The Circular People

Industry- Digital and apps

  • COMMONS

    This company helps track users’ carbon footprint through an app in order to help them make more sustainable and climate-friendly choices, turning everyday purchases into climate action

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  • FULL HARVEST

    This company is creating a marketplace for produce that connects commercial produce buyers to farms, thereby reducing inefficiencies associated with surplus and imperfect produce.

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  • LIQUIDONATE

    This company creates technology enabling retailers to donate returns and excess inventory to nonprofits.

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  • TULU

    This company is helping set up a sharing economy in closed loop environments, providing on-demand access to home essentials.

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  • WORN WEAR

    Patagonia’s Worn Wear offers a platform for customers to buy used versions of Patagonia’s gear, thereby encouraging re-use and resale.

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  • TOO GOOD TO GO

    This App fights food waste by connecting food businesses having excess food to consumers who want the food at a lower price, thereby creating an additional sales channel for food that otherwise would have been wasted.

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  • MOBIUS MATERIALS

    This company offers a marketplace to buy and sell pre-owned consumer electronics, thereby facilitating reuse of materials that would have likely have not been used again.

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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.

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  • EXCESS MATERIALS EXCHANGE

    This company offers a marketplace on which on which companies can exchange their excess materials with each other, thereby reducing waste and encouraging re-use and repurpose.

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  • RHEAPLY

    This company offers a platform that allows enterprises and individuals to exchange and utilize resources efficiently, reducing the friction of re-use.

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  • CLEVER CARBON

    This company aims to raise carbon footprint literacy and create a carbon literate society in order to accelerate reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • AGAIN

    This company provides a cost-efficient way for businesses to use reusable glass packaging rather than sourcing virgin glass bottles.

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  • REATH

    This company provides tracking technology for re-use that can be readily used by brands to understand metrics about reuse to meet their sustainability goals.

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  • WINNOW

    This company develops AI tools to help chefs in large businesses reduce food waste and provides an analytics and reporting platform to drive waste reductions at scale.

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  • BIKE CLUB

    This company offers a subscription service for kid’s bikes that can be exchanged for new ones as they outgrow their current ones, thereby encouraging reuse through a leasing model.

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  • BENI

    This company provides a browser extension that makes it easier to purchase a used version of a desired item, thereby decreasing friction related to re-use and resale.

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  • SOJO

    This company provides an app that makes clothing repair accessible, thereby extending the life of clothes derived from the fashion industry.

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  • FAIROWN

    This company enables companies to offer their products as a subscription model, thereby reducing waste and allowing for reuse of raw materials.

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  • TOPUP TRUCK

    This company brings zero waste refillable groceries through a mobile tuck.

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  • GOODR

    This company is a surplus food management platform that leverages blockchain technology to connect businesses with surplus food with people in need, thereby reducing food waste and combating hunger.

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  • EON

    This company provides a digital traceability system for the fashion industry that helps brands identify, track and manage items to encourage resale, recycling and other secondary market capabilities.

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  • NUDIE JEANS

    This company has incorporated circularity into the life cycle of its jeans, including resale, repairs and a take-back program.

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  • FOR DAYS

    This fashion company specializes in recyclable fashion, and has created a take-back bag that allows customers to send back clothes in exchange for a customer discount.

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  • BUNDLEE

    This company offers a rental service for baby clothes, thereby encouraging reuse and bringing back resources to the business.

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  • MANY MOONS

    This company is circular retailer for children’s fashion, offering used options and also a rental model for children’s clothes.

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  • RE:DISH

    This company provides infrastructure and software to enable reuse at scale for a range of entities, from schools to restaurants.

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  • THREDUP

    This company makes used clothing more accessible by connecting users to a large online inventory of used clothing and fashion items, thereby encouraging reuse and resale.

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  • LIMELOOP

    This company reduces or eliminates the frictions associated with reusable packaging by creating a system for reusable packaging that will be returned to the brand to be used over and over again.

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  • RENT THE RUNWAY

    Pic Credit: Bloomberg The circle of it: This company is an e-commerce platform that allows users to rent and subscribe to designer clothes, thereby using a leasing/rental model for clothing. ” At the most conservative end, we have tripled the lifetime of garments while still looking brand-new, compared to what you could do on your own.

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  • CIRCULAR IQ

    This company helps companies offers software tools to “measure” circularity and resource management.

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