Ciele Athletics has never taken outside investment, and its two co-founders still own the Montreal running-cap brand they started in 2014. They handed daily operations to a professional CEO, a former Vans executive, in 2025 as the brand grew into more than 1,300 stores across 43 countries. It's B Corp certified with a near-perfect score, but a labor review of its overseas supply chain found real gaps — leaving Ciele answerable mainly to its own founders, not to investors or a documented factory-audit record.