# BOTTLETOP

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/bottletop

- Industry: Consumer Products
- Headquarters: London, UK
- Website: https://bottletop.org
- Total disclosed funding: $1.1M
- Latest round: Angel (Apr 16, 2015)
- Investors on record: 1

## About

Founded in 2012 and based in London, UK, BOTTLETOP is a British luxury sustainable fashion brand, co-founded by Cameron Saul and Oliver Wayman, and driven by COO Jonathan Lee. The company started with handbags made from upcycled bottle tops in Kenya lined with leather offcuts. Through a collaboration with Mulberry the company got recognized internationally, supporting artisans and funding health education for young people in Africa. The company opened the world’s first zero waste store in Regents street, London.

The company conducts atelier and training programs in Brazil and Nepal and continue to source the finest sustainable and upcycled materials in challenged parts of the world. BOTTLETOP supports health, education and skills training projects through their BOTTLETOP FOUNDATION founded in 2002.

Bottletop has raised a total of £750K in funding over 1 round. This was a Angel round raised in April 2015 funded by QVentures.

The company offers a wide variety of accessories to customers like cross-body bags, shoulder bags, tote bags, backpacks, clutches and mini bags, phone purses, belts, bag straps, flower clips, masks, scarves, bracelets etc. These accessories are categorized under different types of collection names like classic collection, new naturals, peace collection and edition collection. The company also offers various types of discounts on its products like summer sale.

Bottletop’s creations are solely made out of sustainably sourced materials like zero deforestation leather, discarded aluminium ring pulls and upcycled plastic yarn. The zero deforestation leather is called so as it is sourced from sustainable farms and certified tanneries that ensure that their operations have zero deforestation impact on the rainforests. Even the packaging of the Bottletop products are plastic free and made out of recycled cardboard material.

## Funding rounds

- Angel, Apr 16, 2015, $1.1M — QVentures

## Investors

- QVentures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/qventures) — Angel