# Tom Chapman

> Tom Chapman is a seed investor at Chapman Office (London) backing Health Care and Fashion. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Chapman Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chapman-family-office)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Jan 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tompchapman

Tom Chapman is a seed investor at Chapman Office in London focused on Health Care and Fashion. Tom Chapman OBE is an investor in early-stage companies and co-founder of MATCHESFASHION.COM. Tom has an investment portfolio that spans multiple industries including technology, logistics, beauty, fashion, health, and medical cannabis. He invests in committed founders and experienced management teams to grow disruptive mission-driven businessesthat leverage technology to deliver a better service to consumers and transform the way the world works. Tom's recent investments include disruptive beauty brand HEYDAY, a one-stop shop for personalised skincare treatments; size-inclusive womenswear brand Universal Standard; Caliva, California's largest fully licensed integrated cannabis dispensary, retailer and distributor; by Humankind, a personal care brand seeking to eliminate single-use plastic; Convoy, which connects truckers with shippers to fill unused trucking capacity, reducing the environmental impact of freight; feminine health brand, OHNE; baby food business, Cerebelly; medical cannabis startup, Plena; and the world’s first stock exchange dedicated to the IPO and trading of commercial real estate assets, IPSX. Tom's work as an investor builds on his experience founding MATCHESFASHION.COM, operating at the forefront of the changing face of retail for more than 30 years. With his wife Ruth, they grew the company from a single bricks-and-mortar store to a global luxury fashion brand with a reputation for supporting and nurturing new and emerging talent, and are credited with introducing designers such as Versace, Prada and Bottega Veneta to the UK. Under Tom's leadership, MATCHESFASHION.COM invested heavily in technology across all areas of the business, enabling the company to better understand the lives of its customers and provide them with a fast, convenient and highly personalised service. MATCHESFASHION.COM was one of the first luxury brands to go online in 2005; one of the first businesses to launch 90-minute delivery in 2016; and one of the first retailers to build a platform to provide a single truly unified view of customer's shopping across both online and physical channels.It was, however, his understanding of how digital could radically transform how companies engaged with their customers and his appetite for challenging traditional practices that led to him being inducted into the Business of Fashion’s Hall of Fame in 2018 and being described as a “retail innovator”. Tom recognised that MATCHESFASHION.COM could use digital not only to reach a global audience quickly but to build highly personal, intimate customer relationships, engaging shoppers with rich, resonant content and storytelling. Paired with his challenger mentality, this insight saw Tom transform the company from a 14-store physical retailer into a leading global luxury e-commerce giant. From the launch of their website in 2007, MATCHESFASHION.COM grew at a rate of up to 100 per cent per year, raising £20 million in 2012 for a minority stake in the business.In 2013, Tom's commitment to digital saw him rebrand all Matches' physical stores as MATCHESFASHION.COM. These decisions collectively enabled the business to accelerate from a valuation of £76m in 2012 to an acquisition price in excess of $1 billion just five years later. In 2017-18, the business had 95 per cent of sales online and 85 per cent internationally. MATCHESFASHION.COM is also credited with pioneering blended retail, seamlessly bringing together physical and digital commerce to connect with customers over multiple touchpoints – whether that be through the company's events, magazine or private shopping experiences. Before the sale of the business, Tom conceived of 5 Carlos Place, a five-storey townhouse combining luxury private shopping in a home environment with a purpose-built broadcasting hub and events space focused on creating engaging content for MATCHESFASHION.COM's 100 million annual online visitors. Carlos Place was an extension of the private-shopping concept behind No.23, which reinvented retail service along the lines of private-client banking, delivering a highly personalised, intimate, bespoke shopping experience. Throughout the growth of MATCHESFASHION.COM, Tom has focused on keeping customers and their lifestyles at the centre of all company decisions, recognising that top-class service is the foundation of all consumer-facing businesses and that technology investment should always enable a business to connect better with the consumer and support them. Like MATCHESFASHION.COM, many of Tom's investments both challenge the status quo and have strong brands that build deep, personal relationships with customers by connecting with them across both physical and digital touchpoints, and place special importance on social responsibility, inclusiveness and environmental impact. Having been described as "trailblazers" by The New York Times and "pioneers" by VOGUE, Tom and Ruth Chapman were awarded Draper's Lifetime Achievement Award for their contributions to fashion retail in 2017. In the same year MATCHESFASHION.COM won British Luxury Brand of the Year at the prestigious Walpole British Luxury Awards. Tom Chapman, along with his wife Ruth Chapman, were awarded OBEs in the 2020 New Year Honours list for services to the international fashion retail industry. An advocate of arts, sustainability and cultural causes, Tom is a member of the Innovation Circle at the Serpentine Gallery.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$5.6M |
| Series A | $7M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 6 | 32% |
| Fashion | 3 | 16% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 16% |
| Beauty | 2 | 11% |
| FinTech | 2 | 11% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 53% |
| Series A | 5 | 26% |
| Series C | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 47% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 21% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Sweden | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Superkind | Superkind is a women-led tech company making the next generation of AI-powered super experiences | $14M | Series A | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Superkind | Superkind is a women-led tech company making the next generation of AI-powered super experiences |  | Series A | Nov 10, 2020 |  |
| Forte | FORTE (which stands for Financing Of Return To Employment) is a way to finance education and healthcare, at no cost to individuals or governments, and without relying on philanthropy. The FORTE approach was invented by Dr Nat Ware as part of his Oxford PhD on a Rhodes Scholarship. With the FORTE approach, the cost of high-quality education (such asretraining) and healthcare (such as cataract eye surgery) is paid for by investors. Individuals who receive these services pay nothing - either now or in the future. Instead, investors receive a portion of any increase in future taxation revenue caused by those services. Think of it as "Future Lydia's taxes paying for Present Lydia's training".In a nutshell, it works in three steps:1. Via Forte, investors can pay for the services of individuals who would otherwise be paying no or negligible tax.2. These services (such as vocational retraining), by their nature, increase expected employment, incomes, and therefore government income tax revenue.3. Governments, as part of the contractual arrangement, pass back to investors (via Forte) an agreed portion of the tax revenue attributable to the training recipients, for a set period of time.This arrangement is mutually beneficial. Individuals receive training at no cost and with no risk. They just pay the usual tax rate. They’re effectively paying for their own training with their future tax.Governments pay nothing upfront. They can increase the skilled modern workforce, overcome skill gaps, and help those in need, without worsening the budget. Importantly, there are easy mathematical ways of structuring the contract so they only pass on in the future what they otherwise would not have had. In other words, the FORTE model pays for itself in a guaranteed way.Investors get low-risk, short-term returns. They can do well while doing good. There is perfect alignment of social impact and financial returns. A true win-win. | $5.6M | Seed | Nov 01, 2020 |  |
| GoHenry | Gohenry helps young people learn how to earn, save and spend responsibly. Combining web and mobile apps with a debit card with parental controls, the company gives 6 to 18-year-olds hands-on experience in managing money within a safe environment. Parents set rules and limits, can allocate pocket money automatically, or set tasks and chores fortheir children to earn extra money. They and the kids can see their earnings, spending, and saving on graphs. Children and teens can also use budgeting tools to set savings goals and track and filter spending by retailer, size of spend, and category. It’s a way to give young people financial independence so they can learn by doing, but under a watchful eye and with no danger of debt. |  | Series A | Oct 19, 2020 |  |
| Huma | Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered inLondon, England. |  | Series C | Oct 14, 2020 |  |
| CDLP | CDLP is a Swedish design firm that creates high-end men's essentials. CDLP was founded in 2016. |  | Seed | Feb 04, 2020 |  |
| Ohne | ohne are building the world’s largest community focused healthcare brand for women, providing them with a one-stop-shop for everything they need to thrive across every major lifecycle phase, starting with cycle care. | $655K | Pre-Seed | Jul 15, 2019 |  |
| Huma | Huma is a global health technology company that provides a modular platform to support digital 'hospitals at home' across different disease areas. Its platform combines predictive algorithms, digital biomarkers, and real-world data to advance proactive, predictive care and research.The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered inLondon, England. |  | Series A | Apr 23, 2019 |  |
| Hawthorne | Hawthorne creates personal care products using premium quality ingredients, data-driven algorithms, and smart subscriptions. It makes it easy to elevate consumers with premium quality products that work perfectly for them as an individual. With just a quick quiz, consumers will receive tailored products for all of their bathroom needs. |  | Seed | Apr 17, 2019 |  |
| Ohne | ohne are building the world’s largest community focused healthcare brand for women, providing them with a one-stop-shop for everything they need to thrive across every major lifecycle phase, starting with cycle care. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2019 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Red Sea Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/red-sea-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AA Sons](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aa-sons) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [14W](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/14-w) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BoxGroup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxgroup) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chapman Office](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chapman-family-office) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Chapman Office

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

A single family office investing across asset classes.

2 contacts available at Chapman Office.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tom Chapman | Investor & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-chapman-d3ab |
| Arik Ahitov | Chief Investment Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arik-ahitov |

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## FAQ

### What does Tom Chapman invest in?

Tom Chapman invests primarily in Health Care, Fashion and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 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 Tom Chapman's check size?

Tom Chapman typically joins rounds of $4M–$5.6M at Seed and $7M–$14M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tom Chapman participates in.

### When did Tom Chapman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tom Chapman closed in Jan 2021. Shizune tracks 19 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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