Tag: Women founders
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Behind Her Empire: How Beatrice Dixon Scaled The Honey Pot Company From Her Kitchen
Beatrice Dixon is the founder of The Honey Pot Company, a plant-based feminine hygiene line created to provide women with healthy alternatives to feminine care. The Honey Pot Company began with a dream — literally. In 2014, Dixon was struggling wi…
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Behind Her Empire: LOLA Co-Founder Alex Friedman on Building a Better Tampon
On this week’s episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, meet Alex Friedman, the co-founder of feminine care brand LOLA. LOLA was created to address the need for more transparency in women’s health. It was begun as a passion product to understand…
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Plus-Size Retailer Torrid Rises In Wall Street Debut
While the fashion industry reckons with female body image positivity, investors embraced plus-size retailer Torrid in its Wall Street debut Thursday.Torrid, an apparel company for women who wear sizes 10 to 30, shares rose 15% closing at $24.15. The C…
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Willow Growth Partners Raises Inaugural $28M Fund for Startups Serving ‘Conscientious’ Consumers
With their new $28 million fund, Deborah Benton and Amanda Schutzbank aren’t looking for the next billion-dollar exit.Their seed-stage firm Willow Growth Partners wants to invest in the kind of profitable “conscientious consumer” brands that abound in…
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Exclusive: Park Place Payments Raises a Seed Round to Make Payment Processing Less Caustic and More Flexible
Since her time at Harvard (undergrad and then MBA), Samantha Ettus has made a career out of motivating women to achieve a better work/life balance through her five bestselling books, hundreds of TV appearances and corporate speaking gigs.But in 2018, …