Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a prominent mass media company that publishes a diverse range of magazines, websites, and mobile applications, primarily in the fields of fashion, lifestyle, travel, and technology. Founded in 1909 and headquartered in New York, the company oversees a portfolio of renowned brands, including Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Condé Nast Traveler. It reaches over 263 million consumers across more than 30 markets through its extensive network of 143 magazines and 130 websites. In addition to print and digital content, Condé Nast also develops film, television, and premium video programs. The company offers art reproductions and prints through its platform, showcasing iconic imagery and cartoons from its extensive archive. As a subsidiary of Advance Publications, Condé Nast has established itself as a leader in delivering high-quality media content across various platforms.

Nicholas Hotchkin

CFO

28 past transactions

Vestiaire Collective

Series I in 2021
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items. The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by promoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day. Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan.

Vestiaire Collective

Venture Round in 2021
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items. The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by promoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day. Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan.

Vestiaire Collective

Venture Round in 2020
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items. The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by promoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day. Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan.

W Magazine

Acquisition in 2017
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Pop2Life

Acquisition in 2017
Pop2Life is an experiential marketing agency that offers full-service event production, talent procurement, event corcierge, and more.

Ribyt

Acquisition in 2017
Ribyt is the first ONE STOP solution (DIY or full service) for event planners that want to create, customize and manage different guest/attendee experiences within the same event. (Think CVENT, but with a much easier interface and a drastically better look + feel for the guest/attendee). Ribyt allows users to build, manage and track invites, registration, travel, accommodations, tickets, credentials, guest lists, communication, on-site check-in (using the Ribyt app) and much more. Every guest/attendee receives a personalized digital itinerary that can be dynamically updated as things change. Advanced features include ticket and package sales, mobile wallet credentials, RFID tracking, a mobile assistant (giving guests/attendees real-time updates throughout the event), and flight booking within the platform.

Backchannel

Acquisition in 2016
Backchannel, the premier tech business brand from social publishing platform Medium. Backchannel will be the third brand, alongside WIRED and Ars Technica, in the newly formed Wired Media Group. Founded by Levy and Medium in 2014, Backchannel is a Silicon Valley-focused business and tech publication that dives deep into the culture and stories of the tech industry through in-depth and unique reporting, and provides a distinctive and authoritative point of view. Backchannel will continue its presence on the Medium platform.

Poetica

Acquisition in 2016
Poetica is a text editor that helps you easily collaborate in realtime anywhere you write on the web: GitHub, Wordpress, Dropbox, Evernote and more. Founded by Twitter's former founding engineer, Blaine Cook, Poetica's proprietary technology makes working together on web-native documents intuitive and painless, whilst an extensible API allows developers to add that experience across the web. Poetica's beautiful mobile experience makes it easy to give feedback on work from any mobile device.

Pitchfork

Acquisition in 2015
Pitchfork is an online publication that covers indie rock, hip-hop, electronic, pop, metal, and experimental music. It features criticism, commentary, music news, and artist interviews. The publication has developed a following in the process spawning Chicago’s annual Pitchfork Music Festival and the online music video channel Pitchfork.tv. Pitchfork was launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber and its operations are based in Chicago, Illinois.

Vestiaire Collective

Series D in 2015
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items. The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by promoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day. Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan.

Farfetch

Series E in 2015
Farfetch operates an online luxury fashion retail platform that connects various independent boutiques worldwide. Founded in 2008 by Jose Neves and headquartered in London, the company offers a wide range of products, including bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewelry, swimwear, trousers, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories for women, men, and children. Farfetch's modular technology platform is designed to meet the complex needs of consumers and luxury sellers, featuring an API-enabled proprietary technology stack that supports applications, services, and data management. Additionally, Farfetch has a dedicated division, Farfetch China, which focuses on enhancing connections within the luxury fashion industry in that market.

Farfetch

Series D in 2014
Farfetch operates an online luxury fashion retail platform that connects various independent boutiques worldwide. Founded in 2008 by Jose Neves and headquartered in London, the company offers a wide range of products, including bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewelry, swimwear, trousers, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories for women, men, and children. Farfetch's modular technology platform is designed to meet the complex needs of consumers and luxury sellers, featuring an API-enabled proprietary technology stack that supports applications, services, and data management. Additionally, Farfetch has a dedicated division, Farfetch China, which focuses on enhancing connections within the luxury fashion industry in that market.

isocket

Series B in 2014
iSocket is a technology platform purpose-built to simplify the buying and selling of fixed price, premium, reserved inventory. iSocket For Publishers (iFP) sales automation and programmatic direct tools allow top publisher sales teams to focus on relationships and strategy, while iSocket For Advertisers (iFA) makes it easier for agencies, brands, and buying and planning platforms to execute orders of well-defined, guaranteed inventory directly with top publishers. Through automation, iSocket is able to eliminate many of the errors and overhead costs that plague the manual media sales process.

Moda Operandi

Series D in 2013
Moda Operandi is a platform that facilitates the discovery of fashion by connecting consumers directly with both established and emerging designers. It offers a diverse range of products across women's, men's, fine jewelry, and home categories. The company also supports designers in growing their businesses through a robust global network.

Yellowbrick Learning

Series A in 2013
Yellowbrick empowers the next generation of talent to discover, pursue, upskill, and advance their career within the creative arts, media and entertainment fields. In partnership with industry leaders in the creative arts, media, entertainment, and education — we develop experiences that help the next generation of leaders achieve their career objectives.

Domino

Venture Round in 2013
Domino is an online platform that offers content, community, and products focused on home and lifestyle.

Vestiaire Collective

Series C in 2013
Vestiaire Collective is a social commerce platform that enables people to buy and sell luxury, pre-owned fashion products. It curates and connects the desirable wardrobes and provides a trusted and sustainable new way of buying and selling pre-loved items. The company is focused on transforming the fashion industry for a more sustainable future by promoting the circular fashion movement as an alternative to overproduction and overconsumption and the wasteful practices of the fashion industry. It provides its ‘fashion activist’ community with inspiration, tools, and features to lead the change as they sell and buy unique pre-loved pieces from each other's wardrobes. The platform is unique thanks to its highly engaged activist community and its rare, desirable inventory of 3 million items that includes 140,000 new listings every week. It has over 7.5 million fashion savvy members in 50 countries worldwide. Every week, over 30,000 new items are submitted by its community of sellers, enabling buyers to access over 3,500 coveted and must-have fashion pieces a day. Vestiaire Collective is based in Paris, Ile-de-France with offices in London, New York, Milan, Berlin, and Hong Kong and was founded in 2009 by Alexandre Cognard, Christian Jorge, Fanny Moizant, Henrique Fernandes, Sebastien Fabre, and Sophie Hersan.

Domino

Series A in 2013
Domino is an online platform that offers content, community, and products focused on home and lifestyle.

Rent the Runway

Series C in 2013
Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories. It is transforming the way modern women get dressed - and in turn, disrupting the $1.7 trillion fashion industry - through the concept of renting over buying clothing. Founded in 2009 by Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, RTR pioneered the ‘closet in the cloud’ and believes that women everywhere will soon have a subscription to fashion, making renting an indispensable utility while also empowering them to feel like their best selves every day. RTR carries hundreds of thousands of pieces of apparel and accessories by 550+ designer partners with options for work, weekends, and special occasions. The company has built proprietary technology, one-of-a-kind reverse logistics operation, and retail stores of the future that bring the dream closet to life. RTR has raised more than $200M from top-tier investors, has more than eight million users, and prides itself on the entrepreneurial, dream-big culture at the company which employs 1,200 people -- 70% of whom are women and 71% are minority/non-white. In 2015, the co-founders launched the Rent the Runway Foundation, supporting tens of thousands of female entrepreneurs in building and scaling their businesses.

Farfetch

Series C in 2013
Farfetch operates an online luxury fashion retail platform that connects various independent boutiques worldwide. Founded in 2008 by Jose Neves and headquartered in London, the company offers a wide range of products, including bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewelry, swimwear, trousers, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories for women, men, and children. Farfetch's modular technology platform is designed to meet the complex needs of consumers and luxury sellers, featuring an API-enabled proprietary technology stack that supports applications, services, and data management. Additionally, Farfetch has a dedicated division, Farfetch China, which focuses on enhancing connections within the luxury fashion industry in that market.

RenéSim

Funding Round in 2013
RENÉSIM is Europe's first luxury jeweller to supply its high-quality creations exclusively online. (+49 89 1222 893 0 or service@renesim.com)

ZipList

Acquisition in 2012
ZipList is the must-have shopping-list application that simply and seamlessly turns all the ideas that inspire you into organized, customizable shopping lists that work across all your devices – because to do what you want, you have to get what you need. ZipList gets to know you, and offers personalized value and savings. It lets you save and act on your ideas whenever and wherever they strike, bringing them from inspiration to list to life, and saving you time and money along the way.

Ars Technica

Acquisition in 2008
Ars Technica, founded in 1998 by Ken Fisher, is a digital publication that focuses on technology news and analysis, specifically targeting technologists and IT professionals. Based in Malden, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Boston, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, Ars Technica provides in-depth coverage across various subjects, including gadgets, gaming, science, and technology policy. The publication has distinguished itself through its commitment to accuracy and integrity, often producing long-form articles, detailed explainers, and thoughtful analysis that surpass typical industry offerings. Ars Technica was a pioneer in the digital media landscape, launching a subscription service in 2001 and adapting to the evolving needs of its readership by embracing transparency and community engagement. Acquired by Advance in 2008, it operates as Conde Nast's only fully digital editorial publication and has expanded its reach to the UK, further solidifying its role as a trusted source for comprehensive technology reporting.

SFO*Media

Acquisition in 2008
SFO*Media is a digital media platform that creates daily travel-themed web magazines.SFO*Media publications have quickly become a must-read for frequent travelers, media professionals, business travel road dogs, travel industry veterans, hoteliers, vacationers, and travel-worthy people worldwide.

Taste

Series A in 2007
TasteBook allows users to create and order custom hardback cookbooks ("tastebooks"). To create a cookbook, users collect recipes online (from sites like Epicurous.com - a TasteBook Partner) or add their own. From there users get to decide which recipes they want in their cookbook, as well as the cookbook's title, cover photo and more. The books, which include colored tabs to make it easy to locate recipes, run for $34.95. Recipes can be taken out of the cookbook for cooking and shopping purposes. Tastebooks include up to 100 recipes. If you don't use all 100 right away, all is not lost. You will be given credit for unused recipes which can be used at anytime. [Blurb](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blurb) is somewhat similar, but does not focus on recipes.

Reddit

Acquisition in 2006
Reddit is an online platform that enables users to submit links, create content, and have discussions about the topics of their interest.

NutritionData.com

Acquisition in 2006
NutritionData.com is a health and nutrition web site. It offers various tools to analyze and interpret nutritional analysis data and also information on various topics, including dieting and weight loss.

Laguna Films

Acquisition in 2006
Laguna Films is a company engaged in the production and distribution of films and various media content. Founded by Joey Harlow, the company focuses on innovative content creation, aiming to deliver high-quality entertainment to its audience. Through its commitment to creativity and storytelling, Laguna Films seeks to carve out a distinct presence in the film industry, catering to a diverse range of viewers.
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