Mentor helping to tame Main Line’s Wild Mantle

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Avi Loren Fox used Kickstarter to help fund her retail business, Wild Mantle.

It was in August 2015 and in a Main Line coffee shop when Avi Loren Fox, then 27,  strayed away from her laptop while working on her business on the Green Bean’s tiny patio in Gladwyne to encounter Steve Burt, twice her age, who was at a nearby table with his wife, Cristina, talking about sustainability.

Fox overheard them, instantly intrigued. Sustainability was a passion of the 2010 Temple University graduate with a degree in environmental studies, and a priority in her new business, Wild Mantle, producers of fashionable hooded scarves and lightweight ponchos. Fox informally started the business soon after wearing one of her homemade creations into a Narberth tavern in 2013 to rave reviews, writes Diane Mastrull in The Philadelphia Daily News.

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“I very much had my antenna up for like-minded changemakers and entrepreneurs,” Fox recalled of that day on the Green Bean patio.

She found one in Burt, 62, a business-growth expert and native of Wales with a background in environmental economics who had recently launched a software start-up, View13, to provide supply chain transparency. They talked about their businesses but would not reconnect until two years later, when Fox took a bold step that is now leading to another one for her fledgling company.

“I reached out about Wild Mantle and said, ‘Hey, would you sit down and look at this with me?’ Steve immediately got the vision and we started actively working on the growth plan that we are now taking to investors.”

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