Female Founders Archives

How Did She Do It? Q&A with Nicola Nice, Founder & CEO of Pomp & Whimsy

By Eric Nadler, Golden Seeds Managing Director and Deal Lead for this investment

Nicola Nice has long been a trailblazer in her career. She began her career in research, earning a Ph.D. in ...
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A Year in Review: Recap of the 2021 Golden Seeds Summit

By Jo Ann Corkran, Loretta McCarthy and Peggy Wallace, Co-CEOs and Managing Partners of Golden Seeds

Golden Seeds is now in its 17th year of funding women-led companies, and the journey has been exhilarating, challenging, and ...
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The beauty industry wakes up—finally—to Black women

By Carolyn Fikke, Leader of the Consumer Products and Applications Sector Group at Golden Seeds

Seventy-five percent of consumers identify as having textured hair, with textured hair including anything from wavy to tight, coily hair ...
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How Did She Do It? A Q&A with Lauren Foundos, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at FORTË

By Jo Ann Corkran, Managing Partner, Golden Seeds

Lauren Foundos thought her life as a successful institutional bond trader was pretty much perfect. But the demands of the ...
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How Did She Do It? A Q&A with Oksana Sokolovsky, Cofounder & CEO of ROAR Augmented Reality

By Janet DeFrino, Managing Director of Golden Seeds and deal lead for ROAR Augmented Reality

Passion is everything to Oksana Sokolovsky, who left a successful Wall Street career to pursue a dream: creating a platform ...
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Taking stock of the new world

By Loretta McCarthy, Managing Partner of Golden Seeds

Life today seems to be in a constant state of flux, but in 2020, the pace of change increased dramatically ...
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