• Shop Latinx

  Participated · Seed · Oct 2021

  Shop Latinx began as an Instagram account and has grown into a curated marketplace focused on Latinx brands and consumers. The platform features over 600 products from more than 30 brands and serves a community of over 100,000 highly engaged fans. Shop Latinx emphasizes cultural curation, storytelling, and trend forecasting across fashion and beauty categories. The company employs four full-time staff across product development and marketing. Recent operating momentum includes a 226% sales increase from Q2 to Q3 and a 278% increase in the most recent month. With its roots in championing underrepresented creators, the company plans to expand both online and offline through experiential commerce, events, new brand and product launches, and large retail partnerships.

• Somewhere Good

  Participated · Seed · May 2021

  Somewhere Good is a mobile app that connects users in solely group-based “worlds” where members can post content, cite sources and have real-time audio conversations. The product intentionally omits profiles, ads, friending, following and a feed to prioritize community-driven discovery and intimacy. Less than a year after launching, the startup has a nine-person team and a roughly 5,000-person waitlist for an invite-only beta that will include 50–75 vetted communities. The company launched a SHIFT $50,000 year-long fellowship to bring contributors onto the team and create a product feedback loop. Monetization is described as being in the early innings; the founder says the team will focus on monetization when the app reaches scale. The new funding is earmarked for continued product innovation and team expansion.

No current team members are available.