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The Menswear Brand That Ships a New Wardrobe Every Single Day
Siddharth Dungarwal turned a shut-down B2B clothing business into a menswear machine that launches around 35 designs a day - and got all five sharks to write a cheque.
SHEIN Turned the Fitting Room Into a Feedback Loop
The $40 billion fashion machine does not begin with a runway forecast. It begins with a tiny batch, a live stream of clicks and a question repeated at industrial speed: should we make more?
Dana Tuchman
Dana Tuchman is the Chief Marketing Officer of Edikted, the Gen Z women's fashion brand that turned #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt and a signature pink package into one of the most talked-about retail stories of the decade. Trained in economics and performance media in Israel, she moved from managing paid search at global agencies to steering the marketing engine behind a brand that scaled to roughly $119M in revenue and is doubling its retail footprint. Her playbook leans on organic virality, aggressive gifting, and unboxing culture rather than traditional influencer paydays.
Cupshe
Cupshe is a California-inspired, direct-to-consumer beachwear brand for women that sells trendy, affordable swimwear, bikinis, cover-ups, activewear and loungewear. Founded in 2015 by former Alibaba CEO David Wei, the internet-first label pairs a Shopify-powered DTC website and app with a strong Amazon presence, reaching millions of customers across more than 100 countries. Known for vibrant prints, size-inclusive fits and $15-$30 price points, Cupshe grew into a roughly $150M-plus swimwear business and has expanded into recycled, GRS-certified sustainable collections.
Edikted
Edikted is a Los Angeles-based, Gen Z-focused online fashion brand founded in 2020 by former Adika executives Dedy Shwartzenberg and Zvika Alon. It sells trend-led, affordable women's apparel and accessories - dresses, denim, tops, swimwear and more - and rose to prominence through viral TikTok marketing. After starting online-only, Edikted has expanded into physical retail, opening flagship stores in major U.S. malls and moving into Europe, positioning itself as a curated, community-driven alternative to ultra-fast-fashion players like Shein and Temu.
Hello Molly
Hello Molly is an Australian online women's fashion retailer founded in Sydney in 2012 by university graduate Echo Liu. It sells trend-led, affordable dresses, occasionwear, swimwear, tops, bottoms, rompers, shoes and accessories directly to a global, mostly Gen-Z and millennial audience, releasing over 100 new styles a week. Built on data-driven trend-spotting, in-house design and heavy use of social media and influencer marketing, the company grew from a A$50,000 loan into a business exceeding A$100 million in annual revenue, with roughly half of sales coming from the United States.
Cider
Cider is a Los Angeles-headquartered, social-first fashion brand built for Gen Z. Launched in 2020, it uses a data-driven 'smart fashion' supply chain to read trends off TikTok and Instagram, produce in small batches, and ship trendy, affordable women's apparel to customers in more than 130 countries. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and DST Global, Cider became a unicorn roughly a year after launch and is widely framed as a leaner, more curated challenger to Shein.
Michael Wang
Michael Wang is the cofounder and CEO of Cider, a Gen Z fashion brand he started in September 2020 during the pandemic and grew into a billion-dollar, social-first company selling trend-driven womenswear to more than 100 countries. A UC Berkeley applied-math graduate and former KKR and IDG Capital investor, Wang built and ran market strategy for YCloset (often called the Rent the Runway of China) before founding Cider. He installs his own software inside factories, releases new styles daily on a near-zero-inventory model, and treats Instagram and TikTok as the storefront. He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018.
Kenneth Chan
Kenneth Chan is a serial internet entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Tobi, a women's fast-fashion e-commerce brand based in South San Francisco. Chan built Tobi from the ground up as a vertically integrated fashion-tech company capable of taking a garment from sketch to delivery in under eight weeks. With roots in the dot-com era — having co-founded Everyone.net (a top-50 website with 25M+ users) and scaled Connexus/Netblue to a $100M internet marketing firm — Chan brought Silicon Valley engineering discipline to the traditionally analog fashion industry. Tobi serves customers across 100+ countries with trendy women's apparel, leveraging proprietary e-commerce infrastructure and data-driven trend forecasting. Chan was named an Apparel Magazine 2019 Top Innovator for his work reimagining mobile commerce at Tobi.