# Lululemon

> Lululemon is a VC fund in Vancouver backing Biotechnology and Chemical. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lululemon/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/lululemon
- Website: http://shop.lululemon.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lululemon

Lululemon is a technical athletic apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other sweaty pursuits. It offers pants, shorts, tops, and jackets for both leisure and athletic activities such as yoga and running. The company also sells fitness accessories, such as bags, yoga mats, and equipment. Lululemon was founded in 1998 and is based inVancouver, Canada.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 2 | 29% |
| Chemical | 1 | 14% |
| Industrial | 1 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 14% |
| Market Research | 1 | 14% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 29% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 1 | 14% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Wizemann | Vice President of Guest Experience and Digital Product Management | 1 | — |
| Julie Averill | EVP, CTO | 0 | — |
| Kelly Krause | Relationships Program Manager, North America | 0 | — |
| Meghan Frank | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | — |
| Michael Aragon | CEO of Its At home Gym Business, Mirror | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Syntetica | Syntetica is a materials technology and climate technology company that develops chemical recycling technology for synthetic textiles. It uses proprietary green chemistry to convert nylon textile waste into virgin-quality recycled polymers, enabling circular production for the textile, automotive, and industrial materials industries. Its mission isto decarbonize synthetic materials by making high-quality recycled feedstocks commercially viable.The company's proprietary chemical depolymerization process separates and recovers Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 from blended textile waste that would otherwise be difficult to recycle. The process operates under low-temperature, low-pressure conditions, removes dyes and finishes, and produces recycled raw materials that can be reintroduced into manufacturing without compromising quality. Syntetica's technology supports textile-to-textile recycling and is designed to reduce carbon emissions, landfill waste, and reliance on virgin fossil-based materials. | $30M | Series A | Jul 16, 2026 |  |
| Epoch Biodesign | Mellizyme Biotechnology is currently operating in stealth. | $12M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| Zymochem | The world they live in is built from petroleum. The paints on their walls, the carpets in their homes, the tires on their cars, the plastics for everyday consumer goods – these and many more products are made from chemicals that are mostly made from petroleum, creating a $3 trillion/yr industry. To fulfill their dependency on petroleum, theydo crazy things like setting up oil rigs in the middle of the ocean and drilling several miles into the ocean floor! They’ve done these things because they have had no alternative to meet their needs. Not anymore!Over the past decade, advances in engineering microorganisms have afforded us the opportunity to make the same chemicals that are traditionally made from petroleum. Instead of requiring raw materials buried deep within the earth, microbes can use abundant and renewable sources of carbon such as sugars during processes akin to brewing beer. Despite the numerous advantages, making chemicals this way at the industrial level is still rare. This is because it’s still more expensive than using petroleum for producing the chemicals. Although a few challenges need to be solved to usher in the era of renewable chemicals, a fundamental constraint that limits the economic competitiveness of using microbes is the loss of at least 33% of the carbon as carbon dioxide waste during the fermentation – think of this as the head on your beer. Because of this carbon loss, potential product is simply not made. In technical terms, the maximum achievable yields are 67%. As sugars are the most expensive component of a bioprocess, making the carbon dioxide waste translates to as much as 20% of total costs, which severely hampers the economics of the bioprocess and its competitiveness with petroleum-based production methods.At ZymoChem, they are re-imagining the microbe, one that is designed to eliminate (or substantially reduce) carbon loss during the production of chemicals. To do this, they had to design a completely new biosynthetic pathway – one that doesn’t exist in nature – to make the chemicals. Each individual step of this pathway is designed to not lose carbon as carbon dioxide, enabling their biosynthetic pathway to retain all of the sugar’s carbon into the final chemical product. This carbon conservation allows their approach to have superior theoretical yields, up to 50% better than existing state-of-the-art technology! In turn, their technology has the potential to substantially lower production costs and drastically improve cost-competitiveness for making a variety of chemicals from renewable sources, even at today's oil prices. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Samsara Eco | Samsara Eco is an enviro-tech company creating infinite recycling to end plastic pollution. | $66.5M | Series A | Jun 26, 2024 |  |
| Zymochem | The world they live in is built from petroleum. The paints on their walls, the carpets in their homes, the tires on their cars, the plastics for everyday consumer goods – these and many more products are made from chemicals that are mostly made from petroleum, creating a $3 trillion/yr industry. To fulfill their dependency on petroleum, theydo crazy things like setting up oil rigs in the middle of the ocean and drilling several miles into the ocean floor! They’ve done these things because they have had no alternative to meet their needs. Not anymore!Over the past decade, advances in engineering microorganisms have afforded us the opportunity to make the same chemicals that are traditionally made from petroleum. Instead of requiring raw materials buried deep within the earth, microbes can use abundant and renewable sources of carbon such as sugars during processes akin to brewing beer. Despite the numerous advantages, making chemicals this way at the industrial level is still rare. This is because it’s still more expensive than using petroleum for producing the chemicals. Although a few challenges need to be solved to usher in the era of renewable chemicals, a fundamental constraint that limits the economic competitiveness of using microbes is the loss of at least 33% of the carbon as carbon dioxide waste during the fermentation – think of this as the head on your beer. Because of this carbon loss, potential product is simply not made. In technical terms, the maximum achievable yields are 67%. As sugars are the most expensive component of a bioprocess, making the carbon dioxide waste translates to as much as 20% of total costs, which severely hampers the economics of the bioprocess and its competitiveness with petroleum-based production methods.At ZymoChem, they are re-imagining the microbe, one that is designed to eliminate (or substantially reduce) carbon loss during the production of chemicals. To do this, they had to design a completely new biosynthetic pathway – one that doesn’t exist in nature – to make the chemicals. Each individual step of this pathway is designed to not lose carbon as carbon dioxide, enabling their biosynthetic pathway to retain all of the sugar’s carbon into the final chemical product. This carbon conservation allows their approach to have superior theoretical yields, up to 50% better than existing state-of-the-art technology! In turn, their technology has the potential to substantially lower production costs and drastically improve cost-competitiveness for making a variety of chemicals from renewable sources, even at today's oil prices. | $21M | Series A | Jan 15, 2024 |  |
| Samsara Eco | Samsara Eco is an enviro-tech company creating infinite recycling to end plastic pollution. |  | Corporate Round | May 18, 2023 |  |
| Genomatica | Genomatica develops biobased process technologies that enable a better way to produce widely-used chemicals, from alternative feedstocks, with better economics, sustainability, and performance. Genomatica has earned widespread acclaim for its technology; has commercialized processes for the chemical butanediol (for biodegradable plastics andapparel) and for butylene glycol (cosmetics and personal care), and is working on bio-nylon. Awards include the Kirkpatrick Award, for “the most noteworthy chemical engineering technology commercialized in the world” and the ICIS Innovation Award for its Brontide(TM) butylene glycol. |  | Corporate Round | Aug 18, 2021 |  |

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## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Lululemon invest in?

Lululemon invests primarily in Biotechnology, Chemical and Industrial startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Lululemon?

The team at Lululemon includes Alan Wizemann (Vice President of Guest Experience and Digital Product Management), Julie Averill (EVP, CTO) and Kelly Krause (Relationships Program Manager, North America), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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