Company: Vaayu
Founder: Namrata Sandhu and Luca Schmid
Website: https://vaayu.tech/
About Vaayu
Vaayu, one of TIME’s Best Inventions, is the world’s first automated software helping fashion and retail to reduce impacts like carbon, water and waste at scale. Retail is responsible for 25% of global carbon emissions, and Vaayu’s bold mission is to decelerate climate change, partnering with industry-leading brands and businesses to reduce their footprints and support their customers in making more sustainable choices.
Vaayu has a SaaS business model, sold as an annual or monthly subscription. With highly flexible, modular and tailored AI solutions across product, supply chain, packaging, logistics and more, partners can access the impact tooling and features they need for their profile and size. Vaayu also offers per-project work, such as reports and innovative B2B2C tools, helping drive retail’s impact reduction. Vaayu provides attentive partner support and ongoing collaboration and communication opportunities, powering retail sustainability strategies that work and forging a new path for circular business models.
Leveraging AI, machine learning, data science and climate science, Vaayu’s suite of easy-to-use solutions helps companies set and achieve robust reduction strategies and share impact data with customers. The only technology accounting for complex fashion and retail supply and value chains, Vaayu calculates impacts from raw materials through manufacturing to last-mile delivery. Vaayu’s software and APIs easily integrate with retail-favorite tools, from POS systems to PLMs, PIMs and ERPs, ensuring simple automation of real-time data.
Its Kria modeling engine, powered by retail’s largest LCA database with 600K+ data points, maps and processes data to create a digital twin that reflects complex real-world supply chains. Vaayu’s accurate results go beyond carbon to calculate 16 impact categories, democratizing a long-term scalable business tool to dramatically reduce the footprint of fashion and retail.
Vaayu is ever-enhancing its technological capabilities: predictive AI scenarios to project hotspots and explore alternative materials or factories; target-setting and monitoring in line with industry standards like SBTi; quantifying circular business models and materials to drive the adoption of circularity in fashion; filling complex data gaps for a more complete picture of Scopes 1-3; digital product passports for more informed shopping experiences. Backed by science and purpose-built for retail’s specific challenges, these tools and first-to-market features are quickly defining the industry’s baseline for impact management.
With reach across Europe and expanding to Asia and North America, Vaayu is proud to have partnerships that are arming hundreds of millions of global consumers with climate data that helps shape more sustainable shopping experiences. Since launching in 2020 and raising $13 million in seed round funding, Vaayu has onboarded more than 100 global partners, including Klarna, On, Mastercard, Veja, Nudea, New Balance, Vinted, MISSOMA, ASKET, Ace & Tate, Otrium and Redcare Pharmacy.
Vaayu’s granular calculations and results offer partners a clear path to reduction where scalable data was previously limited, powering the highest levels of transparency, accuracy and efficiency. The goal is to become the industry’s go-to, all-in-one climate partner, supporting businesses of all kinds and across all retail verticals to master their strategies and take real action, in real-time, for real reductions.
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