# Condé Nast

> Condé Nast is a VC fund in New York backing Fashion and E-Commerce. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Sep 2021
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/conde-nast/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/CondeNast
- Website: http://www.condenast.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/condenast/

Condé Nast is a VC fund in New York focused on Fashion and E-Commerce. Condé Nast publishes magazines, websites, and tablet and smartphone applications to industries that include fashion, interior design and decoration, society and celebrity, bridal, travel, and technology. It also develops film, television, and premium video programs. Its media portfolio consists of companies such as Vogue, Glamour, Allure, Self,Teen Vogue, GQ, Details, Lucky, Architectural Digest, The World of Interiors, Brides, Golf Digest, Golf World, Bon Appetit, Epicurious, Ziplist, Conde Nast Traveller, Wired, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, WWD, Style.com, Footwear News, NowManifest, Beauty Inc., Fairchild Summits, and many others. It reaches more than 263 million consumers in over 30 markets through its 143 magazines and 130 websites as well several other ventures in education and dining. Condé Nast began operation in 1909, with its headuqarters in New York City in the United States. It currently operates as a subsidiary of Advance Publications.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fashion | 3 | 33% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 33% |
| Retail | 2 | 22% |
| EdTech | 1 | 11% |
| Internet | 1 | 11% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 3 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series D | 1 | 11% |
| Series E | 1 | 11% |
| Series G | 1 | 11% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 22% |
| France | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vasanth Williams | Chief product and technology officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vasanth-williams |
| Anne-Marie Tomchak | Contributing Editor, British Glamour | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anne-marie-tomchak |
| Charles H. Townsend | Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-h-townsend |
| Craig Kostelic | Chief Business Officer, US Advertising Revenue and Head of Global Advertising Solutions | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-kostelic |
| Danielle Carrig | Chief Communications Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danielle-carrig |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vestiaire Collective | 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 bypromoting 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. | $208M | Series I | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Vestiaire Collective | 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 bypromoting 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. | $214.5M | Series H | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Vestiaire Collective | 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 bypromoting 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. | $64.1M | Series G | Apr 20, 2020 |  |
| Farfetch | Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. | $86M | Series E | Mar 04, 2015 |  |
| Farfetch | Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. | $66M | Series D | May 01, 2014 |  |
| Yellowbrick Learning | 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 careerobjectives. |  | Series A | Dec 01, 2013 |  |
| Vestiaire Collective | 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 bypromoting 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. | $20M | Series C | Sep 02, 2013 |  |
| Rent the Runway | 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. | $24.4M | Series C | Mar 20, 2013 |  |
| Farfetch | Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom. | $20M | Series C | Mar 03, 2013 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Condé Nast invest in?

Condé Nast invests primarily in Fashion, E-Commerce and Retail startups, most often at Series C and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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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### Who are the partners at Condé Nast?

The team at Condé Nast includes Vasanth Williams (Chief product and technology officer), Anne-Marie Tomchak (Contributing Editor, British Glamour) and Charles H. Townsend (Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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