… requires resources: a single leather handbag uses up 18,000 liters of water. That’s enough to meet the daily needs … making and crop waste, Mody came to Startup Yale in April 2022 with a pitch: Atma Leather, a company manufacturing … idea,” Mody said. “Then I got $25,000 from Startup Yale’s 2022 Sustainable Venture Prize and could suddenly make it a …