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Investor profile

Natalie Massenet

Co-Founder & Partner, Imaginary Ventures

About

Natalie Massenet brings an unusual combination of fashion journalism, e-commerce founding experience, and venture investing to her role at Imaginary Ventures, having started as a fashion journalist before building Net-a-Porter into a global luxury platform and then moving into venture capital. She focuses on digitally native consumer brands that build tight communities and leverage storytelling as growth engines, drawing from her own experience scaling a consumer brand to coach founders through similar growth challenges. Natalie Massenet brings an unusual combination of fashion journalism, e-commerce founding experience, and venture investing to her role at Imaginary Ventures, having started as a fashion journalist before building Net-a-Porter into a global luxury platform and then moving into venture capital. She focuses on digitally native consumer brands that build tight communities and leverage storytelling as growth engines, drawing from her own experience scaling a consumer brand to coach founders through similar growth challenges.

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Investment focus

Stages
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Sectors
Consumer
CPG / D2C
Ecommerce
Food
Ag
Retail Tech

Investment details

Avg check size$100K - $10M
Can lead rounds
Yes
Geographies
USA