# Carmen Busquets

> Carmen Busquets is a seed investor at CoutureLab (London) backing Fashion and E-Commerce. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [CoutureLab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/couturelab)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/busquetscarmen1
- Website: https://x.com/busquetscarmen1

Carmen Busquets is a seed investor at CoutureLab in London focused on Fashion and E-Commerce. Carmen Busquets - Founder @ CoutureLab

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$2M |
| Series A | $5.4M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fashion | 7 | 41% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 29% |
| Retail | 3 | 18% |
| Search Engine | 2 | 12% |
| Rental | 1 | 6% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 35% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 24% |
| Series A | 3 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 29% |
| United States | 3 | 18% |
| France | 2 | 12% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hulcan | Hulcan is a company that creates and manages cutting-edge media, e-commerce, retail, and fashion brands for a younger consumer base. | $150M |  | Dec 18, 2025 |  |
| Destree | Destree is a ready-to-wear and accessories label company. The company focuses on a Parisian design yet different style, drawing its beauty from the visual dissonances it evokes and which it translate through a graphic and structured aesthetic. Destree is a women's ready-to-wear and accessories brand created in Paris, France. |  | Series A | Apr 20, 2022 |  |
| Lyst | Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-starinvestors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch. | $85M |  | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Lyst | Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-starinvestors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch. | $85M | Series D | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Meadowlark Media | Meadowlark Media is a content company focused on sports. | $12.6M | Series A | Apr 01, 2021 |  |
| PSYKHE AI |  | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Mar 28, 2021 |  |
| PSYKHE AI |  | $1.7M | Seed | Sep 28, 2020 |  |
| PSYKHE AI |  | $260K | Pre-Seed | Sep 30, 2019 |  |
| Flowerbx | FLOWERBX is a unique floristry service, delivering cut flowers to customers direct from suppliers in Holland via its online store.Unlike traditional florists, London-based FLOWERBX offers bunches of single variety blooms, rather than mixed bouquets, and by dealing with the markets directly ensures flowers arrive to doorstep fresh and fragrant,and in the most cost effective way possible.Launched in 2015 by Whitney Bromberg Hawkings and Adam Wilkie, former fashion industry professionals, the company's investors include Natalie Massenet, the founder of Net-A-Porter, as well as Carmen Busquets. Net-A-Porter's former chief executive Mark Sebba has also joined the company's board.FLOWERBX has secured a loyal following from the fashion, hotel and restaurant industries, and already has a raft of celebrity clients. It has also provided flowers for several high-profile events, and was the recipient of a prestigious Wallpaper Design Award for Best Delivery Service. | $5.4M | Series A | Feb 22, 2019 |  |
| UNMADE | Unmade are changing fashion design and manufacture. By controlling industrial knitting machines in a new way, the startup can make a different garment every time turning these machines into 3D printers for clothes, but using high quality, natural fibres instead. Launching this winter in Somerset House, Unmade gives customers the chance to remix thework of prominent artists and designers to create their dream jumper that is then made in front of them. Customers can also see their designs on models before sending to knit with Unmade’s unique preview technology.No-one else has been able to offer custom production in knitwear due to the high programming cost. Unmade’s patent-pending technologies remove this cost and makes one-off production possible at a similar cost to local mass production.Through Unmade, brands can then offer bespoke, customised or limited edition knitwear to their customers. Using the same machines as major brands such as Burberry or Benetton, Unmade is running factory trials early next year to prove their technologies at an industrial scale.Unmade’s long-term aim is to create a platform and marketplace through which brands and small designers can offer custom clothing to their customers and taking the mass custom production of knitwear to an industrial level. | $4M |  | Aug 08, 2018 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [C Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [C4 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c4-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Molten Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-esprit) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [14W](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/14-w) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About CoutureLab

VC Fund



1 contacts available at CoutureLab.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Carmen Busquets | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carmen-busquets |

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## FAQ

### What does Carmen Busquets invest in?

Carmen Busquets invests primarily in Fashion, E-Commerce and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 17 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Carmen Busquets's check size?

Carmen Busquets typically joins rounds of $1M–$2M at Seed and $5.4M–$13M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Carmen Busquets participates in.

### When did Carmen Busquets last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Carmen Busquets closed in Dec 2025. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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