Le Qara, “leather” in Quechua, an indigenous Andean language, was founded in 2018 by sisters Jacqueline and Isemar Cruz. They won the H&M Foundation’s 2019 Global Change Award for their bioleather. In May 2020, the company was a finalist in the launch category of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Le Qara has filed for patents for its bioleather process and for the product composition and expects to achieve industrial scale production in mid 2022.
Le Qara
