Who owns Warby Parker?
Warby Parker is owned by Warby Parker Inc. (the United States, NYSE: WRBY).[1]
Evidence: Warby Parker Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26, SEC EDGAR, 26 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Warby Parker Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Founded
- 2010
- Category
- Apparel, footwear & accessories › Accessories & footwear › Eyewear
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: WRBY
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Warby Parker
Warby Parker sells prescription glasses and sunglasses that it designs in-house in New York and prices from $95 including lenses, through its website and through 323 shops in the United States and Canada at the end of 2025. For every pair sold it funds the distribution of another to someone in need, and it says more than 20 million pairs have been given out. The same shops sell contact lenses and eye examinations, which together made up under a fifth of 2025 revenue.
Ownership timeline of Warby Parker
- Current owner Warby Parker [1] verified
Where Warby Parker sits in Warby Parker
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands in eyewear, and who owns them
The 25 brands in eyewear on Brandtree belong to 7 owners. The largest is EssilorLuxottica, with 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Arnette | EssilorLuxottica | 🇫🇷 France |
| Fielmann | Fielmann Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Aqualens | Lenskart | 🇮🇳 India |
| America's Best Contacts and Eyeglasses | National Vision | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Blenders Eyewear | Safilo | 🇮🇹 Italy |
| Titan Eye+ | Titan | 🇮🇳 India |
| Oakley | EssilorLuxottica | 🇫🇷 France |
| Oliver Peoples | EssilorLuxottica | 🇫🇷 France |
About the owner: Warby Parker
Warby Parker is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States, founded in 2010. Brandtree records 1 brand under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: WRBY.
Warby Parker is a New York eyewear company, founded in 2010 and organised as a public benefit corporation, that designs its own glasses and sells them directly to customers rather than through opticians it does not control. It began online and now does much of its business through shops: 323 stores across the United States and Canada at the end of 2025, of which 285 offered in-person eye examinations. Besides glasses and sunglasses it sells contact lenses made by other manufacturers, and in 2025 it announced partnerships with Google and Samsung to develop glasses with artificial intelligence built in.
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🇺🇸 Warby Parker and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Warby Parker is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Warby Parker?
The parent company of Warby Parker is Warby Parker Inc., a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Warby Parker American?
Yes. Warby Parker originated in the United States in 2010 and its owner, Warby Parker Inc., is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Warby Parker still owned by Warby Parker Inc.?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Warby Parker is still owned by Warby Parker Inc. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Warby Parker Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-26 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 26 February 2026; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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