Zyod bet fashion sourcing could be as easy as online ordering; $21.5M, three factories

A Gurugram B2B platform helping apparel brands design, source and manufacture clothing through modular design, smart ERP and a network of hand-picked Indian factories.

That apparel manufacturing can work like online ordering: modular designs, low minimum order quantities and short lead times let brands make clothes without waste.

$3.5M seed led by Lightspeed in April 2023, then an $18M Series A led by RTP Global in June 2024 — $21.5M total.

Founded in 2023 by Ankit Jaipuria and Ritesh Khandelwal, who saw that high minimum order quantities and long lead times locked smaller brands out of apparel manufacturing. Their pitch: Zyod and a brand's design team co-create clothing, then Zyod handles sourcing and production so brands can buy smaller batches and cut inventory wastage. A $3.5M seed round led by Lightspeed followed in April 2023.

In June 2024 Zyod raised $18M in a Series A led by RTP Global (with Lightspeed, Alteria Capital, Stride Ventures, Stride One and Trifecta), mostly primary equity. It reported a double-digit-million-dollar annualised revenue run-rate, aimed to triple revenue in FY25, planned to take 80% of business international, and was expanding from 18 countries to more than 40; customers included Reliance, Aditya Birla, Rare Rabbit, FirstCry, NEXT and Landmark Group.

Still live and scaling: by mid-2026 Zyod had opened its third 'excellence hub' in two years — a 100,000+ sq ft Gurugram factory with 750+ machines and capacity for over 60 lakh garments a year, IoT production tracking and automated shirt lines, positioned to serve global retailers such as Marks & Spencer, Walmart and Tesco and expected to create 2,000+ jobs.

Zyod chose the least sexy part of fashion — manufacturing — and turned it into a scalable tech product, avoiding brand-marketing competition.

Modular design plus low minimum orders directly attacked the two costs that keep small fashion brands out of production: MOQs and lead time.

The company made its own factories the demo, proving the model before asking global retailers to trust a software layer.

Data and ERP were positioned as the moat: predicting supply gaps and design trends is what lets brands order smaller batches without missing demand.

Zyod attacked fashion's bottleneck instead of adding another brand: by modularising design and cutting minimum orders, it made the supply chain the product — factories followed.

As of 1 September 2026, ZYOD is private and expanding: its 7P Gurugram factory — the third hub in two years — came partially online on 15 July 2026 with capacity of over 60 lakh garments a year; it says it operates across more than 40 countries, plans to double its customer base and introduce 100,000 unique designs monthly, and remains company-reporting on revenue (a double-digit-million-dollar run-rate at the time of its Series A).