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Fleek, a marketplace for wholesale second-hand clothes, sews up $20M
Second-hand clothing has exploded as a category over the past couple of decades. A London startup that’s built a first-of-its-kind platform to improve how
It was 2021, and the mother of Agarwal’s then-girlfried, who sold clothes on second-hand social commerce site Poshmark (now owned by Naver), was talking about sourcing problems due to supply chain issues at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. It wasn’t that long ago that second-hand clothing was mainly the domain of lower-income consumers: charity shops and donation points were a mainstay of collecting those items and redistributing them to those who needed them near and far… sometimes very far. That sounds chaotic, but that’s what makes Fleek so interesting: go to the site and you’ll see extreme organization, where those hundreds of thousands of kilos can be bought by weight, or by brand, style, size, material and more.
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