Our story

Built inside factories,
not an office tower.

Daita Labs co-founders Jérôme Schmidt, seated, and Luis Voss, standing with a hand on his shoulder

2024

Founded

$1.2M

Raised

Bangalore

HQ

Why does a garment order still travel as WhatsApp screenshots, email chains and spreadsheets?

Daita Labs started in 2024 with a question that wouldn't go away. Luis and Jérôme could have guessed at the answer from a desk. Instead they went and looked.

They spent a year wherever clothes are actually designed, bought and made, from London and Spain to Italy, Germany, Portugal, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Delhi. Then they did the thing most software founders don't: they moved to Tiruppur, India's knitwear capital, and built Daita Labs inside a working factory, next to their first customer, until it fit the way merchandisers, factories, buying offices and brands really work.

Along the way they raised $1.2M. Today Daita Labs is run from Bangalore, and the phone still rings from Tiruppur every day.

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The founders

Two people who moved to the factory.

Jérôme Schmidt, co-founder of Daita Labs

Jérôme

Co-founder

Jérôme grew up in Germany and moved to London to study business and entrepreneurship at Hult, which is where he met Luis. He went on to Snapchat, and then spent time in Africa working on policy and development projects, all the while sketching out what would become Daita Labs.

Then he did something few people would: he moved to Tiruppur for 18 months and lived above a factory. He learned how line workers, merchandisers and account managers actually spend their days, and sat down with textile associations, chairmen and CEOs to hear what keeps them up at night.

Off the clock: At church, or listening to country music.

Luis Voss, co-founder of Daita Labs

Luis

Co-founder

Luis was also born in Germany and also ended up at Hult in London, studying business with a focus on finance, which is where the two met. After university he worked across consulting, private equity and venture capital, and finally at Enpal, leaving his career to build Daita Labs.

Then he joined Jérôme and also moved to Tiruppur, seeing what the industry really looks like: the pain points, the errors, the delays, and the hour-by-hour rhythm of manufacturing.

Off the clock: Playing sport, or with friends and family.

Off the clock

  • Two of the Daita Labs team working on laptops on a train
  • A teammate lining up a pool shot beside a framed cricket jersey
  • The Daita Labs team playing pool after work
  • Holding a Vietnamese flag heart with a partner in Vietnam
  • Two of the team on a trip to the cinema
  • The Daita Labs team out together in the evening
  • Taking a video call on a laptop from the back of a car
  • Standing next to an old tractor at a factory site

The journey

Two years, fourteen stops, one factory floor.

Where it started

2024 · London

Where we met

Where it started

We studied and lived together in London, then went our separate ways into start-ups, tech and finance. Neither of us came from apparel but regularly spoke about the opportunities we were seeing in our fields. Little did we know we would end up working together again, in an industry we knew nothing about.

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