SIGMAS Raises $1M Seed to Scale Its Vertically Integrated Men’s Activewear Brand

SIGMAS didn’t come up through the front door. They went straight through the supply chain, lights on, pressure high, and let the market decide if they belonged. March 2025, Jay Cheng and Daniel Hoang didn’t wait around for retail buyers to bless the vision. They walked straight into the engine room, plugged into SHEIN’s SCAAS machine, and let the market talk back in real time. No guessing, no vanity metrics dressed up as strategy. Just product, pressure, and proof.

Fast forward, and SIGMAS is sitting on 600+ SKUs of men’s activewear, pressure-tested across one of the most unforgiving feedback loops in commerce. You either move units or you move on. That kind of environment doesn’t just build a catalog, it builds instincts. The kind most brands spend years pretending they have.

Now they’ve raised $1M in Seed funding, co-signed by Mucker Capital and HongShan Capital. Not tourist capital. The kind that’s seen enough cycles to know when a brand isn’t playing dress up. Credit to William Hsu and the Mucker crew for backing operators who understand that distribution is leverage, but control is power.

Jay Cheng, Founder and CEO, brings the operator’s lens. Decades around manufacturing and CPG don’t make you loud, they make you precise. Daniel Hoang, Co-Founder and CPO, lives where product meets production. Owning the manufacturing layer, overseeing roughly 90% of output, that’s not delegation, that’s dominance over margin, speed, and quality.

Here’s where it gets interesting. SIGMAS didn’t just launch on a marketplace, they used it like a lab. ARC by SIGMAS wasn’t a side project, it was a signal generator. What fits, what fails, what flies. And now, with SHOPLINE powering the move into direct-to-consumer, they’re shifting from borrowed traffic to owned relationships.

That transition is where most brands stumble. It’s easy to sell where the crowd already is. It’s harder to convince that same crowd to follow you home. But when your product decisions are forged in data instead of ego, the odds start to tilt.

The activewear market is massive, still climbing, still crowded, still ruthless. Size doesn’t hand out wins. Discipline does. Speed does. Knowing exactly who you’re building for and cutting everything else without hesitation.

SIGMAS is betting that mindset isn’t just branding, it’s infrastructure. And if they’re right, this isn’t just about compression gear or gym fits. It’s about building a system where product, supply chain, and identity move in sync.

Congratulations to Jay Cheng, Daniel Hoang, and the entire SIGMAS team. This round didn’t just fund growth, it validated a method. Now the real question lingers in the background, quiet but persistent. When you control the feedback loop, the manufacturing, and now the customer relationship… what exactly are the limits?