PDS Ventures’ wider ecosystem unlocks unparalleled opportunities for growth, market impact, and innovation in sustainable fashion. By leveraging the power of the PDS Group’s network and expertise, we offer key advantages that empower startups to scale.
Access to PDS Ventures’ international platform with operations in 22 countries, providing:
Benefit from PDS Ventures' deep knowledge of fashion, consumer goods, and technology. Key advantages include:
Access tailored financial investments to scale innovations:
Connect with complementary startups, industry partners, and brands for co-development projects and innovation initiatives.
PDS Ventures has established strong collaborations and onboarded co-investors with global leaders in sustainability and fashion.
These collaborations allow PDS Ventures to bring together expertise, resources, and support to scale sustainable innovations and drive systemic change in the industry.
Leveraging the global presence of the PDS Group and PDS Ventures Portfolio Companies, we can efficiently identify international investment opportunities and provide robust support to our portfolio through access to the extensive PDS network.
Two key verticals within the PDS Group, Positive Materials and Yellow Octopus Circular Solutions, focus on supporting startups in sustainable fashion and consumer goods.
Positive Materials is a leading textile development company in Portugal, specialising in sustainable fabric production for high-end fashion brands. It offers biannual collections and custom fabric development for global markets.
With a unique materials innovation platform, Positive Materials partners with startups and established brands to scale innovative textile solutions, supporting research, validation, and commercialisation.
Yellow Octopus provides circular solutions that help fashion brands comply with eco-regulations while boosting profitability with services like:
Beyond our investment in To The Market, a purpose-driven company advancing sustainable and ethical supply chains, we collaborated through the PDS ecosystem to provide multi-year sourcing solutions from India and the Far East, helping the company scale operations, strengthen supply chains, and accelerate growth. This reflects our approach of going beyond investment — integrating, collaborating, and enabling impact.
Everloop is a first-of-its-kind capsule collection co-developed by Positive Materials and Petratex in collaboration with six pioneering material innovators backed by PDS Ventures: Amphico, Materra, PACT, Ponda, SAVIAN by Bio-Fluff, and Nature Coatings.
Rooted in a shared vision of a regenerative, circular future for fashion, Everloop redefines what’s possible by merging high-performance design with next-generation sustainability. The initiative showcases how collective innovation can challenge the status quo, inspire future designers, and drive a lasting shift toward planet-positive materials and products designed for longevity.
PDS Ventures partnered with Global Fashion Agenda to establish the Trailblazer Programme, a new initiative spotlighting early-stage innovators with the potential to reshape the fashion industry.
By addressing key barriers such as fragmented infrastructure, limited funding, and regulatory uncertainty, the collaboration aims to accelerate the development and adoption of sustainable solutions. This partnership reflects our commitment to investing in transformative ideas that bridge the gap between innovation and real-world impact.
PDS facilitated a partnership between Walmart and Unspun on a pilot project to evaluate the integration of Vega 3D weaving technology into the Walmart supply chain, starting with the creation of men’s chinos. Unspun aims to deploy 3D weaving machines at multiple microsites across the U.S., with a goal of having 350 machines operational by 2030.
PDS Ventures is an active strategic investor. They want us to upgrade their supply chain, allow us to share their booths at global textile events & genuinely want us to succeed. We couldn’t ask for more.
Max Easton
- VP of Partnerships, Smartex
In the valley, they rave about these unicorn investors - that back ambitious founders, bring strategic partners and build long-term personal relationships. PDS Ventures has been that unicorn investor for unspun from the beginning.
Walden Lam
- CEO & Co-Founder, Unspun
PDS Ventures goes above and beyond to support alternative material innovators and accelerate the advancement of the circular economy. We are pleased to collaborate with PDS Ventures to help drive solutions that will propel the world forward.
- An Executive at a global luxury fashion brand
Our collaboration with PDS Ventures represents a powerful convergence of innovation and industry expertise that's essential for scaling innovative fashion solutions.
Katrin Ley
- Managing Director, Fashion for Good
PDS have a global platform with extremely credible reach, that they never hesitate to leverage in their constant quest to be supportive and helpful. They epitomise the meaning of smart capital.
Andrew Xeni
- CEO & Co-Founder, Fabacus and Founder & Chairman, Nobody's Child and Soreto
Materra has greatly benefitted from the team at PDS. Having a strategic partner with knowledge and expertise throughout the supply chain has helped us from reaching new customers through to having expert supply chain advice and even how to setup our operations in India.
Edward Brial
- CEO & Co-Founder, Materra
PDS Ventures, with its strong focus on innovation and technology in the fashion and textiles sector, has been a key partner in Positive Materials’ growth and strategy—supporting our mission to accelerate the adoption of next-gen materials.
Jorge Ribeiro
- CEO & Co-Founder, Positive Materials
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