Blake Mycoskie
Chief Shoe Giver @ TOMS Shoes
Los Angeles, United States
Blake Mycoskie is a seed investor at TOMS Shoes in Los Angeles focused on Fashion and Wellness. Blake Mycoskie is the Founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS, and the person behind the idea of One for One®, a business model that helps a person in need with every product purchased.A simple idea has grown into a global movement: TOMS Shoes has provided over 35 million pairs of shoes to children since 2006, TOMS Eyewear has restored sight toover 275,000 since 2011 and TOMS Roasting Company has helped provide over 67,000 weeks of safe water since launching in 2014. In 2015, TOMS Bag Collection was founded with the mission to help provide training for skilled birth attendants and distribute birth kits containing items that help a woman safely deliver her baby.TOMS humble beginnings happened unintentionally. While traveling in Argentina in 2006, Blake witnessed the hardships faced by children growing up without shoes. His solution to the problem was simple, yet revolutionary: to create a for-profit business that was sustainable and not reliant on donations. Blake's vision soon turned into the simple business idea that provided the powerful foundation for TOMS.Over the course of its first five years, TOMS was successful enough in providing shoes for children in need. But Blake, having recognized other vital needs during his travels around the world, realized that One for One® could be applied to more than shoes. He developed the idea for TOMS Eyewear in which for every pair of eyewear purchased, TOMS would help give sight to a person in need. One for One®. In the fall of 2011, Blake released his first book, Start Something That Matters, offering his own amazing story of inspiration, and the power of incorporating giving in business. He references other companies and individuals who have been motivated and inspired to integrate philanthropy into their profession as well as their personal lives. The book became a New York Times best-seller. More importantly, it is Blake's hope that Start Something That Matters inspires others to turn their passion and dreams into a reality.From shoes to eyewear and now a book, Blake's unique approach to business has awarded him with numerous accolades. In 2009, Blake and TOMS received the Secretary of State's 2009 Award of Corporate Excellence (ACE). At the Clinton Global Initiative University plenary session, former President Clinton introduced Blake to the audience as "one of the most interesting entrepreneurs (I've) ever met." People Magazine featured Blake in its "Heroes Among Us" section, and TOMS Shoes was featured in the Bill Gates Time Magazine article "How to Fix Capitalism." In 2011, Blake was named on Fortune Magazine's "40 Under 40" list, recognizing him as one of the top young businessmen in the world.Before TOMS, Blake, a native of Texas who always had an entrepreneurial spirit, started five businesses. His first was a successful campus laundry service, which he later sold. Between business ventures, Blake competed in the CBS primetime series, The Amazing Race. With his sister, Paige, Blake traveled the world and came within minutes of winning the $1 million dollar grand prize. Blake is an avid reader and traveler. He is passionate about inspiring young people to help make tomorrow better, encouraging them to include giving in everything they do. His hope is to see a future full of social-minded businesses and consumers.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
Last updated:
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Industries Blake Mycoskie invests in
Stages Blake Mycoskie invests in
Countries Blake Mycoskie invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Fashion 3 (20%)
- Wellness 3 (20%)
- E-Commerce 3 (20%)
- Software 2 (13%)
- Lifestyle 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (33%)
- Series A 5 (33%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
- Angel 1 (7%)
- Series C 1 (7%)
Investments
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TARA Mind
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Tara Mind provides safe and equitable access to psychedelic-assisted therapy in order to prevent mental health crises. | $8M / Seed / Jan 23, 2024 | |
Back to the Roots
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Back to the Roots offers gardening kits to grow organic and gourmet mushrooms at homes. Founded in 2009 by Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora as a 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm, BTTR has transformed into a company focused on bringing sustainable grow-at-home products into households. Their Grow-at-Home Mushroom Garden is completely indoors andcan grow up to 1lb of oyster mushrooms in as little as 10 days. They provide a simple, eco-friendly, and quick way to have fresh oyster mushrooms right in the kitchen. | $15M / Series D / Nov 23, 2021 | |
Athletic Brewing
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Athletic Brewing is a food and beverage company that specializes in brewing, healthy living, organic, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer. It manufactures non-alcoholic craft beer. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Stratford, Connecticut. | $50M / Series C / May 11, 2021 | |
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Athletic Brewing
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Athletic Brewing is a food and beverage company that specializes in brewing, healthy living, organic, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer. It manufactures non-alcoholic craft beer. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Stratford, Connecticut. | $17.5M / Series B / Mar 20, 2020 | |
Liquid Death
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Liquid Death is the first bold, hilarious beverage focused on health and sustainability, and it is one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverage brands of all time. They take the healthiest beverage available (water) and package it in infinitely recyclable tallboy cans that can compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands in energydrinks, beer, and junk food. In addition, Liquid Death donates 10% of its profits from each can sold to nonprofits that work to eliminate plastic pollution and provide clean drinking water to those in need. | $9M / Series A / Feb 20, 2020 | |
Saie
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Saie is a cosmetic company that offers a toxic-free cosmetics beauty brand and affordable and effective makeup. From tints, luminizers, lip balms, kits, and accessories. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, USA. | Angel / Aug 19, 2019 | |
The Riveter
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The Riveter is a membership workspace and community platform for women and allies. They provide daily programming to cultivate skills, from Podcasting 101 to angel investment pitch clinics. Moreover, they also give their members space to focus on wellness, including movement studios with daily classes, meditation rooms, and a full program ofrelevant conversations and workshops.Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. | $16.3M / Series A / Dec 11, 2018 | |
Good Money
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Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice. | $30M / Series A / Dec 10, 2018 | |
Universal Standard
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Universal Standard is a New York-based womenswear brand offering elevated essentials in sizes 00 to 40. The brand offers every single style in every single size. They are best known for their engineered fit, premium fabrics, and inclusive sizing. | $7M / Series A / Feb 19, 2018 | |
Leesa
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Leesa is a single, beautifully designed luxury mattress that's ordered exclusively online and delivered straight to your door. The Leesa is expertly crafted with a luxury look and universal feel that works for every body. All Leesa mattresses offer tremendous value, and come with a 100-night risk free trial, free shipping and easy returns. | $23M / Series B / Jul 24, 2017 | |
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Co-Investors
About TOMS Shoes
TOMS Shoes designs and produces shoes, eyewear, bags, apparel, and accessories for men, women, and kids. It also offers coffee and gift cards.The company helps a person in need every time one of its products is purchased by a consumer. It matches every pair of shoes purchased with a new pair of shoes for a child in need, which is given throughhumanitarian organizations who incorporate shoes into their community development programs.It also operates other divisions to help people in need, which includes TOMS Eyewear: provides 13 countries with prescription glasses, medical treatment, sight-saving surgery for each purchase of eyewear since its launch in 2011; TOMS Roasting Co.: provides people in 6 countries with 140 liters of safe water for each purchase of its coffee products since 2014; and TOMS Bag Collection: provides training for skilled birth attendants and distributes birth kits containing items that help a woman safely deliver her baby in 4 countries.TOMS Shoes was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie and is based in Los Angeles, California.
TOMS Shoes Contacts
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Blake Mycoskie
Chief Shoe Giver
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James Cong
Senior Manager of Social Customer Engagement
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Karan Singh
Global Supply Chain
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What does Blake Mycoskie invest in?
Blake Mycoskie invests primarily in Fashion, Wellness and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Blake Mycoskie closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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