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Farfetch reached a $1B valuation on $300M to $400M in sales

Diego Abba · Italian Fashion Brand Doing $12m/Year In Transaction Volume EP 227 · Apr 6, 2016 · at 9:17

Diego Abba, CEO of Italist, cites competitor Farfetch's valuation multiple as a precedent for valuing luxury marketplace volume.

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“The valuation of Farfetch, that is a similar model. And they got their last round at the valuation of one billion and their total sales was around I would say 300 to four hundred million. In a year. Last year, in 2015, they got the last round of financing.”

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The claim, plainly

Farfetch raised a funding round in 2015 at a $1 billion valuation while generating around $300 million to $400 million in annual gross sales.

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Assessment

Both legs of the claim are confirmed by contemporary financial press and financial records from March 2015. Farfetch closed an $86 million Series E funding round in March 2015 led by DST Global at a $1.0 billion post-money valuation. At the time of the funding round, contemporary reporting (including The Financial Times and Business Insider) stated that Farfetch was generating approximately $300 million to $365 million in annual gross merchandise value (gross sales).

The Financial Times and Business Insider reported on March 4, 2015, that Farfetch completed an $86 million Series E round valuing the company at $1.0 billion.
Contemporary reporting at the time of the March 2015 round reported Farfetch's annual gross platform sales/GMV at approximately $300 million, with run rates around $1 million per day (~$365 million annualized).

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[1] businessinsider.com [2] hypebeast.com [3] tracxn.com [4] sec.gov [5] indexventures.com [6] retaildive.com [7] sec.gov

Farfetch Series E March 2015 valuation gross sales Farfetch funding round 2015 1 billion valuation gross sales GMV Farfetch 2014 2015 gross merchandise value GMV valuation 2015

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Disclosure

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Prediction Not publicly verifiable

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