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FINDS
Techstars '22Paris, FR · 9 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
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FINDS provides a decision engine for inventory value optimization in fashion, luxury, and beauty, helping teams simulate scenarios and determine optimal strategies for inventory distribution across channels (full-price retail, outlets, off-price partners, employee sales, donation, and recycling).
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026FINDS operates a software platform positioned as a "decision engine for inventory value optimization" for fashion, luxury and beauty organizations. The product combines inventory data, sales history and company-specific business constraints so that inventory teams can qualify inventory, identify risk earlier, simulate scenarios, compare strategies, formalize business rules, align stakeholders and track decisions over time. Its stated premise is that inventory expertise already exists inside brand teams but is fragmented across spreadsheets, reports, emails and disconnected systems such as ERP, WMS and PLM, so the platform is framed as augmenting rather than replacing human judgement.
The application, referenced as an "Inventory Intelligence" workspace, is organized around modules for overview, scoring, scenarios, allocation, governance, compliance and product passports. A scoring engine ranks SKUs by opportunity and risk factors including sell-through velocity, margin risk, product freshness, channel fit and seasonality, and produces a recommended channel. Scenario simulation lets teams adjust levers such as markdown depth, outlet share and hold-for-next-season while respecting approval rules, channel capacities and brand guardrails, then compare conservative, balanced and aggressive strategies on recovered value, blended margin and sell-through. A decision-routing capability recommends how to split inventory across full-price retail, outlet networks, off-price partners, employee sales, donation programs and recycling channels. Configurable business rules capture policies such as protecting full-price in core markets, capping outlet share, approval thresholds and donate-before-recycle waterfalls.
The platform also maintains a traceable decision layer and decision ledger intended to support operational governance and regulatory requirements including ESPR Article 25 and Digital Product Passports.
Business model
FINDS sells a business-to-business software platform to inventory, supply chain, retail, finance, outlet and off-price, and sustainability and compliance teams within brands and retailers, with prospects entering through a demo request on the company website.
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Market position
Positions itself as a decision-support layer for inventory value recovery in fashion, luxury and beauty, sitting alongside existing ERP, WMS and PLM systems and addressing both commercial value recovery and sustainability or compliance traceability.
Rather than imposing a fixed model or workflow, FINDS is designed to be configured to each company's own objectives, constraints, approval processes, channel strategies and decision framework, allowing teams to formalize existing business rules. It also adds an auditable decision layer aligned to emerging requirements such as ESPR and Digital Product Passports.
Technology
A hosted web application spanning overview, scoring, scenario, allocation, governance, compliance and passport modules. It ingests inventory data, sales history and business-specific constraints; a scoring engine weights factors such as sell-through velocity, margin risk, product freshness, channel fit and seasonality to rank SKUs and recommend channels; a constraint-aware simulation layer models markdown depth, outlet share and carryover levers against approval rules and channel capacities; and a decision ledger records decisions for traceability.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise motion centered on booking demos via the website, with the platform pitched across multiple internal stakeholder groups at a single customer.
Fashion, luxury and beauty brands and retailers, specifically inventory and supply chain teams, retail teams, outlet and off-price teams, finance functions, and sustainability and compliance stakeholders.
Geography
Product content references multi-region inventory management and channel decisions across markets including France, Italy, Japan and Iberia, and compliance with EU-oriented frameworks such as ESPR and Digital Product Passports.
History
The company states it began by studying how brands, retailers and inventory teams make inventory decisions across retail (referenced as Keep In Merch), regional reallocations, outlets, off-price, employee sales, donations and recycling channels before building software, concluding that the gap was tooling to operationalize existing expertise rather than the expertise itself.
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Key figures
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▸Research sources · 7
primary sources listed
- FINDSfinds-upcycling.com · web
7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does FINDS do?
- FINDS is a decision engine that helps fashion, luxury and beauty inventory teams optimize inventory value across channels.
- Who are FINDS's investors?
- FINDS's investors include Techstars, Mustard Seed, Mustard Seed Maze.
- Where is FINDS headquartered?
- FINDS is headquartered in Paris, FR.