The Founder

The Founder is a lifestyle brand for professionals and travellers. Creator of ethical luxury clothing and accessories. All manufacturing is in Europe.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Fashion
  • Location Paris, France
  • Currency EUR
  • Founded April 2015
  • Employees 4
  • Incorporation Type LLC
  • Website thefounder.me

Company Summary

The Founder is a new lifestyle brand that creates ethically made luxury essentials for urban professionals, sold at a fair price. It is a brand created to provide the ultimate capsule wardrobe staples combined with tech.

We share the vision of producing fashion that supports local communities and craftsmanship, together with keeping sustainability in all aspects of the business. All products are made in Europe.

The E-commerce site was soft-launched late 2015.

The company has its legal address in 75017 Paris, France. We have a studio office in London, UK.

Team

  • Trond Urdahl
    Co-Founder and CEO

    Trond is a tech start‐up entrepreneur with over ten years of online launch experience in France and Spain, and holds an MBA from ESADE Business School. He is from Oslo, Norway.

  • Eglantine Sir
    Co-Founder and COO

    Eglantine brings 11 years experience in international business law (cross border M&A and venture capital). She spent the last 4 years working at Amazon, where she covered a variety of legal and operational matters
    including new category and program launches, and she has invaluable understanding of fashion, online businesses and logistics. Eglantine is from Paris, France.

  • Patricia Osbahr
    Director Design and Production

    Patricia has over a decade’s experience of working with the design teams of renowned fashion houses such as YSL and Hussein Chalayan. She also is specialised in fashion trend forecasting, working with WGSN and Stylus.

Previous Investors

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