Alante Capital
VC Fund
Santa Barbara, United States
Alante Capital is a VC fund in Santa Barbara focused on Fashion and Manufacturing. Investing across deep tech, clean tech, consumer tech and SaaS, Alante Capital pairs a comprehensive investment strategy with deep sector expertise to build a risk adjusted portfolio with the potential for superior returns alongside transformative social and environmental impact. Our deep industry focus and system-change approach give us theunique edge to find, select and support the most outstanding entrepreneurs modernizing the apparel industry.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Alante Capital invests in
Stages Alante Capital invests in
Countries Alante Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$4.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.2M–$2.5M
- Series A
- $7.6M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Fashion 5 (22%)
- Manufacturing 4 (17%)
- Retail 3 (13%)
- Textiles 3 (13%)
- Biotechnology 3 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (30%)
- Series A 7 (30%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (17%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 10 (43%)
- Germany 2 (9%)
- United Kingdom 2 (9%)
- France 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Karla Mora
Founder and Managing Partner
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Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Leslie Harwell
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
MannyAI
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Pattern Project designs, manufacture, sells customized clothing, apparels and fashion products. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Nov 20, 2024 | |
retraced
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Retraced is a blockchain-powered transparency platform that provides the end-consumer with relevant and reliable supply chain information to help verify sustainability and fairness. Through transparency, they help the fashion industry to win more clients and gain trust. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Düsseldorf, Germany. | $16.5M / Series A / Sep 10, 2024 | |
Matereal
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Matereal is a biobased polyurethane manufacturer that seeks to replace the toxic polyurethane industry and bring a new environmentally safe plastic to market. | $4.5M / Seed / Jul 25, 2024 | |
Insempra
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Origin.Bio creates synthetic microorganisms that can make many of the same ingredients as traditional chemical industrialization processes today, but with significantly fewer energy requirements and waste produced while eradicating the need for petrochemicals.The company drives the convergence of engineering with biology, using DNA as theprogramming language. Rather than editing genetic material only in or out of DNA, engineers can hack entirely new organisms that have never existed — all powered by computing, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine-learning while leveraging millions of years of evolution. Operating at an atomic level, the company farms organisms with microscopic precision and integrates them into existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) manufacturing processes. This asset-light approach enables Origin.Bio to generate sustainable materials at speed in a cost-effective way, without compromising on performance. | $20M / Series A / May 07, 2024 | |
Fibe
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We make sustainable fibres for textiles out of potato waste. Our material uses 99.7% less water, no additional land and produces 82% less CO2e than cotton. We partner with fashion brands who share our sustainability vision, to ensure the garments are sustainable and remain recyclable. Our fibre is biodegradable on land and sea, compostable andrecyclable with other natural textiles such as cotton. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Apr 18, 2024 | |
Sway
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Sway offers regenerative design solutions for plastic pollution using seaweed to create compostable replacements for single-use plastics. The company was co-founded by Julia Marsh, Matt Mayes, and Leland Maschmeyer and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $5M / Seed / Dec 05, 2023 | |
LIZEE
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LIZEE is a logistics and managed services solution to kick-start your rental business. | $7.6M / Series A / Jan 19, 2023 | |
treet
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Treet launched their own completely branded peer-to-peer resale platform to assist fashion firms in becoming more circular and in controlling the secondary market for the products they make. In order to buy and sell used goods from one another, customers of Treet Marketplaces use a secondary website that accepts payments in the form of cash orbrand credit. While brands split the profits, Treet takes care of all the logistics and support.Treet was established in 2021 by Jake Disraeli and Sonia Yang in San Francisco, California. | $3.5M / Seed / Oct 13, 2022 | |
Circ
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Circ helps industries meet consumer expectations for sustainability without compromises in quality, price, or convenience. It recycles discarded clothing to produce the basis of petroleum- and plant-based fabrics. Tyton’s virgin-equivalent, market-grade dissolving pulp, and petroleum monomers can be sold at the same cost as virgin materials tomanufacturers who make fibers. Whether cotton, poly-cotton, polyester, nylon, or other fibers, it aims to cost-effectively recycle these materials using water as a solvent. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Danville, Virginia. | $30M / Series B / Jul 12, 2022 | |
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Circ
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Circ helps industries meet consumer expectations for sustainability without compromises in quality, price, or convenience. It recycles discarded clothing to produce the basis of petroleum- and plant-based fabrics. Tyton’s virgin-equivalent, market-grade dissolving pulp, and petroleum monomers can be sold at the same cost as virgin materials tomanufacturers who make fibers. Whether cotton, poly-cotton, polyester, nylon, or other fibers, it aims to cost-effectively recycle these materials using water as a solvent. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Danville, Virginia. | $30M / Series B / Jul 12, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does Alante Capital invest in?
Alante Capital invests primarily in Fashion, Manufacturing and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Alante Capital's check size?
Alante Capital typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$4.5M at Seed, $1.2M–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $7.6M–$20M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alante Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at Alante Capital?
The team at Alante Capital includes Karla Mora (Founder and Managing Partner) and Leslie Harwell (Co-Founder and Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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