CFE names first fash-tech recipients
London’s fashion business incubator Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE)
has selected nine businesses to support in its first fashion technology
incubation scheme, the CFE FrontRow Fash-Tech Programme, supported by the
University of the Arts London.
The programme will run across three months and has been designed to
support the emerging fashion tech start-ups with a series of workshops and
bespoke one-to-one business support, whilst also encouraging collaborations
with different industry sectors.
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At the end of the programme in July, the nine businesses will pitch to a
panel of entrepreneurs and industry investors for the chance to win a 5,000
pound cash prize.
The nine selected businesses are: a bi-lingual e-commerce platform Alt.
[a lovely thing], which connects European fashion and lifestyle brands with
Chinese speaking customers; a bi-lingual mobile shopping app Chicmi that
allows London’s fashion stores to share sales, in-store events, sample
sales and other news to Chinese tourists; a data software platform Eunoia
Technology that predicts the aesthetic and fashion style preference of
individual consumers; and an online bespoke design platform FINITY Create.
A theft proof accessories brand High Spirit Bags, which features a
unique patented zipping designs in order to protect your possessions from
theft and loss; an app that allows brides-to-be to create their own wedding
dress, Prim & Clover; a technical sleepwear label Sleep Deep, which aims to
improve the quality of people’s sleep; a curated underwear marketplace The
Lingerie Lab; and XOB, a fashion/lifestyle brand designed for ‘generation
digital’, which combines wearable technology, fashion product and apps.