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The Sports Edit launches crowdfunding campaign

Premium activewear e-tailer, The Sports Edit, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to further accelerate its growth. The campaign follows 2020 marking the company’s “best year yet,” growing online revenues by 145 percent, despite global economic uncertainty, and the company reported some of its best months in April and May during lockdown. “The...

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Atterley launches crowdfunding campaign to grow internationally

Online marketplace for independent fashion retailers, Atterley has launched a crowdfunding campaign to grow its international presence, after experienced year-on-year sales growth of 200 percent during the Covid-19 crisis. The company, which is used by more than 250 independent boutiques and has around 2,800 brands live on the site, is looking...

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Handbag Clinic launches second capital raise

Handbag Clinic, the luxury bag restoration and resale business, is seeking 2 million pound investment, after embarking on its second capital-raising campaign to help support its global expansion plan. The handbag restorer is hoping to raise more funds to expand in core business areas - brand building, streamlining systems and recruitment of...

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Labfresh reaches crowdfunding goal in less than 2 hours

Amsterdam-based clothing company, Labfresh, known for treating its products with dirt-repellent, antibacterial and innovative textile technologies, has successfully crowdfunded for its stain repellent trousers in less than two hours to surpass its 13,000-pound goal. The Kickstarter campaign marked the fash-tech label’s fourth crowdfunding...

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How to succeed in crowdfunding, according to the maker of the world’s most crowdfunded shoe

For most people, work is the last thing they want to think about while on vacation. For Alberto Espinos, however, a trip to Thailand with some friends in 2016 generated a business idea that flipped his career upside down. After hiking hundreds of hours carrying heavy backpacks, he and his friends realized each one of them had brought at least...

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How to succeed in crowdfunding, according to the maker of the world’s most crowdfunded shoe

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The Baukjen Group crowdfund for US expansion

British retailer The Baukjen Group, which owns contemporary womenswear brand Baukjen and premium maternity label Isabella Oliver, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the retailer’s expansion into America. The group is looking to raise 400,000 pounds by the end of December via a Crowdcube campaign in return for 3.02 percent equity, so...

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Digital Brands Group launches UK crowdfunding campaign

Digital Brands Group, the Los Angeles-based curated group of digital-first lifestyle brands, has launched its first ever round of international fundraising with a campaign on UK-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. The fundraising is aimed to secure additional funds to accelerate the group’s continued expansion including plans to establish...

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The Cords and Co launches crowdfunding campaign

The Cords and Co, the world’s first brand dedicated to corduroy for men and women, is launching a crowdfunding campaign at the end of March to become an alternative to denim in the fashion world. Launching on March 28 on FundedByMe, the crowdfunding campaign will run for 30 days, during which the Swedish brand hopes to raise up to 2.5 million...

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Students of Design seeks 300,000 pounds in funding

Students of Design (SODS) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise 300,000 pounds to fuel its global expansion. The Students of Design platform, which offers emerging independent designers “who wish to champion continuity and sustainability in their work” a marketplace to sell their collections. Each designer creates a brand profile from...

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Greenest T-shirt turns to Kickstarter

Australian-based start-up company Kusaga Athletic has headed to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to launch what it is calling the ‘Greenest T-shirt on the planet’. Kusaga Athletic states that 3,000 litres of water is needed to make a regular cotton T-shirt, which is a lot of water, whereas its ‘Greenest T-shirt’ requires less than 1 percent of...