Bendi

I worked for a few years in the corporates, then I worked as a consultant in the tech industry. I started in banking, but I realize that this was not really what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I wanted to apply my background in tech to do something impactful.

My co-founder, who has been working in the sustainability team in fashion houses, and I founded Bendi. We knew that the fashion industry was one of the largest polluters in the world. It is the one responsible for 10% of the overall carbon emission as well as for 20% of the industrial wastewater. Bendi provides a sort of AI-generated support across 18 different areas to help fashion brands to manage their sustainability data and map their environmental impact. These brands want to be able to reduce those impacts over time, but they don’t know how to sometimes since most of the brands in the UK are small and medium-size so they don’t have enough people to place in the sustainability teams.