Future-proofing our world.

PDS Venture Tech Investments holds an important place within the group as we strongly believe in the power of innovation. We make early stage investments either directly on our own or through tie-ups.

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Investing in startups in their Seed and Series A rounds focusing on innovation, sustainability, technology and direct to consumer digital brands. Generally, most investments are backing teams from top global universities.

Our role is to achieve strategic alignment in fashion, technology, and sustainability sectors. We invest based on key parameters that are in sync with our overall vision and aid in providing solutions for the future.

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PDS Collaborations & Direct Investments

True PDS Fund

  • Major focus on sustainable & digital first fashion retail brands

Apex Black VC Fund

  • AI/ML backed deep tech companies working on scientific breakthroughs and business model disruptions
  • Provides PDS customers new upcoming tech solutions

PDS Impact Fund

in association with Yellow Octopus

  • A Circular Fashion Impact Fund focused on investing in sustainability across the fashion supply chain
  • Helps in increasing customer engagement, retention and new business development

PDS Portfolio

Sustainability – Materials

Tech innovative firm, which is growing sustainable premium quality cotton in a transparent way.

Website: https://www.materra.tech/

Produces the first ever high-performance black pigment that contains 0 carcinogens (PAHs) and is made from wood waste

Website: https://naturecoatingsinc.com/

Sustainability – Circular Economy

Access to apparel and designer bags through a subscription based rental model In Singapore and Indonesia

Website: https://www.styletheory.co/sg/

A revolutionary, new technology and business model that recycles cotton garment waste to create premium, renewable textile

Website: https://www.evrnu.com/

Sustainability – Community/Brand

Global B2B tech platform (global sourcing and Information platform) that makes it easy for fashion professionals to succeed in sustainable business

Website: https://commonobjective.co/

Comprehensive brand rating system and online discovery platform for fashion

Website: https://goodonyou.eco/

Consumer Brands

Build, manage and manufacture global fashion brands rooted in Africa
Create, source develop and represent products for retail and wholesale supply on a B to B and B to C basis including investment in other companies / small start-ups to support the above
An accessible, unisex line of sexual health and intimacy essentials

Website: https://getmaude.com/

It delivers flushable sanitary pads that are 100% biodegradable

Website: https://planera.care/

D2C brand providing Luxury bedding made ethically in the world’s best mills and sold at much lower rate as compared to traditional retail price

Website: https://bedfolk.com/

D2C Sustainable Flatback brand with key Value propositions based on Circular economy, On-demand & Furniture for life

Website: https://grain.co.uk/

A makeup brand for men; male specific brand to make makeup gender neutral

Website: https://warpaintformen.com/

D2C paint brand looking to target the millennial, digitally native consumer base

Website: https://coatpaints.com/

Affordable customized footwear brand

Website: https://casca.com/

Fashion Tech

Womenswear and menswear e-tailer for independent boutiques and brands to reach a global audience

Website: https://atterley.com/

Helps brands, retailers & corporations discover, source & purchase from ethical suppliers around the world; helps ethical suppliers meet & do business with the world’s largest MNCs

Website: https://tothemarket.com/

An online shopping livestream platform through which influencers, experts, celebrities & store reps can host virtual shopping events on the e-commerce site

Website: https://buywith.com/

It enables brands to digitize the real-world accurately (realistic 3D) and automatically (at scale), through capture of real-world object’s material properties

Website: https://m-xr.com/

A robotics and digital apparel company building custom-fit jeans through automated, localized, and intentional manufacturing

Website: https://unspun.io/

Consumer Tech

It operates an online fitness platform used to transform monotonous solo indoor cycling into dynamic and social adventures

Website: https://zwift.com/

UK’s first & leading reproductive healthcare benefits provider and next generation fertility clinic- innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable. (focusing on IVF)

Website: https://fertifa.com/

It is a Virtual Community Platform (app) to connect all people that lift; going forward to cross over into Weightlifting and CrossFit to serve 1 m+ monthly active users across all 3 sports

Website: https://brawn.co.uk/

B2B mental health platform – providing clinically-backed tools and training to create healthier, happier, more human organisations; it offers a positive, proactive solution that anyone can use to bolster their mental health.

Website: https://unmind.com/

Other Tech

Next generation enhanced audio communication platform for corporations and organizations to use privately with their stakeholders and publicly when desired
Builds a digital twin of enterprise supply chains to unlock the science behind smarter resiliency

Website: https://kavida.ai/

Full stack AI operating system for autonomous kitchens, uses live camera feeds in kitchens to analyze cooking processes and give actionable feedback to staff in real time

Website: https://satis.ai/

Helping the CPGs and Retailers to optimize their in-store operations and product-availability using smartphones and tablets using Computer Vision and AR

Website: https://arpalus.com/

A software company using the latest in machine learning and data science, helping engineers to significantly improve the product development process

Website: https://monolithai.com/

It aims to transform the legal industry, using technology to streamline and data to optimize the interactions between clients and law firms.

Website: https://alacritylaw.com/

Cerebra forecasts which products might appeal to certain consumer segments, and why to help retailers and consumer products companies make more precise decisions, optimizing for revenue, profit, cost reduction or supply chain efficiency.

Website: https://cerebra.tech/