Nimble Patch is a success in Draknästet on SVT

With bids from three out of five dragons, Maria Borbos, founder and CEO of Nimble Patch, had her pick of the litter, and she left the Dragon's Nest with an investment from Jonas Tellander, founder of Storytel. The investment means that Nimble Patch can continue to develop and scale up its circular concept of upgraded children's jeans.

- I am so happy and proud to have Jonas Tellander on this journey. He of all people knows what it is like to run a company that is a pioneer in an industry, so I hope I can benefit from his experience. Because I'm going to need it," says Maria Borbos about the new partnership.

"We are not going to turn over as many pants as possible, we are going to turn over each pair of pants as many times as possible"

Nimble Patch was founded in 2020 in Malmö with a vision to contribute to the sustainable consumption of children's jeans. By upgrading broken jeans with reinforcements on the knees and the possibility to extend the pants with the help of extra fabric in the leg ends, a new product is created that has a longer life and a lower environmental impact.

- Our industry is in urgent need of a transition to sustainable production, both environmentally and socially. By extending the life of children's jeans already produced, they can be worn by more children. Using a garment twice as many times as the average can reduce the climate impact by almost half. We upgrade and repair our jeans in Sweden through suppliers run as social enterprises. At the same time, we strengthen the opportunities for foreign-born women to enter the labor market, which we are very proud of," says Maria Borbos.

Wargön Innovation has been part of the Nimble Patch journey since the beginning. Part of the collaboration between Wargön Innovation and Nimble Patch involves sorting out broken children's jeans from the residual streams of textile products that cannot be resold on the Swedish second-hand market. The broken jeans are then given a new life through reinforcements on the knees using either extra durable fabric or patches from other second-hand jeans.

- We at Wargön Innovation are incredibly happy for Maria and look forward to continuing to develop our collaboration with Nimble Patch. It is exciting to follow someone who is so dedicated to her idea and goal, and now to see her realize it. The fact that broken jeans become a new product that comes back to the market is a good example of a circular business model and exactly in line with our goal of supporting small and medium-sized companies in the transition to a circular economy, says Annika Ödman, sorting manager at Wargön Innovation.

Targeting a broader audience

Through the investment secured in Draknästet, Nimble Patch will also focus on broadening its target audience. In the fall, the REJEANS concept will be launched, which will offer selected and 100% circular products in all categories of denim garments, i.e. not only children's jeans but also shirts, jackets, skirts and more, for both children and adults.


Wargön Innovation provides Nimble Patch with broken children's jeans that cannot be sold second hand. In addition to the collaboration, Wargön Innovation and Nimble Patch work together in the Re-design project, which creates both ecological, economic and social sustainability. In it, the collaboration between Yalla Mellerud and Nimble Patch is being developed with the aim of building a business model for how the parties can scale up redesign and other sewing services.