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Brydge Club by Ruffin Mitchener

Ruffin Mitchener•beacons.ai
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Join Ruffin Mitchener, as she interviews the most exciting female founders and innovators. Get inspired by their startup journeys and learn how to get started on your own business. New episodes drop every Wednesday.
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Sandy Lin has over 500K followers on TikTok, and now she's building the HubSpot for creators

Sandy Lin has over 500K followers on TikTok, and now she's building a tech business around it. Her startup, Creobase , is the new HubSpot for creators. Making it easy for creators to find, manage and automate their brand partnerships. It's fascinating to watch creators like Sandy build brand and community around their tech businesses. In fact, Sandy has already had success partnering and angel investing into other early stage tech startups including Copy.ai and Beacons . In this episode, I chatt...

Nov 29, 2022•31 min

Her startup, Adla, let's you try on clothes at home for FREE from top brands like Zara & Reformation

Try clothes on at home for free, from brands like ZARA USA, Reformation, & more 🛍 Adla is a new at home shopping experience, handling all delivery and returns at no cost to the consumer. In episode 6 of the Future is Female podcast, I met Holly Leslie, founder of Adla. She shared her story: 👩‍🎓 Going viral on college campuses in NC (including my alma mater Wake Forest University) 💰 The unexpected upside of not raising a round at YC demo day 📩 Her email hacks to get connected with CEOs a...

Nov 16, 2022•33 min

Generative AI to build the future of search, YC startup Andi gives you answers not links

Imagine a new search engine using generative AI. Instead of links, Andi gives you answers - like a smart friend. The tool uses language models combined with live data to generate answers to questions, and to explain and summarize information combined from the best sources. When Angela Hoover and her co-founder met in the Denver airport, they found a shared passion for creating a new search engine. Agreeing that search is broken by SEO, spam, ads, surveillance, and more. Give their new search eng...

Nov 07, 2022•22 min

Ex-Visa PM, Vrinda Gupta, rejected by card she helped launch, raises $5.7M to build Sequin Card

While working as a PM for Visa, Vrinda Gupta was rejected by the credit card she helped launch. That's when she discovered 70% of women's spend is on noncredit building products, like debit cards and credit cards in other people's names. In 2019, Vrinda launched Sequin Financial, Inc. (YC S21) , the first debit card by and for women. It's first card teaching women about the financial system and providing exclusive discounts to women led brands. The startup has closed $5.7 million in funding from...

Nov 01, 2022•36 min

Kristy Kim dropped out of Berkeley Haas to build Tomo Credit, a $222M fintech

In this episode, Ruffin Mitchener interviews Kristy Kim, founder of Tomo Credit. We discuss everything from: 🎓 Dropping out of the MBA to disrupt the credit industry 💳 Reaching one million card-holders at Tomo 💥 Building a majority female executive team in fintech + more Get the card: tomocredit.com Connect with us: linkedin.com/in/kristykim7/ linkedin.com/in/ruffin-mitchener/...

Oct 24, 2022•31 min

Aakruti Desai bootstrapped her last startup, and she just raised an over-subscribed $600K pre-seed round of VC funding for her new startup Puzzl

In this episode, Ruffin Mitchener interviews Aakruti Desai, founder of Puzzl. We discuss everything from: 🚀 Raising $600K pre-seed 👩‍💻 People ops lessons from her lead investor 💰 Selling her prior startup Marketfly + so much more Sign-up for Puzzl: https://www.puzzlapps.com/ Connect with us: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aakruti/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruffin-mitchener/...

Oct 17, 2022•39 min
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