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Sustainable e-commerce startup Olive now ships beauty products, in addition to apparel

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Earlier this year, a startup called Olive launched its new shopping site and app with the goal of making e-commerce more efficient, convenient, and sustainable by offering a way for consumers to aggregate their orders from across retailers into single shipments that arrive in reusable packaging, not cardboard.

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

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Ghost is coming out of stealth Tuesday with its approach to excess inventory with a marketplace approach that enables brands and retailers to buy, sell and price that inventory in a discreet, efficient and sustainable way. Naturally, they started in apparel but are also seeing opportunity in beauty and home goods.

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Fashinza, a B2B supply chain marketplace for fashion brands, raises $100M

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Customers can also use Fashinza to track time and action calendars, a tool used in the apparel industry to follow up on manufacturing milestones to ensure timely delivery. . ” An expanding market. Certainly, Fashinza has no shortage of competition in a supply chain management market that Statista predicts could be worth $30.91

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Sneaker e-commerce platform Kicks Crew raises $6M Series A

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The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew , a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform. Canada, Australia and Asia.

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Elephantech wants to create circuit boards that are kinder to the environment

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To get its slice of $90 billion PCB manufacturing pie , Tokyo-based startup Elephantech has developed an eco-friendly PCB called P-Flex , using inkjet printing-based electronic circuit manufacturing technology which it says reduces carbon emissions by 77% and water consumption by 95% compared to conventional processes. Regular circuit.

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Cobalt launches from beta with a $2.8M seed to help creators launch products

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These products go beyond an influencer moneygrab — Cobalt is deliberately not developing apparel products, since Black is concerned about the environmental impact of fast fashion. Black also pointed to Jenna Smith, who sells hydroponic small-batch produce through her startup Growcery , which she developed via Cobalt.

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Daily Crunch: AWS now accepting applications for its new 10-week generative AI accelerator

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Oh, and sustainability is getting a whole stage all to itself at Disrupt. A “not-quite open source startup” : That’s how Paul described Dozer, a startup that came out of stealth today with $3 million in the bank and technology to help any developer build real-time data apps in no time flat. It’s gonna be rad. See you there?