Led by PeerCapital and Regal Fabrics, the Pre-Series A round will help scale Fabriclore’s tech-enabled textile solutions for fashion brands in India and abroad
Fabriclore, a Jaipur-based startup that streamlines fabric discovery, design, and production for fashion businesses, has secured $1.6 million in a Pre-Series A funding round. The investment was led by Bengaluru’s PeerCapital and UAE-based Regal Fabrics, underscoring growing investor interest in startups digitizing India’s massive yet fragmented textile supply chain.
Founded in 2016 by Vijay Sharma, Sandeep Sharma, and Anupam Arya, Fabriclore pivoted last year from a B2C retail model to a B2B fabric sourcing platform. The shift has proven successful, with the company onboarding over 200 private label clients across India and the Middle East within 12 months.
Funding Details:
The $1.6 million in fresh funding will be used to expand Fabriclore’s footprint in key markets like India, the Middle East, Europe, and the USA. Investments in technology are also planned to further streamline operations, enhance the customer experience, and support international scaling.
“B2B supply chain is a segment that demands extensive experience, hands-on know-how of the fragmented landscape, and long-term resilient focus,” said Ankur Pahwa, Managing Partner at PeerCapital. “Armed with these, team Fabriclore is best-positioned to innovate a dormant space with new-age tech enablement and create a catalysing impact on the fabric and D2C industry.”
Fabriclore has established direct partnerships with top fabric mills across India, curating a wide selection of cotton, viscose, polyester, and sustainable textiles. An in-house quality control unit and internationally accredited lab partnerships ensure the company can meet the specific testing and certification needs of global clients.
To provide a hands-on fabric sourcing experience for fashion brands, Fabriclore opened its first Fabric Experience Studio in Jaipur. Offering touch-and-feel access to fabrics from 50+ mills along with print catalogs, design customization, sampling, and more, the studio concept aims to significantly reduce sourcing timelines. More such studios are planned for major Indian and UAE cities.
Founder Insights:
“Our key differentiator is streamlining complex multi-stage fabric processing that includes dyeing, screen printing, digital printing, and block printing techniques,” explained Vijay Sharma, CEO of Fabriclore. “By implementing tech-enabled processes, the company has substantially reduced delays by 20% and customer rejections by 33%, setting a new benchmark in the industry.”
“On the other end, 50 to 60% of the product development cost of a fashion brand is attributed to fabric sourcing alone across multiple vendors for each garment collection,” Sharma noted. “Therefore, we are building add-on software tools for fashion brands to make fabric discovery, sourcing, production and design management much easier.”
Investor Perspective:
Raju Shroff, Managing Director of the 72-year-old UAE conglomerate Regal Group, sees Fabriclore as key to raising the global profile of Indian textiles. “Unlike China, the lack of organised textile sourcing and processing have limited the exposure of Indian textiles in global markets,” said Shroff. “With our 70 years of know-how in the fabric space in the Middle East and Europe, we saw tremendous potential in Fabriclore to take its expertise to several international markets.”
Ecosystem Impact:
India’s textile and apparel industry is worth over $100 billion but remains heavily fragmented, with fabric sourcing a key pain point for the country’s 50,000 fashion brands. By providing a streamlined, transparent, and tech-enabled solution, platforms like Fabriclore could play an important role in organizing this sprawling sector.
The company’s traction and ability to attract experienced international investors like Regal Group also highlights the untapped opportunity in digitizing legacy supply chains. As more Indian startups blend domain expertise with cutting-edge tech stacks to solve structural challenges, major industries beyond textiles could see accelerating modernization and global competitiveness.
Conclusion:
With its latest $1.6 million raise, Fabriclore is well-positioned to scale its innovative B2B fabric sourcing model and expand the global reach of Indian textiles. As the startup deepens its domestic footprint and targets promising international markets, its progress could light the way for more supply chain disruption across the country’s massive manufacturing and export sectors. For India’s startup ecosystem, Fabriclore’s journey from B2C player to B2B pioneer is both an inspiring success story and a sign of the growing trend of specialized, cross-border tech solutions enabling traditional industries.
