atmos Tokyo
Acquisition in 2021
atmos Tokyo is an e-commerce company for men's and women's apparel, footwear, and accessories.
WSS is a retail company based in Gardena, California, specializing in athletic and casual footwear for the entire family. The company offers a diverse selection of footwear, including athletic, dress, fashion, and work-related styles. WSS is committed to serving working-class and underserved communities by providing access to a wide range of top brands, such as Nike, Jordan, Vans, Adidas, and Skechers, as well as high-quality private label options. With its large store format, WSS showcases thousands of styles, ensuring customers find the best value and selection to meet their footwear needs.
NTWRK is a video commerce platform tailored for Gen Z and Millennials, launched in October 2018. The platform features a unique model that combines daily exclusive product drops, live videos, and celebrity collaborations, creating an engaging shopping experience for users. NTWRK operates a livestream marketplace that celebrates culture and creativity, offering a diverse range of products, including sneakers, apparel, and collectibles. Users can participate in live auctions, access exclusive drops, and explore curated collections, all while engaging with a community of influential artists, brands, and sellers. The company has experienced significant growth since its inception, attracting investments from prominent entrepreneurs and entertainers, further solidifying its position in the retail landscape.
LAUNCH MATH
Corporate Round in 2019
LAUNCH KIDS provides toddlers to tweens with inspiring math instruction and STEM-based camps and workshops. Launch offers a unique approach to math and science education by providing kids with tangible links between the science of everyday life and the world of mathematics to successfully stimulate a child’s motivation to learn. At Launch, children learn the relevance of math in the real world. By engaging kids with fun, real world activities that illustrate math’s connection to the science-related subjects they love, they become passionate about learning mathematics. And when kids are excited about learning, improved grades are a welcome and achievable result.
Rockets of Awesome
Series C in 2019
Rockets of Awesome is a direct-to-consumer kids' apparel brand that specializes in designing and selling unique, over-the-top clothing for children. The company aims to revolutionize the way parents shop for kids' clothes by utilizing technology, data, and personalization. Rockets of Awesome offers a subscription model where parents receive boxes of children's wear, allowing them to customize their orders with a variety of patterns and colors. This approach enables children to express their individuality through fashion while providing parents with a convenient shopping experience.
Carbon38
Convertible Note in 2019
Carbon38 is an e-commerce company specializing in performance fashion for women. Based in Los Angeles, California, it was founded in 2012. The company offers its own proprietary label alongside a carefully selected range of contemporary brands, providing items such as bodysuits, sweaters, leggings, and shoes. Carbon38 aims to blend functional activewear with progressive street style, offering women bold fashion choices through its online platform and physical stores.
GOAT Group, established in 2015, operates a global marketplace for authentic sneakers, apparel, and accessories. It offers products from over 350 brands through its GOAT and Flight Club platforms, available in physical stores and online. GOAT Group has 13 retail locations worldwide, serving customers in 170 international markets. The company's innovative technology ensures product authenticity, providing trust to its 20 million members across 164 countries. GOAT Group is backed by strategic investors and venture capital firms, including Foot Locker, Inc.
Pensole
Corporate Round in 2019
Pensole, LLC is a footwear design school based in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2010. The institution specializes in educating students about the entire product creation process, encompassing areas such as material selection, prototyping, marketing, and branding. Pensole offers a structured curriculum that includes sessions focused on inspiration, concept development, and problem-solving, as well as portfolio development and networking skills. Additionally, the school organizes competitions and challenges to engage students and enhance their practical experience in the product design industry.
Super Heroic
Seed Round in 2019
Super Heroic, Inc. is a company based in Oakland, California, specializing in technology-enabled footwear and apparel for children. Founded in 2016, the company aims to empower children through play by offering innovative products designed to support their active lifestyles. One of its flagship products is the TMBLR v1 shoe, which features a lace-free design, a smooth internal lining, and a dual-density sole for enhanced flexibility and stability. Super Heroic also provides an application that assists families in measuring shoe sizes accurately, discovering new activities, and rating playgrounds. By focusing on the joy of play, Super Heroic seeks to inspire children to explore their surroundings and engage in healthy challenges.
Carbon38 is an e-commerce company specializing in performance fashion for women. Based in Los Angeles, California, it was founded in 2012. The company offers its own proprietary label alongside a carefully selected range of contemporary brands, providing items such as bodysuits, sweaters, leggings, and shoes. Carbon38 aims to blend functional activewear with progressive street style, offering women bold fashion choices through its online platform and physical stores.
Runners Point Group
Acquisition in 2013
Runners Point Group is a specialist retailer of sports shoes, functional textiles, and other fitness accessories. They distribute lifestyle footwear through our self-contained sales concept SIDESTEP. The stores are aimed at fashion and trend conscious groups. It also offers the customers a vast range of running equipment both in-store and online and use the latest technical innovations to optimize customer service. Runners Points Group was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Recklinghausen, Germany.