OpenOcean led the Series A financing for Purple Dot to support platform development and market expansion.

Purple Dot
Purple Dot provides waitlist and pre-order infrastructure for fashion retailers.
Purple Dot operates an ecommerce platform that enables fashion brands to manage pre-orders and waitlists. The system aims to align manufacturing quantities with actual consumer demand.
Filed accounts
Cash at bank
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Net assets
Shareholders' funds
Fixed assets
Cash, assets and headcount from Purple Dot's latest Companies House filing — with year-on-year movement, free with a Winfred account.
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Founders

John Talbott
co-founder
John serves as CTO and co-founder at Purple Dot, having previously held engineering leadership roles at Skyscanner and Twizoo.
Investors
- £7.9M
- $4.0M
- £1.4M
Funding history
The round was led by Unusual Ventures with participation from Connect Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, and Paul Forster's family office.
Connect Ventures led the seed round for the fashion fintech startup.

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