. These include fine powders, pearls and glitter, films, foils and ribbons as well as special formats like sequins. Follow us to stay tuned as your brilliant journey is just unfolding.

Resortecs leads the circular transition in fashion with Design for Disassembly. We empower brands, sorters, and recyclers with heat-dissolvable stitching threads and thermal disassembly systems that make recycling easy. Through targeted innovations in the way textile products are assembled and disassembled, we help fashion players rise to today’s environmental challenges at the pace and scale Earth needs. All without compromising the creativity, design, and quality of clothing. Resortecs thermal disassembly solution is five times faster than traditional disassembly methods and makes it possible to recycle up to 90% of the original fabric material: • Smart Stitch™, our heat-dissolvable stitching thread with different melting points (150 °C, 170 °C and 190 °C), enables brands to transform their products into recyclable, circular pieces from the manufacturing stage. • Smart Disassembly™, our thermal disassembly system, enables recyclers to unlock higher volumes of premium-quality material, processing up to 4M garments/year with low emissions and no material damage so that fabrics can be used over and over again. Welcome to sustainabilitys next level: circularity.

Biofluff is producing the first 100% plant-based fur to replace animal- and plastic-fur by providing an ethical and green solution.

Were Hiring! saltyco® connects innovative farming methods to cutting edge textile technologies.

SOJO is a London-based fashion-tech platform re-inventing the clothing repair and tailoring industry. Launching in 2021 as the UK’s first clothing and alterations app, SOJO delivers emissions-free door-to-door repair and alterations services to customers via their in-house tailoring studio, while providing an integrated and scalable solution to e-commerce fashion brands to help reduce returns and increase circularity within their businesses.

PDS Ventures is the Innovation and investment arm of PDS Ltd. Formed in 2018 to back early-stage entrepreneurs in the fashion space, it is one of the only structured CVCs across the fashion supply chain and a leading investor in innovation across materials science innovation, manufacturing solutions and processes, post-consumer/circular solutions, supply chain transparency/traceability and fashion tech enablers. We invest in best-in-class innovations, backing founders from Ivy League and leading Global Universities, Co-investing alongside strategic brands, retailers, and top Global Financial Investors. Being a strategic investor, we help our portfolio companies through our network and ecosystem built over the 25 years of PDS Ltd. Through our commitment to sustainability and circularity, we are one of the few supply chain companies to partner with Collaborative Global Bodies.

PACT designs elegant biomaterials made in harmony with the planet Earth. We’re committed to helping the world’s most innovative companies dream without boundaries. Our products are created with efficiency and kindness from the Earth’s abundant resources—beginning with an advanced material: Oval. Inspired by generations of leather artisans and master craftspeople, Oval is a supple material made from collagen. It offers designers unparalleled flexibility while minimising environmental footprint across the entire production process. Oval is the first biomaterial of its kind—created from natural collagen and enriched with oils and free of harsh chemicals.

By using the same source material for every innovation Amphico is leading the outdoor industry to a circular future. Our lead product Amphitex™, a 100% recyclable and coating-free alternative to traditional waterproof breathable textiles, prevents our clients from having to make a difficult choice between environmental toxicity and high performance. It’s never been more difficult to enjoy the outdoors without polluting it. The same products that enable us to endure harsh weather conditions are often the ones putting toxic chemicals into our waterways and landfills; unrecyclable and unacceptable. Working at the intersection of science, engineering and design, Amphico is paving the way for a radically simple solution: to make everything from one thing. We’re taking our innovative polymer – recyclable and PFC-free – and pushing it to the max to create garments, gills and more. No fabric-of-the-month or juggling materials, just one versatile polymer closing the loop in the outdoor industry. Founded by Royal College of Art and Imperial College London graduate Jun Kamei, based in London at the InnovationRCA incubator and Makerversity.

Alma Angels is a diverse and active community with a bold mission: Generate $1 trillion in women-led wealth by 2050. Since 2020, we have brought together and trained over 500 angel investors who have invested into 200+ women (co)founders building tech or IP-rich ventures with global ambitions. These companies have gone on to raise more than £300m to date. Alma Angels is committed to training 10,000 angels and backing 10,000 women founders by 2035.

Nuw is the worlds first clothes sharing and swapping app. Spend your money anywhere, spend you clothes on Nuw. Our innovative nuw coin system allows Nuw members to give away items you no longer want and get items that are new to you. Upload clothes, earn a coin. Each item on Nuw costs 1 nuw coin and 0.99c. Thats it. No arbitrary pricing and no awkward negotiations. Fashion - Fast, Sustainable, Affordable. Nuw is available to download on iOS and Android.

Founded in 2017 by aeronautical engineer, Ryan Mario Yasin, Petit Pli invents and applies groundbreaking material technologies that solve problems for individuals, businesses and the planet across the textiles value chain. An estimated £140 million worth of clothing enters UK landfill every year and our unused clothing is worth approximately £30 billion. These numbers are shocking, but suggest an opportunity to reimagine clothes from the ground up that won’t endanger our future. With an obsession for reducing waste, in only a few years Petit Pli is proud to have won multiple design awards, started a sustainable childrenswear revolution with Clothes that Grow, and embarked on a journey to transform adult clothing too. Petit Pli has developed a unique, patent-accepted, material technology inspired by deployable satellites. For LittleHumans, this means clothing that grows to expand 7 sizes - equal to 48 months, and for adults, garments that are so versatile they adapt to a wide range of body shapes and sizes, styles, activities and purpose.

Hey, we’re Fibe! We are on a mission to turn potato harvest waste into sustainable textiles. Follow us to stay tuned!

Multi-award winning NEFFA | New Fashion Factory is the ground breaking automated manufacturing method allowing for custom products made from biomaterials. Biomass is robotically applied around affordable, configurable and recyclable 3D moulds. This innovative supply chain is giving brands unlimited design freedom, is circular and based on automation. This patented process gives customers (B2B) unprecedented design freedom to create silhouettes and textures that were never possible with traditional manufacturing processes. It is circular and based on natural materials that are biodegradable, eliminating waste and deadstock. And automation is making local and on-demand production possible, whilst eliminating overproduction. NEFFA is the new manufacturing method next to cutting and sewing. We are providing a lean and flexible supply chain with a limited number of stakeholders, creating a local and fully transparent process that is adaptable to constant change.

Sparxell develops the next generation of colours and effects by providing the worlds first performance colourant from plant that is inspired by nature. Founded in 2023 as a spin-out of the University of Cambridge, Sparxell builds onto over a decade of academic research excellence on bioinspired technologies. Our mission is to eliminate toxic chemicals from colouration and provide businesses with sustainable, low-carbon and performant alternatives to traditional coloured materials. These include fine powders, pearls and glitter, films, foils and ribbons as well as special formats like sequins. Follow us to stay tuned as your brilliant journey is just unfolding.

Resortecs leads the circular transition in fashion with Design for Disassembly. We empower brands, sorters, and recyclers with heat-dissolvable stitching threads and thermal disassembly systems that make recycling easy. Through targeted innovations in the way textile products are assembled and disassembled, we help fashion players rise to today’s environmental challenges at the pace and scale Earth needs. All without compromising the creativity, design, and quality of clothing. Resortecs thermal disassembly solution is five times faster than traditional disassembly methods and makes it possible to recycle up to 90% of the original fabric material: • Smart Stitch™, our heat-dissolvable stitching thread with different melting points (150 °C, 170 °C and 190 °C), enables brands to transform their products into recyclable, circular pieces from the manufacturing stage. • Smart Disassembly™, our thermal disassembly system, enables recyclers to unlock higher volumes of premium-quality material, processing up to 4M garments/year with low emissions and no material damage so that fabrics can be used over and over again. Welcome to sustainabilitys next level: circularity.

Biofluff is producing the first 100% plant-based fur to replace animal- and plastic-fur by providing an ethical and green solution.