Who invested in Hickies

3 rounds we have observed, with the 2 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

B2C

Funding summaryUpdated 26 Oct 2026

$15Mraised across 3 rounds since 2014, from 3 sources

$4.2MVenture$955KDebt$10MRound

Latest round: Round, $10MNov 2016
Step-upi: 10.5×
Investors: 2

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The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

201420152016

$4.2MVenture$955KDebt$10MRound

First round: Venture, $4.2M
Biggest round: $10M
Usual gap between rounds: 18 months

The rounds

Nov 2016
Round$10M1 new
- SFORZA
Reported by FinSMEsSEC filing: $7.6M sold, first sale Oct 2016
Aug 2015
Debt$955K
No investor was named in the report.
From a historical funding recordSEC filing: $955K sold, first sale Apr 2015
Feb 2014
Venture$4.2M1 new
- Collaborative Fund
From a historical funding record

Founders and team

From the SEC filings it signed: 4 on the team.

Gaston FrydlewskiExecutive Officer, Directori
Lee Raquel SossenExecutive Officeri
Maria Raquel WaingartenExecutive Officer, Directori
Peter Raquel MahrerExecutive Officer, Directori

On the board, as filediJoanna Raquel Rees

Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

Venture2014Debt2015Round2016

Collaborative Fund

SFORZA

Everyone who backed them

Collaborative FundVC firm1round

SFORZAPrivate equity1round

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Also claim to have backed them

These 2 firms list Hickies as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.