Look Forward

An incubator platform for entrepreneurs that seek to revolutionise the worlds of fashion, beauty and retail

Summary

Look Forward is an innovation platform for entrepreneurs that seek to revolutionise the worlds of fashion, beauty and retail. To do so, it has created an integrated startup incubator. Look Forward is an incubator promoted by Showroomprivè.

Founded in 2015, Look Forward is established as an incubator program which aims to help from 15 to 20 startups every year. The program includes coaching by parent company’s Showroomprivé employees, and the chosen companies will be benefited from a 100k€ package of services, hosting and mentoring. It is based in Paris, France.

Incubator Operations

Look Forward by Showroomprive.com will actively support new digital projects to develop a real community around fashion, beauty and retail tech. Labeled Grand Place of Innovation by Île-de-France region, Look Forward has already coached 35 startups (17 fundraisings for a total amount of 8 M€) and supported ten profitable companies.

The incubator program will help applicants in the following:

  • To Realize a first fundraising
  • To improve their prototypes
  • To meet investors
  • To create brand identity
  • To develop a business internationally to sell their products
  • To recruit and be accompanied in the recruitment process
  • To communicate about their startups and products

Key People

A team of experts in innovation, management and communication will guide selected companies to achieve those goals:

  • Coline Riviere – Coline holds a degree in political sciences and she leads all of the CSR projects at Showroomprive
  • Marie Mossaz – Just graduated from HEC Lausanne. Marie works with Coline for the most part of Look Forwards projects.
  • Andréa Julien – Student in Fashion Business at Mode Estah, Andréa is in charge of the communication of Look Forward
  • Louise Mauduit – Student in BBA at emlyon Business School, Louise works on all of the CSR programs including the incubator.

References

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/look-forward#section-overview

https://fashnerd.com/2018/11/fashion-tech-incubators-accelerators/

https://www.en.lookforwardproject.com/incubator