Burch Creative Capital

Burch Creative Capital is a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm focused on consumer brands, retail, and lifestyle businesses, founded and led by J. Christopher Burch, co-founder of Tory Burch and one of the most experienced brand builders in American retail. Burch Creative Capital brings a rare combination of creative and commercial expertise to consumer investing: Burch's background as a retail entrepreneur who co-founded and helped scale one of the most successful American luxury lifestyle brands gives the firm an unusually deep operational perspective on what makes consumer brands work at scale, how to build distribution, what the economics of retail look like across channels, and how to recruit the operational talent to grow a consumer business. The firm invests at Series A and Series B stages with checks from $500,000 to $3 million, focusing on companies where distinctive brand identity, loyal consumer communities, and multi-channel distribution create durable value. Tory Burch, the fashion and lifestyle brand co-founded by Burch, has grown into a global business with billions in revenue and is one of the most recognized American luxury brands. Rebecca Minkoff, the contemporary fashion brand, received early support from Burch Creative Capital. Fave is a US lifestyle brand. C Wonder was a specialty retail concept Burch created directly. Beyond its original investments in Fave, C Wonder, Rebecca Minkoff, and Tory Burch, the portfolio includes consumer brand and retail investments where Burch's operational expertise and creative network add substantial value.