Startups
Designed to spur collective action in fashion industry to select, fund and scale projects to improve upon the sector's problematic environmental impacts.
Overview
Location
United States, California, Oakland
Employees
11-50
Mentions in press and media 8
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| May 19, 2025 | Meet the sustainable fashion startup backed by H&M and Amazon | Smartex uses cameras and AI to detect flaws in fashion textiles as they are produced, preventing fabrics from going to waste. Fashion has a big waste problem, with about a truckload of clothes thrown away and buried or burned every second, ... |
| May 24, 2024 | Unlocking the Next Level: Esteemed fashion leaders assemble in Copenhagen to catalyse and accelerate sustainability progress | Unlocking the Next Level: Esteemed fashion leaders assemble in Copenhagen to catalyse and accelerate sustainability progress Fri, May 24, 2024 12:10 CET Report this content Friday 24 May: On 21-23 May, Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edit... |
| Feb 2, 2023 | Paris-based Ever Dye raises €3.4M to develop sustainable dyes for the textile industry | Paris-based Ever Dye, a deep-tech startup, announced on Wednesday, February 1, that it has raised €3.4M in a Seed round of funding. The startup creates a chemical method for textile dyeing factories to colour fibres quickly, efficiently, an... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | Fashion’s Latest Sustainability Report Claims To Have The Answers—But Do They Add Up? | Photo by Chris Hondros Getty Images |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Apparel Impact Institute Reveals Lead Funders of $250M Fashion Climate Fund | The Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) has announced the lead funders for its new $250 million Fashion Climate Fund. The funders are Lululemon, H&M Group, H&M Foundation, and The Schmidt Family Foundation. Aii is a nonprofit with the ob... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | Higg Partners with Apparel Impact Institute, Offering Customized Carbon Reduction Strategies for Apparel Brands and Manufacturers | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Higg, the sustainability insights platform for the consumer goods industry, has partnered with the Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) to launch a new measurable carbon management program for manufact... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Kering, Stella McCartney Partner With Apparel Impact Institute To Make Italian Fashion More Sustainable | 1 1 Share 4 Mins Read The Apparel Impact Institute recently announced a project, informally called ‘The Italy Project’ in partnership with Stella McCartney, Burberry, and French luxury fashion group Kering with the aim of improving the envi... |
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FAQ about Apparel Impact Institute
What has the press written about Apparel Impact Institute?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning Apparel Impact Institute, among them “Meet the sustainable fashion startup backed by H&M and Amazon” (May 19, 2025) and “Unlocking the Next Level: Esteemed fashion leaders assemble in Copenhagen to catalyse and accelerate sustainability progress” (May 24, 2024).
Is Apparel Impact Institute still active?
Yes, Apparel Impact Institute is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 22, 2026.