GOAT
3960 Landmark Street, Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
Overview
GOAT Group is a marketplace for authentic sneakers available under the GOAT and Flight Club brands. Its brands offer a selection of sneakers available through company-operated retail stores, e-commerce sites, and mobile apps under the GOAT and Flight Club brands. Through its innovative technology and service, GOAT Group has changed the landscape of sneaker commerce. GOAT has thirteen physical locations in the United States, Asia, and Europe, including distribution and authentication centers that ship products to 170 international markets. The company's platforms feature over 350 brands across sneakers, apparel, and accessories. The company is backed by strategic investor Foot Locker, Inc. as well as some names in venture capital including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Matrix Partners, Upfront Ventures, Webb Investment Network, and Y Combinator. Daishin Sugano and Eddy Lu founded the company in Culver City, California in 2015.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Apparel
- Consumer Goods
- E-Commerce
- Fashion
- Marketplace
- Shoes
Investment portfolio
- Spore
Participated · Seed · Jun 2021
Spore provides a white-labeled, customizable creator hub that lets creators manage audiences, send newsletters, publish podcasts and texts, embed storefronts and Discord-like chat feeds, and analyze performance. The product includes payment flows to convert free subscribers into paying fans and tools to deliver paid content to select subscribers. Spore positions itself as a Linktree/creator-platform competitor by providing creators a site under their own URL rather than promoting third-party pages. The company’s features are currently in early MVP stages as it builds broader utility for creators. Spore is a small team with four full-time employees but plans to grow using the recent raise. The startup emphasizes giving creators ownership of their brand and direct connections with fans rather than relying on platform algorithms.