Rodinia Generation, a Danish company that builds technology for making clothes, has raised €4 million to scale its manufacturing model. The round was led by Vitamin°C, a Swiss-US venture fund, with existing investors Climentum Capital and EIFO also taking part. The company describes itself as a fashion manufacturing technology business.
The money will go towards a full-scale production facility in Portugal, which is expected to open in early 2027. It will be the company’s second site after its first facility, which opened in Copenhagen in 2021. The Copenhagen site has served as its base since then, and Portugal will be its first full-scale plant. Neither the valuation nor the split of the investment between the three backers has been disclosed.
Rodinia’s approach centres on a patented system called O-FACTORY, designed for onshore apparel manufacturing, meaning clothing is made close to where it will be sold. The company describes its output in terms of “production cycles measured in days rather than months”. The idea is that brands can produce garments when they need them and where they need them, instead of placing large orders far in advance. That model could reduce the time between a design being approved and the finished product reaching shelves.
Alongside speed, the company is pitching environmental gains. Rodinia says its system is designed to remove water from the production process and to cut carbon dioxide emissions, two areas where clothing manufacturing faces close scrutiny. EIFO, Denmark’s state investment fund, and Climentum Capital both returned for this round, suggesting continued confidence from earlier backers. The arrival of Vitamin°C as lead investor brings in fresh capital from outside the Nordic region as the company prepares to move beyond its Copenhagen base.
The Portuguese facility will be the main test of whether the model works at industrial scale. Moving from a single site in Denmark to a full production plant in another country will require Rodinia to show that its short production cycles and lower resource use hold up at higher volumes. With the new funding secured, the company’s focus now turns to building out the site in Portugal ahead of its planned opening in early 2027, giving it a second base for production closer to European customers. The company has not said how large the Portuguese plant will be or how many people it will employ.
