Sézane
Clothing · 24+ locations · Paris + France (Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Lille, Marseille); London, Madrid; US: NYC, San Jose, LA, SF, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston
Sézane grew from an eBay vintage shop into a B Corp-certified label with boutiques across France, the US, the UK and Spain. It's still founder-majority owned, but General Atlantic, a global PE firm, holds a 35% stake.
The Big Picture
Sézane is founder-majority owned, B Corp certified, and has redistributed over €10 million through its DEMAIN program since 2018, funding children's access to health, education and culture alongside women's health. But Good On You still rates it 'Not Good Enough,' finding no living-wage evidence for the people making the clothes, and General Atlantic's 35% stake ties growth to an investor timeline. The certification is real; the wage question underneath it is unanswered.
The Dirty Details
Ownership
General AtlanticGrowth Equity
General Atlantic is a New York growth-equity firm established in 1980 as the vehicle for Chuck Feeney's fortune, and now one of the largest growth investors in the world: roughly $126 billion under management across growth equity, credit, energy transition and infrastructure, and more than 885 companies backed over its history. It takes minority growth stakes rather than control, which is why the founders of its Ferret companies are all still in place. Its four Ferret companies sit at very different points: it holds about 35% of Sézane, led the August 2026 round that priced Blank Street at roughly $650 million and took a board seat with it, and bought into Vuori through a 2024 secondary that paid out earlier investors rather than funding the company. It is also named as a backer of %Arabica, which Ferret tracks, but that one is deliberately not counted among its Ferret companies: the only reporting behind it concerns the separately-valued Greater China franchisee entity, so whether the stake sits at the global parent, that entity, or both is not established from public sources. Counting a company as General Atlantic's tells readers it shares an owner with the rest, which is too flat a claim for a relationship nobody has pinned to an entity.
Assets under management: ~$126B (December 2025)
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Company data last updated August 2026
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