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Teli: Knitten software will enable on-demand apparel manufacturing in retail stores

Sitar Teli · 20 VC: How To Say No Fast and Efficiently and Why UX Must Always Be At The Core Of What You Do with Sitar Teli, Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures · Dec 30, 2015 · at 26:50

Sitar Teli is Managing Partner at Connect Ventures. She outlines the long-term potential of portfolio company Knitten.

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“In the much longer term, I can imagine walking into Azara and having them print me some clothes. Yeah. And it's the software that, that Knitten is developing that really enables that to happen at scale and at a way that's cost competitive with what people do now.”

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The claim, plainly

Knitten's software will enable on-demand clothing manufacturing in retail stores like Zara at scale and cost-competitively.

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Assessment

As of 2026, there is no evidence that software from Knitten (or any successor entity) was ever deployed in major retail chains such as Zara to manufacture clothing on-demand inside stores. Furthermore, major fast-fashion retailers continue to rely on centralized regional manufacturing hubs rather than in-store fabrication, as physical and economic constraints make in-store unit-of-one garment manufacturing cost-ineffective and unscalable compared to traditional high-volume production.

There is no public record of Knitten or a successor company deploying in-store garment manufacturing software in major retail chains like Zara.
Zara and its parent company Inditex rely on centralized fast-fashion supply chains and have focused in-store technology investments on RFID tracking, augmented reality, and logistics rather than in-store fabrication.
Industry evaluations confirm that in-store automated garment production faces severe speed and cost constraints, making it economically uncompetitive with traditional factory manufacturing at scale.

Checked against

[1] grupormultimedio.com [2] wikipedia.org [3] knitup.io [4] textileschool.com [5] newasiagarment.com [6] hbs.edu [7] medium.com [8] genlook.app

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assessed as of 2026-07-31

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