#FashionTech 2012 Industry Report

HELIUM MAGAZINE PRESENTS FASHIONTECH 2012 INDUSTRY REPORT #2012FTIR STATISTICS $1,621,061,000 OF VENTURE CAPITAL WAS INVESTED INTO 117 FASHIONTECH COMPANIES IN 2012. -53 STARTUPS RAISED $62M IN SEED ROUNDS -68 COMPANIES RAISED $1.56B IN VENTURE ROUNDS' 79 E-COMMERCE SITES DOMINATED WITH $1.5B IN RAISED CAPITAL 67% 13% E-Commerce Social/Tech 20% Innovation/Tech TOP 10 INVESTVESTMENTS $248M $120M BestSeoret.com Fab. DAS BESTGEHÜTETE GEHEIMNIS DER MODEBRANCHE $100M $76M dafiti JUSTFAB $72M $52M O GLOSSYBOX zalando $49M $42M NASTY GAL 1stdibs. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THINGS ON EARTH $40M $76M Etsy KUPIVIP.RU FASHIONTECH CAPITALS NEW YORK: $452M O SAN FRANCISCO: $88M O FRANCE: 36M CHINA: $16M O GERMANY: $300M5 O BOSTON, MA: $77M O UK: 36.2M O AUSTRALIA: $15.5M O LOS ANGELES: $198M O SILICON VALLEY: $66M O SOUTH AFRICA: $26 O TURKEY: $10M O BRAZIL: $172M O INDIA: $38M O UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: $20M O SEATTLE, WA: $7.5M NOTES 1) 4 startups raised both a seed round and a Series A round. 2) Companies that exhibited online characteristics of brick and mortar stores were categorized as e-commerce. Companies who's core offering depending on technology features to enable social shopping were categorized as Social/Tech and companies who's core business was innovating new technology for fashion was categorized as Innovation/Tech. 3) A majority stake of Best Secret was purchased by a private equity firm. The investment yields closer to the characteristics of an acquisition than the compared venture capital investments. 4) Fab raised a $105M round and a separate $15M round yielding $120M total capital in 2012. 5) The peculiarity of Best Secreť's investment heavily skews Germany's position on the map. SOURCES Statistics from Helium Magazine's FashionTech 2012 Industry Report. The report crunches data from Helium Magazine's FashionTech Database that tracks publically announced investments combined with the TechCrunch CrunchBase database. View the full report at www.HELIUMMAGAZINE.com