e27 gathers seed-stage startups every month to find out which one our Telegram-based community thinks worthy to be the Startup of the Month.
For December, it is Bambooloo who was voted to win, a plastic-free home goods product by The Nurturing Co., the sustainable products e-commerce startup based in Singapore.
Bambooloo managed to snag an angel seed funding through its green e-commerce parent The Nurturing Co. (TNC) from a small group of investors in Singapore and the US. TNC focusses on creating and distributing products under sustainable plastic-free home goods brand Bambooloo.
It is reported that the startup plans to use the funding to expand Bambooloo in the domestic market and also overseas as well as strengthen its team. It also stated that it will create additional marketing and brand licensing support materials.
Founded in 2018 by David Ward in the United States, TNC’s Bambooloo’s product started off as a luxury toilet paper made from 100 per cent sustainable bamboo launched online on Redmart, Honestbee, and Lazada.
In January 2019, Ward told Eco-Business that it was planning to enter Cold Storage and will be the very first no plastic packaging brand the retailer has decided to stock.
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Along with its seed funding, it had also launched CanO water brand in Singapore to help curb plastic-bottle water consumption.
TNC claimed it has already supplied key businesses across various sectors in Singapore, including hotels, F&B outlets, and retailers. Its clients today include Cold Storage, Redmart, BoxGreen, Salad Stop, Speedy Vending, Unpackt, and Scoop Wholefoods Singapore.
It seems like the future of sustainable startups is bright while the world is watching closely the environmental moves made by the likes of Greta Thunberg and other youth activists who hit the headlines almost every week. The trend is not slowing down anytime soon as we began to see and be affected by extreme climate changes, and Bambooloo is in the middle of it all.
Congratulations to TNC.
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Picture Credit: Bambooloo
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