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Reimagining Funding to Democratise Fashion Entrepreneurship

Clearco has invested more than $2.4 billion in over 6,000 businesses, leveraging AI to remove the bias. Its portfolio has eight times more women-founded businesses than traditional VC firms and 30 percent of founders are people of colour.
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A New Model for Funding Fashion Start-Ups

Clearco, which just secured $215 million in funding from Softbank, is at the forefront of a new investing model where brands get speedy financing in exchange for a share of future revenues.

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