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B2B online marketplace connecting wholesale secondhand clothing suppliers with retail buyers, focused on vintage fashion retail.
Fleek has raised $67.4M across 5 funding rounds.
Key people at Fleek.
Fleek was founded in 2021 by Abhi Arora (Founder) and Sanket Agarwal (Founder).
Fleek has raised $67.4M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Based in London with operations in New York, Fleek operates a business to business online marketplace connecting wholesale secondhand clothing suppliers with retail buyers globally. The platform digitizes a historically fragmented supply chain, successfully moving 2,500,000 vintage items from 1,000 wholesale suppliers to 10,000 active resellers across 70 countries. Operating with an estimated 21 to 50 employees, the company currently serves over 45 leading retail brands in major markets including the United States, France, and Germany. Fleek has raised $20,900,000 in total venture funding, backed by institutional investors Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and HV Capital, alongside Shopify president Harley Finkelstein and former Depop chief executive Maria Raga. The organization was founded in November 2021 by chief executive officer Abhi Arora and chief technology officer Sanket Agarwal to bring transparency to bulk vintage sourcing.
Fleek was founded in 2021 by Abhi Arora (Founder) and Sanket Agarwal (Founder).
Fleek has raised $67.4M in total across 5 funding rounds.
Fleek's investors include HV Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Anicut Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Polychain Capital, RTP Global, AMIT GOGIA, Julius Köhler, Matthias Hilpert, 100X.VC, AngelList, B Capital Group.
Fleek has raised $67.4M across 5 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $20.4M Seed / Series A in November 2024.
Fleek is a B2B marketplace that connects wholesale suppliers of secondhand fashion with vintage stores and online resellers globally. It facilitates bulk purchasing of authenticated, graded vintage and secondhand clothing, streamlining what was traditionally an offline, fragmented supply chain. Fleek serves as a critical infrastructure player in the growing resale fashion market by enabling retailers to source stock efficiently and reliably from over 1,000 verified suppliers across 10 countries, including major hubs like Pakistan, India, and Dubai. The platform addresses the challenge of inconsistent supply and sourcing inefficiencies in the secondhand wholesale market, helping resellers scale their businesses with transparent pricing, quality control, and hassle-free logistics. Fleek has gained significant traction, working with 10,000 resellers and moving 2.5 million items, reflecting strong growth momentum fueled by rising consumer demand for sustainable fashion[1][2][3][5].
Founded by Abhi Arora and Sanket Agarwal, Fleek emerged from firsthand insights into the vintage clothing supply chain. Abhi, with a background scaling startups and leading growth at Dubsmash, and Sanket, an experienced tech entrepreneur with expertise in consumer product engineering, recognized the inefficiencies wholesalers and retailers faced, especially during travel restrictions that made in-person sourcing impossible. Conversations with vintage shop managers revealed wholesalers were beginning to showcase inventory on social media, but transactions remained ad hoc and inefficient. This insight inspired Fleek’s creation as a digital marketplace to formalize and scale wholesale secondhand fashion sourcing. Since its founding, Fleek has evolved rapidly, raising $20.4 million in seed and Series A funding to expand its platform and global reach[1][2].
Fleek rides the accelerating trend of sustainable fashion and circular economy models, driven by growing consumer demand for secondhand apparel, especially among Gen Z and millennials. The timing is critical as traditional wholesale sourcing was disrupted by global travel restrictions, pushing the market toward digital solutions. Fleek leverages technology to digitize and streamline a historically offline, fragmented supply chain, enabling transparency, efficiency, and scale. This transformation supports the broader shift toward sustainable consumption and retail innovation. By connecting global suppliers with resellers, Fleek also fosters economic opportunities in emerging markets that serve as major hubs for secondhand clothing distribution. Its platform contributes to the maturation of the resale ecosystem, influencing how vintage fashion is sourced, priced, and distributed worldwide[1][2].
Fleek is positioned to capitalize on the expanding secondhand fashion market by continuing to scale its supplier network, enhance sourcing technology, and deepen logistics integration. Future trends shaping its journey include increasing consumer preference for sustainable fashion, advances in AI-driven inventory matching, and potential expansion into adjacent categories or services such as resale analytics or direct-to-consumer channels. As Fleek grows, it may evolve from a marketplace to a broader platform powering the circular fashion economy, potentially influencing industry standards for quality, pricing, and supply chain transparency. Its ongoing impact will likely accelerate the digital transformation of wholesale vintage fashion, making sustainable apparel more accessible and scalable globally[1][2][5].
Key people at Fleek.
