Stuart Ahlum

Stuart Ahlum is Co-Founder & COO of SuperCircle, the full-stack textile waste platform turning waste into a profit driver for 85+ leading retail brands — including Reformation, J.Crew, and FIGS. SuperCircle’s AI-powered sortation dynamically routes textiles across 50+ reuse and recycling streams, powering both consumer trade-in programs and back-end excess inventory solutions. To date, SuperCircle has diverted 10M+ textiles from landfill.

Before SuperCircle, Stuart founded Thousand Fell, the first circular footwear company, where he built the reverse logistics and recycling infrastructure that became a blueprint for retail circularity. He brings a decade of apparel and tech startup experience, including supply chain development in China. Stuart is a Princeton alumnus, recipient of Princeton’s PEN Entrepreneurship Award, and a graduate of Google’s Circular Economy & AI Accelerator.