Circular Route

?? Angel Investors & Early-Stage VCs: We're Raising Capital to Scale Our AI-Powered Platform for Sustainability & Social Impact! ?? We’re excited to announce that Circular Route is raising seed capital to scale our AI-powered platform, which empowers local charities and people in need while driving social impact and promoting sustainability. Our mission is to transform the secondhand market while advancing environmental and social good by connecting 1.8 million charity organizations and thrift stores with 100 million people in need of affordable goods, including 38 million low-income families, 42 million people with disabilities, 46 million first-generation immigrants, and 56 million local thrifters, primarily from Gen Z. We’re solving a massive environmental and social problem. Although Americans donate generously ($0.5 trillion annually), billions of donated goods remain unsold and are wasted, recycled, or shipped overseas, while over 100 million Americans need these affordable items. Our online marketplace, powered by AI tools - the AI Agent and AI-powered Listing App - is transforming secondhand shopping and disrupting the $197B global thrift and resale market. Backed by Antler VC and as a winner of the U.S. Department of Energy Prize, we’ve already made a significant impact by helping local communities. Now, we’re ready to scale and take things to the next level. ?????If you're an angel investor or early-stage VC interested in supporting a platform that combines AI, sustainability, and social impact, we’d love to connect and discuss how you can be part of our early investment round. We're open to small check sizes, with favorable terms for early investors. Reach out to us at [email protected] to learn more.

?? Exciting News - ThriftBig is Raising Seed Capital to Scale its AI-Powered Platform for Sustainability and Social Impact! ?? We’re excited to announce that ThriftBig is raising seed capital to scale its AI-powered platform, which transforms secondhand shopping, while driving social impact and promoting sustainability. Our mission is to transform the secondhand market while advancing environmental and social good by connecting 1.8 million charity organizations and thrift stores with 100 million people in need of affordable goods, including 38 million low-income families, 42 million people with disabilities, 46 million first-generation immigrants, and 56 million local thrifters, primarily from Gen Z. We’re solving a massive environmental and social problem. Although Americans donate generously ($0.5 trillion annually), billions of donated goods remain unsold and are wasted, recycled, or shipped overseas, while over 100 million Americans need these affordable items. Our online marketplace, powered by AI tools - the AI Agent and AI-powered Listing App - is transforming secondhand shopping and disrupting the $197B global thrift and resale market. Backed by Antler VC and as a winner of the U.S. Department of Energy Prize, we’ve already made a significant impact by helping local communities. Now, we’re ready to scale and take things to the next level. ?????If you're an angel investor or early-stage VC interested in supporting a platform that combines AI, sustainability, and social impact, we’d love to connect and discuss how you can be part of our early investment round. We're open to small check sizes, with favorable terms for early investors. Reach out to us at [email protected] to learn more. #seed #investment #investor #capitalraise #angels #vcs #angel #capital #venturecapital #ventureinvestor #raising #investors #angelinvestor #seedinvestment #seedcapital #preseed #preseedinvestment #startups #marketplaces

?? Launching ThriftBig – Big Impact, Powered by AI ?? We're thrilled to announce the launch of ThriftBig, an AI-powered platform that empowers charities and people in need, transforming secondhand shopping, driving social impact, and promoting sustainability. We’re empowering 1.8 million charities, over 25,000 thrift stores, as well as over 100 million people in need, by advancing environmental and social good through our AI-powered platform. At Circular Route, we’re excited about developing solutions that intersect with our three core passions: ?? Sustainability – Creating innovative systems that leave a lasting environmental impact. ?? People – Empowering individuals and supporting communities with technology-driven solutions. ? Technology – Using cutting-edge technology and AI to solve large-scale, real-world problems. If you're interested in learning more about our AI-powered platform, we’d love to connect and discuss how we can create a bigger impact together. #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #SocialImpact #AI #Thrifting #Thrift

?? Launching ThriftBig – Big Impact, Powered by AI ?? We're thrilled to announce the launch of ThriftBig, an AI-powered platform that empowers charities and people in need, transforming secondhand shopping, driving social impact, and promoting sustainability. We’re empowering 1.8 million charities, over 25,000 thrift stores, as well as over 100 million people in need, by advancing environmental and social good through our AI-powered platform. At Circular Route, we’re excited about developing solutions that intersect with our three core passions: ?? Sustainability – Creating innovative systems that leave a lasting environmental impact. ?? People – Empowering individuals and supporting communities with technology-driven solutions. ? Technology – Using cutting-edge technology and AI to solve large-scale, real-world problems. If you're interested in learning more about our AI-powered platform, we’d love to connect and discuss how we can create a bigger impact together. #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #SocialImpact #AI #Thrifting #Thrift

We're excited to announce that our team has won a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Re-X Before Recycling Prize! Special thanks to Brittany Rosenberg, James G. Donohue and others who supported us and contributed to our win in this national competition. As winners we will receive federal funding and technical assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories for our circular economy strategies that can help the United States move away from a linear take-make-waste economy and into a robust, sustainable one. Today, the U.S. manufacturing sector predominantly follows a linear model of production in which raw materials are sourced, manufactured into products and parts, used, and discarded. To fully decarbonize the U.S. economy, the country must create new, circular supply chains to keep materials in use beyond a single life cycle. While recycling plays an important role in this circular economy, approaches that extend the lifetimes of goods could save more energy and emissions over time than recycling alone. The purpose of this prize is to advance innovative new designs that could keep materials in use beyond a single life cycle, increase the recovery and reuse rate of end-of-use products to reduce the embodied energy and carbon of manufactured goods, strengthen regional manufacturing supply chains, increase U.S. security of supply, create jobs, and contribute to a robust, environmentally sustainable economy. The prize will also further the Biden-Harris administration’s clean energy goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and support the implementation of the White House Justice40 initiative, with new or expanded Re-X supply chains engaging communities and labor, with a focus on advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). The Re-X #BeforeRecycling Prize is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) and administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory . “The winning competitors showed us innovative solutions for extending the life of a diverse range of products, which will go a long way toward both decarbonizing our economy and reducing what goes into our landfills,” said AMMTO Director Chris Salda?a. The Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) supports a globally competitive U.S. manufacturing sector that accelerates the adoption of innovative materials and manufacturing technologies in support of a clean, decarbonized economy. #ClimateChange #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #AdvancedManufacturing #ZeroCarbon #Manufacturing #EnergyEfficiency #CleanEnergy #BeforeRecycling #AmericanMade