Huge congrats to Vaayu who just exited to Carbonfact - a climate tech startup we backed from the early days! Back in 2021, Namrata Sandhu joined our Berlin Founders Fund with her team to build an elite carbon tracking software. They went on to serve 100+ brands and become the product-level environmental data platform for fashion. (Read an early days article in the comments) Congrats on the exit!
Today I'm sharing that Vaayu is joining Carbonfact. Five years ago, we set out to give fashion and retail brands the product-level data they actually need to decarbonize. The industry is now at a turning point. DPP, ESPR, the French Eco-Score, CSRD, every one of these regulations needs the same thing underneath: product-level environmental data. What this moment needs is one comprehensive platform, built for fashion. Carbonfact, together with Vaayu's expertise, is exactly that. To the 100+ brands who trusted us along the way: you bet on a small team with a big idea, and you helped prove it could work. None of this exists without you. To the Vaayu team, past and present: I am so proud of what we built. You brought rigor, heart, and ambition to work that mattered. Thank you. To all our investors Atomico CapitalT, Seven Seven Six 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣, Planet Positive, SB21, NP-Hard Ventures, thank you for the trust and belief, from the earliest days through every turn that got us here. And to Marc LAURENT and the Carbonfact team: thank you for the partnership, and for the shared conviction that got us here. Read the full announcement (Link in comments)