by RJ Shara | Jul 21, 2021 | Startups
Pangaea began with the launch of guys’s skin care brand name, Lumin, consisting of natural Korean-based formulas. “Pangaea, to date, has been a brand incubator, but post the Series B will broaden to be a vertically incorporated e-commerce platform for other brands. Hong started Pangaea with the launch of guys’s skincare brand name Lumin that consists of natural Korean-based solutions. Pangaea ended up developing proprietary infrastructure, including warehousing, payments and shipping, as a holding business to grow and scale direct-to-consumer brands. The business is currently money circulation positive, and the brand-new financing will make it possible for Pangaea to round out management roles in its brand names and reach the next stage of development with the objective of being “omnichannel male megabrands,” Gani said. 
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by RJ Shara | Apr 2, 2021 | Fundings and Exit, Startups
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s endeavor capital-focused podcast, where we unload the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to talk through the week’s greatest tech happenings. It was a hectic week on the IPO front, Danny was buried in getting the Tonal EC-1 out, and Natasha took some time off. The [ …] , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unload the numbers behind the headlines. What is Substack? Does it have a moat? One listener the other day pointed out to us that the pandemic made it more difficult to sculpt out time for podcasts, since listening was often reserved for commutes. It was a hectic week on the IPO front, Danny was buried in getting the Tonal EC-1 out, and Natasha took some time off….
by RJ Shara | Feb 1, 2021 | Startups
Nathalie Walton almost didn’t end up being a mother. Her risky pregnancy caused her placenta to burst throughout giving birth, almost eliminating her and her kid last year. Walton, who feels lucky to have actually endured, says the haunting experience made her an example of a reality she had actually long known: To be a pregnant Black woman is to […] The stress of her pregnancy led Walton to download Expectful, a meditation and sleep app for new moms. Weeks after delivering her kid, Everett, Walton just so happened to hear of an advisory function opening at Expectful. Walton says Expectful specifies a mother by anyone who recognizes themselves as one. A handful of financiers think that Walton’s Expectful can do it. Mayer, head of communications at Glossier, was the one who introduced Walton to the female who informed her about the advisory function of Expectful….
by RJ Shara | Dec 9, 2020 | Fundings and Exit, Startups
Stuf, a new startup transforming basements and other unused areas into self-storage areas, is revealing that it has raised $1.8 million in seed financing. Co-founder and CEO Katharine Lau formerly led the real estate team at co-working business Industrious. She told me that she ended up being thinking about the self-storage industry during the early months of […] Stuf appearances for what Lau explained as “the forgotten spaces that weren’t generating cashflow,” signing revenue-sharing deals with landlords and then converting the area. The outcome is a self-storage location more detailed to where customers really live. The seed financing was led by Wilshire Lane Partners and Harlem Capital, allowing Stuf to continue opening brand-new areas nationwide.”Stuf is truly unique because, company opportunity aside, 2 Black-led VC funds came together to invest in a business founded and run by a lady,” stated Harlem Capital Handling Partner Henri Pierre-Jacques in a declaration. …
by RJ Shara | Oct 2, 2020 | Startups
Yaw Aning called Malomo, the service he launched for small businesses to turn their order-tracking services into top quality client experiences, as a tribute to his mother, who was a small business owner herself. “Malomo” indicates flowers in Swahili and it was the name of Aning’s mother’s small soap-making organization which she built for many years […] Along with co-founder Anthony Smith, Aning built a service that links with a single click to the Shopify platform and develops custom, branded tracking pages for each brand name. They use it like they would use any marketing property,” Aning stated. …
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