The Stack World is a company.
The Stack World has raised $5.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Key people at The Stack World.
The Stack World has raised $5.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
The Stack World has raised $5.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
The Stack World's investors include Benchmark, Creandum, Index Ventures, 50 Partners Impact, Felix Capital, LocalGlobe, Sequoia Capital.
Key people at The Stack World.
The Stack World is a multimedia platform and membership community designed for ambitious, city-based women, particularly entrepreneurs, founders, and leaders, offering a network app, editorial content via *The Stack*, events, coworking spaces, and an upcoming marketplace for services like coaching and workshops.[1][2][4][5] It addresses gender equality by boosting the women's creator economy, enabling members to buy, sell, and earn through interconnected content, commerce, and community tools, with premium access at £12.50 per month unlocking learning resources and exclusive features.[3][4] The platform solves isolation in professional networks for women by fostering intergenerational connections across industries, races, and socio-economic groups, with early growth including 50% week-on-week membership signups post-launch.[2][3]
Founded by Sharmadean Reid, a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years building women's communities in business and self-development, The Stack World launched around early 2021 as an evolution of her prior ventures like Beautystack.[2][4] Reid's backstory emphasizes personal lessons from early jobs that taught her work's role in autonomy and purpose; she worked through school, eyed fashion studies at Central St Martins, and channeled these into supporting women's milestones like raising capital or gaining customers.[4] The idea emerged from combining her media passion with community-building, starting as an online platform with content (*The Stack*), events, and plans for *The Stack Marketplace*—an ecommerce extension for seamless service bookings tied to articles, achieving rapid traction with surging memberships by mid-February post-launch.[2]
The Stack World rides the creator economy and women-led entrepreneurship wave, capitalizing on rising demand for niche, purpose-driven networks amid gender gaps in funding and professional circles—where women-led startups receive far less venture capital.[2][3][4] Timing aligns with post-pandemic shifts toward hybrid communities and ecommerce personalization, amplified by content-driven purchases; its marketplace model mirrors Beautystack but broadens to non-beauty services, influencing the ecosystem by normalizing women-focused platforms that boost GDP through peer-to-peer services.[2] By fostering a global network of diverse leaders, it counters male-dominated tech spaces, enabling knowledge-sharing on milestones like co-parenting or customer acquisition, and sets a template for commerce-integrated media in underserved demographics.[4]
The Stack World is poised to scale its marketplace and premium features, potentially dominating women’s creator commerce with end-to-end ownership and data-rich recommendations from engaged users.[2] Trends like AI-personalized networking, remote-hybrid events, and inclusive investing will propel it, evolving influence from community hub to economic powerhouse as memberships grow and services expand globally.[3] This positions it as a catalyst for women's GDP growth, circling back to Reid's vision: equipping ambitious women with networks and tools to claim autonomy and redefine success.[4]
The Stack World has raised $5.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $4.0M Seed in May 2019.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2019 | $4.0M Seed | Benchmark, Creandum, Index Ventures | |
| Apr 1, 2018 | $1.0M Seed | 50 Partners Impact, Felix Capital, LocalGlobe, Sequoia Capital |
