Yaël Gairola

Arda is a chemistry technology company transforming waste into smarter, circular biomaterials that are completely animal and plastic-free. Ardas first transformation is turning beer brewery and whisky distillery side streams into a novel, leather-like material called New Grain that can win on scale, price, quality, and speed. You can sign up to our quarterly newsletter on the Arda website – www.arda.bio

Empower fashion brands and retailers to sell smarter through Visual AI. We create experiences consumers love and provide brands and retailers with the data they need. We built the ultimate Fashion Retail AI Platform, Built on proprietary technology and fashion expertise, Selectika sets a new standard. Its visual AI swiftly generates detailed product descriptions and assigns over 20 data points per item, ensuring catalogue management efficiency, personalized recommendations, boosts efficiency, Average Order Value, and Conversion Rates. Real-time insights aid informed decisions, while enhanced product data refines recommendation accuracy, making outdated strategies obsolete. Selectika revolutionizes fashion retail, empowering retailers to thrive in the digital age

Refiberd is building an intelligent sorting technology for the fashion industry - from quality assurance for T2T recycling, to sorting for reuse and recycling, to upstream material testing for brands. We empower the fashion industry to achieve true circularity and understand the materials present in the supply chain.

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.

Arda is a chemistry technology company transforming waste into smarter, circular biomaterials that are completely animal and plastic-free. Ardas first transformation is turning beer brewery and whisky distillery side streams into a novel, leather-like material called New Grain that can win on scale, price, quality, and speed. You can sign up to our quarterly newsletter on the Arda website – www.arda.bio

Empower fashion brands and retailers to sell smarter through Visual AI. We create experiences consumers love and provide brands and retailers with the data they need. We built the ultimate Fashion Retail AI Platform, Built on proprietary technology and fashion expertise, Selectika sets a new standard. Its visual AI swiftly generates detailed product descriptions and assigns over 20 data points per item, ensuring catalogue management efficiency, personalized recommendations, boosts efficiency, Average Order Value, and Conversion Rates. Real-time insights aid informed decisions, while enhanced product data refines recommendation accuracy, making outdated strategies obsolete. Selectika revolutionizes fashion retail, empowering retailers to thrive in the digital age

Refiberd is building an intelligent sorting technology for the fashion industry - from quality assurance for T2T recycling, to sorting for reuse and recycling, to upstream material testing for brands. We empower the fashion industry to achieve true circularity and understand the materials present in the supply chain.

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.

PDS Limited (erstwhile PDS Multinational Fashions Limited) is a global end-to-end sourcing and manufacturing platform serving the world’s leading brands and retailers. Our operations are spread over a network of 60 offices across 22 countries, with a workforce of 10,000 and over 250 designers. From Apparel to Home and everything in between, PDS offers our retail partners a broad spectrum of products. Leveraging global strengths, we provide a complete solution from design to production for an array of products like apparel, footwear, accessories, home, and more. Digitization enables innovation, efficiency, and creates new ways of doing business. With our keen design sense, extensive industry experience, and adoption of the latest techniques and technologies, we are catering to the fast-evolving tastes and consumer preferences. Our vision for sustainability is the bedrock of our growth strategy. Driven by an integrated approach, we truly believe that concern for the environment is key to business growth in the industry. Be it working with like-minded partners, manufacturing products within our own facilities, complying with environment-friendly practices, everything is done to realize our vision of attaining social and ecological equilibrium.