Slashing CO2Zero-waste fashion.
Big Picture
Roughly 100 billion pieces of clothing are churned out every year by the fashion industry, driving a mind-boggling 4% of global emissions. It’s not just the low-transparency, fossil- and chemical-intensive global supply chain. A quarter of all garments go unsold, ending up in landfills instead of closets. Booming e-commerce will only make fashion’s climate problem worse.
How it Works
unspun has developed the world’s first 3D weaving technology, capable of churning out garments faster, cheaper, and with fewer threads. Their process drops into the existing fashion supply chain and replaces multiple manual steps with a single machine – cutting the emissions footprint of unspun’s fits by over 50%, slashing waste to near-zero, and reducing costs by up to 70%.
Unfair Advantage
unspun makes resilient, localized, defossilized supply chains a reality for the world’s biggest fashion brands. Years of engineering core hardware and software IP have unlocked the fastest and cheapest way to make woven garments – period. With hundreds of millions of dollars in confirmed offtakes, unspun is quickly becoming the new standard for making a majority of the world’s clothes.
4x
Faster than
conventional cut-and-sew processes
WALDEN LAM CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Prior to unspun, Walden was Head of Strategy for lululemon in Asia Pacific and a Business Designer at IDEO. He holds an MBA from Stanford GSB.
BETH ESPONNETTE CPO & CO-FOUNDER
Beth was an Assistant Professor of Product Design at Univ. of Oregon. She has an MFA from Stanford.
KEVIN MARTIN CTO & CO-FOUNDER
Kevin previously founded a robotics camera motion company, airworx. He is a mechanical engineer specialized in flight hardware.
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