I met an interesting startup founder yesterday. When he introduced himself, he said “I own a beauty salon”. His investor immediately chimed in and said “he’s being very humble. He is launching a tech enabled beauty salon chain and already…
In 2018, I wrote about the rise of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) brands as they disrupted legacy incumbents with better design, pricing, and customer intimacy. Seven years later, some say DTC is dead. But they’re wrong—DTC isn’t dying. It’s evolving. Just last…
London VCs from JamJar Investments, MMC Ventures and Samaipata Ventures chime in on the challenges and opportunities in European DTC and lessons learned from investing in several European startup in the direct to consumer space.
Direct-To-Consumer, or DTC in short, are products or services that are financed, designed, produced, marketed, distributed and sold by the same company. They bypass the middleman and connect directly to consumers. Others call them Digitally-Native Vertically-Integrated brands (DNVB). The appeal is simple…
