Prague, December 19th 2025 – Rockaway Ventures is investing in Remix, one of Europe’s largest players in second-hand e-commerce. As part of a Series A investment round, the fund is acquiring a 20% stake in the company. Operating across nine countries and serving a market of 194 million people, the startup is building infrastructure for circular fashion. It runs one of the largest automated distribution centres in the CEE region, operates its own logistics platform, and develops advanced AI tools to manage a catalogue of more than one million unique items. The investment will support the further development of this infrastructure, as well as the company’s Recommerce-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering.
Remix brings a unique technological layer to second-hand fashion, transforming traditional retail into a fully scalable industrial infrastructure. Through proprietary AI-powered systems for sorting and pricing, automated processes spanning the entire journey from collection to dispatch, and a comprehensive logistics centre, the company processes up to 20,000 items per day — from intake through sale or recycling of unsellable pieces.
The company provides RaaS, a service that enables fashion brands to work with surplus stock, returned items, and older collections without having to build their own infrastructure. Remix takes over the entire processing workflow and reintroduces selected items to the market in a controlled and fully traceable manner. As a result, brands do not need to allocate internal capacity or establish new processes, while being able to transparently demonstrate how textiles are handled after their first life cycle. RaaS also supports the launch of buy-back (trade-in) programmes, enabling brands and retailers to purchase used garments from customers and actively engage them in a circular model.
A data-driven second life for clothing
What sets Remix apart from conventional second-hand platforms is its approach to data and automation. Each garment is treated as an individual item within the system, with its own parameters, enabling the use of algorithms for sorting, condition assessment, and recommendations for the most suitable next use. By combining AI and automation, the company can process vast volumes of unique items quickly and consistently, without the need for manual intervention.
A key element is the traceability of every single garment. The system records all steps from intake to dispatch to the customer, giving fashion brands full visibility into how their products are handled at each stage of the process. This level of data control, combined with specialised algorithms, enables the automated listing of hundreds of thousands of items per day.
“Remix fits very well with our strategy of supporting technology leaders from Central and Eastern Europe with global ambitions. This is not a conventional e-commerce company, but a technologically advanced automation system capable of working with enormous volumes of diverse data and items. In the second-hand and broader fashion segment, technological maturity is a critical competitive advantage. Remix stands out by not relying solely on sustainability marketing, but by building a robust business model in which technology and data play a central role,” says Dušan Zábrodský, General Partner at Rockaway Ventures.
How Remix helps fashion brands enter the circular economy
Digital second-hand emerged in response to one of the fashion industry’s biggest challenges: massive overproduction of clothing, which leaves manufacturers with large volumes of surplus stock and limited effective ways to manage it further. Globally, around 92 million tonnes of textile waste are generated every year, increasing pressure to find sustainable solutions. European regulation, as well as market dynamics, are placing growing emphasis on ensuring that textiles do not become waste but remain in circulation for as long as possible, with reuse taking precedence over recycling or disposal. Using AI, Remix is able to assess the value of individual items and determine which ones are worth reintroducing to the market. This eliminates the need for brands to manually evaluate thousands of products; instead of disposal, they can hand over their stock to Remix, which can turn it into a second-life offering with real economic returns. This model has already been adopted by major players, including Tommy Hilfiger as part of its second-life programme.
Growing volumes of unused textiles are becoming a structural challenge for the European market as a whole. An amendment to the EU Waste Framework Directive, which entered into force at the end of October this year, fundamentally changes how brands are required to handle textiles. It introduces a mandatory extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme for textile and footwear products, shifting responsibility for the collection, sorting, and further use of garments directly to manufacturers. Disposal thus becomes a last-resort option, while reuse and second-hand solutions should be the preferred choice. At the same time, increasing regulatory pressure is accompanied by rising consumer demand for second-hand products and greater expectations for sustainable business models. This creates a need for professional infrastructure capable of handling large volumes of textiles quickly, accurately, and with full traceability.
“Regulatory changes place a stronger emphasis on sustainability in the fashion industry. They do not necessarily aim to limit production, but rather to ensure that clothing is handled more efficiently and responsibly throughout its entire life cycle. And it is precisely the technological framework built by Remix that makes it possible to translate this approach into practice and manage textiles in a systematic and efficient way,” adds Dušan Zábrodský, General Partner at Rockaway Ventures.
Rockaway Ventures is a venture capital fund under the Rockaway Capital investment group, focused on investing in startups that digitise traditional industries using transformative technologies, primarily artificial intelligence. The fund, part of Jakub Havrlant’s investment group, actively seeks out and supports early-stage founders in Central Europe and the DACH region. In addition, Rockaway Ventures invests in founders from Central and Eastern Europe who are expanding into Western Europe and the U.S., offering deep insight into technological trends and strategic challenges.
About Remix
Remix is a technology company founded in Bulgaria that specialises in second-hand fashion and recommerce. Through its proprietary logistics and data platform, it provides large-scale processing, sorting, and resale of used and unsold garments. The company operates one of the largest specialised second-hand centres in the Central and Eastern Europe region and is active across several European markets. Remix works with both fashion brands and end customers, offering solutions that enable textiles to be returned to circulation in a transparent, technology-driven manner.