Inqova

What Inqova does

Inqova is a Hong Kong-based marketing and sales services firm founded in 2015 that operates exclusively within the textile and apparel manufacturing vertical. The company serves yarn, fabric, and garment manufacturers across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, offering an integrated suite delivered under a 'Design Studio' umbrella — brand identity design, custom websites and digital showrooms, search/AI presence management, LinkedIn and social media marketing, email campaigns, photography and video production, trade show booth design, and sustainability reports — alongside a proprietary Sales Intelligence CRM/order management platform accessible via app.inqova.com. Notable technology components include the RevOS internal revenue operating system and, historically, the INDIKÒN 3D denim digitization service co-developed with Bandicoot Imaging Sciences (divested to Bandicoot in 2020).

Inqova's revenue model combines project-based professional services fees for branding, website, and marketing engagements with implied retainer arrangements for ongoing multi-year client work and a potential recurring component from the Sales Intelligence software subscription. The firm targets three buyer personas within client organizations: Owners/CEOs, Marketing Leaders, and Sales Leaders. Go-to-market is sales-led via a website inquiry form, with the company committing to a reply within one business day containing scope, timeline, and pricing. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed; no channel partners or marketplace distribution are used.

Inqova is founder-controlled, led by Managing Director Jørgen Sevild, Creative Director Natali Sevild, and Head of Research & Insights Dr. Logan McCage, with no disclosed institutional funding. The firm maintains a roster of approximately 15+ named enterprise and association clients including Smit & Zoon, Interloop, Advance Denim, Cone Denim, Sapphire, Panther Textiles, Li & Fung, Stella Blu Textile, Archroma, Prosperity Textiles, Crystal Group, Carbon Disclosure Project, Optitex, ChromeFree Leather Alliance, and Winnitex. The company has demonstrated the ability to sustain multi-year engagements (notably a 6-year relationship with Stella Blu Textile) and to deliver quantifiable client outcomes such as 50-100 new qualified contacts per month.

Name

Inqova

Legal name

INQOVA

Website

https://inqova.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Inqova is a Hong Kong-based, textile-and-apparel-specialist marketing agency serving yarn, fabric, and garment manufacturers globally with branding, website, digital showroom, marketing, and proprietary Sales Intelligence CRM services since 2015.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Kowloon City

HQ country

Hong Kong SAR China

HQ region

Asia

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Branding & Design: Brand identity design including logo, colours, visual design systems, business cards, stationery, brochures, catalogues, swatch cards, hang tags. Delivered as project-based engagements.
2. Professional Services - Website & Digital Showroom: Custom website design and development, digital showroom creation, eCommerce integration. Delivered as project-based engagements.
3. Professional Services - Marketing & Sales: Search & AI presence management, LinkedIn & social media marketing, email campaigns & newsletters, trade show booth design, photography & video production, sustainability reports. Ongoing retainer arrangements implied by multi-year client relationships.
4. Sales Intelligence Software & CRM: CRM & order management tools, sales intelligence platform accessible via app.inqova.com. May include ongoing subscription component for software access.
5. Research Reports & Guides: downloadable resources including The LinkedIn Marketing Guide and The LinkedIn Messaging Playbook, positioned as free downloads to support marketing objectives and generate leads.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

No source material was provided describing Inqova's core offerings.

Product overview

INQOVA operates as a growth partner for the textile and apparel industry, offering a suite of services organized under a Design Studio umbrella and two additional core product lines. The Design Studio provides three integrated modules: Branding & Sales Material (logo, brand guidelines, catalogues, hang tags, and stationery), Website & Showroom (custom websites and digital showrooms discoverable on Google and AI), and Search, Social & AI (LinkedIn/social media management, email campaigns, CRM integration). Complementary core products are Sales Intelligence (a web-based sales intelligence platform for textile manufacturers), Research Lab (market research, buyer analysis, and competitive intelligence), and Pricing & ROI (pricing strategy and ROI advisory). The company has also developed and launched client-specific brand campaigns and digital products documented as case studies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• INQOVA RevOS: Sales intelligence platform offered by INQOVA for the textile industry

Products and services

• Unknown - no source material was provided No source material was provided describing any specific products or services from Inqova.

Quantifiable outcome

• 50-100 new qualified contacts per month

Named customers22 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Bandicoot Imaging SciencescoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2020INQOVA co-developed the INDIKÒN 3D denim digitization service with Bandicoot Imaging Sciences, a Sydney-based deep tech company. Bandicoot provided the core digitization technology (accurate and scalable fabric scanning), while INQOVA provided branding, website, and marketing. INDIKÒN was subsequently acquired by Bandicoot Imaging in 2020, with Bandicoot now operating the platform independently at indikon.co.
• House of GoldminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLos Angeles-based denim consultancy that partnered with Blue Diamond (an INQOVA client) to undergo a brand makeover for entry into the Western market. INQOVA was engaged as part of this broader strategic repositioning effort.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Interbrand: Interbrand is a global brand consultancy offering brand strategy, identity, and experience design across many industries including fashion and luxury. It is comparable to INQOVA as a broad incumbent that competes for enterprise textile/apparel brand engagements but does not specialize exclusively in textile manufacturing.
• FutureBrand: FutureBrand is a global brand consultancy with experience in fashion, luxury, and consumer goods. Comparable to INQOVA on enterprise brand identity and strategy engagements for textile and apparel clients, though broader in scope and larger in scale.
• Landor & Fitch: Landor & Fitch is a large global branding and design consultancy serving consumer goods, fashion, and apparel clients. It overlaps with INQOVA on brand identity and design work for textile-adjacent enterprises but operates at much larger scale and broader scope.
• Siegel+Gale: Siegel+Gale is a global brand strategy and design consultancy working across industries including consumer and apparel. Comparable to INQOVA as a broad incumbent brand consultancy competing for similar identity and brand-strategy work, but at significantly larger scale.

Emerging players

• CLO3D: CLO3D is a 3D garment design and simulation platform widely used by apparel brands and mills. Comparable to INQOVA's prior INDIKÒN capability as an emerging player in digital fabric and garment workflows serving the same textile supply chain.
• Bandicoot Imaging Sciences: Bandicoot is the Sydney-based deep-tech company that co-developed INDIKÒN with INQOVA and subsequently acquired the platform in 2020. It is comparable as an emerging player in fabric digitization serving the same denim/textile customer base, and is also an INQOVA branding client.
• Optitex: Optitex offers 3D fashion design and digital prototyping solutions and is both a former INDIKÒN integration partner and a listed INQOVA client. It is comparable as an emerging tech vendor operating in the same textile-manufacturer ecosystem INQOVA serves.
• Browzwear: Browzwear provides 3D fashion design software for garment and fabric visualization. It is comparable to INQOVA's INDIKÒN-era offering as an emerging textile-tech platform serving the same mills and brands, and its files were compatible with INDIKÒN outputs.

Direct peers

• LPK: LPK is a brand and design consultancy that has historically served consumer and fashion brands — a directly comparable industry-specialized creative/branding agency. It competes with INQOVA for fashion and apparel brand-building engagements and shares the 'specialist creative partner' positioning.

Others

• Jeanologia: Jeanologia is a Spanish technology company specializing in sustainable denim finishing (including eDesigner digital laundry software) that collaborated with INQOVA on digital fabric inputs for its workflows. Comparable as an ecosystem partner/technology enabler in INQOVA's textile manufacturing value chain.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@inqova
• LinkedInhk.linkedin.com/company/inqova
• Instagraminstagram.com/inqova/?hl=en
• Xx.com/inqova

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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