Farfetch

Farfetch is an online platform established in 2008 that connects buyers and sellers in the luxury fashion sector. It collaborates with over 1,000 independent boutiques and luxury brands, offering a diverse range of products, including clothing, accessories, and footwear. The company operates a comprehensive e-commerce website that enables these retailers to showcase their inventories to nearly a million active customers. Farfetch's technology infrastructure is designed to facilitate the luxury fashion ecosystem, featuring an API-enabled proprietary technology stack that supports applications, services, and data management. The platform also includes the Browns stores and the New Guard Group, enhancing its retail capabilities. Farfetch generates revenue by charging a commission on sales made through its marketplace, typically exceeding 30%.

Christian Leybold

Investor

Michael Mitterlehner

Investor

José Neves

Founder, Chairman and CEO

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Numbers Protocol

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Numbers Protocol provides content verification for AI-powered companies and creativity tools. It offers efficient and low-cost digital provenance infrastructures and decentralized storage, which not only enhance trust in digital content but also provide a pathway for innovative content monetization strategies.

My AI

Seed Round in 2023
My AI is a technology company that develops a blockchain-based loyalty rewards protocol platform, known as the Me Protocol. This platform enables businesses of any size to create rewards that can be instantly redeemed across various global loyalty programs. It combines the benefits of both closed and open loyalty programs, offering brands full control and enhanced customer retention and acquisition, all through a simple API integration.

Me Protocol

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Me Protocol is the open rewards layer for the digital economy that allows to create rewards that are instantly redeemable.

Nettle Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Nettle is the next step in the evolution of digital pay and loyalty rewards. It makes you and your customers Net Zero with every transaction, deepens customer engagement, and creates impact, with no extra effort at all.

Decommerce

Venture Round in 2023
Decommerce is a technology company that specializes in community software. It enables brands to establish and manage communities directly on their own websites or landing pages, fostering engagement and interaction among their customers. The platform provides brands with valuable insights into community performance and member behavior, empowering them to create immersive, brand-centric experiences.

Wovn

Seed Round in 2023
Powering the web3 creator economy

Solaire

Seed Round in 2023
The Search Engine and Peer-to-peer Marketplace for Connected/Digital Product Passport-enabled Goods

Caviar

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Caviar is a technology company that specializes in developing a platform for the trading of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Its platform enables users to buy and sell NFTs instantly and easily, catering to a wide range of NFT types, from common to rare. Caviar aims to foster liquidity in the NFT market by providing a venue for traders to buy and sell NFTs, and by offering incentives to attract and retain users. Additionally, the company introduces innovative trading models, such as futures, to enhance the trading experience.

Lokkaroom

Seed Round in 2022
LokkaRoom is a web-based software company focused on enhancing interaction between sports fans and athletes. Its platform offers fans unique access to their sporting idols, while also providing sports organizations, clubs, and athletes with innovative methods to acknowledge and reward fan support. Through features like live voting and instant rewards, LokkaRoom facilitates engaging experiences that allow fans and players to connect and participate in their favorite sports more interactively.

Societal

Seed Round in 2022
Societal is a developer of a web3 platform that leverages blockchain technology to enhance human coordination systems. The company provides governance models and a customizable governance builder that includes features such as one member-one vote, identity and credential weighted voting, nominated voting, token voting, ownership weighted voting, and technical committee voting services. Its platform serves as a streamlined software-as-a-service application for a variety of web3 groups, including those in the creator economy, protocols, social clubs, gaming, and decentralized autonomous organizations. By enabling on-chain communities to organize, collaborate, and grow, Societal aims to facilitate the development of innovative governance structures and enhance community engagement in the evolving landscape of societal frameworks.

Lomads

Seed Round in 2022
Lomads is a developer of a decentralized collective platform designed to enhance collaboration within the increasingly vital sectors of decentralized science and open source initiatives. The platform addresses common challenges faced by collectives, such as disorganized tools and unclear permissions, by providing a unified system that facilitates real-time monitoring, access management, and streamlined fund distribution. Its features include a clean dashboard and workflow automation tools that help manage contributions effectively. Additionally, Lomads employs a knowledge ledger to document the evolution of projects and recognizes participant contributions through soulbond tokens, enabling transparent tracking and rewards for active involvement.

Drex

Seed Round in 2022
DREx is a network of energy prosumers, technicians, final energy consumers, and parties in need of carbon offsetting that operates under contract and seeks to accelerate access to clean energy.

P360

Seed Round in 2022
P360 operates a web3-based platform focused on enhancing player and fan engagement, particularly in the context of major league hockey. The company leverages blockchain technology to create immersive experiences that allow fans to build online communities and connect through both virtual and real-life events. P360 offers digital collectibles that provide access to exclusive features and content, fostering a deeper connection between players and their fans. By integrating these elements, P360 aims to bring the excitement of hockey into the metaverse, creating new opportunities for interaction and engagement.

Curie

Seed Round in 2022
Curie is a developer of a three-dimensional product generation platform designed to enhance the online shopping experience. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the company transforms 2D images into realistic 3D models, allowing retailers to digitize their entire product offerings at scale. This innovative approach enables customers to interact with lifelike representations of products, facilitating informed purchasing decisions. Curie's extensive library of 3D content serves various sectors, including e-commerce, AI training, and the Metaverse, ensuring that brands can effectively transition their physical products into the digital realm. Through its technology, Curie aims to provide a more engaging and immersive shopping experience for consumers while helping retailers streamline their online presence.

Wear

Seed Round in 2022
WEAR is a pioneering luxury platform in Asia that specializes in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for brands and contemporary artists. It offers a curated marketplace where users can purchase authenticated limited edition digital collectibles and create personalized virtual spaces to showcase their NFT collections. The platform facilitates interaction among collectors, fostering a community centered around digital ownership. By providing brand partners with a comprehensive solution for product creation, experience curation, and sales, WEAR introduces innovative business models and revenue opportunities. This includes new storytelling channels and engagement strategies, enhancing the overall experience for both creators and collectors in the luxury NFT market.

Reblium

Seed Round in 2022
Reblium is a developer of a platform that enables users to create and customize avatars for sharing on social media. The platform provides tools for developing a digital identity and facilitates movement within the metaverse. Users have full ownership of their digital fashion items and retain commercial rights for their avatars. In addition to avatar creation, Reblium offers services related to shareable content, including meme generation and in-app purchases, as well as an ecosystem for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The company aims to enhance the online presence of creators by providing resources to craft personalized and engaging digital experiences.

Altr

Seed Round in 2022
Altr is a digital fashion platform focused on enhancing the value of cultural heritage and archival fashion. The company specializes in digitizing, showcasing, and commercializing fashion archives, allowing users to preserve and celebrate fashion heritage while making it relevant to contemporary digital spaces. By propelling the longevity of heritage fashion, Altr aims to create new opportunities for existing fashion assets, enabling a deeper connection between the past and present within the fashion industry.

SKNUPS

Seed Round in 2022
SKNUPS operates a digital fashion platform that caters to gamers, crypto enthusiasts, and fashion followers, enabling them to enhance their digital skins across both web2 and web3 environments. The company has developed a hybrid ownership platform that integrates digital fabrication with metaverse capabilities, allowing users to engage with billions of potential assets. Its offerings include tools for Airdrops, which provide equitable access to digital goods for the community, as well as climate-friendly NFTs crafted on the Solana blockchain. Additionally, SKNUPS features social flexing tools and fan composability, alongside integrations with various web2 and web3 games, thereby enriching the user experience in the evolving digital landscape.

iiNDY

Pre Seed Round in 2022
iiNDY is the leading Conversational Marketing and Commerce platform. We use AI to create custom conversational experiences that engage, reward and convert customers within the messaging apps that your customers love. Unlike traditional email, sms and social media marketing tools, iiNDY is designed from the ground up to power conversational marketing and commerce. Enabling marketers from leading consumer Brands to shift from one-way broadcasting/yelling at customers, to deeply engaging them in conversational experiences on their customers' terms. We're backed by Outlier Ventures and Farfetch, and former leaders from PayPal, Nike, YouTube, Depop, Niatnic, Epic Games, and more.

Yoox Net-a-Porter Group

Post in 2022
YOOX Net-A-Porter Group S.p.A. is an online luxury fashion retailer headquartered in Milan, Italy. The company operates several multi-brand online platforms, including NET-A-PORTER.COM, MR PORTER.COM, and YOOX.COM, as well as off-season retailers like OUTNET.COM and THECORNER.COM. In addition to retail, YOOX Net-A-Porter Group designs and manages online flagship stores for various fashion and luxury brands, offering services in web marketing, design, and consulting. Established in 2000, the company serves a global market that includes regions such as Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific, addressing diverse luxury fashion customer segments and promoting eco-friendly fashion products.

Allure Systems

Acquisition in 2022
Allure Systems is a technology company that specializes in creating apparel images for online retail using artificial intelligence. Founded in 2017 and based in Brooklyn, New York, the company provides a cloud-based platform that enables fashion-centric e-retailers and brands to generate high-quality garment images without the need for models or photographers on-site. By utilizing advanced AI and computer vision technologies, Allure Systems can produce personalized images that showcase clothing on a variety of models in different poses and sizes, enhancing consumer engagement and streamlining the image production process for e-commerce businesses.

WANNA

Acquisition in 2022
WANNA is a company that designs and develops augmented reality (AR) mobile software, specifically focused on the beauty and fashion sectors, including luxury items and footwear. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Minsk, Belarus, WANNA employs advanced technologies such as computer vision, neural networks, and rendering to provide innovative try-on, fitting, sizing, and personalization services. Its flagship product, Wanna Kicks, is recognized as the first-ever AR try-on solution for shoes. The company's platform aims to enhance the online shopping experience by enabling consumers to visualize products in real life, ultimately increasing conversion rates and reducing return rates for e-commerce brands. Additionally, WANNA's solutions help improve brand awareness, recognition, and customer engagement in the retail environment, thereby transforming traditional shopping experiences.

Neiman Marcus Group

Corporate Round in 2022
Neiman Marcus Group, LLC is a luxury fashion retailer based in Dallas, Texas, specializing in the online sale of high-end designer apparel, shoes, handbags, jewelry, and beauty products for women, men, and children. The company offers a variety of products including contemporary sportswear, decorative home accessories, and fine dining items under brand names such as Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, MyTheresa, and Last Call. Neiman Marcus Group operates as an omni-channel retailer, reaching customers both domestically and internationally through physical stores, mobile applications, and various online platforms. Established in 1907, the company has adapted to market trends by providing off-price and contemporary fashion lines while maintaining a commitment to luxury and quality.

BuyBuddy

Seed Round in 2022
BuyBuddy is an innovative IoT solution that is transforming the retail industry through the deployment of advanced smart tags. These tags are designed to provide real-time insights into customer interactions within physical stores, allowing retailers to better understand consumer behavior. By capturing data on how customers engage with products—such as picking up items or spending time examining them—BuyBuddy enables retailers to enhance the shopping experience and improve conversion rates. The technology utilizes multiple sensors and machine-learning algorithms to deliver detailed inventory information, anticipate stock movements, and facilitate remote store management. This allows retailers to focus more on selling rather than managing daily operations. By bridging the gap between online and offline retail, BuyBuddy aims to create a seamless and personalized shopping experience that maximizes marketing return on investment.

Vaultik

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Vaultik is a pioneering luxury fintech solution that integrates EU regulation compliant digital identification with blockchain-secured certificates of ownership and on-chain insurance. Its innovative web3 platform features a digital vault designed to safeguard luxury products while enhancing the connection between brands and customers. By providing a unique certification of ownership that is securely housed and verified, Vaultik addresses critical issues in the luxury market, such as theft, loss, damage, and product authentication. This comprehensive approach not only protects luxury goods but also enriches the post-sale experience, ensuring that both brands and consumers benefit throughout the lifecycle of a product.

Violet Grey

Acquisition in 2022
Violet Grey Inc. is a beauty retail company that offers a wide range of beauty care products through both physical stores and an online platform. Founded in 2010 and based in West Hollywood, California, the company provides an extensive selection of makeup products, including foundations, concealers, lipsticks, and eye care items, as well as skincare essentials like cleansers, toners, and moisturizers. Additionally, Violet Grey features hair care products, tools and accessories, and gift items. The company also operates THE VIOLET FILES, a digital magazine focused on beauty content, alongside offering private makeup applications and tutorials. Initially established as a private dressing studio for Hollywood figures, Violet Grey has evolved into a marketplace known for its curated beauty recommendations and reviews.

Luxclusif

Acquisition in 2021
Luxclusif is a technology and data-driven business-to-business platform specializing in the sale and acquisition of secondhand luxury goods globally. It operates an online curated marketplace that features a diverse collection of certified pre-owned, vintage, and collectible items, including handbags, apparel, watches, spectacles, jewelry, and accessories from renowned brands. By providing access to high-end luxury vintage products at more affordable prices, Luxclusif caters to customers seeking quality luxury items while promoting sustainability in the fashion industry.

Colvin

Series C in 2021
Colvin is an innovative online flower marketplace aimed at transforming the floriculture industry, valued at $120 billion. By digitizing the supply chain, Colvin addresses significant challenges such as fragmentation, economic inefficiency, and environmental impact, which often results in up to 30% product waste from farm to retail. The company eliminates intermediaries and associated costs, allowing customers to purchase flowers directly and conveniently from home. This approach not only enhances the customer experience but also promotes greater sustainability within the industry, ensuring that flowers can be sent as expressions of love and joy in a more efficient manner.

FavourUp

Convertible Note in 2020
FavourUp is a technology company focused on enhancing engagement for fashion brands through innovative solutions. It provides a platform that allows fashion, retail, and travel brands to leverage user-generated content, particularly images captured by influencers on social media. By utilizing a unique algorithm, FavourUp transforms this content into authentic endorsements, facilitating easier management and showcasing of brand exposure. This approach not only amplifies customer engagement but also creates a continuous flow of localized content, helping brands connect more effectively with their audiences.

Didimo

Venture Round in 2019
Didimo is a leading provider of automated solutions for generating high-quality 3D human avatars in real time. The company specializes in creating high-fidelity avatars from simple inputs, such as a 2D photo, in approximately 90 seconds. Its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) enables content creators, software developers, and app builders to easily integrate avatar generation into their applications. Didimo employs a patented pipeline that utilizes machine vision, topology generation, texturing, and rigging to produce real-time ready avatars, which include advanced facial animation and text-to-speech capabilities. This technology is designed to be engine-agnostic, allowing for efficient asset fitting and animation retargeting, which benefits technical art teams. By optimizing memory usage for large-scale rendering, Didimo helps game studios reduce character development costs, accelerate time to market, and enhance gameplay diversity.

New Guards Group Holding

Acquisition in 2019
New Guards Group Holding is a luxury fashion brand holding company based in Milan, Italy, founded in 2014 by Claudio Antonioli, Davide De Giglio, and Marcelo Burlon. The company focuses on the manufacture and distribution of fashion garments, specializing in the design and production of luxury goods for various global brands. Its primary aim is to transform early-stage fashion brands into profitable and sustainable businesses, leveraging its expertise in the luxury market to foster growth and success for its partners.

TO THE MARKET

Corporate Round in 2019
TO THE MARKET is a company focused on the ethical manufacturing and sourcing of apparel, accessories, and home goods. Established in 2016 and headquartered in the United States, it serves artisan groups and suppliers globally. The company operates as an ethical supply chain platform, providing comprehensive solutions that encompass design, production, compliance, sourcing, logistics, and reporting. TO THE MARKET caters to major corporations seeking transparency in their supply chains, offering proprietary tools for vendor evaluation, procurement workflows, and automated reporting. Through its services, the company enables retailers to gather quantifiable data on their suppliers' impact, thereby supporting sustainability and supply chain transparency efforts without compromising on speed and innovation.

Wishi

Series A in 2019
Wishi is a social styling platform based in Jerusalem, Israel, that connects users with style experts to enhance their e-commerce experience. The application allows users to share photos of their clothing and engage in conversations with stylists, who provide personalized recommendations for new styles and purchases. By leveraging client data and proprietary technology, Wishi addresses the complexities of online shopping, offering tailored guidance that aligns with individual budgets, sizes, and occasions. This innovative approach combines human expertise with advanced technology to create a more curated and relevant shopping experience, transforming how consumers interact with digital inventory.

The Modist

Corporate Round in 2019
The Modist is an online women's fashion retailer founded in 2017 by Ghizlan Guenez, an Algerian entrepreneur and finance expert. Headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with a secondary office in London, The Modist specializes in offering a curated selection of luxurious and modest clothing styles. The company's platform focuses on providing fashionable options that cater to women seeking both elegance and modesty in their attire.

Stadium Goods

Acquisition in 2018
Stadium Goods is an online marketplace specializing in the retail of premium sneakers and streetwear apparel, catering to a global audience. Founded in 2015 by John McPheters and Jed Stiller, the company operates both an e-commerce platform and a physical store located in Soho, New York City. By curating a selection of authentic footwear and apparel for men, women, and children, Stadium Goods aims to provide a comprehensive shopping experience for sneaker enthusiasts. The company became a subsidiary of Farfetch Limited in 2019, further enhancing its market presence and operational capabilities.

Fashpa

Seed Round in 2018
Fashpa Online Limited operates an online platform specializing in women's fashion, offering a diverse range of apparel including jumpsuits, tops, bottoms, jackets, and swimwear. Founded in 2013 and based in Lagos, Nigeria, the company also sells accessories, beauty products, bags, and shoes. Fashpa aims to provide customers with an extensive selection of both local and international brands, such as Topshop, New Look, Asos, and Zara. The platform focuses on delivering the latest trends at competitive prices, ensuring a convenient shopping experience. It offers free delivery within Lagos and low shipping rates to other locations, with multiple payment options available, including online payments, bank deposits, and cash on delivery. Fashpa's commitment to fast delivery times, typically between 1 to 3 working days in major cities, enhances the overall customer experience in online shopping.

CuriosityChina

Acquisition in 2018
CuriosityChina is a digital and technology company established in 2013, headquartered in Beijing, China. The company specializes in providing digital platforms that enable premium and luxury brands to effectively reach and manage customers in the Chinese market. CuriosityChina offers a range of services, including digital strategy, operations, content and campaign creation, and media buying. Additionally, it features an in-house Social CRM and eCommerce system known as CURIO. By integrating digital solutions with advanced technology, CuriosityChina serves a diverse array of international brands across various sectors, including fashion, retail, hospitality, lifestyle, finance, and media. Since July 2018, it has operated as a subsidiary of Farfetch UK Limited.

Inline Digital

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Inline Digital is a technology company that provides a digital platform for luxury brands and retailers. Its software streamlines non-digital workflows, optimizes sales cycles, and offers real-time performance insights. The platform centralizes product and wholesale operations, automates appointment scheduling, and generates PDF invoices with product images and essential information. This results in a cost-effective and user-friendly wholesale solution for both brands and retailers.

Mirow

Convertible Note in 2018
Mirow LLC, founded in 2016 and based in New York, specializes in manufacturing smart mirrors for fitting rooms in retail and hospitality settings. These interactive mirrors utilize touch technology and sensors to enhance the shopping experience by providing personalized recommendations, information on discounts and special offers, and the ability to request assistance from sales staff. Customers can also inquire about items in different sizes or colors. Mirow's innovative approach not only improves customer service but also generates valuable insights into consumer behavior. The company has received recognition in the industry, being featured in notable publications and included in influential retail technology maps. Mirow is expanding its presence in both the United States and European markets, serving a diverse range of high-profile clients.

Fashion Concierge

Acquisition in 2017
Fashion Concierge UK Limited, founded in 2016 and based in London, provides fashion designing services. Originally known as ASAP 54.com, the company has established itself in the fashion industry and operates as a subsidiary of Farfetch UK Limited. Fashion Concierge focuses on delivering tailored fashion solutions to meet the diverse needs of its clientele.

Style.com

Acquisition in 2017
Style.com, the online home of fashion, is the source for comprehensive runway coverage of all the major fashion shows.

Gleam

Acquisition in 2016
Acquired by Farfetch Bringing users the latest trends in world fashion, Gleam is the perfect platform for discovering, shopping for and organising all things style related in the mobile digital world. By combining this dedicated fashion focused distribution and interaction channel with an analytics offering for brands, Gleam is the perfect way for the industry to keep up with consumers and know in real time how preferences are changing across markets, segments and with fashionistas everywhere. www.gleamworld.com www.gleamfashionintelligence.com

Browns

Acquisition in 2015
Browns is an independent fashion boutique based in London, United Kingdom, renowned for its influential role in the fashion industry since its founding in 1970 by Joan Burstein and her late husband, Sidney. The flagship store, located on South Molton Street, has expanded to encompass five interconnected Georgian townhouses. Browns is recognized for discovering and nurturing emerging talents such as Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, and Christopher Kane, and continues to support innovative designers. The company is still family-owned, with Simon Burstein serving as CEO and Caroline Burstein as creative director. In addition to its physical stores, including Browns at Sloane Street and specialized bridalwear locations, Browns operates an international online platform, Brownsfashion.com, offering a curated selection of designer apparel and accessories for both men and women. The legacy of Browns is further highlighted by Joan Burstein's recognition with a CBE for her contributions to the British fashion industry.
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