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Stories of women transitioning and adjusting to entrepreneurship.
Looking For Liquidity
Ju Rhyu’s Korean-inspired acne patch is taking the beauty world by storm—but that doesn't mean the brand or its founder are living on easy street.
Move over, frozen peas
Generations-old taboos have resulted in meager offerings for pain management and health of intimate areas. Today we chat with Suzanne Sinatra, the founder of Private Packs, who seeks to solve that problem.
Giving “crock pot” a whole new meaning
Potli is infusing CBD (and, in some states, THC) into everyday ingredients, making edibles more accessible for your every meal.
Ingestible treats that are good for your skin
Resisting the "VC Treadmill" to build a brand of botanical gummies helping users care for their skin—from within.
Building an allergy-friendly brand
The founder of allergy-friendly brand Partake Foods dishes on her experience leaving Coca Cola to enter the startup world.
The Canadian cannabis expert
"Everything I’ve learned through my career translated very well in launching the company. In terms of transitioning, I was working as a freelancer at the beginning, so I was doing both my freelance job and building Wildflower. When the company started to occupy more of my time, I stopped taking freelance jobs."
NOT-O Your Average Makeup Brand
Gloria Noto’s sleek, minimally designed natural cosmetics line speaks to the conscious consumer with a level of effortless cool—here's how she built it.
From hedge funds to homeopathy
Carly Stein’s bee-product brand just closed a $3.5 million fundraising round.
How An Ethical Clothing Brand Subsists in the Face of Fast Fashion
"If I’m building a brand I want it to have moral ground. So as much work as it is to do, I’m willing to do it because I know the brand I’m bringing forward is what I want it to be."
"If it wasn’t hard, it wouldn’t have a meaningful outcome"
The direct to consumer plant business has raised over $7M in two years.
Cutting edge technology, meet ancient holistic practice
"We created an entirely new product and new category, a new piece of hardware and integrated across technology, art, science, and neuroscience to create this thing—and changed hundreds of thousands of lives."
Preventing agricultural waste
"I saw 25% of heads of romaine lettuce being harvested and 75% being wasted for as far as the eye could see. I remember thinking: If I don’t pursue this, who’s going to?"
