Anyone who has their own company knows that significant investments are necessary to keep it up. It is therefore not surprising that messages about capital injections and financing rounds are often shared. Fashionunited shows you which companies have received at least one million euros in the past few months.
Start-up Talon.One: 115 million euros
The German software provider Talon.One is a specialist for loyalty programs and advertising campaigns for companies and received growth financing of $ 135 million in the first half of the year. The sum is to be used to deepen business opportunities in various industries and to deliver AI-supported forecasts.
Textile recycling company Circ: 23 million euros
The US textile recycling company Circ has collected $ 25 million (around 23 million euros) in a financing round. The investment is intended to support the scaling of one’s own technology for industrial production and the construction of Circs first system on an industrial scale.
Circ Recycelt mixed tissue such as polyester cotton and previously worked with Zara. Despite the challenges regarding financing and commercial scaling in the industry, Circs technology is considered groundbreaking to advance the circular economy.
Circ has already received high sums several times. In 2023, the company already received $ 25 million in financing and in 2022 it was even $ 30 million (around 28 million euros).
AI company Tracksuit: 23 million euros
Another $ 25 million (around 23 million euros) were raised by the US company Tracksuit in the first half of the year. The capital injection is to be used to expand international activities. Using artificial intelligence, Tracksuit collects data from brands that can use them to pursue important statistics. This includes brand awareness, but also the general perception in international markets.
Recycling company Doly: 21 million euros
The Swiss start-up Doly focuses on recycling pet and polyester waste. It wants to create new raw materials. The capital injection of $ 23 million (around 21 million euros) is to be used to open a production facility in 2027.
Tech company Fairly Made: 15 million euros
The French company Fairly Made supports other companies in the tracking of their supply chain, which means that the ecological and social effects of the products manufactured can also be measured. The financial injection of 15 million euros is to be deployed to further develop the technology platform, to expand the team and to promote global expansion.
Textile innovator also Phoenix: 14 million euros
There are many approaches in the field of textile innovations. The British company, for example, focuses on the fiber material of recycled leather. The company received a financing of $ 15 million (around 14 million euros), including from the fashion group Tapestry.
Gen Phoenix explained that the investment would enable the company to expand into new categories and global markets. It will also expand its production infrastructure in the British work with a capacity of over 5.5 million square meters per year. In addition, Phoenix will accelerate into research and development as well as the marketing of its fully circular leather solution, the waste from consumers: interior and products integrated at the end of their lifespan.
Material innovator Simplifyber: 11 million euros
In spring 2025, Simplifyber completed a funding round of $ twelve million (around eleven million euros). The company is known for its innovations based on bioba -based materials. The capital injection is to be used to strengthen the scientific basis of the material and mechanical engineering skills. In addition, production is to be expanded, business development and partnerships are accelerated and new facilities are built.
Run specialist Satisfy: 11.3 million euros
The French running specialist Satisfy wants to continue growing in its core markets and received 11.3 million euros. The aim is to continue growing in the USA and South Korea, the most important direct sales markets of the brand, and expanding partnerships in important wholesale markets such as Great Britain, Italy, Japan and Scandinavia.
Secondhand provider Faume: 8 million euros
With a view to Europe, the fashion company Faume has collected eight million euros in new capital in the second-hand sector. The company has already closed partnerships with various French brands, but now also wants to connect other brands from Italy and Great Britain. The French company explains that the financing round would enable him to strengthen its commercial and technical teams, and that it could look after 150 brands within four years.
In addition, Faume plans to put its artificial intelligence into operation for “dynamic pricing” over the course of the year. But that’s not all: the company intends to make its own technology and integrated logistics available to the North American and Asian market in the long term.
Menstrual underwear company Snuggs: 5 million euros
Snuggs is a striking company in this list. It is not a textile recycler or material innovator, but a company for menstrual underwear. The brand has received a financing of five million euros and wants to increase its presence in retail and expand its customers: inner trunk. Snuggs dreams of making premium menstrual underwear a mainstream alternative into one-way menstrual products.
Color Innovator Living Ink: 2.8 million euros
Living Ink offers environmentally friendly alternatives to ink and pigments. These pigments are made from disused algae cells and other biological waste. In order to increase production and reduce costs, the company has received an investment of $ 30 million (around 2.8 million euros). This is intended to build a pilot factory. The company’s pigments are already used by companies such as Ganni, Patagonia, Nike, Coach, New Balance and Stella McCartney.
Innovator Brightplus: 2 million euros
The Finnish biotech company Brightplus is developing bio-based materials that are both renewable and recyclable, and uses industrial residues for the production of textile coatings. The investment of two million euros is to be used to scale the Brightplus Brightbio coating technology from the pilot test to complete industrial production.
Biotech company Sparxell: 1.9 million euros
The British start-up Sparxell received 1.9 million euros in the first half of 2025 and is financed by the European Innovation Council. Sparxell focuses on the production of natural dyes, and its success is due to biodegradable pigments. These provide amazing color results that do better than synthetic alternatives, without chemicals based on fossil fuels. Instead, inspiration was drawn from nature to create color.
Brightfiber textiles: 1.2 million euros
The Dutch clothing and fabric company Brightfiber Textile opened a sustainable upcycling hub at the beginning of the year. In order to support the realization of the hub, the company received a funding of 1.2 million euros. The upcycling hub is to process up to three million kilos of textile waste a year, which corresponds to an estimated saving of 13,149 tons of CO₂ and more than 50 million hectoliters of water. In addition to environmental benefits, Brightfiber Textiles also expects economic advantages, such as the creation of jobs and the settlement of new companies from the textile industry.
Dressr clothing rental platform: 1 million euros
The Belgian company Dressr. The clothing rental platform announced a financial injection of one million euros in June. The money is to be used to speed up growth in Belgium, to strengthen the platform technologically and to enable the step to the Dutch market.
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