MATERIAL EXCHANGE VENTURES AB
Building the infrastructure layer for global fashion & footwear sourcing
Material Exchange Ventures is the company behind Frank – the AI research assistant turning fragmented supplier communication into structured, verifiable supply chain intelligence.
MATERIAL EXCHANGE VENTURES AB
Building the infrastructure layer for global fashion & footwear sourcing
Material Exchange Ventures is the company behind Frank – the AI research assistant turning fragmented supplier communication into structured, verifiable supply chain intelligence.
From platform to protocol
We spent a decade building sourcing platforms for fashion and footwear brands. That work taught us the industry’s real bottleneck: platforms require suppliers to adopt something new, and most never do.
Frank is our answer. It’s not a platform – it’s an AI-native, email-first system that meets brands and suppliers where they already work, turning ordinary email exchanges into a structured, continuously-updating supplier knowledge graph.
One email. Global supply.
Frank is an AI supply-chain research assistant for fashion and footwear. Brands ask sourcing questions by email; Frank searches what’s known, goes back to suppliers when something’s missing, and returns a sourced, dated answer. Suppliers use Frank too – to decode briefs, close evidence gaps, and stay answer-ready.
No login. No onboarding project. No platform to adopt.
- Free, by email – open network, ask anything about the industry
- Private deployment – Frank inside your own supplier network, your rules, your data
- In production today with a multi-billion-dollar U.S. footwear brand and a major European fashion group
A decade of supply chain infrastructure
Material Exchange (2019 to now)
Built and scaled a sourcing and material intelligence platform for the fashion and footwear industry.
Material Exchange Ventures (today)
The team regrouped around a different thesis: the reason sourcing platforms don’t stick is that they ask suppliers to change behavior. Frank removes that requirement entirely – it works inside the email inbox suppliers already use.
FDRA and industry partnerships
Material Exchange Ventures maintains long-standing relationships with trade associations including FDRA (U.S. footwear), CLE and ISF (India leather and export bodies) – the distribution backbone for Frank’s supplier network growth. Programme details live on askfrank.com.