A pair of new deals for Ziel could help boost the profile of the New York-based on-demand activewear manufacturer.
The start-up, a member of the XRC Labs accelerator program since January, participates in a demo day for the program Friday with an aim to raise a seed round that would help the company scale. Ziel has so far grown through a combination of bootstrapping as well as an undisclosed amount of angel funding. The company so far counts 10 clients with a worker count of seven.
Company founder and chief executive Marleen Vogelaar confirmed Ziel struck a deal with plus-size subscription box company Gwynnie Bee on a 10-style activewear collection offered in sizes 16 to 30. The collection includes a mix of both tops and bottoms and is due out by June.
The company is also set to produce a collection for model Candice Huffine by around the same timeframe. That collection is also expected to be 10 pieces.
“We are really ramping up the growth right now. We’re really scaling this. We’re at the end of the beginning,” said Vogelaar of where the company’s at in its life cycle.
Vogelaar, trained in industrial engineering, is the founder and former coo and cfo of 3-D
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