Best Fashion Tech Companies in Vancouver, Canada
The 64 best Fashion Tech companies in Vancouver, Canada in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Indochino.
Our analysis of 219 Fashion Tech companies
$16.5b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2022.
Ranked: Best Fashion Tech companies in Vancouver
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indochino Internet-first brand offering custom-tailored menswear | $48M | 100 mo ago | Series C | Drew Green CEO & President | 2007 | Cart FunctionalityAmplienceApple iCloud Mail+43 | — | — |
| 2 | Monos Internet first brand offering smart luggage bags | $40M | 45 mo ago | Series B | Daniel Shin Co-founder at Monos.com / COO | 2018 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyApple iCloud Mail+39 | — | 2 launchs · 2 awards |
| 3 | SoleSavy App-based community-driven discovery platform for sneakers | $14M | 63 mo ago | Series A | Dejan Pralica CEO / Co-Founder | 2018 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+29 | — | — |
| 4 | RYU Apparel Internet first brand offering multi-category sports apparel | $8M | 54 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2008 | — | 16 patents Innovative garment hoods, attachable appendages, and modular bag straps for active wear. | — |
| 5 | Casca Provider of 3D-printed casual footwear | $4M | 79 mo ago | Seed | Braden Parker Co-Founder | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Grounded Peopl Retailer of apparel products | $3M | 29 mo ago | Public | Maximilian Justus Founder & CEO | 2020 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySmile App+27 | — | — |
| 7 | Wolverine Minerals Online retailer of footwear | $3M | 112 mo ago | Deadpooled | Thomas Doyle CEO & President | 2004 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Wantering A fashion search engine | $1M | 148 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
Top 9 Fashion Tech companies in Vancouver
#1
Public · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2020$3Mraised▾
Retailer of apparel products
- Dec 2023Post IPO$501.6K
- Jan 2023Post IPO$2.5M
#2
Series B · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2018 · 78 employees$40Mraised▾
Internet first brand offering smart luggage bags. The platform offers products that includes luggage bags, wallets, handbags, slings, duffel, backpacks, and more. It also offers a few apparel. The company claims to offer sustainable products.
- Sep 2022Series B$30M
- Jan 2022Series A$10M
#3
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2008 · 55 employees$7.9Mraised▾
Internet first brand offering multi-category sports apparel. It offers apparel for the gym, walking, running, and other sports for men and women. It also offers bags. It develops intellectual properties, exclusive patents, and technologies for manufacturing apparel.
- Dec 2021Post IPO—
- Oct 2021Post IPO—
- Dec 2020Post IPO$121.6K
- Nov 2020Post IPO$4.8M
#4
Series A · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2018 · 28 employees$14.5Mraised▾
SoleSavy is an app-based community-driven discovery platform for sneakers. The app allows users to manage & enter sneaker launches, get sneaker news, shop the latest sneaker releases. Its app is available for Android and iOS platforms.
- Mar 2021Series A$12.5M
- Dec 2020Seed$2M
#5
Series C · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2007 · 600 employees$47.8Mraised▾
Internet-first brand offering custom-tailored menswear. Its product catalog includes shirts, suits, pants, blazers, outerwear, and more. The company provides an online platform for its customers to design shirts and suits. It also provides an online ordering system for wedding parties.
- Feb 2018Series C—
- Mar 2016Series C$30M
- Mar 2013Series B$13.5M
- Mar 2011Series A$4M
#6
Seed · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2017 · 16 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Provider of 3D-printed casual footwear. It offers an app that enables consumers to design their custom footware. The company uses 3D printing technology to develop custom insoles and footwear for men and women. It sells products globally via its online store.
- Nov 2019Seed$3.5M
#7
Deadpooled · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2004$2.9Mraised▾
Wolverine Minerals is an online retailer of footwear. The product catalog includes flats, heels, sneakers, boots, and more for women & men. It stocks products of brands such as Charles Clinkard, Hush Puppies, and more.
- Jan 2017Post IPO$17.4K
- Aug 2016Post IPO$22.7K
- Dec 2014Conventional Debt—
- Apr 2014Post IPO$96.5K
#8
Acqui-Hired · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 2011 · 11 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Wantering helps people search, discover, and shop for fashion online. Crawls the web for the hot fashion products, and recommends the ones that match user’s personal style. Uses big data and machine learning they try to create a taste graph in combination with editorial. They rank products in search based on what's trending on sites like Pinterest, Polyvore, and Tumblr. Users can also follow over 1500 style bloggers. Has a Concierge service for shopping.
- Feb 2014Seed$810K
- Dec 2012Seed$470K
- May 2012Seed—
#9
Public · Vancouver, British Columbia · founded 1984 · 8300 employees—raised▾
Aritzia is a casual and formal apparel brand for women offering pants, blouses, sweaters, t-shirts, dresses, jackets, coats, jumpsuits, denim, leggings, puffers, sweatshirts, skirts, and shorts. It owns brand such as Wilfred, Babaton, TNA, Wilfred Free, The Group By Babaton, and more. Sells through their own website, stores, and retailers.
- Dec 2005PE—
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 Canada
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 55 Canada-affiliated papers.
- Queen's University9
- University of Alberta7
- University of British Columbia6
- University of Toronto6
- Carleton University5
- Electrical conductor4
- Coating3
- Fabrication2
- Wearable computer2
- Battery (electricity)2
- Wearable computer6
- Wearable technology5
- Human–computer interaction5
- Nanotechnology3
- Fiber3
- Quality (philosophy)2
- Wearable technology2
- Rehabilitation1
- Focus (optics)1
- Systems engineering1
Where textiles tech is researched across Canada
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 Canada
Canada textiles tech patent filing is steady — 1 filings from 1 assignees (2017–2017), led by Omsignal; annual filings 1→1.
- Omsignal1
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.