How I Started A $80K/Month B2B Sourcing Portal For The Fashion Industry

May 24th, 2020

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Apaar Gupta

Founder, The Design Cart

$120K

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

The Design Cart

thedesigncart.com

from New Delhi, Delhi, India

started January 2018

$120,000

revenue/mo

Founders

Employees

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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hi, I am Apaar from New Delhi, India and I am the founder of The Design Cart. I am a typical IT engineer + MBA grad and have worked with 2 of the largest Indian startups before starting my venture. The Design Cart is an online B2B sourcing portal for the fashion industry working with fashion designers, studios and apparel brands to help them source their raw material. We are currently operational only in India and help the fashion industry source textiles, fabrics, accessories, and trims, while also reducing their procurement timelines & costs by over 30%.

Our online store has been live since January 2018 and it’s been 2 years since I have been running this venture. Operationally we are sort of a marketplace like Amazon but only in the fashion supply vertical. We work as a managed marketplace and have deployed proprietary technology on the backend to ensure seamless operations which is the single most important function in many to many marketplace models which can either make or break your company.

Currently we work with some of...

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