What Kumaş does

Kumaş (operating as "KUMAŞ ALINIR") is a privately held Turkish textile trading company headquartered in Zeytinburnu, Istanbul, with operations dating to at least 2017. The company operates as a direct buyer of surplus, excess, and remnant fabric inventory from textile manufacturers, clothing workshops, wholesalers, boutiques, and individual sellers. Its core service model is a mobile on-site purchasing operation: field representatives travel to sellers' locations across Istanbul's textile districts (Merter, Zeytinburnu, Osmanbey) and other Turkish textile centers (Bursa, İzmir) to evaluate fabric type, quality, and quantity, then complete the transaction with same-day cash payment. The platform accepts inbound quotes via a single phone/WhatsApp number (0536 336 43 43) where sellers can send photographs for instant pricing, eliminating the need for negotiation or commission fees.

The company trades across more than 50 fabric categories organized into five specialized buyback products: Kumaş Alan (general fabric buying), Parti Kumaş Alan (bulk/lot purchases), Spot Kumaş Alan (below-market spot purchases), Stok Kumaş Alan (warehouse stock purchases), Parça Kumaş Alan (piece/remainder purchases), and Toptan Kumaş Alan (wholesale volume purchases). Specific fabric types include satin aerobin, crepe, denim, gabardine, poplin, jersey, cotton, velvet, chiffon, viscose, fleece, and linen. There is no proprietary technology platform beyond a WordPress-style SEO content site (kumas.org) with 302 indexed pages targeting city- and fabric-specific search terms; the company explicitly disclaims being a technology business. Revenue is generated entirely through transaction-based fabric purchase-and-resale with no subscription, SaaS, or commission intermediary model. Marketing is exclusively direct-response via phone, WhatsApp, and on-site field visits, with no traditional digital advertising, no partnerships, no certifications, and no institutional backing disclosed.

Name

Kumaş

Legal name

Kumaş

Website

https://kumas.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Kumaş is a privately held Istanbul-based textile trader that buys surplus, excess, and remnant fabric directly from manufacturers, workshops, and individual sellers across Turkey via mobile on-site teams offering same-day cash payment, then resells through wholesale channels.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Istanbul

HQ country

Türkiye

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Fabric Purchase and Resale: The company generates revenue by purchasing surplus, excess, and stock fabric from textile manufacturers, workshops, and individual sellers, then reselling these materials to other buyers in the market.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Kumaş is a direct buyer of surplus, excess, stock, spot, piece, and wholesale fabric lots from textile manufacturers, workshops, and individual sellers in Turkey. The company sends mobile teams to sellers' locations across Istanbul and other textile centers for on-site evaluation and pays cash on the same day. Purchased fabric is resold to downstream buyers including clothing workshops, boutique ateliers, fashion designers, and export companies.

Product overview

Kumaş is a Turkish fabric trading platform based in Istanbul (Zeytinburnu) that operates as a buyer and intermediary for surplus textile inventory. The company's core offering is the Kumaş Alan (Fabric Buying) service, which encompasses several specialized buying categories: Parti Kumaş Alan (bulk/parti lot purchases), Spot Kumaş Alan (below-market spot purchases), Stok Kumaş Alan (warehouse stock purchases), Parça Kumaş Alan (piece/remainder purchases), and Toptan Kumaş Alan (wholesale volume purchases). The platform trades in over 50 fabric types including Saten Aerobin, Krep (Crepe), Kot/Denim, Gabardin, Poplin, Jarse (Jersey), Viskon (Viscose), Cotton, Velvet, Chiffon, Linen, and Fleece. Kumaş connects sellers (factories, workshops, manufacturers) with buyers, providing cash payments and pickup services primarily in Istanbul and across Turkey.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Recovo: Spanish B2B marketplace that buys and resells surplus textile inventory from fashion brands and manufacturers. Highly comparable to Kumaş as both operate as intermediaries monetizing excess fabric stock through wholesale channels.
• Bank & Vogue: Global trader of secondhand and surplus textiles, sourcing bulk lots from brands and manufacturers worldwide. Comparable as a direct surplus-textile intermediary with similar buy-low-sell-high economics to Kumaş.

Broad incumbents

• Crystal International Group: Hong Kong-listed apparel and textile manufacturer with global fabric sourcing operations. Comparable as a large-scale wholesale fabric and garment producer, though vertically integrated rather than a pure trader like Kumaş.
• Pou Chen: Taiwan-based global footwear and apparel manufacturer with massive textile and piece-goods procurement operations. Comparable as a broad incumbent wholesale buyer of fabrics for downstream apparel production.
• Li & Fung: Global apparel sourcing and wholesale giant managing fabric supply chains for major retailers. Comparable as a broad incumbent in the apparel/fabric wholesale space, though operating at much larger scale across multiple geographies.

Emerging players

• FabScrap: US-based nonprofit textile waste recycler that collects and resells surplus fabric from designers and manufacturers. Comparable to Kumaş in addressing the same excess-inventory pain point, though operating in a different geography and with a social-enterprise model.
• I:CO (I:Collect): Textile recycling and surplus-collection company serving apparel brands and retailers globally. Comparable business model focused on monetizing post-production and post-consumer textile flows.

Regional players

• Çalık Tekstil: Major Turkish textile manufacturer and exporter producing yarn, woven, and knit fabrics. Comparable as a Turkish textile counterparty whose production surplus feeds Kumaş's buying operations.
• Söktaş: Turkish fabric manufacturer specializing in shirt fabrics and cotton blends for global apparel brands. Comparable as a domestic textile producer whose overproduction or end-of-season stock could flow to Kumaş.
• Yünsa: Turkish premium wool and fabric producer supplying apparel brands worldwide. Comparable as a domestic upstream textile supplier operating in the same manufacturing ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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