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Venice Beach meeting: a conversation with the founders in L.A.
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Innocos Longevity, Beauty, and Tech summit in the Silicon Valley, San Jose.
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π Pinterest Predicts a More Personalized Beauty Cycle
In its first-ever Beauty Trend Report, Pinterest finds consumers moving beyond broad aesthetics in favor of highly specific takes on hair, makeup, nails, fragrance, and skincare.
Read more: https://t.co/H4qAHeKnwL
SF Tech Week is happening now. The biggest names in tech are on stage this week, and you can still get in. Last chance to pick your events and grab your seat.
Your landing page doesn't control the buyer journey anymore. AI agents do.
Founders @misbahuz and @farahura joined @NYSE to explain how brands win in this shift. Agents cite what customers say about you on Reddit and YouTube more than what you say about yourself. Win those conversations, then turn them into revenue.
That's how brands like e.l.f. Beauty, Unilever and Goop have turned community into $100M+ in attributed revenue with Nectar.
Know which followers buy, and engage them before your competitors do β https://t.co/UOgJztSGao
Thrilled to announce @getOuterSignal has raised a $22M Series A.
A year ago, @zachzelner and I saw an opportunity to revolutionize personalization. We spun out a tool heβd built into a company, and got to work. In the time since, weβve gone from a few early customers to thousands, from 2 team members to 25, and created an entirely new frontier for how businesses can understand and market to their customers.
Our team has built a robust platform, trained internal models, conducted industry-leading research, and onboarded thousands of companies weβre proud to work with.
So, this raise is meant for one thing only: to keep shipping, faster than ever, the very best products for the consumer businesses we power.
Ecom, hospitality, mobile apps and beyond: OuterSignal is here to supercharge the way companies connect with consumers.
As founders, weβre humbled, grateful, and truly just getting started.
Try us for free at https://t.co/uPdPSExA2B.
And if youβre an A-player ready to work on something ambitious and enduring, we want to meet you. DMβs open.
Onward π
Grateful to the FAB community for a rich conversation on one of the biggest shifts in health and wellness today: GLP-1s β and everything they're reshaping around nutrition, muscle preservation, and long-term health.
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I'm speaking at #TECHWEEK by @a16z π See you there soon!
Builders & Backers: AI Γ Health Γ Wearables
π October 7 Β· SF Tech Week
π Norton Rose Fulbright Β· San Francisco
π° Founders Apply Now β https://t.co/Nr2EwMbqBN
π Join us β https://t.co/lxjw4AlJwg
SF @Techweek_ by @a16z is coming up! Ping me if you are going!
Speaking of tech events and conferences, some of my friends have asked me how to make the most out of them as a corporation or as a startup. So I put together the tips on how to maximize your events and meetups!
SF Tech Week is one of my favorite reminders of why I love building in San Francisco.
For one week, the city becomes a collection of ideas, questions, experiments, and people trying to push something forward.
This year, we get to contribute two conversations of our own:
AI Γ Security
AI Γ Longevity
Very different topics. Both feel incredibly timely.
A wave of brands folded almost overnight when Meta CPMs spiked.
None of them had a bad product. They ran out of ways to reach their own customers.
@farahura saw it coming from inside Meta. Here's why it happens again π
Nutrition and longevity. Thank you Dean Neiger founder of Maeva, Avinish Reddy Elevated medical. We feel smarter after the conversation ! #founders#venturecapital#losangeles
Nutrition. Guest speaker Sept 24 in LA: Dean Neiger Co-Founder CEO of Maeva, a DTC nutrition brand for GLP-1 medication users, building on a track record that includes founding and scaling Sky Organics to $60M+ in retail sales across major U.S. chains before a successful exit.
Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the βfemale economyβ β or the markets where women drive demand. That mainly falls into three buckets for
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