The Mills Fabrica’s 2024/25 Impact Report

The Mills Fabrica is committed to championing innovation across the entire journey—from bold ideas to market breakthroughs—powered by dynamic partnerships and engaged consumers driving ecological and social resilience. As a global innovation connector, we ignite collaboration across industries and unite diverse stakeholders to build thriving, sustainable ecosystems. The 2024/25 Impact Report details investment strategies and broad ecosystem-building efforts that catalyze planet-positive change across multiple domains of this innovation journey.

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The Mills Fabrica as a
Global Innovation Connector
Ecosystem Builder
Solutions Partner
Our partnership with The Mills Fabrica is rooted in a shared mission to revolutionise the agrifood system, improving both planetary and human health. What truly sets it apart is the depth of collaboration — constant dealflow exchange, mutual knowledge sharing, and now, their first direct investment into one of our portfolio companies. It’s rare to find this level of alignment and engagement among investors. We’re excited to continue building on this partnership: supporting founders together, co-hosting industry-shaping events, and driving impact at scale.
Christophe F. Maire
Founder / Managing Partner of Atlantic Labs & FoodLabs
The Mills Fabrica has been an important and foundational partner to SOSV. In addition to investing in us and with us into startups, The Mills Fabrica helps amplify the collected vision of the future into the greater world, vastly expanding the network around these startups and connecting them with corporate partner.
Po Bronson
General Partner of SOSV & Managing Director of IndieBio
The Innovation Challenge helps start-ups successfully transition their innovations into the competitive market, turning ideas into viable, impactful ventures.
PANGAIA
Fashion and Materials Science Company
Both The Mills Fabrica and PANGAIA have supported us in ways we couldn’t have imagined. The Mills Fabrica hosted us in their London space for two months, providing mentorship in Hong Kong, and supporting our flagship sustainability event in London, attended by over 60 industry professionals. Their support has been essential in growing our visibility and operations.
Beyza Baykan
Founder, HMS, Winner of Techstyle for Social Good
The Mills Fabrica spans a fascinating range of industries and covers the full innovation spectrum — from ideation to industrialisation. This network, the resources, and the eco-system The Mills Fabrica sits at the heart of, is invaluable in maximising the positive impact of this innovation.
Christopher Bellamy
2024 CSM x The Mills Fabrica Innovation Awardee
We see Fabrica X as such an innovative social platform, and not least, demonstrating that traditional brick-and-mortar retail can still play a significant role in the community. Working with Fabrica X certainly helped visualise how we are able to convey our sustainability mission directly to customers through physical spaces.
Kuan Chen
Founder of Story Wear
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Cultivating Innovation Towards Sustainability

As humanity faces ever-increasing environmental challenges—crossing planetary boundaries in climate, water use, land-system change, chemical pollution, and biodiversity loss—the urgency to find transformative solutions has never been greater. The techstyle and agrifood sectors remain among the largest contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions and resource pressure, signalling a critical need for innovation in these industries.

The Mills Fabrica believes that innovation across the entire innovation funnel. The 2024-2025 Impact Report details investment strategies and the broad ecosystem-building efforts that catalyse change across multiple domains of the innovation journey.

Aligning with the planetary boundaries framework from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, The Mills Fabrica's impact strategy guides the selection and support of innovations that meaningfully contribute to these critical environmental thresholds holistically while fostering circular economy business models.

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Investing in Visionaries

The Fabrica Investment Fund continues to channel capital into early-stage startups and venture funds disrupting the agrifood and techstyle sectors. This year’s highlighted investments showcase innovations that address pressing systemic challenges with measurable impact:


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Driving High-Impact Partnerships

By combining our network of visionary innovators with our deep understanding of corporate needs, we’ve developed targeted initiatives that enable brands to adopt cutting-edge solutions, build meaningful partnerships, and create enduring value while future-proofing their businesses.

Impact-Driven Campaigns

We actively seek partnerships with brands and organisations that share our mission, collaborating to create impactful campaigns that showcase innovation and sustainability through authentic storytelling. Together, we accelerate progress toward global environmental and social goals, unlocking new opportunities for meaningful impact.

The inaugural InnoWelltors’ Day in 2024 exemplifies this collaborative spirit. In partnership with Swiss sportswear brand On, we designed a dynamic community-building campaign that fused wellness with entrepreneurial resilience, highlighting the essential role of mental and physical wellbeing in sustaining creativity, productivity, and long-term success in high-pressure startup environments.

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Innovation Scouting Programme

We help brands and corporations anticipate industry trends with customised insights. Using our extensive network of investors, accelerators, research institutions, and domain experts, we connect brands to trailblazing startups, offering strategic perspectives in advancing techstyle and agrifood.

The programme also equips startups with resources to accelerate growth. The challenge attracted diverse innovators, awarding winners cash prizes, stipends, mentorship, residency options, and networking at community events. HMS is one of the examples. They took up residency at The Mills Fabrica’s London office with access to our co-working space, workspace, mentorship, ecosystem network, and tailored events to promote and advance their eco-friendly washing stones technology there.

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Nurturing Next-Gen Innovators

Nurturing the next generation of innovators is fundamental to propelling new solutions for the techstyle and agrifood industries. Our support for entrepreneurship through award programmes and the startup accelerator ecosystem demonstrates our commitment to identifying promising talent, connecting them with industry partners, and providing platforms to showcase their ideas.

By building the right conditions and infrastructures, we empower diverse players to collaborate effectively, share resources, and co-create value, thereby strengthening the innovation environment essential for long-term growth and resilience.

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Sparkling the Intention for Change

Our sustainability education initiatives transform sustainability knowledge into actionable insights aimed at inspiring behavioural change among students, employees, corporate partners, and the general public. This holistic effort combines workshops, dialogues, showcases, and collaborative long-term programmes that empower the ecosystem to act on sustainability challenges with clarity and confidence.

Additionally, through our Fabrica X Impact Retail stores, we partner with corporations on consumer-focused campaigns. These efforts educate shoppers about sustainable lifestyle choices and highlight practical products that support meaningful environmental action.

159+
knowledge sessions delivered
1,710+
participants
44,400+
Fabrica X visitors annually

Fabrica X Visitors

88%+
learned about denim’s negative environmental impact
84%+
more label-conscious when buying denim
92%+
support for innovation importance in sustainability
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Uniting Stakeholders Across the Innovation Funnel

The Mills Fabrica curated and participated in a rich calendar of events designed to unite startups, investors, corporate leaders, designers, and consumers around the shared goal of accelerating sustainable innovation. These gatherings foster knowledge exchange, facilitate strategic partnerships, and elevate the market presence of impactful technologies and products.

Planet-Saving Innovations Exhibition
  • 1,600+ visitors
  • 8 industry events, 195 attendees
  • 33 private tours
  • 44 strategic introductions
Inaugural Agrifood Exhibition
  • 1,250+ visitors
  • 14 private industry tours
  • 42 strategic introductions
  • Finalist in UK Green Business Awards 2025 (Marketing / Advertising)
Fabrica X Coffee Talks
  • Launched in 2024 at Fabrica X London
  • Featured B Corp partners and sustainability leaders
Earthfest 2024
  • Attracted over 7,900+ attendees