Luminopia is an early-stage startup with a mission to improve the lives of children and families through captivating, rigorously developed digital therapeutics.
Before leaving Harvard, the founding team was part of the Harvard Innovation Labs’ Venture Incubation Program for two terms. They went on to being awarded Silver at MassChallenge in 2016 and the year after were one of two winners at SXSW’s Impact Pediatric Health startup competition. Most recently, their co-founder and CEO, Dean Travers, was awarded the Thiel Fellowship.
I sat down with Travers to discuss what the company has been up to for the past couple of years since its inception. …
Nineteenth Amendment is a product development and production management platform where brands can experiment with designs prior to manufacturing. Brands pre-sell items directly to their shoppers, connect with a network of manufacturers, and produce on-demand, sustainably. I sat down with Nineteenth Amendment’s Co-Founder & CEO, Amanda Curtis, to learn more about the bridges they’ve built between the historically disparate worlds of high-fashion and Silicon Valley.
A Holistic Solution for Fashion’s Product Development
A piece of advice that investors often bestow on their portfolio companies is to solve a deep customer pain point and to be the best at solving that one problem. “Don’t do too much” is a phrase that co-founders Amanda Curtis and Gemma Sole have heard numerous times over the past five years building their retail logistics company, Nineteenth Amendment. …
Nikhil Basu Trivedi of Shasta Ventures sat down with Priya Rajan, Director of Early Stage Practice at Silicon Valley Bank and a group of some 30 early-stage founders for a discussion on pursuing an early-stage venture. Reflecting on his own journey from founder to venture capitalist, Basu Trivedi shared with us the critical lessons he’s learned along the way and offered some insight into the VC mindset. I tagged along as an intern with SVB’s Global Gateway team to jot down some key takeaways, in case you missed it.
An Early Start
Basu Trivedi first learned how to code in high school and went on to pursue entrepreneurship and tech at Princeton. There, he became known as “the Indian kid on campus working on website after website,” which invited a few chuckles from the audience. …
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