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A recycled-and-recyclable-clothing startup a day keeps the FOMO away.
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Startup of the Year: Daily Dealflow™
The Daily Dealflow ™ newsletter delivers one startup to your inbox every work day and is presented by Silicon Valley Bank.
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Last Bottle Clothing
Last Bottle Clothing is on a mission to tackle plastic pollution and revolutionize the apparel industry by making clothing 100% out of recycled plastic bottles and by ensuring that they are themselves 100% recyclable.
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Last Bottle Clothing is a pioneering sustainable apparel company. Their clothes are made entirely out of recycled plastic bottles and they are made to be 100% recyclable, so when their customers are done with them years down the road they can return the clothes to Last Bottle Clothing to recycle and turn into brand new clothes.
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What's Innovative About Their Solution?
Last Bottle Clothing addresses many of the issues associated with the apparel industry, the world's #2 polluter: their manufacturing is in an 85-mile radius in the US, avoiding the ~16,000 miles of travel 90% of clothes make; they use 500 times less fresh water than cotton; and they don’t use any pesticides or defoliants ;and while polyester is made from crude oil coming out of the Gulf of Mexico or the Middle East, their raw material is plastic waste from the US.
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📍 Location
Atlanta, Georgia
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⚙️ Product Stage
Beta—Public
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🏭 Industries
Clean Tech / Environment, Fashion, Impact
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🤑 Fundraising Status
Actively raising
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💸 Total Funding
To Date
$100k-500k
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Big Wins
- Finished R&D over the summer and began selling to the public and others in the past month
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Contact the Founder:
Stuart Wood
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2019 Startup Outlook Report
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