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Sortile Insights - June 2024 📢 Go through the slides to learn more about the numbers of sorted material during June with Sortile

Sortile has been selected as one of the 20 startups for the Google for Startups Black and Latino Founders Fund! This incredible opportunity underscores our commitment to innovation and excellence in the tech industry. As a company founded by two Latina women we know the funding stats better than most. About 2% of VC funds go to women and another 2% to Latino founders, the estimate by McKinsey of funding for Latino women: 0.1%. It is these sobering statistics that make programs like the Black and Latino Founders Fund so important. The world needs our ideas, our passions, our companies ESPECIALLY when we find ourselves in the cusp of a technology wave with AI. Thank you Google for Startups for recognizing our potential and supporting our vision. Sortile has been working on increasing textile landfill diversion rates for close to three years now and we are excited to have you along for the ride! We are sure this program will catalyze our efforts, accelerate our growth and enhance our tech, allowing our impact to spread even further. #GoogleForStartups #FundLatinoFounders Constanza Gomez Agustina Mir Shashi Srikantan Level Up Ventures REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund Lisa Morales-Hellebo Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA Lang Entrepreneurship Center Start-Up Chile

As part of our ongoing partnership with Goodwill, ACP has facilitated the creation of four regional textile processing hubs within the Goodwill network. The hubs’ business plans support their core missions by leveraging the full spectrum of second life channels to steward used textiles to their next, highest use and value. This work, done with support from fellow recycling systems experts at Sortile and engagement from TOMRA, is a major unlock for scaled production of postconsumer textile recycling feedstock in North America.   “Goodwill is the original reuse organization, especially for textiles. Reuse remains core to our mission, and through our collaboration with ACP we want to ensure that textiles at the end of their usable or reusable lives remain in the circular economy.” – Joyel Bennett, SVP of Operations and Services at Goodwill of the Finger Lakes. Goodwill of the Finger Lakes leads the Northeast Hub, which represents nine Goodwill organizations located throughout the Northeast Corridor and serves over one-third of the US population. In collaboration with ACP, the Northeast Hub carried out a year-long sorting study which showed they have the potential to provide over 10 million lbs. of cotton feedstock, 7 million lbs. of polycotton feedstock, and 5 million lbs. of polyester feedstock to textile recyclers annually.   “The collaborative model we’ve developed for the Northeast Goodwill Hub provides the scale to meet the tonnage demand and single point of contact brands and recyclers need for sourcing no longer wearable textiles for the feedstock your future customers expect.” – Jennifer Lake, CEO at Goodwill of the Finger Lakes.   In our continuous efforts to #catalyzecollaborations, we encourage recyclers to connect with our partners at each of the Goodwill hubs to bring more post-consumer feedstock into circular systems!

Wonderful work by a group of committed people Goodwill Industries International, TOMRA, Sortile, Rochester Institute of Technology and our hardworking team Accelerating Circularity. New #Circular business models.

I'm excited to talk about my favorite topic (textile sortation and recycling!) next week at Circularity! Come join me and the amazing Tricia Carey Shannon ParkerShelly Gottschamer Karuna Scheinfeld for a great conversation around textile-to-textile recycling and enjoy the extended session on Textile-to-Textile Systems. Looking forward to connecting and re-connecting with the industry in Chicago! If you're going and want to meet up just send me message! Sortile Agustina Mir

Sortile Insights - April 2024 📢 Go through the slides to learn more about the numbers of sorted material during April with Sortile

Our Sustainable Fashion Forum experience kicked off yesterday with our Textile Circularity in Action workshop – and we even added a second session last-minute due to popular demand!    It's been wonderful to see so much interest and for our team to connect with so many incredible industry professionals, and discuss the complexities behind achieving circular systems for apparel. We want to extend a huge thank you to Lina G Londono Constanza Gomez Megan Helton Katina Boutis Brittany Sierra Katie Capozzi and our volunteer supporters for making it all happen! And thank you to Sustainable Fashion Forum for sharing these wonderful photos of the event!   Everlane Eastman Sortile Amelia Eleiter

The America's Act has the potential to supercharge the transition to circular textiles and I had the pleasure of joining Rachel Van Metre Kibbe and fellow ACT (American Circular Textiles) members at the reception of the bill yesterday. This is the first time circular textiles have been contemplated at the federal level and with $14bn in incentives for new facilities, machinery, R&D and more it could catalyze circularity in the US. We have seen how similar legislation and incentives have changed other industries like renewable energy and EVs this bill could do the same for textiles. Sortile Agustina Mir

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30 startups to watch in Latin America, according to VCs 🚀 We spoke to 12 regional investors to hear which startups they’re excited by: Matías Peire, Kieran Gartlan, Andres Baehr, Gabriel Guardado Zambrano, LAURA ORTIZ MONTEMAYOR, Hayden Simmons, Anna Raptis Juan Pablo Garavaglia Luigi Grimaldi, Guilherme Penna, Raffael Teruel, Leonardo Sabo The shortlist includes startups scaling: 🔥 Wildfire detection 🍗 Sustainable protein 👖Textile tracing and sorting ☀️ End-to-end solar solutions 🛞 Transport decarbonisation 🗑️ Waste management efficiencies 🌴 Rainforest and ecosystem restoration Check out the full list: https://lnkd.in/eugH4A97 🌟 Including: Nicolas Barbarosch, Atilio Grimani, Sebastián Luque, Alejandro Caiaffa, Eduardo Zavala Pulgar, Javier Ignacio Olave Ruiz, Sebastian Baquero, Jorge Quinche Serrano, Constanza Gomez, Agustina Mir, Fernando Llaver, Thomas Vadora, Eduardo Ospina Serrano, Verónica Macías Díaz, Jose Carlos Ferrer Dagdug, Ramón Bacre, Adriana Luna-Diaz, Marcela Flores, Marissa Cuevas Flores, Anca Gardea, Rodrigo Martinez, Valentina Rogacheva, Hugo Garduño Ortega Philip T. Kauders, Rodrigo Gonçalves, Rodrigo Tissera, Pedro Mastrangelo, Julia Mensa