After JAY-Z, Kylian Mbappé, by way of his funding entity Coalition Capital, is now an investor at Wristcheck. The famend French footballer and present ahead of Actual Madrid joins different distinguished buyers together with Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund (Gobi Companions GBA) and K3 Ventures within the luxurious watch buying and selling platform’s pre-series A funding.
Mbappé’s exceptional soccer profession contains seven Ligue 1 titles and a pivotal function in main France to victory on the 2018 World Cup. Past his on-field achievements, Mbappé can be a watch lover, demonstrated by way of his function as Hublot’s model ambassador and the choice of timepieces he sports activities at varied occasions. His funding aligns with Wristcheck’s imaginative and prescient of making an progressive, tech-driven ecosystem tailor-made for the digital-first Gen-Z collector.
“I see Wristcheck as a platform that actually understands the subsequent era of collectors. They’re reshaping the watch business with a forward-thinking strategy that blends expertise, transparency and creativity,” Mbappé expressed his pleasure and hopes to make watch-collecting extra accessible for everybody.
Wristcheck Founder & CEO, Austen Chu, welcomed Mbappé to the Wristcheck household, highlighting his ardour for watches and the outstanding impression he’ll deliver to the business. Chu emphasised Wristcheck’s dedication to bringing watches to the forefront of popular culture and accelerating this mission with Mbappé’s assist. This partnership underscores the platform’s dedication to innovation and shaping the watch world of tomorrow.
Since its launch in 2020, Wristcheck has adopted a tech-driven strategy to disrupt conventional conventions within the business. From the Wristcheck Market, which revolutionizes how individuals purchase and promote watches with full belief and transparency by way of its in-house authentication and grading processes, to the AI-powered Wristcheck Watch Index that serves because the definitive supply for market pricing, Wristcheck’s progressive strategy has propelled the corporate’s speedy progress — the platform has maintained momentum in 2024 with 218% YoY progress in its on-line enterprise and has additionally simply opened its first idea retailer in Wynn Macau in January 2025, marking the primary time a secondary watch platform has opened at any Wynn On line casino location worldwide.
Wristcheck has facilitated 1000’s of transactions involving uncommon timepieces, trusted by collectors similar to JAY-Z, Kevin Hart and now Kylian Mbappé. His funding will assist broaden Wristcheck’s world presence, enabling the platform to additional improve its technological choices for younger collectors.
