AI material scanner startup raises £1.5m-Ecotextile news

LONDON – Technology startup Matoha has raised £1.5 million ($2m) in the first phase of a seed funding round to develop and scale its AI-powered material identification scanners.

The company’s handheld devices claim to be able to scan and identify the compositional make-up of textiles in less than a second to help sort fabrics for recycling.

The devices, which require minimal training, use infrared techniques including NIR reflectance spectroscopy to scan textile materials and AI to interpret the results.

Matoha’s FabriTell technology is designed to speed up the sorting of textiles for recycling by quickly identifying 10 pure materials and 13 blends, including cotton, polyester, acrylic, nylon, wool and silk.

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