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Finematter, a circular marketplace revolutionizing the jewellery industry, announced the successful second close of its seed round, bringing the total raised to €2.6 million. Renowned tech founders and industry veterans exclusively backed the round, sharing Finematter’s vision of promoting circularity and transparency in the jewellery market. The seed round counts contributions from distinguished angel investors… …

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Bioeconomy startup traceless, which produces a natural biomaterial as an alternative to plastic, announces the completion of a €36.6 million funding round. The Series A funding round is led by private equity fund UB Forest Industry Green Growth Fund (“UB FIGG”), which invests in sustainable and resource-efficient forest and bio-based industries, and complemented by SWEN… …

Hamburg-based traceless secures €36.6 million to build first industry plant for bio-circular alternative to plastic Read More »

Gütersloh-based Schüttflix announced that it has raised €45 million in a financing round led by the founders and existing investors and supplemented by a working capital line. New equity investors include FJ Labs, DEVK Insurance and various family offices. In addition, Goldbeck, one of Europe’s leaders in commercial construction, and the waste management specialist IK… …

German contech Schüttflix bags €45 million to enable a fully circular economy for building materials Read More »

Bike Club, one of Europe’s largest subscription provider of kids’ bikes, has agreed to acquire Bicircular, a Barcelona-based bike subscription platform for children in Spain. Founded in London in 2016, Bike Club enables parents to subscribe to premium light-weight bikes for their children, and then exchange the bikes for larger sizes as their children grow…. …

London-based Bike Club pedals European growth by acquiring Barcelona bike subscriptions startup Bicircular Read More »

Adopting a culture of ultra-fast fashion is what not to do if you want humanity to have a future wearing clothes. Right now the industry comes with a critically high price tag, causing 10% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. But is one of the world’s worst emitters changing its appearance. According to journalist and …

Designing a new future for fashion that won’t wear out Read More »

In the last of our three-part series on social entrepreneurs, Enactus Aryabhatta – led by students at Aryabhatta College, Delhi University, the team invites us inside the stylish homes combatting climate change with a little help from Project Ibtida. What is Project Ibtida? The students of Enactus Aryabhatta have taken a bold initiative with Project Ibtida. Ibtida …

Delhi students match style with love of the planet Read More »

Open to all artists worldwide 35 and younger the ‘RCE Youth Art Challenge: From Waste to Art’ is looking for works inspired by community action advancing SDG 12 — responsible consumption and production. The competition is being organised by UNESCO and the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS). “We’re looking …

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Students at Aryabhatta College, Delhi University are behind innovative social entrepreneurship organisation, Enactus Aryabhatta, which runs projects focused on building a community that is socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. I caught up with the Enactus Aryabhatta team to learn more about three of these projects. And first up they told me about Project Palaash and …

8 million reasons to love this student-run social enterprise Read More »

India’s Tryst with a Circular Economy EAC-PM/WP/17/2023 International Council for Circular Economy and its work in Circular Economy is well known, both domestically and internationally. But it was an absolute honor for us when a working document was co-authored by our Managing Director, Ms Shalini Goyal Bhalla for the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime …

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