by RJ Shara | Mar 31, 2021 | Fundings and Exit, Startups
At the age of 14, Jacklyn Rome saw
firsthand how divorce can affect households, and how arguing about financial resources both during and after the procedure can impact children. The experience stuck to her. As an adult, after leading brand-new item launches at Uber and Blue Apron, Rome created the concept behind her start-up, […]
Ensemble founder and CEO Jacklyn Rome. Because its App store launch last spring, Ensemble has seen “strong organic development and recommendations” from its users, according to Rome.”Even in the most friendly divorces, money is the number one thing that divorced parents end up arguing about.”Ensemble resolves this problem by striking the optimal balance of providing ease of usage, exposure and empathy for modern-day co-parents, lessening the requirement for back-and-forth communications. He called Ensemble’s app “a easy and smooth platform “that deals with those requirements for co-parents….
by RJ Shara | Aug 20, 2020 | Startups
Eric Hippeau is the founding partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, whose portfolio companies include the similarity Axios, BuzzFeed, Casper, Warby Parker, Allbirds, DocSend, Fundera, Everlane, Giphy, Genius and the recently obtained fitness business Mirror. It would not be an overstatement to say that Hippeau is well-positioned to talk about start-ups across a wide spectrum of […]
It would not be an overstatement to say that Hippeau is well-positioned to discuss start-ups throughout a broad spectrum of markets, from media to D2C to telehealth to edtech. It’s not gon na be ideal, and it might not work the way you might do, however construct it because that will give me, as a VC, an indication of what you’re attempting to achieve. And, the product that you build, while not ideal by any of stretch of the creativity, will go a long method for us to figure out what it is. …
by RJ Shara | Apr 30, 2020 | Startups
When California announced a statewide lockdown, Tony Martens and Maurits van de Ven chose to sit tight instead of heading home to Amsterdam. So, the co-founders of Plantible purchased 2 trailers and started living at their HQ: a two-acre duckweed farm in San Diego. Plantible uses duckweed, a tiny water leaf, to extract a plant-based […] Plantible uses duckweed, a tiny marine leaf, to draw out a plant-based protein active ingredient that will eventually enable food companies to make animal-based products into plant-based products. The start-up recently did a series of trials with companies, and Martens states that Plantible validated it can be a replacement with baking active ingredient companies and plant-based meat sellers. The trailers where Plantible co-founders have sheltered in place amid Location amidst., has gained back popularity amidst other quarantine cooking hacks. As with any seed-stage alternative-protein company, the evidence that Plantible has legs to prosper will be in sales and capacity to produce….
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