# Chris Burch

> Chris Burch is a seed investor at Burch Creative Capital backing E-Commerce and Fashion. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Burch Creative Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/burch-creative-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Jun 2021
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-burch-116531123
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/thekingburch
- Website: http://www.burchcreativecapital.com/company/christopherburch
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christopher.burch.52

Chris Burch is a seed investor at Burch Creative Capital in New York focused on E-Commerce and Fashion. Christopher Burch is Founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital. Mr. Burch is an active investor in a variety of businesses spanning a wide range of industries and is the co-founder of the luxury fashion brand, Tory Burch. Mr. Burch has always been devoted to the power of branding, and currently applies his keen sense of marketing and sales tobusiness interests spanning apparel, financial services, hospitality, technology and consumer products.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $750k–$15M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$1.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 9 | 26% |
| Fashion | 6 | 18% |
| Health Care | 5 | 15% |
| Consumer Goods | 4 | 12% |
| Medical | 3 | 9% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 13 | 38% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 21% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 12% |
| Series B | 3 | 9% |
| Series A | 2 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 22 | 65% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |
| Colombia | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cerebral | Cerebral is a mental health telemedicine company that provides clients with long-term, comprehensive access to medication management, therapy, and counseling for anxiety, depression, insomnia, ADHD, and more. It offers affordable, convenient, and evidence-based care that drives significant improvement in outcomes for clients. | $127M | Series B | Jun 10, 2021 |  |
| Cerebral | Cerebral is a mental health telemedicine company that provides clients with long-term, comprehensive access to medication management, therapy, and counseling for anxiety, depression, insomnia, ADHD, and more. It offers affordable, convenient, and evidence-based care that drives significant improvement in outcomes for clients. | $127M | Series B | Jun 10, 2021 |  |
| Crush Capital | Crush Capital is a fintech company democratizing access to investment opportunities. It empowers retail investors by providing access to IPOs and other financial products that were previously reserved for the wealthy and connected. Crush Capital's groundbreaking series "Going Public" allows anyone globally over 18 years old toinvest in featured companies. In 2020, Darren Marble and Todd Goldberg co-founded Crush Capital in Beverly Hills, California. | $3.3M | Seed | Feb 03, 2021 |  |
| Faena | Faena is an impactful brand in the lifestyle and hospitality industries, creating the perfect blend of a hotel and resort experience with local history and deep cultural values. They shift the gravitational center of each destination to become a new community epicenter and expand its cultural footprint. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 28, 2020 |  |
| TRIBE | TRIBE’s award-winning platform helps marketers unlock instant branded content from influential creators. It allows brands to increase their marketing efficiency via a powerful platform that can be accessed through an annual subscription or pay-per-use. While everyday creators can make money creating content for the brands they already use and love.TRIBE was founded in Australia in 2015 by Jules Lund and has since expanded into the U.K. (2017) and the U.S. (2019). TRIBE has connected 6000+ brands like Unilever, Amazon, American Express, Facebook, Mars and Diageo with 50,000+ diverse creators to create over 1,000,000 pieces of branded content across 10,000+ campaigns. | $7.5M | Series A | Mar 26, 2019 |  |
| Iris Nova | Iris Nova powers the SMS payment technology (conversational commerce), customer service, email marketing, fulfillment, and delivery infrastructure for a portfolio of the world's best CPG brands.This strategy was first executed with functional beverage brand DIRTY LEMON, which popularized text-messaging based direct-to-consumer sales when itlaunched in 2015. The brand has since scaled to over 200,000 customers, leveraging the data to provide a personalized experience and on-demand deliveries to customers nationwide.Iris Nova was formally launched as an evolution of this success, following a minority investment from The Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The Iris Nova platform enables a seamless, end-to-end solution for beverage brands prioritizing the direct to home channel as a core component of their distribution strategy. This includes same-day deliveries in major markets as well average national shipping speeds faster than Amazon Prime. As the space continues to evolve with new entrants and innovation, we believe this is the future of CPG distribution. | $15M | Seed | Dec 20, 2018 |  |
| Iris Nova | Iris Nova powers the SMS payment technology (conversational commerce), customer service, email marketing, fulfillment, and delivery infrastructure for a portfolio of the world's best CPG brands.This strategy was first executed with functional beverage brand DIRTY LEMON, which popularized text-messaging based direct-to-consumer sales when itlaunched in 2015. The brand has since scaled to over 200,000 customers, leveraging the data to provide a personalized experience and on-demand deliveries to customers nationwide.Iris Nova was formally launched as an evolution of this success, following a minority investment from The Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The Iris Nova platform enables a seamless, end-to-end solution for beverage brands prioritizing the direct to home channel as a core component of their distribution strategy. This includes same-day deliveries in major markets as well average national shipping speeds faster than Amazon Prime. As the space continues to evolve with new entrants and innovation, we believe this is the future of CPG distribution. | $15M | Seed | Dec 20, 2018 |  |
| Swet Tailor | Sweat Tailor is dedicated to making the perfect pant. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 04, 2018 |  |
| Elite Body Sculpture | Elite Body Sculpture is a company that provides liposuction and other body enhancements. Elite Body Sculpture is the exclusive provider of AirSculpt® . |  |  | Oct 22, 2018 |  |
| Skin Laundry | Skin Laundry offers medical laser services to rejuvenate skin cells and boost collagen production. Its laser facials are customised to suit their personal skincare needs and are safe and effective for all skin types. For inquiry physiacal address are available on their website. |  |  | Oct 22, 2018 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Burch Creative Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/burch-creative-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Greycroft](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greycroft) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Access Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/access-industries) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [AirAngels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/airangels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Artis Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artis) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Betaworks Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Burch Creative Capital

VC Fund · New York, United States

Burch Creative Capital is a Creative Capital Firm with a decidedly different approach to creating value.The company’s investment philosophy is an expression of Christopher Burch’s entrepreneurial values and his vision for new market opportunities, using a creative skill set along with sound financial practices to create, incubate, support, andscale disruptive brands and businesses.In his 30-year career as an investor and entrepreneur, Christopher Burch has participated in the rise of more than 50 companies. By combining an intuitive understanding of consumer behavior with international and direct sourcing experience, he has a built a long track record of connecting innovation to impact. Creative Capital represents the evolution of venture capital based on Chris’ belief that the activity of successful investing also includes creativity.In the past, we were investors looking for existing opportunities. Today, we are entrepreneurs who invent and attract new ones. We apply more than funding to earn a return. We invest our creativity, passion, and insights to create value.Burch Creative Capital’s brand portfolio includes the recent introductions of Nihiwatu Resort, Poppin and ED by Ellen to a list of established brands previously embraced by Chris including the Faena Hotel + Universe, Jawbone, Next Jump, Powermat, Tory Burch and Voss Water.The company is currently supporting the development of several lifestyle and consumer products brands ranging from retail, apparel and home furnishings to the hospitality, mobile device and technology industries

2 contacts available at Burch Creative Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sam Kaplan | Venture | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-kaplan |
| Chris Burch | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-christopher-burch |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Burch invest in?

Chris Burch invests primarily in E-Commerce, Fashion and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Chris Burch's check size?

Chris Burch typically joins rounds of $750k–$15M at Seed and $1M–$1.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Chris Burch participates in.

### When did Chris Burch last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Burch closed in Jun 2021. Shizune tracks 34 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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