Found 193 investors
Blue Ocean Ventures (Sri Lanka)
Sri Lanka
Founded in 2010, Blue Ocean Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The firm specializes in seed capital investments in startup and early-stage companies based in Sri Lanka. The firm prefers to make investments in internet, mobile, software, ITES, technology, travel, outsourcing services, education, fashion, retail, tourism and hospitality sectors.
Venture Capital
Bluestar Alliance
United States
Bluestar Alliance is a brand management firm founded in 2006 and based in New York, New York. The firm prefers to invest in the fashion, apparel, consumer brands, and lifestyle sectors.
Private Equity Firm
Boost-Up/Industries Creative
Belgium
Boost-Up/Industries Creative was an accelerator firm based in Liège, Belgium. The firm invested in small and medium enterprises in the arts, visual arts, architecture, publishing, design, fashion, sound/music and photography sectors based in Wallonia.
Accelerator
Incubator
Brooklyn Fashion & Design Accelerator
United Kingdom
Northern Link was a private equity firm that used to invest in companies operating in the aquaculture and marine-related sectors around the world, including Norway, Peru and Russia.
Private Equity Firm
Bryan Smith
Germany
Dr. Michael Otto is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Otto Gourmet. Between 1981 and 2007, he served as Chairman & CEO of the Otto Group. He serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Otto Group. Under his leadership, the company developed into the largest mail order group in the world and the only global player in this market. Today the Otto Group consists of 123 major companies in more than 20 countries in Europe, America, and Asia. In e-commerce, the Otto Group is the world's No. 1 fashion and lifestyle company in B2C. In 1971, he joined the Otto Group and became a Member of the Executive Board Merchandise (Textile), and restructured the division. He is also an Angel Investor.
Individual/Angel
Carmen Busquets
Venezuela
Ms. Carmen Busquets is a Co-founder and serves as Head Curator at TrustLuxe. She also serves as a Director and Board Chairman at Flont. She serves as Board Member at Cult Beauty. She also serves as a Board Member at PSYKHE. She is considered an Internet/E-commerce pioneer. She served as Advisor at Future Tech Labs. She has been in the fashion industry for 23 years, with 15 years of experience as an Internet entrepreneur. She is the Co-Founder, investor, and was Board Director of Net-A-Porter, which is the No.1 international luxury e-commerce website in the world. During 2011 to 2014. She founded "CoutureLab Holding" to finance talented entrepreneurs in luxury and fashion verticals.
Individual/Angel
Cecompi Incubadora
United States
Mr. John Kenney is a Co-Founder at Cult Capital. He serves as Board Member at Jaanuu. He has over 13 years of experience investing in consumer businesses. Previously, He was a Partner at TSG Consumer Partners from 2008 to 2013 where he focused on non-control and control investments in the areas of food, beverage, beauty, fashion/luxury, and restaurants/retail. Prior to joining TSG, he was a Partner at AEA Investors from 1999 to 2008 where he focused on control and leveraged investments.
Individual/Angel
Céline Lippi
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Céline Lippi - Managing Director @ Fashion Capital Partners
Individual/Angel
Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE)
London, England, United Kingdom
CFE is LondonвАЩs pioneering strategic business development initiative that incubates & develops emerging designer in fashion sector.
Fashion
Financial Services
Incubators
Incubator
CFDA Fashion Incubator
United States
The CFDA Fashion Incubator is a business development program designed to support the next generation of fashion designers in New York City. It's mission is to help grow and sustain the businesses of the participating brands over the course of the two year program. The participants are provided with design studio space, business mentoring, educational seminars, and networking opportunities.
Accelerator
Incubator
Christopher Obereder
United States
Mr. Armando Christian Perez was an Angel Investor. He was a Co-Founder of Armalite. He is an internationally successful musician, performer, business entrepreneur, fashion icon, and actor. His career sales have exceeded 5 million albums and 60 million singles worldwide. Pitbull has scored #1 hits in more than 15 countries, his videos have over 7 billion views, and his social media reach matches audiences of some television networks. After hosting the American Music Awards for the second time, Pitbull released his eighth studio album, Globalization on November 24. Pitbull partners with a number of guest artists on Globalization, including Jason Derulo, Juicy J, Heymous Molly and Sean Paul, as well as a new collaboration with Ne-Yo. Pitbull's world tours have sold out concerts in North and South America, Europe, and the Far East. He recently wrapped up the second leg of a co-headlining arena tour of the U.S. and Canada with Enrique Iglesias. 2014 was a banner year for Pitbull, who was chosen to perform at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and closed out the year with his New Year's Eve special. In addition to his success as a recording artist, Pitbull is also a burgeoning business entrepreneur. Along with Voli, his brand of premium vodka, he recently launched "Pitbull," his own line of luxury fragrances for men and women. In addition to inking major sponsorship deals with blue-chip brands like Bud Light, Dr. Pepper, Kodak, and Dodge, he is also developing a strategic partnership with Playboy Enterprises.
Individual/Angel
Christopher Sherman
United States
Mr. Craig Frischling serves as Board Member at New York Angels. He serves as the Advisor at CoachCare. He is also an Angel Investor. He also serves as a Board Observer at Zylo TherapeuticsHis portfolio includes food, fashion, health and wellness businesses. Mr. Frischling brings to CoachCare diverse business leadership experience and weight loss industry knowledge. Formerly, he was a brand manager at Weight Watchers and, more recently, he was president of Lipo Chemicals, a leading global provider of cosmetic ingredients.
Individual/Angel
Commons Accel
Romania
Founded in 2019, Commons Accel is an accelerator/incubator program based in Bucharest, Romania. The firm focuses to invest in the education technology, AR, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, multimodal, mobility and transportation, retail, fashion, health and beauty, food and drink, healthcare, digitalization and miniaturization sectors.
Accelerator
Incubator
Daniel Hechter
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Daniel Hechter (born 30 July 1938) is a French fashion designer, sometimes referred to as the inventor of ready-to-wear or prêt-à-porter. He...
Individual/Angel
Daniel Waters
United States
Mr. John Drew serves as General Partner at TCV. Before joining TCV, John served as one of four CEOs in the Office of the Chairman at Lucent Technologies. He serves as Board Member at RapidAI. He joined Lucent when the company acquired International Network Services (NASDAQ: INSS), where he served as President and CEO. He serves as Board Member at TechStyle Fashion Group. During his five years at INS, revenues profitably grew from $7 million to $440 million, and the company's employee base increased from 56 to 2,300, establishing INS as the largest and fastest-growing network consulting and software company in the world. Prior to joining INS, he was Vice President and General Manager at Unisys Corporation. He began his business career as a sales consultant for CF Software Corporation after serving as a Captain in the United States Army. He is on the board of directors of OneSource Virtual. Prior investments he has been involved with include BeVocal (acquired by Nuance Communications), Capella Education Company (NASDAQ: CPLA), Dermstore Beauty Group (acquired by Target), EmbanetCompass (acquired by Pearson), Fiberlink Communications (acquired by IBM), Global360 (acquired by OpenText), Origin Healthcare Solutions (acquired by The Gores Group), Penson Worldwide (NASDAQ: PNSN), Redback Networks (acquired by Ericsson), TechStyle, Triversity (acquired by SAP Canada), and Web tone Technologies (acquired by Fidelity Information Services).
Individual/Angel
Dara5
United Kingdom
Founded in 2019, Dara5 is a venture capital investment firm based in London, United Kingdom. The firm also employs private equity investments and prefers to make co-investments into series B up to pre-ipo opportunities in the healthcare, SaaS, market places, financial technology, business services, consumer goods, F&B, hospitality, leisure, e-commerce, education, fashion and retail, media and communications sectors.
Venture Capital
David Barron
Switzerland
Mr. Severin Jan Rüegger serves as Managing Partner at Numbrs. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Managing Partner, Chairman & Group Chief Financial Officerat Central Ventures. He also serves as the Chairman at Solosso. Before joining Centralway, he co-founded Sandbox in 2008 - the foremost global community for talented individuals under the age of 30 - uniting members from over 50 countries at 100+ events across the globe. Severin is also founder of the mass customisation firm Solosso, which was incorporated in 2009. It is a young fashion label that sells its products in over 20 countries across Europe and Northern America. Previously, he invested in and co-founded Dealicious - a leading social-commerce venture in South East Asia - which he exited to a stock market-listed investment fund in 2012. Prior to 2007, Severin worked for international corporations in Europe and Asia, particularly in the field of business development and consulting. Severin wrote and published a book on entry strategies into the Chinese banking market in 2009. He was also named 'Founder of the week' by The Financial Times in 2010. Severin holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of St. Gallen and a master of science degree from the London School of Economics. Severin is a mentor at the leading incubator JFDI in Singapore.
Individual/Angel
David Greenwood
United States
Ms. Anna Palmer serves as Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures. Ms. Anna Palmer serves as General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. She is a Co-Founder and serves as Secretary & Chairman at Dough. Previously, she co-founded served as its Chief Executive Officer. She co-founded WonderMile. She also serves as Investing Partner at XFactor Ventures, a seed-stage venture fund backing women founders launched in 2017 in partnership with Flybridge Capital. She also created and launched SuitUp, a movement with over 20,000 women to have conversations in all 50 states across America about the issues facing women in their hometowns. Prior to XFactor Ventures, she was co-founder and CEO of Fashion Project, the industry leader in high-end clothing donation, scaling the company to power donation programs for multiple major national retailers and giving back to over 2,000 organizations. She has been named a Style Innovator to Watch by InStyle Magazine, one of ten tech CEOs changing the face of philanthropy by Complex Magazine, Hottest Startup by New England Venture Capital Association, Nominated Changemaker by the United State of Women and has been featured in Forbes, The Boston Globe, CNBC SquawkBox, InStyle Magazine, the book Counter Mentors and more. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Eureka College.
Individual/Angel
Deep Valley Labs
United States
Mr. John Pound is an Angel Investor. He served as Senior Advisor at Altamont Capital Partners. Mr. Pound founded and manages Integrity Brands, Inc. where he invests in and advises companies where returns can be created through improvements in merchandising, operations, or strategic focus. He has been involved in a number of merchandising-led turnaround and growth investments, serving as a director during repositionings of Gymboree, and Cost Plus World Market. He was also an investor in turnarounds at Cache, Vans, Guess, Perfumania, United Retail Group, Kirkland's, Value Vision, and New York & Co. He is currently on the boards of Spy Optic (OTCBB: SPYX, an action sport eyewear brand), Three Twins Ice Cream (the leading organic ice cream brand), Hunter Dixon, Inc. (a NY-based women's fashion brand), and Jess Brown Design. Mr. Pound has served in senior operating roles in public retail and consumer direct companies and has advised numerous retail and brand companies on issues ranging from restructuring plans to new concept creation. He founded Integrity Brands in 1999, after a 15-year career in academia and public policy (including ten years on the Harvard University faculty and two years at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission). Mr. Pound holds an A.B. from Harvard University, and the M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Yale.
Individual/Angel
Denis Lopes
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Denis Smetana Lopes is Co-Founder & CFO at Atacatto Fashion Marketplace.
Individual/Angel
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