Seamly just joined the 2024 Render Capital Accelerator, picking up $100,000 in SAFE notes, as it closes out the year as one of 20 startups in the first ever GitHub Accelerator cohort, which came with $20,000 equity-free. The B2B Saas platform provides advanced fashion design tools under an ‘open core’ business model — monetizing its open source software upon which it is based. (WordPress, upon which 43 percent of all websites are built, uses this model and reports more than $1B ARR.)
Sue Spencer, Seamly CEO
“Most people who design fashion just do it on paper, because the tools that exist in the industry are so expensive and hard to learn... It‘s a mess,” Seamly CEO Sue Spencer told bizblip. “We sit at the intersection of Industry 4.0, AI and Web 3.0.”
The Paducah, Kentucky-based company was founded in January, 2021, has one full time employee (Spencer) and two regular contractors. Spencer tells bizblip that last quarter she’s seen a 52% jump in user trial acquisitions and a 46% bump in user signups on its community forum.
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