CircKit
CircKit is an AI-powered circular toolkit for the fashion and footwear industry, designed to help brands unlock growth through sustainable product design and lifecycle management. The platform provides real-time environmental and emissions data, enabling brands to assess impacts and implement sustainability strategies during the design phase. CircKit facilitates compliance with regulations such as ESPR, EPR, DPP, and CSRD, and helps brands reduce costs, gain margin, and increase profit by identifying lucrative end-of-life pathways and circular initiatives. The modular platform integrates seamlessly into workflows, offering insights for designers, buyers, merchandisers, and sustainability leads, and aims to transform the industry by tackling waste upstream in the design and production process.
CircKit
CircKit is an AI-powered circular toolkit for the fashion and footwear industry, designed to help brands unlock growth through sustainable product design and lifecycle management. The platform provides real-time environmental and emissions data, enabling brands to assess impacts and implement sustainability strategies during the design phase. CircKit facilitates compliance with regulations such as ESPR, EPR, DPP, and CSRD, and helps brands reduce costs, gain margin, and increase profit by identifying lucrative end-of-life pathways and circular initiatives. The modular platform integrates seamlessly into workflows, offering insights for designers, buyers, merchandisers, and sustainability leads, and aims to transform the industry by tackling waste upstream in the design and production process.
TL;DR
What they do: AI-powered circular toolkit for fashion & footwear to design lower-impact products and manage lifecycle data
Headquarters / HQ: Manchester, United Kingdom
Founded: 2023
Founder / CEO: Joe Darwen
Employees: ≈10
Funding (total): USD 2,510,000
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Sustainable product design, lifecycle management, regulatory compliance (ESPR, EPR, DPP, CSRD) and circular end-of-life strategy for fashion & footwear
Founded
2023
Industry
SaaS; Fashion & Footwear; Sustainability / Circular Economy
Funding Track Record
Seed round announced Dec 14, 2023 (Crunchbase listing)
Investor Signal
“Participation by Innovate UK; mentions of early investors/advisors on company site”