Their equity finance is helping us grow our team and our platform further. We really hope as we enter the new normal, that one silver-lining will be creating a more sustainable future.” “With the Welsh Government leading the charge to tackle the climate crisis we are thrilled to have the support of the Development Bank of Wales as our lead investor. We’ve already seen a 50% increase in sales this financial year as consumers seek out more environmentally conscious fashion options. Parents are paid for items which make the grade which are then sold on at a fraction of new high street prices.Ĭlothes which do not pass the hand-check are returned to the seller, or if they agree, donated to the charity Traid.įollowing the success of their children’s clothing service Loopster are now scaling up to include womenswear on its platform.Ĭhief executive of Loopster Jane Fellner with her sonįounder and CEO Jane Fellner said: “People are starting to be more conscious of the importance of sustainable clothing. South Wales' world leading compound semiconductor cluster in £44m funding boost.Development Bank of Wales reports record investment numbers.Loopster then hand-checks every donated item to ensure they of good quality. To sell to Loopster, customers order the Loopy Clear Out Bag and fill it up with unwanted clothes. The Newport-based company will also use the funding to recruit six members of staff, a process that is under way.Įxtending the life of one garment through second-hand use by just nine months reduces its carbon and water footprint by 20 to 30%. The funding will help Loopster to further develop and commercialise its technology, enabling its platform to catalogue second-hand clothes faster. Investing alongside the Development Bank as the led investor, is business angel Jim Lewcock, who owns the internet-focused digital marketing and investment firm, Blue14, and experienced non-executive director and angel investor Kate Methuen-Ley. Strigolactones represent the most recently described group of plant hormones involved in many aspects of plant growth regulation.Loopster, the online platform for consumers to sell and buy second hand clothing, has secured a six-figure seed equity funding boost to support its expansion plans. Simultaneously, root exuded strigolactones mediate rhizosphere signaling towards beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, but also attract parasitic plants. The seed germination of parasitic plants induced by host strigolactones leads to serious agricultural problems worldwide. More insight in these signaling molecules is hampered by their extremely low concentrations in complex soil and plant tissue matrices, as well as their instability. So far, the combination of tailored isolation-that would replace current unspecific, time-consuming and labour-intensive processing of large samples-and a highly sensitive method for the simultaneous profiling of a broad spectrum of strigolactones has not been reported.ĭepending on the sample matrix, two different strategies for the rapid extraction of the seven structurally similar strigolactones and highly efficient single-step pre-concentration on polymeric RP SPE sorbent were developed and validated. Compared to conventional methods, controlled temperature during the extraction and the addition of an organic modifier (acetonitrile, acetone) to the extraction solvent helped to tailor strigolactone isolation from low initial amounts of root tissue (150 mg fresh weight, FW) and root exudate (20 ml), which improved both strigolactone stability and sample purity.
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