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Personal AI shopper for busy moms

FOUNDER: Anna Fuller 

🌱 STAGE: Pre-seed

💸 PAST INVESTORS: Goodwater, Power of N, strategic angels - ex-VP of Affirm, ex-Director Google Shopping, ex-Growth for a big DTC, and baby brand founders

🥳 RECENT WINS 

✨ growing GMV - 50% MoM

🏆️ TEAM

✨ Founded by former Google Shopping PM and mom of a toddler

✨ Head of Engineering - early engineer at MasterClass

✨ BD - part of early team at cult baby brand

😇 LOOKING FOR: Angels and VCs with consumer tech and growth experience

😎 FOLLOW: Halo and Anna

An online retail platform that focuses on launching emerging designers from across the globe in exclusive, limited-edition collaborations and through their traditional wholesale channels as well.

FOUNDERS: Caroline Gilroy & Agee Leinberry

🌱 STAGE: Seed

🥳 RECENT WINS

✨ $3.1MM Gross / $1.6MM Net Revenue in 2023, celebrating our first birthday and our highest grossing sales month to date this past August

✨ closed over $600K of their $2MM round

😇 LOOKING FOR: Angel or VC with e-comm and retail experience

📖 Couper’s STORY

It all started with co-founders, Caroline and Agee, who were tired of always showing up to weddings and events in the same mass produced, mass marketed shapes, styles, and brands from the same retailers and the rest is history!

We continue to have strong growth goals for Q4 2023 and 2024 including scaling our paid ad campaigns on Meta platforms, increasing our influencer and affiliate marketing spend, exploring an in house brand, and honing in on inventory scale efficiencies.

😎 FOLLOW: Couper 

It Takes a Vineyard

FOUNDERS: Macie Mincey & Kristin Taylor Hines

🌱 STAGE: Seed

💸 PAST INVESTORS: Pharrell Williams’s Black Ambition

🥳 RECENT WINS 

✨ sold in Target starting mid-March

✨ announcing a celeb partnership soon

✨ launching a huge Mother’s Day Campaign - She’s Got the Juice in Nashville, Denver, and Charlotte

😇 LOOKING FOR: Angels with CPG alcohol experience and have scaled businesses in the past

📖 Mom Juice’s STORY

Mom Juice is a BIPOC, female-founded wine brand was created from the shared experiences of women who navigate the intricacies of work, motherhood, and self-care. The two co-founders, Kristin Taylor Hines and Macie Mincey, recognized the unmet needs of the modern, health-conscious, and adventurous woman, Mom Juice emerged as a celebration of those daily victories—both the triumphs and the battle scars. It’s a toast to the intentional pursuit of wellness without sacrificing the simple pleasure of a delicious glass of wine.

Thus far, Mom Juice has:

✨ Multiple sellouts

✨ Launched new varietals

✨ Secured national press coverage in Forbes and Today

✨ Secured $1M in seed funding

✨ Finalists of Pharrell WIlliams's Black Ambition Prize

✨ Secured distributors in TN, CO, NC and securing IL

😎 FOLLOW: Mom Juice and Kristin

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