SuperCircle Raises $24M Series A to Scale AI-Powered Textile Waste…

Team S · 2026-01-08T13:53:28.000Z

SuperCircle, a New York City-based AI-driven textile waste management startup, has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round to bolster its mission to transform end-of-life garments, footwear and accessories into sustainable revenue streams while helping brands meet tightening regulatory requirements around waste and circularity. The platform uses a proprietary AI sortation system that analyses more than 50 garment-level data points to determine the most sustainable and profitable next life for each item whether that’s resale, fiber-to-fiber recycling, component recovery or industrial feedstock enabling brands to turn what was once a costly disposal process into a traceable, data-driven circular solution. The $24M Series A round was led by Foundry, with participation from BBG Ventures, Renewal Fund and Elemental Impact, reflecting strong investor confidence in SuperCircle’s technology, growing brand partnerships and market-wide relevance amid escalating Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations. SuperCircle’s platform is already used by over 75 brand partners including partners across apparel, footwear and home textiles to power trade-in, take-back and recycling programs while providing full lifecycle visibility, traceability and compliance reporting. The new capital will accelerate expansion of the company’s AI tooling, supply-chain integrations, processing and reverse-logistics footprint, and enhance infrastructure to onboard enterprise retail customers more rapidly. Founded by Chloe Songer and Stuart Ahlum, SuperCircle has built a full-stack operating system that helps retailers and fashion brands divert textiles that historically end up in landfills or incinerators addressing a global challenge where billions of dollars of unsold or returned inventory are discarded annually and more than 85 % of textiles are wasted. By providing retail partners with actionable data insights and automated sortation decisions, the platform not only supports sustainability goals but also unlocks new revenue opportunities from previously low-value assets. The company has already diverted millions of items from landfill and aims to scale its impact toward diverting over 1 billion textiles by 2030. #SuperCircle #SeriesAFunding #AIinSustainability #TextileWaste #CircularEconomy #RetailTech #ExtendedProducerResponsibility #WasteManagement #RecyclingTech #AIPlatform #RetailInnovation #Sustainability #FashionTech #ReverseLogistics #DataDriven

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