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Teal Health: An Alternative to the Pap Smear Is Here, No Speculum Required

Fay: Dietitian startup has been booming from Ozempic patients and emerges from stealth with $25M from General Catalyst, Forerunner

Ritual: I quit my job while pregnant to start a multivitamin company that brings in over $250M/Yr

A Consumer Investing Masterclass

Pie: Andy Dunn’s new app uses AI to help you make friends

South Park Commons

Kirsten Green’s $500M Bet on Consumer AI

Prenuvo: Adding new health tests to flagship full-body scan, raises $120 million in fresh funding

Bloomberg Businessweek

OURA: How the Smart Ring Bridged the Gap From Tech Bros to Normies

What Forerunner Ventures Looks For in Consumer Startups: Vision, Magnetism, and Unfair Advantages

Letters to a Young Investor: Kirsten Green

Business Insider

Fay: Nutrition startup just landed $50 million in Series B funding at a $500 million valuation led by Goldman Growth Equity

Exclusive: Oura's AI plan keeps health data local — and private

Business Insider

Pie: The rise of 'friendship apps'

Flip: ‘We are massively overloaded’: Platform sees a surge of TikTok refugees

Flip, the TikTok Shop rival, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity value

webAI: Companion is an AI assistant for enterprise employees that runs privately on their own devices

How Teal Health Aims to Save Lives With Its At-Home Cervical Cancer Tests

Exclusive: Teal Health raises $10 million to replace the annual Pap smear with at-home test for cervical cancer

Roon: $15 million to become a next-gen WebMD

Roon: $15M to replace ‘Dr. Google’ with real doctors sharing videos about illness treatments

Wonder: the ‘Food Hall’ That’s Suddenly Everywhere?

Wonder: Just Eat is selling Grubhub to Marc Lore’s Wonder for $650M

Leland: $12 million to grow its coaching platform

Table22: A $11M series A for food and beverage subscriptions

Exclusive: Amazon’s top grocery exec departs for Wonder, Marc Lore’s celebrity-chef restaurant startup

Wall Street Journal

OURA: Why the Smart Ring Has a Cult Following

Exclusive: Toy brand KiwiCo has surpassed $1 billion in lifetime revenue

How Glossier CEO Kyle Leahy got the beauty brand to turn a profit

The Information

Bonobos Co-Founder Puts New Twist on Creator Funds

The Information

AI Can Jump-Start Consumer Brands, Investors and Founders Say

Business Insider

These are the 19 best female early-stage investors

Beauty’s Most Powerful Financiers

Pie: Why Bonobos Founder Andy Dunn's New Startup Mission Is About Facilitating Friendships

Fay: This 30-Year-Old Left Harvard and Raised $25 Million in Funding to Launch a Nutrition Business Inspired by His Mom

Bonobos Co-Founder Andy Dunn’s New Startup Aims to ‘Defeat Social Isolation’

Business of Fashion

How AI Could Change Online Product Search and Discovery

Ritual: Latest Launch Is a Fertility-supporting Lemonade

Duckbill CEO explains how app can be a "personal assistant in your pocket" | Changing the Game

Washington Post

Dutch: This veterinarian knows what our pets can’t tell us

Forerunner-backed Fora wants to make travel ‘the new real estate’ for female gig-economy workers

Fierce Healthcare

Headway: A $100M series D round to accelerate expansion into Medicare Advantage and Medicaid

Exclusive: Forerunner Ventures leads a $10 million seed round for a new platform that answers parents’ questions 24/7

Headway: Therapy enabler raises $100M at $2.3B valuation

Therapy enabler Headway raises $100M at $2.3B valuation

Overloaded consumers will fuel soaring demand for AI that makes life easier, top venture capitalist says

Julie Bornstein Raises $50 Million For AI Fashion Search Startup

Daydream Rakes in $50M Seed Funding to Build an AI-Powered Search Engine Suited for E-Commerce

Consumer is Actually Thriving, Says Glossier, Away, Farmer’s Dog-Backer Forerunner Ventures

Every Startup Has AI in its Pitch Deck and it Should

Midas List 2024: #66, Kirsten Green

Top Tech VCs Talk Investment Environment

Exclusive: The Inside Story Of Chime, America’s Biggest Digital Bank

Chefs Love Wonder, the Latest App Trying to Disrupt Delivery

Wonder: Chefs Love the Latest App Trying to Disrupt Delivery. Will Diners Follow Suit?

OURA: The Wearable Revolution — CEO Tom Hale On the Perks Of Data & Why You Should Opt In

Exclusive: Stress-Free Auto Care raises $11M to expand its modern repair shops

Most Innovative Companies 2024: How Glossier Is Democratizing The World Of Beauty Products

Marc Lore Is Not Just Looking To Make A Quick Billion

Speechify: Text-to-Speech App Launches Gmail Integration And Voice Cloning

The Information

Consumer Startups Are a Better Bet Than Enterprise Startups

The Information

Glossier’s CEO Charts Next Chapter Of Growth

Marc Lore’s Startup Wonder Is Opening Food Halls Inside Walmarts, A Sequel To His Last Startup’s $3B Sale To Walmart

Business of Fashion

Prose: Doing For Skin What It Did For Hair

Curology Expands Into Hair Care

Skip navigation Search Create Avatar image How Kirsten Green Built Forerunner Ventures

Wonder: A Serial Entrepreneur’s Second Shot at Disrupting Food Delivery

Ritual: CEO Kat Schneider on 2024 Plans, ‘We’re Going Deeper, Not Wider’

Modern Meditations: Kirsten Green

Behind The Tech: Ōura Is Keeping The Pulse On Health For Every Body

Jeff Bezos-Backed Real Estate Company Arrived Launches A New Fund To Acquire More Single-Family Homes Across The U.S.

Tally Health, AmplifyMD: The Next Big Things in Tech 2023

Craftwork Out To Modernize Home Services Market, Scores $6 Million Seed Round

Glossier Talks Sales, Sephora and Beyond

Dutch: Pet Care's Future is Online

Faire: Shopify takes a stake in Faire, makes it the recommended wholesale marketplace for merchants

Wall Street Journal

Glossier Changed the Makeup Game. Where Does It Go Next?

Catch Is Building Tools That Offer Customers Cash Back For Shopping

Topline Pro grabs $12M in new capital to help home service businesses get discovered

Making the Right Bets: How Forerunner Ventures Closed a $1B Funding Round by Anticipating What Consumers Want Next

Business of Fashion

Investors Look Beyond Brands for the Next Great Fashion Start-Up

Forerunner Ventures Sees A Future Full Of ‘Digitally Native Franchises’

Forerunner Ventures sees a future full of ‘digitally native franchises’

How Old Are You, Really? New Tests Want to Tell You

Kale: Software Startup Stands Out By Turning Everyday Shoppers Into Brand Ambassadors

Midas List 2023: #59, Kirsten Green

A-Frame Brands CEO Ari Bloom On Launching Startups With Celebrities Like John Legend And Naomi Osaka

Ritual: Supplements Brand Launches In Target Nationwide

The Farmer's Dog: Emotional Super Bowl Commercial Earns USA TODAY Ad Meter Title

Oura Ring Generation 3 Review: A Relationship For The Long Term

Faire Keeps Inventory Flowing Amid Supply Chain Challenges

Cotopaxi: What I Know Podcast

Glossier Gets A Makeover

Calibrate on 60 Minutes | Recognizing and Treating Obesity as a Disease

The Information

Brian O'Malley on The Creator Economy | The Information

Glossier: Why Its Stores Are Uniquely Successful In This Economy

Hollywood Reporter

Inside A-Frame, the Incubator for Star-Led Brands | The Hollywood Reporter

Has Marc Lore Discovered the Secret to Entrepreneurship? | Inc

Dutch: TIME's Best Inventions of 2022

Faire Marketplace Sees Growing Appetite For Specialty Food And Beverage Brands | Forbes

Business Insider

The 24 Most Promising Retail Startups | Business Insider