# Kering

> Kering is a VC fund in Paris backing Fashion and E-Commerce. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paris, France
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 42%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/165528
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/KeringGroup
- Website: http://kering.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/keringgroup

Kering (formerly PPR) is a holding company whose portfolio includes two fashion segments: luxury (Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Brioni, Christopher Kane, McQ, Stella McCartney, Tomas Maier, Sergio Rossi, Boucheron, Dodo, Girard-Perregaux, JEANRICHARD, Pomellato and Qeelin) and sport & lifestyle (Puma,Volcom, Cobra, Electric and Tretorn).

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $7M–$47M |
| Series B | $10M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fashion | 5 | 42% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 33% |
| Shopping | 2 | 17% |
| Media and Entertainment | 2 | 17% |
| Art | 1 | 8% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 17% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 17% |
| Series H | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 42% |
| France | 3 | 25% |
| China | 1 | 8% |
| Russian Federation | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Armelle Poulou | Directeur Financement, Trésorerie et Assurance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/armelle-poulou |
| Jean-Marc Duplaix | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jean-marc-duplaix |
| Laurent Claquin | Head of Kering Americas | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurent-claquin-0f27 |
| Louise Beveridge | Senior Vice-President Communications | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louise-beveridge |
| Marie-Claire Daveu | Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of International Institutional Affairs | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marie-claire-daveu |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ICICLE | ICICLE is an apparel store that sells clothes for men and women. |  | Corporate Round | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| Baolan | Baolan focuses on the research and promotion of filigree inlay and traditional gold craftsmanship, working to preserve, innovate, and pass down these intricate artisanal techniques. The company is dedicated to exploring the historical and cultural value of traditional metalwork while developing modern applications, training skilled artisans, andshowcasing the elegance and precision of handcrafted gold art to a wider audience. | $14.1M | Series A | Dec 01, 2025 |  |
| Matiere Premiere | Matiere Premiere is a fragrance manufacturing enterprise based on a single natural component used in high doses.Matiere Premiere allow its texture to be perceived and highlight its most attractive features. |  | Corporate Round | Jun 04, 2024 |  |
| Valentino | Valentino Fashion Group S.p.A. operates online boutiques and showrooms that sell fashion and luxury products in Italy and internationally. Its boutiques offer apparel, bags, shoes, and accessories for men and women. | $1.9B | Secondary Market | Jul 27, 2023 |  |
| Superplastic | Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont. | $20M | Series A | Feb 15, 2023 |  |
| VitroLabs | VitroLabs is a startup working on the cutting edge of 3D tissue engineering using stem cell-based technologies. The company develops a fully scalable tissue engineering platform combining the latest breakthroughs in stem cell research and biomaterials. It manufactures real leather without the need to raise and slaughter animals using breakthroughsin stem cell research and tissue engineering.VitroLabs was founded on 2016 and is based in San Jose, California. | $47.4M | Series A | May 04, 2022 |  |
| NTWRK | NTWRK is the definitive Video Commerce platform developed specifically for Gen Z and Millennials. NTWRK's innovative model of daily exclusive product drops, live videos, celebrity talent, native purchases and social distribution creates a high energy and wide-reaching experience for brands and users. NTWRK was launched in October 2018. Sincelaunch, the platform has experienced meteoric growth and has received investments from some of the most successful entrepreneurs, brands and influential entertainers in the world including Live Nation, Foot Locker and Main Street Advisors, whose investors include Jimmy Iovine and LeBron James. | $50M | Series B | Sep 23, 2021 |  |
| VitroLabs | VitroLabs is a startup working on the cutting edge of 3D tissue engineering using stem cell-based technologies. The company develops a fully scalable tissue engineering platform combining the latest breakthroughs in stem cell research and biomaterials. It manufactures real leather without the need to raise and slaughter animals using breakthroughsin stem cell research and tissue engineering.VitroLabs was founded on 2016 and is based in San Jose, California. | $7M | Series A | Sep 20, 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 |  |
| Lamoda | Lamoda is the leading online retailer in Russia and CIS, offering more than 1,000,000 products and 900 international brands. With Lamoda Express, it operates its own express delivery network supporting next day delivery to currently more than twenty-five cities throughout Russia and Kazakhstan.Positioned as a leader in customer experience,Lamoda offers free shipping and a try-on service, as well as 365 day period for returns free of charge. Lamoda was launched in 2011 by its four founders Dominik Picker, Florian Jansen, Burkhard Binder and Niels Tonsen. | $13M |  | Dec 13, 2012 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Kering invest in?

Kering invests primarily in Fashion, E-Commerce and Shopping startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 12 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 Kering's check size?

Kering typically joins rounds of $7M–$47M at Series A and $10M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kering participates in.

### How do I contact Kering?

Public channels for Kering include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Kering?

The team at Kering includes Armelle Poulou (Directeur Financement, Trésorerie et Assurance), Jean-Marc Duplaix (CFO) and Laurent Claquin (Head of Kering Americas), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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