New Wave Angels: Pitch Event with Jackalo and Homegrown

​​Join New Wave Angels for our first investor event with Homegrown and Jackalo on October 31st, hosted virtually from 12:30-1pm. Bring lunch and questions for our founders!

​​Hear live pitches and learn about two investment opportunities that I am personally very excited about. I will be moderating and there to answer any questions you may have on angel investing or creating your investor thesis. 

​Homegrown is accelerating single-family decarbonization by powering smarter home lending and investing. They promote sustainable choices in mortgages, HELOCs, personal loans, private investments, and securitizations.

​Why we’re excited:

• ​13 million U.S. households are severely energy-burdened due to their monthly utility costs, and 20% of U.S. emissions are related to residential energy use.

• ​Current financial lending and investment decisions often overlook home efficiency, energy costs, and carbon emissions. Homegrown believes that to decarbonize the 80 million U.S. single-family homes, financial stakeholders must develop sustainable, long-term products for consumers and investors.

• ​Homegrown advocates for effective financial products to help Americans benefit from energy efficiency, particularly those in marginalized communities most vulnerable to climate change and increased energy costs.

• ​Their machine-learning model integrates energy consumption and cost data directly into consumer lenders’ and investors’ existing business flows, enabling them to deliver energy efficiency benefits to their consumer customers.

​Jackalo is revolutionizing children’s fashion as the first circular kids’ clothing brand, merging eco-friendly materials and a buy-back program to create long-lasting, sustainable apparel.

​Why we’re excited:

• ​Jackalo’s clothing is designed to be handed down to the next kid or resold on their website. When clothes are outgrown, Jackalo will buy them back to be renewed and resold, or responsibly recycled.

• ​Jackalo is the only children’s brand to offer a single checkout for new and pre-loved items, making the process a no-brainer for busy parents.

• ​Knowing fashion is one of the largest polluting industries in the world, Jackalo only uses fabrics that can be recycled with today’s available technology or composted at the end of their usable life.

• ​The circular fashion market is anticipated to be $700B by 2030. Jackalo is prepared to be the leading name in this space as the first circular kid's clothing brand. (There is no shortage of sustainable brands, but there is a shortage of brands that make circularity an easy choice for parents).

​Read more here: https://newwaveangels.substack.com/p/september-newsletter