Plant Based
Diapers & Wipes
Bare Needs is an impact company founded by three exited entrepreneurs who came together through their shared desire to eliminate single use plastics and wood from everyday items and replace them with sustainable alternatives.
A plastic free generation!
It all begins with an idea. How can we replace all the every day items we all consume, that are made from unsustainable materials like plastic and replace them our with products that actually help revive and renew our planet?
So we decided to start with the youngest consumers we could find, new born and babies to ensure they become the most sustainable generation ever.
Which is how we ended up in the nappy diaper industry….
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Ciara Donlon
FOUNDER
With a passion for sustainability and supporting women through innovation, Ciara is the exited founder of THEYA Healthcare, one of Ireland’s first femtech companies & Irish adopter of natural fibres in textiles .
Ciara ran THEYA for 10+ years growing the team to 10 staff, winning sales to €5m, developing international textile patents and raising €4m in investment.
Ciara has 25+ years experience in online sales channel management & e-commerce sales (Ulster Bank, Vodafone Ireland, Cup Cakes & THEYA Healthcare) and has won a range of business awards including Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards, Image Business Woman of the Year Awards and the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards
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Mimi Wu
FOUNDER
Mimi Wu is the exited co-founder and CEO of Myanmar Recycles, one of the world’s only industrial-scale, post-consumer plastic bag recycling plants and collection companies based in Myanmar
As a Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards finalist 2021, Mimi built a team of 70 staff and a network of 800 collectors, diverting 2,000 tons of plastic bags from waterways in 3 years.
Piloted the world’s first plastic credits market, contributed to the UN’s Global Plastic Treaty, and provided expert advisory to NASA on global plastic waste management
More recently Mimi was the founder of Global Green Solutions, advising on circularity, supply chains, and climatetech commercialization
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Killian Stokes
FOUNDER
Killian is an award winning exited co-founder of Moyee Coffee UK Ireland an ethical coffee company that brings Ethiopian and Kenyan roasted coffee to corporate and online subscription coffee fans in Ireland and the UK.Established in 2016, Moyee employs 8, has generated €1m in grant aid and €5m+ in repeat online B2C and B2B Corporate sales from a broad range of clients including Google, Patagonia and Airbnb to support 10,000 coffee farmers across East Africa.
Killian is also the CEO of Proudly Made in Africa, a global citizenship education charity snd regularly lectures in Irish business schools on sustainable and responsible business practices.
Killian sits on the Irish Government’s Ireland Africa Rural Development Advisary Committee.