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The iPhone 8 Never Died. It Just Moved to St. Louis.
A women-owned shop in St. Louis has built a roughly $5.7M business out of the phones, tablets and laptop parts the rest of the market wrote off - and its best customers are schools and the government.
AER Worldwide
AER Worldwide turns a corporation's retired laptops, servers and circuit boards into three things executives can use: verified data destruction, recoverable value and a cleaner audit trail.
NorthLadder
NorthLadder is a Dubai-founded technology company that runs an auction-driven trade-in and buy-back platform for pre-owned electronics. It gives consumers instant cash for old phones and gadgets - with doorstep pickup and certified data wipes - while offering telecom operators, retailers, e-commerce players and OEMs a white-label, end-to-end trade-in engine that connects devices to a network of global buyers. By automating assessment and valuation, NorthLadder aims to unlock the residual value of used devices and extend their lifecycle in support of circular-economy goals.
Return Helper
Return Helper is a Singapore-based, AI-driven cross-border ecommerce returns and reverse-logistics platform. It pairs branded return-portal software with a network of 20+ overseas warehouses that receive, inspect and process returned goods locally, then recover value through recommerce - refurbishing, grading, reselling and recycling. Founded by Roy Wan and Paco Wong, the company helps online sellers on Amazon, Shopify, eBay and TikTok turn returns from a cost center into a source of recovered revenue.
Reconext
Reconext is a global aftermarket lifecycle services company that takes returned, broken, or retired electronics - phones, laptops, set-top boxes, AI servers, point-of-sale gear - and gives them a second life. Through repair, refurbishment, testing, trade-in, asset recovery, and IT asset disposition, the company keeps devices and components circulating instead of heading to landfill. Headquartered in Grapevine, Texas and operating roughly 22 facilities across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Reconext serves manufacturers, carriers, retailers, insurers, and data centers.
Revive | B-Corp Certified
Revive (stylized (Re)vive) is a New York fashion-tech company that turns returned, damaged, and excess apparel into recovered revenue for brands. Its AI-powered platform inspects each item in minutes to flag damage type and resale potential, then cleans, lightly repairs, and routes goods back to stores or onto resale channels - so unsellable inventory becomes profit instead of landfill. A Certified B Corp, Revive has recovered roughly $23M in gross merchandise value and kept over 150,000 garments out of landfills.
Andre Weiglein
Andre Weiglein is the President and CEO of AER Worldwide, an IT asset disposition (ITAD) company he founded in 1996 and has led for nearly three decades. Based in California, AER operates globally across North America, Europe, and Asia, providing certified asset recovery, secure data destruction, electronics recycling, and reverse logistics for enterprises. Under Weiglein's leadership, AER has grown to approximately 175 employees, ~$48M in revenue, and maintains R2/RIOS and E-Stewards certifications — positioning the company as a responsible, compliance-focused leader in the growing ITAD industry.