Issue #3 (MarketPearl, Repurpose, NODE)
Meet the best women-led climate tech companies.
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Companies
MarketPearl
MarketPearl is a sustainability-driven B2B fabric sourcing and supply chain analytics platform serving apparel brands and manufacturers. Their mission is to create a more efficient apparel supply chain through increasing transparency and enabling users to adopt better buying practices through technology. MarketPearl aims to address two main problems: 1) textile waste: manufacturers have too much inventory due to forecast inefficiencies and lack of demand visibility, and 2) brands and retailers experience long lead times and lack visibility into available inventory from manufacturers which they could use to better meet demand requirements.
Founder & CEO: Ashley Barrington
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Funding Stage: Pre-Seed
Repurpose
Plants over plastic. Repurpose is a CPG company that makes plant-based compostable products as an alternative to disposable plasticware. Currently, their products are sold in over 17,000 stores across the country including Target, Walmart, CVS, Wholefoods, Safeway/Albertsons, Wegmans and others. All of their products are made in Taiwan and China from corn, beet pulp residue, cassava or sugar cane waste; and made to be industrially compostable, certified by California law. Named one of INC 500’s Fastest growing companies for 3 consecutive years, next up they’re launching several product extensions and have just completed a brand re-fresh.
Founder & CEO: Lauren Gropper
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Funding Stage: Series A
History: Repurpose has raised a total of $10M in funding since 2011, and its investors include Engel Ventures and Chaifetz Group.
NODE
NODE is building sustainable homes fast. Their patent-pending flatpack kit allows them to build a home in just weeks today - and in just a few days in the near future. They are on a mission to deliver beautiful, carbon-negative homes to everyone. To do so, their innovation addresses the greatest weakness of the construction industry - the massive decline in construction trade labor.
Founder & CEO: Bec Chapin
HQ: Seattle, WA
Funding Stage: Seed
History: NODE has raised a total of $2.2M funding over 3 rounds and its investors include Chloe Capital and Y Combinator. NODE is also a graduate of Techstars 2018.
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