Team

Angela Antolini

Co-Founder & CEO

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Circular Economy & Consumer Advocate

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Angela has spent more than ten years in senior leadership roles at global sustainability organizations, helping companies across every sector explore circular solutions. Her professional journey has been about creating systems change.

Her personal journey made that mission even more urgent. As a mother in Italy, Angela invested in beautiful clothing for her daughter. When the dresses were outgrown, she placed them in a textile collection container, imagining they would find a second life. Instead, she later learned that those silk dresses had been downcycled into sofa fillings.

That moment revealed how confusing it is for consumers who want to do the right thing, yet rarely know where their efforts lead.

Working with businesses, Angela saw the same gap from another angle: circular initiatives often stay at the pilot stage, never reaching full scale. She realized why — without consumers, circularity will never go mainstream. That conviction became the driving force behind CIRCULOGUE.

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Anna Chabokdast

Co-Founder & CTO

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AI & Textiles Scientist

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Anna’s expertise bridges two worlds rarely combined: textiles and artificial intelligence. She grew up in a family-owned textile factory, where fabrics and production were part of daily life. Later, she studied as a textile engineer before earning a PhD in AI.

Her research showed the practical power of technology. In one project, she trained algorithms to analyze photos of damaged houses and determine whether they could be repaired. In other words, teaching machines to recognize what could be saved instead of discarded.

With her background, Anna saw a unique opportunity: to use AI not for abstract innovation, but to connect fabrics, products, and people in ways that make circular living easier and smarter.