Sophie Billi-Hardwick

40 Under 40 by BizBash | Entrepreneur | Global Chief Growth Officer | Speaker

πŸ“ United KingdomπŸ”„ Updated September 2026πŸ’Ό 1 investmentsπŸ“… 3 years investingπŸ—“ Last invested Mar 2023
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Entrepreneurship in the service of the climate emergency! We identify, fund, and launch 100 companies designed and structured from start to finish to combat greenhouse gases. Our mission: > identify high-impact innovations; > recruit experienced entrepreneurs to transform these innovations into companies with solid business models; > inject financial resources to maximize and accelerate deployment. All innovations are made available as open source. Every euro raised is used to combat climate change. Any individual or organization can join the effort starting at €1 on our website (in just a few minutes) and take concrete action, on a global scale, against climate change. Everything is detailed (and you can contact us) at team-planet.com
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2023
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Mar 2023
Entrepreneurship in the service of the climate emergency! We identify, fund, and launch 100 companies designed and structured from start to finish to combat greenhouse gases. Our mission: > identify high-impact innovations; > recruit experienced entrepreneurs to transform these innovations into companies with solid business models; > inject financial resources to maximize and accelerate deployment. All innovations are made available as open source. Every euro raised is used to combat climate change. Any individual or organization can join the effort starting at €1 on our website (in just a few minutes) and take concrete action, on a global scale, against climate change. Everything is detailed (and you can contact us) at team-planet.com
2019
Co-Founder & CEO
May 2019
Following 2 years of R&D, Billi London created the worlds first 100% biodegradable legwear brand, drastically reducing the harm that tights have on the planet. Their mission is to influence consumers fashion habits and the textile industry today, to protect tomorrow, with durable, comfortable, and biodegradable legwear. The collection of tights, leggings, and socks prioritise quality over quantity. Founded by Sophie Billi-Hardwick and Marie Bouhier in 2020, the pairs goal was to create durable and comfortable legwear that was no longer seen as disposable or for single-use. Tights are impossible to recycle into a new pair and difficult to repair, so most end up as waste. Globally, 8 billion tights are sold and discarded each year. And each of them will take up to 100 years to decompose in landfills. Billi Londons durable tights biodegrade in a record time of 5 years*, 20x faster than the normal 40-100 year timeframe, the materials break down into biomass and biogas, create renewable energy, and do not leave behind microplastics in landfills. Billi London contributes to solving the fashion waste issue that pollutes the planet by transforming the way people think, care, buy and dispose of their tights, reducing the amount of time tights pollute in landfills by more than 80%. Biodegradable fabrics are the only serious solution. Sign up on our website now to join the leaders in this space. Together, we can pioneer change across the fashion industry, legs go ! *
In landfill. Instead of 40 to 100 years for traditional tights. Reference system: ASTM D5511 - test Std.