One of Lookiero’s personal stylists preparing a selection
Lookiero, is Europe’s leading personal shopping startup and we’re very pleased to have led its $19 million funding round with support from existing investor All Iron Ventures, and new investors Bonsai Partners, 10x and Santander Smart. The funding will allow the company to continue its international expansion and strengthen its leadership position within its main markets: Spain, France and the UK. Consumer tech is a core specialism for MMC and we have several of the UK’s favourite companies in our portfolio including recipe box retailer, Gousto and flower delivery company, Bloom & Wild.
Founded in 2015 by Oier Urrutia, Lookiero combines the knowledge of personal stylists, detailed customer profiles and in-house learning algorithms to provide a fully-personalised online shopping experience to its customers. It delivers a selection of five pieces of clothing or accessories carefully curated by a personal shopper to fit the customer’s individual size, style, and preferences. Customers then decide which items to keep or return (at no additional cost), allowing Lookiero’s technology and personal shoppers to learn through feedback and improve future selections.
Lookiero currently has over 1 million registered users and has grown revenue by over 200% from 2017 to 2018. By generating look-a-like profiles and analysing previous customer interactions with each item, Lookiero’s technology can accurately predict how likely a user is going to keep a certain item from a range of more than 150 European brands. This ‘recommendation algorithm’ assists the customers’ assigned personal shopper to pick the best options for each customer. The team’s technical and data science capabilities also extend into back-end operations, having built a suite of warehousing systems that will ship more than 3 million items of clothing this year and have underpinned their expansion into seven European countries to-date.
The funding will partly support the growth of Lookiero’s London office, currently more than 20 people. In the UK, Lookiero works with retail partners including Warehouse and French Connection. It will also allow Lookiero to expand its Paris operation alongside a new office opening in Italy.
Oier Urrutia, Founder and CEO, Lookiero, said:
Simon Menashy, Partner, MMC, had this to say about the investment:
Part of the capital invested in Lookiero comes from the MMC Greater London Fund, in collaboration with the Mayor of London. This is part of the Mayor’s focus on supporting international companies to expand their businesses in London.
Read more on Lookiero’s funding round via TechCrunch.