Lectra Announces Strategic Partnership with Six Atomic

The Group wants to capitalize on artificial intelligence to rethink product design and development in fashion

Lectra announces that it has entered into a strategic partnership with the Singaporean company Six Atomic . A major player in the fashion, automotive and furniture markets, Lectra enables its customers to benefit from the advances of Industry 4.0 by offering its software, cutting equipment, data analysis solutions and its services associated with brands, manufacturers and distributors.

Founded in 2020, Six Atomic develops and markets SaaS solutions based on Artificial Intelligence, particularly generative, which simplify and accelerate the process of designing and developing clothing for the fashion market.

Through its pioneering technologies and revolutionary approach to apparel design, Six Atomic aims to automate tedious and low-value product development tasks. Six Atomic’s solutions enable fashion brands to better add value to the know-how of their pattern makers and to capitalize on their heritage of data that is still little exploited - allowing in particular the creation of modular pattern libraries and the rapid grading of patterns. This global approach improves collaboration and efficiency between teams throughout of the garment ideation and development process, thus reducing collection development times.

“We are delighted to partner with Lectra, a leading player in the fashion industry, which shares our vision of product development in the era of Industry 4.0 ,” said Taime Koe and Marc Close, co-founders of Six Atomic . “Lectra’s experience, global presence and customer base will enable us to accelerate the time to market of our offerings. ”

“Six Atomic is an innovative company that combines expertise in Artificial Intelligence with in-depth knowledge of fashion design and product development processes,” said Maximilien Abadie, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Product Officer at Lectra. “The teams at Six Atomic and Lectra will work together to develop technological innovations for fashion companies.

This strategic partnership is accompanied by a minority stake of approximately 18% in the capital of Six Atomic through a capital increase of 2.5 million US dollars. Lectra also has options for a gradual increase in capital of the company in order to support its development.