VibeIQ, an AI-powered product decision and assortment lifecycle platform, announced $22.5 million in growth financing led by Volition Capital, a Boston-based growth equity firm, with participation from existing investor Venture Guides.
Founded in 2022, Boston-based VibeIQ’s clients include New Balance, Vera Bradley, Converse, and Kizik. VibeIQ said its platform “gives merchandising, design, and product development teams one live view of the product line, connecting creative intent, commercial targets, margin, regional adoption, and downstream status. Embedded AI helps teams identify gaps, duplication, trade-offs, and margin risk, so they can decide what moves forward, changes, or gets cut before development and sourcing commit cost. Customers have reduced planned SKUs, gained visibility months earlier, and eliminated thousands of hours of manual work.”
VibeIQ said the financing will support “continued product investment, deeper integrations, team expansion, and growth across apparel, footwear, consumer goods, and private-label retail.”
“AI is making product creation faster, but speed alone does not produce a better product line,” said Brian Lindauer, CEO of VibeIQ. “Brands need shared creative and commercial context to decide what should exist, what should change, and what gets cut. VibeIQ helps teams make those decisions before development begins, preserve the reasoning behind them, and carry that context forward as products move toward market. This investment will allow us to deepen those capabilities and bring them to more product categories and teams.”
“AI is creating an opportunity to fundamentally transform how consumer brands make product decisions,” said Roger Hurwitz, Managing Partner at Volition Capital. “VibeIQ has built a category-defining platform that gives retail teams a shared decision layer for determining what moves forward, what changes, and what gets cut before significant cost and complexity enter the process. Brian Lindauer and the team have combined deep domain expertise with exceptional execution to address mission-critical challenges for their customers. We’re excited to support the company’s next phase of growth.”
“Our investment reflects our confidence in both the team and the enormous market opportunity ahead,” said Ben Nye, Managing Partner at Venture Guides. “VibeIQ enables customers to make better product decisions while avoiding unnecessary cost, complexity and delay. We’re proud to partner for this next phase of accelerating growth.”
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