Top 15 Retail Startup Investors in Uruguay (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Caravela Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Financial Services | $181k–$86M |
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Olist
VC Fund
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3 | Brazil, Uruguay | Pre-Seed, Seed | B2B, Retail, Software | $650k–$7M |
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Broadhaven Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Mexico, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $2.5M–$104M |
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Mouro Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Spain | Series B, Series A, Series C | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $5M–$150M |
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Marcos Vercelli-Forster
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Uruguay | Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding | Marketplace, B2B, Retail | $1.6M–$4.9M |
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Quona Capital
VC Fund
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2 | India, Brazil, Indonesia | Series A, Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $2.4M–$87M |
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IC Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Uruguay, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $100k–$10M |
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ANII
VC Fund
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2 | Uruguay, Brazil, United States | Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed | Retail, E-Commerce, FinTech | $20k–$2M |
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Paulo Piccini
Angel
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2 | Brazil, Uruguay | Seed, Pre-Seed | Marketplace, Retail, E-Commerce | $77k–$2M |
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Mariano De Larrobla
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Seed | B2B, Retail, E-Commerce | |
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Endeavor Catalyst
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Brazil, Mexico | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $5.3M–$250M |
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Diego Dzodan
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Seed | B2B, Retail, E-Commerce | |
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Sergio Oberlander
Angel
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1 | Uruguay | Seed, Pre-Seed | B2B, Retail, Content | |
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Wollef Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Mexico, Argentina, Colombia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services | |
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Grupo Axo
VC Fund
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1 | Uruguay | Corporate Round | Retail, Fashion, Online Portals | |
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Brazilian Venture Capital firm investing in early-stage companies in Latam
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $181k–$7M; Pre-Seed $600k–$2M; Series A $3M–$86M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Revena — Revena is a brazilian tech consultancy connecting companies with elite tech consultants and solutions.
- Gedanken — Gedanken uses AI, big data and machine learning solutions for risk mitigation, supplier approval process and onboarding process automation.
- Agent.Shop — Create your store directly on WhatsApp in less then 10min and start increasing your sales!
Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Brazil, Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2M–$7M; Pre-Seed $650k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)
Broadhaven is an independent merchant bank advising and investing in financial services.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$8.5M; Series A $7.5M–$65M; Series B $20M–$104M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kovi — Kovi is a provider of rental cars for on-demand drivers in Latin America. At Kovi, they challenge the inertia of the market to allow people to get around as efficiently and cheaply as possible. To do this, they use technologies to provide access to more straightforward, cost-effective, and secure solutions.Founded on 2018, Kovi cooperates withautomakers and small rental companies to lease transportation out to last-mile delivery drivers. It is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Nowports — Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real time.The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows to request a quote, register the products andproviders that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port.
- Pluto Financial Technologies — Pluto unlocks liquidity for investors in alternative assets. Access a non-recourse credit line without selling your portfolio.
Mouro Capital is a venture capital firm that targets early to growth fintech investment opportunities across Europe, North America and Latin America.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Series A $5M–$25M; Series B $9M–$90M; Series C $32M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $400M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Nowports — Nowports is a digital freight forwarder that helps companies improve the import process. It serves as a platform through which companies and individuals can manage their imports and exports in real time.The company uses AI to make the import process easy, secure, and transparent. The platform allows to request a quote, register the products andproviders that the company mostly uses, and book shipments from any port.
- Skyflow — Skyflow is a privacy API for sensitive data that is built on a customer data vault. Skyflow is building a secure data privacy platform fronted by an API so all this data is secure and used as promised. Skyflow’s data privacy vault makes it easy to securely manage, store, and use any kind of personally identifiable information. The compliance withPCI, PHI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other regulations is built in.
- Meanwhile — The world's first regulated Bitcoin life insurance. Tax-efficient wealth planning for long-term Bitcoin holders.
Marcos Vercelli-Forster
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- Industry: Marketplace, B2B, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: United Kingdom, Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$4.9M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kalto — Kalto is a B2B payment company that focuses on helping small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) grow by providing software solutions to unlock their cash flow and manage their payments. Kalto helps businesses to streamline their payment processes, reduce administrative costs, and optimize their cash flow management. The company was founded in2022 and is based in Mexico.
- Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 183
- Round size: Seed $2.4M–$10M; Series A $3.6M–$30M; Series B $8M–$87M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $332M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Addi — Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions. Addi is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.
- Klar — Klar is a FinTech challenger bank that provides deposit and credit services for Mexican customers.Using the Klar card rewards users with cash of up to 4% cashback for each purchase, not points without confusing conversions or expiration dates. Clients can also send and receive payments and collections money instantly to Klar accounts and otherbanks. The Klar card is linked to an app where users can see all their movements in real-time.Stefan Moller, Daniel Autrique, Jeronimo Riefkohl, and Gianluigi Davassi established the company in Mexico City, Distrito Federal in 2018.
- Tiaxa — TIAXA provides innovative financial services to people across the globe, with a particular focus on financial inclusion through mobile technology. Each day, Tiaxa provides more than 2 million Nano-Credits through users' mobile Operators in 14 countries including Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and thePhilippines.Tiaxa also provides the mobile telecommunications market with infrastructure, clearinghouse and revenue enhancement services, improving the efficiency with which the current prepaid user base is managed, and increasing revenues for Operators around the world, including China Telecom, Telefónica Movistar, America Móvil and Smart Communications.
IC Ventures selects startups with potential for disruption, scaling, and value generation in technology applied to financial services (Fintech) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).ICV members have acquired extensive experience in providing effective and relevant support to entrepreneurs that reduces or neutralizes some of the most frequent risksthat lead to the failure of entrepreneurs and allows them to make the most of the opportunities that are they present them both for business and for securing financing.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Uruguay, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $100k–$10M; Pre-Seed $250k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Akua — Akua is an acquiring-as-a-service platform that offers scalable, secure, and efficient payment processing solutions for Latin America. Our platform leverages advanced technology to provide superior transaction processing, fraud prevention, and comprehensive regional integration. Problem Latin America's acquiring card payment markets aredominated by a few incumbents using outdated systems, hindering the adoption of new payment technologies and increasing fraud risks.
- Data4Sales — We help eCommerce stores to understand their most valuable customers. Our A.I. recommends actionable insights that help you treat customers differently on every channel, improving retention, acquisition and developing customer value.Create a passionate, committed customer base that will spread the word of your eCommerce store attributes topotential new customers. As a result, we help you make far more money from your most valuable customers, who will buy from you more often and spend more when purchasing from you.
- Polyhedra Network — Trust, safety, and data protection at the core of every decision.
The National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) is a government agency that promotes research and application of new knowledge to productive and social reality of the country. ANII available to the public funding for research projects, scholarships national and international graduate programs and incentive programs for innovativeentrepreneurship and culture, both in the private and public sectors.ANII developed the National Research System, a program of national economic researchers categorized based on a strict evaluation system incentives. He also created the Portal Timbo, which allows free access to all kinds of scientific publications worldwide for all Uruguayans.
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- Industry: Retail, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Uruguay, Brazil, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Grant $20k–$54k; Pre-Seed $25k–$175k
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- Boki — LOGAMTOTO merupakan penyedia layanan resmi situs toto online 4D terbesar dan terpercaya saat ini, mari login dan daftar bersama Logam Toto untuk dapatkan hadiah terbesar setiap harinya.
- TuCuota.online — We give to financial companies and organizations that work with the unbanked and underbanked the technology and the business support to connect and reach them in a cheaper and easier way. As a result, the offer of credit improves, companies reduce the cost of customer acquisition and improve the user experience of their products. On the other hand,we share with the unbanked and underbanked people a free tool that helps them to apply for a loan and get it immediately. People looking for a loan can get it through our merchants or through our website.
Paulo Piccini - Founder, CEO @ Ananke
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- Industry: Marketplace, Retail, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Brazil, Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $77k–$2M; Pre-Seed $385k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Olist — Olist is an SMB commerce enabler ecosystem that specializes in the fields of logistics and capital. Commerce has changed and platforms like shopify, amazon, meli, alibaba and their peers are more and more relevant to our economy throughout the globe. This movement triggered a new generation of enablers to support small businesses navigate in suchrich and fragmented ecosystem. Olist is leading the way as the #1 commerce enabler for SMBs in Brazil, now expanding globally.The company started with a single core connecting merchants to marketplaces and evolved to a complete ecosystem of integrated products in 3 dimensions. (1) Commerce: (a) Olist Store is the leading solution to sell on marketplaces; (b) Olist Shops is our ecommerce solution, mobile first, natively connected to social media, present in 180 countries. (2) Logistics: Olist Pax is a leading cloud based logistics and fulfillment network provider operating in Brazil. (3) Capital: Olist Credit and Olist Pay.
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- Caffeex — Caffeex is the first independent coffee trading platform designed by traders and for traders with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency in the over the counter trading of the green physical coffee.
Founder & President, Bantotal
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Brazil, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 359
- Round size: Series A $5.3M–$40M; Series B $10M–$90M; Series C $15M–$250M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $292M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
- Bazaar Technologies — Bazaar's mission is to build an operating system for traditional retail in Pakistan. Our suite of digital products empower merchants to simplify and grow their businesses.
- Kumu Holdings — kumu is a pinoy community platform where you can just hang out, explore the many livestreams the Kumunity has to offer, meet and chat with fellow Filipinos all around the world
Diego became CEO of Facily in October 2018, having been an early investor and Board Member since the company's startup. In his role, he is focused on delivering on Facily's mission of making the world more convenient while creating opportunities for everyone. Previously, as Vice-President for Facebook Latin America for more than threeyears, Diego led the team to a position of regional and global relevance. His other roles include President for Latin America and several country leadership positions at German software maker SAP. He was also co-founder and CEO of Certant, a Software Developer startup in Argentina. Diego holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated in Accounting at Universidad de Belgrano. He is a part-time teacher in Organisational Behaviour at Universidsd Torcuato DiTella.
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
Sergio Oberlander
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- Industry: B2B, Retail, Content
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nocnoc — Our cross-border eCommerce platform enables Latin American marketplaces to enter the cross-border world, and empowers international sellers to increase their selling volumes in Latin America.Forget long and frustrating international adventures. Reward your customers with a comfortable domestic-feeling shopping experience no matter where theproducts are coming from.
- befit — Our goal is to inspire people to have a healthier life&style. We understood we could do it democratizing access to quality workout content. We structured befit’s streaming on-demand platform with exclusive content classified across different categories such as yoga, pilates, functional, dancing, barre, and abs, among others. Sessions have beenrun by well-regarded Latin American trainers with users being able to narrow and filter workout sessions by intensity level, time duration, coach preference, and equipment needed. By offering a diverse set of workouts, users’ are able to personalize their exercise routines as they move towards their respective fitness goals.
Wollef Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early stage ventures in Latin America.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Mexico, Argentina, Colombia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Syscap — Syscap is a financial technology company that offers cutting-edge solutions to financial institutions to have a better administration and management of their funding sources. It connects the leaders of financial and real estate institutions with their funders. For institutions, the company ensures the optimization of their funding source managementprocesses, but also the strengthening of the relationship with their funders. To funders, Syscap guarantees the transparency and timely monitoring of its funds for the safety and growth of its resources.
- Vioo — Vioo is a professional visual content creation marketplace for companies on demand. The solution automates the creation of visual content.
- Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
Grupo Axo is a leading multi-brand company in Mexico for apparel, footwear, beauty, accessories and home furniture. Today the company is a reference and a reliable resource for brands that want to build a successful platform within Latin America. With a solid retail and wholesale experience for over 23 years, its expertise comes from representing,elevating equity, distributing and operating brands through a multi-channel approach. As of 2017, Grupo Axo operates more than 3,100 points of sale within major department stores and over 500 retail points of sale in both Mexico and Chile, and solid and successful e-commerce platforms in both mono-brand and multi-brand formats.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, Online Portals
- Stage:Corporate Round
- Geography: Uruguay
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Vopero — Vopero is an operator of an online retail firm to re-circulate fashion. It works on a circular garment rotation system and allows customers to buy and sell unique fashion, sustainably at prices cheaper than stores.
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