Category: fashion
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SOLE REBELS

This company creates shoes using upcycled tires and uses traditional artisan techniques to create comfortable shoes while providing fair wages and empowering local communities.
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RECORK

This company has created a recycling program for cork from the wine industry and others and upcycled them into shoe soles and other cork products.
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KEEL LABS

This company has developed seaweed-based fiber materials to be used in the fashion industry.
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SAGES

This company creates naturally-derived dyes created from agricultural waste to replace the use of synthetic dyes that pollute the environment.
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BALENA

This company has created a bio-compatible repair material that can be used to fix everyday consumable products from clothing to electronics, thereby increasing the life of the consumable product.
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COLORIFIX

This company utilizes DNA technology to create sustainable dyes that reduce the use of water and harmful chemicals in the fashion industry.
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ROTHY’S

This lifestyle brand creates a novel “yarn” using single-use plastic bottles and turns them into artfully-designed shoes and other lifestyle products
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THE REAL REAL

Online marketplace for luxury consignment goods, thereby facilitating reuse and resale of high-end clothing and other luxury goods.
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TROVE

This company offers a secondary market to brands to creating a platform that enables buy back and resale of the brand’s items, thereby encouraging reuse and resale.

