Issue #20 (No-Waste Club, OtailO, Manifest Climate)
Meet the best women-led climate tech companies.
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Featured Companies
No-Waste Club
Photo credit: No-Waste Club
No-Waste Club is a peer-to-peer giving marketplace designed to help young generations meaningfully connect to one another and reduce waste. They use what the modern tech world has to offer to disrupt the $125 billion waste, self-storage, and donation industries by addressing the severely underserved market for the things that people want to get rid of but can't because they are still usable.
Their mission is to accelerate the world's transition to a circular economy by building the best local exchange. They have taken no money, relied on purely organic growth and have been able to build a prototype, gain 350 users, and transact over $16K in goods. Alina Liu and No-Waste Club are part of the On Deck Founders accelerator.
Founder & CEO: Alina Liu
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Stage: Pre-seed
Company Ask: They would love general connections to people who have experience in waste-reduction.
OtailO
Photo Credit: OtailO
OtailO is an end-to-end, smart and sustainable solution for online product returns, as well as exchange management for retail brands and e-commerce multi-brand retailers. They offer a circular-economy solution that enables brick-and-mortar offline retailers who are authorised to sell retail brands, to inspect, validate and resell returns brought in by shoppers returning their purchase. This solution disrupts the standard wasteful reverse logistics supply chain, and provides a win-win benefit for online retailers, offline retailers, shoppers and the planet. They are operating in the UK and already processing tens of thousands of returns every month.
Co-founder: Roni Mayer
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
Stage: Seed
Company Ask: They would love to find e-commerce retailers in the fashion and apparel space who would like to offer sustainable and circular returns while increasing their bottom line and customer satisfaction.
Manifest Climate
Photo Credit: Manifest Climate
Manifest Climate is software as a service platform geared towards helping companies improve climate-related disclosure and climate governance. Manifest Climate will bring greater climate-related transparency to capital markets. They combine multidisciplinary climate expertise with AI technology to provide a solution that helps organizations understand, approach and disclose their climate-related information and insights in a clear and impactful way. The platform builds climate competency so organizations can see longer term and respond to increasing regulatory, market and investor pressure related to climate impacts. Manifest Climate was recently shortlisted for the G20 Innovations League startup pitch contest and ran a pilot in late 2020 with 15 major publicly traded companies across multiple sectors.
Founder & CEO: Laura Zizzo
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Stage: Series A
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