Zalando
VC Fund
Berlin, Germany
Zalando is a European online fashion platform- offering a broad assortment of fashion for men, women and children. It carries over 1.500 brands and over 150.000 product choices for over 17 million customers in 15 countries. By constantly optimising its processes and platform offerings, using its e-commerce expertise and lots of can-do spirit,Zalando have become Europe's leading online fashion retailer in only a few years. Its goal is to create the world’s best online fashion experience. The cores of its business are what the company focuses on, always striving to be cutting-edge in fashion, technology, marketing, and logistics. Zalando SE in Berlin is the group’s centrepiece which focuses on the development of its core product: the online shopping experience. Zalando SE operates the international business and takes care of their business development. Zalando SE comprises functions like the management, marketing, administration, and technology.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Zalando invests in
Stages Zalando invests in
Countries Zalando invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 8 (50%)
- Retail 4 (25%)
- Fashion 4 (25%)
- SaaS 3 (19%)
- Internet 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (19%)
- Series A 3 (19%)
- Series B 3 (19%)
- Funding Round 3 (19%)
- Corporate Round 2 (13%)
Country
- Germany 3 (19%)
- Sweden 2 (13%)
- United States 2 (13%)
- France 1 (6%)
- Poland 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lorenzo Grabau
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board
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Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
David Schneider
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 9 | Find email | |
Eric Bowman
VP Engineering
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VP Engineering | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Gunnar Obst
Delivery Lead Platform Excellence
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Delivery Lead Platform Excellence | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jan Bartels
SVP B2B
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SVP B2B | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| The next-generation, open-source, headless e-commerce platform. Fast. Open. Maintainable. | $8M / Seed / Feb 05, 2024 | ||
| Infinited Fiber Company is a Finnish biotech founded in 2016 to commercialize a breakthrough recycling technology that can turn cellulose-rich raw materials – like cotton-rich textile waste, used cardboard, or wheat or rice straw – into high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. The patented technology has been validated byleading brands and is ready to be scaled. Infinited Fiber Company won the Europas 2020 Hottest Sustainability Tech Award, and was listed on the Global 50 to Watch by Cleantech Group in 2019. In 2016 Infinited Fiber Company was selected into WWF’s Climate Solver network. The company is headquartered in Espoo, Finland. | $13.9M / Series B / May 31, 2023 | ||
| Circ helps industries meet consumer expectations for sustainability without compromises in quality, price, or convenience. It recycles discarded clothing to produce the basis of petroleum- and plant-based fabrics. Tyton’s virgin-equivalent, market-grade dissolving pulp, and petroleum monomers can be sold at the same cost as virgin materials tomanufacturers who make fibers. Whether cotton, poly-cotton, polyester, nylon, or other fibers, it aims to cost-effectively recycle these materials using water as a solvent. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Danville, Virginia. | $25M / Series B / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| Ambercycle is a material science company that transforms textile waste into fresh materials for brands and producers. Ambercycle is assembling the world's used-up textiles into one centralized ecosystem, including everything from loose bits to tattered t-shirts. Ambercycle isolates components in intricate fabrics using a molecular regenerationtechnique to produce raw materials from streams that are typically challenging to recycle. Ambercycle enables regional and international players to easily reroute their waste products back into supply chains. | $21.6M / Series A / Jan 04, 2022 | ||
| Magazino develops and builds perception-controlled, mobile robots for intralogistics. With Magazinos technology individual objects can be identified on the shelf and localized via 2D and 3D cameras, securely grasped and finally placed precisely at their destination.The first self-thinking and self-acting warehouse in the world - that is theirvision. With their work they want to promote the development of robotics and actively shape the future of logistics. | $24.5M / Series B / Sep 24, 2020 | ||
| TrusTrace is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company providing a platform dedicated to product traceability and compliance. The technology developed by the company empowers global brands and suppliers to standardize the capture, digitization, and sharing of supply chain and material traceability data. By consolidating all reliable supply chaintraceability data on a single platform, brands can substantiate product claims and adhere to regulatory compliance with the appropriate evidence readily available. | $111.7K / Grant / Nov 01, 2019 | ||
| Magazino develops and builds perception-controlled, mobile robots for intralogistics. With Magazinos technology individual objects can be identified on the shelf and localized via 2D and 3D cameras, securely grasped and finally placed precisely at their destination.The first self-thinking and self-acting warehouse in the world - that is theirvision. With their work they want to promote the development of robotics and actively shape the future of logistics. | $24.8M / Series A / Feb 27, 2018 | ||
| Ivyrevel is a digital fashion house, tailored for our GENERATION.They are inspired by urban contrasts, STRONG independent women and by the contemporary now. Drawn by opposites, we’re mixing both uptown and downtown in our collections. Their style is POLISHED, loud and extrovert with feminine silhouettes and ample amounts of attitude. Attentionto visual details is of great importance since we value design that makes us look stunning both ONLINE and offline. | $2M / Dec 01, 2017 | ||
| PAIR Finance is the leading AI-based Fintech for debt collection and receivables management in Germany. With its innovative technology, advanced behavioral analytics and data science, the company enables business customers to recover lost revenue from unpaid claims – digital, with greater efficiency and customer focus. More than 300 companies froma wide range of industry sectors are already successfully working with the debt collection platform for the digital age, including Zalando, Klarna, Home24 and Sixt. The fast-growing company, founded in Berlin in 2016, has about 100 experienced employees and is managed by founder and CEO Stephan Stricker. For more information, visit: www.pairfinance.com. | $4.9M / Series A / Nov 01, 2017 | ||
| FashionTrade is an online fashion marketplace where brands and retailers can connect and do their wholesale business online. We make the selling and buying process simpler and more efficient - minimising costs, saving time and improving brand and retailer margins.We operate globally and have responded to a shift in the industry landscape. It isa shift towards digital solutions that enable and improve the scalability and efficiency of fashion brands and retailers alike.Our core technology is a highly advanced cloud-based developed specifically for the B2B fashion industry. We are search and data driven and via strategic collaborations have developed a highly scalable, always-on platform. The time has come for the fashion industry to embrace technology and revolutionise their ways of working. | Jun 27, 2017 | ||
| See all 16 investments → | |||
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What does Zalando invest in?
Zalando invests primarily in E-Commerce, Retail and Fashion startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Zalando includes Lorenzo Grabau (Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board), David Schneider (Founder) and Eric Bowman (VP Engineering), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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