Sustainable Textile

What Sustainable Textile does

Sustainable Textile, doing business as ComplyTex (legal entity: Complytex.com), is a private SaaS company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, United States. The company operates the ComplyTex platform, a data-driven sustainability reporting system purpose-built for the textile industry. ComplyTex is structured around four role-based modules addressing Brands/Buyers, Manufacturers, Suppliers, and Designers, reflecting a design choice to map the platform to the textile supply chain rather than to a single tenant.

The product is positioned as a sustainability reporting and compliance workflow tool for the textile value chain, with the website brand "sustainable textile" signaling a mission orientation. The company maintains both a mission-oriented domain (sustainabletextile.org) and a product-oriented domain (complytex.com), supporting inbound enterprise demand generation. ComplyTex holds membership in the Corporate Accountability Association (CAA), suggesting engagement with textile accountability and compliance stakeholder networks. The platform is described as "data-driven" rather than AI-driven; no AI/ML features, proprietary models, or research output are disclosed.

Commercially, ComplyTex sells annual subscription contracts priced by quote, distributed through an enterprise field sales motion rather than self-serve. The employee count is in the 11-50 band, and the company has not disclosed funding rounds, revenue, customer logos, or leadership hires. No acquisitions, partnerships beyond CAA membership, geographic expansions, or regulatory actions are disclosed in the available material.

Name

Sustainable Textile

Legal name

Complytex.com

Website

https://sustainabletextile.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ComplyTex, operated by Sustainable Textile, is a Berkeley-based SaaS platform that provides data-driven sustainability reporting tools for the textile industry, serving brands, manufacturers, suppliers, and designers via role-based modules on annual enterprise subscriptions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Textile ESG & Sustainability Reporting Software

akta.pro primary industry

Circularity Compliance, Traceability & Certification Services (EPR/Product Passports/Chain-of-Custody) (IMAOAMAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Carbon, Energy & Resource Efficiency Services for Textile Manufacturing (Audits/Heat Recovery/Renewables) (IMAOAMAN), Textile Testing, Compliance & Quality Assurance (CRAAAMAL)

Keywords

• Textile sustainability reporting
• ESG compliance software
• Carbon emission tracking
• Supply chain transparency
• Regulatory compliance management

Headquarters

HQ city

Berkeley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Subscription-based access to ComplyTex sustainability reporting platform with role-based modules for brands, manufacturers, and suppliers

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Sustainable Textile operates ComplyTex, a B2B SaaS sustainability reporting platform purpose-built for the textile industry. The platform provides role-based modules that enable Brands/Buyers, Manufacturers, Suppliers, and Designers to track carbon emissions, measure circularity, generate ESG and compliance reports, maintain supply chain transparency, mitigate green-washing risks, and monitor worker safety across the textile value chain.

Product overview

ComplyTex is a unified data-driven sustainability reporting platform designed specifically for the textile industry. The platform serves multiple stakeholder segments (brands/buyers, manufacturers, suppliers, and designers) through role-based modules. Core features include Carbon Emission tracking, Circularity measurement, Sustainability reporting, Compliance management, ESG reporting, Transparency & Visibility dashboards, Green-washing mitigation tools, Climate Tech integration, and Worker Safety monitoring. The platform operates on a module-based architecture with distinct offerings for each stakeholder type in the textile supply chain.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ComplyTex Data-driven, role-based B2B SaaS sustainability reporting platform for the textile industry that enables brands, manufacturers, suppliers, and designers to track and report on carbon emissions, circularity, ESG performance, compliance, supply chain transparency, green-washing risks, and worker safety across the textile value chain.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• CAA (Corporate Accountability Association)minorOthersComplyTex is a member of CAA as indicated by their membership badges displayed on the website. This membership provides industry recognition and networking opportunities within the corporate accountability and sustainability space.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Bluesign: Bluesign provides chemical management, material sustainability, and supply chain transparency services for textiles — competing head-to-head with ComplyTex's circularity, compliance, and greenwashing-mitigation offerings.
• Sedex: Sedex is a supply chain ESG data platform used by brands and suppliers for ethical trade and sustainability reporting, making it a direct alternative for ComplyTex's brand and supplier users.
• OEKO-TEX: OEKO-TEX offers textile certification, testing, and compliance services, overlapping directly with ComplyTex's compliance, ESG, and transparency functions across the textile value chain.
• ZDHC (Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals): ZDHC provides chemical management and wastewater sustainability tools for textile manufacturers, intersecting with ComplyTex's circularity, compliance, and worker-safety modules.
• EcoVadis: EcoVadis delivers sustainability ratings and ESG data for global supply chains, including heavy textile/apparel exposure; it competes for the same buyer-side ESG reporting budget ComplyTex targets.
• Higg Co (Sustainable Apparel Coalition): Higg offers sustainability scoring and data tools across the apparel and textile value chain (brand, manufacturer, facility), directly overlapping ComplyTex's role-based carbon/ESG/worker-safety modules.

Broad incumbents

• Salesforce Net Zero Cloud: Salesforce Net Zero Cloud is a broad ESG and carbon data suite with deep enterprise CRM integrations; it competes for the same brand/buyer-side ESG reporting budget as ComplyTex, though it lacks textile-specific depth.
• Watershed: Watershed is an enterprise carbon accounting platform increasingly expanding into Scope 3 supply chain reporting, including textile and apparel buyers that overlap with ComplyTex's carbon module.

Emerging players

• Textile Exchange: Textile Exchange is an industry organization setting standards and benchmarks (e.g., Material Recycled Content) that compete with ComplyTex's circularity and ESG reporting modules for the same brand-side buyer mindshare.
• Open Apparel Registry (OAR): OAR is a supply chain transparency tool mapping global apparel facilities — competing with ComplyTex's Transparency & Visibility module for buyers that prioritize supplier disclosure and traceability.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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