Natalie Messenet Biography

Natalie Massenet, founder of Net-a-Porter, revolutionized luxury retail with her e-commerce venture back in 2000. After leaving the company in 2015, she now serves as non-executive co-chairman at Farfetch, working closely alongside its founder and chief executive, José Neves. She co-founded Imaginary Ventures in 2018, a venture capital firm, with Nick Brown, and serves on the board of various portfolio brands. With a debut fund of $75 million, Imaginary Ventures, invested in some of the hottest start-ups in the fashion and beauty space, including Glossier, Reformation, Everlane, Farfetch, Good American, SKIMS (Kim Kardashian West’s new “solutionwear” business), Hawthorne, Hum Nutrition, Necessaire, Kosas, Mejuri, Appear Here , Heist and Universal Standard, among others. Born in the United States to a British model mother and a Californian journalist father, Massenet spent a year working in Tokyo as a model and a stylist after studying English Literature at UCLA. Then she relocated to London, where she worked as Isabella Blow’s assistant at Tatler.

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