Farfetch

Who owns Farfetch?

Farfetch was owned by Eurazeo through Eurazeo Growth Fund II (2017 vintage) from 2016 to 2020. Across its history, Farfetch has been through 3 private equity ownership periods, detailed in the timeline below.

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About Farfetch

Farfetch is a London-based luxury fashion technology company that operates a global online marketplace connecting independent boutiques, department stores and luxury brands with consumers around the world. Rather than holding most of its own inventory, it aggregates the stock of partner retailers and brands onto a single platform, handling the technology, payments, logistics and cross-border shipping that let a boutique sell to buyers in more than 190 countries. By the time it scaled, the platform carried the assortments of over 1,400 brands, boutiques and department stores and shipped to millions of customers globally. It positioned itself as the leading pure-play technology partner for a fragmented luxury industry that had been slow to move online, extending from its consumer marketplace into services for brands and stores. At its 2016 funding round the company disclosed it had grown gross transaction value more than 70 percent in 2015 to over 500 million US dollars.

Ownership journey

Farfetch was founded in London in June 2007 by Jose Neves, a Portuguese entrepreneur who set out to connect small offline fashion boutiques with a global customer base through technology. Vitruvian Partners invested through its Fund II in 2014, leading a 66 million US dollar round that also drew existing backers, and remained a shareholder through the company's growth phase before exiting in 2018 via the New York Stock Exchange listing. Felix Capital backed the company through its Fund I in 2015 and likewise exited in 2018 via the IPO. In 2016 Eurazeo invested through Eurazeo Growth Fund II as part of a 110 million US dollar round, joining the company as it consolidated its position in China, Japan and other Asia-Pacific markets, and exited its holding in 2020 following the public listing. Farfetch completed its initial public offering on the NYSE in September 2018.

Under PE ownership

The successive rounds during the investment period funded expansion of Farfetch's proprietary technology platform, omni-channel tools for boutiques and brands, and its build-out across Asia-Pacific. Between the 2014 and 2016 financings the company widened its partner base toward hundreds of independent boutiques and dozens of brands selling directly through the platform, adding multiple language translations and localised operations. Gross transaction value grew more than 70 percent in 2015 to over 500 million US dollars, per the company's own 2016 disclosures, as it scaled logistics and payments infrastructure to serve buyers in more than 190 countries. The trajectory culminated in the September 2018 IPO on the NYSE, which raised 885 million US dollars from 33.6 million new shares and provided the exit route for its early venture and growth backers.