Karla Mora and Leslie Harwell don't fund T-shirts. They fund the recycling plants, the potato-waste cotton, and the software that reroutes a supply chain - the plumbing every brand quietly runs on.
Alexander Tschopp is the co-founder and CEO of Tailored Industry, a Brooklyn-based on-demand knitwear manufacturer and software platform that uses Shima Seiki WHOLEGARMENT 3D knitting machines to produce luxury sweaters with zero minimum order quantities and 3-to-6-day turnaround. A Cornell Dyson School graduate who hooked into business after reading an Andrew Carnegie biography at age 12, he started selling college-branded products to hundreds of retailers as an undergrad before setting out to revive American knitwear manufacturing - eliminating overproduction by matching supply precisely to demand.