Chris Morton

CEO / cofounder at Lyst

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2018𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Feb 2018
Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable, affordable secondhand fashion. With over 35 million registered users, we’re on a mission to make fashion circular - encouraging more people to choose secondhand and extend the lives of their clothes, redefining fashion consumption. We believe that the secret to making fashion more circular - at scale - is by offering the most inspiring and accessible alternative to new, making it easy for people to choose resale over retail. Sitting at the intersection of style, value, and sustainability, we want Depop to be the most exciting place for anyone to engage with fashion and trends in a more circular way. Powered by a team of over 400 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. Depop is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage individuals from underrepresented communities to apply, and collaborate with our Talent Team to ensure broader outreach. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.
Advisor / Investor
Jan 2010
Experience · 4 entries
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2018
Board Member
Feb 2018
Depop is the community-powered fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover desirable, affordable secondhand fashion. With over 35 million registered users, we’re on a mission to make fashion circular - encouraging more people to choose secondhand and extend the lives of their clothes, redefining fashion consumption. We believe that the secret to making fashion more circular - at scale - is by offering the most inspiring and accessible alternative to new, making it easy for people to choose resale over retail. Sitting at the intersection of style, value, and sustainability, we want Depop to be the most exciting place for anyone to engage with fashion and trends in a more circular way. Powered by a team of over 400 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York and Manchester. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. Depop is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage individuals from underrepresented communities to apply, and collaborate with our Talent Team to ensure broader outreach. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We’re continuing to build recruitment processes that are fair and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments required throughout your interview experience with us. Depop supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.
2010
CEO / cofounder
Jan 2010
Lyst is a global Fashion Tech company and premium shopping app, founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 200M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion items & products in one place, via an assortment of 8.5M+ items from over 17,000 of the world’s leading brands. We are a scale-up business with a current team size of c. 160 people in London, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace. At Lyst we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn’t, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper. Lyst has raised over $160m from leading investors including Accel, Balderton, Molten Ventures, Fidelity International, and LVMH.
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Jan 2010
2007
Benchmark Capital / Balderton Capital
Investor
Dec 2007
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2007–2018 · 3 investments
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