What bAwear Score does

bAwear Score is a Netherlands-based private company that provides a streamlined Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) platform purpose-built for the textile industry. The platform is powered by the SimaPro calculation engine and uses the ReCiPe 2016 Midpoint (Hierarchist) methodology, focusing on four impact categories: Global warming, Fossil energy, Water use, and Land use. Its offerings span two tiers — bAwear Quick Score (predefined worst-case product scenarios for fast, self-declared results) and bAwear Expert (fully customizable scenarios with in-house expert validation and third-party verification readiness) — across 18+ textile product categories and 200+ unique product scenarios, covering cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave supply chains. Co-founded by Anton Luiken (CTO), Jesse Dolstra (COO), and Martin Havik, the company combines 30+ years of textile sustainability and LCA expertise, supported by a validated generic textile data module co-developed with PRé Sustainability.

The company makes money through annual subscriptions to the Quick Score and Expert tiers, supplemented by a free entry tier and API-based enterprise access for bulk impact calculations and integration with traceability, PLM, ERP, and Digital Product Passport (DPP) systems. Its go-to-market is hybrid: a product-led self-serve web application (bawear-score.net) layered with enterprise sales funnels via demo booking, content marketing through the bAcademy educational blog, and an emerging partner ecosystem spanning traceability providers, physical tracer firms, and industry federations such as Modint.

bAwear serves brands and retailers, textile manufacturers, procurement organizations, and digital service providers across the global textile supply chain — from fashion and apparel to workwear and home textiles. Notable customers include HEMA, Zeeman, Alsico, Modint, and VP Group. The platform is positioned to support CSRD compliance, scope 3 emissions reporting, and DPP interoperability, addressing data gaps that typically prevent textile companies from producing credible, audit-ready environmental footprints.

Name

bAwear Score

Legal name

bAwear Score

Website

https://bawear-score.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

bAwear Score is a Netherlands-based platform that delivers textile-dedicated, streamlined Life Cycle Assessment tools — Quick Score and Expert — powered by SimaPro, serving fashion brands, retailers, manufacturers, and procurement organizations for scope 3 reporting and CSRD compliance.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Textile Sustainability Software

NAICS

Testing Laboratories and Services (54138)

SIC

Services-Testing Laboratories (8734), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Sustainability Testing, Certification & Compliance (LCA, Recyclability/Compostability Testing, FSC/PEFC) (IMALAMAK)

Keywords

• Textile LCA software
• Life cycle assessment
• Sustainability reporting
• Environmental impact tools
• Scope 3 emissions

Headquarters

HQ city

Mijnsheerenland

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. bAwear Quick Score: Streamlined LCA solution with predefined product scenarios. Self-declared results suitable for B2B communications. Fast and user-friendly, results in minutes.
2. bAwear Expert: Premium streamlined LCA with fully customizable calculations, expert verification, and third-party certification readiness. Higher tier offering for in-depth analysis.
3. API Access: API integration for bulk upload and automation of impact calculations. Targets enterprise clients with multiple products requiring scalable solutions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

bAwear Score provides a textile-dedicated Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) software platform that enables textile brands, retailers, manufacturers, and procurement organizations to assess and communicate the environmental impact of their textile products. The platform is powered by the SimaPro calculation engine using the ReCiPe 2016 Midpoint (Hierarchist) methodology, offering two main tiers: bAwear Quick Score (streamlined LCA with 200+ predefined worst-case scenarios for fast results in minutes) and bAwear Expert (fully customizable LCA with expert verification and third-party certification readiness). An API is available for enterprise clients to automate impact calculations and integrate with traceability, PLM, ERP, and Digital Product Passport (DPP) systems.

Product overview

bAwear Score offers a platform-plus-modules product architecture centered on textile Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tools. The core offering includes two product tiers: bAwear Quick Score (streamlined LCA with predefined scenarios for quick assessments) and bAwear Expert (fully customizable calculations with expert validation). Both products are powered by SimaPro software and use ReCiPe 2016 Midpoint methodology. The platform covers cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave supply chain assessments across 18+ textile product categories and 200+ unique product scenarios. Additionally, bAcademy provides educational content and resources. API access and bulk upload capabilities are available for automation and scaling.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• bAwear Quick Score: Streamlined LCA tool with predefined product scenarios and self-declared inputs for quick impact assessment.
• bAwear Expert

Products and services

• bAwear Quick Score Streamlined Life Cycle Assessment tool for textile companies that produces self-declared impact results based on predefined worst-case product scenarios across 18+ textile categories. Covers cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave supply chain assessments, enabling fast (minutes) calculation of scope 3 emissions and supply chain hotspots for B2B communications. Targets brands, retailers, manufacturers, and procurement teams seeking rapid sustainability insights without full LCA project overhead.
• bAwear Expert Premium Life Cycle Assessment tool for textile companies requiring in-depth, fully customizable environmental impact calculations using primary data, with input data checked by bAwear experts. Produces impact insights for each supply chain step, supports scope 3 emissions reporting, and results are third-party verification ready. Targets textile organizations needing certification-grade LCA output rather than quick self-declared assessments.
• bAwear API REST API enabling enterprise clients and digital platform partners to automate and bulk-upload textile environmental impact calculations, with integration into traceability, PLM, ERP, and Digital Product Passport (DPP) solutions. Supports scaling of impact transparency across large product catalogs and powers ecosystem integrations with service providers such as tex.tracer and Impact Buying.

Quantifiable outcome

• Results in minutes instead of months
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SimaProcoreTechnology or IntegrationSimaPro provides the calculation engine and LCA expertise for bAwear. This is the core technology partnership powering the platform. Combined experience of over 30 years in textile sustainability and LCA.
• PRé SustainabilitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on development of generic textile module with validated data sources used in bAwear calculations.
• Industry Federations, Consultants, Digital Service ProvidersminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPart of partner network including consultants, service providers, educators, and industry federations. Want to connect with API or join network of partners.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Seismic: Sustainable textile materials management and impact data platform for apparel brands and suppliers. Adjacent peer: serves similar apparel/textile customers with environmental impact data products, including materials-level footprinting.
• Vaayu: Carbon accounting and product impact automation software for retailers and brands. Comparable because it targets overlapping buyers (textile/retail) with automated product-level footprint calculation and scope 3 reporting workflows.
• GreenStory: Sustainability platform focused on fashion and apparel brands, offering product-level carbon footprint calculators and scope 3 reporting tools. Directly comparable in target market (fashion/textile brands) and use case (product LCA for sustainability claims).
• Carbonize: Product-level carbon footprint analytics for consumer goods brands. Comparable in serving fashion/textile brands seeking to calculate and disclose product carbon footprints and meet emerging sustainability disclosure obligations.

Broad incumbents

• One Click LCA: SaaS LCA platform widely used for product and building-level assessments; one of the closest direct competitors in the streamlined-LCA-for-industry category, competing for similar mid-market and enterprise customers in textile and consumer goods.
• PRé Sustainability: Developer of SimaPro (the engine bAwear builds on) and an LCA consultancy. Comparable as both technology steward and competitor: PRé could leverage SimaPro to build competing textile UX or expand consulting services into bAwear's downstream market.
• Sphera: Long-standing enterprise LCA/EHS software suite (formerly thinkstep/GaBi) supporting multiple industries including textiles. Comparable because it provides the same ReCiPe-backed LCA methodology and serves overlapping compliance/ESG reporting buyers, but at much broader scale.
• CleanChain: Platform for managing chemical and sustainability data across textile and apparel supply chains. Comparable because it serves overlapping buyer personas (textile brands/manufacturers) needing environmental and regulatory compliance data.

Others

• Cirpass-2 / Cirpass: EU-funded initiative to standardize Digital Product Passport data and infrastructure for textiles. Comparable as adjacent ecosystem player whose DPP standards will shape bAwear's API integration opportunities and competitive positioning.

Direct peers

• Ecochain: Cloud LCA and environmental impact platform with product-level modules used by brands and manufacturers. Comparable because it competes directly for similar B2B customers wanting streamlined, API-enabled LCA calculations, with comparable functionality and pricing structure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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