# Ian Rogers

> Ian Rogers is a pre-seed investor at LVMH (Paris) backing Fashion and E-Commerce. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LVMH](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lvmh)
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/iancrogers
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/iancr
- Website: https://x.com/iancr

Ian Rogers is a pre-seed investor at LVMH in Paris focused on Fashion and E-Commerce. As CEO of Beats Music, Ian Rogers is charged with redefining the digital music experience for consumers and artists alike, a role he is uniquely qualified for.Rogers has spent his entire career pioneering the intersection of music, artists, and the Internet. He possesses a deep knowledge of technology, combined with music industry savvy, apersonal understanding of the music business from the artist's point of view, and a finely tuned ear for music.Rogers has helped artists embrace technology since the early 90s, when after creating a fan site for the Beastie Boys as a personal project, he found himself recruited while still in college to teach the band the ways of the Internet. From brainstorming fan engagement campaigns, to posting news from the road during Beastie Boy tours, Rogers eventually became webmaster for BeastieBoys.com, and later president of new media for the band’s label, Grand Royale.After stints as webmaster at Nullsoft, chief technology officer at rVision, and president and chief technology officer of Mediacode, Rogers entered the early subscription music service business as VP & GM of Yahoo! Music, a role he held for nearly five years.In 2008, Rogers was named CEO of Topspin—the first artist services platform designed to connect artists and fans directly via the Internet and music services. During his tenure, Topspin powered fan engagement campaigns for such industry pioneers as Eminem, Paul McCartney, Trent Reznor, and many others. He also hosted the popular and highly informative Internet talk show This Week in Music, interviewing dozens of music artists and executives. Rogers remains Topspin’s executive chairman and is a member of the company’s board.Since joining Beats Music in January, 2013, Rogers has successfully guided the company’s spin off as an independent company, helped secure $60 million in private funding, and closed critical marketing and distribution deals with launch partner AT&T… not to mention overseeing development of the service from idea to reality.His track record for successfully joining product, promotion, and direct-to-consumer marketing sets a compelling stage for Beats Music within the burgeoning and competitive digital music space. And as a passionate lover of music as well as a champion for artist rights, Rogers is the perfect individual to guide the Beats Music vision into the future.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fashion | 2 | 40% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 40% |
| Art | 1 | 20% |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |
| Shopping | 1 | 20% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series D | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |
| Corporate Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| France | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LAGO | LAGO helps to bridge the traditional and digital art world with interactive, gesture control, curation, voice control and providence. | $4.2M | Pre-Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Satisfy | Satisfy is a webshop that sells a wide collection of jackets, tops, socks, hoodies, pants, shoes, hats, t-shirts, gloves, and accessories. | $2.5M | Series A | Oct 27, 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 |  | 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 |  |
| 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. |  | Corporate Round | May 24, 2018 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — 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
- [AMK Investment Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amk-investment-office) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [C4 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/c4-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About LVMH

VC Fund · Paris, France

LVMH is a manufacturing company that engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of luxury goods and jewelry worldwide.

5 contacts available at LVMH.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anish Melwani | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anish-melwani |
| Bernard Arnault | Chairman and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernard-arnault |
| Franck Le Moal | Group Information / Technology / IT Digital Director - CIO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/franck-le-moal |
| Ian Rogers | Chief Digital Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ian-rogers |
| Jennifer Kasper | SVP, Media - Americas | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-kasper |

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## FAQ

### What does Ian Rogers invest in?

Ian Rogers invests primarily in Fashion, E-Commerce and Art startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in France. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ian Rogers last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ian Rogers closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 5 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?

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