NoLogo

Setting the Scene

  • Buying designer furniture is broken, with shoppers often paying 3–5x the true cost, mostly to cover showrooms and brand markups.

  • DTC brands promised a fix, but most still offer generic designs with prices weighed down by inventory and ad spend.

  • Meanwhile, Gen Z and Millennials now value style over status, with #dupe culture racking up over 6B TikTok views and making knockoffs cool.

  • This week’s company has built a platform that turns luxury inspiration into made-to-order, brandless furniture, without the markup.

In a Sentence

NoLogo is a DTC platform that uses AI to turn any product link into made-to-order furniture with faster delivery and no brand markup.

  • Platform: A tech-enabled interface, starting with furniture, where users upload a URL and instantly get a factory-direct quote, specs, and production timeline.

  • No markup: By connecting customers directly to manufacturers, NoLogo strips out inventory, marketing, and brand costs, passing savings to the buyer.

Bulleted Version:

  • Similar to how Midjourney turns a prompt into visual art — NoLogo turns a retail link into a custom-made product you can actually buy.

The Basics

  • Headquarters: Los Angeles
  • Funding amount: Seedstrapped
  • Business model: DTC (100% markup on factory cost, still offering 40–75% savings to the customer, 25% markup on raw shipping, no inventory)
  • Early traction: $25K in preorders in the first week post-launch, 50+ organic orders, 10K+ quotes generated through the quoting engine, MVP launched June 2025

Due Diligence

WHAT WE LIKE

  • Market Opportunity: The global home goods and  furniture market is enormous worth roughly $580 billion in 2024 and projected to reach nearly $1 trillion by 2034, with furniture alone seeing over 30% of sales shift online in the U.S.

  • Cultural Shift: A massive cultural shift is underway, with #dupe culture racking up 6B+ TikTok views and normalizing brandless buying.

  • Business Model: NoLogo’s model strips out inventory, brand, and showroom costs, unlocking strong margins even at lower prices.

POTENTIAL RISKS

  • Legal Implications: Even though the company has guard rails around replicating branded designs built into the platform, this could raise legal questions around IP, even without logos.

  • Built for Scale: Operational complexity may grow quickly as order volume scales and factory coordination becomes more demanding.

  • Educational Curve: High-ticket, unbranded purchases may require additional trust-building to win over first-time buyers.

Founder Profile

  • Kevin Miller, CEO: Built and still operating Gr0 agency and previously at Google and Opendoor.

  • Jon Zacharias, CMO: Co-founder of GR0 and a veteran in SEO and performance marketing with a track record of scaling DTC brands, previously at Seek Capital.

Comps

Why NoLogo

  • By transforming retail links into custom furniture that’s faster, cheaper, and logo-free—powered by AI, global manufacturing, and a brandless model—NoLogo may be the next big logo in e-commerce.

*Nothing in this content constitutes investment or legal advice. The information provided should not be used as the basis for making investment decisions. Readers should conduct their own research and consult with investment advisers before making investment decisions.*
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