Best Fashion Tech Companies in Maryland, United States
The 31 best Fashion Tech companies in Maryland, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: jbrds.
Our analysis of 116 Fashion Tech companies
$9.4b in tracked funding; 97% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2021.
Ranked: Best Fashion Tech companies in Maryland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jbrds Internet first brand offering footwear for kids | $500K | 38 mo ago | Seed | Mike Gugat Co-Founder | 2019 | ShopifyAmazon ALBAmazon Web Services+24 | — |
| 2 | Vendoo Platform offering software solutions for resellers | $125K | 55 mo ago | Seed | Chris Amador Co-Founder | 2017 | Webflowanime.jsYouTube+40 | — |
| 3 | Vision Interchange Online trading platform for prescription and non-prescription glasses and frames | $50K | 104 mo ago | Deadpooled | Nan Zhang Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
| 4 | AT NIGHT ATHLETIC Internet first brand of lighted athletic wear | $25K | 103 mo ago | Seed | Julie Polanowski President/CEO | 2016 | — | — |
| 5 | Swaggle App-based marketplace for pre-owned fashion products | $25K | 118 mo ago | Deadpooled | Martin Sherene Co-Founder & CTO | 2017 | — | — |
| 6 | Baggio Internet first brand of smart bags | $25K | 142 mo ago | Seed | Cory Myers Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — |
| 7 | Bandz Internet first brand offering fast fashion jewellery | — | — | Funding Raised | Jordan Potash Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — |
| 8 | charles products Charles Products offers designing, sourcing, manufacturing, and the logistics of customized products. | — | — | Private | — | 1952 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+12 | — |
Top 6 Fashion Tech companies in Maryland
#1
Seed · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2019 · 2 employees$500Kraised▾
Internet first brand offering footwear for kids. It includes shoes with features such as flat soles, vertical stitching, contoured heels, suede bottoms, and more. It also supports developing feet, and more.
- Aug 2023Seed$500K
#2
Seed · Silver Spring, Maryland · founded 2017 · 37 employees$125Kraised▾
Platform offering software solutions for resellers. It offers features like crossposting & inventory storage, inventory management & custom labels, profit tracking & business analytics, marketplace cross-listing, and more. The company offers solutions on the subscription-based policy. The mobile application is available on Android and iOS platforms.
- Mar 2022Seed$500K
#3
Deadpooled · Columbia, Maryland · founded 2016$50Kraised▾
Vision Interchange is an online trading platform for prescription and non-prescription glasses and frames. Users send in their frames with details on the frames that they wish to receive. They accept trade-able quality frames that fall under the specified requirements such as no broken parts, no damages, no missing parts, no heavy scratches, no counterfeits, and not older than 5 years old. Frames sent in should not be less than $60 in retail value. They fix minor touchup blemishes with plastic buffers and clean each pair with lens cleaning solutions and reverse osmosis water systems before sending them out. They also operate VI Foundation,
- Feb 2018Seed$50K
#4
Seed · Towson, Maryland · founded 2016 · 2 employees$25Kraised▾
At Night Athletic is an internet first brand of lighted athletic wear. The company claims that apparels are embedded with LED lights which can be seen by motorists and pedestrians. Also, claims that these are lightweight and washable/dryable.
- Mar 2018Seed$25K
#5
Deadpooled · Baltimore, Maryland · founded 2017 · 3 employees$25Kraised▾
Swaggle is an app-based marketplace for pre-owned fashion products. Products listed are apparels, bags, jewelry, and more. Users can register on the company's platform to sell their products. Buyers can browse through the listed products to make purchases. The mobile application is available for iOS.
- Jan 2017Seed$25K
#6
Seed · Columbia, Maryland · founded 2014$25Kraised▾
Manufacturer of Bluetooth-enabled bag system intended to solve problems experienced by daily bus commuters. The company manufactures and sells bags with a sensor system that wirelessly communicates with the companion smartphone application, helping users to be alert users of missing, low quantity, or no bag contents.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Fashion Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Textiles & Wearable Materials is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Textiles & Wearable Materials — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 288 United States-affiliated papers.
- North Carolina State University19
- University of California, Los Angeles14
- University of Rhode Island12
- University of Minnesota11
- Utah State University10
- Wearable computer6→14
- Nanotechnology2→8
- Wireless1→6
- Composite material2→6
- Embedded system2→6
- Electrical conductor1→7
- Wearable technology2→7
- Wearable computer8→12
- Composite material2→5
- Electronics2→4
- Wearable computer9
- Wearable technology9
- Clothing7
- Architectural engineering5
- Electronics3
Where textiles tech is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing textiles tech patents in the United States
United States textiles tech patent filing is steady — 46 filings from 40 assignees (2016–2025), led by MMI IPCO, Textronics, Cocona; annual filings 2→2.
- MMI IPCO15
- Textronics13
- Cocona10
- IBM9
- Liquid X Printed Metals7
- MIDE Technology6
- Debock Kimberly ANN5
- Fabian David James5
Common questions
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