Launching into the crowded secondhand marketplace space with a today $1.5 million funding announcement that includes backers such as Dave McClure and Daily Candy Founder Dany Levy is Santa Monica-based Tradesy, an eBay alternative that hopes to attract female sellers who want to unload gently worn apparel and accessories in much the same way as fashion [...]
View Post
You wouldn’t be crazy if you thought fashion tech was flush with cash. Two notable funding opps on the radar this week: one comes from a fashion tech company aiming to be oh-so-much more, while the other is a first from one of fashion and technology’s premiere events. First up, there’s The Fashion Pitch from [...]
View Post
The online fashion resale space is a crowded one these days, with players such as Threadflip, Copious and Style.ly vying for users and fashionable influencers willing to post the no-longer-needed contents of their closets. While those sites are highly social and rely on a person-to-person model, newly launched New York fashion startup Hello La Mode [...]
View Post
Watch out, world. JustFab is headed your way. After establishing a European home base in Berlin, the El Segundo etailer of ultra-trendy women’s shoes, clothing and accessories announced this morning that it has secured $76 million in series B funding and plans to conquer the UK next, with a September launch now in the works. [...]
View Post
With Copious announcing a $5 million Series A round of funding, a new shipping program and a new crop of well known fashion bloggers and stylists among its high-profile sellers, it seemed like just the right time to pay the San Francisco fashion startup a visit. Check out our behind-the-scenes look at this up-and-coming fashion [...]
View Post
Although it’s already amassed over 30,000 users around the globe, social fashion community Chicisimo is announcing its official launch today and, with that, $800,000 in angel funding angel funding, led by Alice.com investor VitaminaK. With its co-founders based in Bilbao, Spain, the site allows users to clip and organize street style and personal style images [...]
View Post