Innovate UK

Founded in 2007, Innovate UK is a non-profit organization based in Swindon, UK. It supports businesses across various economic sectors by offering funding services to promote science and technology innovations.

Mike Biddle

Programme Director of Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

Will Drury

Executive Director, Digital and Technologies

Paul Gadd

Deputy Director

Dr. Tom Jenkins

Deputy Director

Scott James O'Brien

Director, Innovation Finance

Nigel Walker

Deputy Director, Lending and Investor Partnerships

Past deals in Textiles

mannyAI

Grant in 2024
MannyAI is a fashion technology startup that operates an artificial intelligence-powered platform designed to enhance the sourcing process for both fashion brands and factories. The company's innovative network enables small batch production by aggregating similar orders from various brands, which helps streamline the manufacturing process. MannyAI offers features such as instant pricing and efficient order management, allowing fashion brands to mitigate inventory risks while simultaneously improving production efficiency for factories. By leveraging AI technology, MannyAI aims to transform traditional sourcing methods in the fashion industry.

Eslando

Grant in 2024
Eslando operates an AI-powered B2B marketplace designed to streamline textile waste trading. It connects waste collectors, recyclers, and corporate brands for efficient, traceable, and profitable transactions.

Bendi

Seed Round in 2024
Bendi uses AI to monitor global data sources for human rights, environmental, and governance risks in supply chains. Its platform maps millions of data points from news, legal cases, and social media in multiple languages, providing real-time risk intelligence to help businesses build resilient supply chains.

KYMIRA

Grant in 2024
KYMIRA is an e-commerce company specializing in smart garments and textiles designed to enhance athletic performance and recovery. The company develops innovative textiles that incorporate compression fabric, infrared technology, and sensors, which harness and recycle the energy of athletes. These products aim to improve performance, address chronic health issues, reduce injury risks, and enhance sleep quality. By providing data insights, KYMIRA enables athletes and sports enthusiasts to optimize their training and recovery processes.

CircKit

Seed Round in 2024
CircKit is an AI-powered B2B SaaS platform for fashion and textiles brands to advance circular design and sustainable product development. It enables teams to design sustainable products, optimize material and production choices, and measure social and environmental indicators with real-time environmental impact tracking and compliance tools. The platform harmonises data and supports cross-team collaboration, helping brands reduce costs, improve profitability, and unlock revenue from circular design and end-of-life closed-loop initiatives. It provides lifecycle analysis at the design stage and end-of-life planning to support regulatory alignment and waste reduction.

Birl

Grant in 2024
Birl is a technology company that facilitates a sustainable fashion ecosystem. It enables customers to exchange unwanted clothing for store credit on partner brand websites, reducing textile waste. Birl's platform also offers brands new revenue streams, enhanced customer loyalty, and comprehensive resale management, including logistics and technology, allowing brands to focus on their core business.

Bendi

Grant in 2023
Bendi uses AI to monitor global data sources for human rights, environmental, and governance risks in supply chains. Its platform maps millions of data points from news, legal cases, and social media in multiple languages, providing real-time risk intelligence to help businesses build resilient supply chains.

mannyAI

Grant in 2023
MannyAI is a fashion technology startup that operates an artificial intelligence-powered platform designed to enhance the sourcing process for both fashion brands and factories. The company's innovative network enables small batch production by aggregating similar orders from various brands, which helps streamline the manufacturing process. MannyAI offers features such as instant pricing and efficient order management, allowing fashion brands to mitigate inventory risks while simultaneously improving production efficiency for factories. By leveraging AI technology, MannyAI aims to transform traditional sourcing methods in the fashion industry.

Eslando

Grant in 2023
Eslando operates an AI-powered B2B marketplace designed to streamline textile waste trading. It connects waste collectors, recyclers, and corporate brands for efficient, traceable, and profitable transactions.

KYMIRA

Grant in 2023
KYMIRA is an e-commerce company specializing in smart garments and textiles designed to enhance athletic performance and recovery. The company develops innovative textiles that incorporate compression fabric, infrared technology, and sensors, which harness and recycle the energy of athletes. These products aim to improve performance, address chronic health issues, reduce injury risks, and enhance sleep quality. By providing data insights, KYMIRA enables athletes and sports enthusiasts to optimize their training and recovery processes.

SPINKS

Grant in 2022
Spinks is the suppliers of quality micro spring components, Discover's ingenious collections of innovation. Each of ground-breaking creations come in various heights, wire gauges and textile options and all guarantee revolutionary comfort and a greener future.

Bendi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bendi uses AI to monitor global data sources for human rights, environmental, and governance risks in supply chains. Its platform maps millions of data points from news, legal cases, and social media in multiple languages, providing real-time risk intelligence to help businesses build resilient supply chains.

Icaruus

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Icaruus is a company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of apparel for brands, designers, and businesses through local, on-demand production methods. It focuses on sustainable fashion, offering a range of clothing products including base layers, mid-layers, t-shirts, and technical wear. Icaruus is committed to advancing circular manufacturing and apparel data analytics in the UK, collaborating with various sustainable fashion partners to develop innovative software and hardware solutions for the apparel industry. The company's efforts contribute to the evolution of apparel recycling and promote sustainable innovation within the sector.
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