Cotton. Evolved.

INTRODUCING
Rapid Crop Evolution
WITH AVALO
INTRODUCING  Rapid Crop Evolution  WITH AVALO

What is Avalo?

Cotton fit for the future

Cotton is one of the most incredible materials in human history

Every cotton fiber is just a single, elongated plant cell.An ephemeral wisp in the seed pod of an average-looking plant. Yet these fibers have been foundational to human civilization for millennia. It's in our closets, our bathrooms, our hospitals, our planes, trains, and automobiles. It's soft, breathable, versatile, and wonderful.

It must play a critical role in our future.

Every cotton fiber is just a single, elongated plant cell.An ephemeral wisp in the seed pod of an average-looking plant. Yet these fibers have been foundational to human civilization for millennia. It's in our closets, our bathrooms, our hospitals, our planes, trains, and automobiles. It's soft, breathable, versatile, and wonderful.

It must play a critical role in our future.

We need high-quality fibers grown with less water, fertilizer, and pesticides. We need to supply the world without polluting it. And most importantly, we need to create supply chains that better serve farmers (i.e. the people actually supplying the chain).

And the best way to evolve how we grow cotton?
Evolve the cotton itself.

That's Avalo.

Cotton today...

Today's cotton varieties have been bred for "high yield under ideal growing conditions."

This means growing high-quality cotton requires farmers to create these ideal conditions by using lots of water, fertilizer, and pesticides. In other words, we've created needy plants. And all those inputs come at a cost to both the farmer and the planet.

As costs go up, many farmers decide to (or are forced to) grow with fewer inputs, but that generally means sacrificing things like fiber length, strength, or uniformity.

Unlike conventional cotton,

Avalo breeds varieties

FOR

RESILIENCE

which means it can do more with less. Nature invented the natural selection process, we're just speeding it up.

A nature-based solution for fashion's Scope 3 Problem

The vast majority of the Fashion Industry's carbon footprint comes from "Scope 3 Emissions" (those created by the supply chain). And much of that comes from how we grow and harvest cotton. By strategically evolving the seed (i.e. the very start of the supply chain), we can prevent GHG emissions before they start.

Just by being more water and nutrient-efficient, Avalo Cotton generates 30% ** fewer carbon emissions than traditional cotton.

This means an immediate Scope 3 reduction for brands & way less carbon for the planet.

75%
less nitrogen fertilizer*
ZERO
irrigation needed
20-30%
carbon reduction**
**Based on 2024 estimates. LCA currently underway to confirm final GHG reduction.
*Fertilizer per acre

American agriculture needs a new normal

West Texas is known as the "world's largest cotton patch." Once dominated by thriving American cotton farmers, it's now facing an existential threat. The water level of the Ogallala Aquifer (which has supported agriculture in the region for more than a century) is declining rapidly. And this lowering water level is leading to rising pressure to adapt.
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This will radically influence farmers and the plants they grow in the coming decades. The only sustainable and affordable way to address these challenges (without losing our cotton industry) is with more resilient crops. Crops that can "do more" while "needing less."

Ogallala Aquifer

A win/win for cotton farmers

For farmers "more sustainable" generally means "more costs" because it means buying or doing something more.
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But by simply growing more resilient crops, Avalo creates an economic and ecological win for farmers. Sustainable agriculture is all about plants that do more with less.

The Science

Nature is the innovator. Avalo just helps it move faster.

The genome is a massive set of data, and making sense of big data is exactly what Al is good at. At Avalo, we've developed and trained an Al model to help us better understand and predict the cotton genome.This Al helps us see the potential for different attributes and make decisions about how to quickly unlock those attributes.

THE RESULT IS
faster,  cheaper,  more effective, non-GMO breeding

And while it might sound like mad science, the Avalo process is even more natural than conventional breeding. Our technology informs our breeders' decisions, but it never touches the crops.

So unlike other breeding programs where plants are pollinated by guys in white lab coats, or genetically engineered for desired traits, our plants are out in the fields being naturally pollinated by bees like they have been for billions of years.

More genetics = More potential

Cotton isn't one thing. Like humans, cotton has massively diverse gene pool. It has evolved in and adapted to different climates and conditions around the world for millennia. Unfortunately, traditional breeding programs often filter out genetic diversity in an attempt to streamline the process and breed plants that do one thing really well. This approach has led to the "high need/low variation" crops we have today.
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Avalo takes a very different approach. Our platform can treat this genetic diversity as an opportunity rather than a challenge. This means we can identify and develop a wider array of better, more beneficial traits (and we're able to select several traits at once!) that make tomorrow's cotton more fit for the climates and conditions of the future.

Natural diversity in cotton

Growing more, from seed to store

Cotton is a dynamic product, with many different parties responsible for turning a little puff of white into beloved garments and products.

All these parties have different concerns and different needs.
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Since we have the ability to target multiple, specific traits at once, we can breed varieties that deliver value for ALL players, not just the retailers.

Farmers

Increased profit

Spinners & Weavers

Enhanced fiber characteristics

Brands

Address Scope 3 emissions

Customers

Climate-friendly clothes

Planet

Cooler future

Al that causes reduces water
and carbon use

Most conversations about Al these days are related to how much energy and water it uses. And they aren't wrong! Most conventional Al applications do the stuff humans can do, they just do it faster (and use way more energy). But Al can also be used to help the planet!

Avalo cotton is working to transform the cotton industry by transforming one of the world's biggest and most input-intensive row crops into a resilient plant that uses less, improves the soil, and has an increasingly smaller footprint year over year. All these parties have different concerns and different needs.

We grow it, you sew it!

High-quality, low-input cotton from Avalo is already growing.

Get in touch if you want to use beautiful, sustainable, American-grown cotton in your garments.
Rebecca, Avalo's Chief Product Officer (and fourth-generation cotton farmer), and her dad Mark!
EMAIL
cotton@avalo.ai
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Cotton
evolved with care
more
resilient
sustainabile
texas grown
low input
high quality

Regionally-adapted cotton is the future

For a century, we have used industrial agriculture to force crops to grow where they otherwise might not. And we're now seeing the consequences of forcing square pegs into round holes.

But with Avalo's Rapid Evolution Platform...
We can better adapt the plants we grow to the places we grow them
This means fewer inputs, lower costs, shorter supply chains, less crop failure, and ultimately: more resilient agriculture. Today, we're evolving cotton for Texas. Tomorrow, we aim to create regionally adapted varieties for every cotton grower on Earth!