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La Vida es Chula
La Vida es Chula is the Barcelona-based single-family office and personal holding company of Thomas Meyer, founder of the fashion brand Desigual. It holds Meyer's controlling stake in Desigual and uses his personal capital for direct minority investments in emerging, mostly Catalan companies at seed to Series A stage, with a focus on consumer brands, fashion, hospitality, fitness and logistics technology. Its portfolio includes the coffee chain GoodNews, Lapso Studios gyms, the fashion production platform fabbric, the apparel brand Laagam, the logistics platform Tennders and the restaurant group Honest Greens. It also backed the launch of the Norrsken Barcelona entrepreneurship hub.
SectorsConsumer, Fashion & Retail, Hospitality, Fitness, Logistics Tech
VC MapSeed
Team
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Thomas Meyer
Founder and Owner
Portfolio companies 6
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HHonest Greens
entered at unstaged equity, 2025
LLaagam
led unstaged equity, 2024
FFabbric
entered at Seed, 2024
TTennders
entered at Series A, 2023
GGoodNews
led Series A, 2022
Exited or sunsetted (1)
LLapso Studios
led Seed (estimated), 2023
Funding rounds 6
Open as list →| Date | Company | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2025-01-13 | Honest Greens | Unstaged equity | — |
Act III Holdings
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| 2024-10-24 | Laagam | Unstaged equity | — | La Vida es Chula |
| 2024-10-07 | Fabbric | Seed | €1.25M |
Hans(wo)men Group
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| 2023-11-07 | Tennders | Series A | €1.5M |
Lead not disclosed
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| 2023-10-31 | Lapso Studios | Seed (estimated) | €1.5M | La Vida es Chula |
| 2022-09-06 | GoodNews | Series A | €11M |
La Vida es Chula
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News 5
Open as list →| Published | Article |
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| 2025-11-22 |
Interoperable last-mile logistics platform Pidge raises Rs 120 crore in funding led by La Vida es Chula ↗
Indian Startup News
2025-11-22 |
| 2025-03-13 |
El fundador de Desigual entra en el capital de los restaurantes Honest Greens ↗
Crónica Global (El Español)
2025-03-13 |
| 2024-10-24 |
El dueño de Desigual pasa a formar parte de la marca Laagam ↗
El Plural
2024-10-24 |
| 2024-10-07 |
Barcelona-based Fabbric secures €1.25M to scale its platform for content creators ↗
Vestbee
2024-10-07 |
| 2023-10-31 |
[Funding alert] Barcelona-based Sportstech Startup Lapso Studios Secures €1.5 million in Funding ↗
StartupRise
2023-10-31 |