Birdies is a female-founded footwear brand that was born out of a need for stylish, comfortable shoes to wear inside the home. The brand has evolved for versatile everyday use, offering a range of signature styles that combine the support of a sneaker, the softness of a slipper, and the style of a designer flat, all featuring the company’s exclusive cloud-like comfort technology.
Total raised: $20M
Founded date: 2015
Investors 3
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 31.07.2019 | - | $10M | - |
| 17.01.2019 | Series A | $8M | - |
| 13.09.2017 | Seed | $2M | - |
Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.07.2019 | How Outdoor Slipper Brand Birdies Raised $10 Million In Funding | - |
| 18.01.2019 | Term Sheet — Friday, January 18 | WALL STREET’S UNLIKELY STAR Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From ExtraHop In its fourth quarter report, it reported the highest earnings in company history. The bank posted a $8.7 billion i... |
| 18.01.2019 | Birdies Secures $8M in Series A Funding | Birdies, a San Francisco-based footwear brand, secured $8m in Series A funding. Norwest Venture Partners led the round, which brought total funding to $10M, with participation from Forerunner Ventures and Slow Ventures. The brand will use t... |
| 17.01.2019 | A Look At Birdies, The Popular Slipper Shoe Startup That Just Raised $8 Million More From Investors | - |
| 17.01.2019 | A look at Birdies, the popular slipper shoe startup that just raised $8 million more from investors | Bianca Gates is a first-generation American, her parents having immigrated to the U.S. from Latin America. As such, she says, after graduating from UC Irvine, she was expected to get a safe job with a 401(k) plan and to live with her parent... |
| 19.11.2018 | Move over Le Creuset? A new cookware startup founded by and for millennials is getting down to business | Sometimes, it’s hard to imagine a product or industry that a new e-commerce startup hasn’t tried to remake already, from slippers to mattresses, from luggage to lipstick. Yet two childhood friends in New York have seemingly struck on a fres... |
| 16.09.2017 | Birdies lands $2M for comfy women's slippers | Get ready women -- your feet will long to be slipped into these comfy shoes There's nothing like a pair of slippers to feel relaxed and cozy at home. But often they don't exactly make the outfit, unless the attire for the day is sweats. Thi... |
| 14.09.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, September 14 | UNICORN STATUS Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From ExtraHop Today, we learned that Magic Leap, a Florida-based wearable tech company, is raising $500 million in fresh funding at a valuatio... |
| 13.09.2017 | Birdies Raises $2M in Seed Funding | Birdies, a San Francisco, CA-based maker of a new type of footwear for the home, raised $2m in seed funding. The round was led by Forerunner Ventures, with participation from Slow Ventures, Graph Ventures, Social Capital and a few strategic... |
| 19.05.2016 | Andy Dunn: Venture capital isn’t always a good thing | Silicon Valley may have an unhealthy obsession with the VC round, suggest Bonobos founder and CEO It was a question that almost seemed to be rhetorical. “Do you think funding is a good thing or a bad thing?” The question was posed by Bianca... |
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